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Backend replacements need configuration validation, recovery and explicit artifact approval. This PR adds a recoverable updater, but automatic setup and upgrades are now withheld pending a patched official CLIProxyAPI build and security review.

The production approval allowlist is empty. Approval binds the exact version, architecture and archive digest; latest-release metadata cannot approve an artifact. New upgrades stop before candidate download, executable probes, snapshots or service replacement. Interrupted transaction recovery runs first, and constrained rollback remains available. Rollback can restore a vulnerable prior binary and is recovery, not remediation.

Review follow-up:

  • Retain the maintainer's shared management lock, interrupted-transaction mutation guard, portable sandbox paths and changed-config rollback refusal.
  • Bound preview startup by a 15-second deadline and smoke IPC by a 10-second timeout; terminate, kill and reap the child on failure.
  • Reuse the existing status management response for version headers, avoiding a duplicate account request.
  • Document exact hashes, scanner output semantics, advisory preconditions and the release approval criteria in docs/backend-security.md.

Pinned v8.0.13, previously checked v8.0.15, and latest checked v8.0.16 Linux amd64/aarch64 artifacts all use Go 1.26.4 and match the same 17 distinct advisory IDs. Existing v7.2.154 amd64 also matches them. A supplemental v8.0.13 source scan identifies 12 IDs with static call traces; several paths require optional Git storage or TLS configuration. This limits reachability claims without clearing the production hold. Security acceptance remains pending patched artifact review; this PR does not repair upstream vulnerabilities or certify existing installations as safe.

Validation: 215 tests passed without skips in each isolated v7.2.154/v8.0.13 lane, with Codex 0.160.0 and real backend configuration/protocol checks enabled. Regression tests cover exact approval identity, setup/direct-installer/update refusal, metadata non-approval, pending recovery ordering, rollback under the empty allowlist and changed-config refusal. JavaScript display checks, plugin manifest validation, QML parsing and native fixture preview smoke passed. Native smoke exercised 17 actions and 12 cards, including cold Settings startup and concealed reopen. Live service and installed plugin were unchanged.

CodeRabbit's earlier docstring-coverage warning remains recorded; no claim is made that its 80% metric passed. The policy module and operational/security docs explain the relevant behavior. Production updater docstrings now document approval boundaries, recovery ordering, changed-config rollback refusal and atomic replacement; no numerical coverage pass is claimed. Both hosted compatibility lanes passed on commit 920fb9f6fb2c0d170fd18889f41f9a719b1ca43f: https://github.com/soojy/omaproxy/actions/runs/37306837566.

October 6 follow-up: no new actionable review findings were present. Verified v8.0.16 default Linux archives against GitHub digests and official checksums, inspected their Go1.26.4 build metadata and scanned both with pinned govulncheck v1.8.0 without executing them. Both still match the same 17 advisory IDs; all 100 dependency version/checksum pairs match v8.0.13/v8.0.15. docs/backend-security.md records exact hashes and separates this binary scan from the historical v8.0.13 source reachability analysis. Production approval remains empty.

October 6 validation: all 30 focused backend tests passed with no skips, documentation hashes/links validated, and executable AST equivalence to the parent confirmed after stripping docstrings. Both hosted compatibility lanes passed on documentation commit ad7ebafaa30014d391de80f5b6ceca5903994ae2: https://github.com/soojy/omaproxy/actions/runs/37547983481.

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  • New Features
    • Check the installed and latest backend versions from Settings, install an available reviewed update, or restore the previous backend.
    • View installed, reviewed, and latest versions, along with update errors.
  • Bug Fixes
    • Backend updates and recovery now validate changes and restore the previous state when an update fails.
  • Documentation
    • Added guidance on backend updates, recovery, installer security, and safely managing custom backends.

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The pull request adds a reviewed backend update and rollback flow, exposes update status and actions in the CLI and Settings UI, and updates release limits and guidance. It also adds an isolated native preview runner, a fixture bridge, and smoke checks for UI workflows.

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Managed Backend Updates

Layer / File(s) Summary
Release and installation bounds
scripts/omaproxy.py, docs/installer-security.md, docs/backend-updates.md, tests/test_bridge.py, tests/test_installer.py, tests/test_request_bounds.py
The pinned backend changes to v8.0.13 with updated hashes and larger archive and executable limits. Binary installation checks the executable version. Management responses are bounded, with tests for oversized responses.
Update discovery and controls
scripts/backend_updates.py, scripts/omaproxy.py, BarWidget.qml, README.md, docs/backend-updates.md, tests/test_backend_updates.py
The CLI and Settings UI expose update status and actions. Update checks report installed, reviewed, and latest versions, support status, provider capabilities, and errors. Status can use the running backend version.
Update, rollback, and recovery
scripts/backend_updates.py, scripts/omaproxy.py, docs/backend-updates.md, tests/test_backend_updates.py
The workflow validates candidates in an isolated namespace, snapshots the prior executable and configuration, and checks service health when needed. Failure paths restore prior files. Rollback checks configuration and backup integrity; tests cover update, rollback, and recovery behavior.

Native Preview and Smoke Checks

Layer / File(s) Summary
Isolated preview runtime
scripts/preview-plugin.py, tests/fixtures/preview_bridge.py, docs/native-preview.md, README.md
The launcher creates a temporary Quickshell preview with checkout widgets and a fixture bridge. The bridge provides fixture responses and persists selected state changes. Documentation describes launch options and preview controls.
Fixture-driven smoke coverage
scripts/preview-plugin.py, docs/native-preview.md
The smoke lane exercises Settings, routing, diagnostics, client keys, connections, and account-provider controls. It checks state, recorded fixture actions, captures, and selected runtime errors.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant CLI as omaproxy CLI
  participant Updates as backend_updates
  participant Sandbox as bwrap validation
  participant Service as Backend service
  CLI->>Updates: request backend update or rollback
  Updates->>Sandbox: validate candidate and configuration
  Sandbox-->>Updates: validation result
  Updates->>Service: stop service if it was running
  Updates->>Updates: replace executable and settings
  Updates->>Service: restart and check health if previously running
  Updates-->>CLI: return operation result
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152-157: 🚀 Performance & Scalability | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

status() makes a second, redundant management request on every poll.

status() already called auth-files through api. running_version then sends the same authenticated request again so it can read the header. The UI polls every 5 seconds while the popup is open, so this doubles management traffic. The second request also adds up to 2 seconds of latency when the backend is slow. Capture the headers on the first auth-files call instead.

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Review comment at @scripts/omaproxy.py around lines 152 - 157:
Update status() to capture the response headers from its existing auth-files
request through api and use them to determine the running version, rather than
calling backend_updates.running_version and issuing another request. Preserve
the existing version and version_source fields when the header is present.

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Review comments at @scripts/preview-plugin.py:
- Line 200: Add a short timeout to the readiness IPC probe in the startup loop
and handle subprocess.TimeoutExpired as a failed attempt so the loop can check
child.poll() again. Add a timeout to the smoke IPC call as well; locate both
calls using the runtime IPC invocation.

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Review comments at @scripts/omaproxy.py:
- Around line 152-157: Update status() to capture the response headers from its
existing auth-files request through api and use them to determine the running
version, rather than calling backend_updates.running_version and issuing another
request. Preserve the existing version and version_source fields when the header
is present.

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  • scripts/omaproxy.py
  • scripts/preview-plugin.py
  • tests/fixtures/preview_bridge.py
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if child.poll() is not None:
print((root / "quickshell.log").read_text(), flush=True)
return child.returncode or 1
ipc = subprocess.run([runtime, "ipc", "-p", str(root), "call", "soojy.omaproxy", "showPage", args.page], capture_output=True, text=True)

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🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Add a timeout to the readiness IPC probe.

The readiness loop calls subprocess.run on quickshell ipc without a timeout. If the IPC client hangs while the child starts, the loop never checks child.poll() again. The launcher then blocks indefinitely, and the finally cleanup never runs. The same risk applies to the smoke ipc helper at Line 231. Add a short timeout to both calls. In this loop, handle subprocess.TimeoutExpired as a failed attempt.

Proposed fix
-                ipc = subprocess.run([runtime, "ipc", "-p", str(root), "call", "soojy.omaproxy", "showPage", args.page], capture_output=True, text=True)
-                if ipc.returncode == 0:
+                try:
+                    ipc = subprocess.run([runtime, "ipc", "-p", str(root), "call", "soojy.omaproxy", "showPage", args.page], capture_output=True, text=True, timeout=5)
+                except subprocess.TimeoutExpired:
+                    continue
+                if ipc.returncode == 0:

Also add timeout=10 at Line 231.

Based on learnings: flag missing timeout arguments on subprocess calls.

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ipc = subprocess.run([runtime, "ipc", "-p", str(root), "call", "soojy.omaproxy", "showPage", args.page], capture_output=True, text=True)
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ipc = subprocess.run([runtime, "ipc", "-p", str(root), "call", "soojy.omaproxy", "showPage", args.page], capture_output=True, text=True, timeout=5)
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Add a short timeout to the readiness IPC probe in the startup loop and handle
subprocess.TimeoutExpired as a failed attempt so the loop can check child.poll()
again. Add a timeout to the smoke IPC call as well; locate both calls using the
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Changes requested on the backend trust anchor. The verified v8.0.13 amd64 binary was built with Go 1.26.4; govulncheck binary analysis reports 17 advisory matches across the standard library and three dependency modules. Matches include GO-2026-6090 (crypto/tls), GO-2026-6089 (net/http), GO-2026-6213/6214 (go-git), GO-2026-5841 (klauspost/compress), and SSH advisories. Binary presence is not proof that every issue is reachable in the default loopback configuration, but this new production pin needs a patched upstream build and documented reachability assessment before rollout. The existing v7.2.154 binary also has 17 matches; that is an existing security follow-up, not a reason to approve a new vulnerable pin.

Reproduction:

go version -m /path/to/verified/cli-proxy-api
go run golang.org/x/vuln/cmd/govulncheck@latest -mode=binary /path/to/verified/cli-proxy-api

Primary advisories: https://pkg.go.dev/vuln/GO-2026-6090 and https://pkg.go.dev/vuln/GO-2026-6089.

I added fixes for two independently verified concerns: rollback now refuses changed configuration so it cannot restore revoked keys, and updater transactions share the native management lock. The validation namespace now preserves distro library paths after hosted Ubuntu CI exposed the Arch-only lib64 assumption. Both backend matrices pass hosted CI after that fix. These improvements are retained on this PR, which remains unmerged pending backend security remediation.

soojy and others added 2 commits October 5, 2026 04:37
@Marlos001 Marlos001 changed the title Add reviewed backend updates with validation and rollback feat: recoverable backend updates with security approval hold Oct 5, 2026
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