- Host admin-state (open/closed/locked) now in scope for the upgrade
snapshot; host and queue admin-state frames migrate to independently-
extensible Cap'n Proto structs (one format-version bump covers both)
- bug-1418 blocker cleared: fixed 2026-07-09 via raft-apply-decoupling,
independently re-verified 2026-07-23 with a clean 10-round chaotic soak
- New Design Invariants section (6 standing rules) and Requirement 7
(regression coverage for host-placeholder/rejoin, overlapping upgrades,
format-mismatch rejection, WAL-trim-under-chaos)
Spec reached GO with 15/15 tasks complete (see prior task-confirmation
commits); these doc artifacts were generated during the design/research
phases but never separately staged.
rshen/Letmein was a live, checked-in cluster_admin credential in
auth.yaml. Renamed to a non-identifying username with a clearly-marked
placeholder password.
docs: add full ops deployment guide (src/docs/deployment.md)
Covers building and running all four daemons plus xceadmin, based on
direct source verification (CLI flags, config file shapes, TLS posture)
and a live single-node deploy. Documents real production gaps (no
process supervision, plaintext non-controller traffic, exposed dev
creds) rather than treating the repo as a finished runbook.
Standby-redirect coverage is done and correct (redirect wiring for
OP_upgradeConfig genuinely doesn't exist server-side yet, matches
design.md's own documented gap). Primary-push success-path test is
flaky (bug-1485) -- a dedicated debug round could not reproduce the
crash in 26+ clean runs, so root cause is unconfirmed. Test files left
uncommitted in the worktree pending re-verification on an idle host.
Deploys a real xce_controller (no HA peers) and runs real xceadmin
config build/push over actual TLS+capnp -- no mock server -- regression
locking task 6.1's envelope fix. Skips cleanly when no controller binary
is available. Surfaced a real, out-of-scope finding: single-node pushes
always report ackedCount==0/exit 1 even on full server-side success,
since there are no standbys to ACK.
config push crashed on every real controller with a capnp KjException --
xce_reply() wraps every reply in an outer Request{body.replymsg} envelope,
but discovery.py/push.py decoded raw wire bytes directly as a bare
RequestReply. Adds a shared decode_reply() unwrap point used by both call
sites, and fixes the same wrong-shape assumption baked into task 5.6's
and test_cli.py's mock-server fixtures.
Found a clean, reusable fault-injection technique: vote/PreVote
endpoints are TLS, and endpoint_connect() succeeds at the TCP level
independent of the handshake, so an accept-then-close impostor
listener on a peer's port deterministically causes an async
SSL_do_handshake failure post-connect -- landing in
vote_ep_err_handler/pre_vote_ep_err_handler (task 3.1's fix target),
never the already-fixed bug-1423 connect-refused path.
Independently reproduced by the reviewer from scratch: both a
RequestVote round and a PreVote round resolved via the fast
all-replied-no-quorum path in single-digit milliseconds, vs the
5000ms configured election timeout (confirmed firing later as a
no-op). Requirements 4.2, 4.3, 4.5 proven live, both vote kinds.
All 15 raft-adapter-conformance sub-tasks now complete. 1067 tests,
0 failures, 8 commits' worth of production fixes (config-push reply
integrity, vote/PreVote failure routing, dormant-sender
documentation), plus 6 regression-lock/confirmation/live-soak tasks.
Two residual gaps logged as new bugs during the sweep (bug-1483,
bug-1484), both pre-existing and out of this spec's scope.
Live 3-node cluster soak confirmed handle_repl_config_push's SHA-256
mismatch reject branch fires in production: 3/3 injected mismatched
pushes against a live standby produced a decoded
ReplConfigPushReply{accepted=false, term=<live raft term>, status=0},
seq-correlated, corroborated by the standby's local WARN log. Cluster
stayed healthy throughout (no crash/step-down/fence).
One rejection round: the real elected primary's own push has no
TOCTOU window to inject a mismatch without new relay code (confirmed
by reading config_commit_change/push_config_to_standbys), so the soak
plays the sender/primary role directly against a standby instead --
remediated from log-inference-only to actual decoded wire-reply
verification per reviewer's cheap-fix path.
No production/test code changed -- pure live observation.
Verified 190 tests across 8 files cover Requirements 2.4, 3.1-3.4,
4.1, 4.4, 7.1-7.3, 7.5, 8.1-8.4. 1067 tests, 0 failures -- unchanged,
zero-diff verification task.
Task 7.2's sweep surfaced a real, pre-existing gap (bug-1421, not
this feature's fault): no test anywhere drives the real
repl_ack_decode_and_dispatch path and asserts term adoption fires for
the heartbeat-reply or WAL-NACK term-discovery vectors -- only the
config-push vector this feature added (task 2.2) is actually tested.
Logged as bug-1484; outside this spec's task list to fix.
Verified all 17 cited tests in test_commit_barrier_rollout.c,
test_commit_barrier_reply.c, and test_term_safety_adapter.c exist and
pass, covering Requirements 5.1, 5.2, 5.4, 6.1-6.4. 1067 tests, 0
failures -- unchanged, as expected for a zero-diff verification task.
CLAUDE.md's TLA+ Action-to-Code Mapping table gains corrected/new rows:
production vs. dormant AppendEntries send mechanisms, WAL catch-up and
config-push reply integrity, and vote/PreVote failure routing across
all failure timings -- each citation independently re-verified against
live source. The old AppendEntries row's citations had already drifted
onto unrelated code before this task; corrected, not just appended to.
Protocol Verification Checklist gains 3 new items for the guarantees
this feature closes.
ha-term-safety/spec.json's known_limitations entry for the dormant
send-path drift gets an additive RESOLVED pointer back to this spec's
disposition, so a future reader lands on the answer instead of
re-discovering the drift.
Requirement 1 (systematic conformance audit deliverable) complete.
Adds test_batch_payload_persist_failure_propagates_to_whole_batch,
proving persist_submit_job_payloads_async resolves every payload in a
3-entry batch with the same first-failure rc when the first payload's
append fails, rather than letting later payloads independently
succeed (Req 5.3).
Fault injection: chmod the WAL leaf directory to 0500 to force
open_new_segment's EACCES (surfaced as -EIO), restored the instant the
first failure is observed -- a transient fault, not a permanent one,
so the test genuinely distinguishes propagation from independent
per-payload failure. No existing fault hook was reachable from this
code path; this is a real, previously-uncovered gap.
1066 -> 1067 tests, 0 failures. Task 5 (regression-lock tests for
already-shipped/already-conformant behavior) now complete -- Core
phase of raft-adapter-conformance finished (tasks 1-5).
Adds test_5_1_wal_catchup_reject_sends_nack_reply, driving a genuine
(term,lsn) conflict against a real persisted WAL entry through
ha_apply_term_entry_via_library and asserting
ha_send_wal_ack_reply_ex(success=0) fires via ha_wal_ack_send_hook.
Note: test_config_repl.c's test_bug1479_ae_reject_sends_nack_not_silence
already covers the same call site via a different (forward-gap)
stimulus, added in the original bug-1479 commit. design.md's own File
Structure Plan explicitly calls for this new test in this file
regardless, so this is disclosed, design-sanctioned defense-in-depth,
not accidental duplication -- both tests independently confirmed to
fail together when the reply call is removed.
1065 -> 1066 tests, 0 failures.
New test drives repl_broadcast and ha_stream_wal_to_standby through
real production fixtures (reused from tasks 2.3/6.2), asserts both
actually fired (non-vacuous), and asserts
ha_send_append_entries_stub_call_count stays 0 throughout -- the
Requirement 3.3 non-regression guard. RED-verified: manually invoking
ha_cb_send_append_entries_for_test inside the test reliably trips the
assertion; reverted for GREEN.
1064 -> 1065 tests, 0 failures. Task 4 (dormant sender documentation +
guard) now complete.
ha_cb_send_append_entries_stub's doc-comment now plainly states it is
reachable only via raft_send_append_entries (zero production callers,
grep-confirmed), and names repl_broadcast/ha_stream_wal_to_standby as
the actual production send/retry/backoff mechanism (Req 3.3, amended
to permit this documentation-only resolution over retire-or-wire-in).
Adds an XCE_TESTING-only ha_send_append_entries_stub_call_count
counter, mirroring the ha_wal_ack_send_hook idiom, as the guard against
this ever silently regaining a production caller. Task 4.2 will drive
the real production path and assert it stays zero.
1063 -> 1064 tests, 0 failures. Zero behavior change to any production
send path.
Adds pre_vote_ep_err_handler_for_test (XCE_TESTING-guarded) and two
tests: PreVote post-connect failure reaches pre_vote_reply_dispatch's
tally (Req 4.3), and a round mixing that failure mode with a delivered
reply reaches its quorum decision via the fast all-replied path
without the full round timeout (Req 4.5). Real-vote coverage (Req 4.2)
was already proven by task 3.1's own test, cited not duplicated.
pre_vote_reply_dispatch has no mock hook seam, so both tests assert
directly on raft_state_t's tally fields, mirroring test_ha_prevote.c's
existing verification technique.
1061 -> 1063 tests, 0 failures.
Splits vote_ep_err_handler into a real-vote handler and a new
pre_vote_ep_err_handler, each registered at its existing (already
separate) connection-setup call site. Extracts the identical
CTRL_PRIMARY-role cleanup into a shared vote_ep_handle_promoted_disconnect
helper, behavior unchanged.
Each handler's election-phase branch now routes a post-connect failure
(RDHUP/SSL-error/remote-close after connect, before any reply) through
the same production tally the connect-time failure branches already
use (vote_reply_dispatch / pre_vote_reply_dispatch, bug-1423/1424's
fix), instead of the legacy handle_request_vote_reply that never
updated the tally. Closes the one failure window bug-1423 didn't cover.
1060 -> 1061 tests, 0 failures. PreVote-specific test coverage is
task 3.2's scope (pre_vote_reply_dispatch has no hook seam analogous
to xce_vote_reply_hook; verified only by code symmetry + full-suite
regression here).
Adds the remaining 3 of 4 handle_repl_config_push reject-path tests
(malformed request, missing bytes/sha256, conf_save_config failure via
a deterministic ENOTDIR fixture), the EAGAIN-still-accepts test, and
term-adoption-on-accept (task 2.2's own test only covered the reject
case). Requirement 2.4 (unknown-outcome handling) is already covered
by the pre-existing test_wait_all_with_timeout_slow_threads, cited
rather than duplicated.
1055 -> 1060 tests, 0 failures.
myreq_handler's ReplConfigPushReply branch now routes cack->term
through raft_on_higher_term_observed (same entry point the
heartbeat-reply and WAL-NACK vectors use), regardless of accept/reject,
without altering the existing accept/reject branching.
Adds myreq_handler_for_test (XCE_TESTING-only) to drive the real
dispatcher in tests, following the peer_ctrl_msg_handler_for_test
precedent. Requires cluster.c in controller_unit_test_src plus the
established link-satisfying fake stubs for its unrelated switch-case
dependencies (same pattern already used by test_worker_join.c and
test_commit_barrier_reply.c).
handle_repl_config_push now sends a ReplConfigPushReply{accepted,term}
from every exit path instead of silently dropping on the four reject
conditions (malformed request, missing bytes/sha256, sha256 mismatch,
conf_save_config failure). Term is sourced live from c->ha.term.
-EAGAIN activation-defer still replies accepted=1, unchanged.
Adds an XCE_TESTING-only send-hook mirroring ha_wal_ack_send_hook so
tests can observe the reply payload without a live endpoint.
Chaotic election churn (config-upgrade-snapshot task 8.6's force_elect_node
rotation) can leave a standby log-conflicted after a rejoin. Fixing this
needed three compounding layers, each unit-green but still failing the
identical live scenario until the next layer landed:
1. ha_raft_on_repl_nack (ha.c/ha.h): routes a WAL-ACK NACK into the raft
library's nextIndex backoff and immediately repl_start_catchup's the
standby at the corrected position, instead of the 16-strike silent
eviction with no catch-up driver after it. Correct from the start, but
live soak still failed identically: nothing ever produced the NACK this
code was waiting for.
2. Standby-side NACK sending: ha_apply_term_entry_via_library's logOk-reject
path now calls a new ha_send_wal_ack_reply_ex(..., success=0) instead of
silently dropping the reject. ha_send_wal_ack_reply had hardcoded
success=1 unconditionally -- the only WalAckReply sender in the
controller -- making (1)'s NACK-routing correct but unreachable dead
code. New ha_wal_ack_send_hook (XCE_TESTING) lets a unit test observe
the NACK without a live endpoint. Live-confirmed the NACK now reaches
the primary -- but the scenario still failed for a third reason.
3. ha_compute_repl_stream_ceiling_lsn (ha.c/ha.h): ha_stream_wal_to_standby's
catch-up range was hard-bounded at committed_lsn, which can never advance
in this exact scenario because advancing it requires an ACK from the very
standby that's stuck catching up (2-of-3 alive, this standby is the only
path to a new majority) -- a self-referential deadlock. Widens the
STREAM_WAL ceiling (and the convergence check gating it) to the leader's
own log tail, matching raft.tla's real AppendEntries semantics
(leaderCommit is advisory, never a send-cap), while reusing bug-1478's
exact guard so this doesn't reopen that trap (never widen onto a trailing
local-only checkpoint's own unstreamable LSN).
Verification: controller_unit_test 1053/1053 PASS, clean twice, including
new regression tests for all three layers (test_config_repl.c,
test_term_safety_adapter.c, test_ha_role.c), each RED-confirmed against its
pre-fix behavior before the real fix was restored. Three successive live
run-ha-soak.sh --config-upgrade re-runs tracked each layer landing; the
final run passed end-to-end -- all 3 force_elect_node rounds succeeded
(ctrl-2: 3/3 jobs acked term=6; ctrl-3: 3/3 jobs acked term=7, never
previously reached), zero materialized-state divergence, zero job loss.
Unblocks config-upgrade-snapshot task 8.6.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
admin-config-tool's spec.json blocked_on and tasks.md both still described
the OP_upgradeConfig dispatch-gate defect as an open blocker. It was fixed
2026-07-25 (bug-1468, commit 959b0cda) by config-upgrade-snapshot task 8.6,
which independently hit the same wall building a live OP_upgradeConfig
sender -- the fix's own comment in cluster.c already cross-references this
spec. The controller-side path has since been exercised live and
successfully many times via config-upgrade-snapshot's --config-upgrade
soak. All 23 admin-config-tool tasks are already [x]; this was pure
tracking-metadata debt, not a reopened implementation gap.
Also appends a cross-spec gap analysis (admin-config-tool x
config-upgrade-snapshot x clusterconfig-schema-split) to all three specs'
research.md, confirming clean schema integration between the latter two
and flagging the one remaining real gap: a new commit-timeout issue in
config-upgrade-snapshot task 8.6's force-elect step, surfaced now that
bug-1477 is fixed, not yet root-caused.
Two independent call sites duplicated target = max(committed_lsn,
last_written): ha.c's heartbeat/stateReport dispatch (repl_ack_decode_and_
dispatch) and config_repl.c's catchup_derive_target (used by the ACK-driven
catch-up continuation path). Once config-upgrade-snapshot's marker-triggered
checkpoint advances last_written one LSN past an already-committed
committed_lsn (the checkpoint's own consumed, never-replicated LSN slot),
the unconditional max() permanently wedges every standby's catch-up target
at an unreachable value -- the primary re-streams an empty range every
heartbeat forever.
Extracted the shared, pure ha_compute_repl_target_lsn(committed_lsn,
last_written) (ha.h/ha.c), which only falls back to last_written on genuine
committed_lsn==0 bootstrap, and pointed both call sites at it so they can
never disagree again.
Fixing the second call site exposed three pre-existing tests in
test_convergence_verification.c that hardcoded the old buggy formula's
output as their expected target; updated their fixture values (committed_lsn
4->9, matching appended_lsn) to decouple them from the now-fixed edge case,
which already has dedicated pure-function coverage in test_ha_role.c.
GREEN: full controller_unit_test suite = 1040 tests, 0 failures, clean
across multiple runs. Live-verified via run-ha-soak.sh
--config-upgrade-wal-trim (18 jobs, zero job loss, ctrl-1 reconverged 3-of-3
using the preserved floor segment) -- unblocks config-upgrade-snapshot
task 8.9.
bug-1472 (the prior blocker, worker-control replication) is fixed and
verified (7547a8f1). Rebuilding and re-running --config-upgrade on top of
that fix surfaced a new, unrelated defect: a node that takes the
skip_election fast path in myapp_run can permanently lose commit_engine_init
if its one cluster_init_phase2() attempt races config availability, since
none of ha.c's four retry call sites re-attempt for a node that never
contests an election. That member then never fires the marker-triggered
checkpoint (task 5), leaving it permanently unable to catch up past that
LSN (WAL_CHECKPOINT is local-only, non-replicated by design) -- a distinct,
permanent wedge from bug-1475's already-fixed transient race.
Root-caused via a dedicated debug pass (log/grep/git-blame evidence, logged
as bug-1477). Out of config-upgrade-snapshot's boundary -- same pattern as
bug-1471/1472/1474 -- so task 8.6 stays blocked until bug-1477 is fixed
upstream in HA bootstrap/election.
Add run_config_upgrade_wal_trim_round() / --config-upgrade-wal-trim to
run-ha-soak.sh: forces real WAL segment rotation via small
--wal-segment-bytes, kills a non-primary node, drives a live config
upgrade to fire the marker-triggered checkpoint's forced trim, then
inspects survivors' on-disk WAL directory before the killed node
rejoins to directly verify the mid-catch-up retention guard
(repl_trim_lsn/trim_wal_segments, bug-1147) preserves what it still
needs.
Two independent live 3-node runs both reproduce a real, pre-existing,
out-of-spec-boundary defect (bug-1474): a heartbeat reconnect-sweep
race reuses a just-killed standby's freed replicator slot and clobbers
its retention guard before trim ever runs. Root-caused via repl.c/ha.c
and confirmed via git blame to predate this spec and be reachable
under the old periodic-checkpoint trigger identically -- not caused by
anything config-upgrade-snapshot changed. Task 8.9 stays blocked per
tasks.md until bug-1474 is fixed upstream; infra is done and correctly
proves the violation.
Independently reviewed: round design verified faithful to the
unit-level fixture, bug-1474 diagnosis independently re-derived from
source and raw logs (not trusted from the implementer's report).
Add regression test proving Req 4.4/7.2: a second WAL_CONFIG_MARKER
committing while the first's forced checkpoint is still in flight
(simulated via the checkpoint_in_progress CAS across both markers'
commit+apply) cleanly supersedes it, with the settled state reflecting
only the newer marker. Verified via a field-aware byte comparison
(post-checkpoint_lsn) against a non-racing control fixture, plus
mid-race assertions that materialization is still incomplete at that
point (cfgref_present false, fence set) despite activation already
tracking the newer config. Test-only; production mechanism (already
implemented) unmodified. Suite: 1027 -> 1028 tests, 0 failures.
Prove Requirements 5.2/5.4/5.5/6.3 via deterministic fault injection at
the two critical upgrade windows, entirely at the unit level using the
XCE_TESTING hooks earlier tasks built for exactly this purpose -- no
live soak needed.
test_marker_checkpoint_fault_hook_crash_then_restart_resumes_materialization
extends the existing fault-hook seam test: after simulating a crash
before the checkpoint write durably completes, it boots a genuinely
fresh persist_t/cluster_t against the same on-disk WAL via
persist_recover() (a real boot-replay simulation, not a same-process
re-call) and confirms materialization resumes and completes correctly.
test_leadership_change_mid_materialization_completes_via_same_generic_apply_drain
proves a promoted member's materialization completes identically to a
non-promoted control member's, by draining each through its actual
production entry point and comparing checkpoints byte-for-byte -- a
regression guard against any future role-conditional branch creeping
into the marker-apply path.
Root-caused bug-1471's single-byte checkpoint divergence to a genuine,
pre-existing bug in WAL_WORKER_CTRL apply (worker_from_capnp treats
"-EEXIST" as a benign no-op for every hook detail, which is correct for
JOIN replay but silently discards UPDATE/DEAD field changes since the
target already existing is the normal case there). This predates
config-upgrade-snapshot by ~2.5 months and is unrelated to config
upgrades -- filed as bug-1472, genuinely outside this spec's boundary.
Task 8.6's own infrastructure and its two in-scope bug fixes (bug-1468,
bug-1469) are already committed and reviewed; only the Requirement 6.4
host-admin-status-survival assertion is blocked on bug-1472, per the
project's upstream-ownership handling rather than working around it here.
Build the live 3-node chaotic-multi-kill config-upgrade soak scenario
(run-ha-soak.sh --config-upgrade) required by Requirements 4.1, 4.3, 6.1,
6.4. This needed genuinely new client-side infrastructure: a hand-rolled
capnp send path for OP_upgradeConfig (the auto-generated encoder is a
no-op for its Data fields, worked around the same way
xce_replconfigpush_req_raw already does), plus cmd_hostctrl/cmd_upgradeconfig
CLI commands.
Building and running this live surfaced two real production bugs, both
fixed here:
- bug-1468: an unrelated prior commit inverted OPCode_upgradeConfig's
primary/standby dispatch guard in cluster.c, making config upgrades
unreachable from any network client.
- bug-1469: apply_committed_entry's WAL_CONFIG_MARKER case never called
config_activate_committed(), so the node that originates a config
upgrade never refreshed its own in-memory state as part of committing
it. Killing that node before some later, unrelated event happened to
refresh it left its checkpoint permanently stale -- the first live,
empirical reproduction of bug-857's originally hypothesized failure
mode. Fixed by activating before the marker-triggered checkpoint write,
since checkpoint content is built from live runtime tables that only
reflect the reload after activation runs.
A separate, narrower checkpoint divergence (bug-1471, not config-related)
remains open and still blocks a clean soak PASS -- task 8.6 stays
in-progress until it's resolved.
Prove Requirement 6.2 with a real, code-backed mechanism instead of the
originally hypothesized lost_and_found re-homing, which turned out to be
aspirational and never implemented (confirmed by exhaustive grep at both
the pre-fix baseline commit and HEAD — bug-857 itself was flagged in
buglog.json as never empirically reproduced).
test_bug857_regression.c demonstrates both halves of the requirement
entirely within controller_unit_test, no live soak or old-commit build
needed: schedule_checkpoint's pre-existing WAL-threshold trigger is
decoupled from the config-marker boundary and produces genuinely
divergent per-member checkpoint content, while the marker-triggered
checkpoint this spec added converges members regardless of differing
per-member processing pace.
design.md's Requirements Traceability table and Testing Strategy section
are corrected to match; the redirection reasoning is recorded in
tasks.md's Implementation Notes for the benefit of tasks 8.6-8.9, which
still need live multi-process HA-soak infrastructure for Requirement 6.1
that this task deliberately did not build.
Build configcompare_paths(), an offline sibling to snapdiff/walcompare that
recomputes each member's active-config sha256 fresh from its own on-disk
workdir/name/conf bytes and reports identical vs. divergent (Req 4.2).
Wire it as a cmd_configcompare CLI subcommand in test.c, matching its
siblings, after review caught it shipped as an unreachable library function
in round 1.
Extend snapverify to match the current on-disk checkpoint format: bump
SNAP_FORMAT_VERSION to 2, replace the stale raw queue-frame decode with the
capnp length-prefixed walk, add host-frame and config-bytes-section
structural walks, and decode (not just presence-check) the header's
cfgref tag/sha. Without this fix snapverify rejected every checkpoint
written by the current codebase.
do_upgrade_config_with_bytes drops step 9 (wait-for-checkpoint,
restart_requested=1, cbuf_put stop signal) -- materialization now
happens entirely via task 5's apply_committed_entry WAL_CONFIG_MARKER
case on every member's own apply, no restart required. Confirmed
do_upgrade_config_with_bytes was the sole production setter of
restart_requested; cluster.c's read of it is now permanently
false-for-this-trigger, which is the intended behavior.
Adds xce_upgrade_marker_committed_hook (#ifdef XCE_TESTING, mirrors
xce_snapshot_chunk_hook's nullable-function-pointer shape), firing
right after config_commit_change succeeds -- a deterministic seam for
later leadership-change fault injection (task 8.7) at exactly the
marker-commit-to-every-member-installed window. NULL by default, true
no-op in production.
Task 7 of 19.
Requirements: 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 2.2, 5.4, 6.3
Wires task 6.1's upgrade_materialization_verify/upgrade_materialization_fenced
into ha_dispatch_gate's CTRL_PRIMARY branch (sequential block alongside,
not merged into, the existing config_serve_fenced check -- same
replication/read-only opcode allowlist, refuses state-changing ops
with -XCE_ERR_NOT_READY while fenced) and the promotion gate
(raft_cb_become_leader refuses to become CTRL_PRIMARY while fenced,
introduces no new WAL/log-completeness eligibility mechanism, never
self-terminates). Adds a 4-function self-triggering retry trampoline
(upgrade_materialization_retry_fn/_vtask_entry/_delaymgr_trampoline/
schedule_upgrade_materialization_retry) mirroring
config_activate_retry_fn's exact shape, hooked into
ha_cb_commit_advanced_stub alongside the existing config-byte retry.
Fixes a real bug caught on review: the fence had no production path
that could ever engage it from its zero-initialized default -- every
setter call site was gated on the fence already being set (closed
loop), making the new gate checks permanently dead code. Fixed with
two unconditional upgrade_materialization_verify() call sites:
persist.c's apply_committed_entry WAL_CONFIG_MARKER case (right after
persist_checkpoint_marker_triggered returns, regardless of its rc) and
myapp.c's boot sequence (right after config_activate_committed, for
Req 5.2 crash/restart resume). New test drives the fence through the
real production trigger (a forced -EBUSY checkpoint miss on a real
marker commit+apply), not a direct verify() call, proving the
end-to-end path actually works. Task 6.2 of 19.
Requirements: 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 4.3, 5.5
Adds a new, independent fence (ha_state_t.upgrade_materialization_fence)
distinct from the existing config-byte serve-fence: that fence tracks
whether the locally-held config bytes hash-match the committed marker;
this one tracks whether THIS MEMBER'S OWN upgrade-snapshot
materialization (task 5's marker-triggered checkpoint) has actually
completed for the current committed marker, with the live on-disk
config bytes still hash-verifying against it right now.
upgrade_materialization_verify(c) mirrors config_activate_committed's
shape: reads the current committed marker, checks whether
persist.cfgref_present/cfgref_tag/cfgref_sha already reflect it (stamped
by every checkpoint via scan_latest_committed_config_ref -- proof this
member's own materialization ran for this exact marker), and separately
re-reads the LIVE on-disk config bytes fresh on every call (never a
cached/embedded copy) to hash-verify them too. Both must hold for the
fence to clear. Logs loud only on the 0->1 transition, never
exits/aborts, always fail-loud + fence + stay alive + retriable.
upgrade_materialization_fenced(c) is the trivial atomic-read accessor.
Not yet wired into the dispatch gate, promotion gate, or an automatic
retry trigger -- that's task 6.2. Task 6.1 of 19.
Requirements: 1.8, 3.2, 3.4
Adds an explicit case WAL_CONFIG_MARKER to apply_committed_entry,
replacing its no-op treatment, that forces a checkpoint at exactly the
marker's own (term, lsn) via two new helpers:
persist_checkpoint_write_locked(p, checkpoint_lsn) -- the checkpoint
core (pin lsn, scan config ref, write_snapshot, trim, rotate) taking
an explicit LSN and never acquiring apply_pump_lock itself
persist_checkpoint_marker_triggered(p, lsn) -- shares the existing
checkpoint_in_progress CAS guard, calls the above with the marker's
own lsn
This fixes two hazards design.md's "call persist_checkpoint() directly"
text didn't account for: (1) apply_committed_entry's live-pump caller
(persist_apply_pump_run, used by both primary and standby online-apply)
already holds apply_pump_lock across the dispatch call -- a direct
persist_checkpoint() call would self-deadlock on that mutex; (2)
last_applied_lsn/replay position only advance AFTER apply_committed_entry
returns at both call sites, so pinning checkpoint_lsn from
last_applied_lsn inside the marker case would label the checkpoint with
the previous entry's LSN, not the marker's own -- fixed by threading the
marker's own lsn parameter through explicitly. A -EBUSY outcome (a
concurrent periodic checkpoint mid-flight) is logged at TRACE and treated
as expected/self-resolving, never retried. The new case has no effect on
entity interpretation/re-homing (Req 1.8).
New test_upgrade_snapshot_apply.c drives WAL_CONFIG_MARKER through the
REAL production call paths (persist_apply_pump_run and boot replay via
persist_recover), not a bare apply_committed_entry() call, so the fix is
actually proven against the lock-holding context rather than assumed.
Also fixes a genuine regression in test_config_repl.c surfaced by
WAL_CONFIG_MARKER apply having a real side effect for the first time
(bug-1466): an fsync-worker-thread race (t42_wait_applied polling helper,
mirrors test_apply_pump.c's tap_wait_applied) and one test call site
trusting an unreliable raft-derived LSN. Surfaces (but does not fix, out
of this spec's boundary) a pre-existing ha-term-safety/raft-log-replication
gap: persist_write_checkpoint_marker bypasses ha_primary_log_append,
breaking its documented current_lsn==log_len+1 invariant once a
checkpoint interleaves with primary appends -- log_len feeds real
RequestVote freshness comparisons, not advisory-only as first assumed;
severity corrected in bug-1466. Task 5 of 19.
Requirements: 1.1, 1.5, 1.8, 4.4, 5.2, 5.3
load_snapshot_entities' queue-frame decode migrates from the old raw
{name_len,name,status} layout to {payload_len, capnp QueueAdminState
bytes}, still calling the unmodified restore_queue_state. Adds a new
host-frame section decode after queues, dispatching to
restore_host_state (worker.c, task 3) with the same bounds-checking
and restore-before-advance discipline as the existing job/queue loops.
Un-ignores test_snapent_load_snapshot_restores_entities_before_advancing_position
(blocked since task 2.2) -- now passes for real. Also fixes a genuine
regression in test_snapshot_recv_out_of_order_chunks_assemble_correctly
(test_config_repl.c): its synthetic checkpoint-body filler landed on
the new host_count field's offset, tripping the cluster==NULL guard --
pinned to a well-formed host_count=0, matching that test's existing
fmt/job_count/queue_count precedent. Task 4 of 19.
Requirements: 1.10
Adds restore_host_state(cluster_t*, const char*, uint32_t admin_status)
to worker.c: OR's admin bits into an existing worker's status on hit;
on miss, creates a minimal XCE_WORKER_UNAVAIL placeholder via
makeWorker (mirroring the lost_and_found sentinel host precedent),
with a valid non-NULL hostattrs_t so the host's later real join routes
through rejoin_worker (not init_worker) and preserves the restored
admin status. Idempotent under retry (find first, create only if
missing). Standalone -- not yet wired into load_snapshot (task 4).
Requirements: 1.10, 1.11, 5.8
write_snapshot now appends a flat [config_bytes_len][raw bytes]
section after the host frames, reading the locally-held active config
straight off disk (read_active_config_bytes, persist.c) rather than
calling into config_repl.c -- mirrors scan_latest_committed_config_ref's
existing precedent of avoiding a persist.c -> config_repl.c
function-call dependency. Populated on every checkpoint, not only
marker-triggered ones (Req 2.4). No local config yet (early boot)
degrades to an explicit empty section rather than failing the
checkpoint; genuine corruption still fails loud. Task 2.3 of 19.
Requirements: 2.1, 2.3, 2.4, 5.1
collect_queue_frames now encodes each queue as a QueueAdminState capnp
frame (capnp_encode_queue_admin_state, mirroring task 2.1's host-frame
encoder) instead of the raw {name_len,name,status} layout;
write_snapshot's queue trailer writes [payload_len][capnp bytes] per
queue. restore_queue_state and load_snapshot's queue decode are
untouched (task 4's boundary).
Temporarily TEST_IGNORE_MESSAGE's
test_snapent_load_snapshot_restores_entities_before_advancing_position
(m_queues=2 real write+load round trip hits the still-raw loader) --
tracked in tasks.md Implementation Notes, must be re-enabled by task 4.
Matches existing codebase precedent (bug-847) for this pattern. Task
2.2 of 19.
Requirements: 1.9, 5.7
Adds collect_host_frames + capnp_encode_host_admin_state, walking
c->workermgr the same way collect_job_frames/collect_queue_frames do.
Every host currently in the table gets one HostAdminState frame
(status masked to XCE_WORKER_ADMIN_MASK only, no dynamic/liveness
fields), written into write_snapshot after the queue trailer. Task 2.1
of 19.
Requirements: 1.6, 1.7, 1.9
Adds independently-extensible Cap'n Proto frames for the upgrade
snapshot's host/queue admin-state sections (frame-only, not reusing
Worker/QueueConf which bundle dynamic state) and bumps
SNAPSHOT_FORMAT_VERSION 1->2 so a checkpoint written under the prior
raw queue-frame layout is fail-loud rejected rather than
misinterpreted. Task 1 of 19.
Requirements: 1.9, 5.7
bug-1463: commit 94f50ce6 (bug-1453 CA-cert-plumbing removal) missed
GetJobOutput's dead tls.Config/loadRootCAs block in request.go, plus
peek.go's SetRootCAs call and serverInfo.CACert field access (the
field no longer exists on APIServerInfo) -- broke the xcecli build.
Removed all three dangling references. Also enabled NewAPIClient's
previously-commented-out InsecureSkipVerify TLS config, since no
xcecli method set any TLS config at all -- any https:// apiserver URL
would have failed cert verification, not just GetJobOutput. Matches
bug-1453's documented design (server-side TLS only, no peer
verification, mTLS deferred as P3 hardening).
Documented both the api-server (http+https) and controller
(server-side-cert-only, no client certs) TLS postures in
.kiro/steering/security.md, replacing a stale line claiming TLS is
handled at the network layer, plus a follow-up note for the planned
HAProxy TLS-termination reverse proxy once its cert type and
apiserver's own listener fate are decided.
Adds crash-safety, determinism, host-status, and apply-activate
requirements; records research on bug-1418 as a pre-work dependency
(its apply-lag promotion-gate fix is the template for this spec's own
Req3 graceful-degrade gate, and contaminates Req6's chaos-soak signal
if left unfixed first).
deploy-ha.sh no longer takes a <data-dir> argument or --build-config
flag. Every deploy now generates a fresh self-signed TLS cert/key
(openssl, RSA 2048, 10y validity) directly into the deploy dir's
certs/, and builds cluster.bin directly into controller/ctrl-1/conf/
via xceadmin -- no intermediate staging directory, nothing preserved
across runs. run-ha-soak.sh (/xce-test-ha) updated to match: dropped
its own XCE_HA_DATADIR-based precondition entirely. Updated 4 callers
(run-ha-soak.sh, test-heartbeat-tolerance.sh, test-commit-durability.sh,
both xce-deploy-ha/xce-test-ha SKILL.md docs).
Separately: xcecommon.wire.connect() was loading a client-side TLS
cert, diverging from the real reference client -- netio.c's
create_ssl_context() presents no certificate at all when acting as a
client (cert_file/key_file both NULL, bare TLS_client_method()).
Fixed connect() to match, and since nothing else consumed cert_dir
(verify_mode=CERT_NONE throughout, no CA check either), removed it
end-to-end: discovery.follow_redirects(), push.push_config()/
probe_config(), and the --cert-dir CLI flag.
Server-side cert loading (mock TLS test servers) is unaffected --
moved into a shared session-scoped tls_certs fixture (new
tests/conftest.py, openssl-generated) replacing 3 duplicated
REPO_HA_DATA_DIR/skipif blocks. Net result: those tests no longer skip
under a hermetic nix build sandbox (which never had ha/data/) --
verified 165/165 passed, 0 skipped, via both meson compile and a full
nix build --option sandbox false .#xcecore_debug rebuild (previously
128 passed / 37 skipped there).
ha/data/{xce.crt,xce.key} removed from git tracking. Requirements
2.3/2.4 and 8.3/8.4/8.5 marked superseded in requirements.md with
dated correction notes.
Reopens the 2026-07-21 design decision to keep xceadmin outside meson.
Standard onboarding consistency (README 3.3 `nix build .#xcecore` and
3.4 `meson compile` working for xceadmin like every other component)
outweighs the earlier concern about meson's single-artifact model not
fitting a multi-file pip install.
- src/xceadmin/meson.build: custom_target() wrapping install+test,
stamp-file output, build_always_stale (matches this repo's existing
clean-rebuild-every-invocation convention).
- src/xceadmin/meson-build.sh: out-of-tree pinned install + pytest;
stages a repo-mirror/ symlink tree so tests' fixed-relative-path
assumptions (src/configs/, src/schema/, ha/data/) still resolve from
a copied location, without touching their deliberate fail-loud
behavior.
- src/meson.build: subdir('xceadmin') under component != 'xcecli'.
- src/tools/xce-build.sh: xceadmin case now delegates to
`meson compile -C "$BUILD_DIR" xceadmin` instead of its own
pip/venv implementation, like every other component.
Verified both build paths: meson compile (165/165 passed) and
nix build --option sandbox false .#xcecore_debug (128 passed / 37
skipped — cert-dependent tests correctly skip under nix's
git-tracked-only hermetic source). AppImage bundling (README 3.5)
is explicitly deferred to future work, not part of this change.
