Windows installer: payload hash-locking, SBOM, client-IP handling, operator docs

migrations/PRODUCTION_MIGRATION_GUIDE.md

@@ -13,10 +13,10 @@ This guide documents the process for migrating data from the legacy VBScript Sho
 ### New System (Flask)
 - Core `assets` table (unified asset registry)
 - Plugin-specific extension tables:
-  - `equipment` (equipmenttypeid → equipmenttypes)
-  - `computers` (computertypeid → computertypes)
-  - `printers` (printertypeid → printertypes)
-  - `network_device` (networkdevicetypeid → networkdevicetypes)
+  - `equipment` (equipmenttypeid -> equipmenttypes)
+  - `computers` (computertypeid -> computertypes)
+  - `printers` (printertypeid -> printertypes)
+  - `network_device` (networkdevicetypeid -> networkdevicetypes)
 
 ## Key Mappings
 

migrations/env.py

@@ -4,27 +4,12 @@ from logging.config import fileConfig
 from flask import current_app
 
 from alembic import context
-from sqlalchemy.ext.compiler import compiles
-from sqlalchemy.schema import CreateTable
 
-
-# Force every table the migrations create on MySQL to utf8mb4 + DYNAMIC row
-# format. Without this a fresh `flask db upgrade` inherits the server default
-# charset, so a box whose default is latin1 (common on older MySQL) silently
-# builds a latin1 schema that drifts from the utf8mb4 production target. The
-# DYNAMIC row format also keeps utf8mb4 indexes under the 767-byte prefix limit
-# on pre-5.7 InnoDB. Scoped to the mysql dialect so the SQLite test DB is
-# untouched.
-@compiles(CreateTable, "mysql")
-def _mysql_create_table_utf8mb4(element, compiler, **kw):
-    sql = compiler.visit_create_table(element, **kw)
-    if "CHARSET" not in sql.upper():
-        sql = sql.rstrip().rstrip(";")
-        sql += (
-            " ENGINE=InnoDB DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8mb4"
-            " COLLATE=utf8mb4_unicode_ci ROW_FORMAT=DYNAMIC"
-        )
-    return sql
+# Registers the compiler hook that forces utf8mb4 + DYNAMIC on MySQL. Imported
+# for the side effect, and shared with the PLUGIN chains via
+# shopdb/plugins/alembic_template.py - it used to live here, so it covered core
+# only and plugin baselines inherited the server default charset.
+import shopdb.utils.mysql_charset  # noqa: F401
 
 # this is the Alembic Config object, which provides
 # access to the values within the .ini file in use.