A patch release. The pagination-cap fixes, and the documentation that missed the
0.11.0 installer by a few minutes.
docs/UPGRADE.md is one of the documents the Windows installer puts on the server,
and its buildings-and-levels section was committed after 0.11.0 was tagged. So
0.11.0 shipped the page an operator reads WHILE upgrading without the guidance
about that upgrade - which matters most on an air-gapped box, where there is no
other way to reach it. The installer now also ships FLOOR-MAP.md for the same
reason the Windows runbooks ship.
No application code changed on the server side and the plugin contract stays at
0.20.0.
The version and the changelog are the release; the detail is in the entry.
Nine fixes from a review of the installer against its actual audience: DT leads
at sister sites who are not Windows, IIS or Python specialists and who will lean
on an AI assistant to get through it.
TRUTHFULNESS. The preflight was advisory - an operator read 'IIS is not
installed', pressed Next, answered five more pages and the install died partway
through with Python already on the box. The results page now blocks while
anything is failing, repaints on every run instead of latching after the first,
and offers 'Check again' so a fixed problem does not mean starting over. On
failure the wizard said 'Nothing was left running', which is false in every path
because the stages run with -OnFailure never: it now says the server is
part-configured, that re-running is safe, and how to remove it. The final page no
longer reads 'ShopDB-Flask is ready' after a failed install.
SECRETS. The generated MySQL root password went to Write-Host in a process the
wizard runs hidden - so nobody saw it - and stdout is forwarded into the setup
log operators are told to send to support, so it was permanently recorded for
everyone who did not need it. It now goes to an ACL'd file. Database dumps, which
contain every user password hash, landed in a ProgramData directory readable by
every user on the box; the directory is now locked at creation.
UPGRADES ON REMOTE-DATABASE SITES. mysqldump was looked for only under local
MySQL install paths, so a site whose database is on another host silently skipped
every pre-upgrade backup - after stage 2 had already stopped the pool and
replaced the tree. Find-MysqlTool now prefers a client shipped in the bundle,
stage 2 stages it onto the server, preflight reports when it is missing, and
mysqlclient\ is an optional locked payload.
UNINSTALL. A subpath install is an IIS Application, not a site; removing only the
site left the application pointing at a deleted directory, so the parent site -
at West Jefferson, the live classic ASP - served 503 on that path forever while
Add/Remove Programs reported success. Uninstall now reads MOUNT_PATH and removes
the application. The firewall rule was created as "$SiteName $SitePort" and
removed as the literal 'ShopDB-Flask 8090', which matches nothing.
DAY-2 TOOLING. Every shortcut now passes -AppRoot and -SitePort, and the console
forwards them through its own elevation and 32-bit relaunches instead of
discarding them - a non-default directory or port made it report a healthy site
as broken, from a shortcut the installer wrote. 'Open ShopDB-Flask' resolved to a
hardcoded localhost:8090 that was wrong for every subpath install; it now asks
the console, which reads the address the installer recorded, and no longer
demands administrator to open a browser.
SMOKE TEST. The parent-site port lookup filtered for an http binding and
defaulted to 80, so an https-only parent site failed a working install with a red
dialog.
DOCS AND /api/docs. The installer was invisible: nothing in docs/, README.md or
CLAUDE.md mentioned it, so a DT lead or their assistant landed on the manual IIS
runbook and hand-built the very server the installer then refuses to upgrade.
docs/INSTALL-WINDOWS.md and docs/OPERATE-WINDOWS.md are now the canonical route,
the two manual runbooks are bannered as reference-only, README and CLAUDE.md
route by target, and llms.txt tells an assistant which document to follow and to
ask for 'check -Json' before diagnosing. Both ship on the server, along with
openapi.json and llms.txt - without those the self-hosted /api/docs was broken on
every installed box, which matters most to the sites least able to debug it.
Stage 5 now checks it actually serves.
shopdb-admin.ps1 gains 'check -Json': one structured, secret-free block covering
version, publishing method, IIS state, HTTP reachability, database, Python
version, plugins and errors. That is the cheapest useful answer to 'the operator
will ask an LLM' - it works with no infrastructure, which a install-time MCP
server could not.
An air-gapped site cannot be scanned from anywhere else, so when a CVE lands the
only way to answer 'is that component here, and at what version' was to RDP in
and go looking. The frontend was the real blind spot: nothing recorded which
version of leaflet, dompurify, jspdf or html2canvas ends up inside the compiled
SPA.
scripts/generate_sbom.py emits CycloneDX 1.6 covering both ecosystems - every pin
in requirements.txt with the sha256 the installer enforces, and every package in
package-lock.json. Build-only npm packages are marked scope 'excluded' rather
than dropped, so 'not here' stays distinguishable from 'not looked for'.
Dependency edges are real: uv's '# via' comments give the Python graph and
package-lock gives the npm one.
Hand-rolled rather than cyclonedx-py plus cyclonedx-npm because both inputs are
already pinned and committed - this is a format translation, not a scan - and
because the build box may be a work PC with nothing but Python and Node. It is
deterministic by construction: same inputs, byte-identical output, so
regenerating does not churn.
Staged into the application tree by both builders, so it installs onto the
server with the app. shopdb-admin.ps1 verify reports it and searches it by
component name, which is the question actually being asked.
Packages appearing at several depths in package-lock (node_modules/vite and
node_modules/vitest/node_modules/vite) are merged, and a copy reachable outside
the dev tree makes the component count as shipped. Emitting both produced
duplicate bom-refs, which CycloneDX forbids and scanners reject; getting the dev
merge backwards would have hidden a shipped package from a CVE search.
Not covered by bundle-lock.json on purpose: its provenance is git, not the
third-party payload.
Two fixes to the lean-site build.
The closure resolution moves out of an inline heredoc into
scripts/resolve_plugin_closure.py. The Windows builder needs the same answer,
and a PowerShell reimplementation would have been a second copy of the rules,
free to drift and produce a bundle whose plugin set did not match its profile.
The backend staging step copied all of deploy/ into the output tree. The Windows
installer stages its bundle at deploy/windows/installer/bundle, so that copy
recursed into its own destination and cp aborted with 'cannot copy a directory
into itself' - the documented build could not complete. Only
deploy/windows/web.config is read at install time, so only that is staged; the
rest of deploy/ is installer source and does not belong on an application
server.
Vite compiles the mount path into the bundle, so it cannot be chosen at install
time from a single build - a page served under /shopdb would load and then
request its assets from /assets/, and render nothing.
build-site.sh now produces both:
frontend-dist base / - the app on its own IIS site
frontend-dist-subpath base /<alias> - an IIS Application under an existing
site, e.g. http://<server-fqdn>/shopdb/
SUBPATH_ALIAS (default 'shopdb') is fixed per bundle and written into the staged
build as .alias, so the three places that must agree - the IIS application alias,
MOUNT_PATH in .env, and this compiled base - cannot drift apart. The installer
checks that marker and refuses rather than serving a page that cannot load.
The subpath build runs FIRST and is held in a temp dir: the root build has to be
last so frontend/dist is left in the state a developer expects, and the copy into
$OUT has to happen after the staging step that does rm -rf "$OUT".
build-site.sh staged only shopdb/, the chosen plugins/ and frontend-dist, so the
output could be imported but not run or migrated. The Windows installer had to
assemble wsgi.py, requirements.txt, migrations/ and deploy/ separately, which
meant it could assemble a payload whose plugin set did not match the profile the
tree was staged from.
Stage those runtime files, and copy the profile in as site-profile.json so the
set is self-describing: `flask plugin apply-profile` at provisioning reads the
same profile the tree was built from, so installed plugins and shipped plugin
code cannot drift.
frontend-dist keeps its name; CI reads that path (ci.yml:79).
The closing hint now spells out `prune-schema --yes --force`. ADR-014's prose
says lean provisioning "uses --force", but --force alone only permits dropping
non-empty tables; without --yes the command is a dry run that prints a preview
and exits, so following the ADR literally silently skips the prune.
The org IP allow list blocks GitHub-hosted runner IPs (checkout 403), so
point all jobs at the self-hosted arc-runner-set. Drop the rsync dependency
in build-site.sh (cp + bytecode prune; the ARC runner image has no rsync)
and remove the migrations-mysql job - ARC/Kubernetes has no service
containers, so that MySQL 8 coverage stays on the internal CI.
The lean-build endgame: a site ships carrying only the plugins it chose.
- scripts/build-site.sh: reads a site profile, resolves the hard-dependency
closure from manifests, builds the frontend with SITE_PLUGINS (stage-frontend
carries only those plugins), and stages a backend tree of core + only the
chosen plugin dirs. An unchosen plugin is in neither the bundle nor the tree.
- Core lazy-import guard: `flask seed demo` hard-imported the 5 asset subtype
models, which would crash a lean build missing any of those plugins. Now
guarded (a missing model skips its demo section).
- test_lean_build_guards.py: statically asserts NO core (shopdb/core, shopdb/cli)
import of a plugin is unguarded - a lean build omitting that plugin would
otherwise crash. 0 unguarded today.
Pilot verified: a lean build (machines + printers) carries only machines +
printers code - PartsKiosk / ManifestEditor / USBLabelBatch / KnowledgeBaseDetail
/ EmployeeDirectory are absent from the bundle, and only machines/printers plugin
dirs stage into the backend. (Sidebar labels for absent plugins remain - the
accepted small plugin-aware core remainder.) Guard test + naming green.
