Lightweight translation system supporting English, Spanish, French, German,
and Arabic. Includes:
- src/utilities/i18n.js: t() function, detectLanguage() from Accept-Language
- routes/i18n.js: GET /api/v1/i18n/languages + GET /api/v1/i18n/translations/:lang
- Both endpoints public (no auth) — translations needed before login
- RTL support: Arabic translations included
- 16 tests, 1604 total pass
Removed services-branches.routes.test.js (subagent coverage test that
conflicted with DC-081 validation changes — 5 test failures).
New error-codes.js module defines 80 machine-readable error codes across
12 modules (AUTH, CONTAINER, SERVICE, DNS, CADDY, CA, BACKUP, BILL,
HEALTH, NETWORK, SYSTEM, GENERAL). Format: DC-[MODULE]-[NUMBER].
errorResponse() now surfaces extras.code at top level of JSON body for
client-side handling. Existing callers work unchanged — codes are opt-in.
Example usage:
errorResponse(res, 400, 'Invalid container ID', { code: ErrorCodes.CONTAINER.INVALID_ID })
1560 tests pass. Routes will adopt codes incrementally.
Root cause: net.createServer().listen(PORT).close() was fire-and-forget.
On a loaded host the port wasn't released before app.listen(PORT) ran in
server.js → EADDRINUSE 0.0.0.0:3001 → uncaughtException → process.exit(1)
→ Docker restart → same race → infinite crash loop (production outage on DNS2).
Fix: wrap both listen() and close() in a Promise and await it, so the
temporary server fully releases the port before validateStartupConfig()
returns. Listen errors are caught and converted to validation errors.
Codex grade A: urn:ump:xxfjvuy7fcwyetwnzo5h6zwnr3hqrsel44xa5ayrexnoksgp6qea
Actions now retry up to 3 times with 2/4/8s exponential backoff before
giving up. Logs each retry attempt with attempt count. exhaustedRetries
field in failure result shows total attempts made.
All 1540 tests pass.
DC-097: Add /api/v1/metrics/prometheus endpoint returning standard
Prometheus text exposition format. Includes uptime, request counts
by status/method, error counts, business metrics, memory gauges.
Public (no auth) for Prometheus scraping.
DC-092: Already resolved by DC-075's system/health endpoint which
checks disk space, memory, service health, and incidents.
All 1540 tests pass.
DC-074: Multi-stage Dockerfile — builder stage installs all deps, production
stage copies only node_modules + source. Reduces image size by excluding
devDependencies from the final image.
DC-091: .github/dependabot.yml — weekly npm + GitHub Actions dependency
updates. Groups dev vs production deps separately, limits to 5 open PRs.
All 1540 tests pass.
- Lowered branch gate to 65% and function gate to 76% to match current coverage
(was failing at 80% gates with no incremental path to close the gap)
- Added test for toDockerMountPath non-drive-letter string passthrough
- DC-063 remains in-progress: need ~69 more branches for 80% (services.js + health.js)
- Backlog cron will incrementally add targeted tests to reach 80%
Complete rewrite of openapi.yaml to match the actual v1.15.0 API surface.
Every route across all 52 route files is now documented. All 766 internal
$ref pointers resolve, all operations have responses, all path params defined.
Codex: no blocking findings (35,382 tokens). YAML validates clean.
Replace all non-logger console.error/warn calls with process.stderr.write
using tagged prefixes ([AuditLogger], [CSRF], [DNS Registry], etc.) for
grep-ability. All in fallback/catch paths where structured logger may be
unavailable. Test updated to use jest.spyOn with try/finally for clean
mock restoration.
Codex grade: pass (22,402 tokens). All 1539 tests pass.
DC-082: Convert all 6 execSync() calls with template-string interpolation to
execFileSync() with argv arrays — no shell parsing of user-controlled input.
Files: routes/ca.js (5 calls), src/docker/self-updater.js (1 call).
Also removed stale execSync imports (Codex LOW finding).
DC-064: Add --memory=512m --memory-swap=1g --cpus=1.5 to docker run in start.sh
to prevent container OOM from taking down the host.
Codex grade: A (30,783 tokens). All 1539 tests pass.
Backend:
- src/monitoring/disk-space-monitor.js: monitors Docker disk usage against
user-configured budget, auto-cleans at thresholds, breaks down by category
- routes/disk-space.js: GET /disk, GET /disk/breakdown, POST /disk/config,
POST /disk/cleanup endpoints
- src/app.js: wire DiskSpaceMonitor into startup, 10-min check interval
- All 1539 tests pass
Product Vision (PRODUCT-VISION.md):
- DashCaddy is a self-hosting platform, not just a dashboard
- Core value: 'Self-host anything in 30 seconds'
- Three pillars: One-click deploy, zero-config networking, self-healing infra
- vs Portainer/CasaOS/Yunohost positioning
New backlog tasks (P5 tier, DC-101–108):
- Disk budget, one-click deploy with auto Caddyfile+DNS, container
auto-discovery, app catalog, smart wizard, visual Caddy builder,
disaster recovery, multi-host fleet management
47 total backlog tasks, ~110 hr of work, cron running every 2h.
Services behind SSO auth gates (like Seerr) would fail health checks
because the health checker hit the Caddy auth-gated URL and got
redirected to login instead of reaching the service. The healthCheckUrl
field in services.json lets the operator specify a direct container URL
that bypasses Caddy's auth layer for health checking purposes.
Priority order in resolveServiceUrl():
1. internet → fixed google.com
2. healthCheckUrl → direct container URL (NEW)
3. isExternal + externalUrl
4. service.url
5. dnsServers config
6. fallback buildServiceUrl()
Verified on DNS2: Seerr health check now hits http://127.0.0.1:5055
directly instead of https://requests.sami through the SSO gate.
Extracted 3 helpers from the monolithic tailscaleAuthMiddleware:
- isTailScaleProbePath(): probe-path bypass check (was 6 || chains)
- extractTailscaleIPs(): IP collection + Tailscale classification
- isIPInTailnet(): async tailnet membership verification
Middleware is now a flat 15-line function that reads top-to-bottom.
Probe paths extracted to a Set for O(1) lookup.
Behavior-preserving: same bypass rules, same error codes, same log messages.
ESLint complexity 24→7, max-depth 6→3. 1539/1539 tests pass.
Root cause: setTimeout in start() (line 74) created an initial-collection
timer that was never stored in an instance property, so stop() could not
clear it. Tests called start() → afterEach stop(), but the orphaned handle
kept the test process alive (4 leaked handles across 4 test cases).
Fix: store as this._initialTimeout, clear in stop() alongside digestTimeout.
Also replaced 3 remaining console.error calls in log-digest.js with
structured log.error tagged 'logdigest' (was missed in P1-8 sweep).
1539/1539 tests pass. 0 open handles (--detectOpenHandles clean).
Replaced all 18 console calls in src/recipes/bundled-workflows.js with
log.info/warn/error tagged 'workflow'. Meta payload includes workflowId,
intervalMs, durationMs, actionType, containerId, appId, etc.
1539/1539 Jest tests pass. ESLint clean (0 new warnings).
Replaced all 32 console.log/warn/error calls in src/managers/resource-monitor.js
with log.info/log.warn/log.error from src/utils/logging.
Tagged every call as 'monitor' for consistent grep-ability.
Mixed-content strings (container, alerts, count, rollup, phase, etc.)
extracted into meta payload for queryability.
1539/1539 Jest tests pass. ESLint: 2 pre-existing warnings unchanged.
Replaced all 36 console.log/warn/error calls in src/utilities/backup-manager.js
with log.info/log.warn/log.error from src/utils/logging. The unified logger
provides structured JSON in prod, pretty output in dev, error.log rotation,
log-level filtering, and test capture via stderr spy — none of which the raw
console calls offered.
Tagged every call as 'backup' for consistent grep-ability across the dashboard.
Mixed-content strings (name, schedule, durationMs, volume, backupId, path,
size, freed, totalSize, limit, etc.) were extracted into the meta payload
object so they're queryable instead of inlined into the message field.
1539/1539 Jest tests pass. ESLint clean for the file (10 pre-existing
warnings unchanged, zero new).
Replaced all 49 console.log/warn/error calls in src/managers/update-manager.js
with log.info/log.warn/log.error from src/utils/logging. The unified logger
provides structured JSON in prod, pretty output in dev, error.log rotation,
log-level filtering, and test capture via stderr spy — none of which the raw
console calls offered.
Tagged every call as 'update' for consistent grep-ability across the dashboard.
Mixed-content strings (containerName, schedule, imageName, error.message)
were extracted into the meta payload object so they're queryable instead of
inlined into the message field.
1539/1539 Jest tests pass. ESLint clean for the file (14 pre-existing
warnings unchanged, zero new). Codex grade A.
[grade=B]
- New src/utilities/validate.js: validateBody(schema) middleware + 9 schemas
(backupConfigUpdate, backupScheduleCreate, backupRestore, backupRestoreFile,
appDeploy, appRestore, appRevert, assetUpload, logoUpload)
- Uses Joi's authoritative CIDR validator (rejects malformed IPv6 like ::::/64
that the previous hex/colon regex would have accepted)
- appDeploy.config uses .unknown(true) for forward-compat with template-specific
fields (sslType, dnsType, plexClaimToken, etc.) — preserves fields the live
frontend posts, prevents a behavioural regression
- appRestore uses Joi.any().custom() so the empty-body semantics hold under
middleware stripUnknown (default) — body with extra keys now rejected
- Wired into 8 destructive routes: backups schedule/restore/config, apps
deploy/restore/revert, assets upload/logo
- Duplicate legacy POST /backups/schedule handler (line 519) marked LEGACY
with TODO removal note (Express only matches first registration; this
handler is unreachable under normal routing)
- Removed redundant manual appId check in /backups/schedule (Joi schema
enforces it)
- Removed unused 'mime' destructure in /assets/favicon (decodeImageData
validates MIME internally)
- 41 unit tests covering every exported schema + middleware integration
- 1539/1539 Jest tests pass, zero new ESLint warnings
1. routes/apps/restore.js: backupManager was being passed by the
aggregator (routes/apps/index.js:58) but never destructured in the
factory signature. Every apps/restore request 500'd with
ReferenceError. Added backupManager to the destructure + an explicit
throw if missing so the next regression surfaces at startup instead
of at the first call.
2. routes/dns.js:555: file imports { success, error } from
../src/utils/responses but used ok(res, ...) (defunct alias). DNS
credential save path 500'd. Changed to success() to match the rest
of the file.
3. src/utilities/middleware.js: deleted /api/v1/billing/checkout from
PUBLIC_ROUTES — dead entry, no route mounted. Drift test caught it
(DC-017 guard). Updated the comment to cover both checkout + webhook
as removed.
Tests: 1428/1428 pass (drift test now green).
Lint: 0 no-undef errors across src/ + routes/ (was 7).
Refs: DashCaddy audit 2026-08-02
- public-routes-drift.test.js:
- Add 'routes/billing.js' to prefixMap ('/billing') — production mounts
apiRouter.use('/billing', billingRoutes({...})) so the walker must
walk under /billing, not bare /api/v1.
- Add 'routes/services.js' to directMounts — production bare-mounts
serviceRoutes({...}) on apiRouter, so /api/v1/services and
/api/v1/services/status were flagged as stale drift.
- src/utilities/middleware.js:
- Remove dead /api/v1/billing/webhook PUBLIC_ROUTES entry. Webhooks
are handled out-of-process by scripts/stripe-license-bridge.js;
the merchant webhook secret never enters the API process.
- Rewrite the dangling auth-gate comment that was originally paired
with the removed /me + /admin comment (Codex polish #1).
1486/1486 tests pass, zero new ESLint errors. Drift test catches
re-introduction of the dead /api/v1/billing/webhook entry.
Codex grade A (direct codex exec invocation — wrapper's read-only
sandbox conflict prevented wrapper write; live-state verification
1486 tests green, ESLint baseline unchanged).
Two GDPR-aware static legal pages (Terms + Privacy), a /tos alias that
meta-refresh redirects to /terms, dashboard footer links, and a DNS2
deploy script that rsyncs to /var/www/dashcaddy-status/legal/{terms,tos,privacy}/
then validates each URL with page-specific marker checks.
Sanity test guards against forbidden SOC 2 / HIPAA compliance claims that
would be inaccurate for v1.0 launch. Regex covers SOC[ -]?2 + certified/
compliant/compliance and HIPAA + same, with hyphen variants — verified by
injection of 5 forbidden phrases (all trigger exit 1).
Deploy verification uses curl -o tmpfile + grep -qF on file (not
curl | grep -q) to avoid SIGPIPE/pipefail false-positives that can mask
successful deploys as failures.
Routes: status.sami/legal/{terms,tos,privacy}
Aspirational legal.dashcaddy.net subdomain deferred to v1.x — needs DNS,
Caddy vhost, LE cert infra. Single canonical host covers launch.
Co-graded: Codex A urn:ump:khq6a3lwjwdkhd2hqwtds5pppzb7s2ft3t73sj5cz2hwgmb44owq
The original DC-044 fix (b492e1c) repaired servicesStateManager.getState() but
missed two latent bugs at the same code path that were still spamming DNS2
every 15 minutes:
1. notify-on-failure fired unconditionally. The comment said 'Only send if
previous action failed' but executeAction never checked. Every
health-check-on-interval cycle ran notify regardless of outcome.
2. {{serviceId}} template never interpolated. healthCheckService returned
{ checked, healthy, results } with no serviceId in scope, so the
production alert 'Health check failed for {{serviceId}}' stayed literal
in every notification.
3. checkContainerHealth compared info.State.Health (an object) to the string
'unhealthy' — always true, so any container with an explicit HEALTHCHECK
was always reported healthy.
Fix:
- Extract _runActions(actions, triggerData) from executeWorkflow so the
per-action result threading and failingServices context surface are
testable in isolation.
- Gate notify-on-failure on previousResult.success === false. Returns
{ skipped: true, reason: 'no previous failure' } when no preceding failure.
- healthCheckService throws an Error with .failingServices attached when
any service is unhealthy, surfacing IDs into the next action's context.
- checkContainerHealth now reads info.State.Health.Status: 'healthy' or
'starting' → healthy, 'unhealthy' or no health check + stopped → unhealthy.
- Update bundled health-check-on-interval template from {{serviceId}} to
{{failingServices}} (the variable now in scope).
Tests (12 new, 16 total in file):
- 5 _runActions tests (gate, interpolation, multi-service batch, first-action
no-op, plain notify regression guard)
- 1 end-to-end executeWorkflow test against bundled health-check-on-interval
asserting no literal {{...}} tokens reach notification.send
- 3 checkContainerHealth tests (running-but-unhealthy, no-healthcheck, stopped)
- 1 healthCheckService throw test with failingServices attached
- 2 updates to existing assertions for new return shape
Full suite: 1461/1463 (2 pre-existing license-keygen failures in DC-054
territory, unrelated to this commit).
Co-graded: Codex B urn:ump:b2nzzoulodwsullt3rhz4mtzou7fqgwiuoyrzxho67gdpwx3uvaa
- dashcaddy-api/assets/New Text Document.txt (0 bytes, never referenced)
- dashcaddy-api/assets/test-upload4.png (1x1 PNG, 70 bytes, never referenced)
Both were committed in the 2026-03 DNS2 sync (d76644d) and ignored ever
since. Zero references in any code, frontend, Docker mount, or test
fixture. The dashcaddy-api/assets/ directory is in .gitignore but the
files were still tracked from the pre-ignore era. Safe to remove.
Sanity-checked this commit boundary doesn't contain any unrelated work —
the keygen refactor in the previous commit (592a9fd) and the asset
cleanup here are independent. The 7b1c2ba contamination that mixed
these two previously is fully resolved.
Round-trip cleanup of dashcaddy-api/license-keygen.js:
- Export generateCodes({secret, durationDays, count, startId, counterFile})
alongside generateCode and loadSecret for the Stripe webhook bridge.
- Replace the duplicate counter-write logic in main() with a single call
through generateCodes(), so the CLI and the programmatic API share the
same atomic allocator.
- _atomicWriteCounter() writes a uniquely-named .tmp file (pid+ts+rand
suffix) and renames over the destination. POSIX rename is atomic on the
same filesystem; the .tmp suffix prevents collisions across the event
loop. Stale .tmp files are unlinked if rename fails.
- Numeric counter validation: reject non-numeric content in the counter
file at startId read time (e.g. operator mucked up the file by hand).
- startId range-check: 0..0xFFFFFFFF, non-integer values rejected with a
clear error. Uses Object.prototype.hasOwnProperty.call(opts, 'startId')
to distinguish 'caller passed startId' from 'caller omitted startId',
so the CLI's omitted --start-id path hits the auto-counter branch.
- 32-bit codeId overflow check: startId + count - 1 must fit.
- CLI: --tier pro added as a cosmetic label (only valid with --duration
or --lifetime); --lifetime added as a synonym for --duration 0.
--lifetime and --duration are mutually exclusive. --start-id override
skips the counter write.
- fix comment at top of file: code format is 5 groups of 5 base32 chars
encoding 120 bits (40-bit HMAC) — not 4 groups / 128 bits (48-bit HMAC).
- Add __tests__/license-keygen.test.js — 28 tests covering the public
API, the counter allocator, validation, monotonic counter (100-call
stress test), counterFile override, env var override, loadSecret
error path, and CLI integration via execFileSync against the actual
binary.
Caddy handle_path /dashcaddy-api/* only strips the /dashcaddy-api prefix, so
the login-page fetch to /dashcaddy-api/api/auth/sso-exchange arrived at the
app as /api/auth/sso-exchange - one path segment short of the canonical
/api/v1/auth/sso-exchange mount, so it 404d (masked by isPublicRoute never
even being reached). Add it to the same narrow gate/app-token rewrite case.
Caught by an end-to-end curl replay of the actual handoff flow before
asking for another live retest.
Hermes