Circuit Breaker 1.0.0 Sprint Begins Thursday 🚀

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We’re excited to announce that the final push toward Circuit Breaker 1.0.0 begins Thursday, August 13, with a target release of Sunday night, August 16.

This sprint will focus on turning Circuit Breaker’s already extensive feature set into a polished, dependable 1.0 release. That means strengthening the foundations, completing high-priority features, improving the installation
experience, and making sure everything works together from end to end.

What’s Coming

A More Powerful cb-agent

The cb-agent experience will be one of the sprint’s biggest priorities. We’ll be testing and polishing the complete agent lifecycle, including:

• Installation, enrollment, approval, and revocation
• Remote discovery and telemetry
• Agent-based monitoring
• Offline recovery and telemetry spooling
• Updates, rollback behavior, and version visibility
• Better fleet health, status, and troubleshooting information
• Testing across x86_64, ARM64, and real remote networks

The goal is a reliable agent experience that works beyond the lab—including remote sites, intermittent connections, NAT, reboots, and everyday network changes.

Circuit Breaker as a Server Application

Circuit Breaker is growing beyond a traditional web application into a more clearly defined server and control-plane platform.

This sprint will lay the groundwork for:

• Headless server operation
• A documented, versioned API
• Stronger command-line administration
• Clearly separated background workers
• Better health checks, diagnostics, and observability
• Predictable startup, shutdown, restart, and recovery behavior
• A clearer compatibility policy for servers, agents, APIs, and databases

The web interface will remain a central part of Circuit Breaker—it will simply become one client of a stronger underlying server platform.

Easier Installation and Distribution

We’ll be improving the release and installation experience across supported platforms, including:

• Native Linux packages
• Docker and Docker Compose
• Single-container deployments without Caddy
• ARM64 and Raspberry Pi support
• Signed artifacts, checksums, and software bills of materials
• A planned npm package for installation or administration
• Cleaner upgrade, rollback, backup, and restore workflows

The npm package will be designed with a clear purpose rather than publishing the full repository as-is. The likely direction is a lightweight installer or administration CLI backed by Circuit Breaker’s signed release artifacts.

ARM64 and Raspberry Pi Reliability

Several community-reported Raspberry Pi and ARM64 issues are receiving focused attention, including:

• Native backend startup failures
• Pillow/AVIF packaging compatibility
• Temporary PyInstaller file accumulation
• Environment-filter request errors
• Fresh-install and database-migration reliability
• Service startup and restart behavior

Clean-host testing on ARM64 will be part of the release-readiness work.

Security and Reliability Hardening

A 1.0 release needs to be something users can confidently operate. This sprint will include work on:

• Authentication and authorization consistency
• Tenant isolation
• Dependency and supply-chain security
• Outbound integration protections
• Rate limiting and secret handling
• Migration and upgrade safety
• Backup and restore verification
• Failure recovery for supporting services
• Improved automated security scanning

End-to-End Testing

We’ll be expanding testing beyond individual components and into complete user journeys:

• Fresh installation and first-time setup
• Login, permissions, and account security
• Discovery, hardware import, and topology management
• Monitor creation and alert delivery
• Agent enrollment and remote monitoring
• Upgrades, failures, restarts, backup, and restoration
• Browser, mobile, accessibility, and responsive behavior
• Release-artifact testing on supported architectures

Documentation and Visual Refresh

The missing README screenshots have already been restored to a safe repository location. During the sprint, we’ll review and refresh the documentation experience with:

• Current, anonymized screenshots
• Updated installation instructions
• Agent enrollment and fleet examples
• Server deployment guidance
• Backup and recovery documentation
• Architecture and deployment diagrams
• Clearer troubleshooting and support information
• More consistent project and package metadata

Community-Reported Issues

We’ve reviewed the open reports covering migrations, hardware saves, discovery fingerprinting, native startup, ARM64 packaging, and environment filtering.

Several already have code-level fixes and now need release-package verification. The remaining issues have been added directly to the 1.0 readiness plan so they can be reproduced, tested, and resolved against the actual release
artifacts.

Release Target

The current target is:

Circuit Breaker 1.0.0 — Sunday night, August 16

This is an ambitious sprint, and release quality will take priority over the clock. If a critical security, data-integrity, migration, or installation gate is not satisfied, we’ll communicate that clearly rather than shipping an
unreliable build.

Thank you to everyone who has tested Circuit Breaker, reported issues, shared deployment feedback, and helped shape the project. The reports from real installations—especially ARM64, Raspberry Pi, Docker, and remote-agent environments
—have been invaluable.

The road to 1.0 starts Thursday. Let’s build it. ⚡