v1.4.42

ServiceRadar v1.4.42

Lands passive L2 device discovery in netprobe end to end, unblocks
add-on auto-update across a mixed fleet, and makes a Helm component's
enabled: false actually disable it.

Whats New

1.4.42

• Netprobe: passive device census. The TC ingress classifier reads
  sender MACs and parses ARP and IPv6 NDP, so a device present for
  seconds is seen with no probe traffic at all. Bindings ship as
  whole-segment snapshots (15m TTL, 4096 per interface, every 120s),
  reassembled by the agent, streamed to the gateway, and routed into
  core's inventory sync. (PRs #3854, #3858, #3865, #3866, #3868,
  #3869, #3870, #3871)
• Netprobe: in-kernel suppression never recorded a seen device, so
  every frame re-emitted and the watchdog shut the census down ten
  seconds after each start. A 55-device segment now runs steadily at
  about 0.05% CPU. (PR #3876)
• Netprobe: census drops are counted rather than lost silently, and
  an observation is logged only when the binding is new. The former
  per-observation line flooded journald on a busy segment.
  (PRs #3868, #3876)
• Netprobe: stopping no longer runs to systemd's kill timeout, and a
  restart detaches the previous TC classifier instead of stacking
  copies from older builds. (PR #3858)
• Identity: a census sighting cannot collapse devices onto the agent
  that overheard them. Off-segment (router-MAC) sightings are
  dropped, a randomized MAC is flagged rather than allowed to anchor
  a device, and the collector's agent_id is no longer attached to
  every device it observes. (PRs #3863, #3869, #3871)
• Add-ons: a containerized agent is no longer a rollout target for
  host-installed add-ons. An in-cluster agent can never report
  add-on health, so it aged out at the candidate health timeout and
  failed the rollout for every bare-metal host with it, which is
  what stalled auto-update fleet-wide. (PR #3875)
• Add-ons: rollout health uses the version actually delivered and
  signature-verified at staging, not the add-on's compiled-in
  self-report. A self-report left stale had been silently blocking
  that add-on's own upgrades. (PR #3875)
• Add-ons: disabling or deleting a profile now retires its
  assignments, instead of leaving them enabled and still being
  delivered with no profile left to turn them off. (PR #3875)
• Agent: agents report addon.native.host /
  addon.native.host.unavailable, so the control plane is told
  outright whether a host installs native add-ons rather than
  inferring it. (PR #3875)
• Agent: the SELinux relabel of staged add-on binaries also runs
  from the agent. A host on a pre-1.4.39 setuid updater, which a
  release activation never replaces, left staged binaries var_lib_t
  and every add-on start failed 203/EXEC. (PR #3875)
• Identity: the duplicate-device sweep groups on the agent_id device
  column as well as identifier rows, so a host whose IP changed is
  no longer left as two permanent device records. (PR #3875)
• Identity: fence pins are observed across agent-gateway sync,
  composite-check refresh, sweep event-writer and sync ingest, with
  fresh/drift/missing telemetry. Observe-only: no write is blocked.
  (PR #3862)
• Web UI: a device's Flows tab no longer crashes its own LiveView
  into a six-second reload loop. Query fan-out is bounded and pool
  exhaustion now degrades one widget rather than the page. The flow
  stat cards were reworked in the same range to be index-driven, so
  they use the src/dst indexes instead of scanning. (PRs #3872,
  #3878)
• Feeds: a brief upstream timeout no longer discards an advisory
  feed run for a whole six-hour cycle. Retries are spaced about 2,
  10 and 30 minutes apart with jitter. (PR #3853)
• Feeds: a job stuck executing because its node vanished (pod
  replaced, or OOMKilled and restarted under the same pod IP) is
  cancelled and re-enqueued at once, rather than waiting up to 240
  minutes for Oban's Lifeline. (PR #3861)
• Helm: <component>.enabled: false now actually removes the
  workload. Eighteen templates deployed regardless, so a values file
  read as disabled while the pod ran. Omitting the key still means
  enabled. (PR #3860)
• Build: make push_all on macOS defaults to --config=remote.
  --config=ci points at a cache path that exists only on
  BuildBuddy executors, so the push aborted before it started.
  (PR #3857)
• Build: Go, Rust and Elixir benchmarks run in CI instead of only
  being compiled, and the metric fixture profile no longer depends on
  an uncommitted local corpus. (PRs #3855, #3867)
• Docs: clone commands in README, INSTALL and README-Docker point at
  GitHub instead of the retired Forgejo host, so the first documented
  step works. The OpenText plugin's in-product documentation link --
  which an operator clicks from the integration config UI -- pointed
  at that dead host too, as did the SRQL cookbook and language
  reference. (PR #3852)

Upgrade Notes

• Helm: <component>.enabled: false is now HONORED where it was a
  silent no-op, for core, nats, datasvc, trapd, logCollector, webNg
  and agent. Grep any bespoke values file for those keys before
  upgrading: a flag that was aspirational at v1.4.41 will now delete
  that workload. Stock values.yaml and values-demo.yaml render
  byte-identically and are unaffected. (PR #3860)
• Netprobe: the passive device census is ON by default and has no
  toggle. It creates inventory devices from what it overhears on the
  segment. It needs no migration -- observations route through the
  existing sync-ingest path. Publish the netprobe add-on at 0.2.37;
  the census does not exist on the fleet until that bundle rolls out.
• Netprobe: watch events_emitted_total{event="device_census_snapshot"}
  and events_dropped_total{...} after the rollout. If in-kernel
  suppression breaks, the watchdog stops the census and it stays
  stopped until netprobe restarts.
• Add-ons: expect one-time movement on the first reconcile. Rollouts
  that had been ageing out at the health timeout all unblock at once;
  assignments whose profile was disabled or deleted are retired off
  their hosts; and containerized agents lose native add-on
  assignments for every supervision model. Upgrade core and agents
  together -- an agent older than 1.4.42 reports neither host
  capability, so core stays permissive for it by design.
• Identity: the first sweep after upgrade merges devices that share an
  agent_id column value, which had been invisible to it. Throttle
  with config :serviceradar, ServiceRadar.Inventory.Identity.DuplicateSweep, max_merges_per_run: N (default 200) to make that convergence
  slower and easier to watch.
• Feeds: a failing advisory feed now spreads its retries over about
  42 minutes instead of 65 seconds. Intended -- all three old attempts
  landed inside the same upstream blip. (PR #3853)
• Known, not fixed: about thirty Helm sub-feature flags remain inert,
  including cnpg.enabled=false and core.migrations.enabled=false,
  which still render their resources (issue #3859). On the device
  flows tab the Services facet stays empty and the traffic chart
  renders no data.