Fluxheim 1.6.17

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Fluxheim 1.6.17 Release Notes

Fluxheim 1.6.17 continues the Pingora-exit line by removing the direct Pingora
dependency from the fluxheim-load-balancer crate. The root compatibility
runtime still uses Pingora in this release, but the load-balancer core and its
active health-check client path are now Fluxheim-owned.

Security and Correctness

• HTTP health checks now use a bounded native HTTP/1.1 probe instead of
  Pingora's HTTP health session. The probe enforces response header/body caps,
  configured connect/read timeouts, configured request headers, expected status
  and header checks, body substring checks, JSON field checks, and degraded
  health-weight headers.
• gRPC health checks now use a native h2 client probe with the existing
  Fluxheim gRPC health request/response framing validation.
• TLS health-check connections use the Fluxheim-owned TCP/TLS connector path,
  including handshake timeout enforcement and protocol-specific ALPN for
  HTTP/1.1 or h2.
• HTTP/1.1 health-check request paths and Host values now reject CR/LF before
  request serialization, closing a native health-probe header-injection gap.
• gRPC health-check response reads now release h2 flow-control capacity and use
  an abort-on-drop driver task guard so error paths cannot leave orphaned h2
  driver tasks behind. h2 driver errors are logged at warning level.
• scripts/validate-pingora-dependency-policy.sh now checks
  cargo tree -p fluxheim-load-balancer directly, so release gates fail if
  Pingora is reintroduced into the load-balancer crate.

Tests

• Added a real TCP listener-backed HTTP/1.1 health-check test proving request
  header forwarding, JSON response validation, and health-derived weight
  updates.
• Added a real h2 server-backed gRPC health-check test proving Fluxheim sends
  the standard gRPC health request body and accepts a SERVING response.
• The load-balancer container smoke now uses HTTP active health checks and
  fails if cargo tree -p fluxheim-load-balancer contains any Pingora crate.
• Verified cargo test -p fluxheim-load-balancer --locked passes with 125
  tests.

Compatibility

• The root runtime adapter remains PingoraCompatibility in this release.
  Normal Fluxheim builds may still compile Pingora through the root proxy
  runtime until the next native HTTP/runtime cutover releases.
• reuse_connection remains accepted in load-balancer health-check
  configuration for compatibility, but the native HTTP/gRPC health-check client
  currently opens a fresh bounded connection per probe.

Checksums And Signatures

• Commit: 5ad994c255d5b1b62e75f88a1f5b7313c3385e3b
• Local gate: GitHub CI green before tag; local release metadata checks passed
• CodeQL/code scanning: no open release-blocking alerts before tag
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• Full Build Container digests:
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