zscripts-token-savers/CHANGELOG.md

Changelog

Notable changes to the Evomedia.net Token Savers.

Unreleased

v1.0.0.0.23 - 2026-08-31

Changed

• Every release since 1.0.0 has its own section again - 21 entries had piled up under Unreleased while 22 builds shipped, so this file said nothing had been released since 1.0.0 and a reader at any tag found no section for the version they were holding. Which release carried which entry was derived from git, not guessed: for every line, the commit that introduced it, then the earliest tag containing that commit. No entry text changed - only headings were added and whole entries moved under the release that carried them.
• scripts/readme_txt.py is now scripts/plaintext_twins.py and covers every markdown file that owes a twin, CHANGELOG.txt included. It was kept by hand, so it drifted the moment this file was reorganised. The renderer also drops <!-- --> markers, which are invisible in markdown and read as stray punctuation in a text file.

Fixed

• The --check that keeps the twins honest is actually run now - readme_txt.py shipped one and its docstring claimed "the test suite runs --check", but nothing invoked it, so a twin could disagree with its markdown indefinitely. tests/PlainTextTwins.Tests.ps1 runs it, and reports inconclusive rather than passing when python is unavailable.

v1.0.0.0.22 - 2026-08-31

Changed

• The sanitization denylist moved to tests/sanitization-patterns.psd1, so the test suite here and the publisher in the private toolkit read one list instead of keeping two. They had two, and they disagreed: the publisher's scan looked only for secrets, while these rules are about identity — internal project names, product domains, private-only script names, operator paths. It therefore reported "clean" on files this suite rejects. No rule changed; only where they live.

v1.0.0.0.21 - 2026-08-31

Added

• tests/VerifyPlan.Tests.ps1 — the verification channel-selection rules are pure functions in ZHelpers.ps1 (Get-VerifyAttempts, Get-VerifyTimeout) and Pester pins them, including "a project with no domain must never produce an edge attempt" and the PowerShell 5.1 one-element-unroll trap.

• scripts/readme_txt.py and README.txt — a generated plain-text twin of the README for terminals and pagers. README.txt is generated, never edited by hand.

Changed

• zdeploy verification picks its channel on every retry, and never asks the bare IP — the check used to choose its channel once, before the wait loop, by probing; the probes raced the app restart the check exists to wait through, so the whole window went to the edge fallback. For a project with no domain that fallback had no Host header, and the proxy can then only answer from its default vhost — a different product: that is how one deploy's check compared another app's build number against its own. Now channels are re-resolved each retry in trust order (docker-network viaProxy → localhost:<port> → edge with the project's Host), the edge is skipped entirely when there is no host to route by, and a project with no trustworthy channel is reported as unverifiable instead of guessed at. The final warning also says which failure happened: a version that never matched (stale/failed build) reads differently from channels that never answered (probably still booting). verify.timeoutSeconds joins the config so a project that is slow to boot — e.g. one that runs database migrations in its entrypoint — can widen its own window instead of warning on every routine success.

• An interrupted deploy can no longer destroy server-side .env files — the preserve/restore of operator files is transactional: the restore comes from a tarball taken before the tree is replaced, so a deploy that dies mid-flight leaves the previous files in place instead of an empty directory.

• A successful deploy no longer reports failure — docker compose restart writes routine progress to stderr, which PowerShell 5.1 turns into a terminating error under $ErrorActionPreference = 'Stop'; four ssh calls bypassed the wrapper that flattens this. All remote steps now run through it and are judged by exit code alone.

v1.0.0.0.20 - 2026-08-30

Changed

• zversion bump is once per release, not once per PR — the usage text and the bump help line both said "one per PR, one per defect fix". The build number names something that shipped, so a release carrying five PRs moves it by one; PRs that never shipped on their own were never separate builds. Help text only here, but it is the wording people follow: it stamped a single evo.www release as two builds. The historical entry below, which records what the rule was when zversion shipped, is deliberately left as written.

v1.0.0.0.19 - 2026-08-30

Added

• Read a live build from inside the docker network, not through the public proxy — zdeploy, zec2 and zec2online now prefer docker exec <viaProxy> curl http://<upstream>/api/build-version when a project sets verify.viaProxy and verify.upstream.

  Two problems it closes. A build stamp is something many sites deliberately do not serve publicly, and a checker that reads it over the public URL stops working the moment that endpoint is blocked — reporting "unknown", which is indistinguishable from "could not reach it". And the proxy answers from whichever vhost matches the Host header, so a container with no public route was getting another site's version back and failing deploys that had worked.

  Reading it from a container on the shared network also exercises the real HTTP path, so it proves the app is serving rather than that its database knows a version. Purely additive: projects without those two keys behave exactly as before.

v1.0.0.0.14 - 2026-08-20

Fixed

• scp no longer receives an ssh-only flag — the stdin-hang fix added -n to Get-Ec2SshOpts, and the deploy path splats that same array into scp as well as ssh. OpenSSH's scp has no -n: it exits 1 with unknown option -- n and prints its usage block, so every upload failed. Get-Ec2ScpOpts now supplies the shared connection options with -n filtered out, derived from Get-Ec2SshOpts rather than duplicated so the timeouts cannot drift apart between the two transports. All four scp call sites use it, including the recursive directory upload. The upload failure message also asserted "Likely server disk space" without checking; it now points at scp's own output, where the real diagnosis already was.

v1.0.0.0.8 - 2026-08-12

Fixed

• Deploys can no longer hang forever on an ssh prompt — every deploy-path ssh/scp now carries BatchMode=yes plus connect and keepalive timeouts (Get-Ec2SshOpts in ZHelpers.ps1). Without BatchMode, ssh prompts for a passphrase or password and waits indefinitely; because the deploy pipes stderr through the pipeline, the prompt never reaches the screen and the run just stops under whatever step label printed last, with no explanation. Now it fails immediately — there is no prompt on this path worth answering. ServerAlive* bounds a session that dies mid-command (dropped VPN, sleeping laptop, rebooting host) to about a minute instead of hanging.

• Vendored archives survive the archive filter — files under a vendor/ directory are exempt from the "no archives in the zip" rule. A project that vendors a dependency as vendor/*.tgz needs it in the deploy zip; dropping it makes a Dockerfile's COPY vendor ./vendor fail at image build, a confusing way to learn the filter ate a build input.

• unzip install is idempotent — the remote step ran apt-get update && apt-get install -y unzip on every deploy; it now checks command -v unzip first and skips the apt round-trip when the binary is already there.

• zdeploy edge kind now ships asset subdirectories (#42) — the edge deploy uploaded top-level files only, so a project self-hosting assets in folders (fonts/, vendor/) lost them on every deploy: docker created empty root-owned mount points and nginx served 404s from them, which shows up as fonts silently falling back and vendored JS never loading. Every subdirectory except nginx-logs/ and .git/ now ships recursively, and the ensure edge dir chown is recursive so scp into docker-created root-owned dirs cannot fail.

v1.0.0.0.0 - 2026-07-28

Added

• Versioned releases: zversion, zrelease, releases/ — the toolkit now carries one version in a 5-segment scheme, v{major}.{rc}.{beta}.{alpha}.{build}. zversion bump (one per PR / defect fix) and zversion bump-stage release|rc|beta|alpha (zeroes every lower segment) rewrite build-version.json, stamp # Version: into every script header — so a lone copied script still says which release it came from — and regenerate CHECKSUMS.txt in the same step. zrelease packages the current version as releases/zscripts-<version>.zip with a .sha256 beside it: one hash verifies the download, the bundled CHECKSUMS.txt verifies the extracted contents, so nobody needs to clone the repo to get a verifiable copy. Released zips are immutable — zrelease refuses to overwrite one.

• zchecksums + CHECKSUMS.txt — a SHA-256 manifest covering every .ps1 and .cmd, so a download can be verified before anything is run. zchecksums checks them; zchecksums -Update regenerates after an intentional edit. The manifest is sha256sum format, so sha256sum -c CHECKSUMS.txt works on Linux/macOS/WSL too, and the hashes match on every platform because .gitattributes pins these files to CRLF everywhere. Flags changed files, missing files, and scripts present on disk but absent from the manifest. It's an integrity check, not a signature — the manifest sits in the same repo as the code, so it catches corruption and accidental drift, not a compromised repo. A Pester test fails if the manifest ever goes stale.

• Test suite (Pester) — the toolkit now has automated coverage of its own pure logic: Get-ArchiveExcludes (including the deploy-vs-backup rule that keeps .env/uploads out of deploys but in backups), config and project lookups, remote.composeDir fallback, EC2 target composition, and build-label formatting. Run with Invoke-Pester .\tests (Pester 5+). Verified by mutation testing — reintroducing each historical bug turns the suite red.

• ZCONFIG environment variable — overrides the path to zconfig.json, so a run can target an alternate config. Also gives the test suite a seam for injecting a fixture.

• zec2_rotatekeys — safely rotate/reset server-side secrets — a new tool for when a secret leaks or a deploy overwrites a production .env with dev values. -Rotate KEY regenerates a key on the server (openssl rand -hex 32) so the new value never leaves the box; -Set KEY takes an operator-known value (e.g. DATABASE_URL, ADMIN_EMAIL) from a masked prompt and streams it over SSH stdin — never a command argument, never echoed. Backs the server .env up to a timestamped .bak first, updates the key atomically (matches or appends), auto-detects backend/.env from deploy.preserve, and with -Restart recreates the container (up -d --force-recreate, so the new values actually load — a plain restart keeps the old environment). -WhatIf previews the plan without touching anything.

• zkill all — zkill now accepts all, stopping the dev server of every project that has a ports.dev (edge/docker stacks with no local dev server are skipped). Brings it in line with zdeploy all / zbackup all; the one-shot "stop everything I've got running locally".

• zdeploy server-side health verification (verify block) — projects not published through the edge proxy can declare "verify": { "port": ..., "path": "/health", "expect": "..." } and the deploy is checked from the server itself (curl localhost:<port><path> over SSH) instead of hitting the public IP. Fixes a false PASS where the proxy's default vhost answered for apps that never started; projects with neither domain nor verify are now reported as NOT verified.

• zdeploy optional deploy.gitPull — git pull --ff-only in the project root before zipping. zdeploy zips the working tree and doesn't otherwise pull, so a checkout left behind origin after a merged PR would deploy stale code while still bumping the build number — success that changes nothing. A failed pull aborts the deploy instead.

• Per-project start config block — zstart honors optional pre-start steps from zconfig.json: "gitPull": true runs git pull --ff-only in the project root before starting (never boot a stale checkout), and "env": { ... } sets environment variables for the dev-server process. Example added to zconfig.example.json.

• Switch-style argument tolerance — a leading dash on a project key is ignored everywhere (zdeploy -myapp == zdeploy myapp), for hands that grew up on per-project switches.

Changed

• zbackup / zbackup_and_sync require an explicit target — running them bare now shows usage instead of quietly backing up every project; all does what bare invocation used to (matching zdeploy). The scheduled task created by setup_backup_schedule.ps1 passes all — re-run it if your task was registered before this change.

• zbackup parses more DATABASE_URL styles — double/single-quoted values (Prisma convention), postgres:// and postgresql+driver:// schemes, and URLs without an explicit port (defaults to 5432) all work; previously these skipped the Postgres dump with "Could not parse DATABASE_URL".

• zkill / port cleanup kills the whole process tree — listeners on a project's port are now terminated children-first. Auto-reloading servers (uvicorn/watchfiles, nodemon) spawn workers that inherit the listening socket; killing only the parent left orphans serving stale code.

• zbackup finds DATABASE_URL in backend\.env too — projects with a frontend/backend split get their Postgres dump bundled without needing a root-level .env.

Fixed

• zdeploy no longer deletes operator-managed files on deploy (#2) — the project-directory replacement preserved only ./.env, silently destroying every other server-side file (.env.db, staged signing keys, certs) on every deploy. All .env* files at the project root are now preserved by default, plus anything listed in the new deploy.preserve array (files or directories); the vite kind, which previously preserved nothing, gets the same protection. Found the hard way: a first production deploy of an auth service wiped its staged DB credentials and RSA signing keys.

1.0.0

Initial public release: zstart / zkill / zrestart (local dev servers), zdeploy (zip → upload → compose build → live build-version verification, with handlers for python / vite / nextjs / edge / docker project kinds), zec2 / zec2online / zrepair (health checks and recovery), zbackup / zbackup_ec2 / zsync (local, server-side, and offsite backups), all driven by a single gitignored zconfig.json.