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Ettore Di Giacinto 5b7d65e679 fix(testutil): clear the maintenance timeouts at connection startup
The guard added last commit was circular. It cleared the maintenance database's
timeouts by executing SET statement_timeout = 0 on a connection that had already
inherited that database's bound, so the statement clearing the bound ran under
the bound it was clearing. Under the white-box spec's deliberate 1ms that gave
it 1ms, and it failed roughly once in fifty at 8-way concurrency with SQLSTATE
57014. The guard against invisible load-dependent flakes had become one.

The clearing is now delivered as a connection startup option, options=-c
statement_timeout=0 -c lock_timeout=0 on the maintenance DSN, so there is no
statement left to abort. Raising the imposed bound would only have bought
headroom and left the circularity in place. pgx puts every URL query parameter
into settings, options is absent from notRuntimeParams so it becomes a runtime
parameter, and runtime parameters are copied into the startup message
(pgconn/config.go:340-378, 606-617; pgconn/pgconn.go:382-388).

The spec now discriminates on pg_settings.reset_val, the value in force when the
connection started: 0 for a startup option, 1ms for a session SET. A first
attempt using a deliberately slow first statement did NOT discriminate, because
under the circular design the SET is itself the first statement, so by the time
a spec runs anything the session is already unbounded. Reinstating the circular
clearing now reddens the spec deterministically rather than intermittently.

Assisted-by: Claude Opus 5 [claude-code]
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
2026-09-01 11:43:23 +00:00
Ettore Di Giacinto a816bf9b84 fix(testutil): stop the shared-database change from disarming two regressions
Two advisory-lock specs named their database by literal, ALTER DATABASE testdb.
Once the test helper started handing every spec its own database on a shared
server, that statement landed on the maintenance database and did nothing to the
one the spec was holding, so both specs went green having never reproduced the
condition they exist for. They regress a model-load advisory-lock wedge that has
already shipped to production once, so the previous commit's de-flaking silently
disarmed a regression test for a real deployed bug.

Both sites now read the name back with current_database() and, more importantly,
assert the override actually landed before relying on it. A literal name can go
stale again; an assertion that the setting is in force cannot pass while it is
not. Removing either production override now fails the matching spec with the
real 55P03 and 57014 again.

That literal also meant every CREATE DATABASE and every DROP ... WITH (FORCE)
ran under the 300ms bound it set on the maintenance database, which is a new
load-dependent single-spec flake inside the change that was meant to remove one.
The helper's maintenance connections now pin one connection and clear both
timeouts on it, so no setting a spec makes can bound them, and a white-box spec
imposes the leak deliberately and proves it does not reach them.

Also pins the reclaimOne gate deferral the previous commit added without a test,
by panicking inside the re-claim's own claim statement, and drops the per-dial
empty-token log line to debug now that the boot warning says it once.

Assisted-by: Claude Opus 5 [claude-code]
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
2026-09-01 11:17:48 +00:00
Ettore Di Giacinto 48ece89c63 fix(cluster): harden the worker tunnel, and stop starting a database per spec
Review follow-up. Twelve findings, none blocking, grouped here by what they
protect.

Panics. The handler now recovers between the WebSocket upgrade and the
hand-off, the way the peer link next door already did: net/http recovers the
panic but leaves the hijacked socket open, so without this a worker keeps a
session this replica has no entry for and will never detach. The claim gate in
Attach and reclaimOne is now released with defer, so a panic under Claim cannot
wedge one node's gate for the life of the process. SetTunnels gained the
nil-receiver guard its sibling Stop has.

Operability. A deployment with no registration token stores an empty token_hash
on every worker, so every tunnel dial 401s forever on a frontend that looks
correctly configured. That now warns at startup, logs its own line rather than
sharing the "wrong token" one, and is stated in the docs together with the fact
that setting the token later needs the workers to register again.

Authorization. A node still awaiting admin approval is refused with 403. The
rest of /api/node/ gates on nothing, but the two places that hand a node
something durable, its API key and its NATS credential, both refuse a pending
one, and a tunnel is that kind of grant. Draining and unhealthy nodes keep
their tunnels on purpose.

Comments that claimed more than the code. The global auth middleware does run
on this path and then declines to reject; the future per-node secret only lands
without a change here if it lands in TokenHash; the empty-hash guard is
defensive rather than deciding; ClusterPathPrefix is no longer only
replica-to-replica; the docs no longer say a reaped replica re-claims
unconditionally.

And the test harness. SetupTestDB started a PostgreSQL container per BeforeEach
with a readiness deadline it asserted on, which is one chance per spec to fail
one spec inside its setup, anywhere, never twice in the same place: the shape of
the flake seen twice here and never reproduced. It now starts one container per
process and creates a database per call, which is the pattern tests/e2e already
proved. Isolation is unchanged and is now asserted for the first time. All 69
call sites are untouched; the eleven consumer packages run 1404 specs green, and
jobs went from 34.3s to 3.3s, agents from 13.8s to 1.9s, cluster from 97.4s to
37.5s.

Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
Assisted-by: Claude Opus 5 [claude-code]
2026-09-01 10:36:10 +00:00
Ettore Di Giacinto 6e55092a4b feat(cluster): open the door a worker dials its tunnel through
A worker needs no inbound port: it dials GET /api/cluster/connect, the
connection becomes one multiplexed yamux session, and the frontend opens a
stream on it per request. This adds the endpoint that accepts that dial and
attaches it to the tunnel registry.

The dial is authenticated against the NODE's own stored token hash rather than
the deployment's registration token. That is the mechanism, not yet the
isolation, since a worker still registers by presenting the shared token; what
it rules out is the shortcut of comparing against the configured value, which
would have to be unpicked the day workers get their own secrets.

Every refusal happens BEFORE the WebSocket upgrade, so a dialer reads an HTTP
status rather than a handshake error. The route is registered in every
deployment, single-binary ones included, which is what puts it in front of the
route-coverage test that holds that rule in place; with no node registry it
refuses every dial, and tells a credentialed one the frontend has no cluster
rather than that its token is wrong.

A lookup that FAILED is answered as a failure. Reporting a database that could
not be read as "unauthorized" would send a worker re-registering, throwing away
the identity its tunnel and loaded models are keyed by.

Wires the tunnel registry in core/application/distributed.go and hands it to
the membership loop. Without that call the re-claim after a replica is reaped
had no production caller and could never run.

Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
Assisted-by: Claude Opus 5 [claude-code]
2026-09-01 09:42:41 +00:00
Ettore Di Giacinto 62476e553e fix(cluster): keep a session close out of the per-node claim gate
The gate is justified by being held for one claim round trip, and Attach
held it across the close of the session it superseded. Closing a yamux
session closes the underlying conn and then waits for both its send and
recv loops to exit, and the send loop can be inside a write bounded only
by ConnectionWriteTimeout, so that is a wait on other goroutines. It must
not stand between a worker re-dialling this node and its claim.

The gate is now released after the store and before the close, which also
makes Attach match reclaimOne, where it has always been released
explicitly on every path. This is safe because a superseded session is no
longer reachable from the map by the time it is closed: the next re-dial
replaces an entry that already names the new session.

Pin the re-claim half of the gate too. A worker that re-dials between a
re-claim's commit and its record leaves the row carrying the re-dial's
epoch while the entry carries the re-claim's, so the attachment holding
the socket releases an epoch the row does not have and the row outlives
it, with nothing to sweep it while this replica is alive. Only Attach's
half of the serialisation was asserted; keying the two apart left every
spec green.

Also take the test hook's action under the lock that guards whether it
has fired. It was written from the spec's goroutine and read from
whichever goroutine issued the statement, which is a race in the harness
that pins the serialisation specs.

Assisted-by: Claude Opus 5 [claude-code]
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
2026-09-01 09:06:42 +00:00
Ettore Di Giacinto 63ed55a929 fix(cluster): make a claim and its record indivisible per node
Two Attach calls for one node both claim, and PostgreSQL serialises the
two upserts, but nothing ordered the two map writes against the two
commits. The entry left installed could be the one whose claim lost the
row, and its Detach then released an epoch the row does not carry, so the
release matched nothing and the row survived the socket.

Nothing swept that row. This replica is alive and heartbeating, so
ReapStale leaves its rows alone, and no reconnect is coming for a worker
that has gone. Owner kept naming this replica as the live owner of a
tunnel it no longer held, and every dialer sent here was answered
ErrNotOwner, which is the relay into a replica that cannot serve the
request that this phase exists to prevent.

Claims for one node now pass through a gate, so claim and record are
indivisible. It is per node rather than one lock over the registry, the
way PeerPool locks per peer: the claim is a database round trip, and a
slow one for a single worker must not hold up Open for every other.
Detach is not gated, because it takes no context and must never park
behind an in-flight database call, and it changes no epoch.

Reclaim takes the same gate, which makes its claim the newest one for
that node, so it records the epoch on whatever attachment is installed
rather than only on the one it listed. Refusing to record onto an
attachment that replaced the listed one would leave that row with nothing
able to release it. The interleave the gate does not cover is Detach, and
a claim whose attachment detached while it was in flight is now released
again rather than left behind.

Also: restore Start's doc comment, which SetTunnels had swallowed; keep
reaping other replicas when this one fails to rebuild its own row, rather
than skipping the sweep along with the re-claim; scope the comment about
an unnoticed dead socket to the keepalive of the session whoever accepted
the tunnel built, since the worker session config does not exist yet; and
pin the sortedness of Held, the nil-session refusal, and both re-claim
interleaves with specs.

Assisted-by: Claude Opus 5 [claude-code]
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
2026-09-01 08:32:51 +00:00
Ettore Di Giacinto f3ba1f692b feat(cluster): hold worker tunnels, and re-claim them after a sweep
Phase 1 left the connection fence with a table and no sockets behind it.
This adds the registry that holds them: Attach claims the node and then
stores the session, Open hands out a stream over the tunnel this replica
holds, Detach releases the claim it was handed, and Held names what this
process is carrying.

The claim is written before the session is stored. A claimant that
installs itself and only then finds it cannot claim has, for that window,
published a tunnel no row records, so Held names it while a peer asking
Owner is told the worker is connected nowhere.

ErrNotOwner is produced at one place, the map miss. It is a routing fact:
some other replica may hold that worker perfectly well. A broken socket
under a held entry is returned as itself, because answering "not held
here" would send a dialer looking elsewhere for a worker this replica is
holding.

Epochs are compared for equality and never ordered. Claim guarantees an
epoch is unique and never reissued; it does not guarantee the later claim
draws the larger number, because the sequence value on the insert path is
drawn before the row lock.

The membership loop now re-claims on re-register, which closes the hole
phase 1 named in ReapStale. A replica that stalls long enough is swept by
a peer, losing its instance row and, in the same transaction, every
connection it owned; Register rebuilds the instance row and nothing else,
so without this it serves workers that every other replica reports as
connected nowhere. Re-claiming draws a fresh epoch, so an attachment
carries two: the token Attach handed back, which is what Detach matches
and which never moves, and the epoch of the row currently held, which is
what Release is given. Collapsing them would leave the re-claimed row
outliving the socket with no caller able to remove it.

A tunnel whose session is already closed is skipped rather than claimed
back, because claiming is an upsert and would take the row from whoever
holds the worker now.

Assisted-by: Claude Opus 5 [claude-code]
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
2026-09-01 07:39:49 +00:00
Ettore Di Giacinto e4777915f9 fix(cluster): make the ownership comments say only what holds
Review round 1 on the joined Owner read. The behaviour was accepted; three
comments claimed more than the code delivered, one spec pinned less than its doc
promised, and one pre-existing spec ranked epochs.

instanceIsLive said every reader of instance liveness uses it, which was false:
ReapStale spelled the complement by hand. The complement is now written as
NOT (instanceIsLive), so "stale" is exactly "not live", including how each side
treats a NULL last_seen, and the sentence is true. Inverting that predicate
fails 3 reaper specs, so the routing is held.

The Select("node_connections.*") in Owner was justified by a SELECT * hazard
that cannot occur: with a join present and nothing selected, gorm expands the
model's own columns table-qualified (callbacks.BuildQuerySQL), and the suite is
green with the Select removed. It stays, because the projection should be a
property of this query, and the comment now says that instead.

Owner gained the dialect guard Claim has. now() and make_interval are
PostgreSQL, so on the SQLite single-binary path it failed with "no such
function: now", which reads as a missing migration; that regression already
shipped once in phase 1. The refusal is deliberately not ErrNoConnection: a
deployment with no cluster has no answer about ownership, and reporting absence
would let a caller conclude the worker is not connected. A spec in the
non-PostgreSQL block holds all three properties.

The new specs aged rows by ten minutes, which any window between zero and ten
minutes satisfies, so nothing tied Owner's window to the one the sweeper uses.
They now age to just past InstanceLiveness, and a sibling ages to half of it and
must still resolve. Widening the window tenfold fails 2 specs, narrowing it
tenfold fails 1; before this both were silent.

The concurrent-claim spec asserted the stored epoch was the highest handed out,
and justified it with claims drawing their epoch after the row lock, which
contradicts Claim's own doc: the insert path draws nextval while the tuple is
built. It now asserts the stored epoch is one of the epochs handed out, and
ranks nothing.

OwnerRow's doc justified the function with a sweeper that does not call it.
ReapStale deletes orphans with a set difference; the callers are this package's
specs and one e2e assertion. It says that, and states plainly that a caller
needing to know who owns a node in order to dial it wants Owner.

Assisted-by: Claude Opus 5 [claude-code]
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
2026-09-01 07:09:18 +00:00
Ettore Di Giacinto 5e2938ebf0 feat(cluster): resolve tunnel ownership against a live owner
OwnerRow is a bare row read of node_connections. A connection row outlives the
replica that wrote it: a replica that dies stops heartbeating, but its rows
survive until a peer's sweep removes them, which is up to InstanceLiveness plus
one InstanceHeartbeat later. For that whole window the table names a process
that is gone. The next component phase 2 builds is the relaying dialer, and a
dialer reading OwnerRow would relay into a corpse for roughly 35 seconds after
every replica death, then report the worker as unreachable when it is in fact
absent, which is the distinction the phase 1 end-to-end specs pinned.

Owner is the resolving read: one statement joining instances, returning
ErrNoConnection when the row is missing OR its owner is not live. Both cases are
one answer on purpose, since both mean no replica here holds this tunnel; they
differ only in which sweep has run. It is one statement, not a row read followed
by an instance lookup, because between two statements the owner can die and the
caller would act on an owner the second read would have rejected.

OwnerRow stays, unjoined, for readers that need the row itself, and a spec holds
the two apart: with an aged-out owner, OwnerRow still names it and Owner
refuses, so neither can quietly become the other.

The liveness predicate is now one string, instanceIsLive, shared by Live and by
Owner's join. Two spellings of one fact drift, and this drift would show as a
relay to a replica one query calls dead and another calls alive. It is
table-qualified so it is unambiguous inside the join, and the cutoff stays on
the database clock, so replica clock skew cannot widen or narrow the window.

Both mutations were run. Dropping the liveness predicate from the join fails 3
specs, the aged-owner one among them. Replacing the database clock with a
Go-side time.Now() fails 1: the aged-owner specs still pass, because the two
clocks agree on one host, and only the recorded-SQL spec sees the literal
timestamp. That is why that spec exists.

Assisted-by: Claude Opus 5 [claude-code]
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
2026-09-01 06:46:02 +00:00
Ettore Di Giacinto 0d13056d53 fix(cluster): share one lock order, and correct the phase 1 comments
ReapStale deleted from instances then node_connections while Deregister took
them the other way round, both inside one transaction and both running
concurrently by design: a replica shuts down while a peer sweeps it. Opposite
orders let each hold the row the other waits for. PostgreSQL breaks the cycle by
aborting one side, so the cost today is a warning rather than lost data, but the
inversion costs nothing to remove.

Deregister now deletes the instance row first. That is the order ReapStale is
forced into anyway, since its connection delete asks which instance rows
survived, so the sweeper is the fixed side. Both functions say the order is
deliberate and shared, and name the other. A spec records the statements each
path issues and asserts they delete from the same two tables in the same order;
racing two transactions until they really deadlock would be flaky and could pass
for the wrong reason.

The rest is comment and spec accuracy, deferred from the phase 1 task reviews:

- co-location does not imply loopback. Compose's usual host=postgres resolves to
  a bridge address and discovery works there; it is a DSN that NAMES localhost
  that yields a loopback source address. Corrected in the DiscoverAdvertisedAddr
  doc and in the spec comment that repeated it.
- unroutableReason labelled every scoped address "link-local", including the
  class the check exists for, and formatted the IP with %s, which drops the
  %iface, so the reported address was not the one being rejected. Split into two
  cases, both rendered with their zone. CheckAdvertisedAddr passed zone "" and
  net.ParseIP rejects fe80::1%eth0, so a scoped literal looked like a name and
  collected no warning at all; the zone is now split off before parsing.
- Splice's "Both callers satisfy it" claimed callers that still do not exist.
  It now names the two stream types the wake-on-Close property was verified
  against and says a phase 2 caller over anything else has to check it.
- restored, short, why a socket-level ECONNRESET stays reported while a yamux
  reset does not: the yamux endings are the teardown Splice's own Close
  provokes, and whether an aborted request is routine is the relay's policy.
- the real-yamux spec's far.Read had no deadline, so a stall parked the suite
  rather than failing it.
- gorilla's SetWriteDeadline is conn.go:796, not 787.
- ClusterPathPrefix is no longer derived from: the peer route spells its path
  out, because core/services/cluster must not import core/http/auth. The comment
  now points at the spec that holds them together instead of claiming a
  derivation the move removed.
- the epoch spec asserted e2 > e1, an ordering Claim's doc tells callers not to
  rely on. It asserts uniqueness, which is what the fence guarantees, and is
  named for that. A sibling spec still described the epoch as incrementing in
  SQL when it is drawn from a sequence.

Assisted-by: Claude Opus 5 [claude-code]
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
2026-09-01 03:26:36 +00:00
Ettore Di Giacinto e26d556594 fix(cluster): hold the guarantees phase 1's comments were claiming
Review found the recurring class: assertions that a wrong implementation
also satisfies.

The "refuse promptly, never park the peer" guarantee was stated in three
places and tested in none. Removing the Close from the no-relay branch left
the whole cluster suite green, because the specs asserted only that some
error arrived and yamux reports a read deadline as ErrTimeout: a parked
stream satisfied that as well as a refused one. Both specs now require an
ENDING, EOF or a reset, inside a deadline short enough that parking is
unmistakable, and both go red when the Close is removed.

Deregistration existed only in a comment. Membership.Stop ended the loop and
left the row behind, so every clean rolling restart had peers dialling a
corpse for the full liveness window; the shutdown comment described the
opposite. Registry.Deregister deletes the row and the connections that
replica owned, in one transaction, for the reason the sweeper does both, and
an e2e spec pins departure inside a budget shorter than the liveness window
so it cannot pass on the sweeper doing the work. Before: the spec times out
with both replicas still live. After: 3.6s.

The configured advertised address bypassed every check discovery makes, so
the one value most likely to be copied between hosts, 127.0.0.1, was taken
verbatim and would make every peer dial itself. Both paths now share one
rejection rule: unparseable is refused, "this host" is warned about once and
honoured, because a single-host deployment uses it correctly.

Two comments claimed more than the code does. The sweeper said a stalled
replica recovers via re-register; only its instance row does, while the
connections another replica reaped stay gone and the sockets stay held here
- phase 2 must re-claim, on re-register, every connection a replica still
holds locally. And Owner became OwnerRow, documenting that the owner it
names may be dead for up to InstanceLiveness plus a heartbeat and that any
caller acting on it must join instances itself, so the deferred constraint
lives at the call site rather than in a report; the plain name is left free
for the joining version.

Minors: warn once when the peer link mounts with no registration token, so
an operator sees the cause rather than 401s; Stop no longer blocks forever
when Start was never called; corrected the NewRegistry migration doc and an
e2e comment that described a 6s window as "throughout".

Assisted-by: Claude Opus 5 [claude-code]
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
2026-09-01 03:08:33 +00:00
Ettore Di Giacinto aca383d263 feat(cluster): give phase 1 a call site, and prove it against real replicas
Tasks 1 to 5 built an instances table, a splice, both halves of a peer link
and an epoch fence, and nothing in the tree called any of it: no replica
registered, no route was mounted, no sweeper ran. Proving phase 1 end to
end therefore had to start by wiring it.

A frontend in distributed mode now publishes the address its peers dial,
heartbeats it, and sweeps replicas that stopped answering along with the
connection rows they owned, in one pass so the two can never disagree about
who is alive. It serves the peer link and owns the sessions peers dial in,
refusing streams on them until phase 2 installs a relay: a session nobody
accepts on does not fail a peer's Open, it hangs it.

The address is the one peers use, not the one the process binds, and it is
derived from the route to PostgreSQL. That derivation only holds while the
database is remote, so LOCALAI_DISTRIBUTED_ADVERTISE_ADDR sets it
explicitly and a replica that can determine neither warns and keeps
serving rather than failing to start.

Three e2e scenarios run against real local-ai processes, real PostgreSQL
and real dials: replicas publish addresses that can actually be connected
to; a sibling opens a stream over the peer link and is refused without the
cluster token; and a killed replica is reported unreachable, never absent,
loses the claim it held, and takes no worker with it. Each was verified by
mutation: eight injected defects, each failing the scenario that claims to
catch it.

Also moves RegisterClusterRoutes to core/http/routes beside every other
registrar, folds AutoMigrate and the epoch sequence into one
cluster.Migrate, and turns the peer route's auth-coverage spec into a real
assertion: it drives the request through the actual auth middleware
instead of comparing two string constants, which the old spec would have
passed even with the exemption deleted.

Assisted-by: Claude Opus 5 [claude-code]
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
2026-09-01 02:28:42 +00:00
Ettore Di Giacinto 667ce1d9a9 fix(cluster): keep the connection schema migratable on SQLite
The NodeConnection model carried `default:now()`, which is PostgreSQL syntax
reaching the DDL, so AutoMigrate failed on the single-binary SQLite path and
took every SQLite caller of nodes.NewNodeRegistry down with it. Stamp the
database clock as an expression inside Claim instead, the way Register
already does, and leave the column plain.

CREATE SEQUENCE is Postgres-only for the same reason, so it is skipped on
another dialect, and Claim refuses that dialect outright: a fence that cannot
draw a token must say so rather than fail later as a missing function.

Also correct a claim the previous commit made in both the doc comment and its
message. An epoch is unique and never reissued, but it is not ordered: the
insert path draws its sequence value before taking the row lock, so a claim
that inserts after a release can be handed a lower number than one already
issued. Uniqueness is what Release needs, since it matches by equality;
callers must never compare epochs for order.

Assisted-by: Claude Opus 5 [claude-code]
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
2026-09-01 01:28:27 +00:00
Ettore Di Giacinto 7f1599e83d fix(cluster): draw connection epochs from a sequence so none is ever reused
Release deletes the row, so a per-row `epoch + 1` restarted the numbering at 1
for the next claim. A replica could then be handed an epoch it already held:
claim w1 at epoch 1, lose the link silently, watch another replica claim and
release, reclaim and be handed 1 again, and its delayed cleanup for the first
dead link would match the live claim and delete it. The fence has to be
unique per node over time, not per row lifetime.

Every claim now draws nextval from a dedicated sequence on both the insert and
the conflict paths, so an epoch is never issued twice. The draw still happens
after the row lock on the conflict path, so the winning claim still holds the
highest epoch handed out.

Also drop last_seen. Nothing maintained it and it was always equal to
connected_at, but an indexed column named that way invites a second liveness
clock; whether the owner is alive is Instance.LastSeen, and whether a claim is
current is the epoch.

Assisted-by: Claude Opus 5 [claude-code]
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
2026-09-01 01:09:49 +00:00
Ettore Di Giacinto d9288513e6 feat(cluster): fence worker-connection ownership with a monotonic epoch
A worker whose link is silently broken reconnects to another replica while
the old owner's socket has not yet noticed. Without a fence both believe
they own it. Claim is a single atomic upsert returning the new epoch, and a
release must match both owner and epoch so a stale owner cannot delete a
live claim.

Assisted-by: Claude Opus 5 [claude-code]
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
2026-09-01 00:50:11 +00:00
Ettore Di Giacinto d73730b545 refactor(cluster): make the cluster service a leaf and blame the caller's deadline
The peer link's WebSocket adapter and route constant lived in
core/http/endpoints/cluster, so the dialler in core/services/cluster had to
import an HTTP endpoints package to reach them. That pulled echo, core/http/auth
and core/config into a package whose doc says it is deliberately free of such
dependencies, and it made core/services/nodes reach an endpoints package
transitively. It also has no way forward: the worker-connect handler needs the
tunnel registry and the node token store, both of which are cycles from there.

Move WebsocketConn and PeerPath into core/services/cluster and let the endpoints
package import it, which is the direction the rest of core/http flows. The route
and the auth exemption still cannot drift apart, now asserted where both are
visible rather than by a const reference across the boundary, and the assertion
is stronger than the one it replaces: it pins the route under the prefix instead
of pinning the prefix's spelling.

Also guard the fresh-dial path with ctx.Err(), mirroring the cached path. A
caller with a 300ms deadline dialling a live, listening peer was told the peer
was unreachable, which would be enough for one impatient client to get a healthy
replica routed around once the relay consults these errors.

Assisted-by: Claude Opus 5 [claude-code]
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
2026-09-01 00:29:23 +00:00
Ettore Di Giacinto e7aac9b52b feat(cluster): dial and pool yamux links to peer replicas
Distinguishes a peer missing from the registry from a peer that will not
answer: the second must never be readable as node absence, or a network
hiccup between replicas evicts healthy workers.

The distinction is a property of the error type rather than of the call
sites. The unreachable error formats its cause into its message and keeps
it out of its unwrap chain, so an ErrInstanceNotFound picked up on the
dial path cannot reach a caller's absence check.

One yamux session is cached per peer and re-dialled when OpenStream on it
fails, which is how both a dead transport and a graceful remote go-away
arrive. A reset of one stream never reaches the pool, so an abandoned
request cannot cost every other worker its link.

Assisted-by: Claude Opus 5 [claude-code]
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
2026-09-01 00:09:15 +00:00
Ettore Di Giacinto 78958beef1 fix(cluster): own the peer auth prefix in auth, and pin what the specs claimed
The prefix constant moves to core/http/auth beside the check that uses it, and
the endpoints package derives its route from there. Seven sibling endpoint
packages already import auth, so the previous direction would have deadlocked
the build as soon as this one registered in RouteFeatureRegistry, and it was
dragging echo, gorilla/websocket and yamux into unrelated service packages.

Four properties were argued in comments and held by nothing. Flipping the
empty-token check to fail open, making SetWriteDeadline a no-op, returning a
zero-length read for a zero-length message, and dropping the recover around the
callback all left the suite green. Each now fails a spec that asserts the
behaviour rather than the setter's return value.

SetWriteDeadline takes the write mutex because gorilla keeps that deadline in a
plain struct field applied at the next flush; SetReadDeadline must not take the
read mutex, since it goes straight to the net.Conn and would otherwise block
behind the read it exists to unblock.

Assisted-by: Claude Opus 5 [claude-code]
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
2026-08-31 23:44:11 +00:00
Ettore Di Giacinto 5847f6ee80 fix(cluster): stop reading a bare EOF as a clean ending
A dead yamux session does not always arrive wrapped. Session.close publishes
shutdownErr and closes shutdownCh before it force-closes the streams, so a
Write or Close landing in that window gets the raw cause back instead
(session.go:507-510, 528-533), and for a peer that vanished the raw cause is a
bare io.EOF. The generic io.EOF clause then reported the dead session as a
clean completion.

Remove the clause. A clean read-side EOF never reached it anyway: io.Copy
consumes that and reports nil, and neither *yamux.Stream nor *net.TCPConn
takes a WriteTo/ReadFrom path that would hand one back. Every existing spec
still passes, the io.EOF entry in the normal-termination table included, which
is what showed the branch was dead for legitimate endings and live only for
the bug.

Add a spec driving a real yamux session end to end. Every mux shape until now
was a synthesized error, which is exactly why a race inside the real library
stayed invisible.

Assisted-by: Claude Opus 5 [claude-code]
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
2026-08-31 23:19:25 +00:00
Ettore Di Giacinto e957ff1ca2 feat(cluster): accept authenticated peer links on /api/cluster/peer
Upgrades to a WebSocket, wraps it as a yamux server session and hands it to
the caller. Rejects before upgrading so an unauthenticated dial sees a 401
rather than a WebSocket error, which is what the route-coverage test asserts.

The adapter keeps the reader of a partially consumed message across Read
calls. yamux reads through a 4 KiB bufio.Reader, so a small-payload test
cannot see a dropped message tail; the framing specs drive the adapter
directly with buffers smaller than the message.

An empty configured token authorizes nobody here, unlike the worker file
transfer server's check: this route is registered in every deployment, so
failing open would publish an unauthenticated mux.

Assisted-by: Claude Opus 5 [claude-code]
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
2026-08-31 23:14:37 +00:00
Ettore Di Giacinto 8ebc24194c fix(cluster): report a dead yamux session instead of swallowing it
Matching yamux errors with errors.Is was too broad. Session.close hands every
live stream ErrStreamReset wrapped around whatever killed the connection, so a
keepalive timeout, a broken TCP connection or a peer that simply vanished all
matched, and a relayed request that died reported a clean ending. Nothing
upstream would have retried or logged it.

Match the plain sentinels by identity, since only identity separates a stream
that was reset from the wrapped form that means the session died. Treat a
StreamError as a per-stream reset, and a GoAwayError as normal only when it
carries the no-error code, read off ErrRemoteGoAway because the constant is
unexported. ErrSessionShutdown needs no entry of its own; it is a GoAwayError
with that code.

Order matters as much as the matching: session death wraps its cause, which is
routinely io.EOF or a closed socket, so the mux checks run before the generic
endings. Reversing them alone puts a vanished peer back to nil.

Assisted-by: Claude Opus 5 [claude-code]
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
2026-08-31 22:49:57 +00:00
Ettore Di Giacinto 77e2041249 fix(cluster): treat a yamux teardown in Splice as a normal ending
go-yamux/v5 matches none of its errors against net.ErrClosed, so the
classifier reported an ordinary teardown as a failure: when the session has
gone away, the FIN that Splice's own Close writes returns ErrSessionShutdown,
and a stream torn down under a live copy surfaces as ErrStreamClosed or a
reset. Splice owns that Close, so it owns the errors it produces; the
sentinels are named here rather than injected by the caller, which would make
a forgotten classifier reintroduce the same bug silently.

Cover the error half of the contract, which no in-memory pipe could reach: a
scripted stream now feeds Splice a genuine transport failure and each
closed-stream ending in turn. Replacing the tail of Splice with "return nil"
passed every previous spec.

Also assert that Splice does not return until the second direction has
finished, rename a spec that promised a leak check it never made, and correct
two comments that claimed more than the code did.

Assisted-by: Claude Opus 5 [claude-code]
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
2026-08-31 22:33:54 +00:00
Ettore Di Giacinto 6ce3edaa43 feat(cluster): add the bidirectional splice used by the relay and tunnel
Returns on the first direction to finish and closes both sides so the other
unblocks; a sequential copy deadlocks on any protocol where the far side
speaks first. EOF and use-of-closed are normal termination, not errors.

The fourth spec covers a peer that stops reading mid-body, the case where a
copy is parked in Write rather than in Read. The other three tear down an
idle splice and pass even against a Splice that closes only one side.

Assisted-by: Claude Opus 5 [claude-code]
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
2026-08-31 22:19:05 +00:00
Ettore Di Giacinto 6ef642f60d fix(cluster): stamp liveness on the database clock and refuse undialable addresses
DiscoverAdvertisedAddr promised to return an error rather than a fallback
no peer can dial, but only rejected an unspecified address. With PostgreSQL
on the same host or pod as a replica, which is compose, single-node and any
sidecar layout, the route to it is loopback, so every replica advertised
127.0.0.1 and a peer dialling that reached itself. Loopback, link-local and
zoned source addresses are now rejected with an error naming the remedy, and
a port outside 1-65535 is rejected before it becomes an undialable address.

Liveness was also measured on each replica's own clock: Register and
Heartbeat stamped last_seen from the Go process, and Live compared those
rows against the reading replica's time.Now(). Skew therefore shrank or
stretched the window by writerBehind+readerAhead, evicting healthy peers or
keeping dead ones. Both sides now use the database clock, which is the one
clock every replica demonstrably shares.

Assisted-by: Claude Opus 5 [claude-code]
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
2026-08-31 22:08:42 +00:00
Ettore Di Giacinto a3054442e2 feat(cluster): record frontend replicas in a shared instances table
Replicas need to find each other to relay worker traffic, and nothing in
the tree recorded a replica's address. The advertised address is discovered
by opening a UDP socket toward PostgreSQL and reading back the local
address, which yields the interface every replica demonstrably shares
without asking an operator to configure one.

Assisted-by: Claude Opus 5 [claude-code]
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
2026-08-31 21:56:27 +00:00
Ettore Di Giacinto c5796d407f test(distributed): correct the claims the e2e comments make
Review of the whole branch found five comments that would send a reader to
the wrong place, plus three smaller inaccuracies. Nothing here changes
behaviour.

The KNOWN RACE note on both backend-log WebSocket handlers said the fix
needs an atomic snapshot-plus-subscribe "under the store lock". It does
not: BackendLogStore.mu guards only the buffers map, and AppendLine
enqueues and fans out under the per-buffer buf.mu. Whoever took the store
lock would ship and the race would survive, so both notes now name buf.mu
and say what s.mu does and does not exclude.

Two comments in the cluster harness quoted Eventually(c.FrontendAlive)
.Should(BeFalse()). FrontendAlive takes an index, so Gomega rejects that
with "requested 1 arguments but received 0". Both now quote the closure
form the specs actually use, and say why the closure is needed.

proveHealthCheckingIsAlive claimed to prove the health monitor ran for the
whole preceding window. It proves the monitor was alive at the end of it,
and inferring backwards needs any wedge to be sticky. In the
peer-replica-death spec that inverts: health checks are single-flighted by
a session-scoped pg_try_advisory_lock, the spec SIGKILLs the replica that
may hold it, and until Postgres reaps the session the survivor acquires
nothing and checks nothing silently. Consistently(healthy) can then pass
because nothing was checking, with the positive control still succeeding
once the lock frees. The doc now states what is proven, names that gap,
and says the assertion is a floor rather than a proof.

The Makefile still called DISTRIBUTED_TEST_FLAKES a retry count, which is
what seeded that error into the two docs just corrected against it, and
the workflow called the 15s window a reconcile tick when the mechanism is
HealthCheckInterval in the node health monitor.

Also: the cluster suite measured 509.1s / 509.8s / 512.3s, so about
8m30s and not the 8m39s/8m40s three files claimed; the dead-worker spec
title implied two independent detectors when both probes read one
advisory-lock-serialised verdict out of the same row; and the
sanitizeDBName length assertion used <= 50, which an empty string also
satisfies, where the invariant for an over-long input is exactly 50.

Assisted-by: Claude Opus 5 [claude-code]
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
2026-08-31 20:47:33 +00:00
Ettore Di Giacinto 53639c4df3 test(distributed): scope the log-subscriber wait and mark the race it works around
Three corrections from review of the previous commit.

The lock-order comment on SubscriberCount claimed no path takes s.mu and a
buffer lock together. Subscribe does exactly that, holding s.mu.RLock across
replica registrations that take buf.mu. State the rule that is actually true —
s.mu precedes any buffer lock, so counting after releasing it preserves the
order — and say what follows from it: the total is a sample, not a snapshot.

waitForLogSubscriber read as general-purpose but unblocks on the first
registered subscription. Subscribe attaches the exact-key buffer and each
replica buffer one at a time, so for a replicated model the count goes positive
while later replicas are still unattached and the race survives. Rename it
waitForSingleLogSubscriber, document that it holds only where Subscribe
resolves to one buffer, and assert on exactly 1: misuse then fails loudly on
the count rather than going quietly back to being flaky. Taking the expected
count as a parameter was the alternative, but that makes callers predict a
store-internal number and an under-count fails the same silent way as the
original bug.

The snapshot-then-subscribe race had no artifact outside a report, and review
found a second site carrying it. Mark both handlers identically, including the
point that swapping the two calls duplicates rather than drops and so is not
the fix. The race itself is left alone; this branch stays test infrastructure.

Assisted-by: Claude Opus 5 [claude-code]
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
2026-08-31 10:42:49 +00:00
lei_lei b8316f2a2a fix(gallery): use published F16 mmproj for qwythos-9b (#11792)
Install 404s because the gallery still points at mmproj-...-f16.gguf.
HF only ships ...-F16.gguf now, with a different sha256.

Signed-off-by: lei_lei <96427312+leilei3167@users.noreply.github.com>
2026-08-31 10:17:11 +02:00
localai-org-maint-botandlocalai-org-maint-bot 893a45141c fix(realtime): accept GA WebRTC signaling (#11778)
OpenAI GA clients send multipart or raw SDP requests. They expect a bare
SDP answer. LocalAI only accepted its legacy JSON envelope, so signaling
failed before media setup.

Keep the JSON contract for existing clients. Accept both GA request
shapes and choose the matching response format.

Assisted-by: Codex:gpt-5

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2026-08-29 21:28:37 +02:00
github-actions[bot]andmudler 176683dbe6 chore: bump inference defaults from unsloth (#11773)
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2026-08-29 09:17:12 +02:00
mudler's LocalAI [bot]andEttore Di Giacinto 80e3240f2d feat(distributed): key scheduling rules by a model alias (#11771)
Node placement and replica rules could only name a model, so an operator
who pinned "llama3" to the GPU tier had to rewrite the rule whenever a
different model took over that job. An alias already gives a stable name
for whichever model serves it, and a rule on that name makes it a
deployment slot: repoint the alias and the placement follows.

A rule keeps the name the operator chose. Reads resolve that name through
the config loader to the model the rule governs, so the reconciler counts,
schedules and trims replicas of the target, and the router finds an
alias-keyed rule from the target it is already routing. An alias that
resolves to nothing governs nothing loadable, so the reconciler skips it
and the write paths refuse it.

A replica is shared by every name that resolves to it, so only one rule
can decide where it runs. The REST and MCP write paths reject a rule whose
target another rule already governs. A pair that arrives some other way,
such as a seed file or an alias repointed onto a model that already has a
rule, resolves in favour of the rule named after the model itself and then
the oldest, and the rest are listed as shadowed.

The eviction guard is the exception: it matches rules to replicas in raw
SQL inside a locking transaction and cannot resolve an alias. It reads a
stored target that the reconciler refreshes each tick, and falls back to
the rule's own name when that target is empty.


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2026-08-29 09:16:50 +02:00
mudler's LocalAI [bot]andEttore Di Giacinto 29899cd1e0 fix(ui): size model fit against the cluster and move node labels into the selector (#11765)
* fix(ui): move node labels into the scheduling selector field

The scheduling page kept a node-label browser open above the rules
whether or not anyone was writing one, while the field that actually
needs labels, the rule's node selector, was two bare text inputs with no
hint of what the cluster reports.

The browser is gone. The selector's key input now completes against the
label keys the cluster uses, and the value input offers only the values
that key takes. The roster already loads for the page, so the
suggestions cost no request, and a roster that fails to load costs the
admin the hints and nothing else.

Suggestions stay suggestions: a key no node reports yet still commits as
typed, which is how an admin writes a rule before labelling the nodes
for it.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-5 golangci-lint eslint playwright
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* fix(distributed): size model fit against the cluster, not the frontend

The models page asked the frontend how much memory a model may occupy.
In distributed mode the frontend is usually a GPU-less pod while every
model runs on a worker, so a fleet of GPU nodes was told it could only
run the smallest CPU build. The variant picker's fits flag and its
auto-selection came from the same place, as did the hardware
recommendations.

The registry now reports the largest single healthy backend node. The
largest node, not the fleet total: a model loads into one node, so four
16GB workers are not a home for a 40GB model. An operator-set VRAM
budget caps a node's contribution, because the scheduler refuses a load
above that ceiling anyway, and a GPU node beats a CPU node holding more
system RAM.

GET /api/resources and GET /api/models carry this as an additional
cluster object. Their aggregate and ram fields keep reporting the
frontend's own hardware, which is what the resource monitor shows.
Variant selection judges backends against the union of the capabilities
present in the cluster, the way backend discovery already did.

Every path degrades to the local host: no cluster object in single-node
mode, and none when the registry cannot be read, so a hiccup narrows the
answer back to single-node behaviour rather than marking the whole
catalog too large.

The verdicts now name the node they belong to, since a model fits
somewhere or nowhere.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-5 golangci-lint eslint playwright
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2026-08-28 22:57:35 +02:00
Plamen K. Kosseff e58dabf75f feat(ui): add 'Focus mode' option in chat settings to persistently toggle the sidebar auto-collapse (#11750)
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-fable-5

Signed-off-by: Plamen K. Kosseff <p.kosseff@gmail.com>
2026-08-27 22:32:32 +02:00
Copilotandmudler e7b83ef7c0 Fix flaky "tests-apple" CI job in modeladmin test suite (#11717)
* Initial plan

* tests: raise default Eventually timeout for modeladmin suite to fix flaky macOS CI

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2026-08-26 08:58:17 +02:00
lei_lei f28e8b24e6 fix(ollama): accept :latest tag on model lookup (#11732)
/api/tags appends :latest to untagged names, but chat and the other
model endpoints looked the tagged name up as-is and 404'd.

Signed-off-by: lei_lei <96427312+leilei3167@users.noreply.github.com>
2026-08-26 08:57:36 +02:00
Ettore Di Giacinto f7ded96b1e fix(distributed): probe liveness on a subject every worker answers
The scheduler's liveness probe asks a worker a question over NATS and
reads "no responders" as proof the worker is gone. That is only sound
when every worker in the fleet subscribes to the subject asked.

It asked models.running, which arrived in 4.6. A 4.5 worker is alive and
serving, answers backend.list, and never subscribes to models.running,
so the probe condemned it on every scheduling attempt and marked it
unhealthy. A model pinned to such a node by its selector could then
never be placed at all: on this cluster an embedding model pinned to the
one Apple node was unschedulable for exactly this reason, while that
node's log showed it handling backend.list throughout.

Ask backend.list, which has been in the worker protocol far longer, and
treat a worker that answers anything as alive. Only a node that reports
no responders on every subject is absent, so adding a newer subject here
can never condemn an older worker.

Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-opus-5 [golangci-lint]
2026-08-24 19:58:49 +00:00
Ettore Di Giacinto 1dc3aeef87 fix(distributed): resolve config revisions through one entry point
A model's revision is published by administration and checked against on
every inference request. Those were computed by separate code: the
request path resolves through the loader, while each publisher hashed
whatever ModelConfig it happened to hold. By then SetDefaults had folded
in the GGUF guess and app-level options, so the published value was one
no request would ever carry and the model became unroutable until the
row was deleted by hand.

Fixing the publishers one at a time did not hold. Three rounds each
found another: the startup resync, then a saved edit and a toggle, then
a rename and the peer-change path.

ModelConfigLoader.RevisionFor is now the only way to obtain a revision,
and the raw hash is unexported, so a caller outside this package cannot
hash a config it holds. A publisher and a request agree by construction
rather than by two implementations happening to match.

The request path no longer falls back to hashing its merged config
either: an unstamped config is routed without a revision rather than
with a wrong one.

Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-opus-5 [golangci-lint]
2026-08-24 19:11:16 +00:00
Ettore Di Giacinto 2c68fa1eb6 fix(distributed): keep eviction inside the model's node selector
When no node the selector allows has a free slot, scheduling falls back
to evicting the least-recently-used idle model. That eviction searched
every healthy node, so it freed a slot on a node the selector forbids
and the model was then placed there: pinned to one class of hardware and
running on another.

An unrelated model pays for it. On this cluster an embedding model
pinned to Apple hardware could not reach its only matching node, so each
attempt evicted a large language model from an Nvidia node, failed to
start there anyway, and left the evicted model to reload. Repeated, that
reads as one replica bouncing between nodes.

Eviction is now restricted to the candidate set the selector produced.
With no selector the candidate set is nil and eviction stays global.

Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-opus-5 [golangci-lint]
2026-08-24 13:18:35 +00:00
Ettore Di Giacinto 38ba3fec63 fix(distributed): stop reclaiming healthy reconciler-driven loads
The abandoned-load sweeper treated a replica row with no load job as
abandoned. Only the request path creates load jobs; the reconciler's own
scale-up loads a replica without one. So any scale-up that ran past the
five-minute grace period was deleted mid-transfer, which for a
multi-gigabyte checkpoint is every time. The replica never finished
anywhere, and the reconciler kept re-placing it, so it looked like one
replica hopping between nodes instead of a model reaching its replica
count.

A row with no job is now reclaimed only once its node stops being
healthy, which is the case the sweeper was written for: a worker that
dropped out mid-transfer. A job that failed or stopped heartbeating
still proves abandonment on its own. Every uncertain case leaves the
slot held.

Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-opus-5 [golangci-lint]
2026-08-24 13:00:34 +00:00
Ettore Di Giacinto bebd812e7d fix(distributed): stop flapping agent nodes on backend listing
Only backend workers subscribe to backend.list. ListBackends asked every
node that was not pending, offline or draining, so an agent worker could
only answer "no responders", which the error handling reads as a node
that has gone away. Every poll of the backends view therefore marked
each agent node unhealthy, and its next heartbeat marked it healthy
again.

While unhealthy the node is not schedulable, so this also cost agent
capacity for as long as each flap lasted.

Skip non-backend workers, as the backend-op fan-out already does for the
same reason. A backend worker that does not answer is still marked
unhealthy: that one really is gone.

Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-opus-5 [golangci-lint]
2026-08-24 12:48:23 +00:00
Ettore Di Giacinto df1a40f9c0 fix(distributed): hash the config as persisted, not as defaulted
The revision was computed after SetDefaults, which folds in things that
are not persisted configuration: the GGUF guess, the hardware defaults,
and app-level options such as threads.

The GGUF guess is the damaging one. It parses the model file to fill in
values like context size, and when that parse fails it falls back to a
different default. Whether a multi-gigabyte file on network storage
parses at a given moment is not a property of the configuration, so one
unchanged YAML produced two different revisions depending on when it was
read. The controller rejected every request carrying the other one, and
the model stayed unroutable until the stored value happened to match
again. This is why it never reproduced against a model directory with no
weights in it: the guess is skipped there and both values agree.

The app-level defaults are the same class of bug with a slower fuse:
changing threads in the settings UI changed every model's revision and
made every model unroutable.

The revision is now stamped when the file is parsed, before any defaults
are applied, so it is a function of the file alone.

Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-opus-5 [golangci-lint]
2026-08-24 11:45:32 +00:00
Ettore Di Giacinto 505a6d040b fix(distributed): publish the revision a request actually carries
Two code paths computed a model's revision. Inference resolves the
config through the loader, which applies SetDefaults a second time.
Everything that publishes a revision hashed the stored config instead,
with SetDefaults applied once.

SetDefaults is not idempotent for every model: it re-runs the GGUF guess
and the hardware defaults, both of which read state the stored config
does not carry. Where the two disagree, a publisher wrote a revision no
request would ever carry, and the model became unroutable the moment it
was published. On this cluster the startup resync republished one such
value and every request for that model was then rejected against it.

The publishers now resolve the revision through the loader, exactly as a
request does, so there is one definition rather than two that agree only
when SetDefaults happens to be idempotent. This covers the startup
resync, a saved config edit, and enabling or disabling a model.

Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-opus-5 [golangci-lint]
2026-08-24 09:05:52 +00:00
localai-org-maint-botandlocalai-org-maint-bot a8bc64cd09 fix(ci): bound Discord release summaries (#11695)
* fix(ci): bound Discord release summaries

The release model can return more than Discord's 2,000-character
message limit. Discord then rejects the entire release notification.

Ask the model for a smaller response and truncate extracted content to
1,800 characters before the notification step. The smaller bound leaves
room below Discord's hard limit when model output varies.

Assisted-by: Codex:gpt-5

* fix(tests): implement node liveness stub

NodeCommandSender now requires PingNode. The endpoint test stub must
implement it before the package can compile.

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2026-08-24 09:32:26 +02:00
Ettore Di Giacinto 5c9d8190d9 fix(distributed): resync revisions after the configs are loaded
The resync added in 3953448f6 ran before LoadModelConfigsFromPath, so it
read an empty loader, reconciled nothing and reported success. The
symptom was a stored revision that stayed stale across restarts while
the log showed no complaint, which is exactly what the resync was meant
to prevent.

Move the call after the configs are loaded, and refuse to treat an empty
loader as a clean run: reconciling zero models is indistinguishable from
reconciling correctly, and that is what hid the mis-ordered call.

Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-opus-5 [golangci-lint]
2026-08-24 06:40:30 +00:00
Ettore Di Giacinto 3953448f60 fix(distributed): resync stored config revisions at startup
The controller pins a model's replicas to a stored revision and rejects
any request carrying a different one. Nothing ever re-derived that value
from the configuration on disk: it moved only on an edit, a gallery
install, or a peer's change broadcast. An inference request may only
establish a revision, never replace one.

So any other way for the two to diverge left the model permanently
unroutable. A configuration edited while a frontend was down lands
there, and so does a change in what the revision is computed over: an
upgrade that alters the hashed form leaves every stored revision
describing a configuration that no longer exists. The only recovery was
deleting the row by hand, which is not something a cluster should need.

Each frontend now reconciles the stored revisions against the loaded
configurations at startup and republishes the ones that disagree. Only
those: republishing quarantines every replica loaded under the old
revision, so doing it for a model that did not drift would unload a
healthy replica for nothing. A model with no stored revision has never
been served and is left for its first request to establish.

Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-opus-5 [golangci-lint]
2026-08-23 22:17:59 +00:00
Ettore Di Giacinto e6269e3cdd fix(distributed): reclaim replica slots held by abandoned loads
A replica row in staging or loading holds its slot, because slot
allocation counts every state except unloading. Nothing ever reclaimed
such a row: every reconciler pass and the router's eviction query filter
state = "loaded", and the per-model probe skips rows without an address,
which is exactly what a row that never finished loading has.

So a worker that dropped out mid-transfer left a row that pinned the
only replica slot for that model on that node. Scheduling then found no
free slot and eviction found nothing it was allowed to evict, and the
request failed with "no replica slot on <node> and eviction failed: all
models busy". The state persisted until an operator intervened.

The reconciler now reclaims a row stuck before serving when no load job
is driving it. Ownership is decided by the job's LastProgress heartbeat,
not by elapsed time: staging a large checkpoint legitimately runs for a
long while without touching the replica row, so a deadline would either
be a model-size cliff or reclaim a healthy transfer. That heartbeat is
the same signal job takeover already trusts. Any error reading the job
leaves the slot held, because holding one for another pass costs a
scheduling opportunity while a wrong reclaim restarts a multi-gigabyte
transfer.

Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-opus-5 [golangci-lint]
2026-08-23 21:07:29 +00:00
Ettore Di Giacinto c541dbeef4 fix(distributed): check a node answers before scheduling onto it
A node's status comes from its HTTP heartbeat. Backend installs travel
over NATS. The two are independent, so a worker that dies stops
answering on the bus at once but stays healthy in the database until its
heartbeat ages out. Inside that window the scheduler picked a node it
could not reach, and the request failed with "no responders available"
rather than moving to a node that was up.

The scheduler now probes the node it selected and, when nothing answers,
marks it unhealthy and selects again. The demotion is what makes the
retry terminate: the next selection reads only healthy nodes. It also
tells the other frontends what this one learned, so the cluster does not
rediscover a dead worker one failed request at a time.

Only nats.ErrNoResponders counts as absent. A worker that answers slowly
stays eligible, because dropping it would cost capacity that is really
there. The probe reuses the models.running subject: a new subject would
go unanswered by workers that have not been upgraded, and every one of
them would then look dead.

Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-opus-5 [golangci-lint]
2026-08-23 20:44:43 +00:00
Ettore Di Giacinto cee87d1608 fix(distributed): expire staged request files on the worker
A request that carries a file stages it to the worker, which writes it
under its staging directory. Nothing removed it afterwards. The frontend
expires ephemeral keys from object storage, but that sweep never covered
a worker's local disk, so every image, audio clip and video a worker
ever served stayed on it.

One worker had accumulated 175 request directories over three months.
The volume reached 100 percent, and from that point every backend start
failed because the process manager could not create a state directory.

The worker now sweeps its ephemeral staging directory on a timer and
once at startup, so files left by a crash are reclaimed too. Staged
model files live beside that directory and are not touched.

Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-opus-5 [golangci-lint]
2026-08-23 20:20:02 +00:00
Ettore Di Giacinto 4bad644498 fix(distributed): name both revisions in the stale error
"stale model config revision" reported only that two hashes differed.
It named neither, so an operator could not tell an edited configuration
from a revision that is not reproducible for one unchanged file, and the
failing value appears in no table.

The error now carries the revision the request brought and the one the
controller holds. It still wraps ErrStaleModelConfigRevision, so callers
that classify the error keep working.

Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-opus-5 [golangci-lint]
2026-08-23 19:53:42 +00:00
Ettore Di Giacinto f3fabe8c5c fix(distributed): order derived usecases deterministically
syncKnownUsecasesFromString rebuilds KnownUsecaseStrings by ranging
GetAllModelConfigUsecases, which is a map. Go randomizes that order per
call, and the field is part of the serialized config, so one unchanged
YAML hashed to a different config revision on every load.

A model that derives a single usecase hid the problem. One that derives
several, such as a chat model with an mmproj, alternated between as many
revisions as there are orderings. The router treats a revision it did
not establish as a config change, so requests failed with "stale model
config revision" until the stored value happened to match again.

Sorting the list makes the revision a function of the file alone.

Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-opus-5 [golangci-lint]
2026-08-23 17:20:20 +00:00