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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 b13ebeaa1b docs(e2e): correct three claims in the distributed e2e comments
The closure note in cluster/failure.go quoted a Gomega error that Gomega
does not emit. Describe the argument-count failure and the
Eventually().WithArguments() hint instead, so nobody greps for a string
that never appears.

The advisory-lock note in cluster_failover_test.go called the wedge
window unbounded. A SIGKILLed local child closes its socket at once, the
Postgres backend reads EOF and is reaped in milliseconds, so the
mechanism bounds the window tightly. Say bounded, and keep the low
probability but real framing, which was right.

The workflow comment attributed HealthCheckInterval to
core/services/nodes/health.go. It is declared in
core/config/distributed_config.go:64; health.go only carries the ticker
on the unexported checkInterval. Point a debugger at the right file.

Comments only, no behaviour change.

Assisted-by: Claude Opus 5 [claude-code]
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
2026-08-31 20:54:25 +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 2c314d66d6 docs: correct the flake-attempts semantics and fill the review gaps
--flake-attempts is total attempts, not retries: ginkgo v2.29.0 sets
maxAttempts = FlakeAttempts and loops attempt < maxAttempts, and the flag's
usage string reads "0 - failed tests are not retried". At 1 there is no retry
at all, so "retries a failing spec once" was false in CONTRIBUTING.md and
implied in .agents/building-and-testing.md. Both now say each spec runs once,
and cite the source so the next reader need not re-derive it.

Also restores the React-UI stub rationale, which is load-bearing because a spec
asserting on a UI asset passes locally against a real dist/ and is served the
stub in CI; explains why 213 and ~240 differ; records that the workflow also
triggers on master pushes, where paths-ignore does not apply; and completes the
LOCALAI_E2E_REQUIRE_BINARIES value table, including that any unparseable value
reads as ON.

In .agents/ci-caching.md the stale "13 of those 20" figure now carries its
qualifier inline rather than in the following sentence.

Assisted-by: Claude Opus 5 [claude-code]
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
2026-08-31 20:21:36 +00:00
Ettore Di Giacinto b0e01e9814 docs: document the distributed and cluster e2e suites
Two Make targets, a flake-budget variable and two environment variables
landed with no way to discover them. CONTRIBUTING.md now tells a contributor
how to run both suites, what each costs and which variables steer the cluster
one.

.agents/building-and-testing.md records the decisions that are easy to undo by
accident: suite-scoped containers, the shared NATS bus and what that means for
a new spec, BeforeSuite over SynchronizedBeforeSuite, the label split,
--fail-on-empty, the binary gate, the flake budget of 1, the coverage
exclusion, and why the cluster suite's long waits must not be shortened.

.agents/ci-caching.md lists tests-e2e-distributed.yml in its paths-ignore
inventory; the workflow already pointed readers there, so the cross-reference
was dangling.

Assisted-by: Claude Opus 5 [claude-code]
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
2026-08-31 20:11:49 +00:00
Ettore Di Giacinto 73e7ef85b6 ci(distributed): fail the cluster job when it selects no specs
Ginkgo exits 0 when a label filter matches nothing, so a refactor that
renamed or dropped Label("Cluster") would have left the job reporting
"Test Suite Passed" having started no cluster. LOCALAI_E2E_REQUIRE_BINARIES
does not cover that case: it only fires inside a spec that is already
running. Add --fail-on-empty to both distributed targets.

Drop -r from test-e2e-cluster while here. All six Cluster specs live in the
top-level package, and the cluster subpackage contributes nothing under this
filter by design, so recursing only widened the blast radius. test-e2e-
distributed keeps -r: it must reach the eight argument-validation specs in
that subpackage.

Raise the cluster job to 45 minutes, matching its sibling. The 20 minute
Ginkgo timeout bounds the suite alone; the job timeout must also cover setup,
which is the larger and more variable half here: cold-cache module download,
protoc and protogen-go, a full build of ./cmd/local-ai and a separate test
compile, realistically 8-12 minutes on a 4-vCPU runner. At 25 minutes the
runner would have hard-killed the job before Ginkgo could report which spec
hung, which is the red-with-no-evidence outcome that gets suites disabled.

Also move upload-artifact to @v7 with the rest of the repo, and note on the
react-ui stub step that it must go if a spec ever asserts on a UI asset,
since a developer box has a real dist/ and would not catch that locally.

Assisted-by: Claude Opus 5 [claude-code]
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
2026-08-31 20:00:14 +00:00
Ettore Di Giacinto 6620aa0937 ci(distributed): run the process-level cluster suite
Add test-e2e-cluster and a second CI job that runs it. The cluster specs
spawn local-ai as real child processes and kill them, so they need a built
binary; keeping them in their own job means the fast in-process suite is not
held behind that build.

The binary is built with a stubbed core/http/react-ui/dist. A single
index.html satisfies the go:embed in core/http/app.go, and this suite drives
the HTTP API only, so the job skips a Node and Vite install entirely.

The job runs serial and pins --flake-attempts 1. Each Ginkgo process would
otherwise get its own PostgreSQL and NATS container while every spec spawns
two or three children, and a retry would hide exactly the nondeterminism the
suite exists to catch. Measured at 8m39s over three runs, hence a 25 minute
job timeout and a 20 minute Ginkgo timeout.

LOCALAI_E2E_LOG_DIR points inside the workspace so the per-process logs
upload as an artifact on failure; they are the only way to read a cluster
failure. LOCALAI_E2E_REQUIRE_BINARIES is set explicitly even though CI
already implies it, because a skipped cluster spec is indistinguishable from
a passing one and this job's whole value is that it cannot go green without
starting a cluster.

Assisted-by: Claude Opus 5 [claude-code]
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
2026-08-31 19:49:19 +00:00
Ettore Di Giacinto 58232a3f04 test(distributed): prove health checking was alive during the failover windows
The two specs that assert a healthy worker stays healthy were pure negatives:
they say nothing happened. A cluster whose health checking had wedged, by
leaking the advisory lock the monitor takes at health.go:110, would freeze the
roster and satisfy both while observing a corpse. Kill the worker once the
window closes and require the roster to settle it to offline, so the preceding
Consistently is a statement about behaviour rather than about a stopped clock.
Applied to the cold-restart spec as well as the peer-death one: a restart is
exactly the event that could leave a replacement unable to check anything.

Document the hazard that can make an offline assertion hang. The staleness
branch skips a node already marked unhealthy (health.go:153-155), a skip meant
for nodes an operator took down, which also swallows the flap: an unhealthy mark
landing after the heartbeat goes stale means MarkOffline is never called and the
node stays unhealthy forever. Name the file and line at the assertion, and have
the failure message say so when the roster shows a node stuck there, so a
timeout sends the reader to LocalAI rather than to the harness.

Stop calling the two-replica registration spec a race. Start spawns workers
sequentially and the registrations land about a second apart; it is a
shared-roster identity test, and saying otherwise invites someone to trust it
for something it does not check.

WorkerRegistrar now bound-checks its index like every other index-taking method
here. It answered 0 for an out-of-range worker, and 0 is a real frontend index,
so the failure mode was a spec killing the wrong replica.

Assisted-by: Claude Opus 5 [claude-code]
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
2026-08-31 19:40:01 +00:00
Ettore Di Giacinto 875ff339ba test(distributed): cover replica death, rolling restart and racing replicas
Four scenarios with no prior equivalent: killing a replica must not disturb a
worker that never depended on it, a cold-restarted replica must rehydrate the
roster from shared state and keep accepting the worker's heartbeats, a dead
worker must settle to offline on every replica, and two replicas registering a
worker each must converge on one roster.

The timings are measured, not assumed. Node liveness is heartbeat freshness, so
the only eviction path is StaleNodeThreshold (60s) plus one HealthCheckInterval
tick (15s), and neither is reachable from the CLI. A worker whose registrar was
killed was observed going offline at 74.2s. Every window here is sized to
outlast that, because an assertion that expires before the system could have
reacted proves nothing.

Two assertions are deliberately unlike the obvious form. Statuses are compared
for equality against a probe that returns a sentinel on error, rather than
asserting a name is absent from the healthy list: the list probe returns nil on
any error, and "does not contain" is satisfied by nil, so a 401 at the second
replica would have passed while observing nothing. And a killed worker is
required to settle to exactly offline, because it first flaps to unhealthy at
~8s and back to healthy at ~14s, which any not-healthy matcher would accept.

SpreadWorkerRegistrations is new, off by default, and exists so the racing
spec is a race: the harness otherwise points every worker at frontend 0, which
would have left that scenario asserting on two sequential writes through one
process. The default is unchanged because the baseline specs depend on it.

Assisted-by: Claude Opus 5 [claude-code]
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
2026-08-31 16:28:10 +00:00
Ettore Di Giacinto 737eb6c34c test(distributed): require the cluster binaries by default under CI
The previous round made a missing binary fail instead of skip, but only when a
workflow remembered to set LOCALAI_E2E_REQUIRE_BINARIES. That leaves the silent
pass one forgotten line away: the Cluster label partition is two specs, Ginkgo
exits 0 on skips, and a job that skips both reports "0 Passed | 2 Skipped" and
goes green having never started a cluster.

So the polarity is inverted. Binaries are required whenever CI is set, which
GitHub Actions always does, and the flag now exists to force the requirement
OFF rather than to be remembered ON. A local developer sees no change, since CI
is unset in an ordinary shell and a missing binary still skips with a message
naming the path and how to build it. off, no, n and disabled are honoured as
off; ParseBool rejects them, and reading a word that unambiguous as its
opposite would be a worse trap than the one this removes.

Also correct a claim the previous commit message got wrong. Comparing the
worker's registration id across the two replicas does not pin the topology:
NodeRegistry.Register looks a node up by name and preserves the existing id,
and both replicas read one Postgres, so registering the worker with every
frontend would yield identical ids too. The assertion is still worth keeping
for what it does catch, a replica answering from its own registry or database
instead of the shared one, and the comment now says that and nothing more.

The topology fact moves to where someone would break it: a note on
LOCALAI_REGISTER_TO recording that workers register with frontend 0 only, that
the cross-replica specs depend on it, and that nothing in those specs can
detect a change to it.

Assisted-by: Claude Opus 5 [claude-code]
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
2026-08-31 15:06:54 +00:00
Ettore Di Giacinto 2e4c731ea1 test(distributed): fail rather than skip the cluster specs in CI
The Cluster label partition is these two specs and nothing else, so a missing
binary skipped the entire job. Ginkgo exits 0 on skips, so a build step that
broke or moved its output would have left the job reporting "0 Passed |
2 Skipped" and going green without ever starting a cluster: the silent pass
this suite exists to make impossible. Skipping stays the local default, which
is the right courtesy for someone who has not run `make build`, but
LOCALAI_E2E_REQUIRE_BINARIES turns it into a failure that names the missing
path and the target that builds it. A value that is set but unparseable counts
as on, since reading it as off would restore the very skip it disables.

Failures also name themselves now. The roster poll kept returning a bare nil on
error, so a 401 at the second replica, a decode failure and "the worker never
registered" all presented identically as an empty list. It now retains the last
error and the last roster and reports whichever happened, through a lazily
evaluated Gomega description that costs nothing until something fails.

Finally, the two-frontend spec no longer depends on the harness to mean what it
says. It asserts an unauthenticated GET /api/nodes at frontend 1 is refused,
which observes the admin gate instead of assuming it, and it compares the
worker's registration id across the two replicas rather than its name. A future
harness that registered every worker with every frontend would have kept a
name-only assertion green while it quietly stopped proving anything about
shared state.

Assisted-by: Claude Opus 5 [claude-code]
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
2026-08-31 14:54:23 +00:00
Ettore Di Giacinto 1f241fb310 test(distributed): prove the cluster harness with a two-replica baseline
Tasks 4 to 6 built a harness that runs local-ai as real child processes, but
none of it had ever started a process: every spec so far returned inside
argument validation. These two specs are the first to run it against a real
binary, a real Postgres and a real NATS.

Two frontends against one database both see a worker that registered through
only one of them. Every failover spec assumes this, so it is asserted first.

One admin session is minted at frontend 0 and reused for both replicas rather
than registering per frontend. The auth routes share a five-per-minute-per-IP
limiter and all e2e traffic is 127.0.0.1, so a session per frontend would
exhaust the budget as soon as a spec needs a third one. Reuse is sound because
sessions live in the shared Postgres and the harness pins one HMAC secret
across replicas; frontend 1 answering /api/nodes with 200 on a cookie minted at
frontend 0 is what proves it.

The binaries are resolved before SetupInfra so a missing build skips without
first provisioning a database the skip would then have to tear down.

Assisted-by: Claude Opus 5 [claude-code]
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
2026-08-31 14:38:12 +00:00
Ettore Di Giacinto fc0fce8b7d test(distributed): correct the failure-primitive comments and guard the wipe
Review round 1. Comments only, plus one guard.

The note on Process.alive claimed the exited check closed the zombie window.
It does not. The reaper closes exited only after Cmd.Wait returns, and Wait
marks the os.Process done before returning, so exited being closed implies
signal 0 already errors and the branch cannot fire earlier than the one it
precedes. The window between the child exiting and waitid collecting it stays
open in both versions, and the only real mitigation is for callers to poll
with Eventually rather than sample once. Keep the check as hygiene, say what
it actually does, and say it again on the exited field, so nobody reads the
old claim and drops the Eventually.

Record what the cold wipe destroys. The harness sets no LOCALAI_STORAGE_URL,
so the object store is a directory under DataPath, and quantization and
fine-tune outputs live there too. Postgres keeps the job row; the artifact it
points at does not survive the restart. A spec that asserts otherwise will
fail for a storage reason wearing a failover costume.

Tell callers to let a graceful stop finish before restarting: RestartFrontend
terminates with SIGKILL, so pairing it straight after StopFrontendGracefully
cuts the drain short and silently converts the rolling-update case into the
crash case.

Refuse to wipe when the cluster has no work dir. frontendDataDir is relative
when baseDir is empty, so a Cluster built by some future test helper without
one would have RemoveAll walking frontend-N/data inside the source tree. The
guard sits before terminate, so a refusal leaves the cluster as it was.

Assisted-by: Claude Opus 5 [claude-code]
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
2026-08-31 14:22:35 +00:00
Ettore Di Giacinto ce3f360219 test(distributed): add kill and restart primitives to the cluster harness
The point of running LocalAI as real child processes is to be able to take
one away. Add KillFrontend (SIGKILL, the lost replica), StopFrontendGracefully
(SIGTERM, the rolling update), KillWorker, RestartFrontend and FrontendAlive.

RestartFrontend pins the dead replica's original port. Workers read
LOCALAI_REGISTER_TO once at boot and never re-resolve it, so a replica that
returns on a fresh port is unreachable by exactly the workers that registered
with it and the failover under test never happens.

It also wipes the replica's data directory, so the process comes back with
empty local state and has to rehydrate node, session and job state from the
shared Postgres and NATS. Reusing the directory would model a pod with a
persistent volume and hide the class of bug these tests exist to find. That
is only safe because the harness pins LOCALAI_AUTH_HMAC_SECRET; otherwise the
wipe would take {DataPath}/.hmac_secret with it and every session minted
before the restart would 401 afterwards.

FrontendAlive consults the reaper's exited channel before signal 0: a child
that has died but has not yet been waited on is a zombie, and signal 0 to a
zombie succeeds, which would report a dead replica as alive.

The new specs cover argument validation only. Killing, stopping and
restarting a live process needs a built binary plus Postgres and NATS, so
those paths stay unexecuted until the failover suites land.

Assisted-by: Claude Opus 5 [claude-code]
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
2026-08-31 14:12:35 +00:00
Ettore Di Giacinto 23a2bd5f1b test(distributed): give each frontend its own data dir and one pinned secret
Session rows are keyed by an HMAC of the token under a secret generated
per instance into {DataPath}/.hmac_secret. The replicas shared that
secret only because they shared a working directory, and that directory
was the source tree. Give each frontend LOCALAI_DATA_PATH under its own
baseDir and pin LOCALAI_AUTH_HMAC_SECRET, so a session minted at one
replica resolves at every other one by construction.

Assisted-by: Claude Opus 5 [claude-code]
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
2026-08-31 14:03:58 +00:00
Ettore Di Giacinto 53cd640a89 test(distributed): add admin session helper to the cluster harness
The register handler answers 201 both for "user created, here is your
session" and for "this email already exists", so the status code cannot
tell a fresh registration from a repeat one. Key on the session cookie
instead and fall through to login when it is absent.

Assisted-by: Claude Opus 5 [claude-code]
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
2026-08-31 11:25:47 +00:00
Ettore Di Giacinto a7847b8a37 test(distributed): make the cluster harness survive a restart
Restarting a frontend replica must not move it: workers read
LOCALAI_REGISTER_TO once at boot and never re-resolve it, so a replica that
returns on a fresh port is unreachable by the workers that registered with it.
startFrontend now takes the port, with <= 0 meaning "allocate".

Process logs are opened for append rather than truncated, so a restarted
process cannot erase the log of the instance that died, which is the log a
failover post-mortem needs. The post-SIGKILL wait is bounded, so one stuck
child no longer becomes a suite-wide timeout that names nothing. Stop is
nil-safe because Start returns a nil cluster after stopping itself.

Start's doc comment no longer claims to wait for worker registration; that
needs an authenticated admin session, so it now says callers must poll
/api/nodes themselves.

Assisted-by: Claude Opus 5 [claude-code]
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
2026-08-31 11:18:49 +00:00
Ettore Di Giacinto c0af66a7eb test(distributed): add a process-level cluster harness
Runs local-ai as real child processes, one per frontend replica and one per
worker, against containerised infrastructure. The in-process suites cannot
express frontend-replica failure: there is no process to kill and no real HTTP
boundary between a worker and the frontend it registered with.

Assisted-by: Claude Opus 5 [claude-code]
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
2026-08-31 11:10:04 +00:00
Ettore Di Giacinto 2d37ee10e6 ci(distributed): widen the trigger and drop the mid-suite image pull
The path allowlist covered 13 of the 99 packages the suite reaches. Commit
1dc3aeef8 touched core/config, core/services/modeladmin and core/backend and
matched no entry, so it would have merged without running the very specs that
cover it. Use the paths-ignore denylist tests-e2e.yml already uses.

Disable the testcontainers reaper: the runner is ephemeral, so the reaper buys
nothing and its unpinned image was pulled mid-suite, defeating the pre-pull.

Drop continue-on-error, which no other workflow uses and which reports a failed
run as green. The job is advisory by staying out of branch protection instead.
Pin Go to 1.26.0 to match go.mod, and add the tmate-on-failure step.

Assisted-by: Claude Opus 5 [claude-code]
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
2026-08-31 11:02:13 +00:00
Ettore Di Giacinto 3257fc5cd8 ci(distributed): run the distributed e2e suite on PRs
The suite has never run in CI, so 239 specs across 32 files were verified only
by hand. Path-filtered to distributed code, advisory until it earns a track
record, and with flake retries at 1 rather than 5 so nondeterminism surfaces
instead of being retried away.

Assisted-by: Claude Opus 5 [claude-code]
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
2026-08-31 10:49:54 +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
Ettore Di Giacinto f0fa4a7b1f test(distributed): wait for the log subscriber instead of racing it
The WebSocket log handler writes its "initial" batch before it calls
Subscribe, so a line appended the instant that batch arrives lands in the
circular buffer with no subscriber to receive it. Three backend-logs specs
append exactly there and then wait out a 5s read deadline; once a gorilla
read hits its deadline the connection is unusable, so the spec cannot retry.
`--focus='Worker WebSocket log streaming' --repeat=25` failed on attempt 17
with nothing else running, which is far too often to wire into CI.

Add BackendLogStore.SubscriberCount, resolving a model ID by the same
exact-key and replica-prefix rules Subscribe uses, and have the specs poll it
until the handler has attached. Nothing in production calls it and no
assertion is weakened; the handler's own snapshot/subscribe window is left as
it is, being a production streaming question rather than a test one.

Verified with 60 repeats of the WebSocket specs and three consecutive
--randomize-all runs of the whole distributed suite, all at
--flake-attempts 1: 239 of 240 specs pass in about 80 seconds.

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2026-08-31 10:31:51 +00:00
Ettore Di Giacinto 1974bc1ea0 test(distributed): stop leaking admin pools when database setup fails
A failed CREATE DATABASE panics out of the assertion before closeDB runs,
leaking a pgx pool per attempt. With --flake-attempts 5 that exhausts
postgres:16-alpine's 100 connection slots, at which point the cleanup path's
own Expect fails the spec and one hiccup cascades across the suite. Scope the
admin handle so the panic unwinds through defer closeDB, and let cleanup use a
fallible tryAdminDB that reports rather than asserts.

Register DeferCleanup immediately after CREATE so a later failure cannot leave
the database behind, and warn on TestInfra that the container handles are now
suite-wide.

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2026-08-31 10:08:17 +00:00
Ettore Di Giacinto 115aeb47c0 test(distributed): share suite containers, isolate specs by database
Starting a Postgres and a NATS container per spec cost roughly 48 minutes of
startup across the 213 specs behind SetupInfra, which is why this suite was
never wired into CI. Containers move to BeforeSuite and isolation comes from
CREATE DATABASE, which the dbName argument already described.

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2026-08-31 09:59:26 +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.

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2026-08-31 10:17:11 +02:00
localai-org-maint-botandmudler 1ab3db4bb7 chore: ⬆️ Update leejet/stable-diffusion.cpp to 6b3edaaf32cc19e5bb2d819c788bd557eddc8eba (#11793)
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Ettore Di Giacinto f829059e3d Rename branches from 'update/' to 'bump/'
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2026-08-31 09:38:28 +02:00
Ettore Di Giacinto 7aeb47cbf3 fix(launcher): auto-start the server so launching the app actually serves
Fixes #11673: on macOS the DMG launcher appeared to launch nothing. After
installing, the app sat in the menu bar with no window, nothing listening
on localhost:8080, and empty log files, because nothing ever started the
server unless the unrelated 'start on system boot' option was enabled.

- Start the LocalAI server automatically when the launcher opens and right
  after a fresh install. The new auto_start_server config key defaults to
  enabled and gets a settings checkbox; the legacy auto_start key was never
  honored nor exposed, so every existing launcher.json carries an
  unintentional false and is deliberately left behind.
- Fix the welcome window suppressing itself: its 'don't show this again'
  checkbox was initialized with the inverted value, and SetChecked fired
  the change callback which persisted ShowWelcome=false on the very first
  showing.
- Surface auto-start failures through the systray startup-error dialog,
  since there is no visible window during auto-start.
- Pass --app-version to fyne package so the app stops reporting itself as
  version 0.0.0 in the About box.
- Document the first-launch flow (menu bar app, auto-start, WebUI URL) in
  the macOS getting-started page.
- Repair two launcher specs that never ran in CI: a *bool matched against
  BeTrue and a /tmp assertion that trips on Linux where the test tempdir
  itself lives under /tmp.

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2026-08-30 21:45:59 +00:00
localai-org-maint-botandlocalai-org-maint-bot dd4e75983d feat(gallery): add Qwen3.8 GSQ-RCO variants (#11787)
Add three llama.cpp-compatible mixed quantizations from ISTA DASLab. These builds give Qwen3.8-27B users an 8.4 to 10.1 GB weight tier with the shared vision projector.

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localai-org-maint-botandlocalai-org-maint-bot 9c7c9974eb feat(gallery): add LFM2.5 8B DSpark variants (#11751)
Add Q4 and Q8 target builds with LiquidAI DSpark draft sidecars.
The variants expose mainline llama.cpp speculative decoding for the
existing LFM2.5 8B family.

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localai-org-maint-botandlocalai-org-maint-bot 2a13b6e1f2 feat(gallery): add Qwen3.8 Cold Fusion (#11754)
Add Q4_K_M and Q8_0 MTP variants with the shared vision projector.
The publisher recommends these builds for faster Qwen3.8 generation.

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localai-org-maint-botandlocalai-org-maint-bot 287ef12bf0 feat(gallery): add Granite 4.2 variants (#11779)
Add the 3B, 8B, and 30B safetensors checkpoints as one vLLM variant family so LocalAI can select the largest build that fits. Configure the parsers and sampling defaults recommended for Granite reasoning and tool calls.

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mudler's LocalAI [bot]andmudler a7cc5873ef chore(model gallery): 🤖 add 1 new models via gallery agent (#11777)
chore(model gallery): 🤖 add new models via gallery agent

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mudler's LocalAI [bot]andEttore Di Giacinto 572a127682 feat(stablediffusion-ggml): build a ROCm variant (#11774)
The Makefile already had a hipblas branch, but no CI row built it and
the gallery's `amd:` mapping stayed commented out. On an AMD host the
capability lookup found no `amd` key and fell back to `default`, so
these users silently ran the CPU build.

Add the hipblas row to the backend matrix and the two gallery entries
it publishes, then point `amd:` at them.

Drop `-DGGML_HIPBLAS=ON` while here. `SD_HIPBLAS` sets `GGML_HIP`
itself, and `GGML_HIPBLAS` is the name ggml used before the rename, so
the flag only produced an unused-variable warning. Add gfx1151 to the
local target list to match the value the workflows pass in.


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2026-08-29 21:29:16 +02:00
localai-org-maint-botandlocalai-org-maint-bot 27bcf86a5a feat(gallery): add WeMM embedding variants (#11775)
Tencent released three WeMM sizes with direct Sentence Transformers support. Add each safetensor repository so users can select the quality and resource tradeoff.

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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.

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mudler's LocalAI [bot]andmudler 1db8db762d chore: ⬆️ Update mudler/vllm.cpp to 150b37852c123f7855fb219b37347572ca9427e7 (#11745)
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localai-org-maint-botandlocalai-org-maint-bot 16aa8ca004 feat(gallery): add Qwen3.8 Flash Next (#11763)
Add the Q4 and Q8 GGUF builds with the shared vision projector.\nThe variant pair lets LocalAI select the build that fits available memory.\n\nAssisted-by: Codex:gpt-5

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localai-org-maint-botandlocalai-org-maint-bot 62f1c0ca7f feat(gallery): add PhoneLLM variants (#11772)
Add complete vLLM and SGLang entries with their exact tool parsers. Preserve an explicit zero temperature in both backend adapters.

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2026-08-29 10:03:54 +02:00
mudler's LocalAI [bot]andmudler 14c13ca1ef chore: ⬆️ Update 0xShug0/audio.cpp to 89a0e9803380880305e9e1b83c93614f9df2c893 (#11769)
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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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mudler's LocalAI [bot]andmudler f9f4d2751f chore: ⬆️ Update ggml-org/llama.cpp to d7bd3bfcad3e29c7e49fd26f38c79ee3e9a3fd6b (#11770)
⬆️ Update ggml-org/llama.cpp

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mudler's LocalAI [bot]andmudler a5a8338eeb chore: ⬆️ Update antirez/ds4 to 8db89fe083ae4d17c9a2428ccd29803d3ae8f577 (#11768)
⬆️ Update antirez/ds4

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mudler's LocalAI [bot]andmudler 8c2c3c5777 chore: ⬆️ Update ikawrakow/ik_llama.cpp to 15dddc60b3fc937a9e2a210359ecce392ccdf446 (#11767)
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localai-org-maint-botandlocalai-org-maint-bot 9db6caf3fd feat(gallery): add Thomson 1.0 Small variants (#11766)
Add Q4_K_M and Q8_0 GGUF builds with the shared BF16 vision
projector.

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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.

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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.

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2026-08-28 22:57:35 +02:00
0cdc31dcb3 chore: ⬆️ Update ggml-org/llama.cpp to e70802a01f03f0ed31a26338a5664796f3824371 (#11755)
* ⬆️ Update ggml-org/llama.cpp

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* fix(llama-cpp): follow upstream MTMD APIs

The dependency update adds MTMD initialization options to prompt and
bitmap helpers. The gRPC adapter now passes the server options through
each affected path.

The update also replaces the per-layer MoE regex helper. Preparation
probes both APIs because older forks still reuse this adapter.

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mudler's LocalAI [bot]andmudler 51f906f4e0 chore: ⬆️ Update 0xShug0/audio.cpp to 17751c0e8c48a3d56dcf05eeb60464409ecc69ce (#11759)
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