This adds a cleanup stage to remove database files for folders that no
longer exist on startup. Folder database files were already removed when
dropping a folder, assuming that the folder database had been opened at
that point. This won't be the case though when a folder is removed from
the config when Syncthing isn't running, or when a folder is dropped and
re-migrated in a restarted migration.
This adds a temporary GUI/API server during the database migration. It
responds with 200 OK and some log output for every request. This serves
two purposes:
- Primarily, for deployments that use the API as a health check, it
gives them something positive to accept during the migration, reducing
the risk of the migration getting killed halfway through and restarted,
thus never completing.
- Secondarily, it gives humans who happen to try to load the GUI some
sort of indication of what's going on.
Obviously, anything that expects a well-formed API response at this
stage is still going to fail. They were already failing though, as we
didn't even listen at this point before.
Two things:
- We could run into a write error, which would block the progress
forever without an error. This because the writer routine exited, while
the reader was just blocked on sending to it.
- After a failed migration, inserts could fail with unique index
constraint errors because we are reusing the sequence numbers from the
original database. Add a drop folder to the start of migration to handle
this.
Additionally, the drop folder will clear out broken database files due
to killed migrations.
### Purpose
This was lost / replaced when introducing the "version" command.
However, the documentation still lists the flag - actually under the
serve command, but that can be omitted. Common convention for CLI
programs is to accept it as a flag.
### Testing
```
$ bin/syncthing --help
Usage: syncthing <command> [flags]
Flags:
-h, --help Show context-sensitive help.
-C, --config=PATH Set configuration directory (config and keys) ($STCONFDIR)
-D, --data=PATH Set data directory (database and logs) ($STDATADIR)
-H, --home=PATH Set configuration and data directory ($STHOMEDIR)
--version Show current version, then exit
Commands:
serve Run Syncthing (default)
cli Command line interface for Syncthing
browser Open GUI in browser, then exit
decrypt Decrypt or verify an encrypted folder
device-id Show device ID, then exit
generate Generate key and config, then exit
paths Show configuration paths, then exit
upgrade Perform or check for upgrade, then exit
version Show current version, then exit
debug Various debugging commands
install-completions Print commands to install shell completions
Run "syncthing <command> --help" for more information on a command.
```
```
$ bin/syncthing --version
syncthing v2.0.3-dev.2.g0f47e944-restore-version-flag "Hafnium Hornet" (go1.24.0 linux-amd64) acolomb@riddo 2025-08-18 19:25:31 UTC
```
### Documentation
Already / *still* listed in the docs under Command Line Operation.
Avoid:
/_/GOROOT/src/os/user/cgo_lookup_cgo.go:45:(.text+0x54): warning: Using
'getgrgid_r' in statically linked applications requires at runtime the
shared libraries from the glibc version used for linking
and
/tmp/go-build/cgo-gcc-prolog:60:(.text+0x40): warning: Using
'getaddrinfo' in statically linked applications requires at runtime the
shared libraries from the glibc version used for linking
I added these tags as part of the big database PR, but I forget why. I
think it came from an attempt at a static binary using the Go-based
SQLite packages, but that's not the primary build anymore anyway. We can
remove this and go back to the standard resolvers, which gives better
support for primarily Windows and macOS special resolution methods...
chore(gui): remove redundant "authenticated" conditions from Actions
menu (#10235)
Due to previous code changes, the whole Actions menu is only available
when the user is logged in. As such, there is no reason to have the same
ng-if="authenticated" condition repeated in other items belonging to it.
Signed-off-by: Tomasz Wilczyński <twilczynski@naver.com>
Signed-off-by: Tomasz Wilczyński <twilczynski@naver.com>
This removes the `debugging` bool under GUI configuration, and two no
longer relevant development endpoints: `httpmetrics` (which I can't
imagine anyone using for anything -- if we need such metrics today, the
right place is the Prometheus exported metrics) and the `peerCompletion`
endpoint (previously used by integration tests).
The debugging bool initially enabled just those two endpoints, which are
not for end users. Then we added profiling and support bundles, which
are very useful indeed for end users to access, and they were hidden
behind the same debug flag. I don't see any reason for keeping that flag
now that these methods are more generally useful.
https://github.com/syncthing/docs/pull/949
This updates our logging framework from legacy freetext strings using
the `log` package to structured log entries using `log/slog`. I have
updated all INFO or higher level entries, but not yet DEBUG (😓)... So,
at a high level:
There is a slight change in log levels, effectively adding a new warning
level:
- DEBUG is still debug (ideally not for users but developers, though
this is something we need to work on)
- INFO is still info, though I've added more data here, effectively
making Syncthing more verbose by default (more on this below)
- WARNING is a new log level that is different from the _old_ WARNING
(more below)
- ERROR is what was WARNING before -- problems that must be dealt with,
and also bubbled as a popup in the GUI.
A new feature is that the logging level can be set per package to
something other than just debug or info, and hence I feel that we can
add a bit more things into INFO while moving some (in fact, most)
current INFO level warnings into WARNING. For example, I think it's
justified to get a log of synced files in INFO and sync failures in
WARNING. These are things that have historically been tricky to debug
properly, and having more information by default will be useful to many,
while still making it possible get close to told level of inscrutability
by setting the log level to WARNING. I'd like to get to a stage where
DEBUG is never necessary to just figure out what's going on, as opposed
to trying to narrow down a likely bug.
Code wise:
- Our logging object, generally known as `l` in each package, is now a
new adapter object that provides the old API on top of the newer one.
(This should go away once all old log entries are migrated.) This is
only for `l.Debugln` and `l.Debugf`.
- There is a new level tracker that keeps the log level for each
package.
- There is a nested setup of handlers, since the structure mandated by
`log/slog` is slightly convoluted (imho). We do this because we need to
do formatting at a "medium" level internally so we can buffer log lines
in text format but with separate timestamp and log level for the API/GUI
to consume.
- The `debug` API call becomes a `loglevels` API call, which can set the
log level to `DEBUG`, `INFO`, `WARNING` or `ERROR` per package. The GUI
is updated to handle this.
- Our custom `sync` package provided some debugging of mutexes quite
strongly integrated into the old logging framework, only turned on when
`STTRACE` was set to certain values at startup, etc. It's been a long
time since this has been useful; I removed it.
- The `STTRACE` env var remains and can be used the same way as before,
while additionally permitting specific log levels to be specified,
`STTRACE=model:WARN,scanner:DEBUG`.
- There is a new command line option `--log-level=INFO` to set the
default log level.
- The command line options `--log-flags` and `--verbose` go away, but
are currently retained as hidden & ignored options since we set them by
default in some of our startup examples and Syncthing would otherwise
fail to start.
Sample format messages:
```
2009-02-13 23:31:30 INF A basic info line (attr1="val with spaces" attr2=2 attr3="val\"quote" a=a log.pkg=slogutil)
2009-02-13 23:31:30 INF An info line with grouped values (attr1=val1 foo.attr2=2 foo.bar.attr3=3 a=a log.pkg=slogutil)
2009-02-13 23:31:30 INF An info line with grouped values via logger (foo.attr1=val1 foo.attr2=2 a=a log.pkg=slogutil)
2009-02-13 23:31:30 INF An info line with nested grouped values via logger (bar.foo.attr1=val1 bar.foo.attr2=2 a=a log.pkg=slogutil)
2009-02-13 23:31:30 WRN A warning entry (a=a log.pkg=slogutil)
2009-02-13 23:31:30 ERR An error (a=a log.pkg=slogutil)
```
---------
Co-authored-by: Ross Smith II <ross@smithii.com>
Based on the discussion in
https://forum.syncthing.net/t/towards-syncthing-2-0/24072/35 This PR
adds the ability for Windows users to use the pipe character (|) to
escape the metacharacters *, ?, [, and { in .stignore files.
Additionally, this PR adds the ability for the user to set the escape
character to backslash, or any character they want, by adding a line in
the form:
#escape=X
(where X is any single rune), to the top of an .stignore file.
This would allow users to use the same .stignore file across platforms,
by simply adding
#escape=\
to the top of the file.
### Testing
All tests pass in CI.
### Documentation
See https://github.com/syncthing/docs/pull/919Fixes#10057: Support escaping in .stignore files on Windows
Fixes#7547: Ignore pattern with \[ and \] does not work
Prior to this fix, the folder would only get marked as "syncing" once we
started downloading data from the network. However in some cases there
will be a lot of data that can be reused locally and we spend
significant time copying blocks before downloading anything; in that
case, the folder would appear as "preparing to sync" while it was in
fact moving lots of data.
This fixes that, making it "syncing" as soon as it begins either copying
or downloading data.
### Purpose
Uses recommended pattern for slice pools to avoid copying the slice
struct, suggested by the linter and actually used in the go stdlib, for
example in `net/http/h2_bundle.go`.
Currently, the Revert Local Changes button for Receive Only folders, and
the Delete Unexpected Items button for Receive Encrypted folders buttons
are shown even when the folder is already performing other operations.
Because of the above, pressing the button seems to have no effect, as
its operation can only proceed after the previous operations have
completed. This confuses the user, who then may keep trying to press the
buttons again and again with no visible result.
Therefore, show the two buttons only when the folders are actually idle,
without performing other operations at the same time. This change makes
them behave similarly to the Override Changes button, which is also only
displayed for Send Only folders when they are idle.
Signed-off-by: Tomasz Wilczyński twilczynski@naver.com
Update the jQuery Fancytree Plugin to the newest version. Apart from
keeping it up-to-date out of principle, this may also help with further
investigation of issue #10155, which is related to the plugin.
Signed-off-by: Tomasz Wilczyński twilczynski@naver.com
chore(gui): Fix "Shut Down" spelling in Actions
Currently, the word is written as "Shutdown". However, similarly to
"Log Out", it is used as a verb here, thus it should be written as two
separate words, i.e. "Shut Down".
Signed-off-by: Tomasz Wilczyński twilczynski@naver.com
Add a wrapper that uses anet on Android, but net on other platforms.
### Purpose
Fixes
https://forum.syncthing.net/t/workaround-for-android-local-discovery/20403/12
### Testing
Run two Syncthing instances with Global Discovery disabled. Pair them
with each other, don't hardcode their addresses, and verify they
connect.
We've always, since the introduction of conflicts, had the policy that
deletes lose against any other change, for safety's sake. This is a
problem, however, because it means the sort order of versions is not a
total order.
That is, given two versions `A` and `B` that are currently in conflict,
we will sort them in a given order (let's say `A, B`, so `A < B` for
ordering purposes: we say "A wins over B" or "A is newer than B") and
consider the first in the list the winner. The loser (who has `B` on
disk) will process the conflict at some point and move the file to a
conflict copy and announce `A'` as the resolved conflict. The winner
(with `A` on disk) doesn't do anything.
However, if `A` is deleted the ordering changes. We still have `A < B`
and, of course, `Adel < A` (this is not even a conflict, just linear
order). In most sane systems this would imply the ordering `Adel < A <
B`, however in our case we in fact have `B < Adel` because any version
wins over a deleted one, so there is no logical ordering at all of the
files at this point. `Adel < A < B < Adel ???` In practice the deleted
version may end up at the head or the tail of the list, depending on the
order we do the compares.
Hence, at this point, "whatever" happens and it's not guaranteed to make
any sense. 😬
I propose that we resolve this my simply letting deletes be versions
like anything else and maintain a total ordering based on just version
vectors with the existing tie breakers like always. That means a delete
can win in a conflict situation, and the result should be that the file
is moved to a conflict copy on the losing device. I think this retains
the data safety to almost the same degree as previously, while removing
probably an entire class of strange out of sync bugs...
---
(A potential wrinkle here is that, ideally, we wouldn't even create the
conflict copy when the delete and the losing version represent the same
data -- same as when we handle normal modification conflicts. However,
the deleted FileInfo doesn't carry any information on what the contents
were, so we can't do that right now. A possible future extension would
be to carry the block list hash of the deleted data in the deleted
FileInfo and use that for this purpose, but I don't want to complicate
this PR with that. The block list hash itself also isn't a
protocol-defined thing at the moment, it's something implementation
dependent that we just use locally.)
