This updates our key generation to use Ed25519 keys/certificates for
sync connections. Certificates for browser use remain ECDSA for wider
compatibility.
Ed25519 is more modern and has fewer concerns for the future than the
ECDSA curves we used previously. It is supported from Go 1.13 and
forwards, which is Syncthing 1.3.0 (October 2019).
* main:
docs: link to Docker image, APT, in release notes
build: also create relaysrv and discosrv releases
fix(stupgrades): return latest stable & pre for each major
fix(syncthing): avoid writing panic log to nil fd (#10154)
### Purpose
This change fixes a logical bug in the panic log writing where we could
end up writing to a uninitialized file descriptor.
On the very first iteration, `panicFd` is nil. We enter the if `panicFd
== nil { … }` block, check for “panic:” or “fatal error:”, and if
neither matches, we skip instantiating `panicFd` altogether. However,
immediately after, still within `if panicFd == nil { … }`, we call
`panicFd.WriteString("Panic at ...")`. But `panicFd` would in this case
be `nil`, which will cause a run‐time panic.
It's not clear to me why panicFd is only initialized if the lines start
with "panic:" or "fatal error:" so I've left that logic untouched. With
this change we at least avoid the risk of writing to a nil
filedescriptor.
## Authorship
Your name and email will be added automatically to the AUTHORS file
based on the commit metadata.
---------
Co-authored-by: Jakob Borg <jakob@kastelo.net>
* main:
feat(config): expose folder and device info as metrics (fixes#9519) (#10148)
chore: add issue types to GitHub issue templates
build: remove schedule from PR metadata job
chore(protocol): only allow enc. password changes on cluster config (#10145)
chore(protocol): don't start connection routines a second time (#10146)
Tihs makes it easier to use metrics based on device and folder labels,
names, and other attributes. Other metrics which are based on folder or
device ID can be joined with these info metrics to enrich their label
sets.
```
# HELP syncthing_config_device_info Provides additional information labels on devices
# TYPE syncthing_config_device_info gauge
syncthing_config_device_info{device="I6KAH76-66SLLLB-5PFXSOA-UFJCDZC-YAOMLEK-CP2GB32-BV5RQST-3PSROAU",introducer="false",name="s1",paused="false",untrusted="false"} 1
# HELP syncthing_config_folder_info Provides additional information labels on folders
# TYPE syncthing_config_folder_info gauge
syncthing_config_folder_info{folder="default",label="The default folder",path="s2",paused="false",type="sendreceive"} 1
```
With this you can e.g. query for
```
syncthing_connections_active * on(device) group_left syncthing_config_device_info
```
Fixes#9519Closes#10074Closes#10147
* main:
refactor: use slices package for sorting (#10136)
build: handle multiple general release notes
build: no need to build on the branches that just trigger tags
* main:
build: use specific token for pushing release tags
fix(gui): update `uncamel()` to handle strings like 'IDs' (fixes#10128) (#10131)
refactor: use slices package for sort (#10132)
build: process for automatic release tags (#10133)
chore(gui, man, authors): update docs, translations, and contributors
The sort package is still used in places that were not trivial to
change. Since Go 1.21 slices package can be uswed for sort. See
https://go.dev/doc/go1.21#slices
### Purpose
Make some progress with the migration to a more up-to-date syntax.
* main:
fix(syncthing): ensure both config and data dirs exist at startup (fixes#10126) (#10127)
fix(versioner): fix perms of created folders (fixes#9626) (#10105)
refactor: use slices.Contains to simplify code (#10121)
* main:
fix(strelaysrv): make the session limiter session-dependent (fixes#10072) (#10073)
build: artifact uploads destination OCI
chore(gui, man, authors): update docs, translations, and contributors
chore(gui): use go list --deps for dependency list (#10071)
* main:
build: push artifacts to Azure (#10044)
fix(syncthing): use separate lock file instead of locking the certificate (fixes#10053) (#10054)
fix(syncthing): use separate lock file instead of locking the certificate (fixes#10053) (#10054)
* main:
fix(gui): fix previous commit
fix(gui): mark unseen disconnected devices as inactive (#10048)
fix(strings): differentiate setup(n) and set(v) up (#10024)
chore(fs): changes to allow Filesystem to be implemented externally (#10040)
chore(config): resolve primary STUN servers via SRV record (fixes#10029) (#10031)
build: push artifacts to Azure (#10044)
chore(gui, man, authors): update docs, translations, and contributors
(v2 change)
This cleans up the command line parsing a little:
- Remove the hack for supporting legacy single-dash long options (e.g.
`-home`), thus enabling actual short options
- Move legacy imperative flags from under the serve command into
separate commands, e.g. `syncthing serve --paths` to see the paths list
is now `syncthing paths`, `syncthing --upgrade-check` is now `syncthing
upgrade --check`
- Add environment variable support for all remaining flags for the
`serve` command (with one exception, left for the reader to discover),
as these are now all modifiers and not imperative
```
% syncthing --help
Usage: syncthing <command>
Flags:
-h, --help Show context-sensitive help.
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.
```
```
% syncthing serve --help
Usage: syncthing serve [flags]
Run Syncthing (default)
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 ($STHOMEDIR)
--allow-newer-config Allow loading newer than current config version ($STALLOWNEWERCONFIG)
--audit Write events to audit file ($STAUDIT)
--auditfile=PATH Specify audit file (use "-" for stdout, "--" for stderr) ($STAUDITFILE)
--db-maintenance-interval=8h Database maintenance interval ($STDBMAINTINTERVAL)
--gui-address=URL Override GUI address (e.g. "http://192.0.2.42:8443") ($STGUIADDRESS)
--gui-apikey=API-KEY Override GUI API key ($STGUIAPIKEY)
--no-console Hide console window ($STHIDECONSOLE)
--logfile=PATH Log file name (see below) ($STLOGFILE)
--logflags=BITS Select information in log line prefix (see below) ($STLOGFLAGS)
--log-max-old-files=N Number of old files to keep (zero to keep only current) ($STNUMLOGFILES)
--log-max-size=BYTES Maximum size of any file (zero to disable log rotation) ($STLOGMAXSIZE)
--no-browser Do not start browser ($STNOBROWSER)
--no-default-folder Don't create the "default" folder on first startup ($STNODEFAULTFOLDER)
--no-port-probing Don't try to find free ports for GUI and listen addresses on first startup ($STNOPORTPROBING)
--no-restart Do not restart Syncthing when exiting due to API/GUI command, upgrade, or crash ($STNORESTART)
--no-upgrade Disable automatic upgrades ($STNOUPGRADE)
--paused Start with all devices and folders paused ($STPAUSED)
--unpaused Start with all devices and folders unpaused ($STUNPAUSED)
--verbose Print verbose log output ($STVERBOSE)
--debug-gui-assets-dir=PATH Directory to load GUI assets from ($STGUIASSETS)
--debug-perf-stats Write running performance statistics to perf-$pid.csv (Unix only) ($STPERFSTATS)
--debug-profile-block Write block profiles to block-$pid-$timestamp.pprof every 20 seconds ($STBLOCKPROFILE)
--debug-profile-cpu Write a CPU profile to cpu-$pid.pprof on exit ($STCPUPROFILE)
--debug-profile-heap Write heap profiles to heap-$pid-$timestamp.pprof each time heap usage increases ($STHEAPPROFILE)
--debug-profiler-listen=ADDR Network profiler listen address ($STPROFILER)
--debug-reset-delta-idxs Reset delta index IDs, forcing a full index exchange
...
```
Switch the database from LevelDB to SQLite, for greater stability and
simpler code.
Co-authored-by: Tommy van der Vorst <tommy@pixelspark.nl>
Co-authored-by: bt90 <btom1990@googlemail.com>
We've had weak/rolling hashing in the code for quite a while. It was a
popular request for a while, based on the belief that rsync does this
and we should too. However, the benefit is quite small; we save on
average about 0.8% of transferred blocks over the population as a whole:
<img width="974" alt="Screenshot 2025-03-28 at 17 09 02"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/bbe10dea-f85e-4043-9823-7cef1220b4a2"
/>
This would be fine if the cost was comparably low, however the downside
of attempting rolling hash matching is that we (by default) do a
complete file read on the destination in order to look for matches
before we starting pulling blocks for the file. For any larger file this
means a sometimes long, I/O-intensive pause before the file starts
syncing, for usually no benefit.
I propose we simply rip off the bandaid and save the effort.
At a high level, this is what I've done and why:
- I'm moving the protobuf generation for the `protocol`, `discovery` and
`db` packages to the modern alternatives, and using `buf` to generate
because it's nice and simple.
- After trying various approaches on how to integrate the new types with
the existing code, I opted for splitting off our own data model types
from the on-the-wire generated types. This means we can have a
`FileInfo` type with nicer ergonomics and lots of methods, while the
protobuf generated type stays clean and close to the wire protocol. It
does mean copying between the two when required, which certainly adds a
small amount of inefficiency. If we want to walk this back in the future
and use the raw generated type throughout, that's possible, this however
makes the refactor smaller (!) as it doesn't change everything about the
type for everyone at the same time.
- I have simply removed in cold blood a significant number of old
database migrations. These depended on previous generations of generated
messages of various kinds and were annoying to support in the new
fashion. The oldest supported database version now is the one from
Syncthing 1.9.0 from Sep 7, 2020.
- I changed config structs to be regular manually defined structs.
For the sake of discussion, some things I tried that turned out not to
work...
### Embedding / wrapping
Embedding the protobuf generated structs in our existing types as a data
container and keeping our methods and stuff:
```
package protocol
type FileInfo struct {
*generated.FileInfo
}
```
This generates a lot of problems because the internal shape of the
generated struct is quite different (different names, different types,
more pointers), because initializing it doesn't work like you'd expect
(i.e., you end up with an embedded nil pointer and a panic), and because
the types of child types don't get wrapped. That is, even if we also
have a similar wrapper around a `Vector`, that's not the type you get
when accessing `someFileInfo.Version`, you get the `*generated.Vector`
that doesn't have methods, etc.
### Aliasing
```
package protocol
type FileInfo = generated.FileInfo
```
Doesn't help because you can't attach methods to it, plus all the above.
### Generating the types into the target package like we do now and
attaching methods
This fails because of the different shape of the generated type (as in
the embedding case above) plus the generated struct already has a bunch
of methods that we can't necessarily override properly (like `String()`
and a bunch of getters).
### Methods to functions
I considered just moving all the methods we attach to functions in a
specific package, so that for example
```
package protocol
func (f FileInfo) Equal(other FileInfo) bool
```
would become
```
package fileinfos
func Equal(a, b *generated.FileInfo) bool
```
and this would mostly work, but becomes quite verbose and cumbersome,
and somewhat limits discoverability (you can't see what methods are
available on the type in auto completions, etc). In the end I did this
in some cases, like in the database layer where a lot of things like
`func (fv *FileVersion) IsEmpty() bool` becomes `func fvIsEmpty(fv
*generated.FileVersion)` because they were anyway just internal methods.
Fixes#8247