Async cancellation hygiene, fire-and-forget observability, retry/shutdown
semantics, and audit-row coverage across 9 modules. Highlights:
Cancellation & lifecycle:
- AuditLog-006: SqliteAuditWriter.Dispose hops to thread pool, escaping the
captured SyncContext that risked sync-over-async deadlock.
- AuditLog-010: SiteAuditTelemetryActor owns a private lifecycle CTS,
threaded through drain paths instead of CancellationToken.None.
- Comm-019: CentralCommunicationActor adds lifecycle CTS for repo calls.
- Host-019: Migration StartupRetry forwards ApplicationStopping so SIGTERM
during the bounded-retry window aborts cleanly.
Cursor / retry / counter correctness:
- AuditLog-004: SiteAuditReconciliationActor's cursor now holds at `since`
when any row's idempotent insert is still being retried (per-EventId
retry counter, MaxPermanentInsertAttempts=5 escape valve with LogCritical
abandon). No more silent abandonment of permanently-failing rows.
- ConfigDB-019: Dropped the catch-and-continue on EnsureLookaheadAsync's
SPLIT loop — by class-doc construction the catch could only mask real
failures and let the next iteration create permanent partition holes.
- HM-017/018: HealthReportSender + CentralHealthReportLoop snapshot
per-interval counters before sending, restore via new
ISiteHealthCollector.AddIntervalCounters on transport failure so counts
aren't silently lost.
Fire-and-forget / shutdown waits:
- InboundAPI-018: AuditWriteMiddleware observes faulted audit-write tasks
via OnlyOnFaulted continuation (Warning log; response unchanged).
- SnF-024: StoreAndForwardService.StopAsync awaits in-flight retry sweep
with a bounded SweepShutdownWaitTimeout (10s).
Leak / refactor:
- Comm-021: SiteStreamGrpcServer.SubscribeInstance wraps Subscribe in its
own try/catch so a throw doesn't leak the relay actor or _activeStreams
entry.
- Comm-022: VERIFIED already-closed by Comm-016's dead-code purge.
- CLI-017: BundleCommands' three subcommands delegate to ExecuteCommandAsync
(auth-failure exit-code contract unified).
Defensive / validation:
- CLI-021: CliConfig.Load wraps file-read/JSON parse so malformed config
prints a warning and returns defaults instead of crashing the CLI.
- Host-022: ParseLevel emits stderr one-shot warning for unrecognised
MinimumLevel instead of silently coercing to Information.
- ESG-019: ExternalSystemClient sets HttpClient.Timeout=Infinite so the
per-call CTS is the sole timeout source (was clipped to 100s by .NET).
- Security-020: New SecurityOptionsValidator (IValidateOptions) rejects
empty LdapServer/LdapSearchBase with ValidateOnStart.
- DM-019: Lifecycle command timeouts now emit DisableTimedOut/EnableTimedOut/
DeleteTimedOut audit entries (mirrors DeployFailed pattern).
Plus reconciled stale per-module Open-findings counters that had drifted
from prior sessions.
20+ new regression tests across 11 test projects; build clean; affected
suites all green. README regenerated: 75 open (was 93).
Each finding is a focused validation guard or upper bound at a trust boundary.
Highlights:
- Commons-015: EncryptionMetadata ctor now validates Algorithm (AES-256-GCM
only), Kdf (PBKDF2-SHA256 only), Iterations ([100k, 10M]), non-null Salt/IV.
- Transport-004: new BundleUnlockRateLimiter (sliding-window, per-key,
singleton) wired into BundleImporter.LoadAsync; over-budget callers see
BundleUnlockRateLimitedException. Per-bundle 3-strike + per-window cap.
- ESG-022: ExternalSystemClient.InvokeHttpAsync allow-lists the documented
GET/POST/PUT/PATCH/DELETE set (case-insensitive); unknown verbs throw.
- SEL-015: SiteEventLogger queue now bounded (10k cap, DropOldest); dropped
events fault their Task and increment FailedWriteCount so the drop is
observable instead of an unbounded memory growth.
- SEL-017: EventLogQueryService clamps caller-supplied PageSize to a new
MaxQueryPageSize cap (default 500) so int.MaxValue can't OOM the host.
- SEL-020: LogEventAsync rejects severities outside {Info, Warning, Error}
(matches SQLite BINARY-collation query filter).
- InboundAPI-020: ContentType "json" check now case-insensitive
(application/JSON no longer slips through as not-json).
- InboundAPI-024: _knownBadMethods capped at 1000 entries (drops new entries
once full); per-request DB lookup remains the correctness path.
- SR-025: HandleSetStaticAttribute validates the attribute name against the
deployed config; unknown names now return Success=false instead of
leaking orphan override rows into the SQLite store.
- TE-021: MoveTemplateAsync runs the sibling-name-collision check at the
destination, mirroring TemplateFolderService.MoveFolderAsync.
- TE-022: LockEnforcer's once-locked-stays-locked rule now also covers
LockedInDerived (was previously only IsLocked).
New regression tests across 8 test projects (EncryptionMetadata, rate
limiter, ESG client allow-list, SEL bounded channel / PageSize clamp /
severity validation, InboundAPI ContentType + bad-methods cap, SiteRT
unknown-attribute, TemplateEngine MoveTemplate + LockedInDerived).
Build clean; affected suites all green. README regenerated: 93 open (was 104).
Note: a separate manual re-run was needed for the SiteEventLogging hunk
because its initial subagent's source edits never landed on disk despite
reporting success (file-collision-style failure mode).
Comm-016: delete dead HandleConnectionStateChanged + _debugSubscriptions /
_inProgressDeployments tracking + ConnectionStateChanged message record.
Disconnect detection is owned by the transport layers (gRPC keepalive PING
~25s; Ask-timeout at CommunicationService). Updates the
Component-Communication.md design doc to make that explicit.
SnF-018: NotificationForwarder.DeliverAsync now discards a corrupt buffered
payload (Warning log + return true) instead of returning false and parking
the row — honoring the design's "notifications do not park" invariant.
DM-018: reconciliation no longer force-sets Enabled, preserving an
intentional Disabled state after central failover.
ESG-018: DeliverBufferedAsync (both ExternalSystemClient + DatabaseGateway)
catches JsonException and returns false, turning a corrupt buffered row
into a parked operation instead of a retry-forever poison message.
InboundAPI-022: register ActiveNodeGate as IActiveNodeGate in the Central
DI branch so standby-node gating is actually wired up in production.
NS-019: remove orphaned NotificationDeliveryService /
INotificationDeliveryService / NotificationResult; central notification
delivery now lives entirely in NotificationOutbox.
SEL-016: normalise From/To filters to UTC before ISO-string compare so
non-UTC DateTimeOffset clients no longer get spuriously excluded events.
TE-017: include Description on attributes/alarms and a HashableConnections
projection (protocol, endpoint JSON, failover count) in the revision hash
and DiffService; staleness detection now catches description-only and
connection-endpoint edits.
Transport-001 and Transport-002 (also High) remain Open — they're being
handled in a follow-up batch because both touch BundleImporter.cs and
must serialise.
Re-applies the full 10-category checklist to every src/ project — including
first-time reviews of the four newer components (AuditLog, NotificationOutbox,
SiteCallAudit, Transport) — so the code-reviews/ index reflects today's
codebase rather than the 2026-05-16 baseline. 172 new Open findings (0
Critical, 18 High, 62 Medium, 92 Low); 481 findings total across 23 modules.
regen-readme.py now derives each module's Last reviewed + Commit from its
findings.md header instead of hard-coding 2026-05-16 / 9c60592, so future
single-module re-reviews show their own date in the Module Status table.
Resolves StoreAndForward-001, ExternalSystemGateway-001, NotificationService-001
— one systemic gap where buffered messages were persisted but never delivered,
and the active node never replicated its buffer to the standby.
Delivery handlers (ExternalSystemGateway-001 / NotificationService-001):
- AkkaHostedService registers delivery handlers for the ExternalSystem,
CachedDbWrite and Notification categories after StoreAndForwardService starts;
each resolves its scoped consumer in a fresh DI scope.
- ExternalSystemClient, DatabaseGateway and NotificationDeliveryService each
gain a DeliverBufferedAsync method: re-resolve the target and re-attempt
delivery, returning true/false/throwing per the transient-vs-permanent contract.
- EnqueueAsync gains an attemptImmediateDelivery flag; CachedCallAsync and
NotificationDeliveryService.SendAsync pass false (they already attempted
delivery themselves) so registering a handler does not dispatch twice.
Replication (StoreAndForward-001):
- ReplicationService is injected into StoreAndForwardService; a new BufferAsync
helper replicates every enqueue, and successful-retry removes and parks are
replicated too. Fire-and-forget, no-op when replication is disabled.
Tests: StoreAndForwardReplicationTests (Add/Remove/Park observed),
attemptImmediateDelivery behaviour, and DeliverBufferedAsync paths for each
consumer. Full solution builds; StoreAndForward/ExternalSystemGateway/
NotificationService suites green.
Establishes a per-module code review workflow under code-reviews/ and
records the 2026-05-16 baseline review (commit 9c60592): 241 findings
across all src/ modules (6 Critical, 46 High, 100 Medium, 89 Low).
This is the clean starting point for remediation work.
Joseph Doherty