Four-minor jump 0.2.3 → 0.6.2. The release line exists because a deploy
renaming the app directory took the MxGateway credential store with it
(2026-08-09, two silent days): Secrets:SqlitePath must now be absolute AND
outside the content root, rejected at boot rather than relocated. 0.6.2 over
0.6.1 is message-only (the rejection text now teaches the mounted-volume
case and forecloses the override hunt) — the live rig evidence below was
gathered at 0.6.1 and the validator behavior is identical.
Adoption changes beyond the pins:
- appsettings.json drops the relative "otopcua-secrets.db" (now boot-fatal);
dev gets the library's absolute per-user default, deployments supply their
own (wonder already pins an absolute out-of-root path in the service env).
- Program.cs's pre-host ${secret:} expander now calls the FOUR-argument
AddZbSecrets with builder.Environment.ContentRootPath. This call site is
the actual fix, not the pin: the throwaway container has no
IHostEnvironment, and without the explicit root the under-content-root
rule is skipped at exactly the moment the migrator creates the store file
(the 0.6.0 defect). Do NOT simplify back to the 3-argument overload — it
compiles and silently reopens the gap. Pinned by a Program.cs source-scan
test AND a runtime falsification control that RUNS the migration and
demonstrably creates the store at the rejected path under the 3-arg form.
- docker-dev: Secrets__SqlitePath moves /app/data → /data via a SECOND mount
of the same per-node volume (same file at the volume root, so seeded
stores carry over) because /app is the container's content root and the
new rule correctly rejects it. LocalDb stays on /app/data (secrets-only
rule).
- SecretsStorePathValidationTests: positive-control probes, artifact-first
(relative and in-content-root paths must FAIL leaving no file; outside-
root passes; the no-explicit-root control proves the file assertions can
fail) — a clean boot is equally consistent with the validator never being
wired.
Live-verified on the six-node docker-dev rig (at 0.6.1): all nodes boot
under the new validation with stores at /data; an AdminUI-written secret
converged into BOTH central nodes' independent stores; site-a held only its
own pair's secrets (Phase 6 pair-local isolation intact). Replicator wire
behavior unchanged 0.3.0–0.6.x per CHANGELOG; registration-graph pins and
the full suite pass.
Joseph Doherty
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