Codebase-wide review pass: finish or remove every loose end, take the
safe performance wins on the serving hot paths, and refresh the
dependency tree for reliability. No behavior changes for working
clients; legacy clients get clearer protocol errors.
Finalize / cleanup:
- Remove mac_allowlist/subnet_allowlist config fields — parsed but never
enforced since introduction; the operator wants line-of-sight serving,
so the honest fix is deletion, not wiring.
- Remove dead ClientRegistry API (get, set_selected_target,
always-None selected_target field, never-emitted DhcpRequest/
HttpIsoAsset events).
- TFTP: reject WRQ with ERR_ILLEGAL_OP and non-octet modes with a clear
error instead of silent timeouts (legacy-client friendliness); fold
plan_window into cfg(test); drop the unused-constant keep-alive hack.
- rustfmt sweep over the six files with accumulated drift.
Hot-path optimizations (all behavior-preserving):
- Serve embedded iPXE binaries zero-copy (Cow over rodata) on both TFTP
and HTTP — was a ~1 MiB heap copy per boot file request.
- Cache the composited PXE boot-menu background PNG keyed on the
branding logo revision — was ~50-200 ms of image work per booting
client; now one compose per logo change.
- Run bcrypt verify/hash on the blocking pool (boot password gate,
login, setup, credential rotation) so CPU-heavy auth can't stall the
workers streaming ISO ranges to imaging machines.
- iso_raw: reuse the already-cloned IsoMeta for path resolution instead
of a second registry lock + deep clone per range request.
- DriverEscalation: amortize the TTL sweep (1-min interval + inline
staleness check) instead of an O(map) retain per DHCP packet.
- format_mac: one allocation instead of four per datagram.
- Introspection haystack sized to min(scan cap, file size) — was
guaranteed a 32 MiB realloc on every large-ISO probe.
Robustness:
- parse_range: malformed Range headers are now ignored per RFC 7233
(200 + full body) instead of answered with a bogus 206.
Dependencies:
- dhcproto 0.12 -> 0.15: drops the deprecated/unmaintained
trust-dns-proto from the tree (hickory-proto), three releases of DHCP
option coverage. Compiles + passes the full suite unchanged.
- socket2 0.6 (dedupes tree), bcrypt 0.19, tower-http 0.6.11 (sheds
iri-string), tokio 1.52.3 / hyper 1.10 lockfile refresh; dead nom
workspace entry removed; requested versions synced to shipped reality.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <[email protected]>
Mirrors the worthwhile device-support wins from iVentoy 1.0.24→1.0.35 onto our
(very different) proxy-DHCP + iPXE-chainload architecture. iVentoy's other
changes are inapplicable (arm64-server / distro-display fixes live in its
injected Linux, which we don't have), niche (iSCSI), or closed-source
(Matrix Boot).
iPXE refreshed (mirrors 1.0.35 "Update iPXE")
- Pin the from-source build to ipxe/ipxe master @ 2026-06-09
(95ffbf4745553e8a207922389929e1943c0237c0) — newer NIC drivers + EFI fixes.
The pin also busts the cached ipxe-build Docker layer so the release
actually recompiles iPXE; build-ipxe.sh now shallow-fetches an exact SHA.
Automatic NIC driver fallback (mirrors 1.0.34 "driver/boot-file mode" — but
no operator toggle, per request)
- New DriverMode {Firmware, Builtin} in core; ClientArch::ipxe_bootfile_mode
maps each arch to either the firmware-net build (snponly/undionly, default)
or the all-drivers build (ipxe.efi/ipxe.pxe/ipxe-i386.efi/ipxe-arm64.efi).
- The DHCP proxy serves Firmware by default — byte-for-byte unchanged, so
hardware that boots today never regresses. A new DriverEscalation state
machine watches for the tell-tale failure: a MAC re-PXE-boots (fresh
firmware DISCOVER) without ever completing the iPXE-user-class handoff that
proves the firmware NIC stack worked. That MAC is automatically escalated to
iPXE's own NIC drivers, and the choice is sticky after a confirmed handoff
(debounced for the :67/:4011 same-boot pair, TTL-pruned, capped). It just
works — no settings, no UI.
- All-drivers binaries fetched per arch (ipxe.pxe + i386/arm64 native EFI;
x86_64 ipxe.efi already built from source with PNG); ipxe-assets embeds
*.pxe and logs availability per (arch, mode).
Core principles intact: DHCP-proxy-only, container-first, Rust-focused (the
logic is all Rust; only the iPXE fetch/build stays shell), Windows hard-rules
untouched (this never goes near Windows boot).
Validation: clippy clean; full workspace test suite green (core 99 incl. new
DriverMode tests, dhcp-proxy +4 escalation tests, http-api 31+68, iso-store
61, tftp 6, bin 2); fmt-clean.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <[email protected]>
This is the bulk pre-beta cleanup pass. Bumps the workspace to 0.2.0.
Test count is 56 -> 66 (+10), clippy is fully clean across the
workspace (was several dozen warnings).
## New features
**Per-MAC host bindings** (Tinkerbell smee pattern). New
`HostBindings` registry maps a MAC -> preferred boot target, persisted
to <work_dir>/hosts.json. The DHCP reply now embeds `?mac=${mac}` in
the boot.ipxe URL; iPXE substitutes the literal MAC client-side, so
the HTTP layer can short-circuit straight to the bound target instead
of rendering the menu. Reserved menu shortcuts (`_local`, `_gate`,
`_tools_menu`) are valid targets too. New /api/hosts CRUD + a Hosts
tab in the sidebar.
**Prometheus `/metrics`** endpoint. Tiny lock-free implementation —
just AtomicU64s and a Display impl, no `prometheus` / `metrics-rs`
dep. Counters: DHCP replies (per arch label), DHCP declined, TFTP
transfers (per status), TFTP bytes, HTTP requests (per route).
Gauges: ISO count, client count, gate count, gate-imaging, NFS active
mounts, uptime, build info. Plain text exposition format,
text/plain;version=0.0.4 content-type, no auth (all metric values are
non-sensitive counts).
**Light + dark themes**. CSS tokens on `:root` and
`:root[data-theme=light]`, swap by toggle button (top-right) or `T`
hotkey. Persisted in localStorage; pre-paint inline script avoids
dark<->light flash. Light palette designed against the Netbox Labs
reference screenshot — near-white surfaces, soft grey dividers,
accent unchanged for brand consistency. Terminal pane stays dark in
both themes (it's a console, that's the right read).
**Animated SVG logo + forge widget**. New `logo.svg` is a refined
silver/grey anvil. New `anvil-forge.svg` adds rising sparks and a
pulsing underglow via SMIL — pure SVG, no GIF, no JS animation loop.
Used:
- in the **forge progress** widget on Dashboard + Forge Gate, paired
with a `linear-gradient(warn -> accent)` bar with a moving sheen;
goes idle (greyscale, no sheen) at zero imaging load
- in the page-load `<div class=loader>` that replaces the old
"Loading..." text
## Code cleanup pass
`cargo clippy --workspace --all-targets` is now warning-free. Spot
fixes across the tree:
- `format!()`-into-`String` -> `std::fmt::Write::write!`
- manual reverse comparators -> `Reverse`
- `map_or(false, ...)` -> `is_some_and`
- redundant closures -> method references
- `r#"..."#` raw strings without `"` -> `r"..."`
- `std::io::Error::new(Other, ...)` -> `Error::other`
- `as i32` on `c.id()` -> `cast_signed()`
- merged identical match arms
## Windows workflow validation
New integration test synthesizes an ISO9660 with the SOURCES\\BOOT.WIM
sentinel, uploads it, asserts:
1. introspection labels it `windows_pe` with has_boot_wim=true,
2. the boot entry is `BootKind::Wimboot` with all five canonical
files (bootmgr, bootmgr.efi, bcd, boot.sdi, boot.wim),
3. the rendered iPXE script chains wimboot with `initrd --name`
entries for each file, and
4. NO trust-store strings appear in the rendered output: bcdedit,
testsigning, certutil, httpdisk, and test-signed are all
explicitly forbidden as a hard guarantee.
WinPE bootstrap (startnet.cmd) picks up the Bootimus v0.1.58 lessons:
explicit `net start Workstation` before `net use` to avoid the SMB
client lazy-init race, and surfaces errors instead of blind retries.
## Docs
architecture.md gains a "Phase 5" section explaining the host-bindings
+ metrics + theming + Windows-test work, plus a refreshed "deferred
to Phase 6" list (real-hardware integration, autounattend library,
distro profile manifest, WoL trigger, syslog receiver, IPv6).
README updates the status line, the "what it does" list, and adds
the new Hosts/Terminal tab names.
