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v0.5.0 — 2026-08-10
Minor bump: sixteen findings (M1–M5, L1–L11) from the v0.4.0 independent code review. Four
are CONSUMER-VISIBLE (read documentation/upgrading.md before upgrading); the rest are
internal hardening.
Independent code-review fixes (M1–M5, L1–L11): sixteen findings from the v0.4.0 independent code review, landed in four surface-cohesive clusters:
- M1 — bounded callback context: verifier/mint/scope callbacks now receive exactly
%{resource:, action:}(the prior code ran a deadMap.take(trusted_context, [:keys, :now])and threaded caller actor/tenant that no callback read; both dead paths removed). Least-privilege contract pinned by an admission test. - M2 — reserved-input compile check now matches the runtime guard (CONSUMER-VISIBLE): a protected
resource declaring a reserved-named attribute (
:key/:issued_at/...) with no accept now fails to compile (previously caught only at runtime byreject_reserved/1). Rename any such attribute (e.g.:idempotency_key). - M3 —
@reservedsingle-source: the reserved-input list is nowAshOnetime.reserved_verification_inputs/0, shared by the transformer (compile-time) andAdmission.reject_reserved/1(runtime); the two copies can no longer drift. - M4 — verifier defense-in-depth: the Spark verifier now re-asserts strategy in
[:idempotency, :one_time_nonce], non-nil scope, non-nil key (mirroring the transformer), catching a transformer regression before runtime. - M5 — clock override gate:
@allow_test_clock_override(Mix.env() == :test, deployment-fragile) replaced byApplication.compile_env(:ash_onetime, :allow_clock_override, false)— the verify-side:clockoverride is off by default in every build; the test suite opts in viaconfig/test.exs. - L1 — constant-time comparator consolidated onto
:crypto.hash_equals/2(the hand-rolled XOR-reduce is gone); theverify/3rescue is documented as load-bearing for wrong-length signatures (hash_equals/2raises on unequal length — verified empirically). - L2 — reap floor enforced at the guard:
reap/3rejects sub-86_400 callers with:invalid_request(no DB round-trip) instead of the migration's22023misclassified as:store_invariant. - L3 — per-tenant advisory lock: the partition-roll lock key is derived per-prefix, so
distinct tenants roll concurrently (within-tenant serialization preserved). Cannot
reintroduce a
CREATE PARTITION OFrace (per-schema partitions, distinct OIDs). - L4 — dedicated
:ash_onetime_partitionsOban queue (CONSUMER-VISIBLE):PartitionWorkermoves off the shared cleanup queue so forward partition creation (retention-safety) does not compete with routine cleanup under saturation. Operators must configure the queue.documentation/operations.mdupdated. - L5 — worker error tuples carry the inner reason (CONSUMER-VISIBLE):
{:error, :tag}→{:error, {:tag, reason}}so the distinguishable store cause survives Oban exhaustion. Consumers pattern-matching the old bare atom must update to the 2-tuple inner shape. - L6 — store-transaction exception telemetry:
committed_claim_transactionrescue emits[:ash_onetime, :uncertain_exception]with the exception class before collapsing to:dispatched_unknown. Telemetry-only posture preserved (no Logger). - L7 — cache key length-prefix: defense-in-depth framing for the cache key (today's fixed-32-byte components have no ambiguity; the framing future-proofs against a variable-length change).
- L8 — roll_forward OID scoping: the
_defaultpartition OID subquery is now namespace-scoped (pg_namespace), matching the schema-scoped existence checks. - L9 — change/generic_action dedup:
dispatch_reservation/trusted_context/unavailable_errorhoisted toAdmission(the near-verbatim duplicates removed). - L10 — ensure_callbacks cycle diagnostic:
Code.ensure_compilednow distinguishes the:unavailable/:module_unavailablecycle case with clear ordering guidance. - L11 —
prepare/3spec dead arm removed (theResult.t()arm never matched); dialyzer confirmed the downstreamstore_error/1was dead code and it was removed.
- M1 — bounded callback context: verifier/mint/scope callbacks now receive exactly
Replay read prunes to the claim's payload partition (H1): the idempotency replay read path (
load_payload/2) now constrains itsash_onetime_response_payloadsquery bypartition_dateas well asclaim_id, turning a replay of a completed claim into a primary-key point lookup on the single monthly child partition instead of a scan of every monthly partition. The cost of a replay no longer grows with partition count (retention age). No behavior change on the authoritative path — the returned payload and the digest/partition-mismatch failure arms are unchanged. One incidental property changes: the read no longer detects a stray payload row in a different partition from the claim's authoritative one (this is necessarily dropped by partition pruning); cross-partition cardinality remains enforced at write time (update_complete) and re-asserted by the cleanup delete guard. ADR-0001 gains a read-path performance subsection. The production predicate is pinned by a registered mutation test; an EXPLAIN-based mechanism proof documents the pruning directly.
v0.4.0 — 2026-08-09
Hardening, ops-readiness, and enhancement release. No breaking contract change for existing
consumers — the minor bump carries new public observability surfaces (the telemetry default
attach helper, the :worker_timeout result class, the ETS cache reference adapter) and the
span-events-out-of-scope decision. Existing consumers are unchanged; all new surfaces are
opt-in.
- External-recovery adversarial-absence proof (H10): a test proving the re-execution
invariant against a lying-
:absentadapter, plus a normative section indocumentation/external-effects.mdstating the adapter MUST prove absence and the peer MUST enforce idempotency by operation key. No runtime guard — the trust is inherent to the design (ADR-0001). The library's:absenttrust is safe against a correct peer. - Worker timeout distinguished from disconnect (H11): the committed-claim worker's 30s
timeout now surfaces as a distinct
:worker_timeoutresult_class on[:ash_onetime, :store_uncertainty], separate from:disconnectedand:unknown. All three fail closed; the distinction is operational triage (pool/lock contention vs network partition). - Oban worker backoff + discard alert (H20, ADR-0005): the three maintenance workers
(Cleanup, Partition, Reap) declare a bounded, jittered
backoff/1(30–120 s) instead of the default exponential, so transient failures retry within the retention window. A documented discard-alert SQL names the operational signal for a stranded partition roll. - Telemetry default attach handler (H21):
AshOnetime.Telemetry.attach/0— an opt-in helper routing the closed event surface into a downstream:metricstream for a consumer's own aggregator. Notelemetry_metricsdependency; the value-free invariant is preserved. - Telemetry span structure (H22): documented that the library emits point events only
(never span events), with the reason (
:telemetry.span/3cannot preserve the value-free invariant — it force-injectstelemetry_span_contextand fires:exceptioninside the span before any caller rescue) and a recommended consumer-applied:telemetry.span/3wrapper. - Operations runbook (H23): three named procedures (backlog-stuck, partition-discard-detected, pool-saturated) with exact SQL/telemetry queries.
- ETS cache reference adapter (H30):
AshOnetime.Cache.Ets— bounded, TTL-aware, supervised, no third-party dependency. Makes the cache-degradation path reachable without a Redis dependency. - Admission unit tests (H31), key_source/claim property tests (H32): direct test coverage for the pure decision functions and the security-boundary invariants (the suite grows from 500 to 553 tests).
- Runtime security-surface docs (H33):
@docontoken.ex,key_source.ex,fingerprint.ex,telemetry.expublic functions. - CI-matrix-asserted compatibility documented (H34): CONTRIBUTING names the CI matrix as the guard against transitive semantic drift (not the dep bounds).
v0.3.0 — 2026-08-09
Security release: raises the Ash floor to the CVE-patched 3.31.1 and makes the architecture census robust to dependency framework-injection drift. Breaking dependency change — consumers on Ash 3.29.3–3.31.0 must bump Ash to ≥ 3.31.1 (the library is pre-1.0, so the minor version carries the break per the documented convention).
- Ash floor raised to 3.31.1 (from 3.29.3). EEF-CVE-2026-70395 (predicate injection in
manage_relationshipbelongs_to lookup disclosing secret lookup keys) and EEF-CVE-2026-69659 (memory exhaustion via unbounded keyset-cursor deserialization) affect Ash below 3.31.1; both are patched in 3.31.1.mix hex.audit— a required gate — now fails on the 3.29.3 lock. Consumers pinned to Ash 3.29.3–3.31.0 must bump Ash to ≥ 3.31.1. See ADR-0004 (Security-driven Ash floor). The CI matrix narrows from[3.29.3, 3.30.1, latest]to[3.31.1, latest]. - Export census version-tolerance (test harness): the documented public-export census no
longer breaks on Splode/Ash framework-injection drift. It derives each module's
project-authored exports from its own source AST, so framework-injected functions (e.g.
Splode 0.3.2's
keyword_list_options?/0) are auto-classified rather than hand-maintained, and the census guards exactly the project-owned public surface. This fixed a CI failure present since v0.1.0 across all Ash-matrix cells. Also fixes a seed-dependent flake in the ARCH-1 Splode-membership assertion (force-loads the module before the check).
v0.2.0 — 2026-08-09
Feature release: the DPoP replay fence, forward response-partition maintenance (SEC-5/6), and notebook-per-concern docs. New user-facing capabilities (minor bump); no contract break since v0.1.1 — existing consumers are unchanged, all new surfaces are opt-in.
- DPoP replay fence (admission): add
commit: :independent(default:with_action) on:one_time_nonceprotections. When set, the nonce claim commits in its own transaction before the action body runs (via the existingclaim_committedworker), so a body failure cannot make the proof reusable — RFC 9449 §11.1 request-attempt scope. A reused proof within the acceptance window is rejected with:nonce_already_usedvia the existing collision path. Opt-in: existing nonce consumers are byte-for-byte unchanged. Rejected (compile error) on:idempotency. No new table, migration, error code, or telemetry event. See ADR-0003 (Independent-commit nonce). Operational note: theclaim_committedworker uses a +1 connection checkout per in-flight protected request and a 30s timeout (fails closed); size the pool accordingly. - SEC-5 (data-layer): add forward monthly
response_payloadspartition creation (Store.roll_partitions/2,mix ash_onetime.roll_partitions,AshOnetime.Oban.PartitionWorker) plus a one-time forward migration (mix ash_onetime.gen.roll_forward). The install migration generates a fixed 13-month window; once retention exceeds it, payloads routed to_defaultand were never dropped (the drop path excludes_default), silently defeating bounded retention (ADR-0001:65 "reuse after retention is a new execution"). The roll keeps the window ahead of retention; the forward migration back-fills elapsed partitions, adds the index, and drains past-retention payloads stranded in_defaultvia a claim-scoped delete. The roll is idempotent and concurrency-safe (advisory-locked, boundedlock_timeout). Existing installs run the forward migration once. - SEC-6 (data-layer): add an index on
ash_onetime_idempotency_claims(response_partition). Cleanup's partition-empty check was a full scan per partition per cycle. - Telemetry: add
:partitions_createdto the[:ash_onetime, :cleanup]event's result-class enum (closed-schema extension, pinned by a mutation fixture). See Telemetry.
v0.1.1 — 2026-08-08
Adoption polish: a runnable Livebook walkthrough, richer Igniter installer, and adoption docs. No contract change; safe minor bump from v0.1.0.
- Add runnable Livebook notebooks — one per
concern (idempotency, one-time nonces, external recovery) — covering fresh execution, replay,
fingerprint conflict, nonce spend/reuse, and the external-effect protocol end-to-end against a
real PostgreSQL. Each notebook's code is regression-pinned by
test/ash_onetime/livebook_walkthrough_test.exs. - Extend the Igniter installer with a repeatable
--resource MyApp.MyResourceflag that wiresAshOnetime.Resourceinto a resource and scaffolds a starteronetimeblock. Non-resource targets and missing modules are rejected loudly instead of silently no-op'ing. - Add adoption docs: Recipes, Telemetry, Upgrading, and FAQ. Add a README "When to use this vs. hand-rolled idempotency" section and a "Try it" livebook pointer.
- Reorder Getting started to lead with the consumer quickstart (install → protect → handle the result); move the test-DB harness to CONTRIBUTING. Fix the stale "not published yet" line (the package is live on Hex).
v0.1.0 — 2026-08-08
- Breaking (DSL): collapse the dual
limitssurface into a singleprotect-level vocabulary. Response-size limits can no longer be declared on theresponseentity (response ..., limits: [...]); declare them onprotectinstead. Theprotect limits:option now accepts the full 11-key union vocabulary:max_key_bytes,max_token_bytes,max_scope_components,max_fingerprint_bytes,verifier_timeout_ms,max_cache_entry_bytes(key/verification/cache paths), andmax_response_bytes,max_response_depth,max_response_nodes,max_response_entries,max_response_scalar_bytes(response payload). All keys are validated at compile time. To migrate, move anyresponse ..., limits: [max_response_*: ...]keys ontoprotect ..., limits: [...]. - Make
AshOnetime.Errora Splode error of class:invalidso Ash recognizes it and preserves the typed:codethrough the action pipeline. Before, a protected-action failure was wrapped asAsh.Error.Unknown.UnknownErrorand the code (e.g.:nonce_already_used,:key_reused_with_different_request) was lost before it could reach the caller. AddAshOnetime.Error.code/1to recover the code from a leaf or class wrapper. Seedocumentation/errors.mdfor the code→HTTP table. - Add a caller-visible replayed-vs-fresh signal. After
Ash.create/2/Ash.run_action/2returns,AshOnetime.replayed?/1reports whether the result was a stored replay (true), a fresh execution (false), or carries no signal (nil— untracked execution, primitive-return action, or unprotected). The signal rides__metadata__[:ash_onetime]for tracked admission classes;:untrackedis deliberately not stamped to preserve untracked transparency. Seedocumentation/replay.md. - Broaden the Ash dependency requirement from
~> 3.29.0(only 3.29.x) to>= 3.29.3 and < 4.0.0, so the package installs across the whole Ash 3.x line. The floor is 3.29.3, not 3.29.0: EEF-CVE-2026-55736 (private action arguments settable by user input) affects Ash 3.29.0–3.29.2 and is fixed in 3.29.3. - Add a CI compatibility matrix (
.github/workflows/ci.yml), configured to run the full gate battery — includingmix hex.audit— against the 3.29.3 floor, each intermediate minor, and a floatinglatestAsh 3.x cell on every push and pull request once the repository is pushed to a GitHub remote. - Establish the standalone Mix package, PostgreSQL 18 test harness, package boundary checks, accepted architecture decision, and project documentation.
- Add the per-action Spark resource DSL, normalized introspection, precompile rejection boundary, fail-closed runtime stubs, compile-fixture battery, and mutation proofs.
- Add PostgreSQL-authoritative idempotency and one-time nonce admission with exact operation, scope, key, fingerprint, transaction, and failure-direction invariants.
- Add transactional CRUD and generic-action execution, classified typed response persistence,
digest-bound replay, and replay-safe lifecycle enforcement. The response contract digest binds
the codec options, so stored bytes cannot be reinterpreted under changed options; replayed
results carry the same
selected/tenantmetadata as a first execution. - Enforce the configurable
max_scope_components,max_fingerprint_bytes, andmax_response_byteslimit overrides at their declared values, not only their package ceilings. - Add bounded canonical encoding, HMAC-SHA-256 and Ed25519 signing, trusted verification facts, self-identifying tokens, and inclusive nonce windows.
- Add committed external-effect recovery points, stable peer operation keys, conservative ambiguous-outcome handling, and crash recovery.
- Add unpartitioned and operation-hash-partitioned claim layouts, date-partitioned response payloads, strict bounded cleanup, deletion guards, the prune task, and optional Oban cleanup.
- Add PostgreSQL-gated cache degradation, optional Plug header extraction, closed value-free telemetry, deterministic Igniter installation, and migration generation.
- Add system, architecture, mutation, documentation, exact Hex archive, unpacked consumer, and dependency audit release gates, run on the pinned Elixir 1.20.2 / Erlang/OTP 29 runtime.