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timers 4.4.0 (2025-02-07) raised required_ruby_version to >= 3.1. The old
'~> 4.3' constraint admits it, and the RubyGems shipped with Ruby 2.7 and
earlier cannot back off to 4.3.5 on its own, so `gem install deploy-agent`
failed outright on every supported Ruby below 3.1:
The last version of timers (~> 4.3) to support your Ruby & RubyGems
was 4.3.5. ... timers requires Ruby version >= 3.1.
Reproduced on Ruby 2.7.8 / RubyGems 3.1.6 with a clean GEM_HOME before the
change, and resolving to timers-4.3.5 after it. required_ruby_version stays
at '>= 2.7', so the upper bound holds until that moves past 3.1.
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The CA every shipped agent pins expires 2027-03-17. Trusting a replacement root is only half of mutual TLS: an agent also has to hold a client certificate issued by that root before the old one expires, or the backend rejects it whatever it trusts (deployhq/deployhq#1202). Renewal is agent-initiated on every connect and server-decided. Two new tunnel commands, identical in the backend and in network-agent: 8 COMMAND_RENEW_REQUEST agent -> server, payload "ruby/<version>" 9 COMMAND_RENEW_RESPONSE server -> agent, payload [status:1][body] 0 renewed (body = new certificate, PEM) 1 current (no body) 2 error (body = message) The request goes out once per connection, straight after the handshake. The server never sends 9 unsolicited, and agents that predate this change already ignore unknown command bytes, so nothing regresses for them. DeployAgent::CertificateRenewal validates before it writes, and writes nothing at all unless every check passes: the replacement must pair with the agent.key we already hold (renewal re-signs our public key, it never re-keys us), must carry the same subject and serial the backend identifies us by, and must chain to a CA in the bundled ca.crt. It is then swapped in with a 0600 temp file, fsync and rename(2). That strictness is deliberate. A bad agent.crt is unrecoverable in the field: Agent#run gives up and exits the process after four consecutive SSL errors, so a renewal that "mostly" works would take the agent down for good. Every failure path here logs and keeps the working certificate instead, and nothing renewal-related is allowed to escape rx_data. On success the connection is closed so the existing ServerDisconnected retry reconnects and presents the new certificate. A certificate identical to the one already installed is treated as a no-op rather than a renewal, so a server that keeps answering 0 cannot spin the agent through a reconnect loop. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_011XaiFEqsyQGcLhRmBtKRFA
CertificateRenewal is driven against CAs generated into a tmpdir, so the happy path is a real re-signature: same subject, same serial, same public key, new issuer. Each rejection - wrong key, wrong serial, wrong subject, untrusted issuer, unparseable PEM, empty and nil payloads - asserts the existing agent.crt is still byte-identical afterwards and that no temp file was left behind. ServerConnection is exercised through the real rx_data dispatch loop with a pre-filled receive buffer, so no socket, handshake or Deploy server is needed. Statuses 0, 1 and 2 are covered, along with a rejected certificate, an unexpected error inside the handler, an unknown status byte and an unknown command byte. Everything except a successful renewal must leave the connection up, and a trailing benign frame proves the stream stayed in sync. The CA bundle spec reads ca.crt the way ca_file does - every certificate in the file, order irrelevant - asserts at least one is present and that each is a self-signed root, and prints the subjects and expiry dates so a bundle change is visible in the test output. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_011XaiFEqsyQGcLhRmBtKRFA
`bundle exec rspec` resolves dependencies from the checkout, never the way a customer's `gem install` does, so CI stayed green for months while the gem was uninstallable on every Ruby below 3.1. Build it and install it for real on the oldest Ruby the gemspec claims to support, then run the executable it puts on PATH. Gated on for release: a gem nobody can install should not be published. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_011XaiFEqsyQGcLhRmBtKRFA
Adds an Upgrading section - `gem install` plus `deploy-agent restart`, with the reason `gem update` is the wrong command here - and a customer-facing note on what in-band certificate renewal does, that it needs no action, that it can never leave the agent with a broken certificate, and what the 2027 deadline means for anyone who does not upgrade. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_011XaiFEqsyQGcLhRmBtKRFA
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Priority: ➖ Normal Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes Change: Feature Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant ServerConnection
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ServerConnection->>RenewalServer: request certificate renewal
RenewalServer-->>ServerConnection: return renewal response
ServerConnection->>CertificateRenewal: install replacement PEM
CertificateRenewal->>CertificateFile: validate and atomically replace certificate
CertificateRenewal-->>ServerConnection: return changed certificate or nil
ServerConnection->>ServerConnection: close connection after successful renewal
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spec/deploy_agent/certificate_renewal_spec.rb (1)
210-210: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low valueUse a single-quoted invalid payload fixture.
This fixture does not need interpolation. Use a single-quoted literal to meet the Ruby string convention.
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- let(:offered_pem) { "-----BEGIN CERTIFICATE-----\nnot base64 at all\n-----END CERTIFICATE-----\n" } + let(:offered_pem) { 'not a certificate' }As per coding guidelines: "Use single quotes for strings in Ruby code."
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210-245: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low valueUse single-quoted strings throughout the changed Ruby code.
lib/deploy_agent/server_connection.rb#L210-L245: convert literals to single quotes and use formatting where interpolation is required.lib/deploy_agent/certificate_renewal.rb#L52-L121: convert error messages and the temporary filename format to single-quoted forms.spec/deploy_agent/server_connection_spec.rb#L41-L92: use a single-quoted heredoc for the PEM and formatting for the version string.As per coding guidelines: “Use single quotes for strings in Ruby code.”
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20-20: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low valueAdd empty lines inside the exception class.
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In `@spec/ca_bundle_spec.rb`:
- Line 31: Update the CA certificate assertion around certificate.verify to also
require certificate.subject == certificate.issuer and a basicConstraints
extension indicating CA:TRUE, while preserving the existing signature
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In `@lib/deploy_agent/certificate_renewal.rb`:
- Line 20: Update the InvalidCertificate class declaration to include empty
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spec/deploy_agent/server_connection_spec.rb lines 41-92, use a single-quoted PEM
heredoc and format the version string.
In `@spec/deploy_agent/certificate_renewal_spec.rb`:
- Line 210: Update the offered_pem fixture to use a single-quoted Ruby string
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The trust store was built with its default purpose, which accepts any
certificate that merely chains to a trusted root. A replacement that paired
with the agent key, kept subject and serial and chained to a bundled CA but
carried an extendedKeyUsage or keyUsage ruling out client auth would pass
every check, get written over agent.crt, and then be refused by the server
on every reconnect - exactly the unrecoverable state the validation exists
to prevent.
Pin the store to PURPOSE_SSL_CLIENT, which is what the agent actually
presents the certificate as. Measured on Ruby 2.7.8 / OpenSSL 1.1.1t, same
CA and key pair throughout, only the leaf's extensions varying:
default PURPOSE_SSL_CLIENT
no extensions at all accepted accepted
extendedKeyUsage=clientAuth accepted accepted
extendedKeyUsage=serverAuth (crit) accepted rejected
keyUsage=keyEncipherment (crit) accepted rejected
Real agent certificates carry no extensions at all, so the purpose does not
narrow what we accept today - the first row is the one that matters, and it
has its own spec so nobody tightens this into a regression later.
The error message now covers both ways the store can refuse (untrusted
issuer, unusable purpose) and carries the store's own reason.
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A valid self-signature only proves the certificate's key matches its own signature; it says nothing about whether the certificate is allowed to act as a trust anchor. Also assert that each certificate in ca.crt is issued to itself and carries basicConstraints CA:TRUE, so a bundle that gains a leaf or a cross-signed intermediate during the CA rotation fails here rather than at an agent's next handshake. Reported by CodeRabbit on #24. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_011XaiFEqsyQGcLhRmBtKRFA
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94-94: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick winVerify serialization of certificate writers.
validate!reads and compares the current certificate before Line 94. If another local writer replacesagent.crtbefore this rename, this rename can silently overwrite the newer certificate. Confirm that every writer holds a shared interprocess lock from validation through replacement. If that is not guaranteed, add that coordination.Based on learnings, atomic replacement does not prevent a concurrent writer from changing the destination after validation.
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The CLI banner, README and post-install message all said deploy-agent "will not receive further updates" -- in the release that exists to ship one. Keep the deprecation and the pointer to network-agent; drop the promise this release breaks. Also replace "run `deploy-agent run -v` to watch this happen": a successful renewal is logged at the default level, so -v is not needed, and the README now says where to look. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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🟡 Minor · Track temporary-file ownership before cleanup. · lib/deploy_agent/certificate_renewal.rb:83-99
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Appends the public certificate of the CA that agent certificates are issued under from the rotation onwards: CN=DeployHQ Agent CA, O=DeployHQ, valid until 2036-09-15 SHA256 4D:96:83:F0:CA:37:C8:4F:4A:52:E5:0E:E9:4E:61:5F:3B:CD:37:3A:29:F1:0B:5E:87:BE:C5:87:26:57:C7:6C The current CA stays first and unchanged. With both in the bundle this build accepts a renewed certificate and trusts the agent server whichever of the two signs its certificate. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Ruby-gem half of the agent CA rotation (deployhq/deployhq#1202; backend: deployhq/deployhq#1211). The agent CA expires 2027-03-17. This release lets the gem trust a second CA and obtain a re-issued client certificate over its existing tunnel — customers only
gem install deploy-agent && deploy-agent restart.What it does
timers ~> 4.3admitstimers 4.4.0(Ruby ≥ 3.1), and the RubyGems shipped with Ruby ≤ 2.7 cannot back off — so todaygem install deploy-agentfails on 2.7 andgem updatereports "already up-to-date" while leaving 1.2.1 in place (reproduced in Docker on 2.3–3.1). Pinned to>= 4.3, < 4.4; a new CI job installs the built gem on Ruby 2.7 to keep it fixed.ruby/<version>); the server answers command 9 (0renewed + PEM ·1current ·2error). A renewed cert is installed only if it pairs with the existingagent.key, keeps subject and serial, and chains to the shipped CA bundle — then written atomically and the agent reconnects. Any failure keeps the working cert (a badagent.crtwould kill the agent after four SSL retries, so nothing is written unless every check passes).gem install, notgem update.Before release
ca.crtholds both CAs — the current one andCN=DeployHQ Agent CA(until 2036-09-15, SHA2564D:96:83…57:C7:6C).Compatibility
Additive wire protocol (commands 1–7 unchanged; the current backend ignores 8). CLI, config files and
~/.deployuntouched.required_ruby_versionstays>= 2.7; older hosts swap tonetwork-agent.Tests
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