This updates our logging framework from legacy freetext strings using
the `log` package to structured log entries using `log/slog`. I have
updated all INFO or higher level entries, but not yet DEBUG (😓)... So,
at a high level:
There is a slight change in log levels, effectively adding a new warning
level:
- DEBUG is still debug (ideally not for users but developers, though
this is something we need to work on)
- INFO is still info, though I've added more data here, effectively
making Syncthing more verbose by default (more on this below)
- WARNING is a new log level that is different from the _old_ WARNING
(more below)
- ERROR is what was WARNING before -- problems that must be dealt with,
and also bubbled as a popup in the GUI.
A new feature is that the logging level can be set per package to
something other than just debug or info, and hence I feel that we can
add a bit more things into INFO while moving some (in fact, most)
current INFO level warnings into WARNING. For example, I think it's
justified to get a log of synced files in INFO and sync failures in
WARNING. These are things that have historically been tricky to debug
properly, and having more information by default will be useful to many,
while still making it possible get close to told level of inscrutability
by setting the log level to WARNING. I'd like to get to a stage where
DEBUG is never necessary to just figure out what's going on, as opposed
to trying to narrow down a likely bug.
Code wise:
- Our logging object, generally known as `l` in each package, is now a
new adapter object that provides the old API on top of the newer one.
(This should go away once all old log entries are migrated.) This is
only for `l.Debugln` and `l.Debugf`.
- There is a new level tracker that keeps the log level for each
package.
- There is a nested setup of handlers, since the structure mandated by
`log/slog` is slightly convoluted (imho). We do this because we need to
do formatting at a "medium" level internally so we can buffer log lines
in text format but with separate timestamp and log level for the API/GUI
to consume.
- The `debug` API call becomes a `loglevels` API call, which can set the
log level to `DEBUG`, `INFO`, `WARNING` or `ERROR` per package. The GUI
is updated to handle this.
- Our custom `sync` package provided some debugging of mutexes quite
strongly integrated into the old logging framework, only turned on when
`STTRACE` was set to certain values at startup, etc. It's been a long
time since this has been useful; I removed it.
- The `STTRACE` env var remains and can be used the same way as before,
while additionally permitting specific log levels to be specified,
`STTRACE=model:WARN,scanner:DEBUG`.
- There is a new command line option `--log-level=INFO` to set the
default log level.
- The command line options `--log-flags` and `--verbose` go away, but
are currently retained as hidden & ignored options since we set them by
default in some of our startup examples and Syncthing would otherwise
fail to start.
Sample format messages:
```
2009-02-13 23:31:30 INF A basic info line (attr1="val with spaces" attr2=2 attr3="val\"quote" a=a log.pkg=slogutil)
2009-02-13 23:31:30 INF An info line with grouped values (attr1=val1 foo.attr2=2 foo.bar.attr3=3 a=a log.pkg=slogutil)
2009-02-13 23:31:30 INF An info line with grouped values via logger (foo.attr1=val1 foo.attr2=2 a=a log.pkg=slogutil)
2009-02-13 23:31:30 INF An info line with nested grouped values via logger (bar.foo.attr1=val1 bar.foo.attr2=2 a=a log.pkg=slogutil)
2009-02-13 23:31:30 WRN A warning entry (a=a log.pkg=slogutil)
2009-02-13 23:31:30 ERR An error (a=a log.pkg=slogutil)
```
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Co-authored-by: Ross Smith II <ross@smithii.com>
I lately wanted some photos on my phone, and watched them sync
excrutiatingly slowly. I am used to android being slow, but not that
slow. This restriction caught my eye and I increased it beyond the
limit (didn't spot it at first), and I did see a clear improvement. Of
course as always with such a one-off test, I might also have
hallucinated it, but it seems plausible with the slow thing in android
being some layer between the actual filesystem and apps.
Also increase the max limit, mostly just because I don't see any reason
to restrict it that low - not that I have a particular reason to want
more.
I also changed the xml default to 0: The `prepare` code will change it
to the actual default - no need to change that anymore if we change the
default in the future.
* main:
refactor: use slices package for sorting (#10136)
build: handle multiple general release notes
build: no need to build on the branches that just trigger tags
* main:
build: use specific token for pushing release tags
fix(gui): update `uncamel()` to handle strings like 'IDs' (fixes#10128) (#10131)
refactor: use slices package for sort (#10132)
build: process for automatic release tags (#10133)
chore(gui, man, authors): update docs, translations, and contributors
The sort package is still used in places that were not trivial to
change. Since Go 1.21 slices package can be uswed for sort. See
https://go.dev/doc/go1.21#slices
### Purpose
Make some progress with the migration to a more up-to-date syntax.
### Purpose
Setting default configuration was not working properly since the
defaults struct is not deeply copied.
### Testing
Try running commands to change default configuration and either inspect
`config.xml` or `/rest/config` result to see the applied changed.
Example:
```
./syncthing cli config defaults folder versioning params set keep 5
```
Similarly to #10009, we will remove some discontinued STUN servers,
except instead of being the official primary server, it's some
unofficial secondary STUN servers.
### Testing
Use a STUN client (like [`pystun3`](https://pypi.org/project/pystun3))
to probe that the removed STUN servers are inactive.
### Documentation
syncthing/docs#902
The mechanism for primary STUN servers, is still intact, in case this
gets retried with a different domain.
### Purpose
As seen in [stun.syncthing.net doesn’t resolve
anymore](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/stun-syncthing-net-doesnt-resolve-anymore/24075/2?u=marbens)
on the forums, stun.syncthing.net has been shut down, so I think it's
probably a good idea to remove it.
### Testing
1. Have two or more devices
2. Disable Relaying
3. Have no Internet ports open on either end for incoming connections
trigger STUN)
4. Enable the `stun` debugging facility in the Actions -> Logs ->
Debugging Facilities
5. Verify that it doesn't output something like this within a few
seconds:
```
2025-03-30 05:51:32 Enabled debug data for "stun"
2025-03-30 05:51:47 Starting stun for Stun@udp://[::]:22000
2025-03-30 05:51:47 Running stun for Stun@udp://[::]:22000 via stun.syncthing.net:3478
2025-03-30 05:51:47 Stun@udp://[::]:22000 stun addr resolution on stun.syncthing.net:3478: lookup stun.syncthing.net: no such host
```
---------
Co-authored-by: Jakob Borg <jakob@kastelo.net>
When creating an initial default config, we usually probe for a free
TCP port. But when a UNIX socket is specified via the `STGUIADDRESS=`
override or the `--gui-address=unix:///...` command line syntax, parsing
that option will fail during port probing.
The solution is to just skip the port probing when the address is
determined to specify something other than a TCP socket.
### Testing
Start with a fresh home directory each time.
1. Specify a UNIX socket for the GUI (works with this PR):
TMPHOME=$(mktemp -d); ./syncthing --home=$TMPHOME
--gui-address=unix://$TMPHOME/socket
2. Specify no GUI address (probes for a free port if default is taken,
as before):
TMPHOME=$(mktemp -d); ./syncthing --home=$TMPHOME
3. Specify a TCP GUI address (probes whether the given port is taken,
as before):
TMPHOME=$(mktemp -d); ./syncthing --home=$TMPHOME
--gui-address=127.0.0.1:8385
At a high level, this is what I've done and why:
- I'm moving the protobuf generation for the `protocol`, `discovery` and
`db` packages to the modern alternatives, and using `buf` to generate
because it's nice and simple.
- After trying various approaches on how to integrate the new types with
the existing code, I opted for splitting off our own data model types
from the on-the-wire generated types. This means we can have a
`FileInfo` type with nicer ergonomics and lots of methods, while the
protobuf generated type stays clean and close to the wire protocol. It
does mean copying between the two when required, which certainly adds a
small amount of inefficiency. If we want to walk this back in the future
and use the raw generated type throughout, that's possible, this however
makes the refactor smaller (!) as it doesn't change everything about the
type for everyone at the same time.
- I have simply removed in cold blood a significant number of old
database migrations. These depended on previous generations of generated
messages of various kinds and were annoying to support in the new
fashion. The oldest supported database version now is the one from
Syncthing 1.9.0 from Sep 7, 2020.
- I changed config structs to be regular manually defined structs.
For the sake of discussion, some things I tried that turned out not to
work...
### Embedding / wrapping
Embedding the protobuf generated structs in our existing types as a data
container and keeping our methods and stuff:
```
package protocol
type FileInfo struct {
*generated.FileInfo
}
```
This generates a lot of problems because the internal shape of the
generated struct is quite different (different names, different types,
more pointers), because initializing it doesn't work like you'd expect
(i.e., you end up with an embedded nil pointer and a panic), and because
the types of child types don't get wrapped. That is, even if we also
have a similar wrapper around a `Vector`, that's not the type you get
when accessing `someFileInfo.Version`, you get the `*generated.Vector`
that doesn't have methods, etc.
### Aliasing
```
package protocol
type FileInfo = generated.FileInfo
```
Doesn't help because you can't attach methods to it, plus all the above.
### Generating the types into the target package like we do now and
attaching methods
This fails because of the different shape of the generated type (as in
the embedding case above) plus the generated struct already has a bunch
of methods that we can't necessarily override properly (like `String()`
and a bunch of getters).
### Methods to functions
I considered just moving all the methods we attach to functions in a
specific package, so that for example
```
package protocol
func (f FileInfo) Equal(other FileInfo) bool
```
would become
```
package fileinfos
func Equal(a, b *generated.FileInfo) bool
```
and this would mostly work, but becomes quite verbose and cumbersome,
and somewhat limits discoverability (you can't see what methods are
available on the type in auto completions, etc). In the end I did this
in some cases, like in the database layer where a lot of things like
`func (fv *FileVersion) IsEmpty() bool` becomes `func fvIsEmpty(fv
*generated.FileVersion)` because they were anyway just internal methods.
Fixes#8247
### Purpose
When generating a new `config.xml` file with default options, the GUI
address is populated with a hard-coded default value of
`127.0.0.1:8384`, except for a random free port if that default one is
occupied. This is independent from the GUI configuration default address
defined in the protobuf description. More importantly, it ignores any
`STGUIADDRESS` override given via environment variable or command-line
option, thus probing for the default port instead of the one specified
via override.
The `ProbeFreePorts()` function now respects the override, by reading
the `GUIConfiguration.Address()` method instead of using hard-coded
defaults.
When not calling `ProbeFreePorts()`, the override should still be
persisted rather than the default address. This happens only when
generating a fresh default `config.xml`, never on an existing one.
This changes the two remaining instances where we use insecure HTTPS to
use standard HTTPS certificate verification.
When we introduced these things, almost a decade ago, HTTPS certificates
were expensive and annoying to get, much of the web was still HTTP, and
many devices seemed to not have up-to-date CA bundles.
Nowadays _all_ of the web is HTTPS and I'm skeptical that any device can
work well without understanding LetsEncrypt certificates in particular.
Our current discovery servers use hardcoded certificates which has
several issues:
- Not great for security if it leaks as there is no way to rotate it
- Not great for infrastructure flexibility as we can't use many load
balancer or TLS termination services
- The certificate is a very oddball ECDSA-SHA384 type certificate which
has higher CPU cost than a more regular certificate, which has real
effects on our infrastructure
Using normal TLS certificates here improves these things.
I expect there will be some very few devices out there for which this
doesn't work. For the foreseeable future they can simply change the
config to use the old URLs and parameters -- it'll be years before we
can retire those entirely.
For the upgrade client this simply seems like better hygiene. While our
releases are signed anyway, protecting the metadata exchange is _better_
and, again, I doubt many clients will fail this today.
This adds the ability to have multiple concurrent connections to a single device. This is primarily useful when the network has multiple physical links for aggregated bandwidth. A single connection will never see a higher rate than a single link can give, but multiple connections are load-balanced over multiple links.
It is also incidentally useful for older multi-core CPUs, where bandwidth could be limited by the TLS performance of a single CPU core -- using multiple connections achieves concurrency in the required crypto calculations...
Co-authored-by: Simon Frei <freisim93@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: tomasz1986 <twilczynski@naver.com>
Co-authored-by: bt90 <btom1990@googlemail.com>
Safety check added in v1.23.6 introduced bug. Bug unshares folders with untrusted devices if folder does not have an encryption password set, regardless of whether the folder is shared with the untrusted device as encrypted or not. Prevents sharing with untrusted devices in some cases where sharing would be encrypted.
Patch preserves safety check but permits sharing folders with untrusted devices if they are shared as encrypted.
Signed-off-by: kewiha <keithh@protonmail.com>
This prevents combining untrusted with introducer and auto-accept, and
also verifies that folders shared with untrusted devices have passwords
at config loading time.
Co-authored-by: Simon Frei <freisim93@gmail.com>
We usually want to ensure that our own device is present. However if the
given device ID is the empty ID, we shouldn't do that. This is a
legimate (though way too non-obvious) use-case when opening the config
without knowing/caring about the device ID.
This adds support for syncing extended attributes on supported
filesystem on Linux, macOS, FreeBSD and NetBSD. Windows is currently
excluded because the APIs seem onerous and annoying and frankly the uses
cases seem few and far between. On Unixes this also covers ACLs as those
are stored as extended attributes.
Similar to ownership syncing this will optional & opt-in, which two
settings controlling the main behavior: one to "sync" xattrs (read &
write) and another one to "scan" xattrs (only read them so other devices
can "sync" them, but not apply any locally).
Co-authored-by: Tomasz Wilczyński <twilczynski@naver.com>
This replaces old style errors.Wrap with modern fmt.Errorf and removes
the (direct) dependency on github.com/pkg/errors. A couple of cases are
adjusted by hand as previously errors.Wrap(nil, ...) would return nil,
which is not what fmt.Errorf does.
all: Add package runtimeos for runtime.GOOS comparisons
I grew tired of hand written string comparisons. This adds generated
constants for the GOOS values, and predefined Is$OS constants that can
be iffed on. In a couple of places I rewrote trivial switch:es to if:s,
and added Illumos where we checked for Solaris (because they are
effectively the same, and if we're going to target one of them that
would be Illumos...).
Staggered File Versioning used to have its own cleanInterval that
controlled how often file versions were cleaned. Nowadays, there is a
seperate setting called cleanupIntervalS responsible for the cleanup,
which applies to all File Versioning (except External). Thus, remove the
unneeded code and don't set the param up on new folders anymore.
Signed-off-by: Tomasz Wilczyński <twilczynski@naver.com>
* cmd/syncthing: Remove unnecessary function arguments.
The openGUI() function does not need a device ID to work, and there is
only one caller anyway which uses EmptyDeviceID.
The loadOrDefaultConfig() function is always called with the same
dummy values.
* cmd/syncthing: Avoid misleading info messages from monitor process.
In order to check whether panic reporting is enabled, the monitor
process utilizes the loadOrDefaultConfig() function. In case there is
no config file yet, info messages may be logged during creation if the
config Wrapper, which is discarded immediately after.
Stop using the DefaultConfig() utility function from lib/syncthing and
directly generate a minimal config instead to avoid these.
Add comments to loadOrDefaultConfig() explaining its limited purpose.
* cmd/syncthing/generate: Always write updated config file.
Previously, an existing config file was left untouched unless either
of the --gui-user or --gui-password options was given. Remove that
condition and simplify the checking code.
* lib/config: Factor out ProbeFreePorts().
* cmd/syncthing: Add option --skip-port-probing.
Applies to both the "generate" and "serve" subcommands, as well as the
deprecated --generate option, just as the --no-default-folder flag.
- In the few places where we wrap errors, use the new Go 1.13 "%w"
construction instead of %s or %v.
- Where we create errors with constant strings, consistently use
errors.New and not fmt.Errorf.
- Remove capitalization from errors in the few places where we had that.
Jakob Borg
Marcus B Spencer
Ross Smith II
Simon Frei
Marcel Meyer
Hazem Krimi
bt90
Marcus B Spencer
André Colomb
Keith Harrison
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