*ARRgh v0.1.5 — Portainer / remote deployment fix

Released: 2026-06-01

Highlights

• Portainer fix — remote deployments (Portainer, Docker Swarm, docker compose pull) no longer return 403. Web UI now served from the baked image; no host-side web/dist directory required.
• CI port fix — API test layer in CI was pointing at the old port 8080; updated to 8282.
• Migration bootstrap — server no longer crashes on startup when upgrading from a pre-migration database (table "external_sources" already exists). Also repairs partial-schema databases (old Rust builds missing default_explicit / is_community / source_key columns) that caused 500 errors on source PATCH/save.

What's new

Migration bootstrap for existing databases

Upgrading from an older arrgh installation (including the original Rust server) failed at startup with:

SQLite Error 1: 'table "external_sources" already exists'

This happened because EF Core's Migrate() tried to apply InitialSchema against a database that already had all the tables, but had no __EFMigrationsHistory table to indicate that.

Fix: MigrationBootstrap.Bootstrap() now runs before Migrate(). It detects a pre-migration database (tables present, no history table), repairs the schema (creates missing tables, patches missing columns in external_sources), and inserts the appropriate migration records so Migrate() only applies genuinely new migrations. Idempotent — no effect on fresh or already-migrated databases.

Web assets served from image

The docker-compose.yml previously included:

volumes:
  - ./web/dist:/var/www/arrgh:ro

On remote hosts (Portainer, bare docker compose pull) this directory doesn't exist, causing nginx to serve an empty root → 403 Forbidden.

The web UI is built into the Docker image at /var/www/arrgh by the Dockerfile. The bind mount is only useful locally (avoids rebuilding the image after a frontend change).

Fix: bind mount removed from docker-compose.yml. Moved to docker-compose.override.yml which Docker Compose applies automatically for local docker compose up.

Local dev — no change needed. docker-compose.override.yml is picked up automatically.

Remote / Portainer — pull the new image and redeploy. No volume or config changes needed.

CI API test port

e2e.yml hardcoded BASE_URL: http://localhost:8080 — predated the port change to 8282. Updated to http://localhost:8282.

Upgrading

docker compose pull
docker compose up -d

If you previously added - ./web/dist:/var/www/arrgh:ro to your own docker-compose.yml or Portainer stack, remove it.