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Recently the cross-site-scripting sanitization library that pump.io uses, DOMPurify, published several security advisories for mXSS vulnerabilities affecting browsers based on the Blink rendering engine - you can find the latest one, for example, here. As we've done in the past, the pump.io project is publishing security releases to ensure that everyone is using the latest version of DOMPurify. Per our security support policy, we are providing patches for the current stable release and the previous stable release:

1. pump.io 5.1.2 has been updated to pump.io 5.1.3
2. pump.io 5.0.2 has been updated to pump.io 5.0.3

As these are security releases we encourage administrators to upgrade as soon as possible. Both 5.1.3 and 5.0.3 are drop-in replacements for their predecessors. If you have pump.io 5.1 installed via npm - our recommended configuration - you can upgrade with:

$ npm install -g pump.io@5

If you're on pump.io 5.0, we recommend that you also run the above command to upgrade to 5.1 - it's a drop-in replacement for 5.0. However, if you want to stick with 5.0 for the time being, you can install a patched version with:

$ npm install -g pump.io@5.0

Note that if you have a source-based install, the above commands won't work and you will need to upgrade however you usually do - this will depend on how exactly you have pump.io set up.

If you need help, or if you have questions about these security releases, get in touch with the community.

It's been a (relatively) long time since we've put anything on this blog, and I think it's high time for an update - especially since there are so many exciting things afoot! Not only is pump.io 5.1.1 now on npm, but we have new experimental Docker images! With upstream having already dropped security support, we're also planning to drop support for Node 4 soon.

Let's take these one at a time.

pump.io 5.1.1

Several months ago I landed a patch from contributor Camilo QS fixing a bug in pump.io's session handling in a route serving uploads. This bug made it so that non-public uploads would always return HTTP 403 Unauthorized, even if the user actually was authorized. Clearly, this makes uploads unusable for people who don't like to post everything publicly. Evan suggested that we should backport this bugfix since it's so high-impact, and I agree. So that's what pump.io 5.1.1 contains: a bugfix for uploads. Since it's a patch release 5.1.1 is a drop-in replacement for any 5.x pump.io release, so I'd highly encourage administrators to upgrade as soon as it's convenient. We'd also love it if you file any bugs you find, and feel free to get in touch with the community if you need help or have questions. As a reminder, you can subscribe to our low-volume announce mailing list to get email when we put out new releases like this. Also, I would be remiss if I didn't mention that my signing key setup has changed temporarily - see here if you want to cryptographically verify the 5.1.1 release.

If you're on an npm-based install, you can upgrade with npm install -g pump.io@5.1.1. If you're on a source-based install, you can upgrade by integrating the latest commits in the 5.1.x branch. See here for the changelog.

But that's not all. pump.io 5.1.1 also includes another exciting change: with this release, we've integrated automation to relase pump.io Docker images too.

Docker images

We've wanted to release pump.io Docker images for a long time. But Docker has a well-known problem: security vulnerabilities in Docker Hub images are rampant. Even though we've had a Dockerfile in the repository for a while thanks to contributor thunfisch, we didn't want to release official Docker images if we weren't sure we could always provide security support for them.

Unfortunately, Docker the company has done very little to address this problem. Most of their solutions are aimed at image consumers, not authors. Docker Hub has some capacity for automatically rebuilding images, but unfortunately, it's not enough and you end up having to roll everything yourself anwyay. Pretty disappointing - so we had to get creative.

Our solution to this problem is to utilize Travis CI's cron functionality. Every day, Travis will automatically trigger jobs that do nothing but build pump.io Docker images. These images are then pushed to Docker Hub. If nothing has changed, Docker Hub recognizes that the "new" images are actually identical with what's already there, and nothing happens. But if there has been a change, like a native dependency receiving a security update, then the image ID will change and Docker Hub will accept the updated image. This cronjob is enabled for the 5.1.x branch and master (which as a side effect, means that alpha Docker images are published within 24 hours of a git push), and in the future it will be enabled on all branches that we actively support. Thus, Docker users can easily set up automation to ensure that they're running insecure images for, at most, 24 hours.

If you're interested in trying out the Docker images, we'd love to know how it goes. They should still be treated as experimental at the moment, and early feedback would be super useful. You can read more details in our ReadTheDocs documentation.

Note that there are still more changes that we'd like to make to the Docker images. These changes didn't make it into the 5.1.1 packaging since they felt too invasive for a patch release. Instead we plan to make them in the next release, which is planned to be semver-major. Which brings me neatly to the last topic...

Sunsetting Node 4, 5, and 7 support

We had a good run, but it's time to say goodbye: Node.js upstream has marked Node 4.x as end-of-life, and in accordance with our version policy, we're doing the same. Since this is a semver-major change, we're also taking the opportunity to drop support for Node 5.x and Node 7.x. These changes have been made as of commit 32ad78, and soon we'll be ripping out old code used to support these versions, as well as upgrading dependencies that have recently started requiring newer Nodes.

Anyone still on these versions is encouraged to upgrade as soon as possible, as Node.js upstream is no longer providing security support for them. Administrators can use the NodeSource packages, or they can try out our new Docker images, which use a modern Node version internally.

Please reach out to the community if you need any help making the transition. And good luck!

Last night I officially published pump.io 5.1 to npm as a stable release!

As I wrote in the beta announcement, this release contains a variety of improvements:

• Zero-downtime restarts, which allows administrators to seamlessly roll over to new configurations and codebases
• The daemon now generates startup log warnings on bad configurations, including insecure secret values and internal parameters
• An official Dockerfile is now included with the release
• The logged-out mobile homepage's menu icon is no longer incorrectly styled as black
• An authorization problem with SockJS connections has been fixed

5.1 stable does include one change the beta didn't: a bump to the version of the gm npm package which we depend on. This bump was done as a precautionary measure, as previous versions of gm depended on a version of the debug module which was vulnerable to denial-of-service security bugs.

As a project, we addressed these bugs back in October when we issued security releases for all supported release branches, and at the time we confirmed that the vulnerable function wasn't used by gm. Today's gm bump does not constitute a security release; instead, we're just bumping the version as a precautionary measure in case we missed something in October's assessment of the situation.

Aside from the gm bump, there are (as usual) miscellaneous version bumps included in this release. We've also started tracking test suite coverage information as well as overhauled our documentation on ReadTheDocs, moving most of the in-repository documentation there.

If you want even more details of this release, you can also check out the changelog.

pump 5.1 is a drop-in replacement for 5.0. That means if you're using our recommended installation method and installing from npm, you can upgrade with npm install -g pump.io@5.1. If you have a source-based install, you should merge and/or switch to the v5.1.0 tag. And as always, if you encounter any problems, please feel free to reach out to the community or file bugs you find.

Finally, I would be remiss if I didn't point out that pump.io has a brand-new announcement mailing list! While the blog is great for announcing new releases, not everyone finds it convenient to check. Also, if we issue new betas in the middle of a release cycle, these aren't typically announced on the blog. Therefore in the future all new releases will be announced on the mailing list, not just initial betas. If you want to subscribe to the mailing list, you may do so here - you'll get announcements of new features only, not e.g. feature announcements as seen on this blog. I hope people find this service useful!

I'm really excited to announce that pump.io 5.1 is officially in beta!

This release makes a wide array of improvements. One of the features I'm most excited about is zero-downtime restarts, which will allow administrators to gracefully roll over to new configurations and codebases with absolutely no user-visible impact! Aside from that, here's a list of highlights:

• The daemon now generates startup log warnings on bad configurations, including insecure secret values and internal parameters
• An official Dockerfile is now included with the release
• The logged-out mobile homepage's menu icon is no longer incorrectly styled as black
• SockJS connections no longer fail due to authorization problems

As usual, this release also includes some small updates to dependencies. Plus, we started tracking how much code our test suite covers! We've also significantly cleaned up the documentation and moved almost all of the in-repository documentation to ReadTheDocs, where it's a lot more organized and accessible. If you want more than just these highlights, you can check out the changelog.

Note that while the repository includes a Dockerfile now, we have not yet begun publishing on Docker Hub due to some security logistics that need to be figured out - when we do, it'll be announced in all the usual places (including this blog).

I'm so excited for people to try out this release. 5.1 beta 0 is a drop-in replacement for 5.0, so if you're on 5.0 and want to live (more) on the bleeding edge, you can upgrade with npm install -g pump.io@5.1 if you have an npm-based install. If you have a source-based install, you should merge and/or switch to the v5.1.0-beta.0 tag. And as always, if you encounter any problems you can reach out to the community or file bugs you find.

Recently some denial-of-service vulnerabilities were discovered in various modules that pump.io indirectly depends on. I've bumped Express and send to pull in patched versions, and I've updated our fork of connect-auth to require a patched version of Connect, too. The remaining vulnerabilities I've confirmed don't affect us.

Because of these version bumps, I've just put out security releases which all administrators are encouraged to upgrade to as soon as possible. A semver-major release (5.0.0) was released within the past 6 months so per our security support policy this means there are three new releases:

1. pump.io 5.0.2 replaces 5.0.0 and is available now on npm
2. pump.io 4.1.3 replaces 4.1.2 and is available now on npm
3. pump.io 4.0.2 will replace 4.0.1 and is currently undergoing automated testing (it'll be on npm shortly) Update: pump.io 4.0.2 is now on npm

As these are security releases we encourage admins to upgrade as soon as possible. If you're on 5.0.0 installed via npm - our recommended configuration - you can upgrade by issuing:

$ npm install -g pump.io@5

If you're on 4.1.3, you can upgrade by issuing:

$ npm install -g pump.io@4

And when 4.0.2 is out, if you're on 4.0.1 you can upgrade by issuing:

$ npm install -g pump.io@4.0

Note though that 4.1.3 is a drop-in replacement for 4.0.2, so you should consider just upgrading to that instead. Or even better, upgrade to 5.x!

If you don't have an npm-based install, you'll have to upgrade however you normally do. How to do this will depend on your particular setup.

As always, if you need help, you should get in touch with the community. I'd also like to specifically thank Jason Self, who generously deployed a 24-hour private beta of these fixes on Datamost. One of the version bumps was ever-so-slightly risky, and being able to test things in production before rolling out patches for the entire network was invaluable. I wouldn't be as confident as I am in these releases without his help. So thanks, Jason - I really appreciate it!