TecharoHQ/anubis v1.23.0 on GitHub

Sorry this took so long, work has been wiping me out. If you know of any companies that are hiring for someone of my skillset, please let me know.

Add default tencent cloud DENY rule.
Added (data)/meta/default-config.yaml for importing the entire default configuration at once.
Add -custom-real-ip-header flag to get the original request IP from a different header than x-real-ip.
Add contentLength variable to bot expressions.
Add COOKIE_SAME_SITE_MODE to force anubis cookies SameSite value, and downgrade automatically from None to Lax if cookie is insecure.
Fix lock convoy problem in decaymap (#1103).
Fix lock convoy problem in bbolt by implementing the actor pattern (#1103).
Remove bbolt actorify implementation due to causing production issues.
Document missing environment variables in installation guide: SLOG_LEVEL, COOKIE_PREFIX, FORCED_LANGUAGE, and TARGET_DISABLE_KEEPALIVE (#1086).
Add validation warning when persistent storage is used without setting signing keys.
Fixed robots2policy to properly group consecutive user agents into any: instead of only processing the last one (#925).
Make the fast algorithm prefer purejs when running in an insecure context.
Add the s3api storage backend to allow Anubis to use S3 API compatible object storage as its storage backend.
Fix a "stutter" in the cookie name prefix so the auth cookie is named techaro.lol-anubis-auth instead of techaro.lol-anubis-auth-auth.
Make cmd/containerbuild support commas for separating elements of the --docker-tags argument as well as newlines.
Add the DIFFICULTY_IN_JWT option, which allows one to add the difficulty field in the JWT claims which indicates the difficulty of the token (#1063).
Ported the client-side JS to TypeScript to avoid egregious errors in the future.
Fixes concurrency problems with very old browsers (#1082).
Randomly use the Refresh header instead of the meta refresh tag in the metarefresh challenge.
Update OpenRC service to truncate the runtime directory before starting Anubis.
Make the git client profile more strictly match how the git client behaves.
Make the default configuration reward users using normal browsers.
Allow multiple consecutive slashes in a row in application paths (#754).
Add option to set targetSNI to special keyword 'auto' to indicate that it should be automatically set to the request Host name (424).
The Preact challenge has been removed from the default configuration. It will be deprecated in the future.
An open redirect when in subrequest mode has been fixed.

Potentially breaking changes

Multiple checks at once has and-like semantics instead of or-like semantics

Anubis lets you stack multiple checks at once with blocks like this:

name: allow-prometheus
action: ALLOW
user_agent_regex: ^prometheus-probe$
remote_addresses:
  - 192.168.2.0/24

Previously, this only returned ALLOW if any one of the conditions matched. This behaviour has changed to only return ALLOW if all of the conditions match. I expect this to have some issues with user configs, however this fix is grave enough that it's worth the risk of breaking configs. If this bites you, please let me know so we can make an escape hatch.

Better error messages

In order to make it easier for legitimate clients to debug issues with their browser configuration and Anubis, Anubis will emit internal error detail in base 64 so that administrators can chase down issues. Future versions of this may also include a variant that encrypts the error detail messages.

Bug Fixes

Sometimes the enhanced temporal assurance in #1038 and #1068 could backfire because Chromium and its ilk randomize the amount of time they wait in order to avoid a timing side channel attack. This has been fixed by both increasing the amount of time a client has to wait for the metarefresh and preact challenges as well as making the server side logic more permissive.

What's Changed

docs(installation): add SLOG_LEVEL environment variable to configuration by @JasonLovesDoggo in #1086
docs: document some missing env vars by @JasonLovesDoggo in #1087
build(deps): bump the github-actions group across 1 directory with 8 updates by @dependabot[bot] in #1071
fix(robots2policy): handle multiple user agents under one block by @JasonLovesDoggo in #925
feat(lib/store): add s3api storage backend by @Xe in #1089
Xe/demote temporal assurance by @Xe in #1090
feat: Warn on missing signing keys when persisting challenges by @JasonLovesDoggo in #1088
docs: add reminder for verified signatures in PR template by @JasonLovesDoggo in #1092
build(deps): bump the github-actions group with 4 updates by @dependabot[bot] in #1093
security: npm audit fix for GHSA-hfm8-9jrf-7g9w et. al by @Xe in #1098
fix(cmd/containerbuild): support commas in --docker-tags by @Xe in #1099
feat(lib): Add option for adding difficulty field to JWT claims by @Earl0fPudding in #1063
chore: port client-side JS to TypeScript by @Xe in #1100
fix(decaymap): fix lock convoy by @Xe in #1106
feat(store/bbolt): implement actor pattern by @Xe in #1107
feat: allow to set cookie sameSite mode and fallback to Lax mode if cookie is not secure by @vaab in #1105
docs: add link to preact in challenge list by @agoujot in #1111
ci: add aarch64 for ssh CI by @Xe in #1112
ci(ssh): don't print uname -av output by @Xe in #1114
feat(expressions): add contentLength to bot expressions by @Xe in #1120
fix(run/openrc): truncate runtime directory before starting Anubis by @CyberTailor in #1122
build(deps): bump the npm group with 2 updates by @dependabot[bot] in #1117
build(deps): bump the github-actions group with 3 updates by @dependabot[bot] in #1118
Update nl.json removing literal translated cookie 'koekje' with 'cookie' by @jieter in #1126
convert issue templates into issue forms by @NetSysFire in #1115
build(deps): bump github.com/docker/docker from 28.3.2+incompatible to 28.3.3+incompatible in /test by @dependabot[bot] in #1130
feat(metarefresh): randomly use the Refresh header by @Xe in #1133
Add Door43 link to known instances documentation by @richmahn in #1136
fix: mend auth cookie name stutter by @Xe in #1139
Update Nynorsk translation by @turtlegarden in #1143
feat: support reading real client IP from a custom header by @avioletheart in #1138
enable auto setting of SNI based on host header by @jmcclelland in #1129
fix(lib): enable multiple consecutive slash support by @Xe in #1155
build(deps-dev): bump esbuild from 0.25.9 to 0.25.10 in the npm group by @dependabot[bot] in #1147
build(deps): bump github.com/ulikunitz/xz from 0.5.12 to 0.5.14 by @dependabot[bot] in #1132
build(deps): bump github.com/docker/docker from 28.3.2+incompatible to 28.3.3+incompatible by @dependabot[bot] in #1131
fix(lib): serve CSS properly by @Xe in #1158
fix(default-config): make the default config far less paranoid by @Xe in #1179
fix(default-config): remove preact challenge by @Xe in #1184
feat: default config macro by @Xe in #1186
fix(lib): de-flake package lib tests by @Xe in #1187
Updated REDIRECT_DOMAINS documentation by @zc-devs in #1171
fix(default-config): sometimes browsers don't send Upgrade-Insecure-Requests by @Xe in #1189
fix(algorithms/fast): fix fast challenge on insecure contexts by @Xe in #1198
Xe/show error state by @Xe in #1203
locale: Update Nynorsk translation by @turtlegarden in #1204
docs: point get started button to the per-environment setup docs by @Xe in #1213
fix(store/bbolt): remove actorify by @Xe in #1215
feat(default-config): block tencent cloud by default by @Xe in #1216
link to docs site from readme by @pushcx in #1214
fix!(policy/checker): make List and-like by @Xe in #1217
chore: remove copilot instructions by @Xe in #1218
build(deps): bump the github-actions group across 1 directory with 6 updates by @dependabot[bot] in #1221
fix(lib): close open redirect when in subrequest mode by @Xe in #1222

New Contributors

@vaab made their first contribution in #1105
@agoujot made their first contribution in #1111
@NetSysFire made their first contribution in #1115
@richmahn made their first contribution in #1136
@avioletheart made their first contribution in #1138
@jmcclelland made their first contribution in #1129
@zc-devs made their first contribution in #1171
@pushcx made their first contribution in #1214

Full Changelog: v1.22.0...v1.23.0

TecharoHQ/anubis v1.23.0 v1.23.0: Lyse Hext on GitHub