rcourtman/Pulse v4.29.5

Pulse v4.29.5

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✅ Release Asset Validation (Post-Publish): PASSED

Assets were revalidated after publication due to a release edit.

Status: Live release assets re-validated ✅
Validated: 2025-11-12 17:34:40 UTC
Workflow: Validate Release Assets #30

Validation Summary

• All required assets present ✓
• Checksums verified ✓
• Version strings correct ✓
• Binary architectures validated ✓

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What's Changed

New Features

Host Agent Docker Support: Added Snap Docker support to the host-agent installer for improved container monitoring on systems using Snap-packaged Docker.

Kubernetes Helm Chart: Added production-grade Helm chart with GitHub Pages repository distribution and OCI annotations for improved discoverability and package management.

Bug Fixes

Security - Path Traversal: Fixed a path traversal vulnerability in the host-agent download endpoint (#669).

Temperature Monitoring: Fixed temperature monitoring on standalone Proxmox nodes (#571).

Guest Agent Compatibility: Fixed guest agent OS info calls that were causing OpenBSD VM crashes (#692).

Host Agent Downloads: Fixed Windows and macOS host agent downloads for bare metal installs (#684).

Disk Metrics: Filtered read-only filesystems from host agent disk metrics (#690).

Update Checker: Fixed update checker to skip draft releases, preventing malformed download URLs.

Notification Manager: Fixed deadlock in notification manager Stop() function.

CSRF Token Validation: Fixed CSRF token validation failure in Settings diagnostics endpoints (#600).

Sensor Proxy in LXC: Fixed pulse-sensor-proxy pvecm errors when running in LXC containers (#600).

SELinux Compatibility: Fixed SELinux compatibility in host agent installer.

Release Asset Checksums: Fixed checksum file generation for backward compatibility with both old and new release formats.

Frontend Authentication: Fixed router to allow frontend pages without authentication for diagnostic purposes.

Improvements

Diagnostic Capabilities: Enhanced diagnostics to capture DOM structure, JavaScript errors, and browser API access; added comprehensive diagnostic test for login issues.

Integration Tests: Improved integration test suite with pre-built Docker images, health check waits, container logging, and port mapping verification.

Update Service: Refactored update service to eliminate polling and race conditions, with improved consistency handling.

Demo Server Updates: Added manual trigger support and improved asset checking with redirect following.

Release Automation: Added release workflow validation gates and improved asset management by reducing duplicate downloads.

Docker Images: Added OCI labels to Docker images and --version flag to docker-agent for better version tracking.

Breaking Changes

None

Installation

Quick Install (systemd / LXC / Proxmox VE):

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rcourtman/Pulse/main/install.sh | bash

Docker:

docker pull rcourtman/pulse:v4.29.5
docker stop pulse && docker rm pulse
docker run -d --name pulse \
  --restart unless-stopped \
  -p 7655:7655 -p 7656:7656 \
  -v /opt/pulse/data:/data \
  rcourtman/pulse:v4.29.5

Manual Binary (amd64 example):

curl -LO https://github.com/rcourtman/Pulse/releases/download/v4.29.5/pulse-v4.29.5-linux-amd64.tar.gz
sudo systemctl stop pulse
sudo tar -xzf pulse-v4.29.5-linux-amd64.tar.gz -C /usr/local/bin pulse
sudo systemctl start pulse

Helm:

helm upgrade --install pulse oci://ghcr.io/rcourtman/pulse-chart \
  --version 4.29.5 \
  --namespace pulse \
  --create-namespace

Downloads

• Universal tarball (auto-detects architecture): pulse-v4.29.5.tar.gz
• Architecture-specific: amd64, arm64, armv7, armv6, 386
• Host agent packages: macOS (amd64/arm64), Windows (amd64/arm64/386), Linux (amd64/arm64/armv7/armv6/386)
• Sensor proxy: Linux (amd64/arm64/armv7/armv6/386)
• Helm chart: pulse-4.29.5.tgz
• SHA256 checksums: checksums.txt

Notes

• Security Update: This release includes a critical security fix for a path traversal vulnerability in the host-agent download endpoint. Update recommended.
• Improved Compatibility: Fixed issues affecting OpenBSD VMs, standalone Proxmox nodes, and LXC containers for broader environment support.
• Helm Chart Available: Production-ready Kubernetes deployment now available via GitHub Pages Helm repository for easier cluster installations.
• Enhanced Diagnostics: Improved troubleshooting capabilities with better diagnostic tools to help identify and resolve issues.