Minor fixes for release

.github/workflows/release.yml

@@ -248,6 +248,55 @@ jobs:
         env:
           GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
 
+  # The README's picture of the interface, retaken for every release so it never shows a
+  # version that no longer exists. From the demo build served locally rather than from the
+  # published demo: that deploys on its own schedule, and could still be the old one.
+  update_readme_screenshot:
+    needs: [run_tests, engine_tests]
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    permissions:
+      contents: write
+
+    steps:
+      - name: Checkout repository
+        uses: actions/checkout@v4
+        with:
+          ref: main
+
+      - name: Set up bun
+        uses: oven-sh/setup-bun@v2
+        with:
+          bun-version: latest
+
+      - name: Set up Python
+        uses: actions/setup-python@v5
+        with:
+          python-version: '3.12'
+
+      - name: Install Playwright
+        run: |
+          python -m pip install --upgrade pip
+          pip install playwright
+          playwright install --with-deps chromium
+
+      - name: Build the demo
+        working-directory: frontend
+        run: bun install --frozen-lockfile && VITE_VERSION="${{ github.ref_name }}" bun run build:demo
+
+      - name: Screenshot it
+        working-directory: frontend
+        run: |
+          bunx vite preview --port 4173 --strictPort &
+          timeout 60 bash -c 'until curl -sf http://localhost:4173/ > /dev/null; do sleep 0.5; done'
+          python3 ../docs/screenshot_demo.py http://localhost:4173/
+
+      - name: Commit the new screenshot
+        uses: stefanzweifel/git-auto-commit-action@v5
+        with:
+          commit_message: "Update README screenshot for ${{ github.ref_name }}"
+          file_pattern: 'docs/Firegex_Screenshot.png'
+          branch: main
+
   # `firegex` carries a C extension — the llhttp binding in `fgex-lib/llhttp/` — so it
   # is no longer one universal wheel. A wheel is built per platform and per interpreter
   # here, and the sdist goes up beside them: where no wheel matches, pip compiles from
@@ -351,8 +400,11 @@ jobs:
           user: __token__
           password: ${{ secrets.PYPI_API_TOKEN }}
 
+  # After `firegex`, never beside it: this package is nothing but `firegex==<tag>`, so
+  # published while a wheel job failed it is an alias for a version that does not exist,
+  # and `pip install fgex` fails for everybody until somebody notices.
   pypi_publish_fgex_alias:
-    needs: [run_tests, engine_tests]
+    needs: pypi_publish_firegex
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     permissions:
       contents: read

AGENTS.md

@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ there — a file only processed for *site* directories, so putting that path in
 imports pytest and still leaves `pyworker.py --check` unable to find the filter library.
 The script installs into the environment it is running in, which resolves all of it. Two
 things that trip a root run were found by trying it, and both are fixed rather than worked
-around: `tests/requirements.txt` was missing `fastapi` (see the file for why one unit test
+around: the `test` group in `tests/pyproject.toml` was missing `fastapi` (see the file for why one unit test
 needs the backend's own dependency, and why its absence stops the *whole* run rather than
 one file), and `./run_tests.sh unit` — advertised in the script's own help — took `unit` as
 a **password** and ran everything against an instance it could not authenticate to.
@@ -108,7 +108,7 @@ Mount `backend/`, not `backend/proxysrc/`: `tests/pyworker.rs` launches `../modu
 
 The suite runs against an instance with authentication turned off as well: `login()` reads a 403 there as "there is nothing to log in to" rather than as a failure, since every request is already allowed. `integration/test_auth.py` is the exception and skips itself — it is about passwords, and those endpoints answer 403 in that mode by design. Note `BearerSession.post` copies the header dict rather than writing into it: the form `Content-Type` belongs to the login request alone, and it used to stick, which went unnoticed only because a successful login replaces the whole dict a moment later.
 
-CI (`.github/workflows/release.yml`) runs **only on `release: published`**, not on pushes or pull requests — nothing validates a PR automatically. Two jobs gate every publish job below them, both on `ubuntu-latest` and `ubuntu-24.04-arm`: `run_tests` does `python3 run.py start -P testpassword` then `cd tests && sudo ./run_tests.sh`, and `engine_tests` runs the Rust suite (`cargo test` in `proxysrc`) in the Dockerfile's `enginetest` stage — the compiler stage plus the filter library the pyworker tests start. That suite was not run before a release at all, though much of what it covers (HTTP/2, HTTP/3 and QUIC termination, the worker's framing, the UDP relay) no integration test reaches. `enginetest` sits **before** `final` on purpose: a build with no target, which is what compose does, takes the last stage. The tests' dependencies are pure python; `iperf3`, matplotlib and numpy belong to `bench/requirements.txt` and CI installs none of them.
+CI (`.github/workflows/release.yml`) runs **only on `release: published`**, not on pushes or pull requests — nothing validates a PR automatically. Two jobs gate every publish job below them, both on `ubuntu-latest` and `ubuntu-24.04-arm`: `run_tests` does `python3 run.py start -P testpassword` then `cd tests && sudo ./run_tests.sh`, and `engine_tests` runs the Rust suite (`cargo test` in `proxysrc`) in the Dockerfile's `enginetest` stage — the compiler stage plus the filter library the pyworker tests start. That suite was not run before a release at all, though much of what it covers (HTTP/2, HTTP/3 and QUIC termination, the worker's framing, the UDP relay) no integration test reaches. `enginetest` sits **before** `final` on purpose: a build with no target, which is what compose does, takes the last stage. The tests' dependencies are pure python; `iperf3`, matplotlib and numpy belong to the `bench` group of `tests/pyproject.toml` and CI installs none of them.
 
 ## Architecture
 

Dockerfile

@@ -57,12 +57,12 @@ RUN python3.14 -m pip install --no-cache-dir --break-system-packages /fgex-lib
 #Building main conteiner
 FROM --platform=$TARGETARCH base AS final
 
-COPY ./backend/requirements.txt /execute/requirements.txt
+COPY ./backend/pyproject.toml /execute/pyproject.toml
 COPY ./fgex-lib /execute/fgex-lib
 
 RUN dnf -y update && dnf install -y gcc-c++ python3.14-devel uv git &&\
     uv pip install --no-cache --system ./fgex-lib &&\
-    uv pip install --no-cache --system -r /execute/requirements.txt &&\
+    uv pip install --no-cache --system -r /execute/pyproject.toml &&\
     uv cache clean && dnf remove -y gcc-c++ python3.14-devel uv git && dnf clean all
 
 COPY ./backend/ /execute/

backend/pyproject.toml

@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+# Not a package: only read for its dependencies (`uv pip install -r pyproject.toml` in the
+# Dockerfile). The version firegex reports is in utils/__init__.py.
+[project]
+name = "firegex-backend"
+version = "0.0.0"
+dependencies = [
+    "fastapi[all]",
+    "httpx",
+    "uvicorn[standard]",
+    "psutil",
+    "python-jose[cryptography]",
+    "python-socketio",
+    "brotli",
+    # nftables comes from the distribution (python3-nftables), not from PyPI.
+]

backend/requirements.txt

@@ -1,8 +0,0 @@
-fastapi[all]
-httpx
-uvicorn[standard]
-psutil
-python-jose[cryptography]
-python-socketio
-brotli
-#git+https://salsa.debian.org/pkg-netfilter-team/pkg-nftables#egg=nftables&subdirectory=py

docs/screenshot_demo.py

@@ -0,0 +1,45 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""
+Take the README's screenshot of the interface, from the demo build.
+
+Usage:
+    python3 docs/screenshot_demo.py [url] [output_path]
+
+`url` defaults to the published demo; the release workflow builds the demo from the
+release being published and serves it locally instead, so the picture is of that version
+and not of whatever the Pages deploy last finished (built with `VITE_VERSION=<tag>`, the
+header then names it instead of saying "demo"). Needs Playwright with chromium
+(`pip install playwright && playwright install --with-deps chromium`).
+
+The viewport is fixed, so the image keeps its size from one release to the next however
+much the demo's seed data happens to render.
+"""
+import sys
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from playwright.sync_api import sync_playwright
+
+URL = sys.argv[1] if len(sys.argv) > 1 else "https://demo.firegex.pwnzer0tt1.it/"
+OUTPUT = Path(sys.argv[2]) if len(sys.argv) > 2 else Path(__file__).parent / "Firegex_Screenshot.png"
+VIEWPORT = {"width": 1600, "height": 960}
+
+
+def main():
+    with sync_playwright() as p:
+        browser = p.chromium.launch()
+        page = browser.new_page(viewport=VIEWPORT, device_scale_factor=2, color_scheme="dark")
+        page.goto(URL, wait_until="networkidle")
+        # The demo greets its visitor with a toast saying it is one, which is not part of
+        # the interface being pictured.
+        page.add_style_tag(content=".mantine-Notifications-root { display: none !important; }")
+        # The list fills in from the demo's in-memory backend after the page has loaded;
+        # a seeded service's name is what says it has.
+        page.wait_for_selector("text=shop-api", timeout=15000)
+        page.wait_for_timeout(1000)
+        page.screenshot(path=str(OUTPUT))
+        browser.close()
+    print(f"Saved {OUTPUT} ({VIEWPORT['width']}x{VIEWPORT['height']} @2x)")
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    main()

fgex-lib/MANIFEST.in

@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
-include requirements.txt
 recursive-include llhttp *.c *.h
 include llhttp/PROVENANCE.md
 include llhttp/LICENSE.pyllhttp

fgex-lib/pyproject.toml

@@ -0,0 +1,42 @@
+[build-system]
+requires = ["setuptools>=64"]
+build-backend = "setuptools.build_meta"
+
+[project]
+name = "firegex"
+# Set in setup.py, where the release workflow writes the tag.
+dynamic = ["version"]
+description = "Firegex client"
+readme = "README.md"
+authors = [{ name = "Pwnzer0tt1", email = "pwnzer0tt1@poliba.it" }]
+requires-python = ">=3.10"
+classifiers = [
+    "Programming Language :: Python :: 3",
+    "License :: OSI Approved :: GNU General Public License v3 or later (GPLv3+)",
+]
+dependencies = [
+    "typer",
+    # Imported directly by the CLI and both simulators for their output. `typer` happens to
+    # bring it today; `typer-slim` does not, and nothing here should rest on which one it is.
+    "rich",
+    "pydantic>=2",
+    "typing-extensions>=4.7.1",
+    "pycryptodome",
+    "watchfiles",
+    "websockets",
+    # 1.2 is the first with `output_buffer_limit`, which is what lets a body be decoded only
+    # as far as a filter may hold it. See `_unbrotli` in pyfilters/models/http.py.
+    "brotli>=1.2.0",
+    # Python 3.14 has `compression.zstd` in the standard library; this fills the gap
+    # below it. See firegex/pyfilters/internals/zstd_compat.py.
+    "zstandard; python_version < '3.14'",
+]
+
+[project.urls]
+Homepage = "https://github.com/pwnzer0tt1/firegex"
+
+[project.scripts]
+fgex = "firegex.cli:run"
+
+[tool.setuptools.packages.find]
+include = ["firegex*"]

fgex-lib/requirements.txt

@@ -1,15 +0,0 @@
-typer
-# Imported directly by the CLI and both simulators for their output. `typer` happens to
-# bring it today; `typer-slim` does not, and nothing here should rest on which one it is.
-rich
-pydantic>=2
-typing-extensions>=4.7.1
-pycryptodome
-watchfiles
-websockets
-# 1.2 is the first with `output_buffer_limit`, which is what lets a body be decoded only
-# as far as a filter may hold it. See `_unbrotli` in pyfilters/models/http.py.
-brotli>=1.2.0
-# Python 3.14 has `compression.zstd` in the standard library; this fills the gap
-# below it. See firegex/pyfilters/internals/zstd_compat.py.
-zstandard; python_version < '3.14'

fgex-lib/setup.py

@@ -23,32 +23,12 @@ LLHTTP = setuptools.Extension(
     extra_compile_args=["-O3"],
 )
 
-with open("README.md", "r", encoding="utf-8") as fh:
+# Everything else about the package is in pyproject.toml. The version stays here because
-    long_description = fh.read()
+# the release workflow writes the tag over the placeholder, which is not a valid version
-
+# until it has.
-with open('requirements.txt', 'r', encoding='utf-8') as f:
-    required = [ele.strip() for ele in f.read().splitlines() if not ele.strip().startswith("#") and ele.strip() != ""]
-
 VERSION = "{{VERSION_PLACEHOLDER}}"
 
 setuptools.setup(
-    name="firegex",
+    version=VERSION if "{" not in VERSION else "0.0.0", #uv pip install -U . --no-cache-dir for testing
-    version= VERSION if "{" not in VERSION else "0.0.0", #uv pip install -U . --no-cache-dir for testing
-    author="Pwnzer0tt1",
-    author_email="pwnzer0tt1@poliba.it",
-    scripts=["fgex"],
-    py_modules=["firegex"],
-    install_requires=required,
-    include_package_data=True,
-    description="Firegex client",
-    long_description=long_description,
-    long_description_content_type="text/markdown",
-    url="https://github.com/pwnzer0tt1/firegex",
-    packages=setuptools.find_packages(),
     ext_modules=[LLHTTP],
-    classifiers=[
-        "Programming Language :: Python :: 3",
-        "License :: OSI Approved :: GNU General Public License v3 or later (GPLv3+)",
-    ],
-    python_requires='>=3.10',
 )

frontend/src/js/demo.ts

@@ -379,7 +379,7 @@ type Handler = (m: RegExpMatchArray, body: Json, query: Record<string, string>)
 const routes: [string, RegExp, Handler][] = [
 
     // ---- global
-    ["GET", /^status$/, () => ({ status: "run", loggined: true, version: "demo", auth_disabled: false })],
+    ["GET", /^status$/, () => ({ status: "run", loggined: true, version: import.meta.env.VITE_VERSION || "demo", auth_disabled: false })],
     ["POST", /^login$/, () => ({ access_token: "demo-token", token_type: "bearer" })],
     ["POST", /^set-password$/, () => ok],
     ["POST", /^change-password$/, () => ({ ...ok, access_token: "demo-token" })],

tests/bench/README.md

@@ -12,9 +12,9 @@ most of this page is about. `pytest` does not collect this directory.
 | `stress_test_history.py` | a soak test for `HttpHistory` under load |
 | `results_plotter.py` | redraws the SVGs in `results/` from the CSVs beside them |
 
-These need more than the tests do — `pip3 install -r requirements.txt` here, on top of
+These need more than the tests do — the `bench` group of `../pyproject.toml`
-the one a directory up, and `iperf3` itself installed as a package because the python
+(`pip3 install --group ../pyproject.toml:bench` from here, pip 25.1 or later), and `iperf3`
-binding links against it.
+itself installed as a package because the python binding links against it.
 
 # Running a benchmark
 

tests/bench/requirements.txt

@@ -1,6 +0,0 @@
-# On top of ../requirements.txt.
-# `iperf3` is a binding against libiperf, so the library has to be installed first
-# (`apt-get install iperf3`, `dnf install iperf3`).
-iperf3
-matplotlib
-numpy

tests/integration/test_service_lifecycle.py

@@ -110,7 +110,10 @@ def test_stopping_a_proxied_service_does_not_cut_its_connections(api, protected,
             "a stopped service went on filtering the connections it had"
         time.sleep(3)
         assert _held_open(server, b"a while later") == b"a while later"
-        assert _log_says(api, service_id, "carry on unfiltered"), \
+        # The line waits for a STATS report taken after the stop, which the engine sends
+        # every two seconds and drops while the backend is behind — under a full suite on
+        # a busy machine, ten seconds was once not enough to see one.
+        assert _log_says(api, service_id, "carry on unfiltered", wait=30), \
             "the log did not say connections were still being carried"
     finally:
         server.close_client()

tests/pyproject.toml

@@ -0,0 +1,55 @@
+# Not a package: dependency groups only (PEP 735). `run_tests.sh` installs `test`;
+# `bench` is what the benchmarks need on top of it.
+[dependency-groups]
+test = [
+    "pytest",
+    "requests",
+    "cryptography",
+    "psutil",
+    "pydantic",
+    "python-socketio[client]",
+    # The only way to speak QUIC from Python, and the integration tests for that layer have
+    # to speak it: what they check is the half the engine's own tests cannot reach — the
+    # rules that steer a QUIC address, the relay bound per address, and a filter attached
+    # through the API. Everything that needs it skips with a reason when it is absent, so a
+    # machine without it still runs the rest.
+    "aioquic",
+    # And the only way to speak gRPC from Python, which is what says HTTP/2 is filtered: a
+    # gRPC service is a real HTTP/2 service, its method name is an HPACK-compressed `:path`,
+    # and its status is a trailer section — the three things a firegex that only forwarded
+    # HTTP/2 could not show a filter. Everything that needs it skips with a reason when it is
+    # absent, so a machine without it still runs the rest.
+    "grpcio",
+    # `unit/test_nftables_addresses.py` imports the **backend** — the address-to-nftables
+    # translation is the backend's, and testing a copy of it would be testing a copy. That
+    # drags in `backend/utils`, which raises FastAPI's `HTTPException`, so FastAPI has to be
+    # here even though nothing in this suite serves a request. Without it the file cannot be
+    # collected, and a collection error is not one test failing: pytest stops the entire run
+    # before anything has executed. It went unnoticed for as long as it did because a machine
+    # that has ever run the backend outside the container already has it.
+    "fastapi",
+    # `unit/` imports the filter library straight out of `../fgex-lib`, so its runtime
+    # dependencies have to be here too. Not the published `firegex` itself, which would
+    # quietly shadow the source tree the suite is meant to be testing.
+    #
+    # The HTTP parser is deliberately NOT here. It is a C extension that ships inside
+    # firegex itself, so it has to be *built*: `run_tests.sh` does that with an editable
+    # install of `../fgex-lib`. Running `pytest` by hand without it gives
+    # `ImportError: cannot import name '_llhttp' from 'firegex'`.
+    "brotli",
+    "websockets",
+    # Unconditional here, unlike in the library, which only needs it below 3.14: the
+    # suite uses it to build the corpus *and* to exercise the fallback backend, so
+    # without it the cross-backend agreement test silently skips on the one Python
+    # that matters most.
+    "zstandard",
+]
+# The tests' dependencies stay pure python, so a CI run that only tests does not build a
+# binding against a C library it will never call. `iperf3` is one: the library has to be
+# installed first (`apt-get install iperf3`, `dnf install iperf3`).
+bench = [
+    { include-group = "test" },
+    "iperf3",
+    "matplotlib",
+    "numpy",
+]

tests/requirements.txt

@@ -1,48 +0,0 @@
-# What the tests need. The benchmarks need more — iperf3, matplotlib, numpy — and those
-# are in bench/requirements.txt, so a CI run that only tests does not build a binding
-# against a C library it will never call.
-pytest
-requests
-cryptography
-psutil
-pydantic
-python-socketio[client]
-# The only way to speak QUIC from Python, and the integration tests for that layer have
-# to speak it: what they check is the half the engine's own tests cannot reach — the
-# rules that steer a QUIC address, the relay bound per address, and a filter attached
-# through the API. Everything that needs it skips with a reason when it is absent, so a
-# machine without it still runs the rest.
-aioquic
-# And the only way to speak gRPC from Python, which is what says HTTP/2 is filtered: a
-# gRPC service is a real HTTP/2 service, its method name is an HPACK-compressed `:path`,
-# and its status is a trailer section — the three things a firegex that only forwarded
-# HTTP/2 could not show a filter. Everything that needs it skips with a reason when it is
-# absent, so a machine without it still runs the rest.
-grpcio
-
-# `unit/test_nftables_addresses.py` imports the **backend** — the address-to-nftables
-# translation is the backend's, and testing a copy of it would be testing a copy. That
-# drags in `backend/utils`, which raises FastAPI's `HTTPException`, so FastAPI has to be
-# here even though nothing in this suite serves a request. Without it the file cannot be
-# collected, and a collection error is not one test failing: pytest stops the entire run
-# before anything has executed. It went unnoticed for as long as it did because a machine
-# that has ever run the backend outside the container already has it.
-fastapi
-
-# `unit/` imports the filter library straight out of `../fgex-lib`, so its runtime
-# dependencies have to be here too. Listed one by one rather than with
-# `-r ../fgex-lib/requirements.txt`, because that file lists `fgex` — the alias package,
-# which depends on a *published* `firegex` and would quietly shadow the source tree the
-# suite is meant to be testing.
-#
-# The HTTP parser is deliberately NOT here. It is a C extension that ships inside
-# firegex itself, so it has to be *built*: `run_tests.sh` does that with an editable
-# install of `../fgex-lib`. Running `pytest` by hand without it gives
-# `ImportError: cannot import name '_llhttp' from 'firegex'`.
-brotli
-websockets
-# Unconditional here, unlike in the library, which only needs it below 3.14: the
-# suite uses it to build the corpus *and* to exercise the fallback backend, so
-# without it the cross-backend agreement test silently skips on the one Python
-# that matters most.
-zstandard

tests/run_tests.sh

@@ -47,7 +47,10 @@ fi
 ADDRESS="${FIREGEX_ADDRESS:-http://127.0.0.1:4444/}"
 ADDRESS="${ADDRESS%/}/"
 
-pip3 install -q -r requirements.txt
+# The `test` group of pyproject.toml, read here rather than with `pip install --group`,
+# which needs pip 25.1 — older than what CI's runners ship.
+python3 -c 'import tomllib; print("\n".join(tomllib.load(open("pyproject.toml", "rb"))["dependency-groups"]["test"]))' \
+    | pip3 install -q -r /dev/stdin
 # The filter library is imported straight out of the source tree, and it carries a C
 # extension — the llhttp binding that parses HTTP — which therefore has to be built. An
 # editable install builds it in place; without this `unit/` cannot even be collected.