ref https://linear.app/tryghost/issue/ENG-826
- Changed staff deletion logic to do a bulk insert when adding a tag to
the users' associated posts
Staff deletion logic has really poor performance at scale because we do
individual updates for every post. If a user has dozens+ posts
(especially in a large db with thousands of posts), this can take >60s
and look like a timeout. Ultimately this should probably be a jobbed off
process, but for the time being we can improve this by doing a bulk
insert.
Note that this update uses the pattern for the bulk tagging of posts
from the right click (bulk) actions in the posts lists in Admin. With
bulk actions, **we do not trigger web hooks or the post.edited events**.
We will document this and follow up on this separately.
ref MOM61
- Adds admin-x react app we’ll use as ActivityPub playground to the
sidebar nav behind the feature flag.
- Wired up routing to Ember
- Setup the project as `admin-x-activitypub`
---------
Co-authored-by: Ronald Langeveld <hi@ronaldlangeveld.com>
ref https://linear.app/tryghost/issue/MOM-29
This is very rough, and all still behind a flag. The idea is that any public
post which is published gets added to the Outbox of the site Actor. We also
dispatch an event, which will be used to deliver the Activity to any relevant
inboxes, but that is outside the scope of this commit.
refs https://ghost-foundation.sentry.io/issues/5135326925/
- the service tends to 503 all the time, and we don't really care enough
for it to ping us in Sentry, as it's not something we control
- we can still keep logging the errors in case we need to go and look at
what went wrong
refs #20050
- Renovate seems to be unable to bump the package past the security
release, but unfortunately this release contains a breaking bug
- this commit manually bumps the package so we can get things flowing
again
- the security release doesn't really affect us, but we should still try
and keep on the latest
ref
https://linear.app/tryghost/issue/ENG-845/error-attempted-to-set-lexical-on-the-deleted-record
ref
[https://linear.app/tryghost/issue/ENG-854/🐛-deleting-imported-posts-makes-ghost-unresponsive](https://linear.app/tryghost/issue/ENG-854/%F0%9F%90%9B-deleting-imported-posts-makes-ghost-unresponsive)
- When deleting a post in the editor's Post Settings Menu, if the post
has unsaved changes (indicated by the hasDirtyAttributes property in the
editor), Admin will crash because it tries to save a post revision
before leaving the editor, but the post has already been deleted so
saving fails.
- This can occur when editing a post and quickly deleting it from the
Post Settings Menu before saving is completed.
- It can also occur when attempting to delete an imported post, as the
editor will parse the lexical from the server and may make some minor,
invisible-to-the-user changes to the lexical string locally (e.g. JSON
formatting, or updating the JSON to use extended version of base lexical
nodes), which triggers the same error.
- This fix bypasses the attempt to save a post revision when leaving the
editor if the post is already deleted, which allows the transition back
to the Posts route to succeed.
refs f39d1d3aa3
- similar to the commit above, the JSON parser changed between Node 18
and Node 20, so the error message changed too
- we actually just want to check the error is forwarded to the user, so
we can do that by getting the error message from JSON.parse and check
against that
ref https://linear.app/tryghost/issue/MOM-48
This required some structural changes to our NestJS setup so that we can mount
it on multiple parts of the Ghost express app.
We've used the RouterModule to allow adding submodules that are mounted on
different paths, and we've had to be explicit about the base path for each
module. We've also had to switch back to using the Module decorator, because
RouterModule doesn't work with DynamicModule definitions.
Now that the NestJS app has knowledge of the full path, we need to "reset" the
url & baseUrl when passing the request into NestJS so that it can correctly
match the path. This is probably needed for the frontend too, for subdirs, but
that causes further issues - as this in prototype stage, we'll look later
Another issue is that NestJS replaces the express app instance with its own,
which isn't an issue for the Admin API (though we've fixed it anyway for
consistency), but did cause problems for the frontend, because the express app
is where view engine and directory information is stored.
The fix for this is to save a reference to the original ghost express
application, and reattach it to the request if it is not handled by Nest
Now that we have the Nest app mounted on the frontend, we're able to have it
handle the /.well-known/webfinger route with a proper controller, which is nice!
ref MOM-31
ref https://linear.app/tryghost/issue/MOM-31
We'll be building a lot of the new code for ActivityPub in Nest, so we'll need
to have it enabled in Ghost to work.
- The RSS cache has lived for a really long time, but I'm not sure it's useful
- Want to be able to determine if it gets used much, and if not, then we can remove it
ref 78311591d0
- updated tests to not click a button on the setup/done screen that is no longer shown
- fixed setup flow showing an alert bar due to not handling the `TransitionAborted` error that is thrown by the setup/done->dashboard redirect
ref https://linear.app/tryghost/issue/KTLO-1/members-spam-signups
- Some customers are seeing many spammy signups ("hundreds a day") — our
hypothesis is that bots and/or email link checkers are able to signup by
simply following the link in the email without even loading the page in
a browser.
- Currently new members signup by clicking a magic link in an email,
which is a simple GET request. When the user (or a bot) clicks that link, Ghost
creates the member and signs them in for the first time.
- This change, behind an alpha flag, requires a new member to click the
link in the email, which takes them to a new frontend route `/confirm_signup/`, then submit a form on the page which sends a POST request to the
server. If JavaScript is enabled, the form will be submitted
automatically so the only change to the user is an extra flash/redirect
before being signed in and redirected to the homepage.
- This change is behind the alpha flag `membersSpamPrevention` so we can
test it out on a few customer's sites and see if it helps reduce the
spam signups. With the flag off, the signup flow remains the same as
before.
ref https://linear.app/tryghost/issue/ENG-790/remove-use-of-sub-queries-in-email-analytics
- the `delivered_at` column is typically entirely/nearly entirely filled with values meaning the `IS NOT NULL` query matches a huge number of rows that MySQL has to fetch from the index to count
- using `IS NULL` switches that behaviour around as it will now match very few rows which has been shown in testing to be considerably quicker
- after switching to `IS NULL` the query returns an "undelivered" count rather than a "delivered" count, in order to keep the rest of the system behaviour the same we can calculate the delivered count by subtracting the query result from the total number of emails sent which we can fetch using a very fast primary key lookup query on the `emails` table
closes https://linear.app/tryghost/issue/ENG-790/remove-use-of-sub-queries-in-email-analytics
Avoiding sub queries means we don't have a process tied up for longer than necessary and we can more easily see if one of the queries is non-performant.
- extracted the count queries into separate queries and used the retrieved values in the final update query
- removed a query by moving the email open rate calculation into JS as we've already fetched the necessary data before that point
ref https://linear.app/tryghost/issue/CFR-13
- enabled saving traces on browser test failure; this makes troubleshooting a lot easier
- updated handling in offers tests to ensure the tier has fully loaded in the UI (not just `networkidle`)
- updated publishing test to examine the publish button reaction to the save action response instead of a 300ms pause
In general, our tests use a lot of watching for 'networkidle' - and sometimes just raw timeouts - which do not scale well into running tests on CI. In particular, 'networkidle' does not work if we're expecting to see React components' state updates propagate and re-render. We should always instead look to the content which encapsulates the response and the UI updates. This is something we should tackle on a larger scale.
ref ENG-774
ref https://linear.app/tryghost/issue/ENG-774
Staff Tokens will have both a `user` and an `apiKey` present on the
`loadedPermissions`.
The check here for `apiKey` was written when we could assume that an
`apiKey` was an Admin Integration - so it completely overwrote the
previous `allowed` list. When we added the concept of Staff Tokens -
this resulted in a privilege escalation.
This is a good lesson in not using proxies or indicators for data, as
changes elsewhere can invalidate them - if we had been specific and
checked the role of the current actor we wouldn't've had this bug!
ref https://linear.app/tryghost/issue/CFR-4/
- added request queueing middleware (express-queue) to handle high
request volume
- added new config option `optimization.requestQueue`
- added new config option `optimization.requestConcurrency`
- added logging of request queue depth - `req.queueDepth`
We've done a fair amount of investigation around improving Ghost's
resiliency to high request volume. While we believe this to be partly
due to database connection contention, it also seems Ghost gets
overwhelmed by the requests themselves. Implementing a simple queueing
system allows us a simple lever to change the volume of requests Ghost
is actually ingesting at any given time and gives us options besides
simply increasing database connection pool size.
---------
Co-authored-by: Michael Barrett <mike@ghost.org>
ref ENG-728
ref https://linear.app/tryghost/issue/ENG-728
This is not used anywhere, and makes the code more complicated, it's a good
step toward simplifying permissions and pulling them out of the database.
ref ENG-728
ref https://linear.app/tryghost/issue/ENG-728
This is NOT a functionality change. The Post#permissible method unit
tests have been updated to pass `true` as `hasUserPermission` and we can
see that the permission functionality remains the same.
The permissible method of the post model is responsible for removing
permission based on the data that is being modified, but the permissions
module is setup to allow the permissible method to grant permission -
this means that we call permissible, even if the current actor doesn't
have permission, this results in code that is hard to understand and
manage.
We are going to be instead returning early if an actor does not have
permission, this will allow permissible method signatures to be greatly
simplified (removing the need for hasUserPermission, hasApiKeyPermission
& hasMemberPermission arguments).
fixes https://linear.app/tryghost/issue/ENG-746/http-500-responses-when-handle-image-sizes-middleware-hits-missing
- in the event a request comes in for a resized image, but the source
image does not exist, we return a rendered 404 page
- we do this because we pass the NotFoundError to `next`, which skips
over the static asset code where we return a plaintext 404
- also included a breaking test that ensure we go to the next middleware
without an error
ref ENG-761
ref https://linear.app/tryghost/issue/ENG-761
Creating these pipelines is expensive, and we don't want to do it
repeatedly for the same controller. Adding caching should reduce the
amount of time spent setting up pipelines for each usage of the `get`
helper.
ref https://linear.app/tryghost/issue/IPC-66/onboarding-checklist-v1
- Adds a basic version of a new onboarding checklist behind the feature
flag, without incomplete/complete state logic
- Links to Design settings, Members screen and new post
- Opens amodal that we’ll use as Share modal
---------
Co-authored-by: Daniël van der Winden <danielvanderwinden@ghost.org>
ref [ENG-747](https://linear.app/tryghost/issue/ENG-747/)
ref https://linear.app/tryghost/issue/ENG-747
H'okay - so what we're trying to do here is make get helper queries more
cacheable. The way we're doing that is by modifying the filter used when
we're trying to remove a single post from the query.
The idea is that we can remove that restriction on the filter, increase
the number of posts fetched by 1 and then filter the fetched posts back
down, this means that the same query, but filtering different posts,
will be updated to make _exactly_ the same query, and so share a cache!
We've been purposefully restrictive in the types of filters we
manipulate, so that we only deal with the simplest cases and the code is
easier to understand.
ref ENG-742
ref https://linear.app/tryghost/issue/ENG-742
We don't do any parsing of layouts in gscan, which means themes can be
uploaded which use non-existent files for their layout.
We can catch the error in the res.render call, and wrap it, just like we
do for missing templates (e.g. the StaticRoutesRouter)
closes ENG-632
- This listens to a new property in the `milestones` config to set a minimum value of Milestones we wanna use the Slack notification service for
refs https://linear.app/tryghost/issue/ENG-750
- when adding a recommendation, we fetch the recommended site's metadata
- before this change, if the metadata fetch failed for some reason, we'd show an error and block the recommendation from being added
- after this change, we use fallback values if the metadata fails to fetch, instead of blocking the recommendation from being added. We use the site domain as the title and leave the rest empty (no favicon, no description)
- this change also means we are not checking whether a site exists or not for the publisher anymore. It’s then up to the publisher to make sure they don’t enter broken URLs
ref ENG-747
ref https://linear.app/tryghost/issue/ENG-747
H'okay - so what we're trying to do here is make get helper queries more
cacheable. The way we're doing that is by modifying the filter used when
we're trying to remove a single post from the query.
The idea is that we can remove that restriction on the filter, increase
the number of posts fetched by 1 and then filter the fetched posts back
down, this means that the same query, but filtering different posts,
will be updated to make _exactly_ the same query, and so share a cache!
We've been purposefully restrictive in the types of filters we
manipulate, so that we only deal with the simplest cases and the code is
easier to understand.
ref https://linear.app/tryghost/issue/ENG-721
- when changing the response to a `204` for requests with no cookie we'd lost the `Cache-Control: public, max-age: 0` header which meant some cache systems weren't caching as efficiently as possible
ref https://linear.app/tryghost/issue/TRI-65
In the context of referrals, we want to understand how useful our
“Powered by Ghost” badges are.
There are currently a few places where the “Powered by Ghost” badge can
be rendered:
- in newsletters (enabled/disabled by publisher, on a newsletter basis)
- in Portal popups, e.g. member signup/signin/account settings
- in the footer of some themes, including Source & Casper
We're adding the query param ?via to evaluate the usage of the badge in
newsletters.
no-issue
This adds the barebones of a NestJS application wired up to the Admin API
behind a feature flag, so that we can experiement with how to use Nest in the
context of Ghost
closes ENG-730
closes https://linear.app/tryghost/issue/ENG-730/
We've updated the input serializer to parse the filter, and responded
with an error if it cannot be parsed correctly.
Now that it's parsed, we can pass a mongo query object through the
stack, which will lend itself to better typing for this code, which is a
direction we want to go in anyway. We've had to update all the internal
usages of the `browse` method to use mongo query objects.
ref https://linear.app/tryghost/issue/ENG-740/http-500-error-when-image-processing-fails
refs 4aad551c72
- upon further discussion, we've decided it's better to throw an error
in this case because the uploaded image is deemed invalid and storing
it on the filesystem might cause more issues with resizing/further
processing in the future
- this commit implements that and alters the tests
fixes ENG-740
fixes https://linear.app/tryghost/issue/ENG-740/http-500-error-when-image-processing-fails
- in the event the image transform library throws (which can happen for
many reasons; sharp/libvips can come across a number of errors), we
currently return this as a HTTP 500 error to the user
- in this case, we should just try-catch the call and jump to the
non-processing flow where it just saves the original image
- also added breaking test
closes https://linear.app/tryghost/issue/ENG-721
ref https://linear.app/tryghost/issue/ENG-708
Comments-UI loads `/ghost/admin-frame/` in an iframe to check if a Staff User is authenticated in order to show moderation options. That iframe request loads a HTML page which in turn contains a script that fires off an API request that attempts to fetch the logged-in user details, resulting in a 403 "error" showing up when not authenticated. In the vast majority of cases there will be no staff user authenticated so lots of extra requests and "errors" are seen unnecessarily.
- adjusted the `/ghost/auth-frame/` endpoint to check if the request contains an Admin session cookie
- if it does, continue as before with rendering the HTML page so the script is loaded
- if it doesn't, return an empty 204 response avoiding the script request and subsequent 403-generating API request
- eliminates the 403 error being generated for all typical visitor traffic, the error should only be seen when an Admin was previously logged in but their cookie is no longer valid (either from logging out, or going past the 6month validity period)
fixes https://github.com/TryGhost/Product/issues/4237
- this fixes the fact that we return a HTTP 500 response when the oembed
library receives an error, such as a 401 or 403
- includes special handling for cases where we want to return a slightly
different error message
- also adds unit tests for @tryghost/oembed-service package
