release: report-download JSON string cap, upload-cap heap fit, ETA fixes, and accumulated dev fixes

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Periodic dev -> main release PR per CONTRIBUTING.md. Bundles everything merged to dev since the last release, including:

• fix: raise Jackson's 20MB JSON string cap for report topology diagrams #793 fix: raise Jackson's 20MB JSON string cap for report topology diagrams
• fix: make the upload cap fit the heap that has to parse it (#779) #780 fix: make the upload cap fit the heap that has to parse it (OOM on large captures: the parser holds the whole file in heap, and the OOM takes the web server with it #779)
• fix: weight the progress bar from measurement, not estimate (#758) #777 fix: weight the progress bar from measurement, not estimate (Analysis progress bar is wrong in kind: 23% for 95% of the run #758)
• fix: give the analysis ETA a fixed-cost term, and exit on OOM (#758, #779) #782 fix: give the analysis ETA a fixed-cost term (Analysis progress bar is wrong in kind: 23% for 95% of the run #758 follow-on)
• perf: share the strings every packet repeats (#779) #784 perf: share the strings every packet repeats (OOM on large captures: the parser holds the whole file in heap, and the OOM takes the web server with it #779)
• ci: run the tool-dependent tests for real, and notice when they cannot (#701) #786 ci: run the tool-dependent tests for real, and notice when they cannot (Backend coverage measures 4 points lower in CI than locally, same commit #701)
• docs: document every env var, and gate the third edge #788 docs: document every env var, and gate the third edge (OOM on large captures: the parser holds the whole file in heap, and the OOM takes the web server with it #779 follow-on)
• version-stamp chores

CI re-runs the same gates as on dev; merging publishes updated container images via publish-ghcr.yml.

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Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features

  • Added configurable warm detection-engine settings and improved first-run versus subsequent analysis progress estimates.
  • Added configuration options for tool-calling, network intelligence limits, authentication, resource limits, and application metadata.
  • Added memory-based limits for report-generated topology data.

• Bug Fixes

  • Reduced maximum upload allocation to improve stability on memory-constrained deployments.
  • Large reports and captures are now less likely to exhaust memory; services restart cleanly after memory exhaustion.
  • Analysis time estimates now better reflect capture size, enabled processing stages, and first-run overhead.

• Documentation

  • Updated environment-variable and memory-configuration documentation with new settings and capacity guidance.

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The pull request adds memory-derived upload and JSON limits, warm Suricata-aware analysis estimates, per-analysis packet string pooling, configurable upload validation, environment-contract checks, calibration tooling, and CI workflow updates.

Changes

Runtime memory and analysis behavior

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Memory limits and JSON parsing .env.example, backend/docker-entrypoint.sh, backend/src/main/java/com/tracepcap/file/service/FileServiceImpl.java, backend/src/main/java/com/tracepcap/config/JacksonConfig.java, backend/src/main/resources/application.yml, docs/configuration/environment-variables.rst, scripts/check_memory_budget.py, .github/workflows/memory-budget.yml, backend/src/test/java/com/tracepcap/config/JacksonConfigTest.java	Upload limits use 16% of effective memory. Jackson string limits use 2.5%, clamped to 8–256 MB. File validation reads the configured limit. The JVM exits on heap exhaustion.
Warm-engine state and analysis estimation backend/src/main/java/com/tracepcap/common/stage/DetectionEngineStatus.java, backend/src/main/java/com/tracepcap/analysis/service/SuricataEngine.java, backend/src/main/java/com/tracepcap/analysis/service/AnalysisService.java, backend/src/main/java/com/tracepcap/file/mapper/FileMapper.java, scripts/calibrate_analysis_eta.py, backend/src/test/java/com/tracepcap/analysis/service/StagePlanWeightingTest.java, backend/src/test/java/com/tracepcap/file/mapper/AnalysisEtaTest.java	Suricata exposes warm state. Stage weights and ETA estimates distinguish cold and warm engines. Calibration tooling fits fixed and per-packet timing coefficients.
Per-analysis packet string pooling backend/src/main/java/com/tracepcap/analysis/service/PcapParserService.java, backend/src/test/java/com/tracepcap/analysis/service/PacketStringPoolingTest.java	Packet parsing reuses duplicate IP and protocol strings within each analysis. Tests verify pooling behavior and null handling.

Configuration and repository validation

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Configuration contracts and CI checks .env.example, scripts/check_env_passthrough.py, .github/workflows/env-passthrough.yml, .github/workflows/test-backend.yml, backend/src/test/java/com/tracepcap/analysis/ExternalToolsAvailableTest.java, CONTRIBUTING.md, docker-compose.yml	The environment example documents new runtime settings. The passthrough checker verifies that backend variables are documented. CI checks .env.example changes and installs tshark. Branch-protection guidance and the nginx version are updated.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 00f43

This release changes upload and parsing memory behavior, analysis progress and ETA calculations, and configuration validation. Unresolved issues could increase heap usage or produce misleading analysis stages and ETAs, while documentation checks may accept inconsistent limits or fail outside the expected working directory. The PR should not merge until these bounded correctness and configuration risks are fixed or explicitly accepted.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Client
  participant FileServiceImpl
  participant FileMapper
  participant SuricataEngine
  participant AnalysisService
  Client->>FileServiceImpl: submit capture
  FileServiceImpl->>FileMapper: map capture metadata
  FileMapper->>SuricataEngine: query engine warmth
  FileMapper-->>Client: return ETA with cold-engine cost when needed
  AnalysisService->>SuricataEngine: query engine warmth
  SuricataEngine-->>AnalysisService: return warm or cold status
  AnalysisService-->>Client: report warm- or cold-stage progress

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Possibly related PRs

• NotYuSheng/TracePcap#473: Adds Suricata enablement that affects the warm-engine analysis path.
• NotYuSheng/TracePcap#567: Earlier AnalysisService.buildStagePlan and FileMapper ETA logic.
• NotYuSheng/TracePcap#759: Earlier warm SuricataEngine behavior extended by this change.

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Inline comments:
In `@backend/src/main/java/com/tracepcap/analysis/service/AnalysisService.java`:
- Around line 94-118: Update the Suricata weighting logic in the analysis plan
method to inject the global tracepcap.suricata.enabled setting and derive
suricata from that setting combined with file.isEnableSuricata(). Ensure a
disabled global flag prevents cold-engine weighting and the first-run ruleset
stage, and add coverage for global Suricata disabled with a cold engine.

In `@backend/src/main/java/com/tracepcap/analysis/service/PcapParserService.java`:
- Around line 399-402: Bound the map used by pooled so it canonicalizes existing
values but stops inserting new entries once a fixed capacity is reached,
returning the original value thereafter. Add a high-cardinality test covering
the capacity limit and preserving canonical reuse for values already in the
pool.

In `@backend/src/main/java/com/tracepcap/analysis/service/SuricataEngine.java`:
- Around line 80-105: Clear the warm state whenever a pcap-current command
failure triggers fallback to a cold process by calling discardDaemon() before
returning from that failure path. Preserve normal successful command handling,
and add a regression test verifying isWarm() becomes false after this
transition.

In `@backend/src/main/java/com/tracepcap/file/mapper/FileMapper.java`:
- Around line 80-82: Update the size-based ETA fallback in FileMapper so it also
adds SURICATA_ENGINE_BUILD_SECONDS when suricata is enabled and engineWarm is
false, matching the packet-count path. Add a test covering packetCount == null
with a cold Suricata engine and verify the fallback includes the build cost.

In `@backend/src/test/java/com/tracepcap/file/mapper/AnalysisEtaTest.java`:
- Around line 63-68: Update doesNotUnderestimateASmallCapture to assert the
configured 10-second minimum returned by estimate for the small capture,
replacing the weaker 2-second lower bound while preserving the existing test
setup.

In `@docs/configuration/environment-variables.rst`:
- Around line 26-29: Update the environment-variable documentation to state that
uploads are capped at 16% of the effective memory budget, including 327 MB for
APP_MEMORY_MB=2048, and replace related 25% references. Review backend fallback
configuration for 512 MiB values and align them if the backend can run without
backend/docker-entrypoint.sh.

In `@scripts/check_env_passthrough.py`:
- Around line 120-127: Update documented_vars to read the supplied path instead
of hardcoding .env.example, resolving relative paths from the repository root
via ROOT consistently with the other checker inputs; preserve the existing
missing-file fallback and variable parsing behavior.
- Around line 153-160: Update the stack iteration in the undocumented-variable
check to collect the union of variables returned by vars_passed for every
compose_files entry in STACKS, rather than filtering to prod; then compare that
union against EXEMPT, INTERNAL_WIRING, and documented while preserving the
existing sorting and reporting behavior.

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Use the effective Suricata state for stage weighting.

Line 96 ignores the global tracepcap.suricata.enabled kill-switch. If the kill-switch is false and the file flag is true, this plan assigns 90% of progress to "Building threat-detection ruleset (first run)", although Suricata will not run.

Inject the global flag and combine it with file.isEnableSuricata(). This matches FileMapper.toMetadataDto, which already uses the effective Suricata state. Add coverage for global Suricata disabled with a cold engine.

Proposed fix

+  `@Value`("${tracepcap.suricata.enabled:true}")
+  private boolean suricataEnabled;
+
   private List<StageStep> buildStagePlan(FileEntity file) {
     boolean extraction = file.isEnableFileExtraction();
-    boolean suricata = file.isEnableSuricata();
+    boolean suricata = suricataEnabled && file.isEnableSuricata();
     boolean coldEngine = suricata && !suricataEngine.isWarm();

Also applies to: 167-167

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In `@backend/src/main/java/com/tracepcap/analysis/service/AnalysisService.java`
around lines 94 - 118, Update the Suricata weighting logic in the analysis plan
method to inject the global tracepcap.suricata.enabled setting and derive
suricata from that setting combined with file.isEnableSuricata(). Ensure a
disabled global flag prevents cold-engine weighting and the first-run ruleset
stage, and add coverage for global Suricata disabled with a cold engine.

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🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Bound the string pool.

A capture can contain millions of distinct source or destination IP values. Line 401 then retains one HashMap entry per value for the full parse. Those unique strings are already retained by PacketInfo, so the extra map entries increase peak heap use and can cause the same OutOfMemoryError this change targets.

Keep returning existing canonical values, but stop adding new values after a fixed pool capacity. Add a high-cardinality test that verifies the capacity limit.

Proposed fix

+  private static final int STRING_POOL_LIMIT = 65_536;
+
   private static String pooled(Map<String, String> pool, String value) {
     if (value == null) return null;
-    String existing = pool.putIfAbsent(value, value);
-    return existing != null ? existing : value;
+    String existing = pool.get(value);
+    if (existing != null) return existing;
+    if (pool.size() >= STRING_POOL_LIMIT) return value;
+    pool.put(value, value);
+    return value;
   }

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	private static String pooled(Map<String, String> pool, String value) {
	if (value == null) return null;
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	private static final int STRING_POOL_LIMIT = 65_536;
	private static String pooled(Map<String, String> pool, String value) {
	if (value == null) return null;
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	if (existing != null) return existing;
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In `@backend/src/main/java/com/tracepcap/analysis/service/PcapParserService.java`
around lines 399 - 402, Bound the map used by pooled so it canonicalizes
existing values but stops inserting new entries once a fixed capacity is
reached, returning the original value thereafter. Add a high-cardinality test
covering the capacity limit and preserving canonical reuse for values already in
the pool.