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Related issue: N/A
Validation tasks: changes Silo-Server/silo-server#1234 C2

Removing a saved server, or signing out of it, made one 8-second attempt at the logged-in push DELETE and then cleared the login. If that request failed, for example because the server was unreachable, the app could never resend it, and the server kept pushing to the phone. The same bug on iPhone showed up as blank "New notification available" banners from a server the user had removed.

Approach

Removal and sign-out now save a pending retirement at the record's next generation before sending anything. The app then calls the new POST /api/v2/notifications/push/devices/{device_id}/retire (retirePushDevice, Silo-Server/silo-server#2834). That call carries only the installation key and generation, which the app keeps after it removes the server, so it works without a login.

  • Only a server that answers 404 or 405 (one without the new endpoint) gets the old logged-in DELETE, at the same key and generation, while the login still exists.
  • A removal that never queued its retirement (it timed out waiting on the server, or the previous release made it) is queued and sent on the next retry once its login is gone, so devices already affected are fixed too.
  • Pending retirements are retried on app start, on returning to the foreground, and when an FCM message arrives. 200, 403, 409 and other refusals drop the entry. 404 or 405 keeps it for 30 days; other failures keep it for up to 90.
  • Signing in again or re-adding the server registers at a higher generation and drops the pending retirement, so a late retry can't turn pushes off again.

The Apple client does the same in Silo-Server/silo-apple#867.

Validation

  • Unit tests: pass. AndroidPushRegistrarTest (33) covers retirement, the 404/405 fallback, retries, expiry and re-adding, plus three regression tests from review that failed on 198a726: a removal that times out on the server lock, a removal left by the previous release, and a stalled retry skipping the back-off. PushRegistrationApiTest (7) covers the retire request.
  • Lint and both debug builds: pass.
  • Server side tested end to end on a dev server through the API (see feat(notifications): retire an Android push installation without a session silo-server#2834).
  • Not tested end to end from the app: a local debug build has no Firebase config, so it never gets a push token and never registers. This needs a CI or release-signed build on a device.

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Evidence: https://evidence.siloserver.org/r/silo-android/pr-657/

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Stop Android pushes from removed servers with durable key-only retirement

Replacing a server previously deleted the push registration with an authenticated session call, which failed once sign-out cleared credentials. Device removal now queues a durable PushRetirement (generation plus queue time) in PushInstallationStore.kt before any network call, and sends it via a new credential-free retire operation in PushRegistrationApi.kt that authenticates only with the installation key and generation.

  • The authenticated session deletion is now a fallback, used only when the server answers 404 or 405 on the retirement route. Unanswered or transient failures keep the retirement queued for retry.
  • AndroidPushRegistrar.retryPendingRetirements retries pending retirements on app start and on FCM message receipt, with bounded concurrency of three, an eight-second per-attempt timeout, exponential back-off, and lifetime expiry of 30 days (unsupported route) or 90 days (general).
  • Newer sign-ins, restores, and registrations supersede a pending retirement via generation checks in restoreRegistration and registerToken, so a superseded retirement is canceled instead of sent. Older stored removals without a retirement marker are recovered at their existing generation.
  • Risk: removal now allocates a registration generation before the next login, so generation sequences changed — see the updated test theNextForegroundGivesOtherServersARotatedTokenTheyMissed in AndroidPushRegistrarTest.kt. Server support for the new retirement endpoint is documented in android-push-registration.md.

Macroscope summarized 2522940.

Removing a saved server, or signing out of it, made one 8-second attempt at
the session DELETE and then cleared the login. When that request failed, the
removal could never be resent, as it needed the login that was gone, and the
server kept pushing to the phone.

Removal and sign-out now allocate the removal at the record's next
generation and persist it as a pending retirement, in the same write, before
anything is sent. The retirement, POST
/api/v2/notifications/push/devices/{device_id}/retire (retirePushDevice),
carries only the installation key and generation, with no session, and is
sent first. Only a server that answers 404 or 405 gets the session DELETE,
at the same key and generation, while the login still exists. Pending
retirements are retried on app start and foreground, and when an FCM
message arrives, at most three at a time with back-off. 200, 403, 409 and
other request refusals drop the entry. 404 or 405 keeps it for 30 days, and
other failures keep it for up to 90. Signing in again, re-adding the server,
or restoring after a sign-out that stopped registers at a higher generation,
which drops the pending retirement. Outcomes go to SiloLog as PushRetire
breadcrumbs.

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The change adds generation-based push-registration retirement using the installation key, persists unresolved retirement intents, and retries them through app lifecycle and FCM events. The shared API validates retirement receipts. Android tests and API documentation cover the new workflow.

Changes: Push registration retirement

Layer / File(s) Summary
Retirement API contract
shared/src/commonMain/.../PushRegistrationApi.kt, shared/src/commonMain/.../PushRegistrationRepository.kt, shared/src/commonTest/.../PushRegistrationApiTest.kt
The API adds a key-and-generation retirement request without Silo credentials. It accepts only HTTP 200 responses with a matching generation and removed: true. The repository forwards retirement requests, and tests cover request details and invalid or refused responses.
Persist and settle retirement intents
androidApp/src/androidMain/.../PushInstallationStore.kt, androidApp/src/androidMain/.../AndroidPushRegistrar.kt, androidApp/src/androidMain/.../auth/SignOutTeardown.kt, androidApp/src/androidMain/.../ui/screens/servers/ServerListViewModel.kt, docs/api-v2/android-push-registration.md
The registrar persists a generation-specific retirement intent before sending it. It uses session removal when the retirement route returns 404 or 405 and credentials remain. Restoration and newer registration actions cancel pending retirements.
Retry triggers and outcome handling
androidApp/src/androidMain/.../AndroidPushRegistrar.kt, androidApp/src/androidMain/.../AndroidPushRegistrationStarter.kt, androidApp/src/androidMain/.../SiloFirebaseMessagingService.kt, androidApp/src/androidUnitTest/.../AndroidPushRegistrarTest.kt, docs/api-v2/android-push-registration.md
The registrar retries pending intents with bounded concurrency, backoff, and retention limits. Foreground start and FCM receipt trigger retries. Tests cover retry outcomes, restart behavior, and cancellation. Documentation describes the workflow.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant AndroidPushRegistrationStarter
  participant AndroidPushRegistrar
  participant PushRegistrationRepository
  participant DefaultPushRegistrationApi
  participant PushServer
  AndroidPushRegistrationStarter->>AndroidPushRegistrar: retryPendingRetirements()
  AndroidPushRegistrar->>PushRegistrationRepository: retireDevice(serverUrl, deviceId, key, generation)
  PushRegistrationRepository->>DefaultPushRegistrationApi: retire(serverUrl, deviceId, key, generation)
  DefaultPushRegistrationApi->>PushServer: Unauthenticated POST with key and generation
  PushServer-->>DefaultPushRegistrationApi: Status and retirement receipt
  DefaultPushRegistrationApi-->>AndroidPushRegistrar: Validated result
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Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 198a7

If sign-out is interrupted while the push token is unavailable, registration for that server may not recover automatically. This is a narrow case that warrants a fix or explicit acceptance before merging.

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Visible change lacks evidence: retiring a server's push registration stops stale notifications after sign-out or server removal (AndroidPushRegistrar.kt, SiloFirebaseMessagingService.kt). This reaches Android phones, tablets, and foldables folded and open; it does not reach Android TV. The Evidence section contains only EVIDENCE_PLACEHOLDER, with no captures or valid evidence link. Please provide a recording of the removal/sign-out and subsequent push behavior for each affected device, with device and build/commit details. The PR explains that local debug builds lack Firebase configuration and cannot test the flow, which explains the limitation but does not provide evidence.

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androidApp/src/androidMain/kotlin/org/siloserver/silo/android/push/AndroidPushRegistrar.kt: 4

258-261: A failed session removal can leave acknowledged and ownerLeaving inconsistent with a later retirement.

When a 404/405 server accepts the session removal, applyOnServer calls settle. settle sets retirement = null on success. This is correct, and the "cancelled/session_removed" breadcrumb follows.

When the session removal fails (no login, or the server returns an error), the retirement stays queued. The retired.result is the 404/405 ApiResult.Error at line 258. The caller treats this as a failed removal, which is expected.

Line 258 returns retired.result when registeredOwnerOf is null. That result is the raw 404/405 error. Sign-out tolerates it. No defect is found here, so no change is required.


301-321: Verify that a push-triggered retry cannot send duplicate concurrent requests for one server.

retryPendingRetirements runs from app start, every foreground, and every FCM message. retryRetirement uses tryLock on the server lock, so the sends for one server are serialized. This matches the design. No defect is found.


310-313: Back-off state is keyed by serverUrl, but the record is keyed by serverUrl and device.

retirementFailures is per server URL. The code supports one record per server and device. Only one device ID is used per install, so the key is sufficient. No change is required.


563-563: Confirm the back-off shift cannot overflow.

failures - 1 is clamped to 0..20. 30_000L shl 20 is about 3.1e10. This fits in Long. coerceAtMost then caps it at six hours. The code is correct.

androidApp/src/androidMain/kotlin/org/siloserver/silo/android/push/SiloFirebaseMessagingService.kt: 1

120-137: Verify that retirements?.join() stays inside the push time budget.

withinPushBudget bounds the retirement job. retryPendingRetirements also applies a per-record PUSH_WORK_BUDGET_MS. The join therefore ends within the budget. The change is consistent with onNewToken. No defect is found.

shared/src/commonMain/kotlin/org/siloserver/silo/network/api/PushRegistrationApi.kt: 1

15-21: LGTM!

Also applies to: 77-88

shared/src/commonMain/kotlin/org/siloserver/silo/repository/PushRegistrationRepository.kt: 1

14-15: LGTM!

shared/src/commonTest/kotlin/org/siloserver/silo/network/api/PushRegistrationApiTest.kt: 1

94-118: LGTM!

androidApp/src/androidMain/kotlin/org/siloserver/silo/android/push/PushInstallationStore.kt: 1

31-43: LGTM!

androidApp/src/androidMain/kotlin/org/siloserver/silo/android/auth/SignOutTeardown.kt: 1

77-82: LGTM!

androidApp/src/androidMain/kotlin/org/siloserver/silo/android/ui/screens/servers/ServerListViewModel.kt: 1

127-131: LGTM!

androidApp/src/androidMain/kotlin/org/siloserver/silo/android/push/AndroidPushRegistrationStarter.kt: 1

27-29: LGTM!

androidApp/src/androidUnitTest/kotlin/org/siloserver/silo/android/push/AndroidPushRegistrarTest.kt: 1

304-366: LGTM!

docs/api-v2/android-push-registration.md: 1

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The test summary omits the new retirement coverage.

The paragraph lists the focused tests. It does not mention the new retirement tests: retirement without a login, restart retry, status retention, and supersession by a new login or restore. Add them so the document matches the test suite.


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Comment on lines 247 to +251
return serverLock(found.serverUrl).withLock {
// Read again under the server's lock: a registration finishing first can
// change the registered profile, and the server refuses a removal from any
// other profile, for good.
val registered = recordOf(found.serverUrl, device)?.takeIf { it.intent.serverId == serverId && it.removable }
?: return@withLock failure("push_not_registered")
val owner = registeredOwnerOf(registered) ?: return@withLock failure("push_authority_changed")
applyOnServer(owner, null, attempt, mayReconcile = true).map { Unit }
if (latestRequests[serverId] !== attempt) return@withLock failure("push_request_superseded")
// Read again under the server's lock, as a registration finishing first
// changes the record: the removal is allocated over whatever it left.
val retiring = queueRetirement(found.serverUrl, device, serverId) ?: return@withLock failure("push_not_registered")

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kody code-review Bug high

Lost retirement retries occur when an in-flight registration holds the server mutex for the eight-second unregister budget: pending retirement remains unpersisted, leaving only ownerLeaving=true on disk, and sign-out/removal clears the login while retryPendingRetirements ignores the record because retirement is null. Persist a durable removal obligation before waiting for the mutex, then resolve its generation under the mutex.

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File androidApp/src/androidMain/kotlin/org/siloserver/silo/android/push/AndroidPushRegistrar.kt:

Line 247 to 251:

Lost retirement retries occur when an in-flight registration holds the server mutex for the eight-second unregister budget: pending retirement remains unpersisted, leaving only ownerLeaving=true on disk, and sign-out/removal clears the login while retryPendingRetirements ignores the record because retirement is null. Persist a durable removal obligation before waiting for the mutex, then resolve its generation under the mutex.

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Confirmed. A registration blocked on the server lock let the removal time out with only ownerLeaving saved, and nothing retried it afterwards. Fixed in 2522940, without moving the generation allocation out from under the lock: a retry treats such a record as a pending removal once its login is gone, and queues and sends its retirement under the lock. ownerLeaving is already the durable obligation, saved before the wait. A new test, aRemovalThatRanOutOfTimeWaitingOnARegistrationIsRetiredOnceTheLoginIsGone, failed on 198a726 and passes now.

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Thanks for confirming. Based on your description, 2522940 addresses the reported gap: ownerLeaving is the durable removal obligation persisted before waiting for the lock, and retries now recover it once the login is gone, allocating the retirement generation under the server mutex.

The regression test failing on 198a726 and passing with the fix directly covers the timeout scenario. My original recommendation was too prescriptive: a separate pre-lock retirement record is unnecessary if retries honor the existing durable marker.

Comment on lines +230 to +231
// The server stays saved and signed in, so its retirement must not go out.
cancelRetirement(record, "restored")

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kody code-review Bug high

Race condition identified in restoreAsRegisteredOwner: it cancels the current record's retirement without rechecking latestRequests after acquiring the server mutex, so a removal that becomes newest during the wait can lose its pending retirement before applyOnServer rejects the stale attempt, leaving the subsequently removed server without retries. Recheck the attempt inside the mutex before cancelRetirement.

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File androidApp/src/androidMain/kotlin/org/siloserver/silo/android/push/AndroidPushRegistrar.kt:

Line 230 to 231:

Race condition identified in restoreAsRegisteredOwner: it cancels the current record's retirement without rechecking latestRequests after acquiring the server mutex, so a removal that becomes newest during the wait can lose its pending retirement before applyOnServer rejects the stale attempt, leaving the subsequently removed server without retries. Recheck the attempt inside the mutex before cancelRetirement.

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Confirmed from source; it needs a real thread interleaving, so there's no test for it. Fixed in 2522940: restore checks latestRequests again after taking the server lock and looking up the owner, before it cancels the retirement.

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Thanks for confirming. The recheck in 2522940, as described, addresses the reported race: a superseded restore exits before canceling the pending retirement.

A deterministic regression test would need a synchronization hook to force that interleaving; a timing-based test would be flaky.

val permits = Semaphore(RETIREMENT_CONCURRENCY)
coroutineScope {
for (record in due) launch {
permits.withPermit { withTimeoutOrNull(PUSH_WORK_BUDGET_MS) { retryRetirement(record) } }

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kody code-review Performance medium

Retirement timeouts bypass retirementFailures bookkeeping because cancellation exits sendRetirement before settleRetirement and retryRetirement rethrows it, leaving a server that stalls beyond eight seconds immediately eligible on every foreground and FCM message and repeatedly occupying the callback for the full budget instead of respecting RETIREMENT_MIN_RETRY_MS. Record timeout failures outside the timed block, including cancellation by the Firebase callback's outer budget.

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File androidApp/src/androidMain/kotlin/org/siloserver/silo/android/push/AndroidPushRegistrar.kt:

Line 318:

Retirement timeouts bypass retirementFailures bookkeeping because cancellation exits sendRetirement before settleRetirement and retryRetirement rethrows it, leaving a server that stalls beyond eight seconds immediately eligible on every foreground and FCM message and repeatedly occupying the callback for the full budget instead of respecting RETIREMENT_MIN_RETRY_MS. Record timeout failures outside the timed block, including cancellation by the Firebase callback's outer budget.

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Confirmed. Fixed in 2522940: when retryRetirement runs out of its budget, the pass now records a failure for that server, so the next push waits out RETIREMENT_MIN_RETRY_MS. A new test, aRetirementThatStallsWaitsOutTheBackOffLikeOneThatFailed, failed on 198a726 (three sends instead of two) and passes now.

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Thanks for confirming. Based on your description, 2522940 addresses this finding: timed-out retirement attempts now count as failures, so subsequent pushes respect RETIREMENT_MIN_RETRY_MS.

The regression test failing on 198a726 and passing with the fix provides coverage for the reported behavior.

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Review of 198a726. Four defects need fixing. Two are new below; the other two are in Kody's threads, which I've replied to. A summary with scores follows once the fixes are pushed. I'm fixing all of these in a commit on this branch, so there's no need to change anything yourself.

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A removal that ran out of time waiting on a registration holding the
server's lock persisted only ownerLeaving, and one made by the previous
release has no retirement field at all. Neither was ever retried, so the
server kept pushing once the login was cleared. Retries now queue and send
a retirement for such a record once its login is gone, at the generation a
removal nobody confirmed already holds.

A retry that runs out of time now counts as a failure, so pushes respect the
back-off. Every retry pass shares one three-permit limit. Restore rechecks
that it is still the newest operation under the server's lock before it drops
a retirement, so it can't cancel one a newer removal queued.

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Review summary: reviewed 198a726, fixes pushed as 2522940

Fit: 9/10 · Readiness: 7/10 — conditional (assuming CI is green)

Fit: removing a server or signing out should stop its pushes, and before this PR a single failed request left them running for good. Sending a retirement without a login, at the same generation the server already orders, fixes that at the right boundary without adding a setting. The Apple side is paired in Silo-Server/silo-apple#867, and the server side (Silo-Server/silo-server#2834) is merged.

Readiness: the approach holds up and the review's defects are fixed, but nobody has watched a retirement go out from a real device. A local debug build has no Firebase config, so it never registers.

Fixed on this branch (2522940)

  • A removal that timed out waiting on a registration holding the server lock queued no retirement, so nothing retried it once the login was cleared. It's now retired on the next retry.
  • A removal that failed before this update has no retirement field and was never retried, so devices already affected stayed affected. Retries now pick these records up too.
  • A retry that ran out of time recorded no failure, so every push retried it immediately. It now counts toward the back-off.
  • Each retry pass had its own three-request limit, so overlapping passes could send six. They now share one.
  • Restore could cancel a retirement that a newer removal queued while restore waited on the lock. It now checks again under the lock.

Not changed

  • CodeRabbit's point about restoring without an FCM token: main behaves the same way, so this PR doesn't introduce it. Details are in that thread.

Left for the maintainers

  • A retirement for an installation the server has never stored answers 200 without recording anything, so a first registration that arrives after the retirement would still register. This needs a server change to record the generation the retirement fences off, and only matters if the network delivers a request after a later one. It wasn't reproduced.

Validated features

Tests: AndroidPushRegistrarTest passes 33/33 and PushRegistrationApiTest 7/7 at 2522940, and lint shows no new issues. The three regression tests added here failed on 198a726. The PR's original tests call API this PR adds, so they can't build on main and don't count as proof that they catch the bug.

User manual: no change needed. The site doesn't describe what happens to push registrations when you remove a server.

Apple/Android parity: Apple has the same change in Silo-Server/silo-apple#867. That PR needs a check for the same two gaps: a removal that times out before queueing its retirement, and removals left by the previous release.

Cross-provider review: Codex (gpt-6.1-sol), one read-only round. It confirmed the Kody findings and found the shared-limit and server-fence issues. Every finding was checked against the source.

Evidence: https://evidence.siloserver.org/r/silo-android/pr-657/

Reviewed with Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5).

Comment on lines +452 to +454
/** A removal began here ([markOwnerLeaving]) but queued no retirement. */
private val PushInstallation.unqueuedRemoval: Boolean
get() = ownerLeaving && retirement == null && removable

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Terminal retirement recovery incorrectly selects dropped retirements through unqueuedRemoval: settleRetirement(DROPPED) clears only retirement, leaving ownerLeaving=true and acknowledged=false, so the new recovery branch requeues definitively refused requests and restarts expired retirements' lifetimes once the login is gone. Persist a distinct terminal state or clear the recovery marker on terminal drops before selecting unqueued removals.

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File androidApp/src/androidMain/kotlin/org/siloserver/silo/android/push/AndroidPushRegistrar.kt:

Line 452 to 454:

Terminal retirement recovery incorrectly selects dropped retirements through `unqueuedRemoval`: `settleRetirement(DROPPED)` clears only `retirement`, leaving `ownerLeaving=true` and `acknowledged=false`, so the new recovery branch requeues definitively refused requests and restarts expired retirements' lifetimes once the login is gone. Persist a distinct terminal state or clear the recovery marker on terminal drops before selecting unqueued removals.

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