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  • New Features
    • Device tables can display alert events, sleep capability, and static IP columns, which can be selected in column settings.
    • MQTT device details now include SSID and VLAN information.
  • Bug Fixes
    • Italian navigation labels for “Next” and “Previous” are now translated.
    • MQTT publishing stops retrying after a limited number of failed attempts instead of retrying indefinitely, and correctly serializes payloads containing apostrophes.
    • Down-alert statistics correctly ignore devices present in the current scan, even when MAC address letter case differs.

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The device table adds Alert Events, Can Sleep, and Static IP columns with English labels and empty entries in other locales. The MQTT publisher limits retries and adds SSID and VLAN to tracker attributes. Scan-statistics queries reverse the MAC comparison operands, with regression tests for case differences and absent devices.

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Device table columns

Layer / File(s) Summary
Register device-table columns
front/js/device-columns.js, server/plugins/ui_settings/config.json
The device-column fields, label mappings, and available column options now include Alert Events, Can Sleep, and Static IP.
Add column translations
CLAUDE.md, front/php/templates/language/*.json
English labels were added for the three column headers, with empty entries in other locale files. Translation guidance now covers key reuse and running merge_translations.py. The Italian file also adds labels for Next and Previous and removes duplicate entries.

MQTT publisher updates

Layer / File(s) Summary
Bound MQTT publish retries
server/plugins/_publisher_mqtt/mqtt.py, test/plugins/test_publisher_mqtt.py
Publish attempts are limited to 20, with a 0.1-second delay between failures. Tests cover successful publishing, retries, exhausted attempts, disconnected behavior, and JSON serialization of apostrophes.
Build device identifiers and tracker attributes
server/plugins/_publisher_mqtt/mqtt.py, test/plugins/test_publisher_mqtt.py
The publisher uses helper functions to format device IDs and display names and build device-tracker attributes. The payload adds SSID and VLAN fields. Tests cover formatting, binary-sensor conversion, and tracker attributes, including parent-name lookup and vendor sanitization.

Scan statistics MAC matching

Layer / File(s) Summary
Match scan MACs in alert counts
server/scan/device_handling.py, test/db_test_helpers.py, test/scan/test_scan_stats_mac_case.py
The alert-count queries reverse the MAC equality operands. The test schema uses NOCASE collation, and regression tests check mixed-case matches and absent devices.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Change: Feature

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to f0a83

If MQTT discovery fails during an enabled run, the sensor may remain undiscovered even after the broker recovers. Fix discovery retry eligibility before merging.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 8473f

New device attributes can produce invalid MQTT JSON, and a failed configuration publish can be recorded as provisioned. Both can leave Home Assistant with missing or unusable device state. The existing topics and service boundaries remain unchanged.

Retained concerns

  • Medium · reliability · observed: The newly published SSID field can make retained device-state and tracker-attribute messages invalid JSON when it contains an apostrophe.
  • Medium · reliability · inferred: Exhausted publish retries can leave a sensor configuration recorded locally despite its MQTT configuration publish failing, with no demonstrated recovery of that configuration.
Security review details

Security Blast Radius

  • inferred — For each published device, existing subscribers to its sensor-state or tracker-attribute topic can now receive SSID and VLAN metadata. Subscriber permissions and whether either field is sensitive in this deployment are unknown.

Security Findings and Attack Paths

  • inferred — An SSID containing an apostrophe can invalidate the retained JSON consumed by Home Assistant. Whether an attacker can set a published device's SSID, or whether a security automation depends on this state, was not established.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed — The publisher reads SSID and VLAN from device rows and forwards them through its existing MQTT path. Device schemas include corresponding source-tracking fields, but the inspected publisher does not use them to gate publication.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • inferred — Bounded retries protect a run from one indefinitely failing publish, but ignored terminal failures and pre-publication configuration recording leave partial-delivery recovery unresolved.

Hardening Proposals

  • proposed — Preserve json.dumps output without rewriting apostrophes, and verify JSON round trips for SSID values on both published topics.
  • proposed — Record configuration as provisioned only after a successful publish, and define retry or reconciliation behavior for failed and interrupted runs.
  • proposed — Confirm field provenance and broker subscriber permissions before treating retained SSID and VLAN publication as an acceptable data-sharing policy.
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Title check ❓ Inconclusive The title “Next release” is generic and does not identify the main changes, which include MQTT publishing updates, device-table columns, translation keys, and MAC-case scan fixes. Replace the title with a concise summary of the primary changes, such as “Update MQTT publishing, device columns, and scan statistics”.
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In @server/plugins/_publisher_mqtt/mqtt.py:
- Around line 467-468: Update the device attribute construction in mqtt_start to
handle custom MQTT_DEVICES_SQL results that omit devSSID or devVlan; use a
fallback when either field is absent so publishing can continue. Preserve the
existing values when those columns are present.
- Line 467: Remove the post-serialization apostrophe replacement in
publish_mqtt; json.dumps already produces valid JSON, while replacing
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- Around line 323-324: Update the sensor discovery flow in create_sensor and
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mylog('minimal', [f"[{pluginName}] ⚠ ERROR: Giving up on topic {topic} after {_PUBLISH_MAX_ATTEMPTS} attempts (status={status})."])
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🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

🔎 Supported by static analysis

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#!/bin/bash
set -eu
printf '%s\n' '--- mqtt.py relevant symbols ---'
rg -n -C 12 'def publish_mqtt|def create_sensor|mqtt_sensors|def mqtt_start' server/plugins/_publisher_mqtt/mqtt.py
printf '%s\n' '--- sensor configuration symbols ---'
rg -n -C 14 'def handle_plugin_object|def getPluginObject|create_sensor|sensor object|plugin_object' server -g '*.py'
printf '%s\n' '--- relevant tracked files ---'
git ls-files '*sensor*config*' '*mqtt*' | head -80
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printf '%s\n' '--- mqtt startup sensor calls ---'
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printf '%s\n' '--- sensor_config definitions and calls ---'
rg -n -C 20 'class sensor_config|handle_plugin_object|sensorConfig|sensor_config\(' server/plugins/_publisher_mqtt/mqtt.py server/plugins/_publisher_mqtt -g '*.py'
printf '%s\n' '--- getPluginObject exact body ---'
sed -n '260,315p' server/utils/plugin_utils.py
printf '%s\n' '--- Plugin_Objects definition ---'
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Retry failed MQTT discovery on a later run.

When publish_mqtt exhausts its retries, create_sensor returns without publishing the discovery message. However, sensor_config.handle_plugin_object stores the sensor before publication. On the next run, getPluginObject finds that object, sets sensorConfig.isNew to False, and create_sensor skips the discovery publish. Persist the sensor only after a successful discovery publish, or retry unpublished configurations on a later run.

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324:
Update the sensor discovery flow in create_sensor and
sensor_config.handle_plugin_object so a failed publish_mqtt leaves the
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- Line 581: Add a succinct docstring to `print_scan_stats()` describing the
diagnostic counts it logs, and add a succinct docstring to `fake_mylog()`
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jokob-sk merged commit d731838 into main Sep 27, 2026
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