913cacaff0
Foundation for stepped upgrades. Answers one question only — WHICH
versions, in WHICH order — with no side effects, so it can be tested
exhaustively. Applying the rungs is a separate job.
Nextcloud refuses to skip a major ("Updates between multiple major
versions and downgrades are unsupported") and will not start; databases
behave the same way about their data directory. For those apps 31 -> 34
is three upgrades, each with a migration that must finish before the
next begins.
Built by PROBING each candidate rung, not by enumerating tags — because
enumeration is provably unsafe here. Docker Hub pages at 100 ordered by
recency, and the first real-registry run proved the danger: it produced
v4.2 -> v4.4 -> v4.5 -> v4.6 for mastodon, silently skipping v4.3, which
exists (HTTP 200) but had fallen off the newest-100 listing. Skipping a
rung is the precise failure this file exists to prevent, so the ladder is
now built by incrementing and probing: v4.2 -> v4.3 -> v4.4 -> v4.5 ->
v4.6, 4 steps.
Guarantees: same shape only (never 31-fpm-alpine onto 31-apache),
strictly ascending, never a downgrade, rolling tags refused outright, and
a version upstream never published is stepped over only because the probe
said so. If a continuous path to the target cannot be constructed it
returns 1 and prints nothing — refusing to guess, because a wrong ladder
means a skipped migration.
20 unit tests, including the exact listing-truncation case above and the
numeric ordering that would otherwise drive an app backwards (0.9 vs
0.10). Real registry: nextcloud 3 steps, mastodon 4, stalwart current.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
LibrePortal
Your own private corner of the internet — free, open, and yours.
LibrePortal is a self-hosted platform for running the apps you rely on, on your own server: one-click installs, a reverse proxy with automatic SSL, rootless Docker, optional VPN routing, and a clean web dashboard to manage it all.
⚠️ v0.1.0 — early days. Expect rough edges while things settle.
Why LibrePortal
Too many services today treat your data as theirs to take — quietly overstepping boundaries that should never have been crossed. LibrePortal grew out of frustration with that: it's a way to run the apps you depend on on your own server, where your data stays yours. Privacy here isn't a feature to toggle — it's the whole point.
Free & open — forever
The entire platform is free software under the GNU AGPLv3. Self-host it and you get everything — every feature, no paywalls, no telemetry. See our Promise for exactly what that means.
What you get
- 📦 One-click self-hosted apps (Nextcloud, Vaultwarden, Jellyfin, Gitea, …)
- 🔀 Traefik reverse proxy + automatic Let's Encrypt SSL
- 🔒 Rootless Docker, CrowdSec, sane security defaults
- 🛡️ Optional VPN routing (gluetun) for any app
- 🖥️ A web dashboard to install, configure, back up, and monitor everything
Quick start
curl -fsSL https://get.libreportal.org/install.sh | sudo bash
This installs a versioned, checksum-verified release (Debian/Ubuntu, root). Put
data on separate disks with --system-dir= / --containers-dir= / --backups-dir=.
The
get.libreportal.orghost is still being set up — until it's live, build a release and install from it locally (see the docs below).
Documentation
- docs/guide/install-and-use.md — install, place data on separate disks/drives, update, back up, uninstall.
- docs/contributing/development.md — run a dev copy, cut stable/edge releases, and test them before publishing.
LibrePortal Connect (optional)
Self-hosting is free and complete. If you'd rather not fiddle with the tricky parts — like reaching your server from your phone, or keeping off-site backups — LibrePortal Connect will handle them for you. Here's the catch that makes us different: we work like a courier carrying a sealed box. We move your data between your devices and store backup copies, but it stays locked and you hold the only key — we can't open it, and we never run your apps for you. Everything we offer, you can also set up yourself for free. Our Promise spells out exactly where that line sits.
Contributing
PRs welcome — see CONTRIBUTING.md. We use a lightweight
DCO sign-off (git commit -s), no CLA.
Acknowledgments
LibrePortal has been built from scratch since 2023. Its spark of inspiration
was a small installer script from Brian McGonagill (OpenSourceIsAwesome):
gitlab.com/bmcgonag/docker_installs.
From that seed it grew start to finish — refined, extended, and refactored
into the platform it is today.
License
GNU AGPLv3. What's open stays open.