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Stacked on #701, so this shows two commits until that merges. Only the second one, 42a071b, is new. Draft because it adds a table and I'd like your view on the design first.

What

storage.retention.keep_latest: N now also applies to oci. Blobs are cached under their digest, so there are no versions to order. Instead the proxy keeps the blobs of the N images of a repository that a tag most recently pointed at.

My case: a mirror schedule pulls homeassistant/home-assistant:beta every few minutes, with a 3 day retention rule for that repository. With keep_latest: 2 the current beta and the one before it stay cached, however old they are.

How

• New table image_manifests (migration 024): per repository and manifest digest, the digests it references and when a tag last pointed at it.
• The manifest serve path and the mirror record a manifest when it is served. A pull by tag sets the tag time, a pull by digest does not. Referrers tags (sha256-<hex>, .sig, .att) do not count as tags.
• The retention sweep takes the N newest tagged manifests of a repository, follows index -> platform manifests -> config and layers, and keeps those blobs. It then prunes the records of images that are no longer among the newest (1 hour grace).
• Nothing is recorded unless keep_latest is set and a retention rule can evict oci blobs. With keep_latest back at 0 the next sweep clears the table.

Limits

• An image counts once its tag was pulled or mirrored with keep_latest set, and its blobs are known once its platform manifest was served too. A client that already has the image does not pull that manifest again, so those blobs expire by their rule as before.
• Images pulled only by digest are not counted.
• The count is per repository, not per tag. With several tags in use, N has to be at least that high.
• Helm charts over OCI and Homebrew bottles go through the same handler, so they count as images too.
• storage.max_size can still evict a kept blob, as in Add storage.retention.keep_latest to keep the newest versions #701.

Questions

• Is a table for this fine, or would you rather read the references from the cached manifests at sweep time? I went with the table because the manifest cache has its own expiry and the sweep would have to parse every cached manifest.
• Per repository or per tag? Per tag is closer to what a user expects with many tags, but needs the tag name stored as well.

Tests

End to end through a fake registry in internal/server/retention_keep_latest_oci_test.go (keep 0, 1 and 2, pruning, digest pulls, no oci rule), plus tests for the table and the serve path. go test ./... and golangci-lint run pass locally. I did not run the Postgres tests locally.

Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features
  • OCI image storage retention now supports keep_latest, retaining blobs used by the newest tagged images in each repository. Shared blobs remain available while referenced by a retained image. Images pulled only by digest are not counted as tagged images for retention.
• Documentation
  • Clarified how OCI image retention works, including how images are counted and that 0 keeps none.

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Walkthrough

This change adds OCI image-manifest tracking and extends storage.retention.keep_latest to retain blobs referenced by the newest tagged images in each repository. Retention sweeps prune old manifest records and keep image blobs according to the configured count.

Changes: Keep Latest Retention

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Image-manifest storage and traversal internal/database/schema.go, internal/database/image_manifests.go, internal/database/image_manifests_test.go, internal/database/database_test.go, docs/architecture.md	Adds the image_manifests table and database operations to record manifest references, find digests reachable from the newest tagged images, list repositories, and prune older records.
Record manifests from OCI requests and mirrors internal/handler/container_image_refs.go, internal/handler/container_manifest.go, internal/handler/container_mirror.go, internal/handler/container.go, internal/handler/handler.go, internal/handler/profile.go, internal/handler/profile_test.go, internal/handler/container_image_refs_test.go, internal/server/server.go	Records OCI manifest references and tag times during manifest requests and mirror runs. Proxy configuration carries the image-retention count and enables tracking for OCI.
Apply OCI keep-latest retention internal/retention/retention.go, internal/retention/keep_latest_test.go, internal/server/retention.go, internal/server/retention_keep_latest_oci_test.go, internal/server/retention_keep_latest_test.go, config.example.yaml, docs/configuration.md	Extends keep-latest eligibility and retention sweeps to OCI images. Sweeps prune old manifest records and retain blobs referenced by the newest tagged images. Tests and documentation describe the OCI behavior and configuration.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Change: Feature

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant ContainerClient
  participant serveManifest
  participant writeManifest
  participant recordImageManifest
  participant DB
  ContainerClient->>serveManifest: requests a manifest by tag or digest
  serveManifest->>writeManifest: passes manifest and requested reference
  writeManifest->>recordImageManifest: records the image manifest
  recordImageManifest->>DB: stores manifest digest, references, and tag time

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Possibly related issues

• git-pkgs/proxy#410 — This change adds OCI tag-based retention for proxied and mirrored images; the issue also requests support for hosted repositories and pushes.

Possibly related PRs

• git-pkgs/proxy#701 — Adds storage.retention.keep_latest for cached package versions, while this change extends the setting to OCI images.

Suggested labels: enhancement

Suggested reviewers: pinguinfuss, andrew

Merge Risk: Minimal · up to fff46

This change adds OCI image-aware keep_latest retention. The earlier concern that an index's other-platform blobs could be evicted is handled at the current head. No concrete merge-blocking risk remains in the supplied evidence. Postgres tests were not run locally by the author, which is normal CI-level uncertainty.

Security architecture risk: Moderate · up to fff46

The main risks are persistent resource growth outside cache-size limits and a cleanup race that can lose image-retention protection. Existing content validation and repository separation limit integrity and isolation risk.

Retained concerns

• Medium · security · inferred: With keep_latest enabled and any positive OCI retention rule, requests for valid manifests across configured registries can create tracking records for repositories beyond that particular rule. Cleanup preserves the newest images separately for every recorded repository, while storage.max_size neither accounts for nor evicts these records. Selection loads all tagged rows before limiting the result, and pruning runs before the existing bounded artifact sweep. A caller able to pull many valid manifests can therefore grow durable reference data and maintenance work outside existing cache bounds, potentially affecting the shared service. Content-size, reference-count, depth, and grace limits constrain individual operations but not aggregate cardinality. Exhaustion thresholds and external request controls are unverified.
• Low · reliability · inferred: Pruning snapshots reachable manifests and later deletes excluded rows using their original recorded_at. A concurrent pull can promote an existing, old row into the newest images by advancing tagged_at, but the upsert does not refresh recorded_at. The stale deletion can therefore remove that newly current manifest and its reference tracking. Subsequent retention can expire its otherwise protected blobs, weakening cached-image availability during an upstream outage or rollback. The one-hour grace protects newly inserted rows, not this update of an older row. Sequential tag-time and pruning tests support normal behavior but do not establish safety for this interleaving.

Security review details

Security Blast Radius

• inferred — Logical retention decisions remain repository-scoped, but storage, memory, and query work use shared process and database resources. Consequently, the resource-growth concern can affect service availability beyond the repository generating the records; it does not establish cross-repository data access.

Security Findings and Attack Paths

• inferred — The availability path requires keep_latest and a positive OCI retention rule, access to the existing manifest route, and successful retrieval of distinct valid upstream manifests. No administrative privilege is required by the inspected handler. Publishing manifests is unnecessary when sufficient existing content is accessible, though publisher control can increase reference payloads. Actual ingress restrictions and practical denial-of-service thresholds remain unknown.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

• observed — Upstream manifest bytes cross into persistent retention state only after the existing bounded body read and verification against applicable requested and declared digests. References contain digests rather than repository identities, and child lookup and deletion use parameterized, repository-constrained queries. These controls counter content-substitution, SQL-injection, and cross-repository traversal interpretations of this change.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

• observed — The existing artifact sweep checks cancellation and caps artifact clears, but the newly preceding manifest-pruning phase enumerates repositories and performs selection and deletion without corresponding work budgets or context propagation. This is a failure-containment gap for the new request-driven state, rather than evidence that the previous artifact cache was resource-free.

Hardening Proposals

• proposed — Bound tracking cardinality and reference bytes independently of blob-cache size, narrow recording to repositories with applicable retention rules, and give selection and cleanup explicit work and cancellation budgets.
• proposed — Make selection and pruning concurrency-safe for both promoted roots and their reachable children. Define recovery after failed recording so protection can be rebuilt without silently treating incomplete tracking as a complete empty result.

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