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  • New Features

    • Added automatic database schema versioning and migrations for smoother upgrades.
    • Newer database formats are preserved during app updates to help prevent data loss.
    • Added safer atomic updates for concurrent changes.
    • BigQuery credentials are now stored more securely when saving connections and projects.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Settings updates now preserve existing values unless specifically changed.
    • Project changes update related selections consistently.
    • Legacy Iceberg configuration values are normalized automatically.
    • Missing or corrupted local data can recover using valid backups.

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The change adds schema-versioned migrations and a shared DatabaseStore. Main services now use atomic field updates and transactions. Legacy database helpers are removed. Tests and Electron fixtures use the current schema version and shared project seeding.

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Database storage and migration

Layer / File(s) Summary
Schema contracts and migration flow
src/main/database/migrations.ts, src/main/database/index.ts, src/types/backend.ts, tests/unit/main/database/migrations.test.ts
The database shape now includes schemaVersion. Migration utilities normalize legacy data, apply defaults, preserve newer fields, and retain newer schema versions.
Serialized store and recovery
src/main/database/store.ts, tests/unit/main/database/store.test.ts, tests/unit/__setup__/jest.setup.ts
DatabaseStore clones returned data, handles migrations and newer-version files, supports backups, recovery, concurrent updates, transactions, snapshots, and cache invalidation.
Service storage cutover
src/main/services/*.service.ts, tests/unit/main/services/*
Services now use DatabaseStore APIs. Project updates and settings changes use functional atomic updates. BigQuery keyfile sanitization is shared.
Legacy helper removal
src/main/utils/fileHelper.ts, src/main/utils/setupHelpers.ts, src/main/utils/sanitizeBigQueryKeyfile.ts
Database persistence is removed from fileHelper. Initial database creation moves to DatabaseStore.
Electron fixture seeding
e2e/fixtures/*, e2e/tests/projects/project-lifecycle.spec.ts, tests/integration/ipc/settings.ipc.test.ts
Seeded databases include the current schema version. Electron tests can create project directories and database records before launch.

Priority: ➖ Normal

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

Change: Refactor

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sequenceDiagram
  participant Service
  participant DatabaseStore
  participant database_json
  Service->>DatabaseStore: request field read or atomic update
  DatabaseStore->>DatabaseStore: apply migration-aware operation
  DatabaseStore->>database_json: persist the updated database
  DatabaseStore-->>Service: return consistent state
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Merge Risk: 🟠 High · up to c1f73

Concurrent operations can leave broken project records, failed deletion persistence can strand projects without files, and backup or credential handling still exposes security risks. These issues should be fixed before merge.

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src/main/services/projects.service.ts (1)

698-704: 🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Persist the project removal before you delete its folder.

deleteDirectory runs before the store transaction. If the transaction fails, the folder is gone and the project stays in the list. Move the directory deletion after the transaction, in the same position as the AI-chat cleanup.

♻️ Proposed reordering
-    if (projectToDelete.path) {
-      deleteDirectory(projectToDelete.path);
-    }
-
     // Both the list and the (possibly now-dangling) selection move together
     // in one write — see updateProject for why that matters.
     await databaseStore.transaction((db) => {

Then delete the folder after the transaction resolves:

+    if (projectToDelete.path) {
+      deleteDirectory(projectToDelete.path);
+    }
+
     // Only clean up AI chats after the project deletion is persisted.
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In `@src/main/services/projects.service.ts` around lines 698 - 704, In the project
removal flow around updateProject, complete the database transaction before
calling deleteDirectory for projectToDelete.path. Move the directory deletion to
after the transaction resolves, alongside the existing AI-chat cleanup position,
while preserving the current conditional path check.
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Inline comments:
In `@src/main/database/store.ts`:
- Around line 135-140: Update the schema-version handling around onDiskVersion
and CURRENT_SCHEMA_VERSION to explicitly handle on-disk versions greater than
the current version: refuse loading with an unsupported-schema error, or back up
the raw data before migration can down-stamp it. Ensure newer-version files are
never silently migrated and persisted with unknown top-level keys discarded.

In `@src/main/services/connectors.service.ts`:
- Line 137: Update the connections retrieval flow around getField('connections')
to deep-clone each connection, including its nested connection object, before
returning or passing the collection to extractSchemaFromConnection and
executeQueryForConnection. Preserve the existing empty-array fallback, and add a
regression test covering credential materialization followed by an unrelated
database update without persisting credentials.

In `@src/main/utils/sanitizeBigQueryKeyfile.ts`:
- Around line 13-18: Update the keyfile handling in sanitizeBigQueryKeyfile to
trim leading whitespace and any BOM before checking whether it starts with “{”,
while preserving the existing BigQuery and keyfile guards and secure-storage
replacement behavior.

---

Nitpick comments:
In `@src/main/services/projects.service.ts`:
- Around line 698-704: In the project removal flow around updateProject,
complete the database transaction before calling deleteDirectory for
projectToDelete.path. Move the directory deletion to after the transaction
resolves, alongside the existing AI-chat cleanup position, while preserving the
current conditional path check.

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  • e2e/fixtures/electron-seeded.fixture.ts
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  • src/main/database/index.ts
  • src/main/database/migrations.ts
  • src/main/database/store.ts
  • src/main/services/connectors.service.ts
  • src/main/services/icebergDatalake.service.ts
  • src/main/services/projects.service.ts
  • src/main/services/savedQueries.service.ts
  • src/main/services/settings.service.ts
  • src/main/utils/fileHelper.ts
  • src/main/utils/sanitizeBigQueryKeyfile.ts
  • src/main/utils/setupHelpers.ts
  • src/types/backend.ts
  • tests/integration/ipc/settings.ipc.test.ts
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Comment thread src/main/database/store.ts
Comment thread src/main/services/connectors.service.ts
Comment thread src/main/utils/sanitizeBigQueryKeyfile.ts
store

- Handle database.json written by a newer app build (e.g. after a
  downgrade): back up the file and pass its contents through without
  running them through the reconstructive migration whitelist, which
  was silently dropping any field this older build didn't recognize.
- Make DatabaseStore.getField/getSnapshot return a deep clone instead
  of a live reference into the in-memory cache. Callers that enrich a
  returned connection with a secure-storage credential for immediate
  use (e.g. ConnectorsService.extractSchemaFromConnection) were
  mutating the cache itself, so the next unrelated write could persist
  plaintext credentials to database.json.
- Add a structuredClone polyfill to the Jest jsdom test environment
  (jsdom 20 here predates native support, added in v21).
@Nuri1977 Nuri1977 added the enhancement New feature or request label Sep 9, 2026

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src/main/services/backup.service.ts (2)

203-203: 🔒 Security & Privacy | 🛡️ Analyzed with Security Review | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift

Weak Cryptography

Reachability: External
Exploitability: Moderate
CWE: CWE-327 — Use of a Broken or Risky Cryptographic Algorithm

Do not protect exported credentials with zip20.

exportAllCredentials reads all secret values. The service serializes them into keystore.json and protects the archive with legacy ZIP 2.0 encryption. An attacker who obtains the archive can perform practical offline password recovery.

Use a modern authenticated encryption format. Update the importer to support the same format.

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encryption used by exportAllCredentials with a modern authenticated encryption
format, and update the corresponding import flow to decrypt and validate that
same format while preserving credential export/import behavior.

406-406: 🔒 Security & Privacy | 🛡️ Analyzed with Security Review | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift

Denial of Service

Reachability: External
Exploitability: Moderate
CWE: CWE-409

Apply resource limits before reading archive entries.

filePath can reference an attacker-crafted ZIP. The importer decompresses complete entries into memory and writes project and notebook entries without entry-count or expanded-size limits. A ZIP bomb can exhaust memory or disk space.

Reject archives that exceed configured compressed size, expanded size, entry count, or per-entry size limits.

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flow around AdmZip creation to validate configured compressed-size,
expanded-size, total entry-count, and per-entry size limits before reading or
writing any entries. Reject the archive when any limit is exceeded, and ensure
validation occurs before decompression or project/notebook processing.
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Inline comments:
In `@src/main/services/backup.service.ts`:
- Line 456: Remove the stale currentDb-based import merge calculations and
derive deduplication and merge results inside each corresponding updateField
callback from that callback’s current value. When updating multiple top-level
fields that must remain consistent, perform them within a transaction.

In `@src/main/services/connectors.service.ts`:
- Around line 1766-1767: Update the duplicate-name validation around
duplicateExists so uniqueness is always checked regardless of
allowReservedNames. Add a separate validation that rejects the reserved name
“DBT Connection” when allowReservedNames is false, while preserving
reserved-name allowance when enabled.

---

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In `@src/main/services/backup.service.ts`:
- Line 203: Replace the legacy zip20 encryption used by exportAllCredentials
with a modern authenticated encryption format, and update the corresponding
import flow to decrypt and validate that same format while preserving credential
export/import behavior.
- Line 406: Update the archive-import flow around AdmZip creation to validate
configured compressed-size, expanded-size, total entry-count, and per-entry size
limits before reading or writing any entries. Reject the archive when any limit
is exceeded, and ensure validation occurs before decompression or
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const duplicateExists =
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🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Keep uniqueness validation independent from reserved-name validation.

allowReservedNames currently disables the complete duplicate-name check. It also does not reject "DBT Connection" on ordinary save paths. A duplicate name can share name-based credential keys with another connection.

Always check uniqueness. Separately reject the reserved name when allowReservedNames is false.

Proposed fix
+    const normalizedName = name.toLowerCase().trim();
+    if (!allowReservedNames && normalizedName === 'dbt connection') {
+      return {
+        isValid: false,
+        message: 'Connection name "DBT Connection" is reserved',
+      };
+    }
+
     const duplicateExists =
-      !allowReservedNames &&
       existingConnections.some(
         (conn) =>
           conn.connection.name.toLowerCase().trim() ===
-            name.toLowerCase().trim() && conn.id !== excludeId,
+            normalizedName && conn.id !== excludeId,
       );
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duplicate-name validation around duplicateExists so uniqueness is always checked
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current store value
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🟠 Major · Preserve the project-to-connection invariant atomically. · src/main/services/connectors.service.ts:740-742

740-742: 🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift

Preserve the project-to-connection invariant atomically.

deleteConnection checks project references before its later connections update. configureConnection can then call ProjectsService.updateProject, whose transaction persists connectionId without checking the current db.connections. Either ordering can leave a persisted project referencing the deleted connection.

Make the final delete check and connection removal one databaseStore.transaction. Also validate non-empty connectionId inside the ProjectsService.updateProject transaction against its current db.connections. This ensures that either assignment blocks deletion or deletion blocks assignment.

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In `@src/main/services/connectors.service.ts` around lines 740 - 742, Update
deleteConnection so its final project-reference validation and removal from
connections occur within one databaseStore.transaction. In
ProjectsService.updateProject, validate any non-empty connectionId against the
transaction’s current db.connections before persisting the project update,
preserving the invariant that assignments cannot reference deleted connections.
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In `@src/main/services/connectors.service.ts`:
- Around line 740-742: Update deleteConnection so its final project-reference
validation and removal from connections occur within one
databaseStore.transaction. In ProjectsService.updateProject, validate any
non-empty connectionId against the transaction’s current db.connections before
persisting the project update, preserving the invariant that assignments cannot
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