release: 2.5.1: audit stage 2b - the log tailer and what the panel shows of a refusal

A log rotated while the panel was down is read to its end; the deferred
counter remembers a place in the log, not a second; a refused message's
page shows what Postfix wrote; a refusal the panel did not get to write is
written from mail.log; downtime is estimated (≈) when supervisord is
silent; the Sender check card counts connections and messages apart (the
owner's decision); a message the sweep closed says the panel closed it.
Plus the findings of both reviews of the stage.

Rolled out to the test server as 2.5.0-post.e1ddf12 (the same code):
migration 0009 ran on the live database - schema 9, the new columns in
place, 68/68 send-log rows still tied to their domain, integrity ok.

CHANGELOG cut; pin 2.5.1 in deploy/docker-compose.yml, README (with the
local-build note), guide; development.md "from pin"; roadmap row and the
recommended order; stage 2b marked shipped in the plan. No tag.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -5,6 +5,13 @@ Format follows [Keep a Changelog](https://keepachangelog.com/en/1.1.0/); version
 
 ## [Unreleased]
 
+## [2.5.1] - 2026-10-14
+
+Stage 2b of the 2026-10-12 audit: the log tailer and what the panel shows of
+a refusal. Migration `0009` keeps Postfix's line about a refusal on its row,
+the client a refusal came from, a mark on rows written from `mail.log`, and
+the Sender check's two counts and its estimate mark.
+
 ### Fixed
 
 - **A log rotated while the panel was down is read to its end.** On start,

README.md

@@ -112,8 +112,8 @@ outbound mail will not reach the real internet without DNS, PTR, and port 25.
 > local image and pulls nothing:
 >
 > ```sh
-> docker build -f build/Dockerfile --build-arg VERSION=2.5.0 \
->   -t ghcr.io/mixeme/selfpost:2.5.0 .
+> docker build -f build/Dockerfile --build-arg VERSION=2.5.1 \
+>   -t ghcr.io/mixeme/selfpost:2.5.1 .
 > ```
 
 ```sh
@@ -122,7 +122,7 @@ docker run --rm -d --name selfpost-try \
   -e SELFPOST_HOSTNAME=mail.local.test \
   -e PANEL_COOKIE_SECURE=false \
   -v selfpost-try-data:/data \
-  ghcr.io/mixeme/selfpost:2.5.0
+  ghcr.io/mixeme/selfpost:2.5.1
 ```
 
 **Get the setup URL** (pick one):

deploy/docker-compose.yml

@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@
 
 services:
   selfpost:
-    image: ghcr.io/mixeme/selfpost:2.5.0
+    image: ghcr.io/mixeme/selfpost:2.5.1
     restart: unless-stopped
     environment:
       SELFPOST_HOSTNAME: "${SELFPOST_HOSTNAME:?set the mail/panel hostname, e.g. mail.example.com}"

docs/audit-2026-10-12.md

@@ -729,7 +729,7 @@ has already run is never edited — the next file is added; the published
    loses nothing. Test pins the reply text; e2e's sender-check negatives
    assert the reply does not contain the other tenant's name. — **Opus**
 
-### Stage 2b — the log tailer, and what the panel shows of a refusal → `2.5.1`
+### Stage 2b — the log tailer, and what the panel shows of a refusal → `2.5.1` (shipped 2026-10-14)
 
 Split off stage 1 on 2026-10-14 at the owner's word: the six steps below were
 agreed on 2026-10-13/14, after the plan, and had made stages 1 and 2 a cut of

docs/development.md

@@ -107,7 +107,7 @@ than the default «meaningful step» rule in [§ Commits and release build](#com
 2. Git tag `vX.Y.Z` and publish the GitHub Release only on explicit request (see
    [§ Release image](#release-image)).
 
-**Planned version cuts** (from pin `2.5.0`; adjust if semver changes mid-track):
+**Planned version cuts** (from pin `2.5.1`; adjust if semver changes mid-track):
 
 | Stage | ID | Cut |
 |---|---|---|

docs/guide.md

@@ -184,14 +184,14 @@ cat ./data/setup-token
 #### Fixed image tag
 
 `deploy/docker-compose.yml` pins an explicit version (`ghcr.io/mixeme/selfpost:X.Y.Z`),
-deliberately never `:latest`. The current pin is `2.5.0`. **No 2.x image is
+deliberately never `:latest`. The current pin is `2.5.1`. **No 2.x image is
 published on ghcr.io yet** (the newest there is `1.3.0`); until one is, build
 it from the checkout under the pinned name, and Compose uses the local image
 instead of pulling:
 
 ```sh
-docker build -f build/Dockerfile --build-arg VERSION=2.5.0 \
-  -t ghcr.io/mixeme/selfpost:2.5.0 .
+docker build -f build/Dockerfile --build-arg VERSION=2.5.1 \
+  -t ghcr.io/mixeme/selfpost:2.5.1 .
 ```
 
 `VERSION` must equal the tag: it is the version the backup check compares

docs/roadmap.md

@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ in `git log` and [CHANGELOG.md](../CHANGELOG.md).
 | from-header-binding | Hold a message's `From:` header against the application that sends it | shipped `2.4.0` | 9/9 | [plans/from-header-binding.md](plans/from-header-binding.md) |
 | panel-redesign | Panel redesign (accepted mockups, design contract) | shipped `2.0.0` | 27/27 | [plans/panel-redesign.md](plans/panel-redesign.md) |
 | schema-squash | Squash SQLite migrations into a 2.x baseline | built in panel-redesign (stage 1) | — | [plans/panel-redesign.md](plans/panel-redesign.md) |
-| audit-2026-10-12 | Follow-ups of the 2026-10-12 full-tree code audit, seven stages | in progress (stage 0 shipped `2.4.2`, stages 1+2 `2.5.0`; next stage 2b → `2.5.1`) | 30/66 | [audit-2026-10-12.md](audit-2026-10-12.md) |
+| audit-2026-10-12 | Follow-ups of the 2026-10-12 full-tree code audit, seven stages | in progress (stage 0 shipped `2.4.2`, stages 1+2 `2.5.0`, 2b `2.5.1`; next stage 2c → `2.5.2`) | 30/66 | [audit-2026-10-12.md](audit-2026-10-12.md) |
 
 **Recommended order** (not binding; owner, 2026-10-09: feature order follows
 development convenience): **panel-redesign** shipped as `2.0.0` (2026-10-11) and
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ kit — styling its two screens once instead of twice. **delivery-log-storage**
 shipped as `2.2.0` the same day, **panel-notifications** as `2.3.0` and
 **from-header-binding** as `2.4.0`. Stage 0 of
 [audit-2026-10-12](audit-2026-10-12.md) shipped as `2.4.2` (2026-10-14), its
-stages 1 and 2 as `2.5.0` the same day.
+stages 1 and 2 as `2.5.0` the same day, and stage 2b as `2.5.1`.
 Nothing is agreed after it: every remaining
 item is a candidate. panel-docs shipped in
 [CHANGELOG.md](../CHANGELOG.md) `[1.8.0]`; dmarc-reports in `[1.7.0]`