Make OS tables sortable by version - #53013
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Adds version sorting to the dashboard "Operating systems" card and the
Software > OS page, which previously only sorted by host count.
Versions sort numerically by segment ("26.10" after "26.6"), Windows
feature-update codenames ("22H1") sort by year and half, and Ubuntu's
" LTS" suffix ("22.04.9 LTS") is stripped before comparing, instead of
sorting as plain strings. Comparing versions across platforms isn't
meaningful, so sorting by version groups results by platform (most
hosts first) before ordering by version within each group.
Adds `version` as a valid `order_key` for `GET /api/v1/fleet/os_versions`.
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WalkthroughThe OS versions API accepts Priority: ➖ Normal Severity of issue fixed: Medium Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to Descending version sorting still places unrecognized versions last, contrary to the required ordering, in both the API and dashboard. Correct these ordering paths before merging; the host-count pagination concern predates this change. Security Architecture ReviewSecurity architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to The change primarily reorders existing OS inventory results while preserving authorization and team filtering. No introduced security issue was established in the inspected path. The additional sorting cost has not been validated under load. Retained concerns Security review detailsSecurity Blast Radius
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In `@frontend/pages/SoftwarePage/SoftwareOS/SoftwareOSTable/SoftwareOSTable.tsx`:
- Around line 220-223: Reset TableContainer’s local sort state when the platform
changes so its sort indicator and subsequent sorting use SoftwarePage’s newly
computed default. Update the SoftwareOSTable integration around platform
changes, using a platform key or an equivalent reset mechanism, and add a
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Thanks for your contribution! @sharon-fdm could you please assign a reviewer? I see this is a follow-up of a prior PR that @juan-fdz-hawa reviewed but he already has quite a bit of stuff to review on his plate. |
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Thanks for the contribution @kevinmcox ! To give you a bit of context on our workflow: issues in the "Inbox" lane haven't been triaged yet and aren't ready for development. Only items in the "Ready" lane are open for pick-up. This should go through product design first (see here for context) - sorting different OSes doesn't make sense to me (i.e. Ubuntu 26 < macOS 27). I'll try to bring this up in our next Design review. On the meantime could you convert this to a draft? Thanks! |
TableContainer/react-table only read defaultSortHeader/defaultSortDirection
once, at mount, so when SoftwarePage recomputed its platform-dependent
default sort after a platform switch, the sort indicator (and react-table's
own notion of the active sort) stayed stuck on the previous platform's
sort — the same staleness already worked around on the dashboard's OS
table via a remount key, just not applied here.
Adds an equivalent key={platform} remount and a regression test that
fails without the fix.
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Hi @kevinmcox - Could we enable sorting only when filtering by OS? Thanks! 
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Comparing OS versions across different platforms isn't meaningful (e.g. macOS "26.6" vs. Windows "22H1"), so the Version column is only sortable — and only defaults to sorting by version — once a specific platform is selected. "All platforms" still sorts by host count. Also closes a URL-based bypass of this restriction: the Software > OS page is server-driven, so a crafted, bookmarked, or back-button- restored URL with order_key=version could reach the API even with the column's sort control disabled. getOSTabSortHeader now guards against that combination directly. 🤖 Generated with [Claude Code](https://claude.com/claude-code) Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Thanks for flagging this, Juan — makes sense. I've updated the PR so that sorting by version is only available once a specific platform filter is selected (and becomes the default sort in that case). On "All platforms" the Version column is no longer sortable at all, and it keeps sorting by host count there instead. Screenshots showing both states are attached: "All platforms" with Version as plain text (no sort control), and macOS selected with Version sortable. This also covers the Linux filter, which still spans multiple actual OS platforms (RHEL, Ubuntu, etc.) under the hood — sorting by version there groups by platform first (most hosts first), then orders by version within each group, same as before. 
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@kevinmcox When you get a chance, could you please fix those merging conflicts? Thanks! |
# Conflicts: # frontend/pages/DashboardPage/cards/OperatingSystems/OSTableConfig.tsx # frontend/pages/SoftwarePage/SoftwareOS/SoftwareOSTable/SoftwareOSTable.tests.tsx
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In `@frontend/pages/DashboardPage/cards/OperatingSystems/OSTableConfig.tsx`:
- Around line 97-98: Update compareOSVersionStrings to accept the sort-direction
flag and reverse only the non-comparable-value ranking when desc is true; then
pass desc from the Version comparator alongside rowA.version and rowB.version,
preserving numeric version comparison.
In `@server/service/hosts.go`:
- Around line 3785-3789: Update the comparator around compareOSVersions and
versionSegments so non-comparable versions always sort before comparable
versions, regardless of versionAscending. Add coverage for mixed comparable and
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One small note about the documentation, other than that lgtm!
That said, would you mind removing the documentation change and creating a separate PR against the docs-v4.94.0 branch? (The reason for that being: documentation changes merged to main go live on fleetdm.com right away, so we use release-specific branches to avoid prematurely documenting features that won't be available until the release goes out.)
Removes the documentation change which will be added in a separate PR.
**Related issue:** N/A — documentation follow-up to #53013 (`version` order_key for OS tables, split out per review feedback) # Checklist for submitter - [x] QA'd all new/changed functionality manually — verified live against a running Fleet server that `GET /api/v1/fleet/os_versions?order_key=version` returns `200` and correctly grouped/sorted results, including without a `platform` filter. ## Summary Documents the `version` `order_key` for `GET /api/v1/fleet/os_versions`, added in #53013. That PR's docs change was pulled out and moved here at Rachael's request, since docs merged to `main` publish to fleetdm.com immediately and this `order_key` isn't released yet. Targets `docs-v4.94.0` instead of `main` so it goes live with the release.
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Sorry @kevinmcox it took so long to review this. Could you please fix those merge conflicts whenever you get a chance? After that, we should be ready to merge. Thanks! |
# Conflicts: # server/service/hosts.go
OK take a look, I think I resolved the conflicts. |
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3834-3839: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick winKeep non-comparable versions first in both sort directions.
compareOSVersions("rolling", "26.6")returns-1. For a descending sort, the comparator reverses that result. The descending order then places"rolling"after comparable versions within the same platform group. The required rule is that non-comparable formats sort before comparable versions in both directions. The existing tests do not catch this case. InTestOSVersionsOrderByVersion,"rolling"is the only version on thearchplatform, so it never shares a group with a comparable version.Proposed fix
+ _, aComparable := versionSegments(a.Version) + _, bComparable := versionSegments(b.Version) + if aComparable != bComparable { + return !aComparable + } if c := compareOSVersions(a.Version, b.Version); c != 0 {🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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Review comments at @server/service/hosts.go:
- Around line 3834-3839: Update the version comparator around compareOSVersions
so non-comparable versions sort before comparable versions in both ascending and
descending order within a platform group. Use versionSegments to identify
comparability before applying the direction-dependent comparison; preserve the
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Related issue: Resolves #51843
Checklist for submitter
Changes file added for user-visible changes in
changes/,orbit/changes/oree/fleetd-chrome/changes.See Changes files for more information.
Input data is properly validated,
SELECT *is avoided, SQL injection is prevented (using placeholders for values in statements), JS inline code is prevented especially for url redirects, and untrusted data interpolated into shell scripts/commands is validated against shell metacharacters.Timeouts are implemented and retries are limited to avoid infinite loops
Testing
Added/updated automated tests
Where appropriate, automated tests simulate multiple hosts and test for host isolation (updates to one hosts's records do not affect another)
QA'd all new/changed functionality manually
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@juan-fdz-hawa — this is the separate OS-version-sorting PR you asked for when reviewing #50743, split out from the software-version-sorting work that shipped in that PR and its follow-up #51878, and covering the issue you asked me to open for this (#51843).
Makes the Version column sortable on:
Both previously sorted only by host count.
Design, addressing your product-input request: you noted that "sorting by version makes sense in a homogeneous collection (inside the same OS)." Comparing versions across different platforms isn't meaningful (e.g. macOS "26.6" vs. Windows "22H1" don't share a scheme), so:
Version comparison, both server-side (
server/service/hosts.go) and client-side (OSTableConfig.tsx, for the dashboard card's local sort):"26.10"sorts after"26.6", not before)."21H2","22H1"— a documented shape offleet.OSVersion.Versionsince Enhance API endpoints with host operating systems info #7154) sort by year and half."22.04.9 LTS") — osquery'sos_versiontable reports a literal" LTS"suffix, which Fleet stores verbatim (SELECT * FROM os_version, no Linux-specific cleanup). Stripped before numeric comparison; without this, Ubuntu LTS rows silently tied as "non-comparable" instead of sorting numerically."rolling") sort before any comparable version rather than erroring.frontend/utilities/helpers.tsxcompareVersionshelper, which handles messier suffixed software versions but has no concept of OS codenames.Adds
versionas a validorder_keyforGET /api/v1/fleet/os_versions(API default remainshosts_countdescending, unchanged).Where platform grouping is actually reachable: the dashboard's "all platforms" view never renders the Operating systems card at all (
allLayout()inDashboardPage.tsxdoesn't include it — only the per-platform layouts do), so the cross-platform grouping branch isn't exercised there. It is reachable on/dashboard/linux: the backend treatsplatform=linuxas a meta-filter matching every actual Linux distro (fleet.IsLinux), so that single "platform" tab can span multiple distinctplatformvalues (e.g. rhel + ubuntu) with different host totals — this is exactly the scenario that caught the Ubuntu LTS bug above, via manual QA on that view (screenshots below).Known limitation
The dashboard card fetches without
page/per_page, so it's capped at the first 20 results (pre-existing, not new to this PR). Since platform-grouping totals are computed from that same capped sample, a platform's total reflects only its loaded rows, not necessarily its fleet-wide count, if there are more than 20 distinct OS-version rows. Flagging proactively rather than leaving it to be found in review.Screenshots
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