chore(server): update Go toolchain to 1.27.0 and adopt two of its net/http additions

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The Go 1.27 toolchain bump, two of its net/http additions adopted on top, and corrections to the dependency-update commands found along the way.

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Analyze (go) fails on this PR and cannot be fixed from the repository — see Known failure. Every other check is green.

1. Go 1.27.0 toolchain

Location	Change
server/go.mod	go 1.26.0 → go 1.27.0
Dockerfile (backend-builder)	golang:1.26-alpine → golang:1.27-alpine, re-pinned to the current manifest-index digest
README.md, CLAUDE.md	prose references to the Go version

CI needed no change: every setup-go step already uses go-version-file: server/go.mod.

The new Docker digest is the manifest index (sha256:4c9fe601…), covering linux/amd64 and linux/arm64 as the pinning policy requires — both legs build green in CI.

Interaction with #937

This branch was cut before #937 landed and has been merged with master. Worth recording, because it briefly looked like part of this change: on Go 1.27, golangci-lint v2.12.2 does not run at all. It vendors honnef.co/go/tools v0.7.0, whose IR builder panics with unexpected expr: *ast.KeyValueExpr while analysing the 1.27 standard library — Go 1.27 permits any valid field selector as a struct-literal key, the 1.27 stdlib uses it, and staticcheck v0.8.1 is the first release that parses it. task lint-server fails with a panic, not with findings.

#937 had already bumped golangci-lint to v2.13.1 independently, so after the merge the go.mod diff is exactly the one-line go directive. If #937 is ever reverted, this upgrade needs that bump reinstated or lint breaks.

Also worth knowing for future sweeps: 1.27's go mod tidy accounts for build-tagged files it previously skipped, so it promotes github.com/quasilyte/go-ruleguard/dsl to a direct dependency — server/gorules/rules.go has always imported it behind the ruleguard tag. A correction, not a new dependency, and #937 already carries it.

2. http.Server.MaxHeaderValueCount

Go 1.27 adds the field and applies DefaultMaxHeaderValueCount when it is left zero, so both listeners are already capped without this commit. It is set explicitly anyway, to that same constant, on the API server and the debug server.

To be clear about what this buys: the value tracks the toolchain default, so this is explicitness rather than a pin — it makes the ceiling visible at the call site and gives one named place to change it. Behaviorally it is a no-op, which is what keeps existing installations working. If a real tightening is wanted (a JSON API behind a proxy chain carries a few dozen header values, so there is a lot of headroom), that is now a one-line change to maxHeaderValueCount, but it is a deliberate compatibility decision rather than something to slip into a toolchain bump.

The test drives the real API listener rather than a httptest.Server, because the integration harness wraps GetRouter in a server of httptest's own making and cannot observe this field at all. It asserts the wiring directly as well as the 431: the behavioural assertion alone passes on Go's default too, so it would not notice the field being dropped. Confirmed by deleting the field and watching a behavioural-only version stay green, then watching the wiring assertion fail.

3. httptest.NewTestServer

The integration harness now serves on an in-memory network instead of a real loopback port. The root suite runs every top-level test in parallel with its own server, so it was holding an ephemeral port per test for no reason.

Two API details are easy to get wrong and are commented in the harness:

• Start() is deliberately not called. It moves the server back onto loopback and undoes the point.
• URL is populated by the first Client()/Start()/StartTLS() call, not at construction. TestServer therefore holds the client it resolves, which both gives newClient the only transport that can reach the server and makes URL non-empty for the tests that build a request URL before building a client. For in-memory servers the value is http://example.com and only the path is meaningful.

The tradeoff: an in-memory listener cannot be dialed by a client carrying its own transport, so every request must originate from that client. Most already did via ts.newClient(), which keeps the SDK's cookie jar and its timeout (httptest's client has none, and a hung request should fail a test rather than hang it). Nine sites built their own client to get cookie-less behaviour for unauthenticated and Bearer-token cases; the server's client has no jar either, so they get the same thing from it — renamed freshClient → noCookieClient, since the client is now shared and only the missing jar is the point.

cmd/jotctl keeps its loopback test server: those tests drive the CLI, which builds its own HTTP client and cannot reach an in-memory listener.

4. Command-doc corrections

All pre-existing, all found by checking claims in these docs against the workflows rather than trusting them:

• No workflow carries a literal Go version. All five setup-go steps use go-version-file: server/go.mod. update-server-deps listed the workflows as a place to edit, and update-docker-deps said golang:…-alpine had to be kept in step with a go-version: input in three workflows. Both now say there is nothing to sync, and the Dockerfile is the only copy that can fall behind go.mod.
• update-github-actions' "what not to touch" table claimed literal go-version: and node-version: keys that do not exist — both are *-version-file, which cannot drift because the file is the only copy — so they collapse into one row saying so.
• Postgres is on 18, not 16. server-ci.yml pins postgres:18-alpine; four references across the two Docker/Actions commands still said 16.
• AGENTS.md carries no Go version, only a pointer to CLAUDE.md. The update-server-deps checklist now names CLAUDE.md, where the three references actually live.

Not adopted

encoding/json/v2 — the 1.27 bump already makes encoding/json v2-backed internally, so the faster unmarshal is banked without an API migration. Moving to the v2 API is API-breaking (nil slices marshal as [] rather than null, bool/number fields tagged omitempty are always emitted, field matching becomes case-sensitive and silently drops mismatches) and needs a coordinated client change. The one piece worth taking on its own — rejecting duplicate JSON object keys, which can be done with v1 semantics otherwise intact and byte-identical marshal output — is filed as #939.

Compatibility

No API changes, no schema changes, no config changes. Nothing here alters behaviour for existing installations.

One implicit inheritance from the toolchain: encoding/json is now backed by the v2 implementation. v1 semantics are preserved, but the text of JSON error messages can differ. Jot builds its own error responses rather than forwarding decoder strings, so this should be invisible; flagged because a client asserting on exact error text is the one way it could surface. GOEXPERIMENT=nojsonv2 is the escape hatch.

Verification

Run against the current head:

• task check — clean (lint, all tests, swagger-docs freshness, migration parity, translations)
• task test-e2e — 393 passed, 3 skipped
• task build-jotctl — builds

CI confirms the part this environment could not: both docker jobs (linux/amd64 and linux/arm64) build green on the new golang:1.27-alpine digest, so the base-image pin is verified on both legs of the matrix rather than only resolved through the registry API.

Known failure: Analyze (go)

CodeQL's Go analysis fails here, and will fail on anything that moves go.mod to 1.27 until CodeQL catches up:

go: go.mod requires go >= 1.27.0 (running go 1.26.6; GOTOOLCHAIN=local)

Autobuild runs Go 1.26.6 with GOTOOLCHAIN=local, which forbids fetching the newer toolchain go.mod asks for, so extraction fails before any query runs. Analyze (actions) and Analyze (javascript-typescript) are unaffected and green.

This is not fixable from the repository: code scanning here is GitHub's default setup (dynamic/github-code-scanning/codeql), so there is no workflow file in which to set GOTOOLCHAIN: auto. The options are to wait for a CodeQL bundle shipping Go 1.27 — the release is days old, so the lag is expected and self-resolving — or to switch the repo to advanced setup and commit a codeql.yml that sets the toolchain explicitly. Either is a repository-settings decision rather than part of this change.

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Walkthrough

The pull request updates the project from Go 1.26 to Go 1.27 across code and documentation. Integration tests now use in-memory HTTP transport and server-provided clients. Both API listeners configure MaxHeaderValueCount, with integration coverage for accepted and rejected requests. The pprof documentation also lists the goroutineleak profile.

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I hop through Go’s fresh meadow bright
1.27 guides my carrots right
In-memory paths now softly flow
Header gates guard the server show
Tests leap past ports with cheer
A tidy upgrade lands here

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Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Docstring Coverage	⚠️ Warning	Docstring coverage is 20.00% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 10 functions across 7 files. (7 skipped: 7 unsupported.)	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

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Use the file-based workflow input in this checklist.

server-ci.yml uses go-version-file: server/go.mod, not a literal go-version: input. update-server-deps.md also states that workflow files need no manual update. Update this inventory to name go-version-file, or list only workflows that still use literal versions. The current wording directs maintainers to check for drift that cannot occur in server-ci.yml.

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In @.claude/commands/update-docker-deps.md around lines 56 - 60, The
dependency-update checklist incorrectly refers to a literal go-version input in
server-ci.yml. Update the inventory around the
golang:1.27-alpine/backend-builder synchronization to identify server-ci.yml as
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Inline comments:
In @.claude/commands/update-github-actions.md:
- Around line 133-140: Update the three documented postgres:16-alpine references
in update-docker-deps.md to postgres:18-alpine, matching
.github/workflows/server-ci.yml; leave update-github-actions.md unchanged.

In @.claude/commands/update-server-deps.md:
- Around line 120-124: Update the dependency-version checklist to reference
CLAUDE.md instead of AGENTS.md, keeping the existing README.md prerequisite
reference and same-commit requirement unchanged.

In `@server/internal/server/headerlimit_test.go`:
- Line 56: Update the test cleanup context around context.WithTimeout to derive
it from context.WithoutCancel(t.Context()), ensuring cleanup remains usable
after the test context is canceled while preserving the existing timeout.

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In @.claude/commands/update-docker-deps.md:
- Around line 56-60: The dependency-update checklist incorrectly refers to a
literal go-version input in server-ci.yml. Update the inventory around the
golang:1.27-alpine/backend-builder synchronization to identify server-ci.yml as
using go-version-file: server/go.mod, or exclude it from literal-version checks,
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