feat(release): sign the release images and attach their SBOMs - #5042

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Create the draft after image signing and collection.
Qualify the image-list coverage.
Require checksum entries for both image assets.

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Review comments at @.github/workflows/tags.yaml:
- Line 575: Move draft release creation to after “Sign the release images and
collect their SBOMs” completes successfully, so a failure in that step does not
leave a draft that causes a workflow rerun to skip RC preparation.

Review comments at @docs/release.md:
- Line 335: Update the cozystack-images.txt coverage description and its
verification guidance to explicitly state that the scheduler chart’s pinned
image is excluded from the shared enumeration and is not verified by that
recipe.
- Line 375: Update the release recipe’s sha256sum verification so it requires
checksum entries for both image assets and fails if either is missing; do not
allow --ignore-missing to let verification succeed without them before the image
list or SBOM archive is used.

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The release signing flow can leave an RC unpublished after a transient signing failure, and the documented verification recipe and image list have gaps that weaken the signing guarantees. Fix these before merging; the earlier loop-exit-status and signature-layout documentation issues are resolved.

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make bats-unit-tests on this branch (bats 1.14.0, serial): 2406 passed, 62 failed, and the same 62 fail on unmodified main at d78897f on the same machine, which has no docker daemon: the migration suites (54, 55, 57, 58, 59, seaweedfs-db-adopt, run-migrations) refuse to run without one, five tests of select-install_test.bats and one of select-e2e_test.bats fail the same way there, and the kafka-topic-backup-strategy.bats one is the failure #4997 reports on main too. Nothing new fails; hack/sign-release-images.bats, hack/collect-image-sboms.bats and the updated hack/upload-assets.bats are among the passes.

Four blockers, three of them in docs.

B1 signature location is wrong in docs and script comment

docs/release.md:358 and the header of hack/sign-release-images.sh:22 say cosign keeps the signature as the tag sha256-<digest>.sig. cosign v3.1.3 doesn't write that, --new-bundle-format defaults to true (cmd/cosign/cli/options/sign.go:161), so sign goes through signDigestBundle and stores a Sigstore bundle as an OCI referrer (pkg/oci/remote/write.go:398). The .sig tag exists only with --new-bundle-format=false.

GHCR answers 404 on /v2/<repo>/referrers/<digest> (I checked it for a published cozystack-controller digest), so go-containerregistry falls back to the referrers tag sha256-<hex>, without .sig. cosign verify reads it the same way, so signing and the verify after it work with no extra flags, but the docs send a reader to look for a tag that isn't there. Please describe it as a referrer of the digest in both places and in the PR description.

B2 verify recipe passes when an image fails

In docs/release.md:370 the while loop returns the status of its last cosign verify, so a bad signature on any image except the last still ends with exit 0 and the chain goes on to unpack the SBOMs. I ran the same shape with cosign replaced by a function that rejects the first image and accepts the second, chain exit was 0.

Run the loop in a subshell, add || { echo "not verified: $image" >&2; exit 1; } after cosign verify, and read the list from fd 3 like the script does. A bats test that runs the fenced block with cosign stubbed would hold it.

B3 two statements contradict this PR

docs/release.md:332 still says the SBOMs of the pinned images are #2937 (future), in the same list that now has cozystack-images-sbom.tar.gz. docs/security/self-assessment.md:150 says release images are not signed and SBOM generation is off by default, while row 13 of the same file now says SBOMs are published and this PR signs the images. Both lines need the new state.

B4 collector accepts an image with SBOM on one platform only

hack/collect-image-sboms.sh:69 takes the platforms that have an SPDX key and the check after it only wants one file, so an index with the amd64 SBOM and a plain arm64 image passes. I built that on a local registry (amd64 with --attest type=sbom, arm64 without, joined with imagetools create): the script exits 0 and the archive holds bar.linux-amd64.spdx.json only. A platform with "SPDX": null passes too and writes a null document.

Dropping the has("SPDX") select from the platform branch keeps hack/collect-image-sboms.bats green, there is no missing-platform case. Compare the SBOM keys with the platforms of the index (entries from imagetools inspect --raw that are not attestations), require non-null SPDX, and add both cases to the bats file.

Follow-ups

1. The collector fails on every release without feat(release): attach an SBOM to every release image #4997 (SBOM defaults to 0 and nothing on main sets it), and the branch conflicts with feat(release): attach an SBOM to every release image #4997 (its head is 7fceb9257 now) in docs/release.md, docs/agents/image-refs.md and docs/security/self-assessment.md. After the rebase the sentence "The attestations are not signed" in the feat(release): attach an SBOM to every release image #4997 section has to go.
2. hack/sign-release-images.sh:28 and the description say one certificate for the whole batch. In v3.1.3 every ref gets its own key, Fulcio certificate and Rekor entry (cmd/cosign/cli/signcommon/common.go:365), so around forty certificates per pre-release, not one.
3. Dropping --sort=name or --owner=0 --group=0 --numeric-owner from the tar call keeps the bats file green, so the same bytes on re-run is tested on one machine only.
4. You said under feat(release): attach an SBOM to every release image #4997 that both follow-ups stay drafts until it merges, and this one went ready for review on 21 Oct, before it did. Please put it back to draft until the rebase, it can't merge before feat(release): attach an SBOM to every release image #4997 anyway.

Thanks, all four and the follow-ups are in dcff043, rebased onto #4997's head 7fceb9257. Back to draft until #4997 merges.

B1. docs/release.md (Image signatures), the header of hack/sign-release-images.sh and the description now say that cosign v3.1.3 stores the signature as a Sigstore bundle, a referrer of the digest in the same repository, which GHCR's missing referrers API puts under the fallback tag sha256-<hex>; the .sig tag is only for --new-bundle-format=false.

B2. The image loop runs in a subshell, reads the list from fd 3 and ends each cosign verify with || { echo "not verified: $image" >&2; exit 1; }. A new test in hack/sign-release-images.bats pulls the fenced block out of docs/release.md and runs it with cosign stubbed. The stub reads stdin. The test checks that every image gets verified and the SBOMs get unpacked, then rejects the first image and expects a failed chain, not verified: <ref> and no image-sboms/. It fails against the old block, and also against a block with the subshell and || exit that still reads the list from stdin.

B3. The source-SBOM bullet takes #4997's wording, which links to the image SBOM section, so the #2937 reference is gone. self-assessment.md:150 now says that the assets are signed through the checksums, the first-party images are signed keylessly, and the SBOM attestation ships as an asset too. The gaps left in that line are provenance (--provenance=false) and reproducible builds.

B4. The collector takes the platforms from imagetools inspect --raw: index entries without vnd.docker.reference.type: attestation-manifest, keyed the way buildx keys them (arm64/v8 as arm64). It needs a non-null SPDX object for each of them. With one platform it needs the bare document, because printers.go in buildx v0.31.0 prints it unkeyed when len(res.platforms) <= 1. Two new bats cases, a two-platform index with only the amd64 SBOM and one with "SPDX": null on arm64, fail with ::error::<ref> carries no SBOM attestation for linux/arm64, and the old script passes both. I did not repeat your local-registry build.

Follow-ups

1. Rebased onto feat(release): attach an SBOM to every release image #4997's head. "The attestations are not signed" is replaced with a pointer to Image signatures.
2. The script header, the docs and the description now say that every ref gets its own key, Fulcio certificate and Rekor entry.
3. The first collector test now reads the archive headers: owner 0/0 with --numeric-owner, mtime at the epoch (TZ=UTC), and members in name order without sorting the listing. The fixture index lists arm64 before amd64, so the files get written out of name order. Dropping --sort=name, the owner flags or --mtime fails the test on both XFS and ZFS.
4. Back to draft.

Checked: the 13 related bats files are 156/156 (collect-image-sboms, sign-release-*, upload-assets, the bats contract suites, stitch/verify-multiarch, common-envs, release contracts). shellcheck -x on both scripts and zizmor on both workflows are clean.

Full make bats-unit-tests on dcff043 (BATS_JOBS=1, no GNU parallel here): 2400 ok, 62 not ok of 2462. The same 62 tests, by name, fail on #4997's head 7fceb9257 without this commit, so none of them comes from this change:

The 55 that need docker are left to CI.