Marc Schier 57c0a32ed4 Fix incomplete-message buffering and channel cleanup (#4522)
# Description

Fix incomplete-message buffering, channel cleanup, session resource
accounting, and enforcement of existing transport admission settings.

- Share a targeted `ChunkReassemblyBudget` across server listeners. The
reference default is 64 MiB, with a 32 MiB global occupancy threshold
for sessionless intermediate chunks. This is priority headroom for
activated sessions, not a guaranteed bootstrap partition. Single/final
chunks and unrelated response/client buffers remain outside this budget.
- Retain precise incoming/final payload quotas, valid Abort handling
without channel teardown, terminal late-final rejection, and
exactly-once buffer/reservation cleanup.
- Use one assembly timer per quota/clock scope, asynchronous cleanup, a
fixed deadline, a 30-second fallback for non-positive lifetimes, and
best-effort ERR `BadTimeout` before closure.
- Apply negotiated TCP/WebSocket/Pipe receive limits and size pipe
rentals to actual chunks.
- Add the optional `ISessionBindingProvider` and immutable
`SessionBindingContext` seam. Managed membership counts distinct
committed sessions, not responses, and handles reactivation, transfer,
closure, expiry, restoration and shutdown. Read-only snapshots require
token/channel/security validation and never replace service
authorization.
- Wire default and explicitly injected binding providers through raw
TCP, Kestrel and UACP WebSockets; preserve existing callback/manager
interfaces and direct construction.
- Enforce existing `ConnectionRateLimiter` and channel capacity settings
on Kestrel TCP and UACP WebSocket admission, with physical-transport
leases surviving reverse handoff and releasing on cancellation, close,
failed attachment and stop. HTTP/JSON requests are not treated as UASC
channels.
- Add regression coverage and documentation. Stabilize the CI
cancellation test by waiting for the resolver to enter before canceling.

This is the foundation only. New Balanced/FairShare/TrustedReservations
policies, tenant isolation and guaranteed bootstrap reserves belong in
the separate stacked follow-up, not this PR.

## Related Issues

Fixes #4521.

## Validation

| Scope | Result |
| --- | --- |
| Core transport, budget, binding-context and DI tests, net10.0 | 717
passed |
| Core transport, budget, binding-context and DI tests, net48 | 664
passed, 6 platform-specific skips |
| Session bindings, transfer/security/expiry/restore and hosted DI,
net10.0 | 69 passed |
| Same focused Server suite, net48 | 69 passed |
| ServerRedundancyHandlerTests, Release/net48 | 39 passed |
| ConsoleReferenceServer net10.0 | Build succeeded, zero warnings/errors
|
| Server and HTTPS binding netstandard2.1 | Both builds succeeded, zero
warnings/errors |

The new admission fixtures also passed five repeated runs after
correcting asynchronous connection-context disposal. Full-solution
validation, coverage comparison and CI for this update remain pending.

## Checklist

- [ ] I have signed the
[CLA](https://opcfoundation.org/license/cla/ContributorLicenseAgreementv1.0.pdf)
and read the
[CONTRIBUTING](https://github.com/OPCFoundation/UA-.NETStandard/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md)
doc.
- [ ] I have added tests that prove my fix is effective or that my
feature works and increased code coverage.
- [x] I have added all necessary documentation.
- [x] I have verified that my changes do not introduce (new) build or
analyzer warnings.
- [ ] I ran **all** tests locally using the **UA.slnx** solution against
at least .net **framework** and .net **10**, and all passed.
- [ ] I fixed **all** failing and flaky tests in the CI pipelines and
**all** CodeQL warnings.
- [ ] I have addressed **all** PR feedback received.
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OPC UA .NET Standard Stack

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🆕 This is version 2.0 of the OPC UA .NET Standard Stack (current master).

Looking for the supported 1.x release? It lives on the master378 branch (last release: 1.5.378). All new feature work happens here on master; master378 continues to receive security and critical-bug fixes for the 1.x line.

The official OPC Foundation reference implementation of OPC UA for .NET — a certified, cross-platform stack with client, server, PubSub, GDS, complex types, and source-generated tooling. Used in production across industrial control, manufacturing, energy, and IoT systems.

📦 What it is

  • A full-stack OPC UA implementation — Core / Client / Server / PubSub / GDS / LDS / Complex Types / Device Integration / Positioning libraries built on .NET, with UA-TCP and HTTPS transports.
  • Cross-platform — runs on .NET 10, .NET 9, .NET 8 (LTS), .NET Framework 4.8, and .NET Standard 2.1; ships Native-AOT-friendly assemblies.
  • Certified for compliance — the reference server has been certified through an OPC Foundation Certification Test Lab and is continuously verified against the latest Compliance Test Tool (CTT).
  • Companion-spec coverage — Part 9 (Alarms & Conditions), Part 11 (Historical Access), Part 13 (Aggregates), Part 16 (State Machines), Part 17 (Alias Names), Part 18 (Role Management), Part 20 (File Transfer), Part 100 (Device Integration), Parts 210/211 (Relative Spatial Location and Global Positioning), OPC-10030 (ISA-95 Common Model) with OPC-10031-4 Job Control V1/V2, OPC 30270 / OPC UA for Asset Administration Shell V2 and V3, OPC 10100-1 (WoT Connectivity), OPC 40001-1 (Industrial Automation), OPC 40010-1 (Robotics).
  • Modern developer surface — first-class Microsoft.Extensions.DependencyInjection hosting (services.AddOpcUa()), fluent server + client builders, source-generated NodeManagers and DataTypes, and an MCP server so LLMs / Copilot can drive an OPC UA client.

For the full feature breakdown see OPC UA Profiles and Facets and the What's New in 2.0 tour.

🚀 Getting started

You need the .NET 10 SDK to build the repo. From the repository root:

dotnet restore UA.slnx
dotnet build UA.slnx

For the supported target frameworks and platform notes see the Developer Guide. The official NuGet packages are published to nuget.org under the OPCFoundation.NetStandard prefix — the meta package OPCFoundation.NetStandard.Opc.Ua pulls in everything, or reference individual packages directly, e.g. OPCFoundation.NetStandard.Opc.Ua.Client for clients or OPCFoundation.NetStandard.Opc.Ua.Server for servers. Preview builds from every successful master build are available from the GitHub Packages NuGet feed, which is the only feed they are published to. nuget.org receives a version only through a manually approved promotion from a release/<major>.<minor> branch — that is where the 2.0.0-preview.N packages already on nuget.org came from, via the earlier release/2.0.0 line. To use those, enable prerelease packages and float with 2.0.0-preview.* until 2.0.0 is released. The XRegistry, WoT Connectivity, Vision, Robotics, Redundancy, Positioning, OpenUSD, ISA95, AI, and DI package families remain preview packages when the root version is promoted to a stable version, and keep their own -preview.N versions on nuget.org. See docs/ReleaseProcess.md for how and when stable versions are released.

Samples

The stack also includes a large collection of platform-independent sample applications that turn its core services and companion models into runnable client/server workflows. More applications, including platform-specific examples, are available in the companion OPC UA .NET Samples repository.

Developer tools

  • OPC UA MCP Server — installable .NET tool and container that exposes OPC UA client operations as MCP tools for LLMs and Copilot. The tools also ship as libraries (…Opc.Ua.Mcp.Core, .PubSub, .Diagnostics, .PubSub.Diagnostics) so an application can embed them next to its own MCP tools.

🔧 Migrating from 1.5.378 to 2.0

The 2.0 release introduces breaking API changes, and comes with a full prescriptive migration guide that links to per-area documentation for the migration sub-topics.

Most of the mechanical migration work is automated:

  • OPCFoundation.NetStandard.Opc.Ua.MigrationAnalyzer NuGet — install it in your project to get 26 analyzer rules through UA0030 (excluding UA0013, UA0016, UA0017, and the shim-only UA0029) plus one-click code fixes for the patterns in the guide. Setup steps are in the package's NugetREADME.md.
  • Migration agent skill — the opcua-v20-migration skill walks Copilot / Claude / any coding agent through installing the NuGet, running dotnet format analyzers to apply auto-fixes, and handling the small residual manual patterns. The skill knows which sub-doc to load for each symptom so it stays context-efficient.

Copilot CLI discovers the skill automatically inside a clone. To install it for use in any repository:

copilot plugin marketplace add OPCFoundation/UA-.NETStandard
copilot plugin install opcua-v20-migration@opcua-dotnet

If you are still on 1.x and not ready to upgrade, stay on the master378 branch — it continues to receive security and critical-bug fixes.

🤝 Contributing and license

Community contributions are welcome. Fork the repository, make your changes on a branch, and open a pull request; see CONTRIBUTING.md for the contribution workflow.

Contributors must sign the OPC Foundation Contributor License Agreement (CLA). The CLA "I AGREE" gate is presented automatically on your first PR.

The project is licensed under the OPC Foundation MIT License. Report security vulnerabilities via the process documented in SECURITY.md.

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