chore: bump version to 1.7.116-alpha + changelog/What's New

Bundles all post-115 fixes into an OTA release: boot READY-before-recovery
+ Restart=always (no more 'server starting up'), and the app-install
daemon-kill fix (v6 relay only bridges live app ports; port-cleanup
excludes our own PID).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

neode-ui/src/views/settings/AccountInfoSection.vue

@@ -362,6 +362,18 @@ init()
               </button>
             </div>
             <div class="overflow-y-auto flex-1 min-h-0 space-y-6 pr-1">
+              <!-- v1.7.116-alpha -->
+              <div>
+                <div class="flex items-center gap-2 mb-3">
+                  <span class="text-xs font-mono px-2 py-0.5 rounded bg-orange-500/20 text-orange-300">v1.7.116-alpha</span>
+                  <span class="text-xs text-white/40">July 27, 2026</span>
+                </div>
+                <div class="space-y-3 text-sm text-white/80 pl-3 border-l border-white/10">
+                  <p>Nodes no longer get stuck on "server starting up" after an update or reboot. The backend now reports ready immediately and recovers its apps in the background, and it always restarts itself if it ever goes down — the days-long "server starting up" hang is gone.</p>
+                  <p>Installing apps no longer crashes the node. A recent change that made app screens reachable over the mesh was holding onto every app's port in advance, so installing an app collided with it and the port-cleanup took the backend down and rolled the install back. Installs are clean now.</p>
+                  <p>Rolls up v1.7.115: app screens and the dashboard load over the mesh out of the box, with IPv6 support end to end, and nodes rejoin the mesh in seconds after their rendezvous point restarts.</p>
+                </div>
+              </div>
               <!-- v1.7.115-alpha -->
               <div>
                 <div class="flex items-center gap-2 mb-3">