Today's field test: Termux over the companion's split tunnel reaches the
node's fips0 ULA and gets RST — the mesh path works end to end, port 22
is refused by the node (fips0 default-deny, no 22 in the fips.d drop-ins;
sshd IPv6 listening unverified). The interim manual unblock (a
source-restricted 90-ssh.nft drop-in) is documented, but the real ask is
a first-class 'SSH over mesh' settings toggle in the node UI, with the
drop-in lifecycle owned by the daemon, a source-scope decision (paired
phones vs any mesh peer), sshd preflights, and an acceptance checklist.
Companion side is done (device-wide split tunnel + the node ULA now
displayed/copyable in the hub Nodes page) — the node agent is downstream.
FIPS nodes carry their fips0 ULA in the saved entry, but it was never
displayed — the only way to learn it was the node itself. Each FIPS
node row in the Nodes page now shows its mesh address as a monospace
subtitle with a tap-to-copy affordance, which is exactly the address
other apps on the phone (Termux ssh over the split tunnel, for
example) need. Non-FIPS entries are unchanged.
Field feedback on 0.5.28: the standalone Backup/Signer screens were hard
to read over the synthwave background, back left the app instead of the
menu, and they broke the hub's one-container interaction model. Both are
now hub sub-pages exactly like Nodes/FIPS:
- BackupSection / SignerSection (ui/components) render inside the NESMenu
panel with the menu's own dark glass surface, scrim, and palette — the
readability and theming problem disappears with the standalone surface.
- The header back arrow returns to the hub card page (same as Nodes).
- The panel height cap drops from 92% to 70% of the screen — ~15%
breathing margin top and bottom; content scrolls inside.
- The pairing QR scanner is hosted by NESMenu OUTSIDE the panel
(QrGlassModal is a full-screen Box, not a Dialog — inside the panel's
scroll it would clip), and decoded nostrconnect:// URIs funnel into the
signer section through the same latch as the deep link.
- The nostrconnect:// deep link now routes to the session and pops the
hub open on the signer sub-page (SignerLaunch singleton) instead of a
dedicated route; standalone screens and routes removed.
- BunkerManager.refreshState is now a proper suspend fun (was
runBlocking on the caller's dispatcher).
Docs updated to the new locations. Rebuilt for on-device testing
(v0.5.28-debug/vc48, same signing cert).
Companion 0.5.28 (versionCode 48), the companion-agent queue items:
#128 Backup & Restore — the phone side of losing your phone or wiping it
to cross a border. Hub card → SAF export/import of an encrypted .json:
everything the app holds (servers+passwords, FIPS identity/peers, signer
key) sealed in the node's ADR-005 envelope (Argon2id + ChaCha20-Poly1305,
native backup.rs — same blob layout as the node's, node-shaped envelopes
decrypt too). Restore is merge-only: servers upsert npub-first, identity
and signer key adopt only when absent, peers union by npub. No cloud, no
telemetry — the file goes wherever the user saves it.
#139 Remote Signer — the phone IS the NIP-46 bunker. Generate/import a
nostr key, scan a nostrconnect:// QR (in-app scanner or deep link), and
approve/deny each sign_event request from a legible card (kind label,
content, tags, time) — nothing signs without a human. Wire-faithful to
rust-nostr's reference bunker (connect-carrying-secret handshake, NIP-44
v2 transport with NIP-04 receive fallback, kind-24133 responses);
get_public_key/describe/ping handled, everything else 'not authorized'.
Session state in BunkerManager, UI in SignerScreen, hub card wired.
Plus NativeCore (JNI object for the new native surface), FipsPreferences
peers-merge for restore, nostrconnect:// intent filter, and the release
docs (companion-backup-restore.md, companion-nip46-remote-signer.md).
Also Android/tools/nip46-test-client.py: a pure-Python NIP-46 client that
plays the node's login role (QR, handshake, get_public_key, sign_event)
and verifies the phone's signature with an independent BIP-340 — the
end-to-end test for the feature until node-side lands. Its crypto matches
the official NIP-44 + BIP-340 vectors byte-for-byte, the same vectors the
Rust core passes, so the two interop by construction.
Built + smoke: assembleDebug v0.5.28/vc48, same signing cert as the
served 0.5.27 (d622e07e…644d) so it updates in place.
Extends archy-fips-core with the two companion-release features' crypto
(#128, #139), same JNI-over-JSON contract as the mesh surface:
backup.rs — the ADR-005 encrypted-backup envelope, byte-compatible with
the node's backup code (Argon2id default params + ChaCha20-Poly1305,
blob = base64(salt||nonce||ct)); decrypt ignores extra envelope fields
so node backups read here too. Round-trip, tamper, wrong-passphrase and
cross-shape tests included.
nostr.rs — the phone-side remote-signer crypto: nsec/npub bech32 keys,
BIP340 schnorr event signing (NIP-01 id serialization), NIP-44 v2
payloads (HKDF-SHA256 + ChaCha20 + HMAC-SHA256, both padding prefixes),
NIP-04 fallback, nostrconnect:// parsing with repeated relay params.
Verified against the official NIP-44 vectors (conversation keys, message
keys, padded lengths, byte-exact encrypt vectors), the BIP-340 reference
sign vectors, and round-trip/tamper/failure tests. secp256k1 0.29 note:
Keypair::public_key() is the 33-byte compressed key — x-only pubkeys
must go through .x_only_public_key().0 (one real bug the vectors caught).
JNI glue adds com.archipelago.app.NativeCore: backupEncrypt/Decrypt,
nostrGenerateSecret/SecretFromAny/ParseConnectUri/SignEvent and the
NIP-44/NIP-04 cipher pairs. Android arm64 build verified via cargo-ndk
(7.2 MB .so, +0.4 MB for both modules). Host: cargo test 23/23, clippy clean.
The QR-decoder option doc was written on an offline machine with the
Maven coordinates and wrapper API flagged as from-memory. Verified
against Maven Central + the wrapper source: artifact is
io.github.zxing-cpp:android:3.1.1 (current release), Format.QR_CODE is
nested inside BarcodeReader (not a top-level BarcodeFormat), options are
a constructor-argument data class, and read(ImageProxy) handles the
Y-plane/cropRect/rotation itself. Sketch updated accordingly; the option
itself stays NOT-actioned pending the move-to-the-code decision trigger.
The RELEASE_NOTES_BACKLOG gate for cutting the next release, closed out:
- Eight sections backfilled to the curated standard, from the Settings
What's New blocks, the old-lineage release commits, and the hotfix
diffs: v1.7.44 (was four raw commit-hash lines), v1.7.47/48/64/65
(thin), and v1.7.50/51/107 (real tagged releases whose sections were
missing entirely — v1.7.107 restored verbatim from the curated copy
at 35e9c624 that later went missing).
- Mechanical inventory across all 92 sections in range: every section
now has ≥3 curated bullets, zero raw-hash entries.
- What's New modal regenerated for the three restored versions
(sync-whats-new --check passes, 92 versions present).
- Manifest-notes-only confirmed by construction: the manifest reads its
changelog from CHANGELOG.md and check-release-manifest.sh rejects raw
or thin entries before publishing.
Evidence trail for the backfills is recorded in
docs/RELEASE_NOTES_BACKLOG.md.
Only the auto-popup was companion-gated — inside the companion WebView
users still saw the 'install the companion' banner in the App Store and
could pop the intro overlay through it. Gates all three paths on
isCompanionApp(): CompanionBanner self-hides, openCompanionIntro() is a
no-op, and the manual-open watcher in CompanionIntroOverlay refuses to
open (the overlay's raw window check also moves to the canonical helper
so there is exactly one detection). No APK change.
generate-app-catalog.py only updates entries that already exist in each
catalog file, so the hand-curated cuprate entry (added to
app-catalog/catalog.json with 7b88ba59) never propagated to
neode-ui/public/catalog.json — the sync's field-bumps did, the new entry
did not. Both catalogs now carry identical 31-entry lists (verified
content-equal), so the browser-side store copy and the curated one agree.
Two reports from a fresh install without a cable:
(a) No way to see the WiFi password being typed. Every password field in
the app was a bare type=password input. PasswordRevealInput is the
reusable fix — masked by default, one-tap eye toggle, v-model and
enter pass-through — first applied to the WiFi prompt in ServerModals
so a long key typed from across the room can be verified.
(b) WiFi settings are undiscoverable with no wired internet. New
OnboardingNetworkCallout floats over every onboarding step when the
node has NO physical link at all (no ethernet up, no WiFi associated
— polled from network.list-interfaces, self-dismissing the moment a
link exists) and deep-links 'Connect to WiFi' to
/dashboard/server?open=wifi, which Server.vue consumes by popping the
WiFi picker on arrival. Deliberately scoped the other way too:
Archipelago is offline-first, so 'no internet' never nags — only 'no
link at all', only during onboarding (the wrapper hosts /login too;
the callout is restricted to /onboarding/* routes), and a failed probe
stays silent. The query is consumed via history.replaceState so a
KeepAlive tab-return never re-pops the modal, and Server.vue keeps
reading it from the real URL rather than vue-router — its
KeepAlive-mounted tests have no router context to give.
Verification: full frontend suite 1023/1023; type-check clean; production
build clean with both new strings confirmed in the emitted bundles
(OnboardingWrapper + Server chunks).
Hands the companion-owned work to the companion agent with precise
pointers (Android/ source, served APK at 0.5.27/vc47 + the deploy
pipeline from the 2026-07-23 handoff, the ArchipelagoNative bridge and
isCompanionApp gating pattern) and the queue: the ungated
CompanionBanner/intro-trigger residual of #61 (Discover.vue:156,
useCompanionIntro's openCompanionIntro), GrapheneOS backup/restore (#128,
reusing the node's ADR-005 backup envelope), and the NIP-46 remote-signer
phone side (#139, with the signer-login research doc as background).
Tracker labels applied earlier: #128 and #139 carry 'companion-agent'.
Curated release notes for the pending v1.8.5-alpha: Cuprate (with the
two review catches), kdump/rasdaemon + the host-fixup OTA channel, the
uninstall-abort fix, federation inline-picture routing, honest disk
usage, the three lying-screens fixes (#143/#127/#129), durable mesh
notifications + router recovery (#57/#103), and upstream-release tracking
with the first-sweep safe bumps.
What's New modal synced via scripts/sync-whats-new.py (--check passes;
89 versions, all present). Per docs/RELEASE_NOTES_BACKLOG.md the
v1.7.44-alpha -> current section audit remains the open item before the
tag.
The ISO's Dockerfile.rootfs gains kdump-tools/kexec-tools/rasdaemon with
USE_KDUMP=1, dumps to /var/crash and a compressed core collector, the
hang/panic sysctl drop-in, and rasdaemon + kdump-tools enabled — and the
installed target's GRUB cmdline gains crashkernel=256M next to the
existing quiet/splash line.
Source of truth note: the edit lands in
image-recipe/_archived/build-auto-installer-iso.sh — the builder that
generates the (git-ignored) image-recipe/build/auto-installer/ workspace,
which a cache-hit can reuse. The workspace copy was updated to match so
even a cached build ships the same state. Host fixups (previous commit)
converge already-deployed nodes to exactly this end state, so fresh and
old installs agree.
bash -n clean on the builder.
kdump + rasdaemon on every node, per docs/kdump-rasdaemon-design.md with
the approved decisions: hang capture ON (a wedged kiosk dumps and reboots
itself instead of sitting dead), crashkernel=256M, backfill ships with
this release, phase-2 UI surfacing deferred.
Host fixups (docs/system-level-ota-design.md) are the general answer to
'deliver system-level updates OTA': curated OS packages, sysctl drop-ins,
service enablement and the GRUB crashkernel line, carried by the signed
binary and applied idempotently at startup — non-fatal by construction
(offline/locked-dpkg nodes converge on a later boot), skipped on dev
boxes and non-Debian hosts. This formalizes the polkit/audio repair
precedents into a channel with a stated policy: pinned packages and
parameter intent only, never dist-upgrade automation; the ISO bakes the
identical end state into fresh installs (next commit).
The one runtime limitation is honest: crashkernel memory can only be
reserved at boot, so the fixup writes GRUB, runs update-grub, and logs
that it takes effect on the next reboot.
tests/lifecycle/os-audit.sh gains section D — a graded baseline check:
FAIL if capture never landed, WARN if written but awaiting reboot, PASS
when reserved, policy live and rasdaemon recording. Section D runs
independently of RPC health: a wedged backend must not mask that the
node also stopped capturing evidence.
Verification: host_fixups unit tests 4/4; cargo fmt clean; full suite
runs in the release gate (create-release) and the archi-dev-box
lifecycle gate before the tag.
Gives stable names to what issue #134 showed gets conflated: Trusted peer
(invite-verified, operator decision), Discovered peer (learned from a
Trusted peer's advertisement, hard-capped at Observer — TRUST IS NOT
TRANSITIVE), Routing hint (what a Discovered peer actually contributes:
reachability, not trust), and Peer advertisement (the mechanism itself,
a feature not a leak).
Records the two rules that make the model sound (trust requires a
traceable operator decision; discovery is transitive, trust is not), why
advertisement exists (one invite makes a node reachable to the trusted
set without granting anything), and the deferred open questions: the
'don't advertise my peers' privacy toggle and UI tier vocabulary.
Design for capturing post-mortem and hardware-error evidence on fleet
nodes: kdump (crashkernel=256M, dump to /var/crash on the unencrypted
root — never the LUKS data partition, so the crash kernel never handles
key material; makedumpfile-compressed, keep-2 retention) and rasdaemon
(EDAC/ECC events into sqlite on the same root).
Deliberately phased: phase 1 = capture on the image + bootstrap backfill
for existing nodes (kernel cmdline can't travel by OTA; takes effect on
next reboot); phase 2 = a read-only system.diagnostics surface in the
UI, only after a fleet node has produced a real dump.
Four decisions flagged in the doc: hang-capture on/off (recommended ON
— a wedged kiosk is useless anyway, and this turns every freeze into
evidence + self-reboot), crashkernel size, backfill timing, and phase-2
scope. Implementation touchpoints listed (Dockerfile.rootfs,
auto-install.sh:1810 cmdline, kdump-tools config, bootstrap, lifecycle
gate assertions).
Signed by the release root (ceremony verify passed locally before push).
Contents of this catalog over the previous one:
NEW cuprate 0.1.0-preview-18-g618ff14 — alternative Monero
node (Rust); image verified present in the mirror
registry; manifest embedded; store entry curated
(money / optional)
BUMP strfry 1.1.1 -> 1.1.2
BUMP btcpay-server 2.4.2 -> 2.4.3
BUMP netbird (nginx) 1.31.3-alpine -> 1.31.4-alpine
BUMP pine (nginx) 1.31.3-alpine -> 1.31.4-alpine
All bump targets verified pullable from their public registries before
editing. The three mirror-backed bumps (vaultwarden 1.37.2-alpine,
archy-nbxplorer 2.6.11, home-assistant 2026.8.3) remain parked on
app-bumps-mirror-pending until a live registry-push token exists for the
lfg2025 namespace.
Drift gate clean: check-app-catalog-drift.py --release --strict
(31 store entries, 0 drift, 0 missing). 69 catalog entries total.
Nodes pick this up on their next hourly catalog refresh (or at startup)
— signature verified against the release-root key before application.
Pin bumps (all verified pullable from their public registries before
editing, so none can become an image-not-found on a node):
strfry 1.1.1 -> 1.1.2 (dockurr/strfry, direct pull)
btcpay-server 2.4.2 -> 2.4.3 (docker.io/btcpayserver, direct pull)
netbird (nginx) 1.31.3-alpine -> 1.31.4-alpine
pine (nginx) 1.31.3-alpine -> 1.31.4-alpine
image-versions.sh moved in lockstep for BTCPAY_IMAGE — it is the baseline
the update badge compares against. Held back deliberately, per the risk
policy from the Aug-17 pass: gitea (four minors of DB migrations),
portainer (six minors), filebrowser (2.27 -> 2.63), fedimint/gateway
(0.8 -> 0.12, real migrations), lnd (money-critical), netbird-server/
netbird-dashboard (0.x, must move in lockstep), and everything with a
major jump or a data migration.
Cuprate also gets its curated store entry (category money, tier optional,
icon, repo) — same shape as the Alby Hub / phoenixd entries — synced
through generate-app-catalog.py into both store catalogs and the
app-session config. The fips launch-port list is unchanged (Cuprate has
no UI port; the generated file round-trips to the committed bytes after
cargo fmt).
Three further bumps are prepared and parked on the
app-bumps-mirror-pending branch, blocked only on a registry-push token:
vaultwarden 1.37.2-alpine, archy-nbxplorer 2.6.11, home-assistant
2026.8.3 — all mirror-backed, and the push credential on record for the
lfg2025 namespace is dead.
Drift gate: check-app-catalog-drift.py --release --strict clean
(31 store entries, 0 drift, 0 missing). appSessionConfig tests 7/7.
Five apps had no app.upstream block, so nothing could ever tell us
when their pins fell behind upstream:
barkd gitlab ark-bitcoin/bark (GitLab-only project)
immich-postgres ghcr immich-app/postgres (image exists only on ghcr.io)
indeedhub-minio github minio/minio
pine-whisper dockerhub rhasspy/wyoming-whisper
lightning-stack manual — no public listing exists for
lightninglabs/lightning-stack anywhere (docker.io,
ghcr.io, github.com all checked), so it is tracked by hand
This adds two fetchers to scripts/check-upstream-releases.py to reach the
first two: latest_gitlab (GitLab releases API; strips the project-name
tag prefix, e.g. bark-0.6.2 -> 0.6.2) and latest_ghcr (anonymous pull
token + tags/list, the same handshake a docker pull performs).
Live-verified after the change:
barkd 0.3.0 -> 0.6.2 (bump gated on ark_client.rs REST compat)
immich-postgres 14-vectorchord0.4.3-pgvectors0.2.0 -> 17-vectorchord0.4.3-pgvector0.8.0
indeedhub-minio RELEASE.2024-11-07T00-52-20Z -> latest (date-opaque: UNCOMPARABLE, shown for hand comparison)
pine-whisper 3.4.1 -> 3.6.0 (tuned-args revision needs re-basing, not just a pin move)
Offline coverage check: 59 apps, 0 untracked.
Flags the app update policy already noted as unresolved in
app-developer-guide.md, adds a section for SSH access strategy, and
starts an app wishlist (Cashu wallet, phoenixd) for packaging.
The federation fallback in the plain content-inline path wasn't enough —
mesh.transport-advice recommended the "resource-mesh" tier purely from our
own device being Reticulum-capable, without checking that THIS peer
actually has a radio route. For a federation-only contact (no radio twin)
that steered the frontend into send-content-inline's Reticulum
resource-transfer path, which has no dest_prefix to send to and fails with
"Peer is federation-only (no radio twin)" — reproduced after deploying the
first fix on a live node.
Adds MeshService::has_radio_route(contact_id), and gates both the
"resource-mesh" tier in mesh.transport-advice and the resource-transfer
branch in mesh.send-content-inline on it. Federation-only peers now fall
through to the has_tor branches, which route the frontend to
mesh.send-content (already correctly federation-aware) instead.
Landed from PR #133 (re-committed to drop private host details from the
original message; content identical).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
mesh.send-content-inline always called send_typed_wire (the LoRa/radio
path), which fails with "Peer is federation-only (no radio twin)" for
any contact reachable only via Tor federation — reproduced sending a
picture from the companion app to a federation-only peer. mesh.send-content
already resolves the peer's federation onion and falls back to
send_typed_wire_via_federation; mirror that same lookup here.
Landed from PR #133 (re-committed to drop private host details from the
original message; content identical).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
When Bitcoin's IBD completed mid-Lightning-goal, the watcher toasted
"you can now fund your wallet" — but the on-chain wallet lives in LND,
not Bitcoin Core. The watcher only checked that the goal had pending
manual steps, never that the install-LND step had completed, so a user
whose LND wasn't installed yet was pointed at a flow that could not
work: the fund modal's address comes from lnd.newaddress and does not
exist until LND is installed (issue #143).
The toast now checks LND's install state at fire time. With LND
installed the message is unchanged; without it, the toast says the
actual next step — install Lightning (LND) — and the Finish setup
button lands on the goal wizard, whose active step is the pending
install-LND one (the wizard itself was already correctly sequenced).
The watcher had no tests; added four pinning its contract: the two
message branches, silence with no in-progress goal, and silence when
the chain was already synced at page load.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Disk usage was computed as used/size, where size is the raw device size.
ext4 reserves 5% of the filesystem for root — 92.4 GiB of this node's
1.8 TiB — which size includes but nothing can allocate. Two consequences,
both live on archi-dev-box today:
The dashboard advertised 251 GiB free when only 159 GiB could actually be
written, and reported 86.2% usage against df's 90.8%.
Worse, disk_monitor triggers automatic cleanup (podman image prune) at
90%. The disk has been genuinely above that threshold while this returned
86.2%, so the cleanup never once fired — which is exactly how ~72 GB of
dangling images accumulated unnoticed, and why deleting apps appeared to
free nothing.
Both call sites now ask df for avail and use used/(used+avail): the same
figure df itself prints, and the space an operator can actually spend.
Callers deriving free as total - used now get avail.
Note this shifts disk_total_bytes in the analytics series down by the
reserve; historical samples are not comparable across this change.
Tests updated for the three-column output, plus a regression test built
from this box's real numbers asserting the corrected math crosses the 90%
threshold the old math missed. 15/15 disk_monitor tests pass.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The manifest bound cuprated's unrestricted RPC (full node control) to
0.0.0.0 inside the container with
i_know_what_im_doing_allow_public_unrestricted_rpc = true, relying on
ports[].bind: 127.0.0.1 to keep it private. That only restricts the HOST
side. Verified live on archi-dev-box 2026-08-22: a peer container got a
valid unauthenticated get_info off container port 18081 — and still did
after cuprate was moved to its own network, because podman bridges route
to each other unless created with --opt isolate=true, which the
orchestrator's auto-create does not pass. Every app on the node could
therefore drive full node control with no credential.
The PR justified this as the pattern bitcoin-knots already uses, but
knots writes rpcuser/rpcpassword from generated secrets, so a 0.0.0.0
bind there still is not control without credentials. cuprated has no RPC
authentication at all, so the two are not equivalent.
Unrestricted RPC is now left at cuprated's own default — container
loopback only, published nowhere, reachable by nothing — which is what
upstream intends by refusing a non-local bind without an explicit
override. Restricted RPC (the safe-for-public subset wallets use) and p2p
are unchanged, and health_check moves to 18089 since 18184 is gone.
Re-verified after the change: peer container gets connection refused on
18081 (exit 7), restricted RPC and the health endpoint still answer, the
node still syncs, validator APPROVED, 76/76 container tests pass
including the unauthenticated-port canary (still 28 — an auth: local
port was removed, not an auth: none one).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Full-node daemon: P2P + Monero's own restricted RPC (the safe-for-public
subset wallets use as a "remote node") are auth:none like bitcoin/electrumx's
equivalents; unrestricted RPC (full node control) stays gated auth:local.
readonly_root works cleanly since the upstream image is FROM scratch with
ownership fixed at build time — no runtime chown/setuid needed, unlike
bitcoin-knots/core.
Verified locally end-to-end before committing: built the upstream Dockerfile,
confirmed the generated Cuprated.toml against `cuprated --generate-config`/
`--dry-run`, and ran the real image with the manifest's exact ports/volumes —
including discovering that cuprated's own 127.0.0.1-default RPC bind is
unreachable through a published host port and needs to bind 0.0.0.0
internally with ports[].bind:127.0.0.1 doing the actual restriction, the
same pattern bitcoin-knots' RPC port already uses in this repo.
Bumps the unauthenticated_ports_are_all_accounted_for canary (26 -> 28) for
cuprate's two auth:none ports, per that test's own review-before-updating
contract.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The signer reads stdin to EOF, so pressing Enter submits nothing and a
second paste simply appends to the first. Step [6b/8] said only "paste the
release master mnemonic when prompted", which gives no hint that Ctrl-D is
what ends the input — a 24-word phrase arrived today as "invalid word
count: 89", about four pastes concatenated by someone reasonably assuming
Enter had not worked.
sign-manifest.sh already explains this properly; create-release.sh now says
the same thing, including that pasting twice is itself a failure mode.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
`npm run build 2>&1 | tail -3` threw away npm's exit status, so a failed
build was indistinguishable from a good one. The run continued and blamed
the next check instead — "the frontend build no-opped or its output is
stale" — which points at a stale dist rather than at the build error that
actually happened, and cost a diagnosis cycle today.
Success still prints the same quiet 3 lines; a failure now prints the real
error, keeps the full log, and aborts on the spot.
Verified both branches with a stubbed npm.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
create-release aborted at [4/8] with "web/dist/neode-ui does not contain
v1.8.4-alpha — the frontend build no-opped or its output is stale". The
build had not no-opped: it was fresh, and simply had no 1.8.4 string to
embed.
sync-whats-new.py only matches '## vX.Y.Z (YYYY-MM-DD)'. The entry read
'## v1.8.4-alpha (draft — date set at cut)', so the version was invisible
to it: the gate's whats-new-sync stage reported "87 versions, all present"
while the release being cut had no What's New block. That modal is the
only place a version string appears in the frontend, so the bundle carried
none and the freshness check — correctly — refused it, while naming the
wrong cause. Step [5/8] only greps for '^## v1.8.4-alpha (' so it passed
the draft too.
Three changes: date the v1.8.4-alpha entry, insert the modal block it was
owed, and make the sync tool refuse any version header without a real date
instead of skipping it. Skipping is what let a wrong "all present" through.
Verified: the draft header now fails the check with an explicit message,
the dated one passes (88 versions, up from 87), and a rebuilt bundle
contains 1.8.4-alpha where it did not before.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Four unrelated tests failed the release gate at once today — every one of
them "Test timed out in 5000ms", none an assertion. Wall times were 6.3s,
16.5s, 5.5s and 36.2s for tests that normally finish in milliseconds
(useModalKeyboard's takes 349ms on an idle box), and the whole suite took
405s against its usual ~70s. The cause was CPU starvation from a
concurrent cargo build, not anything in the code.
The 5s default says nothing about these tests and everything about the
machine: this box also runs a live node, so a gate run can always collide
with a build or container churn. 20s survives that while still bounding a
genuine hang.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
cargo-test-weekly failed twice today with exit 124 at unit 427/429 — the
non-incremental test-profile build running out of wall clock mid-compile,
before a single test executed. The summary said only "FAIL: cargo-test-
weekly", which reads as a broken test and sends you hunting for one that
does not exist.
Two changes: the ceiling goes 1500s -> 3600s (580s was already found too
short; 1500s now dies on the biggest link on a loaded, swapping box), and
stage() names exit 124 as a timeout rather than printing a bare code.
Verified both reporting branches: a timed-out stage and an ordinary
non-zero exit.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Publishing the ISO was a manual step printed as a reminder at the end of
build-iso-release.sh: upload the ISO, its .sha256 and the signed checksum
JSON by hand. Only the OTA binary and frontend tarball were automated.
publish-release-assets.sh now uploads all three when an ISO for the
version exists in image-recipe/results/, with the same supply-chain rules
the OTA manifest already gets: the checksum JSON must be signed by the
pinned release root, the signature must cryptographically verify, and the
image must still match its own .sha256 (a truncated or half-copied ISO is
exactly what a signed checksum exists to expose). After upload it
confirms every asset landed at its exact local size.
The stage runs AFTER main is pushed, deliberately. The ISO is not
referenced by releases/manifest.json, so no node's OTA path depends on
it — running it last means a slow or failed multi-GB upload can never
delay or strand an OTA release that has already been verified. When no
ISO exists yet (the usual case, since the ISO build needs the tag this
script pushes) it explains how to build and attach one, and exits clean.
Uploads take a max-time argument: 4h and a progress bar for the ISO,
where the previous fixed 15-minute silent ceiling would have killed a
multi-GB transfer partway through.
Verified with a stubbed harness: no-ISO skip, missing .sha256, unsigned
checksum, wrong signing key, corrupted image, happy path, and a truncated
upload caught by the size check.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Left uncommitted by an aborted create-release run on 2026-08-19: the
version bump landed in the tree but the release never reached its tag or
manifest. Committing it so the tree is clean before the release is re-cut.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The ui-unit-tests stage piped vitest through `tail -4`, which cut off the
failure block. A red gate reported "1 failed | 999 passed" and nothing
else — no file, no test name, no assertion — so the failure could not be
diagnosed after the run.
Success still prints the quiet 4-line summary; failure now dumps the full
log and keeps it on disk so a scrolled-off terminal isn't the end of it.
Verified both paths: green run unchanged, and a deliberately failing spec
now surfaces its file, test name, assertion and line number.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The release gate's first real stage is `cargo fmt --check`, and it had
44 diffs across 15 files — enough to abort `create-release.sh` at step 0
before it touched a version number. Some of that drift is mine from the
last two days, some predates it in files I never opened
(bootstrap.rs, ghost_reaper.rs, openwrt/router.rs), and one is the
regenerated fips/app_ports.rs.
No behaviour change — rustfmt only.
Gate now: 8 of 9 green. The remaining red is cargo-test-weekly exiting
124, which is the 25-minute `timeout` expiring during a cold
CARGO_INCREMENTAL=0 rebuild on a loaded node — the tests never started.
Not a test failure.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Regenerates both catalogs from the manifests so the 15 pin bumps become
real. The catalog overrides on-disk manifests on every node, so until
now those bumps were edited but inert.
There are two catalogs and regenerating one is not enough:
generate-app-catalog.sh writes releases/app-catalog.json (the signed one
nodes fetch), while generate-app-catalog.py writes app-catalog/catalog.json
and neode-ui/public/catalog.json (the source pair, the second baked into
the frontend app store). check-app-catalog-drift.py --release --strict
reads the *source* catalog, so regenerating only the release one left it
failing and would have aborted the ISO gate at stage 1 — after the
signing and tagging were already done. Drift is now 0.
The regeneration also rewrote fips/app_ports.rs, which had not been
regenerated since the initial open-source import. Diffing the port values
rather than the reformat: 36 -> 37, a single addition, **8187 — Alby
Hub**. Its port has never been in the FIPS firewall allow-list, and by
the same token neither has any app onboarded since that import. Nothing
else changed.
Catalog signed by the pinned release root and verified with
`ceremony verify`; registry trust floor checked before signing, both
hosts trusted by the deployed fleet.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Both import refusals reached the operator with runs of ~18 spaces mid
sentence — "Importing a different one means coins
minted…". The string literals had been written as single long lines with
the line-continuation whitespace baked in rather than escaped, so Rust
preserved it verbatim.
Only visible once the sanitizer stopped swallowing these messages, which
is its own small lesson: the text had been wrong since it was written and
nothing could show it.
Cosmetic, but not trivially so — this is the warning that stops someone
replacing the phrase their balance was minted under, and text that looks
broken is text people stop reading.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
With registry push access, the 24 mirror-backed apps stopped being
blocked. Ten images are now mirrored (single-platform amd64, matching
the existing convention) and their pins moved:
alby-hub v1.23.0 -> v1.24.0
mempool-frontend v3.0.1 -> v3.3.1 (mempool, archy-mempool-web)
mempool-backend v3.0.0 -> v3.3.1
fedimintd v0.10.0 -> v0.10.1
gatewayd v0.10.0 -> v0.10.1
nostr-rs-relay 0.9.0 -> 0.10.0
portainer 2.39.1 -> 2.39.6
vaultwarden 1.30.0-alpine -> 1.37.1-alpine
jellyfin 10.8.13 -> 10.11.11
home-assistant 2026.7.3 -> 2026.8.2
Every one verified pullable from our mirror after copying, so none can
become an image-not-found on a node. image-versions.sh moved in lockstep
— it is the baseline the update badge compares against when the catalog
does not cover an app, and leaving it behind would have kept advertising
an update that had already been applied.
Chosen by risk, not by count: these are patch/minor bumps with no data
migration. The ones held back are held for a reason each — Postgres
15->18 and 16->18 refuse to start on an older cluster, Redis 7->8,
Valkey 7->9, Nextcloud 29->32 must go one major at a time, plus
uptime-kuma 1->2, grafana 10->13, electrumx 1->2, photoprism, and
core-lightning's three years of schema migrations. Those are each a
migration plan, not a pin edit. LND (v0.18.4 -> v0.21.2) is held
separately: it is only a minor bump by version but it migrates its
channel database irreversibly, and this box holds real funds.
Note the checker still reports several of these as behind, and that is
correct: it reads the *catalog* pin, which is what nodes actually act on.
These land when the catalog is regenerated and re-signed.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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