Some apps carry a complete account system and are broken by an upstream
challenge: git clients speak basic-auth (not browser cookies), and a
BTCPay checkout link handed to a customer must open for that customer.
Both were behind the gate's login page — the "non-browser clients need an
access token" gap disclosed in five consecutive releases.
- New manifest port policy `auth: open`: the daemon still fronts the port
exactly like `gated` (loopback pin, external binds, frame-header fixes,
app-down retry page, Tor upstream) but serves it without the login
challenge. Requires auth_rationale, same burden of proof as `none`.
Gitea 3001 and BTCPay 23000 declare it.
- Runtime operator override per app (security.set-app-gate → app-configs/
<id>.json "gateEnabled"), surfaced as Settings → app → Access control.
Wins over the manifest in both directions and applies on the next
request — no restart, and it works today on catalog-covered apps whose
signed manifest still says `gated`.
- The gate resolves policy per-request from the live port map, so a
toggle takes effect without waiting for the 60s rebind sweep. "Off"
never releases the port: gated apps are loopback-pinned, so releasing
would strand them, not open them.
- security.app-gate-status now reports gate_enabled + any override.
- New guard test pins the `auth: open` set (both entries reviewed); the
`auth: none` count moves 25 → 26, absorbing pre-existing drift from the
phoenixd onboarding (loopback JSON API with its own generated password).
- Docs: the manifest spec's ports row documented only host/container/
protocol — bind, auth, auth_rationale and session_passthrough were
undocumented. Added a full "Ports & the app gate" section plus a
developer-guide entry telling app authors to enforce their own auth
regardless, since the operator can flip the gate either way.
Verified live on archi-dev-box from an external address: gated → 401 gate
page; override off → Gitea 200 own page, BTCPay 302 to its own login,
git-over-HTTP info/refs 200; override on → 401 again; clear → default.
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- alby-hub + phoenixd icons re-set with the standard 12% inner margin
(they shipped edge-to-edge; every other icon carries whitespace).
- scripts/normalize-app-icon.py: wraps any third-party SVG mark onto the
house canvas — the system applies the tile plate (archy-app-icon)
automatically but deliberately no runtime inset, so the margin must be
baked; the guide now says exactly that.
- MarketplaceAppDetails: the icon now carries archy-app-icon like the
store tiles — the treatment no longer stops at the detail page.
- v1.8.2 changelog: third curated bullet (the ceremony gate requires 3).
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An app whose frame never loads while its backend reports Running (the
embed-refusal signature: frame-busting JS, top-level-origin apps,
SameSite=Strict logins — everything the gate's header stripping cannot
fix) is remembered in localStorage; every later launch opens a tab
straight from the click (user gesture, so no popup blocker), and
opensInTab() gives it the tab-launch icon. A successful iframe load
clears the memory and entries expire after 7 days, so nodes that gain
embedding (gate improvements) get re-probed instead of being remembered
broken forever. Dev guide updated; v1.8.2 changelog + What's New curated.
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The animated federation map froze the framework-pt 4K TV: the launcher
held every machine to the HD 5500-era choppy-audio flags (single raster
thread, GpuRasterization banned) while the map wrote SVG attrs at 60fps.
- Launcher: two flag tiers. legacy = the proven conservative set; modern
(Intel gen8+, 'NNth Gen' models, AMD Ryzen) = default raster threads +
GPU rasterization. Classified from /proc/cpuinfo (11 model strings
covered by tests in-session); KIOSK_GRAPHICS=performance|quality in
kiosk-display.conf overrides; headless unchanged. Reaches deployed
kiosks via the include_str! self-heal, same as the vsync fix.
- system.kiosk-display.get/set: carries a 'graphics' field alongside
'preset'; setting one no longer clobbers the other.
- Settings → Display: Graphics picker (Auto / Compatibility / Quality).
- NetworkMap3D: kiosks default to the 2D projection (remembered toggle
still works) and tick at half rate with carried-over deltas — same
spin speed, half the paint cost.
- Changelog: curated Unreleased notes for all of the above + the gate
frame-embedding fix.
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