Phase A1 of docs/FIPS-UPTIME-AND-UI-STATE-PLAN.md — the five changes that
made FIPS fall back to Tor even when a FIPS path existed:
- RC0: the fips.d drop-in now opens PEER_PORT 5679 (was 80+8443 only, so
every hardened node firewalled peers' FIPS dials; 28k drops on .198)
- RC4: /blob/ and /dwn/ added to the peer-path allowlist — mesh file
sharing and DWN sync were 404 → 100% Tor by construction
- RC2-G2: lan_fips_anchors dials PUBLISHED_UDP_PORT (2121) instead of the
dead 8668, with a drift-guard test against the rendered daemon config
- RC2-G1: direct LAN peering actually runs now — mDNS TXT advertises the
FIPS npub, discovery calls set_fips_npub, and the anchor tick hydrates
npubs from federation storage for peers on older builds
- RC3: FIPS attempt budget is a hard cap (retry no longer doubles it) and
the 12 hot call sites get explicit fips_timeout fast-fail so Tor keeps
its full budget (browse-peer, preview, /blob, DWN, node-message,
rotation notifies)
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The companion opens catalog apps by direct port over the mesh; the
fips0 default-deny baseline blocked every one of them (apps 'stuck'
from the phone, 2026-07-26). Core now writes a second fips.d drop-in
from the generated catalog launch-port list on every install/upgrade.
Service/RPC ports (bitcoind 8332, LND 10009, Tor) stay closed.
generate-app-catalog.py emits the Rust port list alongside the TS one.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
fips::config::install() now writes /etc/fips/fips.d/80-web-ui.nft
(tcp 80/8443 accept) and reloads the baseline on every install/upgrade —
the hardening firewall default-denies inbound on fips0 and the UI was
unreachable over the mesh without it (root-caused live 2026-07-26).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The mesh is IPv6-only; the main web listener bound 0.0.0.0 only, so a
phone reaching a node over its fips0 ULA got RST on :80
(ERR_CONNECTION_ABORTED) — UI over mesh was structurally impossible.
Confirmed 2026-07-26 on framework-pt: v4:80 = 200, v6:80 = refused.
Mirror an IPv4-any main listener with a V6ONLY [::] socket on the same
port; V6ONLY so it coexists with the v4 listener regardless of
net.ipv6.bindv6only.
Also: fips.yaml generator carries the fast-reconnect profile (validated
live on framework-pt since 2026-07-24; snapshot tests updated).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- auth.createDeviceToken / listDeviceTokens / revokeDeviceToken RPCs; only
SHA-256 hashes persist in data_dir/device-tokens.json
- auth.login accepts {token} (same rate limiter, skips TOTP like remember-me)
- pairing QR now carries name (server name, fallback "My Archipelago"),
tok (instant login), and FIPS mesh params from new fips.pair-info RPC
(npub, fips0 ULA, transport ports)
- companion onboarding drops the WireGuard install/tunnel screens — remote
access moves to the FIPS mesh embedded in the companion app
- fix: fips daemon UDP bind now 2121, matching the published container port
and fleet rosters (was upstream's 8668 — inbound UDP was dead on bridged
installs, mesh silently rode TCP 8443)
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The daemon config was built by format!-ing a YAML string literal. Upstream's
config structs are #[serde(deny_unknown_fields)], so a key we get wrong does
not degrade — the daemon refuses to start and the node drops off the mesh.
String-built config made that a runtime discovery on a live node.
Replace it with a typed struct tree serialised via serde_yaml, verified
field-by-field against jmcorgan/fips v0.4.1, plus an exact-output snapshot
test so schema drift fails in CI rather than at boot. Also adds tests for
determinism (server.rs compares the render against disk to detect drift, so
instability would cause a reinstall+restart loop) and for the mDNS key path.
Enables node.discovery.lan.enabled (mDNS/DNS-SD, added upstream in v0.4.0)
so co-located nodes peer directly instead of depending on the public anchor
being reachable — an anchor blackhole on one segment currently islands a node
completely. Emitted unconditionally rather than version-gated: v0.3.0's
DiscoveryConfig has no `lan` field and no deny_unknown_fields, so a v0.3.0
daemon ignores it harmlessly and it activates on upgrade with no second
config migration.
Note: the first startup after this lands renders a config that differs from
disk, so the existing drift check reinstalls it and restarts the daemon once.
That is the intended self-healing path and settles immediately.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Re-adds the TCP transport (`0.0.0.0:8443`) to the rendered fips.yaml
alongside UDP. Upstream factory default enables both; we had
inadvertently narrowed to UDP-only when the yaml rewriter was last
touched, which left nodes unable to reach fips.v0l.io (the public
anchor only answers on TCP right now) or talk across networks that
block UDP.
Backend startup now compares the installed yaml against the current
rendered schema and restarts whichever fips unit is active when they
differ — so OTA-upgrading nodes pick up the new transport without
anyone having to click Reconnect.
Dropped the earlier plan to auto-add federated peers as seed anchors:
invites don't carry a FIPS-reachable IP:port, and once TCP reconnects
the public mesh, federated peers become npub-routable without needing
a seed entry.
Seed Anchors modal cleanup: replaced malformed header icon with a
three-arc broadcast glyph, and the close button now matches the
What's New modal (embedded in the card header, same icon + hover
style) instead of the earlier floating off-design placeholder.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Install UX
SystemUpdate.vue now shows a full-screen overlay after apply: the
BitcoinFaceAscii logo, a target-version label, an indeterminate
progress stripe (solid orange; solid green on ready), and an
elapsed-time readout. Polls /health every 1.5s and auto-reloads
once the backend reports the new version. 3-min stall → "Reload
now" button. Download UI also shows a spinner + "Finishing
download — verifying checksum…" while the fake bar sits at 95%.
FIPS reconnect — for real this time
New fips.reconnect RPC does stop → start → wait 20s → re-poll →
classify. Classification buckets: connected / daemon_down /
no_seed_key / no_outbound_udp_or_anchor_down / peers_but_no_anchor,
each with a plain-language hint surfaced verbatim by the Reconnect
button. The real reason nodes like .198/.253 couldn't reach the
anchor: identity::write_fips_key_from_seed was writing fips_key.pub
as a bech32 npub TEXT file, but upstream fips expects 32 raw
bytes. The daemon silently authenticated with garbage. Fix:
PublicKey::to_bytes() → raw 32 bytes, and new
fips::config::normalize_pub_file migrates legacy files by decoding
the npub and rewriting in place. fips.reconnect also re-installs
the config + healed keys to /etc/fips before restarting.
AIUI preservation + restore
apply_update was wiping /opt/archipelago/web-ui/aiui because the
Vue build doesn't include it — every OTA lost the Claude sidebar.
The preserve block now copies aiui/ + archipelago-companion.apk
from the old web-ui into the staging dir before the swap, and
prefers new-tar versions if present. To restore it on the three
nodes that already lost it (.116/.198/.253), this release bundles
the 85 MB aiui build into the frontend tarball. Frontend component
size is now ~155 MB.
Download / install timeouts
Backend download client timeout 1800s → 3600s (1 h). Larger
tarball + slow gitea raw throughput put us above the old cap.
Frontend update.download rpc timeout 30 min → 65 min to match.
package.install rpc timeout 15 min → 45 min — IndeedHub pulls
6 images and was timing out mid-install.
UI nit
"Rollback to Previous" → "Rollback Available".
App-catalog proxy already landed in v1.7.13.
Artefacts:
archipelago 725e18e6…3c525e6 40462288
archipelago-frontend-1.7.14-alpha.tar.gz c35284be…ff2c16 162077052 (+aiui)
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
1. FIPS daemon config schema drifted: upstream jmcorgan/fips now takes
`node.identity.persistent: true` (keys read from config-dir/fips.key)
and `transports.udp.bind_addr: "0.0.0.0:PORT"` instead of
`identity.key_file/pub_file` + `transports.udp.enabled/port`. The
`tor:` transport was dropped entirely; archipelago handles Tor
fallback itself. fips.yaml generated by archipelago::fips::config
now matches the upstream schema, and archipelago-fips.service stops
crashlooping on Activate. Observed on .198: 52 restarts with
"data did not match any variant of untagged enum TransportInstances
at line 7 column 3".
2. ISO backend-binary capture didn't verify that the captured binary
matched the checked-out Cargo.toml version. Today's 14:40 ISO
shipped a stale 1.4.0 binary because `core/target/release/archipelago`
pre-dated the 1.5.0-alpha bump — the build grabbed it via the
first-priority "local release build" path without looking at it.
All four capture sources now go through verify_backend_version()
which greps the binary for the expected version string; mismatches
are skipped so the build falls through to the source-build path.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Bakes the FIPS (Free Internetworking Peering System) mesh daemon into
the node stack, supervised by archipelago alongside Tor. Runs as a
system service, identity derives from the same BIP-39 master seed, and
user-triggered updates track upstream main.
Identity
seed.rs: new HKDF label archipelago/fips/secp256k1/v1 → dedicated
secp256k1 key, distinct from the Nostr-node key for crypto isolation
but still seed-recoverable
identity.rs: writes fips_key[.pub] to /data/identity on onboarding,
chmod 0600; fips_key_exists / load_fips_keys / fips_npub accessors
Transport
TransportKind::Fips=3 inserted between LAN and Tor (Tor bumps to 4)
→ router prefers FIPS over Tor for all peer traffic
PeerRecord gains fips_npub + last_fips fields (serde(default) for
backward-compat with older nodes)
transport/fips.rs: NodeTransport stub, reports unavailable until the
daemon is live so router falls through to Tor cleanly
Federation invites
FederatedNode and FederationInvite carry optional fips_npub
create_invite / accept_invite / peer-joined callback thread it end
to end; signature domain deliberately unchanged — FIPS Noise does
its own session auth, so the unsigned hint only affects path
selection
crate::fips
config.rs: renders /etc/fips/fips.yaml and sudo-installs key material
service.rs: systemctl status/activate/restart/mask wrappers
update.rs: GitHub API check against upstream main; apply stubbed
until per-commit .deb artefact source is decided
RPC + dashboard
fips.status / fips.check-update / fips.apply-update / fips.install /
fips.restart registered in dispatcher
HomeNetworkCard.vue shipped standalone (unmounted — place in Home.vue
when ready); shows state pill, version, FIPS npub, update button,
activate button when key is present but service is down
ISO + systemd
archipelago-fips.service: conditional on key presence, masked by
default — backend unmasks after onboarding writes the key
build-auto-installer-iso.sh: multi-stage Dockerfile builds the FIPS
.deb from jmcorgan/fips main (fail-loud), COPYs it into rootfs, apt
installs it so trixie resolves deps; unit copied + masked
Version bump: 1.3.5 → 1.4.0
Tests: 33 new/updated passing (seed, identity, transport, federation,
fips module, transport::fips).
Known gaps: fips.apply-update returns a clear stub error until
upstream publishes per-commit .deb artefacts; HomeNetworkCard is not
mounted in Home.vue by default.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
