Encodes the sequencing rule that nearly shipped a fleet-wide outage today.
The signed catalog is authoritative on every node — catalog_image_override
makes its image refs beat the on-disk manifest. TRUSTED_REGISTRIES in the
working tree describes a binary being built now; nodes run whatever was last
shipped to them. Those two diverge for exactly as long as an OTA takes to
reach the fleet, and that window is when regenerating the catalog silently
breaks every install with "not from a trusted registry".
Regenerating today would have done precisely that: the generator embeds each
app's manifest, and those now name the new registry domain, which no deployed
binary trusts.
- releases/registry-trust-floor.json records the hosts DEPLOYED binaries
trust, separately from what the source tree accepts, with the new domain
parked under `pending` until an OTA carries it. The migration order is
written down there rather than living in someone's memory.
- scripts/check-catalog-registry-trust.py compares the catalog's hosts against
that floor and explains the ordering fix when they diverge.
- sign-catalog.sh runs it as a preflight BEFORE prompting for the mnemonic, so
a bad catalog is refused at the last reversible moment.
- CI runs it blocking, plus the drift report advisory (drift between a manifest
landing and the next signed release is expected, since only the ceremony can
close it).
Also installs PyYAML in the manifests job. That job passed only because GitHub
runners happen to ship ruby, which the validator used to require; it now needs
python3+PyYAML.
Verified: passes on the published catalog (2 hosts, both trusted); refuses a
simulated full regenerate (79 refs on the untrusted domain) and blocks the
ceremony without requesting the mnemonic.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
DO NOT MERGE INTO A RELEASE SIGNED WITH THE NEW KEY. See below.
The previous release root (z6Mkkid…q7ur, pinned 2026-07-02) was exposed
in a chat transcript and is treated as compromised. It signs both OTA
manifests and the app catalog, so anyone holding it could sign updates
the fleet would install.
Pins the new key in trust::anchor and moves EXPECTED_DID in all three
signing/publishing scripts.
ORDERING IS CRITICAL — nodes pin the OLD key:
* The release CARRYING this commit must be signed with the OLD key.
That is the only signature a node running the previous binary will
accept, and it is what installs the binary pinning the new key.
* Only the release AFTER that may be signed with the new key.
* Signing this release with the new key makes every node reject it,
ending OTA fleet-wide and requiring hands-on recovery per node.
sign-catalog.sh moves in the same commit, so the app catalog must also be
re-signed with the new key once this ships, or nodes accept the binary
and reject the catalog.
Key verified before pinning: the hex and the did:key are the same
keypair, checked with a base58 decoder round-tripped against the previous
known-good pair. An earlier candidate hex (cb830e13…) was rejected
because it decoded to a different DID than the one supplied — pinning it
would have made every node reject every future update.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Pin RELEASE_ROOT_PUBKEY_HEX from the 2026-07-02 release-root signing ceremony
(signer did:key:z6MkkidEnEpo6qHMCNSZoNKWtvQvxq3whnaME9wGgEFhq7ur) so nodes verify
the publisher identity of the app-catalog. Sign releases/app-catalog.json in place.
Fix two floats that made the catalog unsignable: archy-btcpay-db manifest version
-> string, fedimint-clientd cpu_limit 0.25 -> 1 (u32). Add scripts/sign-catalog.sh
helper, the 1.8.0 release-hardening plan/tracker, and the commit-and-push project
rule in CLAUDE.md.
Backward-compatible: old binaries still accept the signed catalog; the pinned-anchor
binary ships in the next build/OTA.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
