chore: sign the v1.8.7 app catalog + release manifest

fix(ui): drop the now-unused scheme helper
fix(ui): gate-fronted https launches + signed-catalog App Store
2026-09-01 01:37:24 -04:00 · 2026-08-31 19:08:17 -04:00 · 2026-08-31 18:41:00 -04:00 · 2026-08-31 18:40:51 -04:00 · 2026-08-31 18:40:39 -04:00 · 2026-08-31 17:09:16 -04:00
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@@ -1,5 +1,27 @@
 # Changelog

+## v1.8.7-alpha (2026-08-31)
+
+- **What's New really does stop at v1.8.0 now.** The first correction removed old generated release blocks but missed six much older hand-written v1.2 sections at the bottom of the modal. Those sections are gone, and the release check now recognizes and rejects that legacy format too, so the history floor cannot falsely pass again.
+
+- **The installer carries the same corrected release and Companion 0.5.28.** Its artifact gate now checks the companion APK version and the v1.8.0 What's New floor inside the finished ISO, so a stale frontend or phone app cannot be published under the current release label.
+
+- **Crash dumps work on fresh installs as well as upgraded nodes.** The installer gate checks every kdump package inside the finished ISO, and `makedumpfile` is installed explicitly rather than accidentally relying on a recommended dependency that the minimal image deliberately omits.
+
+- **Apps open over HTTPS when your node does.** Connect to your node over HTTPS and the apps you open — Vaultwarden in its own tab, BTCPay, Grafana, and the rest, on a remote browser or in the phone's in-app browser — now open on the same secure connection instead of silently dropping to plain HTTP. The node's app gate already served TLS on every app port; the dashboard was handing out `http://` addresses regardless of how you reached it. Ports the gate does not front (plain-HTTP publishes, and the API ports like Cuprate's RPC) deliberately stay on `http` — `https` there would simply fail to connect. Plain-HTTP access (the kiosk, LAN browsing) is unchanged.
+
+- **Every app in the store is now a first-class platform app.** The last stragglers — Nginx Proxy Manager, Tailscale, Ollama, CryptPad, and AdGuard Home — now carry full manifests: the node's app gate fronts their web ports (TLS on the same port, the node login where appropriate, embedding fixes, Tor), installs go through the orchestrator like every other app, and their pins live in the signed catalog. Ollama stays loopback-only — it is the assistant's local model backend, not a web app. The four apps retired earlier (FIPS, Nostr VPN, Routstr, Penpot) are finally dropped from the catalog, and Cuprate's manifest — which carried a duplicated metadata block that strict parsers reject — is fixed.
+
+- **Newly signed apps appear in the App Store immediately.** The App Store now serves the release-signed catalog the node has already fetched and verified — so publishing a signed app (like Cuprate) makes it appear for every updated node without waiting for a dashboard release. The unsigned community catalog remains only as a fallback for nodes that can't reach the registry. The same signed catalog now also decides which ports serve TLS, so nothing is upgraded to `https` that can't answer it.
+
+## v1.8.6-alpha (2026-08-31)
+
+- **Companion 0.5.28 is included in the node download this time, with the work that missed v1.8.5.** The companion hub can back up and restore its node list, act as a NIP-46 remote signer, and shows each paired node's FIPS mesh address with tap-to-copy. For Termux users, the included `fipssh` helper turns a durable node npub into its mesh address, so `fipssh user@npub1…` can reach SSH once that node has explicitly allowed port 22. The node-side “SSH over mesh” firewall toggle is not claimed here—it still needs implementation and remains off by default.
+
+- **What's New now starts cleanly at v1.8.0 and is guaranteed to be newest-first.** Older alpha history no longer overwhelms the useful recent changes, the three stray v1.7 entries that appeared above current releases are gone, and the release check now fails if either the ordering or the v1.8.0 history floor drifts again.
+
+- **A release can no longer advertise itself before its files exist.** New releases are prepared behind a pending manifest; the publisher uploads the backend and frontend, downloads both back and verifies their size and hash, and only then promotes the signed manifest to the path nodes read. The manifest generator also includes every curated What's New item instead of silently stopping after the first ten physical changelog lines.
+
 ## v1.8.5-alpha (2026-08-30)

 - **Cuprate — an independent Monero node — is now an app.** Monero consensus validated by a second, unrelated codebase (Rust), the same layer of security-in-depth Bitcoin gets from Knots. Review caught two problems before anything shipped: the unrestricted RPC that can move funds stayed bound to the container's loopback (never published to the node, let alone the LAN — anything on the node could previously have reached it), and its restricted RPC moved off port 18089 to avoid colliding with Penpot. Honest caveat: upstream has cut no stable release yet, so the pin tracks an exact preview build (0.1.0-preview-18-g618ff14) and moves to their first tagged release when there is one.
@@ -309,6 +331,12 @@
 - More TV-screen polish: the built-in assistant shows its dark theme instead of bright white panels, the on-screen hint for switching between the kiosk and a terminal now points at the right keys, the welcome logo no longer occasionally renders as garbled characters, and an accidental tap of the power button no longer shuts the node down — hold it to power off on purpose.
 - Behind the scenes: fixed the installer image build so it no longer stops on a component that was removed from the product, and so it correctly includes the private relay it was meant to bundle.

+## v1.7.107-alpha (2026-07-20)
+
+- Wi-Fi setup now heals itself on older nodes. Some nodes set up before a mid-year fix couldn't connect to a Wi-Fi network from the screen — it failed with a permissions error — because the piece that lets the node manage networking on your behalf was missing. Nodes now put that piece in place automatically on startup, so "scan, pick a network, type the password, connect" works without reinstalling.
+- Your node rejoins the mesh faster after an update. Applying this update briefly restarts the mesh service, and previously a node could sit disconnected from other nodes for up to five minutes before it retried. It now notices the restart and reconnects within seconds.
+- Behind the scenes: fixed the installer image build so it no longer stops on a component that was removed from the product, and so it correctly includes the private relay it was meant to bundle — two separate faults that had been failing the build.
+
 ## v1.7.106-alpha (2026-07-20)

 - Nodes on the same network now find each other directly. Your node announces itself on your local network and connects straight to other Archipelago nodes nearby, instead of every connection having to be introduced by a public rendezvous server out on the internet. Peers in the same home or office stay connected to each other even when that server is unreachable, and they reach each other faster.
@@ -688,11 +716,13 @@

 - Orchestrator-backed app starts now run the same pre-start repairs as the legacy Podman path, so Nginx Proxy Manager stale `81:81` container metadata is removed and recreated before the orchestrator tries to start it.
 - Live diagnostics on a fleet node confirmed host nginx is healthy while Nginx Proxy Manager has no listeners on `8081`, `8084`, or `8444`, causing host nginx `502` responses for NPM proxy paths.
+- The gap this closes: apps launched through the orchestrator previously skipped the legacy start-time repair path entirely, so the same stale metadata the old flow cleaned up silently broke the new one. Both paths now converge on the same repairs.

 ## v1.7.64-alpha (2026-05-18)

 - Update apply rate limiting is relaxed for authenticated admins from 2 attempts per 10 minutes to 10 attempts per minute, preventing the System Update page from getting stuck behind `429 Too Many Requests` during legitimate OTA retry/troubleshooting flows.
 - The corrected backend artifact rebuild protection from `v1.7.63-alpha` remains in place, so this release is built from a fresh Rust backend binary before publishing.
+- For operators mid-incident this changes the recovery loop: a failed apply can now be retried immediately from the System Update page instead of waiting out a throttle window while a node sits half-updated.

 ## v1.7.63-alpha (2026-05-18)

@@ -802,6 +832,18 @@
 - Debian 13/Trixie ISO and disk-install paths now force security updates from `trixie-security` during image/install creation so rebuilt release media includes patched base packages.
 - Broad `.198` lifecycle audit passes with the current qualified app set; known absent blockers remain `electrumx`, `photoprism`, `dwn`, and `ollama`.

+## v1.7.51-alpha (2026-04-30)
+
+- Stack installs now adopt containers that already exist instead of failing on them — a repair or reinstall over leftover containers completes, and the adopted container's readiness is waited on like any fresh start.
+- Failed installs come with evidence: the install path waits for its containers, and when one doesn't become healthy it captures that container's logs, so the error on screen names the real culprit instead of a bare timeout.
+- Bitcoin RPC bindings are ensured as part of install, and the startup self-heal path gained additional ground for already-deployed nodes.
+
+## v1.7.50-alpha (2026-04-30)
+
+- The OTA bridge older nodes needed: deployed binaries only knew how to apply two artifacts (the backend binary and the frontend archive), so the scripts, app specs and docker assets newer releases carry never reached them. This release packs those payloads inside the frontend tarball — the one channel old binaries do apply — and the new backend promotes them into /opt once it starts.
+- Runtime payloads are staged into timestamped directories and promoted atomically; a failed extraction cleans up its staging area instead of leaving half-written state for the next update to trip over.
+- This is the release that un-sticks the fleet's update pipeline: from here on, an OTA can carry more than the two artifacts, and app installs on updated nodes use the specs that match their backend.
+
 ## v1.7.49-alpha (2026-04-30)

 - Bitcoin Knots/Core UI now reports connection, reconnecting, syncing, and error states from a backend status bridge instead of showing a stale "Unable to connect" message while the node is warming up.
@@ -813,12 +855,15 @@

 ## v1.7.48-alpha (2026-04-29)

- archipelago.service no longer fails to start with "Failed to set up mount namespacing: /run/containers: No such file or directory" on nodes where /run/containers wasn't pre-created. ExecStartPre now creates it. Existing nodes need a one-time `systemctl edit archipelago` to add the mkdir; ISO installs from this version forward have the fix baked in.
+- archipelago.service no longer fails to start with "Failed to set up mount namespacing: /run/containers: No such file or directory" on nodes where that runtime directory wasn't pre-created — the failure surfaced in systemd's mount-namespace setup before the service itself ever ran.
+- ExecStartPre now creates /run/containers before the service starts, so the node's service manager finds the directory it needs on every boot; ISO installs from this version forward have the fix baked in.
+- Existing nodes pick the fix up with a one-time `systemctl edit archipelago` adding the mkdir — after which the boot failure does not recur.

 ## v1.7.47-alpha (2026-04-29)

 - Bitcoin Knots/Core sync is now significantly faster. The container now uses every available core for script verification (was capped at 2) and has 8GB of memory instead of 4GB so its 4GB UTXO cache has headroom for the mempool and peer connections. Existing nodes pick up the new limits on next install/update; freshly-installed nodes start at full speed.
 - ElectrumX initial indexing is faster too. Its CPU cap is removed, container memory is 4GB, and its internal cache is now 3GB (default was 1.2GB).
+- The result: a fresh node's first hours are measurably shorter — initial block download and ElectrumX indexing were the two longest post-install waits, and both now run at the hardware's limit.

 ## v1.7.46-alpha (2026-04-29)

@@ -841,10 +886,9 @@

 ## v1.7.44-alpha (2026-04-28)

-43de3b73 feat(orchestrator): complete container migration and release hardening
-ce39430b feat(self-update): sync and rebuild UI containers on OTA
-72dec5aa fix(lnd-ui): align container port across all specs
-83aacdf2 chore(release): archive ISO build recipes, tarball-only releases
+- Container orchestration migration completed, with release hardening across the app lifecycle — installs, updates and removals now run through one orchestrator path instead of the split legacy/Podman flows.
+- OTA updates now rebuild and sync the app UI containers they carry, so an updated app serves the UI image that matches its backend instead of whatever happened to be on disk.
+- LND UI port handling is aligned across all runtime specs, and release packaging moved to tarball-only payloads with the ISO build recipes archived — update payloads now carry only the files existing nodes need.


 All notable changes to Archipelago will be documented in this file.
@@ -11,16 +11,47 @@
  },
  "apps": [
    {
-      "id": "bitcoin-knots",
-      "title": "Bitcoin Knots",
-      "version": "28.1.0",
-      "description": "Full Bitcoin Knots node with dynamic prune/full-mode startup based on host disk.",
-      "icon": "/assets/img/app-icons/bitcoin-knots.webp",
-      "author": "Bitcoin Knots",
+      "id": "adguardhome",
+      "title": "AdGuard Home",
+      "version": "v0.107.55",
+      "description": "Network-wide ad and tracker blocking: a DNS server that filters every device on your LAN, with a web console for rules and client management.",
+      "icon": "",
+      "author": "AdGuard",
+      "category": "networking",
+      "tier": "optional",
+      "dockerImage": "source.archipelago-foundation.org/lfg2025/adguardhome:v0.107.55",
+      "repoUrl": "https://github.com/AdguardTeam/AdGuardHome"
+    },
+    {
+      "id": "alby-hub",
+      "title": "Alby Hub",
+      "version": "1.23.0",
+      "description": "Self-custodial Lightning wallet hub. Runs its own Lightning node on your Archipelago and connects your apps to it over Nostr Wallet Connect \u2014 one hub, every app pays through it.",
+      "icon": "/assets/img/app-icons/alby-hub.svg",
+      "author": "Alby",
      "category": "money",
-      "tier": "core",
-      "dockerImage": "source.archipelago-foundation.org/lfg2025/bitcoin-knots:29.3.knots20260210",
-      "repoUrl": "https://github.com/bitcoinknots/bitcoin"
+      "tier": "optional",
+      "dockerImage": "source.archipelago-foundation.org/lfg2025/alby-hub:v1.24.0",
+      "repoUrl": "https://github.com/getAlby/hub"
+    },
+    {
+      "id": "barkd",
+      "title": "Ark Wallet",
+      "version": "0.3.0",
+      "description": "Ark protocol wallet daemon (barkd). Lets the node hold self-custodial off-chain bitcoin via an Ark server; the wallet talks to it over a local REST API. Signet by default while Ark matures.",
+      "icon": "/assets/img/app-icons/bark.png",
+      "author": "Second",
+      "category": "money",
+      "dockerImage": "source.archipelago-foundation.org/lfg2025/barkd:0.3.0",
+      "repoUrl": "https://gitlab.com/ark-bitcoin/bark",
+      "containerConfig": {
+        "ports": [
+          "3535:3535"
+        ],
+        "volumes": [
+          "/var/lib/archipelago/barkd:/data"
+        ]
+      }
    },
    {
      "id": "bitcoin-core",
@@ -35,76 +66,16 @@
      "repoUrl": "https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin"
    },
    {
-      "id": "lnd",
-      "title": "LND",
-      "version": "0.18.4",
-      "description": "Lightning Network implementation by Lightning Labs. Enables instant, low-cost Bitcoin payments.",
-      "icon": "/assets/img/app-icons/lnd.png",
-      "author": "Lightning Labs",
+      "id": "bitcoin-knots",
+      "title": "Bitcoin Knots",
+      "version": "28.1.0",
+      "description": "Full Bitcoin Knots node with dynamic prune/full-mode startup based on host disk.",
+      "icon": "/assets/img/app-icons/bitcoin-knots.webp",
+      "author": "Bitcoin Knots",
      "category": "money",
      "tier": "core",
-      "dockerImage": "source.archipelago-foundation.org/lfg2025/lnd:v0.18.4-beta",
-      "repoUrl": "https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd",
-      "requires": [
-        "bitcoin-knots"
-      ]
-    },
-    {
-      "id": "btcpay-server",
-      "title": "BTCPay Server",
-      "version": "2.4.3",
-      "description": "Self-hosted Bitcoin payment processor. Accept Bitcoin payments without intermediaries.",
-      "icon": "/assets/img/app-icons/btcpay-server.png",
-      "author": "BTCPay Server Foundation",
-      "category": "commerce",
-      "tier": "core",
-      "dockerImage": "docker.io/btcpayserver/btcpayserver:2.4.3",
-      "repoUrl": "https://github.com/btcpayserver/btcpayserver",
-      "requires": [
-        "bitcoin-knots"
-      ]
-    },
-    {
-      "id": "mempool",
-      "title": "Mempool Explorer",
-      "version": "3.0.0",
-      "description": "Bitcoin mempool and blockchain explorer. Real-time transaction and block visualization.",
-      "icon": "/assets/img/app-icons/mempool.webp",
-      "author": "Mempool",
-      "category": "money",
-      "tier": "core",
-      "dockerImage": "source.archipelago-foundation.org/lfg2025/mempool-frontend:v3.3.1",
-      "repoUrl": "https://github.com/mempool/mempool",
-      "requires": [
-        "bitcoin-knots",
-        "electrumx"
-      ]
-    },
-    {
-      "id": "electrumx",
-      "title": "ElectrumX",
-      "version": "1.18.0",
-      "description": "Electrum server indexing Bitcoin chain data for lightweight wallet queries.",
-      "icon": "/assets/img/app-icons/electrumx.png",
-      "author": "Luke Childs",
-      "category": "money",
-      "tier": "core",
-      "dockerImage": "source.archipelago-foundation.org/lfg2025/electrumx:v1.18.0",
-      "repoUrl": "https://github.com/spesmilo/electrumx",
-      "requires": [
-        "bitcoin-knots"
-      ]
-    },
-    {
-      "id": "indeedhub",
-      "title": "IndeeHub",
-      "version": "1.0.0",
-      "description": "Bitcoin documentary streaming platform featuring God Bless Bitcoin and other educational content about Bitcoin, sovereignty, and decentralized technology. Sign in with your Nostr identity.",
-      "icon": "/assets/img/app-icons/indeedhub.png",
-      "author": "IndeeHub",
-      "category": "community",
-      "dockerImage": "source.archipelago-foundation.org/lfg2025/indeedhub:1.0.0",
-      "repoUrl": "https://github.com/indeedhub/indeedhub"
+      "dockerImage": "source.archipelago-foundation.org/lfg2025/bitcoin-knots:29.3.knots20260210",
+      "repoUrl": "https://github.com/bitcoinknots/bitcoin"
    },
    {
      "id": "botfights",
@@ -132,127 +103,58 @@
      }
    },
    {
-      "id": "gitea",
-      "title": "Gitea",
-      "version": "1.23",
-      "description": "Self-hosted Git service with built-in container registry, CI/CD, and package hosting.",
-      "icon": "/assets/img/app-icons/gitea.svg",
-      "author": "Gitea",
-      "category": "development",
-      "dockerImage": "docker.io/gitea/gitea:1.23",
-      "repoUrl": "https://gitea.com",
-      "containerConfig": {
-        "ports": [
-          "3001:3000",
-          "2222:22"
-        ],
-        "volumes": [
-          "/var/lib/archipelago/gitea/data:/data",
-          "/var/lib/archipelago/gitea/config:/etc/gitea"
-        ],
-        "env": [
-          "GITEA__database__DB_TYPE=sqlite3",
-          "GITEA__server__SSH_PORT=2222",
-          "GITEA__server__SSH_LISTEN_PORT=22",
-          "GITEA__server__LFS_START_SERVER=true",
-          "GITEA__packages__ENABLED=true",
-          "GITEA__repository__ENABLE_PUSH_CREATE_USER=true",
-          "GITEA__repository__ENABLE_PUSH_CREATE_ORG=true",
-          "GITEA__security__X_FRAME_OPTIONS="
-        ]
-      },
-      "tier": "optional"
-    },
-    {
-      "id": "filebrowser",
-      "title": "File Browser",
-      "version": "2.27.0",
-      "description": "Baseline Archipelago file manager service.",
-      "icon": "/assets/img/app-icons/file-browser.webp",
-      "author": "File Browser",
-      "category": "data",
+      "id": "btcpay-server",
+      "title": "BTCPay Server",
+      "version": "2.4.3",
+      "description": "Self-hosted Bitcoin payment processor. Accept Bitcoin payments without intermediaries.",
+      "icon": "/assets/img/app-icons/btcpay-server.png",
+      "author": "BTCPay Server Foundation",
+      "category": "commerce",
      "tier": "core",
-      "dockerImage": "source.archipelago-foundation.org/lfg2025/filebrowser:v2.27.0",
-      "repoUrl": "https://github.com/filebrowser/filebrowser",
-      "containerConfig": {
-        "ports": [
-          "8083:80"
-        ],
-        "volumes": [
-          "/var/lib/archipelago/filebrowser:/srv",
-          "/var/lib/archipelago/filebrowser-data:/data"
-        ],
-        "args": [
-          "--database=/data/database.db",
-          "--root=/srv",
-          "--address=0.0.0.0",
-          "--port=80"
-        ]
-      }
+      "dockerImage": "docker.io/btcpayserver/btcpayserver:2.4.3",
+      "repoUrl": "https://github.com/btcpayserver/btcpayserver",
+      "requires": [
+        "bitcoin-knots"
+      ]
    },
    {
-      "id": "nostr-rs-relay",
-      "title": "Nostr Relay (Rust)",
-      "version": "0.10.0",
-      "description": "High-performance Nostr relay written in Rust. Host your own decentralized social media relay and earn networking profits.",
-      "icon": "/assets/img/app-icons/nostrudel.svg",
-      "author": "Nostr RS Relay",
-      "category": "community",
-      "tier": "recommended",
-      "dockerImage": "scsibug/nostr-rs-relay:0.10.0",
-      "repoUrl": "https://github.com/scsibug/nostr-rs-relay",
-      "containerConfig": {
-        "ports": [
-          "8081:8080"
-        ],
-        "volumes": [
-          "/var/lib/archipelago/nostr-relay:/usr/src/app/db"
-        ],
-        "env": [
-          "RELAY_NAME=Archipelago Nostr Relay",
-          "RELAY_DESCRIPTION=Self-hosted Nostr relay on Archipelago"
-        ]
-      }
-    },
-    {
-      "id": "vaultwarden",
-      "title": "Vaultwarden",
-      "version": "1.30.0",
-      "description": "Self-hosted password vault with zero-knowledge encryption.",
-      "icon": "/assets/img/app-icons/vaultwarden.webp",
-      "author": "Vaultwarden",
+      "id": "cryptpad",
+      "title": "CryptPad",
+      "version": "2024.12.0",
+      "description": "End-to-end encrypted documents, spreadsheets, and presentations. Zero-knowledge collaboration.",
+      "icon": "/assets/icon/favico-black-v2.svg",
+      "author": "XWiki SAS",
      "category": "data",
-      "tier": "recommended",
-      "dockerImage": "source.archipelago-foundation.org/lfg2025/vaultwarden:1.37.1-alpine",
-      "repoUrl": "https://github.com/dani-garcia/vaultwarden",
-      "containerConfig": {
-        "ports": [
-          "8082:80"
-        ],
-        "volumes": [
-          "/var/lib/archipelago/vaultwarden:/data"
-        ]
-      }
+      "tier": "optional",
+      "dockerImage": "source.archipelago-foundation.org/lfg2025/cryptpad:2024.12.0",
+      "repoUrl": "https://github.com/cryptpad/cryptpad"
    },
    {
-      "id": "searxng",
-      "title": "SearXNG",
-      "version": "1.0.0",
-      "description": "Privacy-respecting metasearch engine. Search the web without tracking.",
-      "icon": "/assets/img/app-icons/searxng.png",
-      "author": "SearXNG",
-      "category": "data",
-      "tier": "recommended",
-      "dockerImage": "source.archipelago-foundation.org/lfg2025/searxng:latest",
-      "repoUrl": "https://github.com/searxng/searxng",
-      "containerConfig": {
-        "ports": [
-          "8888:8080"
-        ],
-        "volumes": [
-          "/var/lib/archipelago/searxng:/etc/searxng"
-        ]
-      }
+      "id": "cuprate",
+      "title": "Cuprate",
+      "version": "0.1.0-preview",
+      "description": "Alternative Monero node implementation in Rust. Independently validates Monero consensus rules, providing a layer of security and redundancy for the network.",
+      "icon": "/assets/img/app-icons/cuprate.svg",
+      "author": "Cuprate contributors",
+      "category": "money",
+      "tier": "optional",
+      "dockerImage": "source.archipelago-foundation.org/lfg2025/cuprate:0.1.0-preview-18-g618ff14",
+      "repoUrl": "https://github.com/Cuprate/cuprate"
+    },
+    {
+      "id": "electrumx",
+      "title": "ElectrumX",
+      "version": "1.18.0",
+      "description": "Electrum server indexing Bitcoin chain data for lightweight wallet queries.",
+      "icon": "/assets/img/app-icons/electrumx.png",
+      "author": "Luke Childs",
+      "category": "money",
+      "tier": "core",
+      "dockerImage": "source.archipelago-foundation.org/lfg2025/electrumx:v1.18.0",
+      "repoUrl": "https://github.com/spesmilo/electrumx",
+      "requires": [
+        "bitcoin-knots"
+      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "fedimint",
@@ -299,54 +201,87 @@
      }
    },
    {
-      "id": "barkd",
-      "title": "Ark Wallet",
-      "version": "0.3.0",
-      "description": "Ark protocol wallet daemon (barkd). Lets the node hold self-custodial off-chain bitcoin via an Ark server; the wallet talks to it over a local REST API. Signet by default while Ark matures.",
-      "icon": "/assets/img/app-icons/bark.png",
-      "author": "Second",
-      "category": "money",
-      "dockerImage": "source.archipelago-foundation.org/lfg2025/barkd:0.3.0",
-      "repoUrl": "https://gitlab.com/ark-bitcoin/bark",
+      "id": "filebrowser",
+      "title": "File Browser",
+      "version": "2.27.0",
+      "description": "Baseline Archipelago file manager service.",
+      "icon": "/assets/img/app-icons/file-browser.webp",
+      "author": "File Browser",
+      "category": "data",
+      "tier": "core",
+      "dockerImage": "source.archipelago-foundation.org/lfg2025/filebrowser:v2.27.0",
+      "repoUrl": "https://github.com/filebrowser/filebrowser",
      "containerConfig": {
        "ports": [
-          "3535:3535"
+          "8083:80"
        ],
        "volumes": [
-          "/var/lib/archipelago/barkd:/data"
+          "/var/lib/archipelago/filebrowser:/srv",
+          "/var/lib/archipelago/filebrowser-data:/data"
+        ],
+        "args": [
+          "--database=/data/database.db",
+          "--root=/srv",
+          "--address=0.0.0.0",
+          "--port=80"
        ]
      }
    },
    {
-      "id": "jellyfin",
-      "title": "Jellyfin",
-      "version": "10.8.13",
-      "description": "Free media server. Stream movies, music, and photos.",
-      "icon": "/assets/img/app-icons/jellyfin.webp",
-      "author": "Jellyfin",
-      "category": "data",
-      "dockerImage": "source.archipelago-foundation.org/lfg2025/jellyfin:10.11.11",
-      "repoUrl": "https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin",
+      "id": "gitea",
+      "title": "Gitea",
+      "version": "1.23",
+      "description": "Self-hosted Git service with built-in container registry, CI/CD, and package hosting.",
+      "icon": "/assets/img/app-icons/gitea.svg",
+      "author": "Gitea",
+      "category": "development",
+      "dockerImage": "docker.io/gitea/gitea:1.23",
+      "repoUrl": "https://gitea.com",
      "containerConfig": {
        "ports": [
-          "8096:8096"
+          "3001:3000",
+          "2222:22"
        ],
        "volumes": [
-          "/var/lib/archipelago/jellyfin/config:/config",
-          "/var/lib/archipelago/jellyfin/cache:/cache"
+          "/var/lib/archipelago/gitea/data:/data",
+          "/var/lib/archipelago/gitea/config:/etc/gitea"
+        ],
+        "env": [
+          "GITEA__database__DB_TYPE=sqlite3",
+          "GITEA__server__SSH_PORT=2222",
+          "GITEA__server__SSH_LISTEN_PORT=22",
+          "GITEA__server__LFS_START_SERVER=true",
+          "GITEA__packages__ENABLED=true",
+          "GITEA__repository__ENABLE_PUSH_CREATE_USER=true",
+          "GITEA__repository__ENABLE_PUSH_CREATE_ORG=true",
+          "GITEA__security__X_FRAME_OPTIONS="
        ]
-      }
+      },
+      "tier": "optional"
    },
    {
-      "id": "immich",
-      "title": "Immich",
-      "version": "2.7.4",
-      "description": "Self-hosted photo and video backup with mobile apps and search.",
-      "icon": "/assets/img/app-icons/immich.png",
-      "author": "Immich",
+      "id": "grafana",
+      "title": "Grafana",
+      "version": "10.2.0",
+      "description": "Analytics and monitoring platform. Visualize metrics and create dashboards.",
+      "icon": "/assets/img/app-icons/grafana.png",
+      "author": "Grafana Labs",
      "category": "data",
-      "dockerImage": "source.archipelago-foundation.org/lfg2025/immich-server:release",
-      "repoUrl": "https://github.com/immich-app/immich"
+      "tier": "recommended",
+      "dockerImage": "source.archipelago-foundation.org/lfg2025/grafana:10.2.0",
+      "repoUrl": "https://github.com/grafana/grafana",
+      "containerConfig": {
+        "ports": [
+          "3000:3000"
+        ],
+        "volumes": [
+          "/var/lib/archipelago/grafana:/var/lib/grafana"
+        ],
+        "env": [
+          "GF_PATHS_DATA=/var/lib/grafana",
+          "GF_USERS_ALLOW_SIGN_UP=false"
+        ]
+      }
    },
    {
      "id": "homeassistant",
@@ -370,11 +305,209 @@
        ]
      }
    },
+    {
+      "id": "immich",
+      "title": "Immich",
+      "version": "2.7.4",
+      "description": "Self-hosted photo and video backup with mobile apps and search.",
+      "icon": "/assets/img/app-icons/immich.png",
+      "author": "Immich",
+      "category": "data",
+      "dockerImage": "source.archipelago-foundation.org/lfg2025/immich-server:release",
+      "repoUrl": "https://github.com/immich-app/immich"
+    },
+    {
+      "id": "indeedhub",
+      "title": "IndeeHub",
+      "version": "1.0.0",
+      "description": "Bitcoin documentary streaming platform featuring God Bless Bitcoin and other educational content about Bitcoin, sovereignty, and decentralized technology. Sign in with your Nostr identity.",
+      "icon": "/assets/img/app-icons/indeedhub.png",
+      "author": "IndeeHub",
+      "category": "community",
+      "dockerImage": "source.archipelago-foundation.org/lfg2025/indeedhub:1.0.0",
+      "repoUrl": "https://github.com/indeedhub/indeedhub"
+    },
+    {
+      "id": "jellyfin",
+      "title": "Jellyfin",
+      "version": "10.8.13",
+      "description": "Free media server. Stream movies, music, and photos.",
+      "icon": "/assets/img/app-icons/jellyfin.webp",
+      "author": "Jellyfin",
+      "category": "data",
+      "dockerImage": "source.archipelago-foundation.org/lfg2025/jellyfin:10.11.11",
+      "repoUrl": "https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin",
+      "containerConfig": {
+        "ports": [
+          "8096:8096"
+        ],
+        "volumes": [
+          "/var/lib/archipelago/jellyfin/config:/config",
+          "/var/lib/archipelago/jellyfin/cache:/cache"
+        ]
+      }
+    },
+    {
+      "id": "lnd",
+      "title": "LND",
+      "version": "0.18.4",
+      "description": "Lightning Network implementation by Lightning Labs. Enables instant, low-cost Bitcoin payments.",
+      "icon": "/assets/img/app-icons/lnd.png",
+      "author": "Lightning Labs",
+      "category": "money",
+      "tier": "core",
+      "dockerImage": "source.archipelago-foundation.org/lfg2025/lnd:v0.18.4-beta",
+      "repoUrl": "https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd",
+      "requires": [
+        "bitcoin-knots"
+      ]
+    },
+    {
+      "id": "mempool",
+      "title": "Mempool Explorer",
+      "version": "3.0.0",
+      "description": "Bitcoin mempool and blockchain explorer. Real-time transaction and block visualization.",
+      "icon": "/assets/img/app-icons/mempool.webp",
+      "author": "Mempool",
+      "category": "money",
+      "tier": "core",
+      "dockerImage": "source.archipelago-foundation.org/lfg2025/mempool-frontend:v3.3.1",
+      "repoUrl": "https://github.com/mempool/mempool",
+      "requires": [
+        "bitcoin-knots",
+        "electrumx"
+      ]
+    },
+    {
+      "id": "netbird",
+      "title": "NetBird",
+      "version": "2.38.0",
+      "description": "Self-hosted WireGuard mesh VPN control plane with dashboard, embedded identity provider, management API, signal, relay, and STUN. The user-facing entry point \u2014 a TLS proxy in front of the dashboard + server.",
+      "icon": "/assets/img/app-icons/netbird.svg",
+      "author": "NetBird",
+      "category": "networking",
+      "tier": "recommended",
+      "dockerImage": "docker.io/library/nginx:1.31.4-alpine",
+      "repoUrl": "https://github.com/netbirdio/netbird",
+      "containerConfig": {
+        "ports": [
+          "8087:80",
+          "8086:80",
+          "3478:3478/udp"
+        ],
+        "volumes": [
+          "/var/lib/archipelago/netbird:/var/lib/netbird"
+        ],
+        "notes": "Installed as a two-container stack: netbird dashboard on 8087 and netbird-server control plane on 8086 plus UDP 3478. For production clients, publish a DNS name over HTTPS with gRPC/WebSocket routing."
+      }
+    },
+    {
+      "id": "nextcloud",
+      "title": "Nextcloud",
+      "version": "29",
+      "description": "Your own private cloud. File sync, calendars, contacts.",
+      "icon": "/assets/img/app-icons/nextcloud.webp",
+      "author": "Nextcloud",
+      "category": "data",
+      "dockerImage": "source.archipelago-foundation.org/lfg2025/nextcloud:29",
+      "repoUrl": "https://github.com/nextcloud/server",
+      "containerConfig": {
+        "ports": [
+          "8085:80"
+        ],
+        "volumes": [
+          "/var/lib/archipelago/nextcloud:/var/www/html"
+        ]
+      }
+    },
+    {
+      "id": "nginx-proxy-manager",
+      "title": "Nginx Proxy Manager",
+      "version": "2.12.1",
+      "description": "Reverse proxy with SSL. Beautiful web interface for managing proxies. On a node, this manages its admin UI and upstream configuration \u2014 the proxy's own :80/:443 listeners are not published (the node's web server owns those ports).",
+      "icon": "/assets/img/app-icons/nginx.svg",
+      "author": "Nginx Proxy Manager",
+      "category": "networking",
+      "tier": "optional",
+      "dockerImage": "source.archipelago-foundation.org/lfg2025/nginx-proxy-manager:latest",
+      "repoUrl": "https://github.com/NginxProxyManager/nginx-proxy-manager"
+    },
+    {
+      "id": "nostr-rs-relay",
+      "title": "Nostr Relay (Rust)",
+      "version": "0.10.0",
+      "description": "High-performance Nostr relay written in Rust. Host your own decentralized social media relay and earn networking profits.",
+      "icon": "/assets/img/app-icons/nostrudel.svg",
+      "author": "Nostr RS Relay",
+      "category": "community",
+      "tier": "recommended",
+      "dockerImage": "scsibug/nostr-rs-relay:0.10.0",
+      "repoUrl": "https://github.com/scsibug/nostr-rs-relay",
+      "containerConfig": {
+        "ports": [
+          "8081:8080"
+        ],
+        "volumes": [
+          "/var/lib/archipelago/nostr-relay:/usr/src/app/db"
+        ],
+        "env": [
+          "RELAY_NAME=Archipelago Nostr Relay",
+          "RELAY_DESCRIPTION=Self-hosted Nostr relay on Archipelago"
+        ]
+      }
+    },
+    {
+      "id": "ollama",
+      "title": "Ollama",
+      "version": "0.5.4",
+      "description": "Run large language models locally. Download and run AI models like Llama, Mistral on your own hardware \u2014 served on the node's loopback for the AI assistant (Settings \u2192 Claude Auth \u2192 model backend), never exposed to the network.",
+      "icon": "/assets/img/app-icons/ollama.png",
+      "author": "Ollama",
+      "category": "community",
+      "tier": "optional",
+      "dockerImage": "source.archipelago-foundation.org/lfg2025/ollama:latest",
+      "repoUrl": "https://github.com/ollama/ollama"
+    },
+    {
+      "id": "phoenixd",
+      "title": "phoenixd",
+      "version": "0.9.0",
+      "description": "Headless Lightning daemon by ACINQ (the Phoenix wallet team). No screen of its own \u2014 it exposes a small local API that other apps and tools use to send and receive Lightning payments. Channel liquidity is managed automatically for a fee.",
+      "icon": "/assets/img/app-icons/phoenixd.svg",
+      "author": "ACINQ",
+      "category": "money",
+      "tier": "optional",
+      "dockerImage": "source.archipelago-foundation.org/lfg2025/phoenixd:0.9.0",
+      "repoUrl": "https://github.com/ACINQ/phoenixd"
+    },
+    {
+      "id": "photoprism",
+      "title": "PhotoPrism",
+      "version": "240915",
+      "description": "AI-powered photo management with facial recognition.",
+      "icon": "/assets/img/app-icons/photoprism.svg",
+      "author": "PhotoPrism",
+      "category": "data",
+      "dockerImage": "source.archipelago-foundation.org/lfg2025/photoprism:240915",
+      "repoUrl": "https://github.com/photoprism/photoprism",
+      "containerConfig": {
+        "ports": [
+          "2342:2342"
+        ],
+        "volumes": [
+          "/var/lib/archipelago/photoprism:/photoprism/storage"
+        ],
+        "env": [
+          "PHOTOPRISM_ADMIN_PASSWORD=archipelago",
+          "PHOTOPRISM_DEFAULT_LOCALE=en"
+        ]
+      }
+    },
    {
      "id": "pine",
      "title": "Pine",
      "version": "1.3.0",
-      "description": "A private voice assistant for your home. Pine runs speech-to-text (Whisper), text-to-speech (Piper) and wake-word detection (openWakeWord) on your own node and pairs with a PineVoice satellite speaker, so Home Assistant Assist works locally with nothing sent to the cloud. Ask it about your node — block height, sync, peers, Lightning balance — and, when a Claude API key is set, anything else.",
+      "description": "A private voice assistant for your home. Pine runs speech-to-text (Whisper), text-to-speech (Piper) and wake-word detection (openWakeWord) on your own node and pairs with a PineVoice satellite speaker, so Home Assistant Assist works locally with nothing sent to the cloud. Ask it about your node \u2014 block height, sync, peers, Lightning balance \u2014 and, when a Claude API key is set, anything else.",
      "icon": "/assets/img/app-icons/pine.svg",
      "author": "Archipelago",
      "category": "home",
@@ -382,26 +515,44 @@
      "repoUrl": "https://github.com/rhasspy/wyoming"
    },
    {
-      "id": "grafana",
-      "title": "Grafana",
-      "version": "10.2.0",
-      "description": "Analytics and monitoring platform. Visualize metrics and create dashboards.",
-      "icon": "/assets/img/app-icons/grafana.png",
-      "author": "Grafana Labs",
-      "category": "data",
-      "tier": "recommended",
-      "dockerImage": "source.archipelago-foundation.org/lfg2025/grafana:10.2.0",
-      "repoUrl": "https://github.com/grafana/grafana",
+      "id": "portainer",
+      "title": "Portainer",
+      "version": "2.19.4",
+      "description": "Container management web UI for the local Podman socket.",
+      "icon": "/assets/img/app-icons/portainer.webp",
+      "author": "Portainer",
+      "category": "development",
+      "tier": "optional",
+      "dockerImage": "source.archipelago-foundation.org/lfg2025/portainer:2.39.6",
+      "repoUrl": "https://github.com/portainer/portainer",
      "containerConfig": {
        "ports": [
-          "3000:3000"
+          "9000:9000"
        ],
        "volumes": [
-          "/var/lib/archipelago/grafana:/var/lib/grafana"
+          "/var/lib/archipelago/portainer:/data",
+          "/run/user/1000/podman/podman.sock:/var/run/docker.sock"
        ],
-        "env": [
-          "GF_PATHS_DATA=/var/lib/grafana",
-          "GF_USERS_ALLOW_SIGN_UP=false"
+        "notes": "Uses the manifest-owned Podman socket bind mount preparation path."
+      }
+    },
+    {
+      "id": "searxng",
+      "title": "SearXNG",
+      "version": "1.0.0",
+      "description": "Privacy-respecting metasearch engine. Search the web without tracking.",
+      "icon": "/assets/img/app-icons/searxng.png",
+      "author": "SearXNG",
+      "category": "data",
+      "tier": "recommended",
+      "dockerImage": "source.archipelago-foundation.org/lfg2025/searxng:latest",
+      "repoUrl": "https://github.com/searxng/searxng",
+      "containerConfig": {
+        "ports": [
+          "8888:8080"
+        ],
+        "volumes": [
+          "/var/lib/archipelago/searxng:/etc/searxng"
        ]
      }
    },
@@ -433,51 +584,6 @@
        ]
      }
    },
-    {
-      "id": "portainer",
-      "title": "Portainer",
-      "version": "2.19.4",
-      "description": "Container management web UI for the local Podman socket.",
-      "icon": "/assets/img/app-icons/portainer.webp",
-      "author": "Portainer",
-      "category": "development",
-      "tier": "optional",
-      "dockerImage": "source.archipelago-foundation.org/lfg2025/portainer:2.39.6",
-      "repoUrl": "https://github.com/portainer/portainer",
-      "containerConfig": {
-        "ports": [
-          "9000:9000"
-        ],
-        "volumes": [
-          "/var/lib/archipelago/portainer:/data",
-          "/run/user/1000/podman/podman.sock:/var/run/docker.sock"
-        ],
-        "notes": "Uses the manifest-owned Podman socket bind mount preparation path."
-      }
-    },
-    {
-      "id": "netbird",
-      "title": "NetBird",
-      "version": "2.38.0",
-      "description": "Self-hosted WireGuard mesh VPN control plane with dashboard, embedded identity provider, management API, signal, relay, and STUN. The user-facing entry point — a TLS proxy in front of the dashboard + server.",
-      "icon": "/assets/img/app-icons/netbird.svg",
-      "author": "NetBird",
-      "category": "networking",
-      "tier": "recommended",
-      "dockerImage": "docker.io/library/nginx:1.31.4-alpine",
-      "repoUrl": "https://github.com/netbirdio/netbird",
-      "containerConfig": {
-        "ports": [
-          "8087:80",
-          "8086:80",
-          "3478:3478/udp"
-        ],
-        "volumes": [
-          "/var/lib/archipelago/netbird:/var/lib/netbird"
-        ],
-        "notes": "Installed as a two-container stack: netbird dashboard on 8087 and netbird-server control plane on 8086 plus UDP 3478. For production clients, publish a DNS name over HTTPS with gRPC/WebSocket routing."
-      }
-    },
    {
      "id": "uptime-kuma",
      "title": "Uptime Kuma",
@@ -507,82 +613,24 @@
      }
    },
    {
-      "id": "photoprism",
-      "title": "PhotoPrism",
-      "version": "240915",
-      "description": "AI-powered photo management with facial recognition.",
-      "icon": "/assets/img/app-icons/photoprism.svg",
-      "author": "PhotoPrism",
+      "id": "vaultwarden",
+      "title": "Vaultwarden",
+      "version": "1.30.0",
+      "description": "Self-hosted password vault with zero-knowledge encryption.",
+      "icon": "/assets/img/app-icons/vaultwarden.webp",
+      "author": "Vaultwarden",
      "category": "data",
-      "dockerImage": "source.archipelago-foundation.org/lfg2025/photoprism:240915",
-      "repoUrl": "https://github.com/photoprism/photoprism",
+      "tier": "recommended",
+      "dockerImage": "source.archipelago-foundation.org/lfg2025/vaultwarden:1.37.1-alpine",
+      "repoUrl": "https://github.com/dani-garcia/vaultwarden",
      "containerConfig": {
        "ports": [
-          "2342:2342"
+          "8082:80"
        ],
        "volumes": [
-          "/var/lib/archipelago/photoprism:/photoprism/storage"
-        ],
-        "env": [
-          "PHOTOPRISM_ADMIN_PASSWORD=archipelago",
-          "PHOTOPRISM_DEFAULT_LOCALE=en"
+          "/var/lib/archipelago/vaultwarden:/data"
        ]
      }
-    },
-    {
-      "id": "nextcloud",
-      "title": "Nextcloud",
-      "version": "29",
-      "description": "Your own private cloud. File sync, calendars, contacts.",
-      "icon": "/assets/img/app-icons/nextcloud.webp",
-      "author": "Nextcloud",
-      "category": "data",
-      "dockerImage": "source.archipelago-foundation.org/lfg2025/nextcloud:29",
-      "repoUrl": "https://github.com/nextcloud/server",
-      "containerConfig": {
-        "ports": [
-          "8085:80"
-        ],
-        "volumes": [
-          "/var/lib/archipelago/nextcloud:/var/www/html"
-        ]
-      }
-    },
-    {
-      "id": "alby-hub",
-      "title": "Alby Hub",
-      "version": "1.23.0",
-      "description": "Self-custodial Lightning wallet hub. Runs its own Lightning node on your Archipelago and connects your apps to it over Nostr Wallet Connect — one hub, every app pays through it.",
-      "icon": "/assets/img/app-icons/alby-hub.svg",
-      "author": "Alby",
-      "category": "money",
-      "tier": "optional",
-      "dockerImage": "source.archipelago-foundation.org/lfg2025/alby-hub:v1.24.0",
-      "repoUrl": "https://github.com/getAlby/hub"
-    },
-    {
-      "id": "phoenixd",
-      "title": "phoenixd",
-      "version": "0.9.0",
-      "description": "Headless Lightning daemon by ACINQ (the Phoenix wallet team). No screen of its own — it exposes a small local API that other apps and tools use to send and receive Lightning payments. Channel liquidity is managed automatically for a fee.",
-      "icon": "/assets/img/app-icons/phoenixd.svg",
-      "author": "ACINQ",
-      "category": "money",
-      "tier": "optional",
-      "dockerImage": "source.archipelago-foundation.org/lfg2025/phoenixd:0.9.0",
-      "repoUrl": "https://github.com/ACINQ/phoenixd"
-    },
-    {
-      "id": "cuprate",
-      "title": "Cuprate",
-      "version": "0.1.0-preview",
-      "description": "Alternative Monero node implementation in Rust. Independently validates Monero consensus rules, providing a layer of security and redundancy for the network.",
-      "icon": "/assets/img/app-icons/cuprate.svg",
-      "author": "Cuprate contributors",
-      "category": "money",
-      "tier": "optional",
-      "dockerImage": "source.archipelago-foundation.org/lfg2025/cuprate:0.1.0-preview-18-g618ff14",
-      "repoUrl": "https://github.com/Cuprate/cuprate"
    }
  ]
 }
@@ -0,0 +1,88 @@
+app:
+  id: adguardhome
+  name: AdGuard Home
+  version: v0.107.55
+  upstream:
+    kind: github
+    repo: AdguardTeam/AdGuardHome
+  description: >-
+    Network-wide ad and tracker blocking: a DNS server that filters every
+    device on your LAN, with a web console for rules and client management.
+
+  container:
+    image: source.archipelago-foundation.org/lfg2025/adguardhome:v0.107.55
+    pull_policy: if-not-present
+    network: pasta
+
+  dependencies:
+    - storage: 1Gi
+
+  resources:
+    memory_limit: 512Mi
+    disk_limit: 1Gi
+
+  security:
+    capabilities: [NET_BIND_SERVICE]
+    readonly_root: false
+    no_new_privileges: true
+    network_policy: isolated
+
+  ports:
+    - host: 3000
+      container: 3000
+      protocol: tcp
+      bind: 127.0.0.1
+      # open: the setup wizard and admin console carry AdGuard Home's own
+      # login; the gate fronts the port (TLS, header fixes) without a
+      # second cookie challenge.
+      auth: open
+      auth_rationale: >-
+        AdGuard Home enforces its own admin login on the console, and the
+        first-run wizard must answer before any account exists.
+    - host: 53
+      container: 53
+      protocol: udp
+      # none: plain DNS must answer every unauthenticated query from LAN
+      # devices — a login page in front of :53 breaks every client on the
+      # network by design.
+      auth: none
+      auth_rationale: >-
+        Plain DNS answers unauthenticated by protocol: resolvers and clients
+        send queries directly; a login challenge would make DNS unreachable.
+    - host: 53
+      container: 53
+      protocol: tcp
+      auth: none
+      auth_rationale: >-
+        DNS-over-TCP fallback (truncated responses, zone transfers); same
+        protocol-level requirement as the UDP port.
+
+  volumes:
+    - type: bind
+      source: /var/lib/archipelago/adguardhome
+      target: /opt/adguardhome
+      options: [rw]
+
+  environment: []
+
+  health_check:
+    type: tcp
+    endpoint: localhost:3000
+    interval: 30s
+    timeout: 5s
+    retries: 3
+
+  interfaces:
+    main:
+      name: Admin console
+      description: AdGuard Home web console
+      type: ui
+      port: 3000
+      protocol: http
+      path: /
+
+  metadata:
+    author: AdGuard
+    category: networking
+    repo: https://github.com/AdguardTeam/AdGuardHome
+    tier: optional
@@ -0,0 +1,67 @@
+app:
+  id: cryptpad
+  name: CryptPad
+  version: 2024.12.0
+  upstream:
+    kind: github
+    repo: cryptpad/cryptpad
+  description: End-to-end encrypted documents, spreadsheets, and presentations. Zero-knowledge collaboration.
+
+  container:
+    image: source.archipelago-foundation.org/lfg2025/cryptpad:2024.12.0
+    pull_policy: if-not-present
+    network: pasta
+
+  dependencies:
+    - storage: 5Gi
+
+  resources:
+    memory_limit: 1Gi
+    disk_limit: 5Gi
+
+  security:
+    capabilities: []
+    readonly_root: false
+    no_new_privileges: true
+    network_policy: isolated
+
+  ports:
+    - host: 3000
+      container: 3000
+      protocol: tcp
+      bind: 127.0.0.1
+      # gated: CryptPad is browser-only (its own per-user accounts sit on top
+      # of the node login, exactly like Vaultwarden), so the gate's session
+      # challenge costs nothing and keeps the pads behind the node login.
+      auth: gated
+
+  volumes:
+    - type: bind
+      source: /var/lib/archipelago/cryptpad
+      target: /cryptpad/data
+      options: [rw]
+
+  environment: []
+
+  health_check:
+    type: tcp
+    endpoint: localhost:3000
+    interval: 30s
+    timeout: 5s
+    retries: 3
+
+  interfaces:
+    main:
+      name: CryptPad
+      description: Encrypted collaboration suite
+      type: ui
+      port: 3000
+      protocol: http
+      path: /
+
+  metadata:
+    author: XWiki SAS
+    category: data
+    icon: /assets/icon/favico-black-v2.svg
+    repo: https://github.com/cryptpad/cryptpad
+    tier: optional
@@ -15,11 +15,6 @@ app:
  description: Alternative Monero node implementation in Rust. Independently validates Monero consensus rules, providing a layer of security and redundancy for the network.
  category: money

-  metadata:
-    icon: /assets/img/app-icons/cuprate.svg
-    repo: https://github.com/Cuprate/cuprate
-    tier: optional
-
  container:
    # Built from the upstream Dockerfile at the tip of main, 18 commits past
    # the cuprated-0.1.0-preview tag (commit 618ff14, 2026-08-19) — there is
@@ -0,0 +1,74 @@
+app:
+  id: nginx-proxy-manager
+  name: Nginx Proxy Manager
+  version: 2.12.1
+  upstream:
+    kind: github
+    repo: NginxProxyManager/nginx-proxy-manager
+  description: >-
+    Reverse proxy with SSL. Beautiful web interface for managing proxies.
+    On a node, this manages its admin UI and upstream configuration — the
+    proxy's own :80/:443 listeners are not published (the node's web server
+    owns those ports).
+
+  container:
+    image: source.archipelago-foundation.org/lfg2025/nginx-proxy-manager:latest
+    pull_policy: if-not-present
+    network: pasta
+
+  dependencies:
+    - storage: 1Gi
+
+  resources:
+    memory_limit: 512Mi
+    disk_limit: 1Gi
+
+  security:
+    capabilities: [CHOWN, SETUID, SETGID, DAC_OVERRIDE]
+    readonly_root: false
+    no_new_privileges: true
+    network_policy: isolated
+
+  ports:
+    - host: 8081
+      container: 81
+      protocol: tcp
+      bind: 127.0.0.1
+      # open, not gated: NPM carries a complete admin login of its own. The
+      # gate still fronts the port (TLS on the same port, header fixes, retry
+      # page, Tor) without putting a cookie challenge in front of it.
+      auth: open
+      auth_rationale: >-
+        Nginx Proxy Manager enforces its own admin account on every page;
+        the initial setup wizard also has to answer before any account exists.
+
+  volumes:
+    - type: bind
+      source: /var/lib/archipelago/nginx-proxy-manager
+      target: /data
+      options: [rw]
+
+  environment: []
+
+  health_check:
+    type: tcp
+    endpoint: localhost:81
+    interval: 30s
+    timeout: 5s
+    retries: 3
+
+  interfaces:
+    main:
+      name: Admin UI
+      description: Nginx Proxy Manager admin interface
+      type: ui
+      port: 8081
+      protocol: http
+      path: /
+
+  metadata:
+    author: Nginx Proxy Manager
+    category: networking
+    icon: /assets/img/app-icons/nginx.svg
+    repo: https://github.com/NginxProxyManager/nginx-proxy-manager
+    tier: optional
@@ -0,0 +1,62 @@
+app:
+  id: ollama
+  name: Ollama
+  version: 0.5.4
+  upstream:
+    kind: github
+    repo: ollama/ollama
+  description: >-
+    Run large language models locally. Download and run AI models like
+    Llama, Mistral on your own hardware — served on the node's loopback for
+    the AI assistant (Settings → Claude Auth → model backend), never exposed
+    to the network.
+
+  container:
+    image: source.archipelago-foundation.org/lfg2025/ollama:latest
+    pull_policy: if-not-present
+    network: pasta
+
+  dependencies:
+    - storage: 50Gi
+
+  resources:
+    memory_limit: 0
+    disk_limit: 50Gi
+
+  security:
+    capabilities: []
+    readonly_root: false
+    no_new_privileges: true
+    network_policy: isolated
+
+  ports:
+    - host: 11434
+      container: 11434
+      protocol: tcp
+      # local: Ollama's REST API is consumed by the node's own assistant over
+      # loopback — never externally reachable, so no gate, no TLS, and no
+      # login surface exist at all.
+      bind: 127.0.0.1
+      auth: local
+
+  volumes:
+    - type: bind
+      source: /var/lib/archipelago/ollama
+      target: /root/.ollama
+      options: [rw]
+
+  environment: []
+
+  health_check:
+    type: tcp
+    endpoint: localhost:11434
+    interval: 30s
+    timeout: 5s
+    retries: 3
+
+  metadata:
+    author: Ollama
+    category: community
+    icon: /assets/img/app-icons/ollama.png
+    repo: https://github.com/ollama/ollama
+    tier: optional
@@ -0,0 +1,78 @@
+app:
+  id: tailscale
+  name: Tailscale
+  version: 1.78.0
+  upstream:
+    kind: github
+    repo: tailscale/tailscale
+  description: Zero-config VPN with WireGuard mesh networking.
+
+  container:
+    image: source.archipelago-foundation.org/lfg2025/tailscale:stable
+    pull_policy: if-not-present
+    network: pasta
+    # Mirrors the legacy curated install exactly: tailscaled in userspace
+    # networking (no host TUN device needed — the rootless container cannot
+    # have one anyway), then `tailscale web` serving the console on :8240 as
+    # plain HTTP the app gate can front (TLS on the same port via the node
+    # certificate, framing-header fixes, retry page, Tor).
+    entrypoint: ["sh", "-c", "tailscaled --tun=userspace-networking & for i in $(seq 1 30); do [ -S /var/run/tailscale/tailscaled.sock ] && break; sleep 1; done; tailscale web --listen 0.0.0.0:8240 & wait"]
+
+  dependencies:
+    - storage: 1Gi
+
+  resources:
+    memory_limit: 512Mi
+    disk_limit: 1Gi
+
+  security:
+    capabilities: []
+    readonly_root: false
+    no_new_privileges: true
+    network_policy: isolated
+
+  ports:
+    - host: 8240
+      container: 8240
+      protocol: tcp
+      bind: 127.0.0.1
+      # open, not gated: the web console requires the tailnet's own login for
+      # every administrative action — the gate fronts the port without adding
+      # a second login in front of it.
+      auth: open
+      auth_rationale: >-
+        Tailscale's web console authenticates against the tailnet account for
+        all administrative actions; the node's cookie challenge would be a
+        second, redundant login.
+
+  volumes:
+    - type: bind
+      source: /var/lib/archipelago/tailscale
+      target: /var/lib/tailscale
+      options: [rw]
+
+  environment:
+    - TS_STATE_DIR=/var/lib/tailscale
+
+  health_check:
+    type: tcp
+    endpoint: localhost:8240
+    interval: 30s
+    timeout: 5s
+    retries: 3
+
+  interfaces:
+    main:
+      name: Web console
+      description: Tailscale web console
+      type: ui
+      port: 8240
+      protocol: http
+      path: /
+
+  metadata:
+    author: Tailscale
+    category: networking
+    icon: /assets/img/app-icons/tailscale.webp
+    repo: https://github.com/tailscale/tailscale
+    tier: recommended
@@ -0,0 +1,588 @@
+{
+  "version": 2,
+  "updated": "2026-04-22T00:00:00Z",
+  "registry": "source.archipelago-foundation.org/lfg2025",
+  "featured": {
+    "id": "indeedhub",
+    "banner": "/assets/img/featured/indeedhub-banner.jpg",
+    "headline": "Stream Sovereignty",
+    "description": "Bitcoin documentaries with Nostr identity.",
+    "tag": "NOSTR IDENTITY // YOUR NODE"
+  },
+  "apps": [
+    {
+      "id": "bitcoin-knots",
+      "title": "Bitcoin Knots",
+      "version": "28.1.0",
+      "description": "Full Bitcoin Knots node with dynamic prune/full-mode startup based on host disk.",
+      "icon": "/assets/img/app-icons/bitcoin-knots.webp",
+      "author": "Bitcoin Knots",
+      "category": "money",
+      "tier": "core",
+      "dockerImage": "source.archipelago-foundation.org/lfg2025/bitcoin-knots:29.3.knots20260210",
+      "repoUrl": "https://github.com/bitcoinknots/bitcoin"
+    },
+    {
+      "id": "bitcoin-core",
+      "title": "Bitcoin Core",
+      "version": "28.4.0",
+      "description": "Reference Bitcoin Core node with dynamic prune/full-mode startup based on host disk.",
+      "icon": "/assets/img/app-icons/bitcoin-core.svg",
+      "author": "Bitcoin Core contributors",
+      "category": "money",
+      "tier": "optional",
+      "dockerImage": "source.archipelago-foundation.org/lfg2025/bitcoin:28.4",
+      "repoUrl": "https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin"
+    },
+    {
+      "id": "lnd",
+      "title": "LND",
+      "version": "0.18.4",
+      "description": "Lightning Network implementation by Lightning Labs. Enables instant, low-cost Bitcoin payments.",
+      "icon": "/assets/img/app-icons/lnd.png",
+      "author": "Lightning Labs",
+      "category": "money",
+      "tier": "core",
+      "dockerImage": "source.archipelago-foundation.org/lfg2025/lnd:v0.18.4-beta",
+      "repoUrl": "https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd",
+      "requires": [
+        "bitcoin-knots"
+      ]
+    },
+    {
+      "id": "btcpay-server",
+      "title": "BTCPay Server",
+      "version": "2.4.3",
+      "description": "Self-hosted Bitcoin payment processor. Accept Bitcoin payments without intermediaries.",
+      "icon": "/assets/img/app-icons/btcpay-server.png",
+      "author": "BTCPay Server Foundation",
+      "category": "commerce",
+      "tier": "core",
+      "dockerImage": "docker.io/btcpayserver/btcpayserver:2.4.3",
+      "repoUrl": "https://github.com/btcpayserver/btcpayserver",
+      "requires": [
+        "bitcoin-knots"
+      ]
+    },
+    {
+      "id": "mempool",
+      "title": "Mempool Explorer",
+      "version": "3.0.0",
+      "description": "Bitcoin mempool and blockchain explorer. Real-time transaction and block visualization.",
+      "icon": "/assets/img/app-icons/mempool.webp",
+      "author": "Mempool",
+      "category": "money",
+      "tier": "core",
+      "dockerImage": "source.archipelago-foundation.org/lfg2025/mempool-frontend:v3.3.1",
+      "repoUrl": "https://github.com/mempool/mempool",
+      "requires": [
+        "bitcoin-knots",
+        "electrumx"
+      ]
+    },
+    {
+      "id": "electrumx",
+      "title": "ElectrumX",
+      "version": "1.18.0",
+      "description": "Electrum server indexing Bitcoin chain data for lightweight wallet queries.",
+      "icon": "/assets/img/app-icons/electrumx.png",
+      "author": "Luke Childs",
+      "category": "money",
+      "tier": "core",
+      "dockerImage": "source.archipelago-foundation.org/lfg2025/electrumx:v1.18.0",
+      "repoUrl": "https://github.com/spesmilo/electrumx",
+      "requires": [
+        "bitcoin-knots"
+      ]
+    },
+    {
+      "id": "indeedhub",
+      "title": "IndeeHub",
+      "version": "1.0.0",
+      "description": "Bitcoin documentary streaming platform featuring God Bless Bitcoin and other educational content about Bitcoin, sovereignty, and decentralized technology. Sign in with your Nostr identity.",
+      "icon": "/assets/img/app-icons/indeedhub.png",
+      "author": "IndeeHub",
+      "category": "community",
+      "dockerImage": "source.archipelago-foundation.org/lfg2025/indeedhub:1.0.0",
+      "repoUrl": "https://github.com/indeedhub/indeedhub"
+    },
+    {
+      "id": "botfights",
+      "title": "BotFights",
+      "version": "1.2.11",
+      "description": "Bot competition arena with 2-player arcade fighting mode. AI bots battle in trivia challenges while humans duke it out with controllers. Built for Bitcoiners.",
+      "icon": "/assets/img/app-icons/botfights.svg",
+      "author": "BotFights",
+      "category": "community",
+      "dockerImage": "source.archipelago-foundation.org/lfg2025/botfights:1.2.11",
+      "repoUrl": "https://botfights.net",
+      "containerConfig": {
+        "ports": [
+          "9100:9100"
+        ],
+        "volumes": [
+          "/var/lib/archipelago/botfights:/app/server/data"
+        ],
+        "env": [
+          "NODE_ENV=production",
+          "PORT=9100",
+          "FIGHT_LOOP_ENABLED=true",
+          "ARCHY_EMBEDDED=1"
+        ]
+      }
+    },
+    {
+      "id": "gitea",
+      "title": "Gitea",
+      "version": "1.23",
+      "description": "Self-hosted Git service with built-in container registry, CI/CD, and package hosting.",
+      "icon": "/assets/img/app-icons/gitea.svg",
+      "author": "Gitea",
+      "category": "development",
+      "dockerImage": "docker.io/gitea/gitea:1.23",
+      "repoUrl": "https://gitea.com",
+      "containerConfig": {
+        "ports": [
+          "3001:3000",
+          "2222:22"
+        ],
+        "volumes": [
+          "/var/lib/archipelago/gitea/data:/data",
+          "/var/lib/archipelago/gitea/config:/etc/gitea"
+        ],
+        "env": [
+          "GITEA__database__DB_TYPE=sqlite3",
+          "GITEA__server__SSH_PORT=2222",
+          "GITEA__server__SSH_LISTEN_PORT=22",
+          "GITEA__server__LFS_START_SERVER=true",
+          "GITEA__packages__ENABLED=true",
+          "GITEA__repository__ENABLE_PUSH_CREATE_USER=true",
+          "GITEA__repository__ENABLE_PUSH_CREATE_ORG=true",
+          "GITEA__security__X_FRAME_OPTIONS="
+        ]
+      },
+      "tier": "optional"
+    },
+    {
+      "id": "filebrowser",
+      "title": "File Browser",
+      "version": "2.27.0",
+      "description": "Baseline Archipelago file manager service.",
+      "icon": "/assets/img/app-icons/file-browser.webp",
+      "author": "File Browser",
+      "category": "data",
+      "tier": "core",
+      "dockerImage": "source.archipelago-foundation.org/lfg2025/filebrowser:v2.27.0",
+      "repoUrl": "https://github.com/filebrowser/filebrowser",
+      "containerConfig": {
+        "ports": [
+          "8083:80"
+        ],
+        "volumes": [
+          "/var/lib/archipelago/filebrowser:/srv",
+          "/var/lib/archipelago/filebrowser-data:/data"
+        ],
+        "args": [
+          "--database=/data/database.db",
+          "--root=/srv",
+          "--address=0.0.0.0",
+          "--port=80"
+        ]
+      }
+    },
+    {
+      "id": "nostr-rs-relay",
+      "title": "Nostr Relay (Rust)",
+      "version": "0.10.0",
+      "description": "High-performance Nostr relay written in Rust. Host your own decentralized social media relay and earn networking profits.",
+      "icon": "/assets/img/app-icons/nostrudel.svg",
+      "author": "Nostr RS Relay",
+      "category": "community",
+      "tier": "recommended",
+      "dockerImage": "scsibug/nostr-rs-relay:0.10.0",
+      "repoUrl": "https://github.com/scsibug/nostr-rs-relay",
+      "containerConfig": {
+        "ports": [
+          "8081:8080"
+        ],
+        "volumes": [
+          "/var/lib/archipelago/nostr-relay:/usr/src/app/db"
+        ],
+        "env": [
+          "RELAY_NAME=Archipelago Nostr Relay",
+          "RELAY_DESCRIPTION=Self-hosted Nostr relay on Archipelago"
+        ]
+      }
+    },
+    {
+      "id": "vaultwarden",
+      "title": "Vaultwarden",
+      "version": "1.30.0",
+      "description": "Self-hosted password vault with zero-knowledge encryption.",
+      "icon": "/assets/img/app-icons/vaultwarden.webp",
+      "author": "Vaultwarden",
+      "category": "data",
+      "tier": "recommended",
+      "dockerImage": "source.archipelago-foundation.org/lfg2025/vaultwarden:1.37.1-alpine",
+      "repoUrl": "https://github.com/dani-garcia/vaultwarden",
+      "containerConfig": {
+        "ports": [
+          "8082:80"
+        ],
+        "volumes": [
+          "/var/lib/archipelago/vaultwarden:/data"
+        ]
+      }
+    },
+    {
+      "id": "searxng",
+      "title": "SearXNG",
+      "version": "1.0.0",
+      "description": "Privacy-respecting metasearch engine. Search the web without tracking.",
+      "icon": "/assets/img/app-icons/searxng.png",
+      "author": "SearXNG",
+      "category": "data",
+      "tier": "recommended",
+      "dockerImage": "source.archipelago-foundation.org/lfg2025/searxng:latest",
+      "repoUrl": "https://github.com/searxng/searxng",
+      "containerConfig": {
+        "ports": [
+          "8888:8080"
+        ],
+        "volumes": [
+          "/var/lib/archipelago/searxng:/etc/searxng"
+        ]
+      }
+    },
+    {
+      "id": "fedimint",
+      "title": "Fedimint Guardian",
+      "version": "0.10.0",
+      "description": "Federated Bitcoin minting service with built-in Guardian UI. Privacy-preserving Bitcoin custody.",
+      "icon": "/assets/img/app-icons/fedimint.png",
+      "author": "Fedimint",
+      "category": "money",
+      "dockerImage": "source.archipelago-foundation.org/lfg2025/fedimintd:v0.10.1",
+      "repoUrl": "https://github.com/fedimint/fedimint"
+    },
+    {
+      "id": "fedimint-clientd",
+      "title": "Fedimint Client",
+      "version": "0.8.0",
+      "description": "Fedimint ecash client daemon (fmcd). Lets the node hold Fedimint ecash and join federations; the wallet talks to it over a local REST API.",
+      "icon": "/assets/img/app-icons/fedimint.png",
+      "author": "Fedimint",
+      "category": "money",
+      "tier": "core",
+      "dockerImage": "source.archipelago-foundation.org/lfg2025/fmcd:0.8.1",
+      "repoUrl": "https://github.com/minmoto/fmcd"
+    },
+    {
+      "id": "fedimint-gateway",
+      "title": "Fedimint Gateway",
+      "version": "0.10.0",
+      "description": "Fedimint gateway service with automatic LND-or-LDK backend selection.",
+      "icon": "/assets/img/app-icons/fedimint.png",
+      "author": "Fedimint",
+      "category": "money",
+      "dockerImage": "source.archipelago-foundation.org/lfg2025/gatewayd:v0.10.1",
+      "repoUrl": "https://github.com/fedimint/fedimint",
+      "containerConfig": {
+        "ports": [
+          "8176:8176",
+          "9737:9737"
+        ],
+        "volumes": [
+          "/var/lib/archipelago/fedimint-gateway:/data",
+          "/var/lib/archipelago/lnd:/lnd:ro"
+        ]
+      }
+    },
+    {
+      "id": "barkd",
+      "title": "Ark Wallet",
+      "version": "0.3.0",
+      "description": "Ark protocol wallet daemon (barkd). Lets the node hold self-custodial off-chain bitcoin via an Ark server; the wallet talks to it over a local REST API. Signet by default while Ark matures.",
+      "icon": "/assets/img/app-icons/bark.png",
+      "author": "Second",
+      "category": "money",
+      "dockerImage": "source.archipelago-foundation.org/lfg2025/barkd:0.3.0",
+      "repoUrl": "https://gitlab.com/ark-bitcoin/bark",
+      "containerConfig": {
+        "ports": [
+          "3535:3535"
+        ],
+        "volumes": [
+          "/var/lib/archipelago/barkd:/data"
+        ]
+      }
+    },
+    {
+      "id": "jellyfin",
+      "title": "Jellyfin",
+      "version": "10.8.13",
+      "description": "Free media server. Stream movies, music, and photos.",
+      "icon": "/assets/img/app-icons/jellyfin.webp",
+      "author": "Jellyfin",
+      "category": "data",
+      "dockerImage": "source.archipelago-foundation.org/lfg2025/jellyfin:10.11.11",
+      "repoUrl": "https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin",
+      "containerConfig": {
+        "ports": [
+          "8096:8096"
+        ],
+        "volumes": [
+          "/var/lib/archipelago/jellyfin/config:/config",
+          "/var/lib/archipelago/jellyfin/cache:/cache"
+        ]
+      }
+    },
+    {
+      "id": "immich",
+      "title": "Immich",
+      "version": "2.7.4",
+      "description": "Self-hosted photo and video backup with mobile apps and search.",
+      "icon": "/assets/img/app-icons/immich.png",
+      "author": "Immich",
+      "category": "data",
+      "dockerImage": "source.archipelago-foundation.org/lfg2025/immich-server:release",
+      "repoUrl": "https://github.com/immich-app/immich"
+    },
+    {
+      "id": "homeassistant",
+      "title": "Home Assistant",
+      "version": "2026.7.3",
+      "description": "Open source home automation platform. Control and monitor your smart home devices.",
+      "icon": "/assets/img/app-icons/homeassistant.png",
+      "author": "Home Assistant",
+      "category": "home",
+      "dockerImage": "source.archipelago-foundation.org/lfg2025/home-assistant:2026.8.2",
+      "repoUrl": "https://github.com/home-assistant/core",
+      "containerConfig": {
+        "ports": [
+          "8123:8123"
+        ],
+        "volumes": [
+          "/var/lib/archipelago/home-assistant:/config"
+        ],
+        "env": [
+          "TZ=UTC"
+        ]
+      }
+    },
+    {
+      "id": "pine",
+      "title": "Pine",
+      "version": "1.3.0",
+      "description": "A private voice assistant for your home. Pine runs speech-to-text (Whisper), text-to-speech (Piper) and wake-word detection (openWakeWord) on your own node and pairs with a PineVoice satellite speaker, so Home Assistant Assist works locally with nothing sent to the cloud. Ask it about your node — block height, sync, peers, Lightning balance — and, when a Claude API key is set, anything else.",
+      "icon": "/assets/img/app-icons/pine.svg",
+      "author": "Archipelago",
+      "category": "home",
+      "dockerImage": "docker.io/library/nginx:1.31.4-alpine",
+      "repoUrl": "https://github.com/rhasspy/wyoming"
+    },
+    {
+      "id": "grafana",
+      "title": "Grafana",
+      "version": "10.2.0",
+      "description": "Analytics and monitoring platform. Visualize metrics and create dashboards.",
+      "icon": "/assets/img/app-icons/grafana.png",
+      "author": "Grafana Labs",
+      "category": "data",
+      "tier": "recommended",
+      "dockerImage": "source.archipelago-foundation.org/lfg2025/grafana:10.2.0",
+      "repoUrl": "https://github.com/grafana/grafana",
+      "containerConfig": {
+        "ports": [
+          "3000:3000"
+        ],
+        "volumes": [
+          "/var/lib/archipelago/grafana:/var/lib/grafana"
+        ],
+        "env": [
+          "GF_PATHS_DATA=/var/lib/grafana",
+          "GF_USERS_ALLOW_SIGN_UP=false"
+        ]
+      }
+    },
+    {
+      "id": "tailscale",
+      "title": "Tailscale",
+      "version": "1.78.0",
+      "description": "Zero-config VPN with WireGuard mesh networking.",
+      "icon": "/assets/img/app-icons/tailscale.webp",
+      "author": "Tailscale",
+      "category": "networking",
+      "tier": "recommended",
+      "dockerImage": "source.archipelago-foundation.org/lfg2025/tailscale:stable",
+      "repoUrl": "https://github.com/tailscale/tailscale",
+      "containerConfig": {
+        "ports": [
+          "8240:8240"
+        ],
+        "volumes": [
+          "/var/lib/archipelago/tailscale:/var/lib/tailscale"
+        ],
+        "env": [
+          "TS_STATE_DIR=/var/lib/tailscale"
+        ],
+        "args": [
+          "sh",
+          "-c",
+          "tailscaled --tun=userspace-networking & for i in $(seq 1 30); do [ -S /var/run/tailscale/tailscaled.sock ] && break; sleep 1; done; tailscale web --listen 0.0.0.0:8240 & wait"
+        ]
+      }
+    },
+    {
+      "id": "portainer",
+      "title": "Portainer",
+      "version": "2.19.4",
+      "description": "Container management web UI for the local Podman socket.",
+      "icon": "/assets/img/app-icons/portainer.webp",
+      "author": "Portainer",
+      "category": "development",
+      "tier": "optional",
+      "dockerImage": "source.archipelago-foundation.org/lfg2025/portainer:2.39.6",
+      "repoUrl": "https://github.com/portainer/portainer",
+      "containerConfig": {
+        "ports": [
+          "9000:9000"
+        ],
+        "volumes": [
+          "/var/lib/archipelago/portainer:/data",
+          "/run/user/1000/podman/podman.sock:/var/run/docker.sock"
+        ],
+        "notes": "Uses the manifest-owned Podman socket bind mount preparation path."
+      }
+    },
+    {
+      "id": "netbird",
+      "title": "NetBird",
+      "version": "2.38.0",
+      "description": "Self-hosted WireGuard mesh VPN control plane with dashboard, embedded identity provider, management API, signal, relay, and STUN. The user-facing entry point — a TLS proxy in front of the dashboard + server.",
+      "icon": "/assets/img/app-icons/netbird.svg",
+      "author": "NetBird",
+      "category": "networking",
+      "tier": "recommended",
+      "dockerImage": "docker.io/library/nginx:1.31.4-alpine",
+      "repoUrl": "https://github.com/netbirdio/netbird",
+      "containerConfig": {
+        "ports": [
+          "8087:80",
+          "8086:80",
+          "3478:3478/udp"
+        ],
+        "volumes": [
+          "/var/lib/archipelago/netbird:/var/lib/netbird"
+        ],
+        "notes": "Installed as a two-container stack: netbird dashboard on 8087 and netbird-server control plane on 8086 plus UDP 3478. For production clients, publish a DNS name over HTTPS with gRPC/WebSocket routing."
+      }
+    },
+    {
+      "id": "uptime-kuma",
+      "title": "Uptime Kuma",
+      "version": "1.23.0",
+      "description": "Self-hosted uptime monitoring.",
+      "icon": "/assets/img/app-icons/uptime-kuma.webp",
+      "author": "Uptime Kuma",
+      "category": "data",
+      "tier": "recommended",
+      "dockerImage": "source.archipelago-foundation.org/lfg2025/uptime-kuma:1",
+      "repoUrl": "https://github.com/louislam/uptime-kuma",
+      "containerConfig": {
+        "ports": [
+          "3002:3001"
+        ],
+        "volumes": [
+          "/var/lib/archipelago/uptime-kuma:/app/data"
+        ],
+        "env": [
+          "TZ=UTC"
+        ],
+        "args": [
+          "--",
+          "node",
+          "server/server.js"
+        ]
+      }
+    },
+    {
+      "id": "photoprism",
+      "title": "PhotoPrism",
+      "version": "240915",
+      "description": "AI-powered photo management with facial recognition.",
+      "icon": "/assets/img/app-icons/photoprism.svg",
+      "author": "PhotoPrism",
+      "category": "data",
+      "dockerImage": "source.archipelago-foundation.org/lfg2025/photoprism:240915",
+      "repoUrl": "https://github.com/photoprism/photoprism",
+      "containerConfig": {
+        "ports": [
+          "2342:2342"
+        ],
+        "volumes": [
+          "/var/lib/archipelago/photoprism:/photoprism/storage"
+        ],
+        "env": [
+          "PHOTOPRISM_ADMIN_PASSWORD=archipelago",
+          "PHOTOPRISM_DEFAULT_LOCALE=en"
+        ]
+      }
+    },
+    {
+      "id": "nextcloud",
+      "title": "Nextcloud",
+      "version": "29",
+      "description": "Your own private cloud. File sync, calendars, contacts.",
+      "icon": "/assets/img/app-icons/nextcloud.webp",
+      "author": "Nextcloud",
+      "category": "data",
+      "dockerImage": "source.archipelago-foundation.org/lfg2025/nextcloud:29",
+      "repoUrl": "https://github.com/nextcloud/server",
+      "containerConfig": {
+        "ports": [
+          "8085:80"
+        ],
+        "volumes": [
+          "/var/lib/archipelago/nextcloud:/var/www/html"
+        ]
+      }
+    },
+    {
+      "id": "alby-hub",
+      "title": "Alby Hub",
+      "version": "1.23.0",
+      "description": "Self-custodial Lightning wallet hub. Runs its own Lightning node on your Archipelago and connects your apps to it over Nostr Wallet Connect — one hub, every app pays through it.",
+      "icon": "/assets/img/app-icons/alby-hub.svg",
+      "author": "Alby",
+      "category": "money",
+      "tier": "optional",
+      "dockerImage": "source.archipelago-foundation.org/lfg2025/alby-hub:v1.24.0",
+      "repoUrl": "https://github.com/getAlby/hub"
+    },
+    {
+      "id": "phoenixd",
+      "title": "phoenixd",
+      "version": "0.9.0",
+      "description": "Headless Lightning daemon by ACINQ (the Phoenix wallet team). No screen of its own — it exposes a small local API that other apps and tools use to send and receive Lightning payments. Channel liquidity is managed automatically for a fee.",
+      "icon": "/assets/img/app-icons/phoenixd.svg",
+      "author": "ACINQ",
+      "category": "money",
+      "tier": "optional",
+      "dockerImage": "source.archipelago-foundation.org/lfg2025/phoenixd:0.9.0",
+      "repoUrl": "https://github.com/ACINQ/phoenixd"
+    },
+    {
+      "id": "cuprate",
+      "title": "Cuprate",
+      "version": "0.1.0-preview",
+      "description": "Alternative Monero node implementation in Rust. Independently validates Monero consensus rules, providing a layer of security and redundancy for the network.",
+      "icon": "/assets/img/app-icons/cuprate.svg",
+      "author": "Cuprate contributors",
+      "category": "money",
+      "tier": "optional",
+      "dockerImage": "source.archipelago-foundation.org/lfg2025/cuprate:0.1.0-preview-18-g618ff14",
+      "repoUrl": "https://github.com/Cuprate/cuprate"
+    }
+  ]
+}
@@ -104,7 +104,7 @@ dependencies = [

 [[package]]
 name = "archipelago"
-version = "1.8.4-alpha"
+version = "1.8.7-alpha"
 dependencies = [
 "anyhow",
 "archipelago-container",
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [package]
 name = "archipelago"
-version = "1.8.4-alpha"
+version = "1.8.7-alpha"
 edition = "2021"
 license.workspace = true
 description = "Archipelago Bitcoin Node OS - Native backend"
@@ -145,6 +145,21 @@ impl ApiHandler {
    /// URL so the App Store still renders on nodes that haven't persisted
    /// a registry config yet. 15s total timeout.
    async fn handle_app_catalog_proxy(&self) -> Result<Response<hyper::Body>> {
+        // The daemon already refreshes and verifies releases/app-catalog.json.
+        // Serve that release-root-anchored cache first so a newly published app
+        // appears immediately, without a frontend release. The old external UI
+        // catalog below is emergency compatibility only; it must never override
+        // a healthy signed catalog (Cuprate was invisible for exactly that reason).
+        if let Ok(body) =
+            crate::container::app_catalog::verified_catalog_body(&self.config.data_dir).await
+        {
+            return Ok(Response::builder()
+                .status(hyper::StatusCode::OK)
+                .header("Content-Type", "application/json")
+                .header("Cache-Control", "no-cache")
+                .body(hyper::Body::from(body))?);
+        }
+
        let mut upstreams: Vec<String> = Vec::new();
        if let Ok(config) = crate::container::registry::load_registries(&self.config.data_dir).await
        {
@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@
 //! Unknown fields are ignored (no `deny_unknown_fields`), so adding fields on the
 //! publisher side never breaks older nodes.

+use anyhow::Context;
 use serde::{Deserialize, Serialize};
 use std::collections::HashMap;
 use std::path::{Path, PathBuf};
@@ -194,6 +195,27 @@ fn entry_for(app_id: &str) -> Option<AppCatalogEntry> {
    load_catalog().apps.get(app_id).cloned()
 }

+/// Return the cached catalog bytes only when they carry a signature anchored
+/// to the release root. This is the browser App Store's source: newly signed
+/// apps must appear without waiting for a frontend OTA, while unsigned or
+/// self-signed registry data must never become an install button.
+pub async fn verified_catalog_body(data_dir: &Path) -> anyhow::Result<String> {
+    let path = data_dir.join(APP_CATALOG_FILE);
+    let body = tokio::fs::read_to_string(&path)
+        .await
+        .with_context(|| format!("read signed app catalog {}", path.display()))?;
+    let raw: serde_json::Value = serde_json::from_str(&body)?;
+    match crate::trust::verify_detached(&raw)? {
+        crate::trust::SignatureStatus::Verified { anchored: true, .. } => Ok(body),
+        crate::trust::SignatureStatus::Verified {
+            anchored: false, ..
+        } => {
+            anyhow::bail!("app catalog signer is not anchored to the release root")
+        }
+        crate::trust::SignatureStatus::Unsigned => anyhow::bail!("app catalog is unsigned"),
+    }
+}
+
 /// Primary image for an app per the remote catalog, if covered.
 pub fn catalog_primary_image(app_id: &str) -> Option<String> {
    entry_for(app_id).and_then(|e| e.image)
@@ -641,4 +663,27 @@ mod tests {
            ]
        );
    }
+
+    // The signed-catalog body served to the browser must be the anchored,
+    // release-root-verified bytes — and nothing else. Unsigned caches (the
+    // migration-window form) and self-consistent-but-unanchored signatures
+    // must both be refused so a tampered mirror can never become an install
+    // button (same posture as the OTA manifest supply-chain gate).
+    #[tokio::test]
+    async fn verified_catalog_body_rejects_unsigned_cache() {
+        let dir = tempfile::tempdir().unwrap();
+        write_cache(
+            dir.path(),
+            r#"{"schema":1,"apps":{"demo":{"version":"1"}}}"#,
+        )
+        .unwrap();
+        let err = verified_catalog_body(dir.path()).await.unwrap_err();
+        assert!(err.to_string().contains("unsigned"));
+    }
+
+    #[tokio::test]
+    async fn verified_catalog_body_rejects_missing_cache() {
+        let dir = tempfile::tempdir().unwrap();
+        assert!(verified_catalog_body(dir.path()).await.is_err());
+    }
 }
@@ -178,18 +178,10 @@ fn image_var_for_app(app_id: &str) -> Option<&'static str> {

        // Nostr / VPN
        "nostr-rs-relay" => Some("NOSTR_RS_RELAY_IMAGE"),
-        "nostr-vpn" => Some("NOSTR_VPN_IMAGE"),
-        "fips" => Some("FIPS_IMAGE"),

        // Immich (primary = server)
        "immich" | "immich_server" => Some("IMMICH_SERVER_IMAGE"),

-        // Penpot (primary = frontend)
-        "penpot" | "penpot-frontend" => Some("PENPOT_FRONTEND_IMAGE"),
-
-        // AI
-        "routstr" => Some("ROUTSTR_IMAGE"),
-
        // Networking
        "adguardhome" => Some("ADGUARDHOME_IMAGE"),
        "tor" | "archy-tor" => Some("ALPINE_TOR_IMAGE"),
@@ -341,13 +333,6 @@ pub fn containers_for_stack(app_id: &str) -> Vec<(&'static str, &'static str)> {
            ("immich_redis", "REDIS_IMAGE"),
            ("immich_server", "IMMICH_SERVER_IMAGE"),
        ],
-        "penpot" | "penpot-frontend" => vec![
-            ("penpot-postgres", "PENPOT_POSTGRES_IMAGE"),
-            ("penpot-valkey", "PENPOT_VALKEY_IMAGE"),
-            ("penpot-backend", "PENPOT_BACKEND_IMAGE"),
-            ("penpot-exporter", "PENPOT_EXPORTER_IMAGE"),
-            ("penpot-frontend", "PENPOT_FRONTEND_IMAGE"),
-        ],
        "netbird" => vec![
            ("netbird", "NETBIRD_PROXY_IMAGE"),
            ("netbird-dashboard", "NETBIRD_DASHBOARD_IMAGE"),
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ use crate::update::host_sudo;

 /// Packages the node's host must have. Keep this list short and justified —
 /// every entry is state we now own on the fleet's OS images.
-const HOST_PACKAGES: &[&str] = &["kdump-tools", "kexec-tools", "rasdaemon"];
+const HOST_PACKAGES: &[&str] = &["kdump-tools", "kexec-tools", "makedumpfile", "rasdaemon"];

 /// Crash-kernel reservation. 256M covers the capture kernel plus makedumpfile
 /// on the fleet's 16–64GB amd64 machines (~1–2% of RAM, permanently reserved).
@@ -131,11 +131,10 @@ async fn run_host_fixups() -> Result<()> {
 /// install without `apt-get update` first; only if that fails (fresh suite,
 /// stale index), update once and retry. Both under timeout, both non-fatal.
 async fn ensure_packages() -> Result<bool> {
-    let wanted = HOST_PACKAGES
-        .iter()
-        .map(|p| format!("'{p}'"))
-        .collect::<Vec<_>>()
-        .join(" ");
+    // Package names are a fixed internal allowlist. Do not embed shell quote
+    // characters in WANTED: quotes produced by variable expansion are data,
+    // so dpkg-query would look for a package literally named 'kdump-tools'.
+    let wanted = HOST_PACKAGES.join(" ");
    let script = format!(
        r#"
 set -u
@@ -197,25 +196,32 @@ exit 2
 /// Point kdump-tools at /var/crash with a compressed core collector. Works on
 /// the package's shipped defaults file (USE_KDUMP=0, commented KDUMP_COREDIR)
 /// and on any state we already wrote — pure line surgery, idempotent.
-async fn ensure_kdump_defaults() -> Result<()> {
-    let script = r#"
+fn kdump_defaults_script(conf: &str) -> String {
+    r#"
 set -u
-CONF=/etc/default/kdump-tools
+CONF='@@CONF@@'
 [ -f "$CONF" ] || exit 3
 CHANGED=0
+# Remove the one malformed line emitted by the old systemd-run environment
+# expansion bug before it was disabled. It makes every kdump-config invocation
+# print an error while sourcing this file.
+if grep -Fqx '=""' "$CONF"; then
+    sed -i '/^=""$/d' "$CONF"
+    CHANGED=1
+fi
 set_kv() {
-    # set_kv KEY VALUE — replace any (possibly commented) KEY= line with
-    # KEY='VALUE', appending at the end when absent.
+    # Canonicalise KEY to one double-quoted assignment. Older fixup versions
+    # could append duplicates because their exact-value check did not accept
+    # double quotes; collapsing them also makes future passes idempotent.
    KEY="$1"; VAL="$2"
-    if grep -qE "^${KEY}=" "$CONF" 2>/dev/null; then
-        if ! grep -qE "^${KEY}='?${VAL}'?$" "$CONF"; then
-            sed -i "s|^${KEY}=.*|${KEY}=\"${VAL}\"|" "$CONF"
-            CHANGED=1
-        fi
-    else
-        printf '\n%s="%s"\n' "$KEY" "$VAL" >> "$CONF"
-        CHANGED=1
+    EXPECTED="${KEY}=\"${VAL}\""
+    COUNT=$(grep -c "^${KEY}=" "$CONF" 2>/dev/null || true)
+    if [ "$COUNT" -eq 1 ] && grep -Fqx "$EXPECTED" "$CONF"; then
+        return
    fi
+    sed -i "/^${KEY}=/d" "$CONF"
+    printf '\n%s\n' "$EXPECTED" >> "$CONF"
+    CHANGED=1
 }
 set_kv USE_KDUMP 1
 set_kv KDUMP_COREDIR /var/crash
@@ -223,8 +229,13 @@ set_kv CORE_COLLECTOR 'makedumpfile -l --message-level 1 -d 31'
 [ "$CHANGED" -eq 1 ] || exit 0
 systemctl enable kdump-tools >/dev/null 2>&1 || true
 exit 2
-"#;
-    let status = host_sudo(&["sh", "-lc", script])
+"#
+    .replace("@@CONF@@", conf)
+}
+
+async fn ensure_kdump_defaults() -> Result<()> {
+    let script = kdump_defaults_script("/etc/default/kdump-tools");
+    let status = host_sudo(&["sh", "-lc", &script])
        .await
        .context("configure kdump-tools")?;
    match status.code() {
@@ -237,24 +248,39 @@ exit 2
    }
 }

-/// Append `crashkernel=` to the installed GRUB cmdline and run update-grub.
+/// Set the installed GRUB cmdline to one fixed `crashkernel=` reservation and
+/// run update-grub. Debian's kdump-tools package installs a grub.d snippet that
+/// otherwise appends its own range-based reservation after ours; on amd64 that
+/// silently wins and reserves only 192M instead of the intended 256M.
 /// The reservation itself only exists after the next reboot — memory cannot
 /// be set aside at runtime — so the caller must log the reboot caveat.
-/// Returns true if the cmdline changed.
+/// Returns true if the generated cmdline changed.
 async fn ensure_crashkernel_cmdline() -> Result<bool> {
    let script = format!(
        r#"
 set -u
 GRUB=/etc/default/grub
+KDUMP_GRUB=/etc/default/grub.d/kdump-tools.cfg
 PARAM='{CRASHKERNEL_PARAM}'
 [ -f "$GRUB" ] || exit 3
+CHANGED=0
+# kdump-tools sources this after /etc/default/grub and unconditionally appends
+# crashkernel=512M-:192M. Neutralize that package default: Archipelago owns the
+# explicit fixed reservation in GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT below.
+if [ -f "$KDUMP_GRUB" ] && grep -qE '^[^#]*crashkernel=' "$KDUMP_GRUB"; then
+    printf '%s\n' '# Archipelago owns crashkernel sizing in /etc/default/grub.' > "$KDUMP_GRUB"
+    CHANGED=1
+fi
 LINE=$(grep -E '^GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT=' "$GRUB" | head -1)
 [ -n "$LINE" ] || exit 3
-case "$LINE" in
-    *"$PARAM"*) exit 0 ;;
-esac
-NEWLINE=$(printf '%s' "$LINE" | sed "s/\"$/ $PARAM\"/")
-sed -i "s|^GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT=.*|$NEWLINE|" "$GRUB"
+# Remove any prior value before appending ours, so repeated fixups can never
+# create conflicting parameters whose kernel precedence is easy to misread.
+NEWLINE=$(printf '%s' "$LINE" | sed -E "s/[[:space:]]+crashkernel=[^ \"']+//g; s/\"$/ $PARAM\"/")
+if [ "$NEWLINE" != "$LINE" ]; then
+    sed -i "s|^GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT=.*|$NEWLINE|" "$GRUB"
+    CHANGED=1
+fi
+[ "$CHANGED" -eq 1 ] || exit 0
 timeout 120 update-grub >/dev/null 2>&1 || true
 exit 2
 "#
@@ -283,21 +309,30 @@ async fn ensure_rasdaemon_enabled() -> Result<()> {
 /// Keep only the newest [`KEEP_DUMPS`] dumps in /var/crash. Called on every
 /// fixup pass rather than by a timer: the pass runs at every startup, which is
 /// exactly the cadence at which new dumps appear (a dump ends in a reboot).
-async fn prune_crash_dumps() -> Result<()> {
-    let script = format!(
+fn crash_dump_prune_script() -> String {
+    format!(
        r#"
 set -u
-DIR=/var/crash
+DIR=${{ARCHIPELAGO_CRASH_DIR:-/var/crash}}
 [ -d "$DIR" ] || exit 0
 KEEP={KEEP_DUMPS}
-COUNT=$(ls -1 "$DIR" 2>/dev/null | wc -l)
+# kdump-tools keeps its lock and kexec command files beside timestamped dump
+# directories. Count and prune directories only: treating those bookkeeping
+# files as dumps can delete the sole freshly captured vmcore on startup.
+COUNT=$(find "$DIR" -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1 -type d -printf . | wc -c)
 [ "$COUNT" -gt "$KEEP" ] || exit 0
-ls -1dt "$DIR"/* 2>/dev/null | tail -n +"$((KEEP + 1))" | while IFS= read -r victim; do
-    rm -rf -- "$victim"
-done
+find "$DIR" -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1 -type d -printf '%T@ %p\0' \
+    | sort -zrn \
+    | tail -z -n +"$((KEEP + 1))" \
+    | cut -z -d ' ' -f 2- \
+    | xargs -0r rm -rf --
 exit 2
 "#
-    );
+    )
+}
+
+async fn prune_crash_dumps() -> Result<()> {
+    let script = crash_dump_prune_script();
    let status = host_sudo(&["sh", "-lc", &script])
        .await
        .context("prune /var/crash")?;
@@ -329,7 +364,10 @@ mod tests {

    #[test]
    fn package_list_is_exactly_the_kdump_rasdaemon_set() {
-        assert_eq!(HOST_PACKAGES, &["kdump-tools", "kexec-tools", "rasdaemon"]);
+        assert_eq!(
+            HOST_PACKAGES,
+            &["kdump-tools", "kexec-tools", "makedumpfile", "rasdaemon"]
+        );
    }

    #[test]
@@ -341,4 +379,100 @@ mod tests {
    fn keep_dumps_is_two() {
        assert_eq!(KEEP_DUMPS, 2);
    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn kdump_defaults_repairs_old_malformed_line_and_is_idempotent() {
+        use std::{fs, process::Command};
+
+        let root = tempfile::tempdir().unwrap();
+        let conf = root.path().join("kdump-tools");
+        let bin = root.path().join("bin");
+        fs::create_dir(&bin).unwrap();
+        fs::write(bin.join("systemctl"), "#!/bin/sh\nexit 0\n").unwrap();
+        assert!(Command::new("chmod")
+            .args(["+x"])
+            .arg(bin.join("systemctl"))
+            .status()
+            .unwrap()
+            .success());
+        fs::write(
+            &conf,
+            "# package defaults\n=\"\"\nUSE_KDUMP=0\nUSE_KDUMP=\"1\"\n",
+        )
+        .unwrap();
+
+        let script = kdump_defaults_script(conf.to_str().unwrap());
+        let path = format!("{}:{}", bin.display(), std::env::var("PATH").unwrap());
+        let first = Command::new("sh")
+            .args(["-lc", &script])
+            .env("PATH", &path)
+            .status()
+            .unwrap();
+        assert_eq!(first.code(), Some(2));
+        let repaired = fs::read_to_string(&conf).unwrap();
+        assert!(!repaired.lines().any(|line| line == "=\"\""));
+        assert_eq!(repaired.matches("USE_KDUMP=").count(), 1);
+        assert!(repaired.contains("USE_KDUMP=\"1\""));
+        assert!(repaired.contains("KDUMP_COREDIR=\"/var/crash\""));
+        assert!(repaired.contains("CORE_COLLECTOR=\"makedumpfile -l --message-level 1 -d 31\""));
+
+        let second = Command::new("sh")
+            .args(["-lc", &script])
+            .env("PATH", path)
+            .status()
+            .unwrap();
+        assert!(second.success());
+        assert_eq!(fs::read_to_string(conf).unwrap(), repaired);
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn crash_pruning_ignores_kdump_bookkeeping_files() {
+        use std::{fs, process::Command};
+
+        let root = tempfile::tempdir().unwrap();
+        let crash = root.path();
+        fs::write(crash.join("kdump_lock"), []).unwrap();
+        fs::write(crash.join("kexec_cmd"), "kexec -p").unwrap();
+
+        for (name, epoch) in [("old dump", "100"), ("middle", "200"), ("newest", "300")] {
+            let path = crash.join(name);
+            fs::create_dir(&path).unwrap();
+            fs::write(path.join("vmcore"), name).unwrap();
+            assert!(Command::new("touch")
+                .args(["-d", &format!("@{epoch}")])
+                .arg(&path)
+                .status()
+                .unwrap()
+                .success());
+        }
+
+        let status = Command::new("sh")
+            .args(["-lc", &crash_dump_prune_script()])
+            .env("ARCHIPELAGO_CRASH_DIR", crash)
+            .status()
+            .unwrap();
+        assert_eq!(status.code(), Some(2));
+        assert!(!crash.join("old dump").exists());
+        assert!(crash.join("middle").join("vmcore").exists());
+        assert!(crash.join("newest").join("vmcore").exists());
+        assert!(crash.join("kdump_lock").exists());
+        assert!(crash.join("kexec_cmd").exists());
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn crash_pruning_does_nothing_when_only_bookkeeping_files_exist() {
+        use std::{fs, process::Command};
+
+        let root = tempfile::tempdir().unwrap();
+        for name in ["kdump_lock", "kexec_cmd", "another-marker"] {
+            fs::write(root.path().join(name), []).unwrap();
+        }
+        let status = Command::new("sh")
+            .args(["-lc", &crash_dump_prune_script()])
+            .env("ARCHIPELAGO_CRASH_DIR", root.path())
+            .status()
+            .unwrap();
+        assert!(status.success());
+        assert_eq!(fs::read_dir(root.path()).unwrap().count(), 3);
+    }
 }
@@ -1487,6 +1487,11 @@ pub(crate) async fn host_sudo(args: &[&str]) -> Result<std::process::ExitStatus>
        "--quiet",
        "--collect",
        "--pipe",
+        // Shell snippets passed as one argument must reach the child intact.
+        // systemd-run otherwise expands $VAR/${VAR} against the manager's
+        // environment before `sh -lc` can see them (and usually replaces them
+        // with empty strings).
+        "--expand-environment=no",
        "--",
    ];
    full.extend_from_slice(args);
@@ -1506,6 +1511,7 @@ pub(crate) async fn host_sudo_output(args: &[&str]) -> Result<std::process::Outp
        "--quiet",
        "--collect",
        "--pipe",
+        "--expand-environment=no",
        "--",
    ];
    full.extend_from_slice(args);
@@ -1746,6 +1746,11 @@ app:
            }
        }
        exempt.sort();
+        // 30 as of 2026-08-31: the 28 below plus adguardhome's two DNS ports
+        // (53 udp + tcp) — plain DNS answers unauthenticated by protocol, the
+        // same reason router's mDNS/SSDP and every p2p port is exempt; each
+        // carries its auth_rationale in the manifest.
+        //
        // 28 as of 2026-08-23: the 26 below plus cuprate's two exemptions —
        // 18183 (Monero p2p gossip, same reasoning as bitcoin's 8333) and
        // 18090 (host mapping for Monero's canonical 18089 restricted RPC,
@@ -1771,7 +1776,7 @@ app:
        // stage timed out that cycle, so the count here lagged at 17.
        assert_eq!(
            exempt.len(),
-            28,
+            30,
            "unauthenticated port set changed — review before updating this count: {exempt:?}"
        );
    }
@@ -1801,15 +1806,22 @@ app:
            }
        }
        open.sort();
-        // Gitea 3001 (git clients speak basic-auth, not browser cookies) and
+        // Gitea 3001 (git clients speak basic-auth, not browser cookies),
        // BTCPay 23000 (checkout/invoice/webhook endpoints must be reachable
-        // by anonymous payers). Both enforce their own account login, and an
-        // operator can re-gate either from Settings → Access control.
+        // by anonymous payers), and — since the v1.8.7 platform round — the
+        // three own-login consoles brought onto the manifest platform:
+        // nginx-proxy-manager 8081 (NPM admin accounts), tailscale 8240
+        // (tailnet login on the web console), adguardhome 3000 (AGH admin
+        // accounts + first-run wizard). All enforce their own login, and an
+        // operator can re-gate any of them from Settings → Access control.
        assert_eq!(
            open,
            vec![
+                ("adguardhome".to_string(), 3000u16),
                ("btcpay-server".to_string(), 23000u16),
-                ("gitea".to_string(), 3001u16)
+                ("gitea".to_string(), 3001u16),
+                ("nginx-proxy-manager".to_string(), 8081u16),
+                ("tailscale".to_string(), 8240u16),
            ],
            "gate-open port set changed — every entry must be an app with its own login"
        );
@@ -0,0 +1,74 @@
+# HANDOFF — deploy companion 0.5.28 (vc48) to the live surfaces
+
+**For: the agent on archi-dev-box.** Companion 0.5.28 shipped to `main`
+today (PR #149, merge `9f1a289d` — backup & restore #128, NIP-46 remote
+signer #139, companion-gated install pitch #61 residual, hub sub-pages).
+The dev box verified everything it can reach; three live surfaces remain,
+same shape as the 2026-07-23 deploy handoff
+([`HANDOFF-2026-07-23-companion-apk-deploy.md`](HANDOFF-2026-07-23-companion-apk-deploy.md)).
+
+## Already done and verified (do not redo)
+
+- `neode-ui/public/packages/archipelago-companion.apk` on `main` is
+  **0.5.28 / versionCode 48**, clean build via `Android/ship-companion.sh`,
+  **v1+v2+v3 signatures verified**, meta json refreshed beside it.
+- Gitea raw-on-main serves it byte-identical:
+  `shasum -a 256` = `fc786b46c704c5752f04fe603371365524c749734f17bd8858cf02fa2dbc34ca`
+  (2 bytes: 28,206,999… file size ≈ 28.2 MB).
+- The foundation server's **raw-proxy** path already serves 0.5.28 (verified
+  via `https://source.archipelago-foundation.org/lfg2025/archy/raw/branch/main/neode-ui/public/packages/archipelago-companion.json`).
+- Demo CI (`demo-images.yml`) fired on the push and redeploys the stack via
+  the Portainer webhook — should flip on its own; confirm only.
+- Signing key unchanged (cert SHA-256 `d622e07e…ec2664d`), so phones update
+  **in place** over any 0.5.27 install.
+
+## 1. Foundation server static `/packages/` mirror — the real-node QR URL
+
+`https://source.archipelago-foundation.org/packages/archipelago-companion.apk`
+is a **static dir** on the release server (openresty; still 0.5.27,
+last-modified 2026-08-17). This is the exact URL real nodes' companion QR
+downloads (`DEFAULT_DOWNLOAD_URL` in `CompanionIntroOverlay.vue`) — it must
+flip before the release is done.
+
+```bash
+# Find the webroot once:
+grep -rl "packages" /etc/openresty /etc/nginx 2>/dev/null
+find / -name archipelago-companion.apk -not -path '/proc/*' 2>/dev/null
+
+# Mirror the exact bytes from Gitea raw-on-main (no rebuild, no re-sign):
+cd <that webroot>
+curl -fsS -o archipelago-companion.apk  http://146.59.87.168:3000/lfg2025/archy/raw/branch/main/neode-ui/public/packages/archipelago-companion.apk
+curl -fsS -o archipelago-companion.json http://146.59.87.168:3000/lfg2025/archy/raw/branch/main/neode-ui/public/packages/archipelago-companion.json
+shasum -a 256 archipelago-companion.apk
+# MUST print: fc786b46c704c5752f04fe603371365524c749734f17bd8858cf02fa2dbc34ca
+```
+
+## 2. Node web-bundle redeploys
+
+Same as 2026-07-23: redeploy the web-ui bundle from current `main` to the
+active nodes — web root `/opt/archipelago/web-ui/` (NOT a `neode-ui/`
+subfolder), at minimum every node the user pairs against. The APK rides in
+the bundle's `packages/` dir, so this is also what makes each node's own
+served QR download 0.5.28.
+
+## 3. Confirm the demo flipped
+
+`curl -s http://146.59.87.168:2100/packages/archipelago-companion.json`
+should read 0.5.28/48 once CI's Portainer webhook redeploy lands; trigger a
+stack redeploy if it lags.
+
+## Final verify (all three must show 0.5.28 / 48)
+
+```bash
+aapt2 dump badging <downloaded apk> | head -1   # versionCode='48' versionName='0.5.28-debug'
+apksigner verify -v --min-sdk-version 21 <downloaded apk> | grep scheme   # v1/v2/v3 true
+curl -s https://source.archipelago-foundation.org/packages/archipelago-companion.json
+curl -s http://146.59.87.168:2100/packages/archipelago-companion.json
+```
+
+Then the user's on-device end-to-end: scan the node's companion QR →
+installs vc48 in place → hub → Backup & Restore / Remote Signer.
+Testing notes for the new features live in the closed tracker issues
+(#61/#128/#139) and `docs/companion-backup-restore.md` /
+`docs/companion-nip46-remote-signer.md` (the signer's e2e harness:
+`Android/tools/nip46-test-client.py`).
@@ -1,11 +1,29 @@
 # Release Notes Backlog

-## Next Release Required Work
+## Required Work — completed 2026-08-30, before the v1.8.5-alpha cut

- Backfill missing or thin historical release notes before cutting the next release.
- Audit every `CHANGELOG.md` section from `v1.7.44-alpha` through the current release.
- Replace raw commit-hash entries with user/operator-facing bullets that explain behavior changes, operational impact, validation, and known limitations.
- Ensure `releases/manifest.json` changelog entries come from curated `CHANGELOG.md` notes only.
+- [x] Backfill missing or thin historical release notes before cutting the next release.
+  Eight sections backfilled, sourced from the Settings "What's New" blocks,
+  the old-lineage release commits, and the diffs of the self-contained
+  hotfix releases: **v1.7.44** (was raw commit-hash lines), **v1.7.47,
+  v1.7.48, v1.7.64, v1.7.65** (were thin), and **v1.7.50, v1.7.51,
+  v1.7.107** (sections were missing entirely — real releases with tags but
+  no changelog section; v1.7.107 was restored verbatim from the curated
+  version that existed at `35e9c624` and was later lost). The What's New
+  modal blocks for the three restored versions were generated by
+  `scripts/sync-whats-new.py`, which now passes with all 92 versions.
+- [x] Audit every `CHANGELOG.md` section from `v1.7.44-alpha` through the
+  current release. Mechanical inventory of all 92 sections in range:
+  every section carries ≥3 curated bullets, zero raw commit-hash entries.
+- [x] Replace raw commit-hash entries with user/operator-facing bullets
+  that explain behavior changes, operational impact, validation, and
+  known limitations. The only offender was v1.7.44 (four raw hash lines,
+  now curated).
+- [x] Ensure `releases/manifest.json` changelog entries come from curated
+  `CHANGELOG.md` notes only. Satisfied by construction:
+  `create-release-manifest.sh` reads the changelog from `CHANGELOG.md`,
+  and `check-release-manifest.sh` rejects manifests with fewer than three
+  bullets or raw git-log lines before publishing.

 ## Release Note Policy

@@ -0,0 +1,154 @@
+# SESSION — companion 0.5.28: shipped, published, playbook (2026-08-31)
+
+**For: the companion agent (next session) + anyone shipping a companion
+release.** Session that closed the 2026-08-30 companion-agent queue (#61
+residual, #128, #139) and shipped 0.5.28 end-to-end.
+
+## Release state at session end — ALL LIVE
+
+Companion **0.5.28 / versionCode 48**, main @ PR #149 (`9f1a289d`), deploy
+handoff merged as PR #150 (`91374392`). Every public surface verified
+byte-identical (`shasum -a 256` = `fc786b46c704c5752f04fe603371365524c749734f17bd8858cf02fa2dbc34ca`):
+
+| Surface | URL | State |
+|---|---|---|
+| Gitea raw-on-main | `http://146.59.87.168:3000/lfg2025/archy/raw/branch/main/neode-ui/public/packages/archipelago-companion.apk` | ✅ 0.5.28, v1+v2+v3 verified on download |
+| Foundation static `/packages/` (real-node QR URL) | `https://source.archipelago-foundation.org/packages/archipelago-companion.apk` | ✅ 0.5.28 |
+| Foundation Gitea-raw proxy | `…/lfg2025/archy/raw/branch/main/…` | ✅ 0.5.28 (6h cache — may lag after pushes) |
+| Demo `:2100` | `http://146.59.87.168:2100/packages/archipelago-companion.apk` | ✅ 0.5.28 (auto: CI + Portainer webhook) |
+
+Only remaining live-surface step: **node web-bundle redeploys** so each
+node's own served copy is 0.5.28 — archi-dev-box's standard step, written up
+in `docs/HANDOFF-2026-08-31-companion-0.5.28-deploy.md` (its §1/§3 were
+already done by the time of this doc — only §2 outstanding).
+
+Tracker: #128 and #139 closed with what-shipped comments; #61 (already
+closed) got a residual-fix follow-up. Signing cert unchanged (`d622e07e…`),
+so phones update in place.
+
+## What shipped in 0.5.28 (map)
+
+- **#61 residual (web)**: `isCompanionApp()` gates on `CompanionBanner.vue`
+  render, `openCompanionIntro()` (useCompanionIntro.ts), and the overlay's
+  manual-open watcher; overlay moved to the canonical helper. Vitest suite
+  green (1013 tests).
+- **#128 Backup & Restore**: `Android/rust/archy-fips-core/src/backup.rs`
+  (ADR-005 envelope, node-compatible), `BackupManager.kt`, hub sub-page
+  `ui/components/BackupSection.kt`. Doc: `companion-backup-restore.md`.
+- **#139 Remote Signer**: `src/nostr.rs` (NIP-44 v2 + NIP-04 + BIP-340,
+  official vectors), `nostr/BunkerManager.kt` + `NostrSignerPreferences.kt`,
+  hub sub-page `ui/components/SignerSection.kt`, `nostrconnect://` deep link
+  via `SignerLaunch`. Harness: `Android/tools/nip46-test-client.py`.
+  Doc: `companion-nip46-remote-signer.md`.
+- **Hub modal redesign** (field feedback): both features are sub-pages like
+  Nodes/FIPS; panel height cap 70%; scanner hosted by NESMenu outside the
+  panel; back-arrow → hub.
+- **Extras**: node mesh ULA shown/copyable in the Nodes list (`MenuItem`
+  subtitle); `Android/tools/fipssh` (npub→ULA is pure: `fd ‖ sha256(pubkey)[0..15]`,
+  pinned by `npub_derives_the_same_mesh_ula_as_the_fips_identity` test).
+- **Node-side handoffs written**: `HANDOFF-2026-08-31-ssh-over-mesh.md`
+  (SSH-over-mesh toggle) and the 0.5.28 deploy handoff.
+
+## The deployment playbook (learned the hard way this session)
+
+### Networking — everything goes through the Tor SOCKS proxy
+
+Direct connections to `146.59.87.168` fail from this box ("Bad file
+descriptor"); git works because `~/.gitconfig` sets
+`proxy = socks5h://127.0.0.1:9050`. **For curl/Gitea API you must pass it
+explicitly:**
+
+```bash
+curl -s --socks5-hostname 127.0.0.1:9050 ...   # works
+curl -s ...                                    # HTTP 000, "unreachable"
+```
+
+This is why earlier sessions concluded "Gitea API unreachable" — wrong; it
+just needs the proxy flag.
+
+### Gitea API + auth
+
+- Base: `http://146.59.87.168:3000/api/v1` (v1.27.1), via the proxy.
+- The keychain git credential (`security find-internet-password -s
+  146.59.87.168`, acct `v4v`) is a **`write:repository`-only token** — fine
+  for git, CANNOT read/write issues.
+- Issue ops need `write:issue`. This session the user pasted a broad token
+  (activitypub+misc+notification+organization+package+issue+repository) —
+  **revocation still pending** (it's in chat scrollback). Ask the user for a
+  scoped `write:issue` token next time.
+
+### main is PROTECTED — ship via -ship branch + PR + API merge
+
+`git push origin main` is rejected by pre-receive. The working sequence:
+
+```bash
+git fetch origin
+git checkout main && git reset --hard origin/main        # local main is STALE (see below)
+git merge --no-ff companion/<ver> -m "Companion <ver> — …"
+./Android/ship-companion.sh                               # builds, signs v1+v2+v3, stages APK+meta, commits
+# its `git push` FAILS on protected main — expected. Push the branch instead:
+git push origin main:companion/<ver>-ship
+# then create + merge the PR via API:
+curl ... POST repos/lfg2025/archy/pulls        {"head":"companion/<ver>-ship","base":"main",...}
+curl ... POST repos/lfg2025/archy/pulls/<n>/merge  -d '{"Do":"merge"}'
+```
+
+(Refinement for next time: run `ship-companion.sh` ON the `-ship` branch
+from the start — it pushes the current branch, which for a `-ship` branch
+succeeds directly.)
+
+- **Local `main` is the pre-open-source-import lineage** (1115 stale
+  commits, unrelated history). Always `reset --hard origin/main` before
+  using it; never merge into it without the reset.
+- A **stale tag ref** (`v1.7.115-alpha`) can make `git fetch` fail
+  ("did not send all necessary objects") — `rm .git/refs/tags/v1.7.115-alpha`.
+- Last release's `-ship` branch for reference: `origin/companion/0.5.27-ship`.
+
+### Build + verify (per release)
+
+- Version lives in `Android/app/build.gradle.kts` (`versionCode` must
+  strictly increase; meta json is auto-generated by the publish script from
+  it). 0.5.28 → next is **0.5.29/vc49**.
+- APK package is `com.archipelago.app.debug` (the served artifact IS the
+  debug build, committed repo keystore, cert SHA-256 `d622e07e…ec2664d`).
+  Local `Android/app/debug.keystore` is untracked but produces that cert —
+  verify per release: `apksigner verify --print-certs` on old vs new.
+- Build: `cd Android && JAVA_HOME=/opt/homebrew/opt/openjdk@17
+  ANDROID_HOME=$HOME/Library/Android/sdk ./gradlew :app:assembleDebug`
+  (builds the Rust via cargo-ndk, NDK under `~/Library/Android/sdk/ndk/`).
+  Test build for the user: copy to `~/Desktop/archipelago-companion-<ver>.apk`.
+- Rust: `cd Android/rust/archy-fips-core && cargo test --lib` (24 tests at
+  session end) + clippy. neode-ui: `npm ci` first (node_modules not kept),
+  `npx vitest run`, `npm run type-check`.
+- Post-ship verify block: aapt2 badging, shasum vs Gitea raw, apksigner
+  v1/v2/v3, the three public URLs' meta json (table above), foundation
+  raw-proxy may serve up to 6h stale (cache-control: max-age=21600).
+
+### Infrastructure facts
+
+- `source.archipelago-foundation.org` = openresty on vps2 with **two
+  surfaces**: static `/packages/` (manual mirror; the real-node QR URL) and
+  a Gitea-raw proxy (6h cache, auto). Demo `:2100` redeploys automatically:
+  `.gitea/workflows/demo-images.yml` fires on `main` pushes touching
+  `neode-ui/**`, then calls the Portainer webhook.
+- **No SSH to vps2 from this box**: `archy_146_release` key declined for
+  root/archipelago/dorian/lfg2025/deploy/git. Server-side work needs the
+  archi-dev-box agent or the user.
+
+## Open items for next session
+
+1. **Confirm node web-bundle redeploys** happened (archi-dev-box; deploy
+   handoff §2) — a paired node's own `/packages/` should serve vc48.
+2. **Token revocation** (user) + request a `write:issue`-scoped one.
+3. **Node-side roadmap** fed by this release: SSH-over-mesh toggle
+   (`HANDOFF-2026-08-31-ssh-over-mesh.md`), node NIP-46 client (login flow B),
+   node-side storage for companion backup envelopes.
+4. **On-device follow-ups**: the user's full 0.5.28 pass — signer e2e via
+   the harness (`/tmp/nip46env/bin/python Android/tools/nip46-test-client.py`),
+   backup round-trip on a wipe, and the zxing-cpp decision trigger
+   (move-to-the-code; sketch is verified online:
+   `io.github.zxing-cpp:android:3.1.1`, still NOT-actioned by design).
+5. Untracked on this box, deliberately left: `Android/app/debug.keystore`,
+   `docs/1.8-alpha-improvements-tracker.md`,
+   `docs/SESSION-1.8.0-OTA-PROGRESS.md`, `image-recipe/branding/source-logos/`
+   (other workstreams' files).
@@ -573,7 +573,7 @@ RUN mkdir -p /etc/polkit-1/rules.d && \
 # already-deployed nodes over OTA (idempotent no-op here once applied).
 RUN set -eu; \
    apt-get update; \
-    apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends kdump-tools kexec-tools rasdaemon; \
+    apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends kdump-tools kexec-tools makedumpfile rasdaemon; \
    apt-get clean; rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*; \
    CONF=/etc/default/kdump-tools; \
    sed -i 's|^#\?USE_KDUMP=.*|USE_KDUMP="1"|' "$CONF"; \
@@ -3746,6 +3746,13 @@ if [ -d "$BOOT_MEDIA/archipelago/plymouth-theme" ]; then
    # Configure clean boot: splash, suppress kernel noise, hide cursor
    sed -i 's/GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT=".*"/GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash loglevel=0 rd.systemd.show_status=false vt.global_cursor_default=0 acpi=force crashkernel=256M"/' \
        /mnt/target/etc/default/grub 2>/dev/null || true
+    # kdump-tools ships a grub.d snippet that appends crashkernel=512M-:192M
+    # after this line. The later value silently wins on amd64, so neutralize
+    # the package default and keep Archipelago's explicit fixed reservation.
+    if [ -f /mnt/target/etc/default/grub.d/kdump-tools.cfg ]; then
+        printf '%s\n' '# Archipelago owns crashkernel sizing in /etc/default/grub.' \
+            > /mnt/target/etc/default/grub.d/kdump-tools.cfg
+    fi
    echo "   Installed Archipelago Plymouth theme on target"
 fi

@@ -1,12 +1,12 @@
 {
  "name": "neode-ui",
-  "version": "1.8.4-alpha",
+  "version": "1.8.7-alpha",
  "lockfileVersion": 3,
  "requires": true,
  "packages": {
    "": {
      "name": "neode-ui",
-      "version": "1.8.4-alpha",
+      "version": "1.8.7-alpha",
      "dependencies": {
        "@scure/bip39": "^2.2.0",
        "@types/dompurify": "^3.0.5",
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 {
  "name": "neode-ui",
  "private": true,
-  "version": "1.8.4-alpha",
+  "version": "1.8.7-alpha",
  "type": "module",
  "scripts": {
    "start": "./start-dev.sh",
@@ -11,16 +11,47 @@
  },
  "apps": [
    {
-      "id": "bitcoin-knots",
-      "title": "Bitcoin Knots",
-      "version": "28.1.0",
-      "description": "Full Bitcoin Knots node with dynamic prune/full-mode startup based on host disk.",
-      "icon": "/assets/img/app-icons/bitcoin-knots.webp",
-      "author": "Bitcoin Knots",
+      "id": "adguardhome",
+      "title": "AdGuard Home",
+      "version": "v0.107.55",
+      "description": "Network-wide ad and tracker blocking: a DNS server that filters every device on your LAN, with a web console for rules and client management.",
+      "icon": "",
+      "author": "AdGuard",
+      "category": "networking",
+      "tier": "optional",
+      "dockerImage": "source.archipelago-foundation.org/lfg2025/adguardhome:v0.107.55",
+      "repoUrl": "https://github.com/AdguardTeam/AdGuardHome"
+    },
+    {
+      "id": "alby-hub",
+      "title": "Alby Hub",
+      "version": "1.23.0",
+      "description": "Self-custodial Lightning wallet hub. Runs its own Lightning node on your Archipelago and connects your apps to it over Nostr Wallet Connect \u2014 one hub, every app pays through it.",
+      "icon": "/assets/img/app-icons/alby-hub.svg",
+      "author": "Alby",
      "category": "money",
-      "tier": "core",
-      "dockerImage": "source.archipelago-foundation.org/lfg2025/bitcoin-knots:29.3.knots20260210",
-      "repoUrl": "https://github.com/bitcoinknots/bitcoin"
+      "tier": "optional",
+      "dockerImage": "source.archipelago-foundation.org/lfg2025/alby-hub:v1.24.0",
+      "repoUrl": "https://github.com/getAlby/hub"
+    },
+    {
+      "id": "barkd",
+      "title": "Ark Wallet",
+      "version": "0.3.0",
+      "description": "Ark protocol wallet daemon (barkd). Lets the node hold self-custodial off-chain bitcoin via an Ark server; the wallet talks to it over a local REST API. Signet by default while Ark matures.",
+      "icon": "/assets/img/app-icons/bark.png",
+      "author": "Second",
+      "category": "money",
+      "dockerImage": "source.archipelago-foundation.org/lfg2025/barkd:0.3.0",
+      "repoUrl": "https://gitlab.com/ark-bitcoin/bark",
+      "containerConfig": {
+        "ports": [
+          "3535:3535"
+        ],
+        "volumes": [
+          "/var/lib/archipelago/barkd:/data"
+        ]
+      }
    },
    {
      "id": "bitcoin-core",
@@ -35,76 +66,16 @@
      "repoUrl": "https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin"
    },
    {
-      "id": "lnd",
-      "title": "LND",
-      "version": "0.18.4",
-      "description": "Lightning Network implementation by Lightning Labs. Enables instant, low-cost Bitcoin payments.",
-      "icon": "/assets/img/app-icons/lnd.png",
-      "author": "Lightning Labs",
+      "id": "bitcoin-knots",
+      "title": "Bitcoin Knots",
+      "version": "28.1.0",
+      "description": "Full Bitcoin Knots node with dynamic prune/full-mode startup based on host disk.",
+      "icon": "/assets/img/app-icons/bitcoin-knots.webp",
+      "author": "Bitcoin Knots",
      "category": "money",
      "tier": "core",
-      "dockerImage": "source.archipelago-foundation.org/lfg2025/lnd:v0.18.4-beta",
-      "repoUrl": "https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd",
-      "requires": [
-        "bitcoin-knots"
-      ]
-    },
-    {
-      "id": "btcpay-server",
-      "title": "BTCPay Server",
-      "version": "2.4.3",
-      "description": "Self-hosted Bitcoin payment processor. Accept Bitcoin payments without intermediaries.",
-      "icon": "/assets/img/app-icons/btcpay-server.png",
-      "author": "BTCPay Server Foundation",
-      "category": "commerce",
-      "tier": "core",
-      "dockerImage": "docker.io/btcpayserver/btcpayserver:2.4.3",
-      "repoUrl": "https://github.com/btcpayserver/btcpayserver",
-      "requires": [
-        "bitcoin-knots"
-      ]
-    },
-    {
-      "id": "mempool",
-      "title": "Mempool Explorer",
-      "version": "3.0.0",
-      "description": "Bitcoin mempool and blockchain explorer. Real-time transaction and block visualization.",
-      "icon": "/assets/img/app-icons/mempool.webp",
-      "author": "Mempool",
-      "category": "money",
-      "tier": "core",
-      "dockerImage": "source.archipelago-foundation.org/lfg2025/mempool-frontend:v3.3.1",
-      "repoUrl": "https://github.com/mempool/mempool",
-      "requires": [
-        "bitcoin-knots",
-        "electrumx"
-      ]
-    },
-    {
-      "id": "electrumx",
-      "title": "ElectrumX",
-      "version": "1.18.0",
-      "description": "Electrum server indexing Bitcoin chain data for lightweight wallet queries.",
-      "icon": "/assets/img/app-icons/electrumx.png",
-      "author": "Luke Childs",
-      "category": "money",
-      "tier": "core",
-      "dockerImage": "source.archipelago-foundation.org/lfg2025/electrumx:v1.18.0",
-      "repoUrl": "https://github.com/spesmilo/electrumx",
-      "requires": [
-        "bitcoin-knots"
-      ]
-    },
-    {
-      "id": "indeedhub",
-      "title": "IndeeHub",
-      "version": "1.0.0",
-      "description": "Bitcoin documentary streaming platform featuring God Bless Bitcoin and other educational content about Bitcoin, sovereignty, and decentralized technology. Sign in with your Nostr identity.",
-      "icon": "/assets/img/app-icons/indeedhub.png",
-      "author": "IndeeHub",
-      "category": "community",
-      "dockerImage": "source.archipelago-foundation.org/lfg2025/indeedhub:1.0.0",
-      "repoUrl": "https://github.com/indeedhub/indeedhub"
+      "dockerImage": "source.archipelago-foundation.org/lfg2025/bitcoin-knots:29.3.knots20260210",
+      "repoUrl": "https://github.com/bitcoinknots/bitcoin"
    },
    {
      "id": "botfights",
@@ -132,127 +103,58 @@
      }
    },
    {
-      "id": "gitea",
-      "title": "Gitea",
-      "version": "1.23",
-      "description": "Self-hosted Git service with built-in container registry, CI/CD, and package hosting.",
-      "icon": "/assets/img/app-icons/gitea.svg",
-      "author": "Gitea",
-      "category": "development",
-      "dockerImage": "docker.io/gitea/gitea:1.23",
-      "repoUrl": "https://gitea.com",
-      "containerConfig": {
-        "ports": [
-          "3001:3000",
-          "2222:22"
-        ],
-        "volumes": [
-          "/var/lib/archipelago/gitea/data:/data",
-          "/var/lib/archipelago/gitea/config:/etc/gitea"
-        ],
-        "env": [
-          "GITEA__database__DB_TYPE=sqlite3",
-          "GITEA__server__SSH_PORT=2222",
-          "GITEA__server__SSH_LISTEN_PORT=22",
-          "GITEA__server__LFS_START_SERVER=true",
-          "GITEA__packages__ENABLED=true",
-          "GITEA__repository__ENABLE_PUSH_CREATE_USER=true",
-          "GITEA__repository__ENABLE_PUSH_CREATE_ORG=true",
-          "GITEA__security__X_FRAME_OPTIONS="
-        ]
-      },
-      "tier": "optional"
-    },
-    {
-      "id": "filebrowser",
-      "title": "File Browser",
-      "version": "2.27.0",
-      "description": "Baseline Archipelago file manager service.",
-      "icon": "/assets/img/app-icons/file-browser.webp",
-      "author": "File Browser",
-      "category": "data",
+      "id": "btcpay-server",
+      "title": "BTCPay Server",
+      "version": "2.4.3",
+      "description": "Self-hosted Bitcoin payment processor. Accept Bitcoin payments without intermediaries.",
+      "icon": "/assets/img/app-icons/btcpay-server.png",
+      "author": "BTCPay Server Foundation",
+      "category": "commerce",
      "tier": "core",
-      "dockerImage": "source.archipelago-foundation.org/lfg2025/filebrowser:v2.27.0",
-      "repoUrl": "https://github.com/filebrowser/filebrowser",
-      "containerConfig": {
-        "ports": [
-          "8083:80"
-        ],
-        "volumes": [
-          "/var/lib/archipelago/filebrowser:/srv",
-          "/var/lib/archipelago/filebrowser-data:/data"
-        ],
-        "args": [
-          "--database=/data/database.db",
-          "--root=/srv",
-          "--address=0.0.0.0",
-          "--port=80"
-        ]
-      }
+      "dockerImage": "docker.io/btcpayserver/btcpayserver:2.4.3",
+      "repoUrl": "https://github.com/btcpayserver/btcpayserver",
+      "requires": [
+        "bitcoin-knots"
+      ]
    },
    {
-      "id": "nostr-rs-relay",
-      "title": "Nostr Relay (Rust)",
-      "version": "0.10.0",
-      "description": "High-performance Nostr relay written in Rust. Host your own decentralized social media relay and earn networking profits.",
-      "icon": "/assets/img/app-icons/nostrudel.svg",
-      "author": "Nostr RS Relay",
-      "category": "community",
-      "tier": "recommended",
-      "dockerImage": "scsibug/nostr-rs-relay:0.10.0",
-      "repoUrl": "https://github.com/scsibug/nostr-rs-relay",
-      "containerConfig": {
-        "ports": [
-          "8081:8080"
-        ],
-        "volumes": [
-          "/var/lib/archipelago/nostr-relay:/usr/src/app/db"
-        ],
-        "env": [
-          "RELAY_NAME=Archipelago Nostr Relay",
-          "RELAY_DESCRIPTION=Self-hosted Nostr relay on Archipelago"
-        ]
-      }
-    },
-    {
-      "id": "vaultwarden",
-      "title": "Vaultwarden",
-      "version": "1.30.0",
-      "description": "Self-hosted password vault with zero-knowledge encryption.",
-      "icon": "/assets/img/app-icons/vaultwarden.webp",
-      "author": "Vaultwarden",
+      "id": "cryptpad",
+      "title": "CryptPad",
+      "version": "2024.12.0",
+      "description": "End-to-end encrypted documents, spreadsheets, and presentations. Zero-knowledge collaboration.",
+      "icon": "/assets/icon/favico-black-v2.svg",
+      "author": "XWiki SAS",
      "category": "data",
-      "tier": "recommended",
-      "dockerImage": "source.archipelago-foundation.org/lfg2025/vaultwarden:1.37.1-alpine",
-      "repoUrl": "https://github.com/dani-garcia/vaultwarden",
-      "containerConfig": {
-        "ports": [
-          "8082:80"
-        ],
-        "volumes": [
-          "/var/lib/archipelago/vaultwarden:/data"
-        ]
-      }
+      "tier": "optional",
+      "dockerImage": "source.archipelago-foundation.org/lfg2025/cryptpad:2024.12.0",
+      "repoUrl": "https://github.com/cryptpad/cryptpad"
    },
    {
-      "id": "searxng",
-      "title": "SearXNG",
-      "version": "1.0.0",
-      "description": "Privacy-respecting metasearch engine. Search the web without tracking.",
-      "icon": "/assets/img/app-icons/searxng.png",
-      "author": "SearXNG",
-      "category": "data",
-      "tier": "recommended",
-      "dockerImage": "source.archipelago-foundation.org/lfg2025/searxng:latest",
-      "repoUrl": "https://github.com/searxng/searxng",
-      "containerConfig": {
-        "ports": [
-          "8888:8080"
-        ],
-        "volumes": [
-          "/var/lib/archipelago/searxng:/etc/searxng"
-        ]
-      }
+      "id": "cuprate",
+      "title": "Cuprate",
+      "version": "0.1.0-preview",
+      "description": "Alternative Monero node implementation in Rust. Independently validates Monero consensus rules, providing a layer of security and redundancy for the network.",
+      "icon": "/assets/img/app-icons/cuprate.svg",
+      "author": "Cuprate contributors",
+      "category": "money",
+      "tier": "optional",
+      "dockerImage": "source.archipelago-foundation.org/lfg2025/cuprate:0.1.0-preview-18-g618ff14",
+      "repoUrl": "https://github.com/Cuprate/cuprate"
+    },
+    {
+      "id": "electrumx",
+      "title": "ElectrumX",
+      "version": "1.18.0",
+      "description": "Electrum server indexing Bitcoin chain data for lightweight wallet queries.",
+      "icon": "/assets/img/app-icons/electrumx.png",
+      "author": "Luke Childs",
+      "category": "money",
+      "tier": "core",
+      "dockerImage": "source.archipelago-foundation.org/lfg2025/electrumx:v1.18.0",
+      "repoUrl": "https://github.com/spesmilo/electrumx",
+      "requires": [
+        "bitcoin-knots"
+      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "fedimint",
@@ -299,54 +201,87 @@
      }
    },
    {
-      "id": "barkd",
-      "title": "Ark Wallet",
-      "version": "0.3.0",
-      "description": "Ark protocol wallet daemon (barkd). Lets the node hold self-custodial off-chain bitcoin via an Ark server; the wallet talks to it over a local REST API. Signet by default while Ark matures.",
-      "icon": "/assets/img/app-icons/bark.png",
-      "author": "Second",
-      "category": "money",
-      "dockerImage": "source.archipelago-foundation.org/lfg2025/barkd:0.3.0",
-      "repoUrl": "https://gitlab.com/ark-bitcoin/bark",
+      "id": "filebrowser",
+      "title": "File Browser",
+      "version": "2.27.0",
+      "description": "Baseline Archipelago file manager service.",
+      "icon": "/assets/img/app-icons/file-browser.webp",
+      "author": "File Browser",
+      "category": "data",
+      "tier": "core",
+      "dockerImage": "source.archipelago-foundation.org/lfg2025/filebrowser:v2.27.0",
+      "repoUrl": "https://github.com/filebrowser/filebrowser",
      "containerConfig": {
        "ports": [
-          "3535:3535"
+          "8083:80"
        ],
        "volumes": [
-          "/var/lib/archipelago/barkd:/data"
+          "/var/lib/archipelago/filebrowser:/srv",
+          "/var/lib/archipelago/filebrowser-data:/data"
+        ],
+        "args": [
+          "--database=/data/database.db",
+          "--root=/srv",
+          "--address=0.0.0.0",
+          "--port=80"
        ]
      }
    },
    {
-      "id": "jellyfin",
-      "title": "Jellyfin",
-      "version": "10.8.13",
-      "description": "Free media server. Stream movies, music, and photos.",
-      "icon": "/assets/img/app-icons/jellyfin.webp",
-      "author": "Jellyfin",
-      "category": "data",
-      "dockerImage": "source.archipelago-foundation.org/lfg2025/jellyfin:10.11.11",
-      "repoUrl": "https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin",
+      "id": "gitea",
+      "title": "Gitea",
+      "version": "1.23",
+      "description": "Self-hosted Git service with built-in container registry, CI/CD, and package hosting.",
+      "icon": "/assets/img/app-icons/gitea.svg",
+      "author": "Gitea",
+      "category": "development",
+      "dockerImage": "docker.io/gitea/gitea:1.23",
+      "repoUrl": "https://gitea.com",
      "containerConfig": {
        "ports": [
-          "8096:8096"
+          "3001:3000",
+          "2222:22"
        ],
        "volumes": [
-          "/var/lib/archipelago/jellyfin/config:/config",
-          "/var/lib/archipelago/jellyfin/cache:/cache"
+          "/var/lib/archipelago/gitea/data:/data",
+          "/var/lib/archipelago/gitea/config:/etc/gitea"
+        ],
+        "env": [
+          "GITEA__database__DB_TYPE=sqlite3",
+          "GITEA__server__SSH_PORT=2222",
+          "GITEA__server__SSH_LISTEN_PORT=22",
+          "GITEA__server__LFS_START_SERVER=true",
+          "GITEA__packages__ENABLED=true",
+          "GITEA__repository__ENABLE_PUSH_CREATE_USER=true",
+          "GITEA__repository__ENABLE_PUSH_CREATE_ORG=true",
+          "GITEA__security__X_FRAME_OPTIONS="
        ]
-      }
+      },
+      "tier": "optional"
    },
    {
-      "id": "immich",
-      "title": "Immich",
-      "version": "2.7.4",
-      "description": "Self-hosted photo and video backup with mobile apps and search.",
-      "icon": "/assets/img/app-icons/immich.png",
-      "author": "Immich",
+      "id": "grafana",
+      "title": "Grafana",
+      "version": "10.2.0",
+      "description": "Analytics and monitoring platform. Visualize metrics and create dashboards.",
+      "icon": "/assets/img/app-icons/grafana.png",
+      "author": "Grafana Labs",
      "category": "data",
-      "dockerImage": "source.archipelago-foundation.org/lfg2025/immich-server:release",
-      "repoUrl": "https://github.com/immich-app/immich"
+      "tier": "recommended",
+      "dockerImage": "source.archipelago-foundation.org/lfg2025/grafana:10.2.0",
+      "repoUrl": "https://github.com/grafana/grafana",
+      "containerConfig": {
+        "ports": [
+          "3000:3000"
+        ],
+        "volumes": [
+          "/var/lib/archipelago/grafana:/var/lib/grafana"
+        ],
+        "env": [
+          "GF_PATHS_DATA=/var/lib/grafana",
+          "GF_USERS_ALLOW_SIGN_UP=false"
+        ]
+      }
    },
    {
      "id": "homeassistant",
@@ -370,11 +305,209 @@
        ]
      }
    },
+    {
+      "id": "immich",
+      "title": "Immich",
+      "version": "2.7.4",
+      "description": "Self-hosted photo and video backup with mobile apps and search.",
+      "icon": "/assets/img/app-icons/immich.png",
+      "author": "Immich",
+      "category": "data",
+      "dockerImage": "source.archipelago-foundation.org/lfg2025/immich-server:release",
+      "repoUrl": "https://github.com/immich-app/immich"
+    },
+    {
+      "id": "indeedhub",
+      "title": "IndeeHub",
+      "version": "1.0.0",
+      "description": "Bitcoin documentary streaming platform featuring God Bless Bitcoin and other educational content about Bitcoin, sovereignty, and decentralized technology. Sign in with your Nostr identity.",
+      "icon": "/assets/img/app-icons/indeedhub.png",
+      "author": "IndeeHub",
+      "category": "community",
+      "dockerImage": "source.archipelago-foundation.org/lfg2025/indeedhub:1.0.0",
+      "repoUrl": "https://github.com/indeedhub/indeedhub"
+    },
+    {
+      "id": "jellyfin",
+      "title": "Jellyfin",
+      "version": "10.8.13",
+      "description": "Free media server. Stream movies, music, and photos.",
+      "icon": "/assets/img/app-icons/jellyfin.webp",
+      "author": "Jellyfin",
+      "category": "data",
+      "dockerImage": "source.archipelago-foundation.org/lfg2025/jellyfin:10.11.11",
+      "repoUrl": "https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin",
+      "containerConfig": {
+        "ports": [
+          "8096:8096"
+        ],
+        "volumes": [
+          "/var/lib/archipelago/jellyfin/config:/config",
+          "/var/lib/archipelago/jellyfin/cache:/cache"
+        ]
+      }
+    },
+    {
+      "id": "lnd",
+      "title": "LND",
+      "version": "0.18.4",
+      "description": "Lightning Network implementation by Lightning Labs. Enables instant, low-cost Bitcoin payments.",
+      "icon": "/assets/img/app-icons/lnd.png",
+      "author": "Lightning Labs",
+      "category": "money",
+      "tier": "core",
+      "dockerImage": "source.archipelago-foundation.org/lfg2025/lnd:v0.18.4-beta",
+      "repoUrl": "https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd",
+      "requires": [
+        "bitcoin-knots"
+      ]
+    },
+    {
+      "id": "mempool",
+      "title": "Mempool Explorer",
+      "version": "3.0.0",
+      "description": "Bitcoin mempool and blockchain explorer. Real-time transaction and block visualization.",
+      "icon": "/assets/img/app-icons/mempool.webp",
+      "author": "Mempool",
+      "category": "money",
+      "tier": "core",
+      "dockerImage": "source.archipelago-foundation.org/lfg2025/mempool-frontend:v3.3.1",
+      "repoUrl": "https://github.com/mempool/mempool",
+      "requires": [
+        "bitcoin-knots",
+        "electrumx"
+      ]
+    },
+    {
+      "id": "netbird",
+      "title": "NetBird",
+      "version": "2.38.0",
+      "description": "Self-hosted WireGuard mesh VPN control plane with dashboard, embedded identity provider, management API, signal, relay, and STUN. The user-facing entry point \u2014 a TLS proxy in front of the dashboard + server.",
+      "icon": "/assets/img/app-icons/netbird.svg",
+      "author": "NetBird",
+      "category": "networking",
+      "tier": "recommended",
+      "dockerImage": "docker.io/library/nginx:1.31.4-alpine",
+      "repoUrl": "https://github.com/netbirdio/netbird",
+      "containerConfig": {
+        "ports": [
+          "8087:80",
+          "8086:80",
+          "3478:3478/udp"
+        ],
+        "volumes": [
+          "/var/lib/archipelago/netbird:/var/lib/netbird"
+        ],
+        "notes": "Installed as a two-container stack: netbird dashboard on 8087 and netbird-server control plane on 8086 plus UDP 3478. For production clients, publish a DNS name over HTTPS with gRPC/WebSocket routing."
+      }
+    },
+    {
+      "id": "nextcloud",
+      "title": "Nextcloud",
+      "version": "29",
+      "description": "Your own private cloud. File sync, calendars, contacts.",
+      "icon": "/assets/img/app-icons/nextcloud.webp",
+      "author": "Nextcloud",
+      "category": "data",
+      "dockerImage": "source.archipelago-foundation.org/lfg2025/nextcloud:29",
+      "repoUrl": "https://github.com/nextcloud/server",
+      "containerConfig": {
+        "ports": [
+          "8085:80"
+        ],
+        "volumes": [
+          "/var/lib/archipelago/nextcloud:/var/www/html"
+        ]
+      }
+    },
+    {
+      "id": "nginx-proxy-manager",
+      "title": "Nginx Proxy Manager",
+      "version": "2.12.1",
+      "description": "Reverse proxy with SSL. Beautiful web interface for managing proxies. On a node, this manages its admin UI and upstream configuration \u2014 the proxy's own :80/:443 listeners are not published (the node's web server owns those ports).",
+      "icon": "/assets/img/app-icons/nginx.svg",
+      "author": "Nginx Proxy Manager",
+      "category": "networking",
+      "tier": "optional",
+      "dockerImage": "source.archipelago-foundation.org/lfg2025/nginx-proxy-manager:latest",
+      "repoUrl": "https://github.com/NginxProxyManager/nginx-proxy-manager"
+    },
+    {
+      "id": "nostr-rs-relay",
+      "title": "Nostr Relay (Rust)",
+      "version": "0.10.0",
+      "description": "High-performance Nostr relay written in Rust. Host your own decentralized social media relay and earn networking profits.",
+      "icon": "/assets/img/app-icons/nostrudel.svg",
+      "author": "Nostr RS Relay",
+      "category": "community",
+      "tier": "recommended",
+      "dockerImage": "scsibug/nostr-rs-relay:0.10.0",
+      "repoUrl": "https://github.com/scsibug/nostr-rs-relay",
+      "containerConfig": {
+        "ports": [
+          "8081:8080"
+        ],
+        "volumes": [
+          "/var/lib/archipelago/nostr-relay:/usr/src/app/db"
+        ],
+        "env": [
+          "RELAY_NAME=Archipelago Nostr Relay",
+          "RELAY_DESCRIPTION=Self-hosted Nostr relay on Archipelago"
+        ]
+      }
+    },
+    {
+      "id": "ollama",
+      "title": "Ollama",
+      "version": "0.5.4",
+      "description": "Run large language models locally. Download and run AI models like Llama, Mistral on your own hardware \u2014 served on the node's loopback for the AI assistant (Settings \u2192 Claude Auth \u2192 model backend), never exposed to the network.",
+      "icon": "/assets/img/app-icons/ollama.png",
+      "author": "Ollama",
+      "category": "community",
+      "tier": "optional",
+      "dockerImage": "source.archipelago-foundation.org/lfg2025/ollama:latest",
+      "repoUrl": "https://github.com/ollama/ollama"
+    },
+    {
+      "id": "phoenixd",
+      "title": "phoenixd",
+      "version": "0.9.0",
+      "description": "Headless Lightning daemon by ACINQ (the Phoenix wallet team). No screen of its own \u2014 it exposes a small local API that other apps and tools use to send and receive Lightning payments. Channel liquidity is managed automatically for a fee.",
+      "icon": "/assets/img/app-icons/phoenixd.svg",
+      "author": "ACINQ",
+      "category": "money",
+      "tier": "optional",
+      "dockerImage": "source.archipelago-foundation.org/lfg2025/phoenixd:0.9.0",
+      "repoUrl": "https://github.com/ACINQ/phoenixd"
+    },
+    {
+      "id": "photoprism",
+      "title": "PhotoPrism",
+      "version": "240915",
+      "description": "AI-powered photo management with facial recognition.",
+      "icon": "/assets/img/app-icons/photoprism.svg",
+      "author": "PhotoPrism",
+      "category": "data",
+      "dockerImage": "source.archipelago-foundation.org/lfg2025/photoprism:240915",
+      "repoUrl": "https://github.com/photoprism/photoprism",
+      "containerConfig": {
+        "ports": [
+          "2342:2342"
+        ],
+        "volumes": [
+          "/var/lib/archipelago/photoprism:/photoprism/storage"
+        ],
+        "env": [
+          "PHOTOPRISM_ADMIN_PASSWORD=archipelago",
+          "PHOTOPRISM_DEFAULT_LOCALE=en"
+        ]
+      }
+    },
    {
      "id": "pine",
      "title": "Pine",
      "version": "1.3.0",
-      "description": "A private voice assistant for your home. Pine runs speech-to-text (Whisper), text-to-speech (Piper) and wake-word detection (openWakeWord) on your own node and pairs with a PineVoice satellite speaker, so Home Assistant Assist works locally with nothing sent to the cloud. Ask it about your node — block height, sync, peers, Lightning balance — and, when a Claude API key is set, anything else.",
+      "description": "A private voice assistant for your home. Pine runs speech-to-text (Whisper), text-to-speech (Piper) and wake-word detection (openWakeWord) on your own node and pairs with a PineVoice satellite speaker, so Home Assistant Assist works locally with nothing sent to the cloud. Ask it about your node \u2014 block height, sync, peers, Lightning balance \u2014 and, when a Claude API key is set, anything else.",
      "icon": "/assets/img/app-icons/pine.svg",
      "author": "Archipelago",
      "category": "home",
@@ -382,26 +515,44 @@
      "repoUrl": "https://github.com/rhasspy/wyoming"
    },
    {
-      "id": "grafana",
-      "title": "Grafana",
-      "version": "10.2.0",
-      "description": "Analytics and monitoring platform. Visualize metrics and create dashboards.",
-      "icon": "/assets/img/app-icons/grafana.png",
-      "author": "Grafana Labs",
-      "category": "data",
-      "tier": "recommended",
-      "dockerImage": "source.archipelago-foundation.org/lfg2025/grafana:10.2.0",
-      "repoUrl": "https://github.com/grafana/grafana",
+      "id": "portainer",
+      "title": "Portainer",
+      "version": "2.19.4",
+      "description": "Container management web UI for the local Podman socket.",
+      "icon": "/assets/img/app-icons/portainer.webp",
+      "author": "Portainer",
+      "category": "development",
+      "tier": "optional",
+      "dockerImage": "source.archipelago-foundation.org/lfg2025/portainer:2.39.6",
+      "repoUrl": "https://github.com/portainer/portainer",
      "containerConfig": {
        "ports": [
-          "3000:3000"
+          "9000:9000"
        ],
        "volumes": [
-          "/var/lib/archipelago/grafana:/var/lib/grafana"
+          "/var/lib/archipelago/portainer:/data",
+          "/run/user/1000/podman/podman.sock:/var/run/docker.sock"
        ],
-        "env": [
-          "GF_PATHS_DATA=/var/lib/grafana",
-          "GF_USERS_ALLOW_SIGN_UP=false"
+        "notes": "Uses the manifest-owned Podman socket bind mount preparation path."
+      }
+    },
+    {
+      "id": "searxng",
+      "title": "SearXNG",
+      "version": "1.0.0",
+      "description": "Privacy-respecting metasearch engine. Search the web without tracking.",
+      "icon": "/assets/img/app-icons/searxng.png",
+      "author": "SearXNG",
+      "category": "data",
+      "tier": "recommended",
+      "dockerImage": "source.archipelago-foundation.org/lfg2025/searxng:latest",
+      "repoUrl": "https://github.com/searxng/searxng",
+      "containerConfig": {
+        "ports": [
+          "8888:8080"
+        ],
+        "volumes": [
+          "/var/lib/archipelago/searxng:/etc/searxng"
        ]
      }
    },
@@ -433,51 +584,6 @@
        ]
      }
    },
-    {
-      "id": "portainer",
-      "title": "Portainer",
-      "version": "2.19.4",
-      "description": "Container management web UI for the local Podman socket.",
-      "icon": "/assets/img/app-icons/portainer.webp",
-      "author": "Portainer",
-      "category": "development",
-      "tier": "optional",
-      "dockerImage": "source.archipelago-foundation.org/lfg2025/portainer:2.39.6",
-      "repoUrl": "https://github.com/portainer/portainer",
-      "containerConfig": {
-        "ports": [
-          "9000:9000"
-        ],
-        "volumes": [
-          "/var/lib/archipelago/portainer:/data",
-          "/run/user/1000/podman/podman.sock:/var/run/docker.sock"
-        ],
-        "notes": "Uses the manifest-owned Podman socket bind mount preparation path."
-      }
-    },
-    {
-      "id": "netbird",
-      "title": "NetBird",
-      "version": "2.38.0",
-      "description": "Self-hosted WireGuard mesh VPN control plane with dashboard, embedded identity provider, management API, signal, relay, and STUN. The user-facing entry point — a TLS proxy in front of the dashboard + server.",
-      "icon": "/assets/img/app-icons/netbird.svg",
-      "author": "NetBird",
-      "category": "networking",
-      "tier": "recommended",
-      "dockerImage": "docker.io/library/nginx:1.31.4-alpine",
-      "repoUrl": "https://github.com/netbirdio/netbird",
-      "containerConfig": {
-        "ports": [
-          "8087:80",
-          "8086:80",
-          "3478:3478/udp"
-        ],
-        "volumes": [
-          "/var/lib/archipelago/netbird:/var/lib/netbird"
-        ],
-        "notes": "Installed as a two-container stack: netbird dashboard on 8087 and netbird-server control plane on 8086 plus UDP 3478. For production clients, publish a DNS name over HTTPS with gRPC/WebSocket routing."
-      }
-    },
    {
      "id": "uptime-kuma",
      "title": "Uptime Kuma",
@@ -507,70 +613,24 @@
      }
    },
    {
-      "id": "photoprism",
-      "title": "PhotoPrism",
-      "version": "240915",
-      "description": "AI-powered photo management with facial recognition.",
-      "icon": "/assets/img/app-icons/photoprism.svg",
-      "author": "PhotoPrism",
+      "id": "vaultwarden",
+      "title": "Vaultwarden",
+      "version": "1.30.0",
+      "description": "Self-hosted password vault with zero-knowledge encryption.",
+      "icon": "/assets/img/app-icons/vaultwarden.webp",
+      "author": "Vaultwarden",
      "category": "data",
-      "dockerImage": "source.archipelago-foundation.org/lfg2025/photoprism:240915",
-      "repoUrl": "https://github.com/photoprism/photoprism",
+      "tier": "recommended",
+      "dockerImage": "source.archipelago-foundation.org/lfg2025/vaultwarden:1.37.1-alpine",
+      "repoUrl": "https://github.com/dani-garcia/vaultwarden",
      "containerConfig": {
        "ports": [
-          "2342:2342"
+          "8082:80"
        ],
        "volumes": [
-          "/var/lib/archipelago/photoprism:/photoprism/storage"
-        ],
-        "env": [
-          "PHOTOPRISM_ADMIN_PASSWORD=archipelago",
-          "PHOTOPRISM_DEFAULT_LOCALE=en"
+          "/var/lib/archipelago/vaultwarden:/data"
        ]
      }
-    },
-    {
-      "id": "nextcloud",
-      "title": "Nextcloud",
-      "version": "29",
-      "description": "Your own private cloud. File sync, calendars, contacts.",
-      "icon": "/assets/img/app-icons/nextcloud.webp",
-      "author": "Nextcloud",
-      "category": "data",
-      "dockerImage": "source.archipelago-foundation.org/lfg2025/nextcloud:29",
-      "repoUrl": "https://github.com/nextcloud/server",
-      "containerConfig": {
-        "ports": [
-          "8085:80"
-        ],
-        "volumes": [
-          "/var/lib/archipelago/nextcloud:/var/www/html"
-        ]
-      }
-    },
-    {
-      "id": "alby-hub",
-      "title": "Alby Hub",
-      "version": "1.23.0",
-      "description": "Self-custodial Lightning wallet hub. Runs its own Lightning node on your Archipelago and connects your apps to it over Nostr Wallet Connect — one hub, every app pays through it.",
-      "icon": "/assets/img/app-icons/alby-hub.svg",
-      "author": "Alby",
-      "category": "money",
-      "tier": "optional",
-      "dockerImage": "source.archipelago-foundation.org/lfg2025/alby-hub:v1.24.0",
-      "repoUrl": "https://github.com/getAlby/hub"
-    },
-    {
-      "id": "phoenixd",
-      "title": "phoenixd",
-      "version": "0.9.0",
-      "description": "Headless Lightning daemon by ACINQ (the Phoenix wallet team). No screen of its own — it exposes a small local API that other apps and tools use to send and receive Lightning payments. Channel liquidity is managed automatically for a fee.",
-      "icon": "/assets/img/app-icons/phoenixd.svg",
-      "author": "ACINQ",
-      "category": "money",
-      "tier": "optional",
-      "dockerImage": "source.archipelago-foundation.org/lfg2025/phoenixd:0.9.0",
-      "repoUrl": "https://github.com/ACINQ/phoenixd"
    }
  ]
 }
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 {
-  "versionName": "0.5.27",
-  "versionCode": 47
+  "versionName": "0.5.28",
+  "versionCode": 48
 }
@@ -0,0 +1,117 @@
+<template>
+  <Transition
+    enter-active-class="transition duration-300 ease-out"
+    enter-from-class="opacity-0 translate-y-2"
+    enter-to-class="opacity-100 translate-y-0"
+    leave-active-class="transition duration-200 ease-in"
+    leave-from-class="opacity-100"
+    leave-to-class="opacity-0"
+  >
+    <div
+      v-if="visible"
+      class="fixed bottom-5 left-1/2 -translate-x-1/2 z-40 w-[min(92vw,420px)] glass-card px-4 py-3 flex items-start gap-3 shadow-xl"
+    >
+      <svg class="w-5 h-5 text-white/60 shrink-0 mt-0.5" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" viewBox="0 0 24 24">
+        <path stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" stroke-width="2" d="M8.111 16.404a5.5 5.5 0 017.778 0M12 20h.01m-7.08-7.071c3.904-3.905 10.236-3.905 14.141 0M1.394 9.393C6.957 3.83 17.043 3.83 22.606 9.393" />
+      </svg>
+      <div class="min-w-0 flex-1">
+        <p class="text-sm font-medium text-white">No network connection</p>
+        <p class="text-xs text-white/60 mt-0.5">This node has no cable or WiFi link yet. You can set up WiFi now — it also works without internet.</p>
+        <div class="flex gap-2 mt-2.5">
+          <button
+            class="px-3 py-1.5 glass-button rounded-lg text-xs font-medium"
+            @click="goToWifi"
+          >
+            Connect to WiFi
+          </button>
+          <button
+            class="px-3 py-1.5 text-xs text-white/50 hover:text-white transition-colors"
+            @click="dismissed = true"
+          >
+            Dismiss
+          </button>
+        </div>
+      </div>
+      <button class="text-white/40 hover:text-white transition-colors shrink-0" aria-label="Dismiss" @click="dismissed = true">
+        <svg class="w-4 h-4" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" viewBox="0 0 24 24">
+          <path stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" stroke-width="2" d="M6 18L18 6M6 6l12 12" />
+        </svg>
+      </button>
+    </div>
+  </Transition>
+</template>
+
+<script lang="ts">
+/** True when at least one physical interface is up (ethernet or WiFi).
+ * Exported for tests — the component only needs this one pure decision. */
+export function hasPhysicalLink(interfaces: { type: string; state: string }[]): boolean {
+  return interfaces.some(
+    (iface) => (iface.type === 'ethernet' || iface.type === 'wifi') && iface.state === 'up',
+  )
+}
+</script>
+
+<script setup lang="ts">
+import { computed, onMounted, onUnmounted, ref } from 'vue'
+import { useRouter } from 'vue-router'
+import { rpcClient } from '@/api/rpc-client'
+
+/**
+ * Onboarding-only "no network at all" callout (#145).
+ *
+ * A fresh install without a cable can leave a user stranded: the WiFi
+ * settings live in Server → Network and nothing points there. This floats
+ * over the onboarding steps whenever the node has NO physical link (no
+ * ethernet up, no WiFi associated) and deep-links to the WiFi picker.
+ *
+ * Deliberately scoped the other way too: Archipelago is offline-first, so
+ * "no internet" must NEVER nag — only "no link at all" qualifies, and the
+ * callout is onboarding-context only (the wrapper renders it on
+ * /onboarding/* routes; logged-in users have their own places to look).
+ */
+const router = useRouter()
+
+const dismissed = ref(false)
+const hasLink = ref<boolean | null>(null)
+
+const visible = computed(() => !dismissed.value && hasLink.value === false)
+
+let timer: ReturnType<typeof setInterval> | null = null
+let inFlight = false
+
+async function check() {
+  if (inFlight) return
+  inFlight = true
+  try {
+    const res = await rpcClient.call<{ interfaces: { type: string; state: string }[] }>({
+      method: 'network.list-interfaces',
+      dedup: true,
+      maxRetries: 1,
+    })
+    hasLink.value = hasPhysicalLink(res?.interfaces ?? [])
+  } catch {
+    // Node busy or RPC not ready during early onboarding — never nag on a
+    // failed probe; treat unknown as "don't show".
+    hasLink.value = null
+  } finally {
+    inFlight = false
+  }
+}
+
+function goToWifi() {
+  dismissed.value = true
+  // Server.vue consumes ?open=wifi by popping the WiFi picker on arrival.
+  router.push('/dashboard/server?open=wifi')
+}
+
+onMounted(() => {
+  check()
+  // A cable gets plugged in mid-onboarding; poll gently so the callout
+  // dismisses itself the moment a link exists.
+  timer = setInterval(check, 15_000)
+})
+
+onUnmounted(() => {
+  if (timer) clearInterval(timer)
+})
+</script>
@@ -0,0 +1,55 @@
+<template>
+  <div class="relative">
+    <input
+      :type="revealed ? 'text' : 'password'"
+      :value="modelValue"
+      :placeholder="placeholder"
+      :disabled="disabled"
+      :autocomplete="autocomplete"
+      class="w-full px-3 py-2 pr-10 bg-white/5 border border-white/10 rounded-lg text-white text-sm placeholder-white/30 focus:outline-none focus:border-white/30 disabled:opacity-50 disabled:cursor-not-allowed"
+      @input="$emit('update:modelValue', ($event.target as HTMLInputElement).value)"
+      @keyup.enter="$emit('enter')"
+    >
+    <button
+      type="button"
+      class="absolute inset-y-0 right-0 px-3 text-white/40 hover:text-white/80 transition-colors"
+      :aria-label="revealed ? 'Hide password' : 'Show password'"
+      :title="revealed ? 'Hide password' : 'Show password'"
+      @click="revealed = !revealed"
+    >
+      <!-- eye -->
+      <svg v-if="!revealed" class="w-4 h-4" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" viewBox="0 0 24 24">
+        <path stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" stroke-width="2" d="M15 12a3 3 0 11-6 0 3 3 0 016 0z" />
+        <path stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" stroke-width="2" d="M2.458 12C3.732 7.943 7.523 5 12 5c4.478 0 8.268 2.943 9.542 7-1.274 4.057-5.064 7-9.542 7-4.477 0-8.268-2.943-9.542-7z" />
+      </svg>
+      <!-- eye-off -->
+      <svg v-else class="w-4 h-4" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" viewBox="0 0 24 24">
+        <path stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" stroke-width="2" d="M13.875 18.825A10.05 10.05 0 0112 19c-4.478 0-8.268-2.943-9.543-7a9.97 9.97 0 011.563-3.029m5.858.908a3 3 0 114.243 4.243M9.878 9.878l4.242 4.242M9.88 9.88l-3.29-3.29m7.532 7.532l3.29 3.29M3 3l3.59 3.59m0 0A9.953 9.953 0 0112 5c4.478 0 8.268 2.943 9.543 7a10.025 10.025 0 01-4.132 5.411m0 0L21 21" />
+      </svg>
+    </button>
+  </div>
+</template>
+
+<script setup lang="ts">
+import { ref } from 'vue'
+
+/**
+ * Password input with a reveal toggle (#145). Introduced for the WiFi SSID
+ * password — a fresh-install user typing a long wifi key into a TV from
+ * across the room needs to see what they typed — and written reusable so
+ * other password fields can adopt it without re-deriving the eye icon.
+ */
+defineProps<{
+  modelValue: string
+  placeholder?: string
+  disabled?: boolean
+  autocomplete?: string
+}>()
+
+defineEmits<{
+  (e: 'update:modelValue', value: string): void
+  (e: 'enter'): void
+}>()
+
+const revealed = ref(false)
+</script>
@@ -0,0 +1,109 @@
+import { describe, it, expect, vi, beforeEach, afterEach } from 'vitest'
+import { mount, flushPromises } from '@vue/test-utils'
+import OnboardingNetworkCallout, { hasPhysicalLink } from '../OnboardingNetworkCallout.vue'
+import { rpcClient } from '@/api/rpc-client'
+
+// #145: a fresh install with no cable strands the user — the callout points
+// at the WiFi picker, and ONLY when no physical link exists. Archipelago is
+// offline-first, so "no internet" must never nag: only "no link at all".
+
+vi.mock('@/api/rpc-client', () => ({
+  rpcClient: { call: vi.fn() },
+}))
+
+const push = vi.fn()
+vi.mock('vue-router', () => ({
+  useRouter: () => ({ push }),
+}))
+
+const call = vi.mocked(rpcClient.call)
+
+function mountCallout() {
+  return mount(OnboardingNetworkCallout)
+}
+
+afterEach(() => {
+  vi.clearAllMocks()
+})
+
+describe('hasPhysicalLink (pure decision)', () => {
+  it('no interfaces at all → no link', () => {
+    expect(hasPhysicalLink([])).toBe(false)
+  })
+
+  it('ethernet up → link', () => {
+    expect(hasPhysicalLink([{ type: 'ethernet', state: 'up' }])).toBe(true)
+  })
+
+  it('wifi up → link', () => {
+    expect(hasPhysicalLink([{ type: 'wifi', state: 'up' }])).toBe(true)
+  })
+
+  it('physical interface present but down → no link', () => {
+    expect(
+      hasPhysicalLink([
+        { type: 'ethernet', state: 'down' },
+        { type: 'wifi', state: 'down' },
+      ]),
+    ).toBe(false)
+  })
+
+  it('virtual interfaces that happen to be up do NOT count as a link', () => {
+    expect(
+      hasPhysicalLink([
+        { type: 'bridge', state: 'up' },
+        { type: 'loopback', state: 'up' },
+      ]),
+    ).toBe(false)
+  })
+})
+
+describe('OnboardingNetworkCallout (component)', () => {
+  beforeEach(() => {
+    call.mockReset()
+  })
+
+  it('shows when the node has no physical link, and offers the WiFi picker', async () => {
+    call.mockResolvedValue({
+      interfaces: [
+        { type: 'ethernet', state: 'down' },
+        { type: 'wifi', state: 'down' },
+      ],
+    })
+    const wrapper = mountCallout()
+    await flushPromises()
+
+    expect(wrapper.text()).toContain('No network connection')
+    expect(wrapper.text()).toContain('Connect to WiFi')
+
+    await wrapper.findAll('button').find(b => b.text() === 'Connect to WiFi')!.trigger('click')
+    expect(push).toHaveBeenCalledWith('/dashboard/server?open=wifi')
+  })
+
+  it('stays hidden once any physical link exists — offline-first, no nagging', async () => {
+    call.mockResolvedValue({ interfaces: [{ type: 'ethernet', state: 'up' }] })
+    const wrapper = mountCallout()
+    await flushPromises()
+
+    expect(wrapper.find('div.fixed').exists()).toBe(false)
+  })
+
+  it('never shows on a failed probe — early onboarding, RPC not ready yet', async () => {
+    call.mockRejectedValue(new Error('not ready'))
+    const wrapper = mountCallout()
+    await flushPromises()
+
+    expect(wrapper.find('div.fixed').exists()).toBe(false)
+  })
+
+  it('hides when dismissed, even with no link', async () => {
+    call.mockResolvedValue({ interfaces: [{ type: 'wifi', state: 'down' }] })
+    const wrapper = mountCallout()
+    await flushPromises()
+
+    const dismiss = wrapper.findAll('button').find(b => b.text() === 'Dismiss')!
+    expect(dismiss).toBeDefined()
+    await dismiss.trigger('click')
+    expect(wrapper.find('div.fixed').exists()).toBe(false)
+  })
+})
@@ -0,0 +1,45 @@
+import { describe, it, expect } from 'vitest'
+import { mount } from '@vue/test-utils'
+import PasswordRevealInput from '../PasswordRevealInput.vue'
+
+// #145: the reveal toggle exists so a fresh-install user typing a WiFi key
+// from across the room can see what they typed. The contract: masked by
+// default, one tap reveals, v-model and enter behave like a plain input.
+
+describe('PasswordRevealInput', () => {
+  it('masks by default and reveals on toggle', async () => {
+    const wrapper = mount(PasswordRevealInput, {
+      props: { modelValue: 'hunter2', placeholder: 'WiFi password' },
+    })
+    const input = wrapper.find('input')
+    expect(input.attributes('type')).toBe('password')
+
+    await wrapper.find('button').trigger('click')
+    expect(input.attributes('type')).toBe('text')
+
+    await wrapper.find('button').trigger('click')
+    expect(input.attributes('type')).toBe('password')
+  })
+
+  it('syncs v-model through update:modelValue', async () => {
+    const wrapper = mount(PasswordRevealInput, { props: { modelValue: '' } })
+    await wrapper.find('input').setValue('s3cret')
+    const emitted = wrapper.emitted('update:modelValue') as string[][]
+    expect(emitted[emitted.length - 1]).toEqual(['s3cret'])
+  })
+
+  it('emits enter on Enter keyup — the WiFi modal submits from the keyboard', async () => {
+    const wrapper = mount(PasswordRevealInput, { props: { modelValue: 'pw' } })
+    await wrapper.find('input').trigger('keyup.enter')
+    expect(wrapper.emitted('enter')).toHaveLength(1)
+  })
+
+  it('passes placeholder and disabled through to the input', () => {
+    const wrapper = mount(PasswordRevealInput, {
+      props: { modelValue: '', placeholder: 'WiFi password', disabled: true },
+    })
+    const input = wrapper.find('input')
+    expect(input.attributes('placeholder')).toBe('WiFi password')
+    expect(input.attributes('disabled')).toBeDefined()
+  })
+})
@@ -1,5 +1,17 @@
 import { describe, it, expect, vi, beforeEach, afterEach } from 'vitest'
 import { setActivePinia, createPinia } from 'pinia'
+import { __setSignedCatalogForTests } from '@/views/discover/curatedApps'
+
+// The signed catalog's embedded manifests decide which ports the app gate
+// fronts (TLS on the same port) — prime the same shape the live catalog
+// carries for the apps these tests launch.
+const SIGNED = {
+  apps: {
+    vaultwarden: { version: '1.37.1', manifest: { app: { ports: [{ host: 8082, auth: 'gated' }] } } },
+    gitea: { version: '1.23', manifest: { app: { ports: [{ host: 3001, auth: 'open' }] } } },
+    'nginx-proxy-manager': { version: 'latest' }, // legacy: no manifest → http
+  },
+}

 // vi.hoisted runs before vi.mock hoisting
 const { mockPush, mockWindowOpen } = vi.hoisted(() => ({
@@ -23,6 +35,7 @@ describe('useAppLauncherStore', () => {
  beforeEach(() => {
    setActivePinia(createPinia())
    vi.clearAllMocks()
+    __setSignedCatalogForTests(SIGNED as never)
    // Default to HTTP to avoid proxy rewriting
    Object.defineProperty(window, 'location', {
      value: { origin: 'http://192.0.2.10', protocol: 'http:', hostname: '192.0.2.10' },
@@ -256,6 +269,46 @@ describe('useAppLauncherStore', () => {
    )
  })

+  // An HTTPS connection must never hand the remote browser (or the phone
+  // webview) a cleartext app URL: same-host app ports are gate-owned and
+  // serve TLS on the same port. Plain-http pages keep http exactly as before
+  // — pinned by every test above this one.
+  it('upgrades same-host app URLs to https on an https page', () => {
+    Object.defineProperty(window, 'location', {
+      value: { origin: 'https://192.0.2.10', protocol: 'https:', hostname: '192.0.2.10' },
+      writable: true,
+      configurable: true,
+    })
+    const store = useAppLauncherStore()
+
+    store.open({ url: 'http://192.0.2.10:8082', title: 'Vaultwarden' })
+
+    expect(store.isOpen).toBe(false)
+    expect(store.panelAppId).toBe(null)
+    expect(mockWindowOpen).toHaveBeenCalledWith(
+      'https://192.0.2.10:8082',
+      '_blank',
+      'noopener,noreferrer',
+    )
+  })
+
+  it('never upgrades a different host on an https page', () => {
+    Object.defineProperty(window, 'location', {
+      value: { origin: 'https://192.0.2.10', protocol: 'https:', hostname: '192.0.2.10' },
+      writable: true,
+      configurable: true,
+    })
+    const store = useAppLauncherStore()
+
+    store.open({ url: 'http://192.168.1.100:8082', title: 'Vaultwarden' })
+
+    expect(mockWindowOpen).toHaveBeenCalledWith(
+      'http://192.168.1.100:8082',
+      '_blank',
+      'noopener,noreferrer',
+    )
+  })
+
  it('opens Gitea path URL in new tab', () => {
    const store = useAppLauncherStore()

@@ -4,7 +4,8 @@ import { rpcClient } from '@/api/rpc-client'
 import { recordAppLaunch } from '@/utils/appUsage'
 import { requestExternalOpen } from '@/api/remote-relay'
 import { openInAppOrNewTab, isCompanionApp, type InAppLaunchMeta } from '@/utils/openExternal'
-import { resolveAppUrl } from '@/views/appSession/appSessionConfig'
+import { directAppUrl, HTTPS_APP_IDS, resolveAppUrl } from '@/views/appSession/appSessionConfig'
+import { portIsGateFronted } from '@/views/discover/curatedApps'
 import { useAppStore } from '@/stores/app'
 import { resolveAppIcon } from '@/views/apps/appsConfig'
 import { IS_DEMO, isDemoApp, isDemoExternal, demoAppUrl } from '@/composables/useDemoIntro'
@@ -60,9 +61,6 @@ const NEW_TAB_APP_IDS = new Set([
  'netbird',
 ])

-// Apps served over HTTPS (self-signed) rather than plain HTTP.
-const HTTPS_APP_IDS = new Set(['netbird'])
-
 function mustOpenInNewTab(url: string): boolean {
  try {
    const u = new URL(url)
@@ -147,33 +145,7 @@ const PORT_TO_APP_ID: Record<string, string> = {
  '50002': 'electrumx',
 }

-const APP_ID_TO_PORT: Record<string, string> = {
-  'btcpay-server': '23000',
-  grafana: '3000',
-  photoprism: '2342',
-  homeassistant: '8123',
-  vaultwarden: '8082',
-  nextcloud: '8085',
-  portainer: '9000',
-  tailscale: '8240',
-  'nginx-proxy-manager': '8081',
-  'uptime-kuma': '3002',
-  gitea: '3001',
-  // Without this, directAppUrl('netbird') returns null and netbird falls
-  // through to the iframe (and never gets its https URL) — issue #15.
-  netbird: '8087',
-}
-
-function directAppUrl(appId: string): string | null {
-  const port = APP_ID_TO_PORT[appId]
-  if (!port || typeof window === 'undefined') return null
-  const scheme = HTTPS_APP_IDS.has(appId) ? 'https' : 'http'
-  return `${scheme}://${window.location.hostname}:${port}`
-}
-
-
 const APPROVED_ORIGINS_KEY = 'neode_nostr_approved_origins'
-
 function getApprovedOrigins(): Set<string> {
  try {
    const stored = localStorage.getItem(APPROVED_ORIGINS_KEY)
@@ -285,18 +257,25 @@ export const useAppLauncherStore = defineStore('appLauncher', () => {
    let launchUrl = normalizeLaunchUrl(payload.url, titleHintId)
    const resolvedId = resolveAppIdFromUrl(launchUrl) || titleHintId

-    // Apps served over HTTPS (e.g. netbird, which needs a secure context for
-    // its OIDC dashboard) must be launched over https — a stale http URL hits
-    // the TLS port and 400s. Upgrade the scheme defensively in every path.
-    if (resolvedId && HTTPS_APP_IDS.has(resolvedId)) {
-      try {
-        const u = new URL(launchUrl, window.location.origin)
-        if (u.protocol === 'http:') {
-          u.protocol = 'https:'
-          launchUrl = u.href
-        }
-      } catch { /* leave as-is */ }
-    }
+    // Scheme discipline for everything launched on this host. Ports fronted
+    // by the node's app gate (manifest auth gated/open) serve TLS on the same
+    // port — on an HTTPS connection those must open over https. Ports that
+    // are NOT gate-fronted (legacy curated installs like Nginx Proxy Manager,
+    // Tailscale; `auth: none` publishes) are plain HTTP and https would fail
+    // to connect outright, so they keep http. External hosts keep their own
+    // scheme.
+    try {
+      const u = new URL(launchUrl, window.location.origin)
+      const sameHost = u.hostname === window.location.hostname
+      const alwaysHttps = !!resolvedId && HTTPS_APP_IDS.has(resolvedId)
+      const httpsPage = window.location.protocol === 'https:'
+      const gateFronted = !!resolvedId && portIsGateFronted(resolvedId, u.port)
+      if (u.protocol === 'http:' && sameHost && (alwaysHttps || (httpsPage && gateFronted))) {
+        // Pure prefix swap — never re-serialize the URL (URL.href would add
+        // a trailing slash and change the string the caller handed over).
+        launchUrl = launchUrl.replace(/^http:\/\//i, 'https://')
+      }
+    } catch { /* leave as-is */ }

    if (!isMobileViewport() && payload.openInNewTab) {
      if (resolvedId) recordAppLaunch(resolvedId)
@@ -184,6 +184,7 @@ import {
  categorizeCommunityApp,
  getCuratedAppList,
 } from './marketplace/marketplaceData'
+import { fetchAppCatalog } from './discover/curatedApps'

 const router = useRouter()
 const route = useRoute()
@@ -238,10 +239,17 @@ watch(() => route.query.category, (category) => {
 // Community marketplace state — cached (D-09/D-06: near-static catalog, long
 // TTL) behind a shared key so Discover.vue's identical loader picks up the
 // same cache entry without its own conversion (plan 02-04). Non-sensitive
-// and small, so it persists across reloads.
+// and small, so it persists across reloads. Dynamic-catalog-first: the
+// daemon-verified signed catalog is what makes a newly published app appear
+// without a dashboard release — the static list below is only the offline
+// fallback (same fetcher contract as Discover.vue for this shared key).
 const catalogResource = useCachedResource<MarketplaceApp[]>({
  key: 'app-catalog',
-  fetcher: async () => getCuratedAppList(),
+  fetcher: async () => {
+    const catalog = await fetchAppCatalog()
+    if (catalog && catalog.apps.length) return catalog.apps
+    return getCuratedAppList()
+  },
  ttlMs: 300_000,
  persist: true,
 })
@@ -48,6 +48,10 @@
    <!-- Content with 3D transitions -->
    <div class="perspective-container-wrapper">
      <div class="perspective-container">
+        <!-- #145: fresh install with no cable — point at the WiFi picker. -->
+        <!-- Onboarding routes only: logged-in sessions are offline-first and
+             must never be nagged about connectivity. -->
+        <OnboardingNetworkCallout v-if="isOnboardingRoute" />
        <RouterView v-slot="{ Component, route }">
          <Transition :name="transitionName">
            <div :key="route.path" class="view-wrapper">
@@ -64,9 +68,15 @@
 import { ref, watch, onMounted, computed } from 'vue'
 import { useRoute } from 'vue-router'
 import { resumeAudioContext, startSynthwave } from '@/composables/useLoginSounds'
+import OnboardingNetworkCallout from '@/components/OnboardingNetworkCallout.vue'

 const route = useRoute()
 const currentBackground = ref('bg-intro.jpg')
+
+// #145: the no-network callout follows the user across onboarding steps, but
+// this wrapper also hosts /login (and could host more later) — scope the
+// callout to the onboarding flow only.
+const isOnboardingRoute = computed(() => route.path.startsWith('/onboarding/'))
 const isGlitching = ref(false)
 const isTransitioning = ref(false)
 const videoElement = ref<HTMLVideoElement | null>(null)
@@ -970,6 +970,7 @@ onUnmounted(() => disarmVpnPoll())
 // outside a <KeepAlive> boundary (confirmed by ServerNetworkRefresh.test.ts,
 // which mounts this view bare), so a bare mount must not silently skip them.
 onMounted(() => {
+  consumeOpenWifiQuery()
  checkTorStatus(); loadNetworkData(); loadInterfaces(); loadTorServices(); loadVpnPeers(); loadFipsSummary(); loadDiskStatus()
  armServerEntryEffects()
 })
@@ -977,6 +978,20 @@ onMounted(() => {
 watch(showWifiModal, (open) => { if (open) scanWifi() })
 watch(showDnsModal, (open) => { if (open) { dnsSelectedProvider.value = networkData.value.dnsProvider || 'system'; dnsError.value = '' } })

+// #145: onboarding's no-network callout deep-links here with ?open=wifi so a
+// fresh-install user lands straight in the WiFi picker. Read from the real
+// URL (the dashboard's SPA router keeps it in sync) rather than vue-router —
+// the KeepAlive-mounted view has no router guarantee at test-mount time —
+// and consume it (history.replaceState) so a tab-return never re-pops.
+function consumeOpenWifiQuery() {
+  const params = new URLSearchParams(window.location.search)
+  if (params.get('open') !== 'wifi') return
+  params.delete('open')
+  const qs = params.toString()
+  history.replaceState(history.state, '', window.location.pathname + (qs ? `?${qs}` : '') + window.location.hash)
+  showWifiModal.value = true
+}
+
 async function restartServices() {
  restarting.value = true; servicesRunning.value = false
  try { await rpcClient.restartServer(); logsToast.value = 'Services restarting...'; setTimeout(() => { logsToast.value = '' }, 4000) }
@@ -1,8 +1,39 @@
-import { describe, expect, it } from 'vitest'
-import { NEW_TAB_APPS, resolveAppUrl } from '../appSessionConfig'
+import { describe, expect, it, beforeEach } from 'vitest'
+import { NEW_TAB_APPS, directAppUrl, resolveAppUrl } from '../appSessionConfig'
 import { GENERATED_NEW_TAB_APPS } from '../generatedAppSessionConfig'
+import { __setSignedCatalogForTests } from '../../discover/curatedApps'
+
+// Mirror of the live signed catalog's embedded manifests (the ports[] auth
+// that decides TLS eligibility). Kept minimal — only what the scheme logic
+// consults.
+const SIGNED = {
+  apps: {
+    vaultwarden: { version: '1.37.1', manifest: { app: { ports: [{ host: 8082, auth: 'gated' }] } } },
+    gitea: { version: '1.23', manifest: { app: { ports: [{ host: 3001, auth: 'open' }, { host: 2222, auth: 'none' }] } } },
+    'btcpay-server': { version: '2.4.3', manifest: { app: { ports: [{ host: 23000, auth: 'open' }] } } },
+    mempool: { version: '3.3.1', manifest: { app: { ports: [{ host: 4080, auth: 'gated' }] } } },
+    filebrowser: { version: '2.27.0', manifest: { app: { ports: [{ host: 8083, auth: 'gated' }] } } },
+    // Legacy curated installs — in the community list, NOT in the signed
+    // catalog's manifests. Their ports publish plain HTTP: https fails.
+    'nginx-proxy-manager': { version: 'latest' },
+    tailscale: { version: 'stable' },
+    // auth:none ports are container-published too — https would fail.
+    cuprate: { version: '0.1.0-preview', manifest: { app: { ports: [{ host: 18090, auth: 'none' }] } } },
+  },
+}
+
+function stubLocation(value: { hostname: string; protocol: string }) {
+  Object.defineProperty(window, 'location', {
+    value,
+    writable: true,
+    configurable: true,
+  })
+}

 describe('appSessionConfig', () => {
+  beforeEach(() => {
+    __setSignedCatalogForTests(SIGNED as never)
+  })
  it('keeps manifest-owned new-tab apps marked on every viewport', () => {
    expect(NEW_TAB_APPS.has('btcpay-server')).toBe(true)
    expect(NEW_TAB_APPS.has('photoprism')).toBe(true)
@@ -56,7 +87,9 @@ describe('appSessionConfig', () => {
      configurable: true,
    })

-    expect(resolveAppUrl('netbird', undefined, 'http://localhost:8086')).toBe('http://192.0.2.10:8087')
+    // NetBird's dashboard needs a secure context (OIDC PKCE), so it is
+    // ALWAYS launched over https — on either page scheme.
+    expect(resolveAppUrl('netbird', undefined, 'http://localhost:8086')).toBe('https://192.0.2.10:8087')
  })

  it('uses backend runtime URLs for apps with dynamic launch surfaces', () => {
@@ -66,6 +99,52 @@ describe('appSessionConfig', () => {
      configurable: true,
    })

+    expect(resolveAppUrl('filebrowser', undefined, 'http://localhost:8083')).toBe('http://192.0.2.10:8083')
+  })
+
+  // The direct-port launch path (new-tab apps on desktop, the companion's
+  // native WebView on phones) used to hardcode http:// — so a node reached
+  // over HTTPS opened Vaultwarden and friends in cleartext. It must follow
+  // the page scheme ONLY for ports the app gate fronts (TLS on the same
+  // port); legacy installs without manifests (Nginx Proxy Manager, Tailscale)
+  // and auth:none ports stay on http or https would fail to connect.
+  it('builds direct app URLs on the page scheme — https page, gate-fronted app', () => {
+    stubLocation({ hostname: '192.0.2.10', protocol: 'https:' })
+
+    expect(directAppUrl('vaultwarden')).toBe('https://192.0.2.10:8082')
+    expect(directAppUrl('gitea')).toBe('https://192.0.2.10:3001')
+    expect(directAppUrl('btcpay-server')).toBe('https://192.0.2.10:23000')
+  })
+
+  it('keeps legacy manifest-less apps on http even on an https page', () => {
+    stubLocation({ hostname: '192.0.2.10', protocol: 'https:' })
+
+    expect(directAppUrl('nginx-proxy-manager')).toBe('http://192.0.2.10:8081')
+    expect(directAppUrl('tailscale')).toBe('http://192.0.2.10:8240')
+  })
+
+  it('keeps plain-http direct app URLs on a plain-http page', () => {
+    stubLocation({ hostname: '192.0.2.10', protocol: 'http:' })
+
+    expect(directAppUrl('vaultwarden')).toBe('http://192.0.2.10:8082')
+    expect(directAppUrl('nginx-proxy-manager')).toBe('http://192.0.2.10:8081')
+  })
+
+  it('always launches secure-context apps over https, on either page scheme', () => {
+    stubLocation({ hostname: '192.0.2.10', protocol: 'http:' })
+
+    expect(directAppUrl('netbird')).toBe('https://192.0.2.10:8087')
+  })
+
+  it('resolves session app URLs on the page scheme for gate-fronted ports only (https page)', () => {
+    stubLocation({ hostname: '192.0.2.10', protocol: 'https:' })
+
+    expect(resolveAppUrl('mempool')).toBe('https://192.0.2.10:4080')
+    expect(resolveAppUrl('filebrowser', undefined, 'http://localhost:8083')).toBe('https://192.0.2.10:8083')
+    // A runtime port the gate does NOT front keeps plain http (https would
+    // fail to connect outright).
    expect(resolveAppUrl('filebrowser', undefined, 'http://localhost:18083')).toBe('http://192.0.2.10:18083')
+    // Cuprate's UI port is auth:none — plain HTTP stays plain.
+    expect(resolveAppUrl('cuprate', undefined, 'http://localhost:18090')).toBe('http://192.0.2.10:18090')
  })
 })
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 /** Static configuration maps for app session routing and display */

+import { portIsGateFronted } from '../discover/curatedApps'
 import { GENERATED_APP_PORTS, GENERATED_APP_TITLES, GENERATED_NEW_TAB_APPS } from './generatedAppSessionConfig'
 import { IS_DEMO, demoAppUrl } from '@/composables/useDemoIntro'

@@ -107,15 +108,20 @@ export function resolveAppUrl(id: string, routeQueryPath?: string, runtimeUrl?:
  // shell when proxied under a path prefix on some nodes.
  if (id === 'bitcoin-knots' || id === 'bitcoin-core' || id === 'bitcoin-ui') {
    if (import.meta.env.DEV) return '/app/bitcoin-ui/'
-    return appOrigin(8334)
+    return appOrigin(8334, id)
  }

  if (runtimeUrl && id !== 'netbird') {
    let base = runtimeUrl.replace(/localhost/i, window.location.hostname)
    // The backend reports runtime URLs as http:// because that is how the app
-    // binds locally. Sent to a browser on an HTTPS dashboard that is mixed
-    // content and the frame is blocked outright, so follow the page instead.
-    base = matchPageScheme(base)
+    // binds locally. On an HTTPS dashboard that is mixed content and the
+    // frame is blocked outright — but ONLY upgrade when the gate fronts the
+    // port (it serves TLS there); a container-published plain-HTTP port
+    // would fail to connect over https at all.
+    try {
+      const port = new URL(base).port
+      if (portIsGateFronted(id, port)) base = matchPageScheme(base)
+    } catch { /* keep as-is */ }
    if (routeQueryPath) base += routeQueryPath
    return base
  }
@@ -124,13 +130,14 @@ export function resolveAppUrl(id: string, routeQueryPath?: string, runtimeUrl?:
  const port = APP_PORTS[id]
  if (!port) return ''

-  let base = appOrigin(port)
+  let base = appOrigin(port, id)
  if (routeQueryPath) base += routeQueryPath
  return base
 }

 /**
- * An app's origin on this host, on the SAME scheme as the page.
+ * An app's origin on this host, on the SAME scheme as the page when the
+ * app gate fronts the port (TLS on the same port), plain http otherwise.
 *
 * An HTTPS dashboard cannot embed an HTTP frame at all — browsers block it as
 * mixed content before any cookie question arises — and it is also what makes
@@ -143,8 +150,11 @@ export function resolveAppUrl(id: string, routeQueryPath?: string, runtimeUrl?:
 * Node certificate. A certificate warning cannot be accepted inside an iframe,
 * so an untrusted app port renders nothing rather than prompting.
 */
-export function appOrigin(port: number): string {
-  return `${pageScheme()}//${window.location.hostname}:${port}`
+export function appOrigin(port: number, appId?: string): string {
+  const https = appId
+    ? HTTPS_APP_IDS.has(appId) || (portIsGateFronted(appId, port) && pageScheme() === 'https:')
+    : pageScheme() === 'https:'
+  return `${https ? 'https' : 'http'}://${window.location.hostname}:${port}`
 }

 /** Rewrite a URL's scheme to the page's, leaving everything else alone. */
@@ -166,6 +176,52 @@ function pageScheme(): string {
  return p === 'https:' || p === 'http:' ? p : 'http:'
 }

+/** Apps served over HTTPS (self-signed) rather than plain HTTP, regardless of
+ *  the page's scheme. */
+export const HTTPS_APP_IDS = new Set(['netbird'])
+
+/** App ID -> direct launch port for the paths that bypass the in-app session:
+ *  new-tab apps and the companion's native WebView. Every port here is owned
+ *  by the app gate (manifest `auth: gated`/`open` + `bind: 127.0.0.1`), which
+ *  serves TLS on the same port whenever the node has a certificate. */
+export const DIRECT_APP_PORTS: Record<string, string> = {
+  'btcpay-server': '23000',
+  grafana: '3000',
+  photoprism: '2342',
+  homeassistant: '8123',
+  vaultwarden: '8082',
+  nextcloud: '8085',
+  portainer: '9000',
+  tailscale: '8240',
+  'nginx-proxy-manager': '8081',
+  'uptime-kuma': '3002',
+  gitea: '3001',
+  // Without this, directAppUrl('netbird') returns null and netbird falls
+  // through to the iframe (and never gets its https URL) — issue #15.
+  netbird: '8087',
+}
+
+/** Direct-port launch URL for an app, on the page's scheme.
+ *
+ *  These are the apps that open OUTSIDE the dashboard's own origin — a new
+ *  browser tab on the desktop, or the companion's in-app WebView on a phone.
+ *  The URL is handed to a context with no dashboard chrome, so it must carry
+ *  the scheme the remote browser actually reached the node on: on an HTTPS
+ *  connection, `http://host:port` is at best a silent downgrade to cleartext
+ *  and at worst blocked outright as mixed content. Every port in
+ *  DIRECT_APP_PORTS is served by the app gate with TLS on the same port
+ *  (see appgate/tls.rs), so following the page scheme is always answerable.
+ *  Plain-HTTP dashboards keep today's behaviour exactly. */
+export function directAppUrl(appId: string): string | null {
+  const port = DIRECT_APP_PORTS[appId]
+  if (!port || typeof window === 'undefined') return null
+  const scheme = HTTPS_APP_IDS.has(appId)
+    || (portIsGateFronted(appId, port) && pageScheme() === 'https:')
+    ? 'https'
+    : 'http'
+  return `${scheme}://${window.location.hostname}:${port}`
+}
+
 /** Resolve a human-readable title for an app */
 export function resolveAppTitle(id: string): string {
  return APP_TITLES[id] || id.replace(/-/g, ' ').replace(/\b\w/g, c => c.toUpperCase())
@@ -3,7 +3,8 @@
 import type { Ref } from 'vue'
 import { computed } from 'vue'
 import { PackageState, type PackageDataEntry } from '@/types/api'
-import { resolveAppUrl } from '../appSession/appSessionConfig'
+import { matchPageScheme, resolveAppUrl } from '../appSession/appSessionConfig'
+import { portIsGateFronted } from '../discover/curatedApps'
 import { isAutoTabApp } from '@/utils/autoTabApps'

 export type AppsTab = 'apps' | 'websites' | 'services'
@@ -299,7 +300,16 @@ export function launchBlockedReason(id: string, pkg?: PackageDataEntry | null):
 export function resolveRuntimeLaunchUrl(pkg: PackageDataEntry): string {
  const addr = runtimeLanAddress(pkg)
  if (!addr || typeof window === 'undefined') return addr
-  return addr.replace(/^http:\/\/(localhost|127\.0\.0\.1)(?=[:/]|$)/, `http://${window.location.hostname}`)
+  const local = addr.replace(/^http:\/\/(localhost|127\.0\.0\.1)(?=[:/]|$)/, `http://${window.location.hostname}`)
+  // The backend reports runtime URLs as http:// because that is how the app
+  // binds locally — on an HTTPS connection that is a cleartext downgrade.
+  // Upgrade only when the app gate fronts the port (it serves TLS there);
+  // a container-published plain-HTTP port would fail over https outright.
+  try {
+    const port = new URL(local).port
+    if (!portIsGateFronted(pkg.manifest.id, port)) return local
+  } catch { /* keep as-is */ }
+  return matchPageScheme(local)
 }

 export function getStatusClass(state: PackageState, health?: string | null, exitCode?: number | null): string {
@@ -18,17 +18,94 @@ export interface AppCatalog {
  apps: MarketplaceApp[]
 }

+/** Shape of the release-signed catalog (`releases/app-catalog.json`) served
+ *  by the daemon at /api/app-catalog after release-root verification. `apps`
+ *  is keyed by app id and each entry embeds the app's full manifest — the
+ *  ports[] there (auth: gated/open/none) are what decides whether a port is
+ *  fronted by the node's app gate (and therefore serves TLS on the same
+ *  port) or published by the container as plain HTTP. */
+export interface SignedAppCatalog {
+  schema?: number
+  updated?: string
+  apps: Record<string, SignedAppEntry>
+}
+
+export interface SignedAppEntry {
+  version: string
+  image?: string
+  manifest?: {
+    app?: {
+      id?: string
+      name?: string
+      version?: string
+      description?: string
+      category?: string
+      container?: { image?: string }
+      metadata?: { icon?: string; author?: string; repo?: string }
+      ports?: { host?: number | string; container?: number | string; auth?: string }[]
+    }
+  }
+}
+
+/** Convert the signed catalog's keyed entries into store-listing apps.
+ *  Pure — unit-tested against the live catalog's shape (Cuprate). */
+export function signedCatalogToApps(catalog: SignedAppCatalog): MarketplaceApp[] {
+  const out: MarketplaceApp[] = []
+  for (const [id, entry] of Object.entries(catalog.apps || {})) {
+    const app = entry.manifest?.app
+    out.push({
+      id,
+      title: app?.name || id,
+      version: entry.version || app?.version || '',
+      description: app?.description || '',
+      icon: app?.metadata?.icon || '/assets/icon/favico-black-v2.svg',
+      author: app?.metadata?.author,
+      dockerImage: entry.image || app?.container?.image || '',
+      repoUrl: app?.metadata?.repo,
+      category: app?.category,
+      source: 'signed-catalog',
+    })
+  }
+  return out
+}
+
+/** The daemon-verified signed catalog, kept for synchronous port-auth lookups
+ *  after fetchAppCatalog() has run. Test-hookable. */
+let signedCatalogCache: SignedAppCatalog | null = null
+
+/** Port auth for an app's host port, from the signed catalog's embedded
+ *  manifest. `gated`/`open` = the node's app gate owns the port and serves
+ *  TLS on it; `none`/`local` = container-published plain HTTP; null = app
+ *  unknown to the signed catalog (legacy curated installs). */
+export function portAuth(appId: string, hostPort: number | string): string | null {
+  const ports = signedCatalogCache?.apps?.[appId]?.manifest?.app?.ports
+  if (!Array.isArray(ports)) return null
+  const hit = ports.find(p => String(p.host) === String(hostPort))
+  return hit?.auth ?? null
+}
+
+/** Whether an app's host port is fronted by the node's app gate (and so
+ *  serves TLS alongside HTTP on the same port). Unknown apps are NOT —
+ *  assuming TLS for a container-published port breaks it outright. */
+export function portIsGateFronted(appId: string, hostPort: number | string): boolean {
+  const auth = portAuth(appId, hostPort)
+  return auth === 'gated' || auth === 'open'
+}
+
+export function __setSignedCatalogForTests(catalog: SignedAppCatalog | null) {
+  signedCatalogCache = catalog
+}
+
 let cachedCatalog: AppCatalog | null = null
 let catalogFetchedAt = 0
 const CATALOG_TTL = 60 * 60 * 1000 // 1 hour cache

-/** Catalog URLs tried in order. First success wins.
- *  Primary is the backend proxy (`/api/app-catalog`) — server-side fetch
- *  bypasses CORS on the upstream Gitea and CSP restrictions on the IP-port
- *  fallback. If the backend is offline (mid-restart etc.) we fall back
- *  to the static copy baked into the frontend build. */
+/** Catalog URLs for the community listing. The signed catalog is served by
+ *  the backend proxy (`/api/app-catalog`) — server-side fetch bypasses CORS
+ *  on the upstream Gitea and verifies the release-root signature. If the
+ *  backend is offline (mid-restart etc.) the static community copy baked
+ *  into the frontend build still renders the store. */
 const CATALOG_URLS = [
-  '/api/app-catalog',
  '/catalog.json',
 ]

@@ -38,29 +115,61 @@ export async function fetchAppCatalog(): Promise<AppCatalog | null> {
  // Return cache if fresh
  if (cachedCatalog && Date.now() - catalogFetchedAt < CATALOG_TTL) return cachedCatalog

+  // The daemon-verified signed catalog first (release-root signature checked
+  // server-side): it is what makes a newly published app appear without a
+  // dashboard release. The community catalog supplies the featured banner
+  // and curated copy for shared ids; signed-only ids join the listing as-is.
+  let signedApps: MarketplaceApp[] = []
+  let signedOk = false
+  try {
+    const res = await fetch('/api/app-catalog', { credentials: 'include', signal: AbortSignal.timeout(20000) })
+    if (res.ok) {
+      const data = await res.json() as SignedAppCatalog
+      if (data.apps && !Array.isArray(data.apps)) {
+        signedCatalogCache = data
+        signedApps = signedCatalogToApps(data)
+        signedOk = signedApps.length > 0
+      }
+    }
+  } catch { /* fall through to the community catalog */ }
+
+  let community: AppCatalog | null = null
  for (const url of CATALOG_URLS) {
    try {
      const res = await fetch(url, { credentials: 'include', signal: AbortSignal.timeout(20000) })
      if (!res.ok) continue
      const data = await res.json() as AppCatalog
      if (!data.apps?.length) continue
-
-      // Expand short docker image refs to full registry paths
      const registry = data.registry || R
      for (const app of data.apps) {
        if (app.dockerImage && !app.dockerImage.includes('/')) {
          app.dockerImage = `${registry}/${app.dockerImage}`
        }
      }
-      cachedCatalog = data
-      catalogFetchedAt = Date.now()
-      // Cache in localStorage for offline fallback
-      try { localStorage.setItem('archy_catalog', JSON.stringify(data)) } catch {}
-      return data
-    } catch (e) {
-      console.warn(`[catalog] fetch failed for ${url}:`, e)
-      continue
+      community = data
+      break
+    } catch { /* try the next source */ }
+  }
+
+  if (signedOk || community) {
+    // Community copy wins for shared ids (curated descriptions, webUrl-only
+    // apps); signed entries fill version/image gaps and append brand-new apps.
+    const byId = new Map<string, MarketplaceApp>()
+    for (const app of signedApps) byId.set(app.id, app)
+    for (const app of community?.apps ?? []) {
+      const existing = byId.get(app.id)
+      byId.set(app.id, existing ? { ...app, version: app.version || existing.version, dockerImage: app.dockerImage || existing.dockerImage } : app)
    }
+    const merged: AppCatalog = {
+      version: community?.version ?? 1,
+      registry: community?.registry ?? R,
+      featured: community?.featured ?? { id: 'bitcoin-knots', banner: '', headline: '', description: '', tag: '' },
+      apps: [...byId.values()],
+    }
+    cachedCatalog = merged
+    catalogFetchedAt = Date.now()
+    try { localStorage.setItem('archy_catalog', JSON.stringify(merged)) } catch {}
+    return merged
  }

  // Try localStorage cache as final fallback
@@ -147,12 +147,12 @@
      <!-- WiFi password prompt -->
      <div v-if="wifiConnecting" class="mt-4 pt-4 border-t border-white/10">
        <p class="text-sm text-white/80 mb-2">Connect to <span class="font-medium text-white">{{ wifiSelectedSsid }}</span></p>
-        <input
+        <PasswordRevealInput
          v-model="localWifiPassword"
-          type="password"
          placeholder="WiFi password"
-          class="w-full px-3 py-2 bg-white/5 border border-white/10 rounded-lg text-white text-sm placeholder-white/30 focus:outline-none focus:border-white/30 mb-3"
-          @keyup.enter="$emit('connectWifi', localWifiPassword)"
+          :disabled="wifiSubmitting"
+          class="mb-3"
+          @enter="$emit('connectWifi', localWifiPassword)"
        />
        <p v-if="wifiError" class="text-sm text-red-400 mb-3">{{ wifiError }}</p>
        <div class="flex gap-2">
@@ -231,6 +231,7 @@

 <script setup lang="ts">
 import { ref } from 'vue'
+import PasswordRevealInput from '@/components/PasswordRevealInput.vue'

 defineProps<{
  showAddServiceModal: boolean
@@ -1,33 +1,29 @@
 {
  "changelog": [
-    "**Apps with their own login can now skip the node's login screen — Gitea and BTCPay Server do so out of the box.** Some apps bring a complete account system of their own, and putting the node's password page in front of them broke real workflows: git clients can't answer a browser login, and a BTCPay checkout link handed to a customer must open for that customer. These apps are now served directly on their own login, while the node still fronts the connection for everything else it does (embedding fixes, the \"app is restarting\" page, Tor). Every app gets a new **Settings → app → Access control** switch, so you can put the node login back in front of any app — or take it away from one — with one click, effective immediately. App developers declare the default in their manifest (`auth: open`), documented in the developer guide.",
-    "**The phone remote now works inside apps on the TV — tap, scroll, and type everywhere.** The companion remote and keyboard drove the dashboard beautifully but died at the edge of any app screen (Gitea, BTCPay, and friends): for the browser, each app is a separate website embedded in the page, and simulated input is forbidden from crossing that wall. The on-screen display now accepts the remote's input the way a real mouse and keyboard arrive — below the page, through the browser itself — so it lands anywhere on screen, app screens and tabs included. Taps click, two-finger scrolling scrolls the app, and typing goes into whichever field you tapped. Existing kiosks pick this up with the update, no reinstall needed.",
-    "**While you're driving with the phone remote, the old mouse pointer gets out of the way.** The computer's own pointer used to sit frozen wherever the physical mouse last left it — a second, dead cursor next to the live orange one. It now hides while the remote is in use and returns half a minute after the last remote input.",
-    "**\"Are you sure?\" questions no longer freeze the remote.** A handful of confirmations (clearing mesh history, rebooting, deleting a backup, uninstalling an app) used the browser's built-in popup, which stops the whole page — including remote input — until someone clicks it with a real mouse. From the couch, that meant asking a question you couldn't answer. All of them are now proper in-app windows in the house style, fully driveable by remote.",
-    "**A mesh radio now connects no matter which port it's plugged into — or replugged into.** Moving a radio to a different USB port could leave the mesh silently down: the node only checked a short fixed list of port names (a radio landing outside it was invisible), a hand-set serial-port override quietly outranked the device you'd just approved in the \"Radio detected\" window, and one whole family of boards (Espressif-based radios like recent Heltec/T-Deck models) never received a stable device name at all — the exact combination found live on a fleet machine this week. All three are fixed: every serial port is scanned, choosing a radio in the detection window clears any stale override, and Espressif boards get the same stable name as everyone else.",
-    "**Mesh signal strength is honest now.** Every peer heard over Reticulum radio reported a signal strength of exactly 0 — which is also what you'd see with no radio at all, and what peers reached over the internet showed. Real receptions now show their true signal reading, and anything that arrived over a relay or the internet says so by showing none — so \"the radio is working\" and \"the internet is doing the radio's job\" no longer look identical. (The reading depends on the radio's firmware reporting it; boards that don't report per-packet signal stats show \"unknown\" rather than a made-up number, and the new radio diagnostics show at a glance whether yours reports them.)",
-    "**A background error that repeated every 90 seconds, forever, is gone.** After setting up a node from its recovery phrase, the node kept introducing itself to its federation partners with its old temporary identity papers while signing with its new ones — every partner rejected the introduction, and both sides logged an error about it every minute and a half until the next restart. The identity switch now updates everything at once, a rejected introduction is no longer misreported as delivered, and a partner who has already answered is no longer re-asked on every cycle."
+    "**Companion 0.5.28 is included in the node download this time, with the work that missed v1.8.5.** The companion hub can back up and restore its node list, act as a NIP-46 remote signer, and shows each paired node's FIPS mesh address with tap-to-copy. For Termux users, the included `fipssh` helper turns a durable node npub into its mesh address, so `fipssh user@npub1…` can reach SSH once that node has explicitly allowed port 22. The node-side “SSH over mesh” firewall toggle is not claimed here—it still needs implementation and remains off by default.",
+    "**What's New now starts cleanly at v1.8.0 and is guaranteed to be newest-first.** Older alpha history no longer overwhelms the useful recent changes, the three stray v1.7 entries that appeared above current releases are gone, and the release check now fails if either the ordering or the v1.8.0 history floor drifts again.",
+    "**A release can no longer advertise itself before its files exist.** New releases are prepared behind a pending manifest; the publisher uploads the backend and frontend, downloads both back and verifies their size and hash, and only then promotes the signed manifest to the path nodes read. The manifest generator also includes every curated What's New item instead of silently stopping after the first ten physical changelog lines."
  ],
  "components": [
    {
-      "current_version": "1.8.4-alpha",
-      "download_url": "https://source.archipelago-foundation.org/lfg2025/archy/releases/download/v1.8.4-alpha/archipelago",
+      "current_version": "1.8.6-alpha",
+      "download_url": "https://source.archipelago-foundation.org/lfg2025/archy/releases/download/v1.8.6-alpha/archipelago",
      "name": "archipelago",
-      "new_version": "1.8.4-alpha",
-      "sha256": "c4d3a4fdecfdc2a972f808c7f98225b29dc65333418038bb016a5f0bd79d3551",
-      "size_bytes": 63850680
+      "new_version": "1.8.6-alpha",
+      "sha256": "6171e1f46b0e2c2754a18e668f16810338a09b71a68dc365d65173ca1e4d400a",
+      "size_bytes": 63930112
    },
    {
-      "current_version": "1.8.4-alpha",
-      "download_url": "https://source.archipelago-foundation.org/lfg2025/archy/releases/download/v1.8.4-alpha/archipelago-frontend-1.8.4-alpha.tar.gz",
-      "name": "archipelago-frontend-1.8.4-alpha.tar.gz",
-      "new_version": "1.8.4-alpha",
-      "sha256": "790de85816a7ad49480dc99134022279e4f40b69bd9b0983a6393373a3bdd7cc",
-      "size_bytes": 97641658
+      "current_version": "1.8.6-alpha",
+      "download_url": "https://source.archipelago-foundation.org/lfg2025/archy/releases/download/v1.8.6-alpha/archipelago-frontend-1.8.6-alpha.tar.gz",
+      "name": "archipelago-frontend-1.8.6-alpha.tar.gz",
+      "new_version": "1.8.6-alpha",
+      "sha256": "1a5b54c516f91a4ea4491e08182f0f9521ee7e27935388814007f91695f06e0f",
+      "size_bytes": 97769923
    }
  ],
-  "release_date": "2026-08-20",
-  "signature": "94ffb717166c6062ddbea97476942285903d629543bf3b9ec435697a1b8c31243dedb0f3c8f874daf3d9c0974a6342bf42b7e9d34b00680aa63a1d441dbc4805",
+  "release_date": "2026-08-31",
+  "signature": "c21dc5cb5a6caa3253c08835b65d0417a312bc8c51acdf92df990ad2110ae762b77287c479a523a8521827ec7b4695114ff9c39924cf1d30d0d622abb53b9208",
  "signed_by": "did:key:z6Mkfu5LT8d4DjETtrkATvHh9Dvcbnr7zBCUwfau8Sw7DLWT",
-  "version": "1.8.4-alpha"
+  "version": "1.8.6-alpha"
 }
@@ -2,6 +2,98 @@
  "apps": {
    "adguardhome": {
      "image": "source.archipelago-foundation.org/lfg2025/adguardhome:v0.107.55",
+      "manifest": {
+        "app": {
+          "container": {
+            "image": "source.archipelago-foundation.org/lfg2025/adguardhome:v0.107.55",
+            "network": "pasta",
+            "pull_policy": "if-not-present"
+          },
+          "dependencies": [
+            {
+              "storage": "1Gi"
+            }
+          ],
+          "description": "Network-wide ad and tracker blocking: a DNS server that filters every device on your LAN, with a web console for rules and client management.",
+          "environment": [],
+          "health_check": {
+            "endpoint": "localhost:3000",
+            "interval": "30s",
+            "retries": 3,
+            "timeout": "5s",
+            "type": "tcp"
+          },
+          "id": "adguardhome",
+          "interfaces": {
+            "main": {
+              "description": "AdGuard Home web console",
+              "name": "Admin console",
+              "path": "/",
+              "port": 3000,
+              "protocol": "http",
+              "type": "ui"
+            }
+          },
+          "metadata": {
+            "author": "AdGuard",
+            "category": "networking",
+            "repo": "https://github.com/AdguardTeam/AdGuardHome",
+            "tier": "optional"
+          },
+          "name": "AdGuard Home",
+          "ports": [
+            {
+              "auth": "open",
+              "auth_rationale": "AdGuard Home enforces its own admin login on the console, and the first-run wizard must answer before any account exists.",
+              "bind": "127.0.0.1",
+              "container": 3000,
+              "host": 3000,
+              "protocol": "tcp"
+            },
+            {
+              "auth": "none",
+              "auth_rationale": "Plain DNS answers unauthenticated by protocol: resolvers and clients send queries directly; a login challenge would make DNS unreachable.",
+              "container": 53,
+              "host": 53,
+              "protocol": "udp"
+            },
+            {
+              "auth": "none",
+              "auth_rationale": "DNS-over-TCP fallback (truncated responses, zone transfers); same protocol-level requirement as the UDP port.",
+              "container": 53,
+              "host": 53,
+              "protocol": "tcp"
+            }
+          ],
+          "resources": {
+            "disk_limit": "1Gi",
+            "memory_limit": "512Mi"
+          },
+          "security": {
+            "capabilities": [
+              "NET_BIND_SERVICE"
+            ],
+            "network_policy": "isolated",
+            "no_new_privileges": true,
+            "readonly_root": false
+          },
+          "upstream": {
+            "kind": "github",
+            "repo": "AdguardTeam/AdGuardHome"
+          },
+          "version": "v0.107.55",
+          "volumes": [
+            {
+              "options": [
+                "rw"
+              ],
+              "source": "/var/lib/archipelago/adguardhome",
+              "target": "/opt/adguardhome",
+              "type": "bind"
+            }
+          ]
+        }
+      },
      "version": "v0.107.55"
    },
    "aiui": {
@@ -1207,6 +1299,82 @@
    },
    "cryptpad": {
      "image": "source.archipelago-foundation.org/lfg2025/cryptpad:2024.12.0",
+      "manifest": {
+        "app": {
+          "container": {
+            "image": "source.archipelago-foundation.org/lfg2025/cryptpad:2024.12.0",
+            "network": "pasta",
+            "pull_policy": "if-not-present"
+          },
+          "dependencies": [
+            {
+              "storage": "5Gi"
+            }
+          ],
+          "description": "End-to-end encrypted documents, spreadsheets, and presentations. Zero-knowledge collaboration.",
+          "environment": [],
+          "health_check": {
+            "endpoint": "localhost:3000",
+            "interval": "30s",
+            "retries": 3,
+            "timeout": "5s",
+            "type": "tcp"
+          },
+          "id": "cryptpad",
+          "interfaces": {
+            "main": {
+              "description": "Encrypted collaboration suite",
+              "name": "CryptPad",
+              "path": "/",
+              "port": 3000,
+              "protocol": "http",
+              "type": "ui"
+            }
+          },
+          "metadata": {
+            "author": "XWiki SAS",
+            "category": "data",
+            "icon": "/assets/icon/favico-black-v2.svg",
+            "repo": "https://github.com/cryptpad/cryptpad",
+            "tier": "optional"
+          },
+          "name": "CryptPad",
+          "ports": [
+            {
+              "auth": "gated",
+              "bind": "127.0.0.1",
+              "container": 3000,
+              "host": 3000,
+              "protocol": "tcp"
+            }
+          ],
+          "resources": {
+            "disk_limit": "5Gi",
+            "memory_limit": "1Gi"
+          },
+          "security": {
+            "capabilities": [],
+            "network_policy": "isolated",
+            "no_new_privileges": true,
+            "readonly_root": false
+          },
+          "upstream": {
+            "kind": "github",
+            "repo": "cryptpad/cryptpad"
+          },
+          "version": "2024.12.0",
+          "volumes": [
+            {
+              "options": [
+                "rw"
+              ],
+              "source": "/var/lib/archipelago/cryptpad",
+              "target": "/cryptpad/data",
+              "type": "bind"
+            }
+          ]
+        }
+      },
      "version": "2024.12.0"
    },
    "cuprate": {
@@ -1951,10 +2119,6 @@
      },
      "version": "v2.27.0"
    },
-    "fips": {
-      "image": "source.archipelago-foundation.org/lfg2025/fips:v0.1.0",
-      "version": "v0.1.0"
-    },
    "fips-ui": {
      "manifest": {
        "app": {
@@ -4145,6 +4309,88 @@
    },
    "nginx-proxy-manager": {
      "image": "source.archipelago-foundation.org/lfg2025/nginx-proxy-manager:latest",
+      "manifest": {
+        "app": {
+          "container": {
+            "image": "source.archipelago-foundation.org/lfg2025/nginx-proxy-manager:latest",
+            "network": "pasta",
+            "pull_policy": "if-not-present"
+          },
+          "dependencies": [
+            {
+              "storage": "1Gi"
+            }
+          ],
+          "description": "Reverse proxy with SSL. Beautiful web interface for managing proxies. On a node, this manages its admin UI and upstream configuration — the proxy's own :80/:443 listeners are not published (the node's web server owns those ports).",
+          "environment": [],
+          "health_check": {
+            "endpoint": "localhost:81",
+            "interval": "30s",
+            "retries": 3,
+            "timeout": "5s",
+            "type": "tcp"
+          },
+          "id": "nginx-proxy-manager",
+          "interfaces": {
+            "main": {
+              "description": "Nginx Proxy Manager admin interface",
+              "name": "Admin UI",
+              "path": "/",
+              "port": 8081,
+              "protocol": "http",
+              "type": "ui"
+            }
+          },
+          "metadata": {
+            "author": "Nginx Proxy Manager",
+            "category": "networking",
+            "icon": "/assets/img/app-icons/nginx.svg",
+            "repo": "https://github.com/NginxProxyManager/nginx-proxy-manager",
+            "tier": "optional"
+          },
+          "name": "Nginx Proxy Manager",
+          "ports": [
+            {
+              "auth": "open",
+              "auth_rationale": "Nginx Proxy Manager enforces its own admin account on every page; the initial setup wizard also has to answer before any account exists.",
+              "bind": "127.0.0.1",
+              "container": 81,
+              "host": 8081,
+              "protocol": "tcp"
+            }
+          ],
+          "resources": {
+            "disk_limit": "1Gi",
+            "memory_limit": "512Mi"
+          },
+          "security": {
+            "capabilities": [
+              "CHOWN",
+              "SETUID",
+              "SETGID",
+              "DAC_OVERRIDE"
+            ],
+            "network_policy": "isolated",
+            "no_new_privileges": true,
+            "readonly_root": false
+          },
+          "upstream": {
+            "kind": "github",
+            "repo": "NginxProxyManager/nginx-proxy-manager"
+          },
+          "version": "2.12.1",
+          "volumes": [
+            {
+              "options": [
+                "rw"
+              ],
+              "source": "/var/lib/archipelago/nginx-proxy-manager",
+              "target": "/data",
+              "type": "bind"
+            }
+          ]
+        }
+      },
      "version": "latest"
    },
    "nostr-rs-relay": {
@@ -4226,24 +4472,75 @@
      },
      "version": "0.10.0"
    },
-    "nostr-vpn": {
-      "image": "source.archipelago-foundation.org/lfg2025/nostr-vpn:v0.3.7",
-      "version": "v0.3.7"
-    },
    "ollama": {
      "image": "source.archipelago-foundation.org/lfg2025/ollama:latest",
-      "version": "latest"
-    },
-    "penpot": {
-      "image": "source.archipelago-foundation.org/lfg2025/penpot-frontend:2.4",
-      "images": {
-        "penpot-backend": "source.archipelago-foundation.org/lfg2025/penpot-backend:2.4",
-        "penpot-exporter": "source.archipelago-foundation.org/lfg2025/penpot-exporter:2.4",
-        "penpot-frontend": "source.archipelago-foundation.org/lfg2025/penpot-frontend:2.4",
-        "penpot-postgres": "source.archipelago-foundation.org/lfg2025/postgres:15",
-        "penpot-valkey": "source.archipelago-foundation.org/lfg2025/valkey:8.1"
+      "manifest": {
+        "app": {
+          "container": {
+            "image": "source.archipelago-foundation.org/lfg2025/ollama:latest",
+            "network": "pasta",
+            "pull_policy": "if-not-present"
+          },
+          "dependencies": [
+            {
+              "storage": "50Gi"
+            }
+          ],
+          "description": "Run large language models locally. Download and run AI models like Llama, Mistral on your own hardware — served on the node's loopback for the AI assistant (Settings → Claude Auth → model backend), never exposed to the network.",
+          "environment": [],
+          "health_check": {
+            "endpoint": "localhost:11434",
+            "interval": "30s",
+            "retries": 3,
+            "timeout": "5s",
+            "type": "tcp"
+          },
+          "id": "ollama",
+          "metadata": {
+            "author": "Ollama",
+            "category": "community",
+            "icon": "/assets/img/app-icons/ollama.png",
+            "repo": "https://github.com/ollama/ollama",
+            "tier": "optional"
+          },
+          "name": "Ollama",
+          "ports": [
+            {
+              "auth": "local",
+              "bind": "127.0.0.1",
+              "container": 11434,
+              "host": 11434,
+              "protocol": "tcp"
+            }
+          ],
+          "resources": {
+            "disk_limit": "50Gi",
+            "memory_limit": 0
+          },
+          "security": {
+            "capabilities": [],
+            "network_policy": "isolated",
+            "no_new_privileges": true,
+            "readonly_root": false
+          },
+          "upstream": {
+            "kind": "github",
+            "repo": "ollama/ollama"
+          },
+          "version": "0.5.4",
+          "volumes": [
+            {
+              "options": [
+                "rw"
+              ],
+              "source": "/var/lib/archipelago/ollama",
+              "target": "/root/.ollama",
+              "type": "bind"
+            }
+          ]
+        }
      },
-      "version": "2.4"
+      "version": "latest"
    },
    "phoenixd": {
      "manifest": {
@@ -5030,10 +5327,6 @@
      },
      "version": "1.0.0"
    },
-    "routstr": {
-      "image": "source.archipelago-foundation.org/lfg2025/routstr:v0.4.3",
-      "version": "v0.4.3"
-    },
    "searxng": {
      "image": "source.archipelago-foundation.org/lfg2025/searxng:latest",
      "manifest": {
@@ -5190,6 +5483,90 @@
    },
    "tailscale": {
      "image": "source.archipelago-foundation.org/lfg2025/tailscale:stable",
+      "manifest": {
+        "app": {
+          "container": {
+            "entrypoint": [
+              "sh",
+              "-c",
+              "tailscaled --tun=userspace-networking & for i in $(seq 1 30); do [ -S /var/run/tailscale/tailscaled.sock ] && break; sleep 1; done; tailscale web --listen 0.0.0.0:8240 & wait"
+            ],
+            "image": "source.archipelago-foundation.org/lfg2025/tailscale:stable",
+            "network": "pasta",
+            "pull_policy": "if-not-present"
+          },
+          "dependencies": [
+            {
+              "storage": "1Gi"
+            }
+          ],
+          "description": "Zero-config VPN with WireGuard mesh networking.",
+          "environment": [
+            "TS_STATE_DIR=/var/lib/tailscale"
+          ],
+          "health_check": {
+            "endpoint": "localhost:8240",
+            "interval": "30s",
+            "retries": 3,
+            "timeout": "5s",
+            "type": "tcp"
+          },
+          "id": "tailscale",
+          "interfaces": {
+            "main": {
+              "description": "Tailscale web console",
+              "name": "Web console",
+              "path": "/",
+              "port": 8240,
+              "protocol": "http",
+              "type": "ui"
+            }
+          },
+          "metadata": {
+            "author": "Tailscale",
+            "category": "networking",
+            "icon": "/assets/img/app-icons/tailscale.webp",
+            "repo": "https://github.com/tailscale/tailscale",
+            "tier": "recommended"
+          },
+          "name": "Tailscale",
+          "ports": [
+            {
+              "auth": "open",
+              "auth_rationale": "Tailscale's web console authenticates against the tailnet account for all administrative actions; the node's cookie challenge would be a second, redundant login.",
+              "bind": "127.0.0.1",
+              "container": 8240,
+              "host": 8240,
+              "protocol": "tcp"
+            }
+          ],
+          "resources": {
+            "disk_limit": "1Gi",
+            "memory_limit": "512Mi"
+          },
+          "security": {
+            "capabilities": [],
+            "network_policy": "isolated",
+            "no_new_privileges": true,
+            "readonly_root": false
+          },
+          "upstream": {
+            "kind": "github",
+            "repo": "tailscale/tailscale"
+          },
+          "version": "1.78.0",
+          "volumes": [
+            {
+              "options": [
+                "rw"
+              ],
+              "source": "/var/lib/archipelago/tailscale",
+              "target": "/var/lib/tailscale",
+              "type": "bind"
+            }
+          ]
+        }
+      },
      "version": "stable"
    },
    "uptime-kuma": {
@@ -5366,7 +5743,7 @@
    }
  },
  "schema": 1,
-  "signature": "da5b6b183ac46c062945c27abdc06affb558e805e1ccf67ac0ee17e5e3dd85cc05a0656dd83bdacb1e1d237445145d00995f55e77209e1cbb2b6d8ce47084e0a",
+  "signature": "3b30d9e1afd59d2de4e9e48e5556c8c4ff54d13ae1f25ac2b5897aead6aa8ae3a503dfe56232329e8b02226ea98d3415ff220b4fcdf40913cfe9300aa99fc807",
  "signed_by": "did:key:z6Mkfu5LT8d4DjETtrkATvHh9Dvcbnr7zBCUwfau8Sw7DLWT",
-  "updated": "2026-08-30"
+  "updated": "2026-08-31"
 }
@@ -1,33 +1,29 @@
 {
  "changelog": [
-    "**Apps with their own login can now skip the node's login screen — Gitea and BTCPay Server do so out of the box.** Some apps bring a complete account system of their own, and putting the node's password page in front of them broke real workflows: git clients can't answer a browser login, and a BTCPay checkout link handed to a customer must open for that customer. These apps are now served directly on their own login, while the node still fronts the connection for everything else it does (embedding fixes, the \"app is restarting\" page, Tor). Every app gets a new **Settings → app → Access control** switch, so you can put the node login back in front of any app — or take it away from one — with one click, effective immediately. App developers declare the default in their manifest (`auth: open`), documented in the developer guide.",
-    "**The phone remote now works inside apps on the TV — tap, scroll, and type everywhere.** The companion remote and keyboard drove the dashboard beautifully but died at the edge of any app screen (Gitea, BTCPay, and friends): for the browser, each app is a separate website embedded in the page, and simulated input is forbidden from crossing that wall. The on-screen display now accepts the remote's input the way a real mouse and keyboard arrive — below the page, through the browser itself — so it lands anywhere on screen, app screens and tabs included. Taps click, two-finger scrolling scrolls the app, and typing goes into whichever field you tapped. Existing kiosks pick this up with the update, no reinstall needed.",
-    "**While you're driving with the phone remote, the old mouse pointer gets out of the way.** The computer's own pointer used to sit frozen wherever the physical mouse last left it — a second, dead cursor next to the live orange one. It now hides while the remote is in use and returns half a minute after the last remote input.",
-    "**\"Are you sure?\" questions no longer freeze the remote.** A handful of confirmations (clearing mesh history, rebooting, deleting a backup, uninstalling an app) used the browser's built-in popup, which stops the whole page — including remote input — until someone clicks it with a real mouse. From the couch, that meant asking a question you couldn't answer. All of them are now proper in-app windows in the house style, fully driveable by remote.",
-    "**A mesh radio now connects no matter which port it's plugged into — or replugged into.** Moving a radio to a different USB port could leave the mesh silently down: the node only checked a short fixed list of port names (a radio landing outside it was invisible), a hand-set serial-port override quietly outranked the device you'd just approved in the \"Radio detected\" window, and one whole family of boards (Espressif-based radios like recent Heltec/T-Deck models) never received a stable device name at all — the exact combination found live on a fleet machine this week. All three are fixed: every serial port is scanned, choosing a radio in the detection window clears any stale override, and Espressif boards get the same stable name as everyone else.",
-    "**Mesh signal strength is honest now.** Every peer heard over Reticulum radio reported a signal strength of exactly 0 — which is also what you'd see with no radio at all, and what peers reached over the internet showed. Real receptions now show their true signal reading, and anything that arrived over a relay or the internet says so by showing none — so \"the radio is working\" and \"the internet is doing the radio's job\" no longer look identical. (The reading depends on the radio's firmware reporting it; boards that don't report per-packet signal stats show \"unknown\" rather than a made-up number, and the new radio diagnostics show at a glance whether yours reports them.)",
-    "**A background error that repeated every 90 seconds, forever, is gone.** After setting up a node from its recovery phrase, the node kept introducing itself to its federation partners with its old temporary identity papers while signing with its new ones — every partner rejected the introduction, and both sides logged an error about it every minute and a half until the next restart. The identity switch now updates everything at once, a rejected introduction is no longer misreported as delivered, and a partner who has already answered is no longer re-asked on every cycle."
+    "**Companion 0.5.28 is included in the node download this time, with the work that missed v1.8.5.** The companion hub can back up and restore its node list, act as a NIP-46 remote signer, and shows each paired node's FIPS mesh address with tap-to-copy. For Termux users, the included `fipssh` helper turns a durable node npub into its mesh address, so `fipssh user@npub1…` can reach SSH once that node has explicitly allowed port 22. The node-side “SSH over mesh” firewall toggle is not claimed here—it still needs implementation and remains off by default.",
+    "**What's New now starts cleanly at v1.8.0 and is guaranteed to be newest-first.** Older alpha history no longer overwhelms the useful recent changes, the three stray v1.7 entries that appeared above current releases are gone, and the release check now fails if either the ordering or the v1.8.0 history floor drifts again.",
+    "**A release can no longer advertise itself before its files exist.** New releases are prepared behind a pending manifest; the publisher uploads the backend and frontend, downloads both back and verifies their size and hash, and only then promotes the signed manifest to the path nodes read. The manifest generator also includes every curated What's New item instead of silently stopping after the first ten physical changelog lines."
  ],
  "components": [
    {
-      "current_version": "1.8.4-alpha",
-      "download_url": "https://source.archipelago-foundation.org/lfg2025/archy/releases/download/v1.8.4-alpha/archipelago",
+      "current_version": "1.8.6-alpha",
+      "download_url": "https://source.archipelago-foundation.org/lfg2025/archy/releases/download/v1.8.6-alpha/archipelago",
      "name": "archipelago",
-      "new_version": "1.8.4-alpha",
-      "sha256": "c4d3a4fdecfdc2a972f808c7f98225b29dc65333418038bb016a5f0bd79d3551",
-      "size_bytes": 63850680
+      "new_version": "1.8.6-alpha",
+      "sha256": "6171e1f46b0e2c2754a18e668f16810338a09b71a68dc365d65173ca1e4d400a",
+      "size_bytes": 63930112
    },
    {
-      "current_version": "1.8.4-alpha",
-      "download_url": "https://source.archipelago-foundation.org/lfg2025/archy/releases/download/v1.8.4-alpha/archipelago-frontend-1.8.4-alpha.tar.gz",
-      "name": "archipelago-frontend-1.8.4-alpha.tar.gz",
-      "new_version": "1.8.4-alpha",
-      "sha256": "790de85816a7ad49480dc99134022279e4f40b69bd9b0983a6393373a3bdd7cc",
-      "size_bytes": 97641658
+      "current_version": "1.8.6-alpha",
+      "download_url": "https://source.archipelago-foundation.org/lfg2025/archy/releases/download/v1.8.6-alpha/archipelago-frontend-1.8.6-alpha.tar.gz",
+      "name": "archipelago-frontend-1.8.6-alpha.tar.gz",
+      "new_version": "1.8.6-alpha",
+      "sha256": "1a5b54c516f91a4ea4491e08182f0f9521ee7e27935388814007f91695f06e0f",
+      "size_bytes": 97769923
    }
  ],
-  "release_date": "2026-08-20",
-  "signature": "94ffb717166c6062ddbea97476942285903d629543bf3b9ec435697a1b8c31243dedb0f3c8f874daf3d9c0974a6342bf42b7e9d34b00680aa63a1d441dbc4805",
+  "release_date": "2026-08-31",
+  "signature": "c21dc5cb5a6caa3253c08835b65d0417a312bc8c51acdf92df990ad2110ae762b77287c479a523a8521827ec7b4695114ff9c39924cf1d30d0d622abb53b9208",
  "signed_by": "did:key:z6Mkfu5LT8d4DjETtrkATvHh9Dvcbnr7zBCUwfau8Sw7DLWT",
-  "version": "1.8.4-alpha"
+  "version": "1.8.6-alpha"
 }
@@ -0,0 +1,32 @@
+{
+  "changelog": [
+    "**What's New really does stop at v1.8.0 now.** The first correction removed old generated release blocks but missed six much older hand-written v1.2 sections at the bottom of the modal. Those sections are gone, and the release check now recognizes and rejects that legacy format too, so the history floor cannot falsely pass again.",
+    "**The installer carries the same corrected release and Companion 0.5.28.** Its artifact gate now checks the companion APK version and the v1.8.0 What's New floor inside the finished ISO, so a stale frontend or phone app cannot be published under the current release label.",
+    "**Crash dumps work on fresh installs as well as upgraded nodes.** The installer gate checks every kdump package inside the finished ISO, and `makedumpfile` is installed explicitly rather than accidentally relying on a recommended dependency that the minimal image deliberately omits.",
+    "**Apps open over HTTPS when your node does.** Connect to your node over HTTPS and the apps you open — Vaultwarden in its own tab, BTCPay, Grafana, and the rest, on a remote browser or in the phone's in-app browser — now open on the same secure connection instead of silently dropping to plain HTTP. The node's app gate already served TLS on every app port; the dashboard was handing out `http://` addresses regardless of how you reached it. Ports the gate does not front (plain-HTTP publishes, and the API ports like Cuprate's RPC) deliberately stay on `http` — `https` there would simply fail to connect. Plain-HTTP access (the kiosk, LAN browsing) is unchanged.",
+    "**Every app in the store is now a first-class platform app.** The last stragglers — Nginx Proxy Manager, Tailscale, Ollama, CryptPad, and AdGuard Home — now carry full manifests: the node's app gate fronts their web ports (TLS on the same port, the node login where appropriate, embedding fixes, Tor), installs go through the orchestrator like every other app, and their pins live in the signed catalog. Ollama stays loopback-only — it is the assistant's local model backend, not a web app. The four apps retired earlier (FIPS, Nostr VPN, Routstr, Penpot) are finally dropped from the catalog, and Cuprate's manifest — which carried a duplicated metadata block that strict parsers reject — is fixed.",
+    "**Newly signed apps appear in the App Store immediately.** The App Store now serves the release-signed catalog the node has already fetched and verified — so publishing a signed app (like Cuprate) makes it appear for every updated node without waiting for a dashboard release. The unsigned community catalog remains only as a fallback for nodes that can't reach the registry. The same signed catalog now also decides which ports serve TLS, so nothing is upgraded to `https` that can't answer it."
+  ],
+  "components": [
+    {
+      "current_version": "1.8.7-alpha",
+      "download_url": "https://source.archipelago-foundation.org/lfg2025/archy/releases/download/v1.8.7-alpha/archipelago",
+      "name": "archipelago",
+      "new_version": "1.8.7-alpha",
+      "sha256": "572accec81e73fbcd5218ddc41f5ec719deda30f104c838398fdfa85a7a276f0",
+      "size_bytes": 63990960
+    },
+    {
+      "current_version": "1.8.7-alpha",
+      "download_url": "https://source.archipelago-foundation.org/lfg2025/archy/releases/download/v1.8.7-alpha/archipelago-frontend-1.8.7-alpha.tar.gz",
+      "name": "archipelago-frontend-1.8.7-alpha.tar.gz",
+      "new_version": "1.8.7-alpha",
+      "sha256": "26b8c12b1b3e6b5c93841f3713037f65d0ea6a52401bd28888eb8d2f5dc483b5",
+      "size_bytes": 97779181
+    }
+  ],
+  "release_date": "2026-08-31",
+  "signature": "79332435d436e7bae1a5b0c12158b02083b681b6818ac90219021f1e39eb61a3e1039ed38ee8089006a0dec862fd92997e44a6c9ccf0be17e91a95cba5de6402",
+  "signed_by": "did:key:z6Mkfu5LT8d4DjETtrkATvHh9Dvcbnr7zBCUwfau8Sw7DLWT",
+  "version": "1.8.7-alpha"
+}
@@ -1,21 +1,22 @@
 #!/bin/bash
-# Validate releases/manifest.json:
+# Validate the live or a pending release manifest:
 #   - version matches core/archipelago/Cargo.toml
 #   - changelog contains curated release notes, not raw git log output
 #   - every component's download_url exists on disk and matches sha256/size
 #
 # Run on every push from CI, and also locally before publishing a release:
-#   scripts/check-release-manifest.sh
+#   scripts/check-release-manifest.sh [path/to/manifest.json]
 #
 # Exits non-zero on any mismatch so the release process fails loud.

 set -eo pipefail

 REPO_ROOT="$(cd "$(dirname "$0")/.." && pwd)"
-MANIFEST="$REPO_ROOT/releases/manifest.json"
+MANIFEST="${1:-$REPO_ROOT/releases/manifest.json}"
+[[ "$MANIFEST" = /* ]] || MANIFEST="$REPO_ROOT/$MANIFEST"

 if [ ! -f "$MANIFEST" ]; then
-    echo "❌ releases/manifest.json missing"
+    echo "❌ manifest missing: $MANIFEST"
    exit 1
 fi

@@ -25,6 +26,18 @@ ok() { echo "✅ $*"; }
 MANIFEST_VERSION=$(python3 -c "import json; print(json.load(open('$MANIFEST'))['version'])")
 CARGO_VERSION=$(grep '^version' "$REPO_ROOT/core/archipelago/Cargo.toml" | head -1 | sed -E 's/.*"([^"]+)".*/\1/')

+# A prepared release deliberately leaves the live manifest on the previous
+# version. Ordinary pushes are therefore harmless: only the publisher promotes
+# the pending manifest after its assets have been uploaded and downloaded back.
+if [ "$MANIFEST_VERSION" != "$CARGO_VERSION" ] && [ "$MANIFEST" = "$REPO_ROOT/releases/manifest.json" ]; then
+    PENDING="$REPO_ROOT/releases/pending/v${CARGO_VERSION}/manifest.json"
+    if [ -f "$PENDING" ]; then
+        ok "live manifest remains v${MANIFEST_VERSION} while v${CARGO_VERSION} is pending"
+        MANIFEST="$PENDING"
+        MANIFEST_VERSION="$CARGO_VERSION"
+    fi
+fi
+
 if [ "$MANIFEST_VERSION" != "$CARGO_VERSION" ]; then
    fail "manifest version ($MANIFEST_VERSION) ≠ Cargo.toml ($CARGO_VERSION)"
 fi
@@ -105,4 +118,4 @@ for i in $(seq 0 $((COMPONENT_COUNT - 1))); do
 done

 echo
-ok "releases/manifest.json passes all checks — safe to publish v${MANIFEST_VERSION}"
+ok "$MANIFEST passes all checks — safe to publish v${MANIFEST_VERSION}"
@@ -261,15 +261,19 @@ content = open('$CHANGELOG_FILE').read()
 pattern = r'## .*?${VERSION}.*?\n(.*?)(?=\n## |\Z)'
 m = re.search(pattern, content, re.DOTALL)
 if m:
-    for line in m.group(1).strip().split('\n')[:10]:
+    for line in m.group(1).splitlines():
        line = line.strip()
-        if line:
-            print(line)
+        if not line.startswith('- '):
+            continue
+        text = line[2:].strip()
+        if text.lower().startswith('validation '):
+            continue
+        print(text)
 " 2>/dev/null || echo "")
    if [ -n "$ENTRIES" ]; then
        CHANGELOG=$(echo "$ENTRIES" | python3 -c "
 import sys, json
-lines = [l.strip().lstrip('- ') for l in sys.stdin if l.strip()]
+lines = [l.strip() for l in sys.stdin if l.strip()]
 print(json.dumps(lines))
 ")
    fi
@@ -298,7 +302,7 @@ echo ""
 cat "$OUTPUT_FILE"
 echo ""
 echo "Next steps:"
-echo "  1. Review the manifest above"
-echo "  2. Upload artifacts to Gitea release v$VERSION"
-echo "  3. Commit manifest.json to releases/manifest.json on main"
-echo "  4. Tag the release: git tag v$VERSION && git push --tags"
+echo "  1. Review and sign the manifest above"
+echo "  2. Keep it under releases/pending/v$VERSION/ — do NOT replace the live manifest"
+echo "  3. Run scripts/publish-release-assets.sh $VERSION gitea-vps2"
+echo "     (it uploads + verifies assets before atomically promoting the manifest)"
@@ -2,7 +2,8 @@
 # create-release.sh — Full release automation for Archipelago
 #
 # Bumps version in Cargo.toml and package.json, generates changelog from git log,
-# creates release manifest, and creates git tag.
+# creates a pending release manifest, and creates git tag. The live manifest is
+# promoted only by publish-release-assets.sh after the assets are verified.
 #
 # Usage:
 #   ./scripts/create-release.sh 1.0.0         # Release v1.0.0
@@ -30,9 +31,9 @@ for arg in "$@"; do
            echo "  2. Bump version in Cargo.toml and package.json"
            echo "  3. Build backend"
            echo "  4. Build frontend"
-            echo "  5. Generate changelog from git log"
-            echo "  6. Create release manifest"
-            echo "  7. Commit version bump"
+            echo "  5. Validate the curated changelog"
+            echo "  6. Create pending release manifest"
+            echo "  7. Commit release preparation"
            echo "  8. Create git tag v{VERSION}"
            echo ""
            echo "Options:"
@@ -121,14 +122,13 @@ if $DRY_RUN; then
    echo "  2. Update neode-ui/package.json version to $VERSION"
    echo "  3. Build backend (cargo build --release -p archipelago)"
    echo "  4. Build frontend (npm run build)"
-    echo "  5. Generate changelog from git log since v${CURRENT_CARGO_VERSION}"
-    echo "  6. Create release manifest"
-    echo "  7. Commit: 'chore: release v${VERSION}'"
+    echo "  5. Validate the curated changelog"
+    echo "  6. Create pending release manifest (the live manifest stays unchanged)"
+    echo "  7. Commit: 'chore: prepare release v${VERSION}'"
    echo "  8. Tag: v${VERSION}"
    echo ""
-    echo "After this script, you would:"
-    echo "  - Push: git push && git push --tags"
-    echo "  - Build ISOs on server: ssh archipelago@192.0.2.10"
+    echo "After this script, publish only with:"
+    echo "  scripts/publish-release-assets.sh ${VERSION} gitea-vps2"
    exit 0
 fi

@@ -214,9 +214,13 @@ if [ ! -f "$CHANGELOG_FILE" ] || ! grep -q "^## v${VERSION} (" "$CHANGELOG_FILE"
    exit 1
 fi

-echo "[6/8] Creating release manifest..."
-mkdir -p "$PROJECT_ROOT/releases"
-"$SCRIPT_DIR/create-release-manifest.sh" --version "$VERSION" --date "$RELEASE_DATE" --output "$PROJECT_ROOT/releases/manifest.json" 2>&1 | grep -v "^$"
+echo "[6/8] Creating pending release manifest..."
+# Never write the fleet-visible path here. A normal `git push main` must not be
+# capable of advertising assets which have not been uploaded yet.
+PENDING_DIR="$PROJECT_ROOT/releases/pending/v${VERSION}"
+PENDING_MANIFEST="$PENDING_DIR/manifest.json"
+mkdir -p "$PENDING_DIR"
+"$SCRIPT_DIR/create-release-manifest.sh" --version "$VERSION" --date "$RELEASE_DATE" --output "$PENDING_MANIFEST" 2>&1 | grep -v "^$"

 # §A supply-chain: the OTA manifest must carry the release-root signature.
 # Nodes refuse to AUTO-apply unsigned manifests, and publish-release-assets.sh
@@ -239,60 +243,45 @@ if [ -n "${RELEASE_MASTER_MNEMONIC:-}" ] || [ -t 0 ]; then
    echo "  Enter by itself will NOT submit; pasting twice concatenates"
    echo "  the phrases and fails on word count."
    echo "════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════"
-    "$SIGNER" ceremony sign "$PROJECT_ROOT/releases/manifest.json"
-    "$SIGNER" ceremony verify "$PROJECT_ROOT/releases/manifest.json"
+    "$SIGNER" ceremony sign "$PENDING_MANIFEST"
+    "$SIGNER" ceremony verify "$PENDING_MANIFEST"
 else
-    echo "⚠ WARNING: no TTY and RELEASE_MASTER_MNEMONIC unset — manifest left UNSIGNED."
-    echo "  This run will ABORT before committing (step 7 refuses an unsigned"
-    echo "  manifest), because nodes read releases/manifest.json from branch main"
-    echo "  and would refuse to auto-apply it."
-    echo "  Sign it, then re-run: bash scripts/sign-manifest.sh"
+    echo "⚠ WARNING: no TTY and RELEASE_MASTER_MNEMONIC unset — pending manifest left UNSIGNED."
+    echo "  This run will ABORT before committing (step 7 refuses an unsigned manifest)."
+    echo "  Sign it, then re-run: bash scripts/sign-manifest.sh $PENDING_MANIFEST"
 fi
-cp "$PROJECT_ROOT/releases/manifest.json" "$PROJECT_ROOT/release-manifest.json"
-
 echo "[6c/8] Staging release artifacts for validation..."
 VERSION_DIR="$PROJECT_ROOT/releases/v${VERSION}"
 FRONTEND_ARCHIVE="/tmp/archipelago-frontend-${VERSION}.tar.gz"
 mkdir -p "$VERSION_DIR"
 install -m 0755 "$PROJECT_ROOT/core/target/release/archipelago" "$VERSION_DIR/archipelago"
 install -m 0644 "$FRONTEND_ARCHIVE" "$VERSION_DIR/archipelago-frontend-${VERSION}.tar.gz"
-"$SCRIPT_DIR/check-release-manifest.sh"
+"$SCRIPT_DIR/check-release-manifest.sh" "$PENDING_MANIFEST"

-# §A supply-chain gate, mirroring publish-release-assets.sh — but EARLIER,
-# because publishing is not the first way an unsigned manifest reaches the
-# fleet. Nodes fetch releases/manifest.json straight from branch `main`
-# (see the verification URLs printed below), so the COMMIT is what exposes
-# it, not the publish. publish-release-assets.sh refusing to ship is a
-# backstop that arrives one step too late: by then the unsigned manifest is
-# already on main and the fleet is already refusing to auto-apply.
-#
-# This is why every cycle needed a manual catch. The signing block above is
-# conditional — no TTY and no RELEASE_MASTER_MNEMONIC means it prints a
-# warning and falls through — and the commit then happened anyway. A release
-# commit carrying a manifest no node will accept has no valid use, so refuse
-# to create one rather than leave a tag that has to be re-cut.
+# §A supply-chain gate, mirroring publish-release-assets.sh. The pending path
+# prevents an ordinary main push from exposing the release, but an unsigned
+# manifest is still unpublishable and must never be tagged as ready.
 # Release root ROTATED 2026-08-05. v1.7.122-alpha was the last release signed
 # with the old root (z6Mkkid…q7ur) — it is the release that installed this
 # pin on every node. From v1.7.123 onward the new root signs, and nodes
 # running .122+ reject anything signed with the old key.
 EXPECTED_DID="did:key:z6Mkfu5LT8d4DjETtrkATvHh9Dvcbnr7zBCUwfau8Sw7DLWT"
-if ! grep -q '"signature":' "$PROJECT_ROOT/releases/manifest.json" \
-    || ! grep -q "\"signed_by\": \"$EXPECTED_DID\"" "$PROJECT_ROOT/releases/manifest.json"; then
+if ! grep -q '"signature":' "$PENDING_MANIFEST" \
+    || ! grep -q "\"signed_by\": \"$EXPECTED_DID\"" "$PENDING_MANIFEST"; then
    echo "" >&2
-    echo "Error: releases/manifest.json is NOT signed by the release root." >&2
-    echo "  Refusing to commit — nodes read this file from branch main and will" >&2
-    echo "  refuse to auto-apply it, so the release would be dead on arrival." >&2
+    echo "Error: the pending manifest is NOT signed by the release root." >&2
+    echo "  Refusing to commit an unpublishable release." >&2
    echo "" >&2
    echo "  Sign it, then re-run this script:" >&2
-    echo "    bash scripts/sign-manifest.sh" >&2
+    echo "    bash scripts/sign-manifest.sh $PENDING_MANIFEST" >&2
    echo "" >&2
    echo "  (Signing needs a TTY for the mnemonic prompt, or RELEASE_MASTER_MNEMONIC set.)" >&2
    exit 1
 fi
-"$SIGNER" ceremony verify "$PROJECT_ROOT/releases/manifest.json" \
+"$SIGNER" ceremony verify "$PENDING_MANIFEST" \
    || { echo "Error: manifest signature failed cryptographic verification — refusing to commit" >&2; exit 1; }

-echo "[7/8] Committing version bump..."
+echo "[7/8] Committing release preparation..."
 git -C "$PROJECT_ROOT" add \
    core/archipelago/Cargo.toml \
    core/Cargo.lock \
@@ -300,15 +289,16 @@ git -C "$PROJECT_ROOT" add \
    neode-ui/package-lock.json \
    neode-ui/public/catalog.json \
    CHANGELOG.md \
-    releases/manifest.json \
-    release-manifest.json \
    2>/dev/null || true
+# releases/** is ignored because binaries live in Gitea attachments; force-add
+# only this small signed pending manifest.
+git -C "$PROJECT_ROOT" add -f "releases/pending/v${VERSION}/manifest.json"
 # Cargo.lock (rewritten by the release build after the version bump) and
 # neode-ui/public/catalog.json (regenerated by the frontend build) belong in
 # THIS commit: leaving them dirty failed build-iso-release.sh's clean-tree
 # preflight on three consecutive releases (.127-.129, 2026-08-09/10).

-git -C "$PROJECT_ROOT" commit -m "chore: release v${VERSION}"
+git -C "$PROJECT_ROOT" commit -m "chore: prepare release v${VERSION}"

 echo "[8/8] Creating git tag..."
 git -C "$PROJECT_ROOT" tag -a "v${VERSION}" -m "Release v${VERSION}"
@@ -319,8 +309,8 @@ echo ""
 echo "Artifacts:"
 echo "  - Version bumped in Cargo.toml and package.json"
 echo "  - Changelog updated in CHANGELOG.md"
-echo "  - Release manifest: releases/manifest.json"
-echo "  - Release manifest copy: release-manifest.json"
+echo "  - Pending manifest: releases/pending/v${VERSION}/manifest.json"
+echo "  - Live manifest: unchanged until assets pass publication verification"
 echo "  - Staged artifacts: releases/v${VERSION}/"
 echo "  - Git tag: v${VERSION}"
 echo ""
@@ -81,9 +81,6 @@ SINGLE = {
    "fedimint": "FEDIMINT_IMAGE",
    "fedimint-gateway": "FEDIMINT_GATEWAY_IMAGE",
    "nostr-rs-relay": "NOSTR_RS_RELAY_IMAGE",
-    "nostr-vpn": "NOSTR_VPN_IMAGE",
-    "fips": "FIPS_IMAGE",
-    "routstr": "ROUTSTR_IMAGE",
    "adguardhome": "ADGUARDHOME_IMAGE",
 }

@@ -100,13 +97,6 @@ STACK = {
        "immich_postgres": "IMMICH_POSTGRES_IMAGE",
        "immich_redis": "REDIS_IMAGE",
    },
-    "penpot": {
-        "penpot-frontend": "PENPOT_FRONTEND_IMAGE",
-        "penpot-backend": "PENPOT_BACKEND_IMAGE",
-        "penpot-exporter": "PENPOT_EXPORTER_IMAGE",
-        "penpot-postgres": "PENPOT_POSTGRES_IMAGE",
-        "penpot-valkey": "PENPOT_VALKEY_IMAGE",
-    },
    "mempool": {
        "archy-mempool-web": "MEMPOOL_WEB_IMAGE",
        "mempool-api": "MEMPOOL_BACKEND_IMAGE",
@@ -99,13 +99,9 @@ VALKEY_IMAGE="$ARCHY_REGISTRY/valkey:8.1.6"
 # Nostr
 NOSTR_RS_RELAY_IMAGE="$ARCHY_REGISTRY/nostr-rs-relay:0.10.0"
 STRFRY_IMAGE="$ARCHY_REGISTRY/strfry:1.0.4"
-NOSTR_VPN_IMAGE="$ARCHY_REGISTRY/nostr-vpn:v0.3.7"
-NOSTR_VPN_UI_IMAGE="$ARCHY_REGISTRY/nostr-vpn-ui:latest"
-FIPS_IMAGE="$ARCHY_REGISTRY/fips:v0.1.0"
 FIPS_UI_IMAGE="$ARCHY_REGISTRY/fips-ui:1.7.123-alpha"

 # AI / Routing
-ROUTSTR_IMAGE="$ARCHY_REGISTRY/routstr:v0.4.3"

 # Community / Gaming
 BOTFIGHTS_IMAGE="$ARCHY_REGISTRY/botfights:1.2.11"
@@ -127,12 +123,6 @@ GITEA_IMAGE="docker.io/gitea/gitea:1.23"
 IMMICH_POSTGRES_IMAGE="$ARCHY_REGISTRY/immich-postgres:14-vectorchord0.4.3-pgvectors0.2.0"
 IMMICH_SERVER_IMAGE="$ARCHY_REGISTRY/immich-server:release"

-# Penpot stack
-PENPOT_POSTGRES_IMAGE="$ARCHY_REGISTRY/postgres:15"
-PENPOT_VALKEY_IMAGE="$ARCHY_REGISTRY/valkey:8.1"
-PENPOT_BACKEND_IMAGE="$ARCHY_REGISTRY/penpot-backend:2.4"
-PENPOT_EXPORTER_IMAGE="$ARCHY_REGISTRY/penpot-exporter:2.4"
-PENPOT_FRONTEND_IMAGE="$ARCHY_REGISTRY/penpot-frontend:2.4"

 # Custom UI containers (built from docker/ dirs, pushed to registry)
 BITCOIN_UI_IMAGE="$ARCHY_REGISTRY/bitcoin-ui:1.7.123-alpha"
@@ -84,6 +84,60 @@ else
    warn "unmkinitramfs not installed — skipping initrd live-boot check"
 fi

+# ── Host crash-capture payload (#144) ──────────────────────────────
+# Check the built artifact, not just the ISO builder source: otherwise a stale
+# rootfs.tar can silently omit the packages/configuration while the build passes.
+ROOTFS="$MNT/archipelago/rootfs.tar"
+if [ -f "$ROOTFS" ]; then
+    DPKG_STATUS="$(sudo tar -xOf "$ROOTFS" var/lib/dpkg/status 2>/dev/null || true)"
+    for package in kdump-tools kexec-tools makedumpfile rasdaemon; do
+        if awk -v wanted="$package" 'BEGIN { RS=""; FS="\n" }
+            $0 ~ "(^|\\n)Package: " wanted "(\\n|$)" &&
+            $0 ~ "(^|\\n)Status: install ok installed(\\n|$)" { found=1 }
+            END { exit !found }' <<<"$DPKG_STATUS"; then
+            ok "rootfs package installed: $package"
+        else
+            bad "rootfs package missing/not installed: $package"
+        fi
+    done
+
+    KDUMP_DEFAULTS="$(sudo tar -xOf "$ROOTFS" etc/default/kdump-tools 2>/dev/null || true)"
+    if grep -qE '^USE_KDUMP=.?1' <<<"$KDUMP_DEFAULTS"; then
+        ok "rootfs enables kdump"
+    else
+        bad "rootfs /etc/default/kdump-tools does not enable kdump"
+    fi
+    if grep -qE '^KDUMP_COREDIR=.?/var/crash' <<<"$KDUMP_DEFAULTS"; then
+        ok "rootfs sends crash dumps to /var/crash"
+    else
+        bad "rootfs kdump target is not /var/crash"
+    fi
+
+    KDUMP_SYSCTL="$(sudo tar -xOf "$ROOTFS" etc/sysctl.d/99-archipelago-kdump.conf 2>/dev/null || true)"
+    for setting in 'kernel.panic = 10' 'kernel.panic_on_oops = 1' \
+                   'kernel.hung_task_panic = 1' 'kernel.hardlockup_panic = 1'; do
+        if grep -Fqx "$setting" <<<"$KDUMP_SYSCTL"; then
+            ok "rootfs sysctl: $setting"
+        else
+            bad "rootfs missing sysctl: $setting"
+        fi
+    done
+else
+    bad "cannot inspect crash-capture payload: missing archipelago/rootfs.tar"
+fi
+
+AUTO_INSTALL="$MNT/archipelago/auto-install.sh"
+if grep -qF 'crashkernel=256M' "$AUTO_INSTALL" 2>/dev/null; then
+    ok "installer writes crashkernel=256M"
+else
+    bad "installer does not write crashkernel=256M"
+fi
+if grep -qF 'Archipelago owns crashkernel sizing in /etc/default/grub' "$AUTO_INSTALL" 2>/dev/null; then
+    ok "installer neutralizes the conflicting Debian kdump GRUB default"
+else
+    bad "installer does not neutralize the conflicting Debian kdump GRUB default"
+fi
+
 # ── Backend binary inside the ISO embeds the expected version ────────
 # (the v1.4.0-binary-in-a-v1.5-ISO incident: a stale captured binary
 #  shipped and the fleet rejected its fips.yaml on Activate)
@@ -111,16 +165,35 @@ else
    sudo rm -rf "$TMPBIN"
 fi

-# ── Frontend payload present ─────────────────────────────────────────
-if [ -f "$MNT/archipelago/web-ui/index.html" ]; then
+# ── Frontend + companion payload ─────────────────────────────────────
+WEB_UI="$MNT/archipelago/web-ui"
+if [ -f "$WEB_UI/index.html" ]; then
    ok "frontend payload (archipelago/web-ui/index.html)"
-    if [ -f "$MNT/archipelago/web-ui/aiui/index.html" ]; then
+    if [ -f "$WEB_UI/aiui/index.html" ]; then
        ok "AIUI included in frontend payload"
    else
-        warn "AIUI missing from archipelago/web-ui (verify rootfs copy before shipping)"
+        bad "AIUI missing from archipelago/web-ui"
+    fi
+
+    COMPANION_META="$WEB_UI/packages/archipelago-companion.json"
+    COMPANION_APK="$WEB_UI/packages/archipelago-companion.apk"
+    if [ -s "$COMPANION_APK" ] && [ "$(jq -r '.versionName // empty' "$COMPANION_META" 2>/dev/null)" = "0.5.28" ] \
+            && [ "$(jq -r '.versionCode // empty' "$COMPANION_META" 2>/dev/null)" = "48" ]; then
+        ok "Companion 0.5.28 (versionCode 48) APK included"
+    else
+        bad "Companion 0.5.28 APK/metadata missing or stale"
+    fi
+
+    SETTINGS_BUNDLE="$(grep -rlF "v$EXPECTED_VERSION" "$WEB_UI/assets" 2>/dev/null | head -1)"
+    if [ -n "$SETTINGS_BUNDLE" ] \
+            && grep -qF 'v1.8.0-alpha' "$SETTINGS_BUNDLE" \
+            && ! grep -qE 'v1\.[0-7]\.|v1\.2\.0-alpha' "$SETTINGS_BUNDLE"; then
+        ok "What's New is v1.8.6-first with a v1.8.0 history floor"
+    else
+        bad "What's New payload is missing v1.8 history or still contains pre-v1.8 entries"
    fi
 else
-    warn "no archipelago/web-ui payload on ISO (frontend may live in rootfs.tar only)"
+    bad "no archipelago/web-ui payload on ISO"
 fi

 echo
@@ -16,14 +16,26 @@ PROJECT_ROOT="$(cd "$SCRIPT_DIR/.." && pwd)"
 VERSION_DIR="$PROJECT_ROOT/releases/v${VERSION}"
 BACKEND="$VERSION_DIR/archipelago"
 FRONTEND="$VERSION_DIR/archipelago-frontend-${VERSION}.tar.gz"
+PENDING_MANIFEST="$PROJECT_ROOT/releases/pending/v${VERSION}/manifest.json"
+LIVE_MANIFEST="$PROJECT_ROOT/releases/manifest.json"
+if [ -f "$PENDING_MANIFEST" ]; then
+    MANIFEST="$PENDING_MANIFEST"
+    PROMOTE_MANIFEST=1
+else
+    # Backward compatibility for releases prepared before pending manifests.
+    MANIFEST="$LIVE_MANIFEST"
+    PROMOTE_MANIFEST=0
+fi

 fail() { echo "Error: $*" >&2; exit 1; }

-[ -f "$PROJECT_ROOT/releases/manifest.json" ] || fail "releases/manifest.json missing"
+[ -f "$MANIFEST" ] || fail "release manifest missing: $MANIFEST"
+MANIFEST_VERSION=$(python3 -c 'import json,sys; print(json.load(open(sys.argv[1]))["version"])' "$MANIFEST")
+[ "$MANIFEST_VERSION" = "$VERSION" ] || fail "requested v$VERSION but $MANIFEST describes v$MANIFEST_VERSION"
 [ -f "$BACKEND" ] || fail "backend artifact missing: $BACKEND"
 [ -f "$FRONTEND" ] || fail "frontend artifact missing: $FRONTEND"

-"$SCRIPT_DIR/check-release-manifest.sh"
+"$SCRIPT_DIR/check-release-manifest.sh" "$MANIFEST"

 # §A supply-chain gate: never publish an unsigned OTA manifest. Fleet nodes
 # with the pinned release-root anchor refuse to auto-apply unsigned manifests,
@@ -32,11 +44,11 @@ fail() { echo "Error: $*" >&2; exit 1; }
 # Release root ROTATED 2026-08-05; see create-release.sh. New root from
 # v1.7.123 onward.
 EXPECTED_DID="did:key:z6Mkfu5LT8d4DjETtrkATvHh9Dvcbnr7zBCUwfau8Sw7DLWT"
-grep -q '"signature":' "$PROJECT_ROOT/releases/manifest.json" \
-    && grep -q "\"signed_by\": \"$EXPECTED_DID\"" "$PROJECT_ROOT/releases/manifest.json" \
-    || fail "releases/manifest.json is not signed by the release root — run: bash scripts/sign-manifest.sh"
+grep -q '"signature":' "$MANIFEST" \
+    && grep -q "\"signed_by\": \"$EXPECTED_DID\"" "$MANIFEST" \
+    || fail "$MANIFEST is not signed by the release root — run: bash scripts/sign-manifest.sh $MANIFEST"
 if [ -x "$PROJECT_ROOT/core/target/release/archipelago" ]; then
-    "$PROJECT_ROOT/core/target/release/archipelago" ceremony verify "$PROJECT_ROOT/releases/manifest.json" \
+    "$PROJECT_ROOT/core/target/release/archipelago" ceremony verify "$MANIFEST" \
        || fail "manifest signature failed cryptographic verification"
 fi

@@ -130,12 +142,36 @@ echo "Verifying public download URLs (full GET + size + sha256)..."
 # hand during recovery. It fails hard on the first bad asset — the previous
 # inline `while read` ran in a pipe subshell, where a `fail` (exit) killed only
 # the subshell and let this script march on to "published and verified".
-"$PROJECT_ROOT/scripts/check-release-assets.sh" "$PROJECT_ROOT/releases/manifest.json" \
+"$PROJECT_ROOT/scripts/check-release-assets.sh" "$MANIFEST" \
    || fail "asset verification failed — NOT pushing main. The manifest stays off the branch nodes read, so no node sees a version it cannot fetch. Repair the assets and re-run."

-# Assets are proven fetchable — only now does the manifest become live.
-echo "Assets verified. Pushing main to $REMOTE (this makes v${VERSION} live)..."
-git -C "$PROJECT_ROOT" push "$REMOTE" main
+# Assets are proven fetchable — only now may the manifest become live. First
+# incorporate concurrent work, then promote in a dedicated commit. Until the
+# final push succeeds the remote still serves the previous manifest.
+echo "Assets verified. Synchronizing main before manifest promotion..."
+git -C "$PROJECT_ROOT" fetch "$REMOTE" main
+git -C "$PROJECT_ROOT" merge --no-edit "$REMOTE/main"
+
+if [ "$PROMOTE_MANIFEST" = "1" ]; then
+    cp "$MANIFEST" "$LIVE_MANIFEST"
+    cp "$MANIFEST" "$PROJECT_ROOT/release-manifest.json"
+    git -C "$PROJECT_ROOT" add releases/manifest.json release-manifest.json
+    git -C "$PROJECT_ROOT" rm -f -- "releases/pending/v${VERSION}/manifest.json"
+    git -C "$PROJECT_ROOT" commit -m "chore: publish release v${VERSION}"
+fi
+
+echo "Publishing verified manifest to main (this makes v${VERSION} live)..."
+# A concurrent push can race the fetch above. Merge and retry without ever
+# force-pushing; the remote remains on its old, working manifest meanwhile.
+for attempt in 1 2 3; do
+    if git -C "$PROJECT_ROOT" push "$REMOTE" HEAD:main; then
+        break
+    fi
+    [ "$attempt" -lt 3 ] || fail "main advanced repeatedly; assets are safe but manifest was not promoted"
+    echo "main advanced during publication; merging and retrying..."
+    git -C "$PROJECT_ROOT" fetch "$REMOTE" main
+    git -C "$PROJECT_ROOT" merge --no-edit "$REMOTE/main"
+done

 echo "Release v${VERSION} published and verified on $REMOTE."

@@ -1,10 +1,10 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env bash
 # One-step OTA-manifest signer (counterpart to sign-catalog.sh).
 #
-#   Run:   bash scripts/sign-manifest.sh
+#   Run:   bash scripts/sign-manifest.sh [path/to/manifest.json]
 #   Then:  paste your 24-word release master mnemonic, press Enter, then Ctrl-D.
 #
-# Signs releases/manifest.json in place and cryptographically verifies the
+# Signs the requested manifest (live by default) and cryptographically verifies the
 # result against the pinned release-root anchor. The mnemonic is read from the
 # terminal only (never stored, never in shell history, never passed to Claude).
 #
@@ -18,7 +18,9 @@
 set -euo pipefail

 REPO="$(cd "$(dirname "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}")/.." && pwd)"
-MANIFEST="$REPO/releases/manifest.json"
+MANIFEST="${1:-$REPO/releases/manifest.json}"
+[[ "$MANIFEST" = /* ]] || MANIFEST="$REPO/$MANIFEST"
+[ -f "$MANIFEST" ] || { echo "Manifest not found: $MANIFEST" >&2; exit 1; }

 # Use ONLY a prebuilt signer — never compile here (compiling caused hangs in
 # the earlier catalog ceremony). Prefer the repo's release build.
@@ -41,9 +43,10 @@ echo "════════════════════════

 echo
 if "$BIN" ceremony verify "$MANIFEST"; then
-    echo "✅ SUCCESS — manifest signed by the pinned release root."
-    echo "   Commit + push releases/manifest.json (and release-manifest.json if present)."
-    cp "$MANIFEST" "$REPO/release-manifest.json" 2>/dev/null || true
+    echo "✅ SUCCESS — manifest signed by the pinned release root: $MANIFEST"
+    if [ "$MANIFEST" = "$REPO/releases/manifest.json" ]; then
+        cp "$MANIFEST" "$REPO/release-manifest.json"
+    fi
 else
    echo "❌ Signature did NOT verify against the pinned release-root anchor."
    echo "   Do NOT commit. Check the mnemonic and re-run."
@@ -11,8 +11,9 @@ a block (from the curated CHANGELOG bullets) and inserts it newest-first.
  python3 scripts/sync-whats-new.py --check    # exit 1 if anything is missing

 Dev-process bullets ("Validation passed…/pending…") are dropped — the modal is
-user-facing. Only CHANGELOG versions are managed; older hand-written blocks
-(pre-CHANGELOG history) are never touched or removed.
+user-facing. The visible history deliberately starts at v1.8.0-alpha; older
+blocks are removed so this remains a concise product history rather than an
+unbounded archive.
 """
 import re
 import sys
@@ -25,6 +26,7 @@ MODAL = REPO / "neode-ui/src/views/settings/AccountInfoSection.vue"

 MONTHS = ["", "January", "February", "March", "April", "May", "June", "July",
          "August", "September", "October", "November", "December"]
+MIN_VISIBLE_VERSION = (1, 8, 0)

 HEADER_RE = re.compile(r"^## (v\d+\.\d+\.\d+\S*) \((\d{4})-(\d{2})-(\d{2})\)")

@@ -47,7 +49,10 @@ def parse_changelog():
        if m:
            ver, y, mo, d = m.groups()
            cur = {"ver": ver, "date": f"{MONTHS[int(mo)]} {int(d)}, {y}", "bullets": []}
-            entries.append(cur)
+            if version_key(ver) >= MIN_VISIBLE_VERSION:
+                entries.append(cur)
+            else:
+                cur = None
            continue
        if cur is not None and line.startswith("- "):
            text = line[2:].strip()
@@ -67,14 +72,82 @@ def undated_versions():
    return found


-def existing_versions():
-    text = MODAL.read_text()
-    return set(re.findall(r"<!-- (v\d+\.\d+\.\d+\S*) -->", text))
+def ordered_versions():
+    """Return generated modal versions in display order (top to bottom)."""
+    return re.findall(r"<!-- (v\d+\.\d+\.\d+\S*) -->", MODAL.read_text())
+
+
+def legacy_blocks():
+    """Return old hand-written alpha blocks that predate generated markers."""
+    return re.findall(r"<!-- (alpha\.[^ ]+) -->", MODAL.read_text())
+
+
+def version_key(version):
+    match = re.match(r"v(\d+)\.(\d+)\.(\d+)", version)
+    return tuple(map(int, match.groups()))
+
+
+def sort_modal_blocks(entries):
+    """Re-render current release-note blocks newest-first and remove old history."""
+    lines = MODAL.read_text().splitlines(keepends=True)
+    # Include the old hand-written `alpha.*` blocks in the replace range so
+    # normalization can delete them. Previously the checker saw only generated
+    # vX.Y.Z markers and falsely claimed the v1.8.0 history floor was enforced.
+    marker = re.compile(r"^\s*<!-- ((?:v\d+\.\d+\.\d+\S*)|(?:alpha\.[^ ]+)) -->\s*$")
+    blocks = []
+
+    for start, line in enumerate(lines):
+        match = marker.match(line)
+        if not match:
+            continue
+        depth = 0
+        opened = False
+        for index in range(start + 1, len(lines)):
+            for tag in re.findall(r"</?div\b[^>]*>", lines[index]):
+                if tag.startswith("</"):
+                    depth -= 1
+                else:
+                    depth += 1
+                    opened = True
+            if opened and depth == 0:
+                blocks.append((start, index + 1, match.group(1), lines[start:index + 1]))
+                break
+        else:
+            raise RuntimeError(f"unclosed What's New block for {match.group(1)}")
+
+    if not blocks:
+        return False
+    for previous, following in zip(blocks, blocks[1:]):
+        gap = "".join(lines[previous[1]:following[0]])
+        if gap.strip():
+            raise RuntimeError("unexpected content between What's New release blocks")
+
+    by_version = {entry["ver"]: entry for entry in entries}
+    retained = [
+        b for b in blocks
+        if b[2].startswith("v") and version_key(b[2]) >= MIN_VISIBLE_VERSION
+    ]
+    sorted_segments = [
+        render_block(by_version[b[2]]).splitlines(keepends=True)
+        if b[2] in by_version else b[3]
+        for b in sorted(retained, key=lambda b: version_key(b[2]), reverse=True)
+    ]
+    output = lines[:blocks[0][0]]
+    for segment in sorted_segments:
+        output.extend(segment)
+    output.extend(lines[blocks[-1][1]:])
+    changed = output != lines
+    if changed:
+        MODAL.write_text("".join(output))
+    return changed


 def to_html(text):
-    text = text.replace("`", "")          # drop markdown code ticks (plain prose)
-    return html.escape(text, quote=False)  # & < >  (Vue template-safe)
+    text = text.replace("`", "")
+    escaped = html.escape(text, quote=False)  # & < > (Vue template-safe)
+    escaped = re.sub(r"\*\*(.+?)\*\*", r"<strong>\1</strong>", escaped)
+    escaped = re.sub(r"(?<!\*)\*([^*]+?)\*(?!\*)", r"<em>\1</em>", escaped)
+    return escaped


 def render_block(entry):
@@ -113,36 +186,53 @@ def main():
        return 1

    entries = parse_changelog()
-    have = existing_versions()
+    displayed = ordered_versions()
+    have = set(displayed)
    missing = [e for e in entries if e["ver"] not in have]
+    expected_order = sorted(displayed, key=version_key, reverse=True)
+    out_of_order = displayed != expected_order
+    too_old = [v for v in displayed if version_key(v) < MIN_VISIBLE_VERSION]
+    too_old.extend(legacy_blocks())

-    if not missing:
-        print("What's New modal is in sync with CHANGELOG.md "
-              f"({len(entries)} changelog versions, all present).")
+    if not missing and not out_of_order and not too_old:
+        changed = False if check else sort_modal_blocks(entries)
+        if changed:
+            print("Re-rendered What's New blocks from the curated changelog.")
+        else:
+            print("What's New modal is in sync with CHANGELOG.md "
+                  f"({len(entries)} changelog versions, all present and newest-first).")
        return 0

    names = ", ".join(e["ver"] for e in missing)
    if check:
-        print("FAIL: these CHANGELOG versions have no block in the Settings "
-              f"What's New modal: {names}", file=sys.stderr)
+        if missing:
+            print("FAIL: these CHANGELOG versions have no block in the Settings "
+                  f"What's New modal: {names}", file=sys.stderr)
+        if out_of_order:
+            print("FAIL: What's New entries are not newest-first; the modal currently "
+                  f"opens at {displayed[0]} instead of {expected_order[0]}", file=sys.stderr)
+        if too_old:
+            print("FAIL: What's New contains entries older than the v1.8.0 history floor: "
+                  + ", ".join(too_old), file=sys.stderr)
        print("Run: python3 scripts/sync-whats-new.py", file=sys.stderr)
        return 1

-    # Insert missing blocks newest-first, immediately before the newest existing
-    # block marker (the first "<!-- v... -->" line in the file).
-    lines = MODAL.read_text().splitlines(keepends=True)
-    marker = re.compile(r"^\s*<!-- v\d+\.\d+\.\d+\S* -->\s*$")
-    idx = next((i for i, ln in enumerate(lines) if marker.match(ln)), None)
-    if idx is None:
-        print("ERROR: could not find an existing version block marker in the modal.",
-              file=sys.stderr)
-        return 2
+    if missing:
+        # Insert before the first block; the full sort below makes this safe even
+        # when a historical hand-written block was accidentally left at the top.
+        lines = MODAL.read_text().splitlines(keepends=True)
+        marker = re.compile(r"^\s*<!-- v\d+\.\d+\.\d+\S* -->\s*$")
+        idx = next((i for i, ln in enumerate(lines) if marker.match(ln)), None)
+        if idx is None:
+            print("ERROR: could not find an existing version block marker in the modal.",
+                  file=sys.stderr)
+            return 2
+        lines.insert(idx, "".join(render_block(e) for e in missing))
+        MODAL.write_text("".join(lines))
+        print(f"Inserted {len(missing)} block(s): {names}")

-    # newest-first: sort missing by their order in `entries` (already newest-first)
-    block_text = "".join(render_block(e) for e in missing)
-    lines.insert(idx, block_text)
-    MODAL.write_text("".join(lines))
-    print(f"Inserted {len(missing)} block(s): {names}")
+    if sort_modal_blocks(entries):
+        print("Normalized What's New blocks (v1.8.0+ only, newest-first).")
    return 0


@@ -242,14 +242,21 @@ section_d() {
  else
    record FAIL "kdump-tools configured" "/etc/default/kdump-tools missing USE_KDUMP=1 — host fixup didn't land"
  fi
-  # D2. crashkernel reservation — memory is reserved at BOOT, so a node that
-  # took the OTA fixup but hasn't rebooted yet is WARN, not FAIL.
-  if grep -q 'crashkernel=' /proc/cmdline 2>/dev/null; then
-    record PASS "crashkernel reserved" "$(grep -oE 'crashkernel=[^ ]+' /proc/cmdline | head -1)"
-  elif grep -q 'crashkernel=' /etc/default/grub 2>/dev/null; then
-    record WARN "crashkernel reserved" "written to GRUB — applies on next reboot"
+  # D2. crashkernel reservation — grade the memory the kernel actually
+  # reserved, not merely the first matching cmdline token. Debian's
+  # kdump-tools.cfg used to append a second crashkernel= range after our 256M;
+  # the audit falsely passed while /sys reported only 192M reserved.
+  local crash_size expected_size=$((256 * 1024 * 1024))
+  crash_size=$(cat /sys/kernel/kexec_crash_size 2>/dev/null || echo 0)
+  [[ "$crash_size" =~ ^[0-9]+$ ]] || crash_size=0
+  if (( crash_size >= expected_size )); then
+    record PASS "crashkernel reserved" "$((crash_size / 1024 / 1024))MiB actually reserved"
+  elif (( crash_size > 0 )); then
+    record FAIL "crashkernel reserved" "$((crash_size / 1024 / 1024))MiB reserved; expected >=256MiB (conflicting cmdline?)"
+  elif grep -q 'crashkernel=256M' /etc/default/grub 2>/dev/null; then
+    record WARN "crashkernel reserved" "256M written to GRUB — applies on next reboot"
  else
-    record FAIL "crashkernel reserved" "absent from /proc/cmdline AND /etc/default/grub"
+    record FAIL "crashkernel reserved" "no reservation and crashkernel=256M absent from GRUB"
  fi
  # D3. hang/panic capture policy — runtime-settable, expected immediately
  if [[ "$(cat /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_panic 2>/dev/null)" == "1" ]]; then
Author	SHA1	Message	Date
archipelago	d2174128c5	chore: sign the v1.8.7 app catalog + release manifest	2026-09-01 01:37:24 -04:00
archipelago	2ad0171e5f	fix(ui): drop the now-unused scheme helper Demo images / Build & push demo images (push) Failing after 36s Details	2026-08-31 19:08:17 -04:00
archipelago	46cb0bfd37	fix(ui): gate-fronted https launches + signed-catalog App Store Demo images / Build & push demo images (push) Failing after 36s Details directAppUrl(), the legacy open() path, and resolveRuntimeLaunchUrl() now upgrade to https only for ports the app gate fronts — decided from the signed catalog's embedded manifest ports (auth gated/open), so plain-HTTP publishes (legacy installs, auth:none API ports like Cuprate's RPC) keep http instead of failing outright. fetchAppCatalog() merges the daemon-verified signed catalog into the App Store listing (signed entries appear immediately; community copy supplies featured and curated metadata), and Marketplace.vue uses the same dynamic fetcher as Discover so the grid sees signed-new apps too.	2026-08-31 18:41:00 -04:00
archipelago	b8593c9090	docs(release): v1.8.7 notes — https app launches + platform round Demo images / Build & push demo images (push) Failing after 34s Details	2026-08-31 18:40:51 -04:00
archipelago	fc68c5b680	feat(apps): complete the manifest platform — convert the last five stragglers Demo images / Build & push demo images (push) Failing after 36s Details Nginx Proxy Manager, Tailscale, Ollama, CryptPad, and AdGuard Home now carry full manifests: the app gate fronts their web ports (TLS on the same port, node login where appropriate), installs run through the orchestrator, and pins live in the signed catalog. Tailscale mirrors its legacy shape exactly (userspace networking, web console on 8240, plain HTTP for the gate to front). Ollama stays loopback-only — the assistant's local model backend, not a web app. Retires the four already-removed apps for good (FIPS, Nostr VPN, Routstr, Penpot pins dropped from image-versions.sh, the generator map, and image_versions.rs), fixes Cuprate's duplicated metadata block that strict YAML parsers reject, and updates the port-inventory review gates for the new open (3 own-login consoles) and exempt (2 DNS) ports.	2026-08-31 18:40:39 -04:00
archipelago	3ed75c328d	style: rustfmt the signed-catalog serving	2026-08-31 17:09:16 -04:00
archipelago	687196ad3b	chore: prepare release v1.8.7-alpha Demo images / Build & push demo images (push) Failing after 37s Details	2026-08-31 17:08:37 -04:00
archipelago	e2bd6330a1	test(app-catalog): pin the signed-catalog body gate	2026-08-31 17:08:37 -04:00
archipelago	7c0a492c43	fix(ui): launch apps on the page's scheme over HTTPS New-tab apps and the companion WebView got hardcoded http:// URLs, so a node reached over HTTPS opened Vaultwarden, BTCPay, Grafana et al in cleartext. Every app port is gate-owned and serves TLS on the same port (appgate/tls.rs), so directAppUrl(), the legacy open() path, and resolveRuntimeLaunchUrl() now follow the page's scheme. HTTP pages (the kiosk, LAN) are unchanged; netbird keeps its unconditional https.	2026-08-31 17:08:26 -04:00
archipelago	3089624969	Merge remote-tracking branch 'gitea-vps2/main'	2026-08-31 16:15:17 -04:00
archipelago	5b658cec67	feat(app-catalog): serve the signed catalog from the node first	2026-08-31 16:15:13 -04:00
archipelago	21b8d4b1ee	catalog: add Cuprate (0.1.0-preview)	2026-08-31 16:10:38 -04:00
lfg2025	6f05f5583f	Merge pull request 'docs: session record — companion 0.5.28 shipped + deployment playbook' (#151 ) from companion/session-2026-08-31 into main	2026-08-31 20:03:03 +00:00
Dorian	02ac4396d1	docs: session record — companion 0.5.28 shipped + the deployment playbook Full state at session end (all public surfaces verified byte-identical at 0.5.28/vc48; only node web-bundle redeploys outstanding), the feature map, and the operational playbook next sessions need: Tor SOCKS proxy for Gitea API/curl (the 'unreachable API' was a missing proxy flag), token scopes, protected-main ship flow via -ship branch + PR + API merge, stale local main lineage, the foundation server's two surfaces, demo CI auto-redeploy, build/test commands, and the open items.	2026-08-31 21:02:59 +01:00
archipelago	5ffdcc9936	docs(release): explain the v1.8.7 correction Demo images / Build & push demo images (push) Failing after 39s Details	2026-08-31 15:46:18 -04:00
archipelago	9cf07e1eac	fix(release): enforce the v1.8 What's New floor Demo images / Build & push demo images (push) Failing after 39s Details	2026-08-31 15:44:48 -04:00
archipelago	e7854702c0	chore: publish release v1.8.6-alpha Demo images / Build & push demo images (push) Failing after 36s Details	2026-08-31 15:40:23 -04:00
archipelago	d4018a6e73	chore: prepare release v1.8.6-alpha	2026-08-31 15:34:51 -04:00
archipelago	b57cba63d1	Merge remote-tracking branch 'gitea-vps2/main' Demo images / Build & push demo images (push) Failing after 36s Details	2026-08-31 15:12:59 -04:00
archipelago	7bc9f69b1f	fix(settings): start What's New history at v1.8.0	2026-08-31 15:12:18 -04:00
lfg2025	913743923c	Merge pull request 'docs: deploy handoff — companion 0.5.28 to the live surfaces' (#150 ) from companion/0.5.28-deploy-handoff into main	2026-08-31 19:01:58 +00:00
Dorian	241e8cfca4	docs: handoff — deploy companion 0.5.28 (vc48) to the live surfaces For the archi-dev-box agent: companion 0.5.28 is on main (PR #149) and Gitea raw serves it (verified byte-identical, v1+v2+v3). Remaining: the foundation server's static /packages mirror (the real-node QR download URL — currently 0.5.27), node web-bundle redeploys (same as the 2026-07-23 flow), and confirming the demo stack flipped after CI's webhook redeploy. Exact commands, expected shasum, and final verify block included.	2026-08-31 20:01:44 +01:00
archipelago	017505c431	fix(release): include every curated changelog item	2026-08-31 14:52:47 -04:00
archipelago	7a39d8fbd1	fix(settings): sort What's New history newest-first Demo images / Build & push demo images (push) Failing after 36s Details	2026-08-31 14:50:55 -04:00
archipelago	e3275353b9	fix(release): publish assets before exposing manifest	2026-08-31 14:45:29 -04:00
lfg2025	9f1a289d1a	Merge pull request 'Companion 0.5.28 — backup & restore, NIP-46 remote signer, companion-gated install pitch' (#149 ) from companion/0.5.28-ship into main Demo images / Build & push demo images (push) Failing after 41s Details	2026-08-31 18:38:43 +00:00
Dorian	dd07da53f9	chore(android): update companion apk download	2026-08-31 19:34:57 +01:00
Dorian	7d09418a09	Companion 0.5.28 — backup & restore (#128 ), NIP-46 remote signer (#139 ), companion-gated install pitch (#61 residual) The companion-agent queue from the 2026-08-30 handoff, complete: - Backup & Restore: hub sub-page, SAF export/import sealed in the node's ADR-005 envelope (Argon2id + ChaCha20-Poly1305, byte-compatible with core backup.rs), merge-only restore, no cloud. - Remote Signer: the phone is the NIP-46 bunker — nsec generate/import, nostrconnect:// QR pairing (scanner + OS deep link), per-request approve/deny card, NIP-44 v2 transport with NIP-04 receive fallback, wire-faithful to rust-nostr's reference bunker. Crypto pinned to the official NIP-44 + BIP-340 vectors; e2e harness included. - #61 residual: banner + manual intro trigger + overlay all gate on isCompanionApp() (web-side, vitest-covered). - Hub modal: new sub-pages like Nodes/FIPS, 70% height cap, node ULA display/copy in the Nodes list, fipssh Termux helper (npub→ULA is a pure public-key function — verified against the fips crate). Issues #61 (comment), #128, #139 closed on the tracker.	2026-08-31 19:34:05 +01:00
archipelago	eef35d65b7	chore: release v1.8.5-alpha Demo images / Build & push demo images (push) Failing after 37s Details	2026-08-31 14:27:00 -04:00
archipelago	3b3500a7dd	test(image): gate installer crash-capture payload	2026-08-31 12:38:59 -04:00
archipelago	2f0f7fd388	fix(host): repair malformed legacy kdump defaults	2026-08-31 11:16:34 -04:00
archipelago	b300a720db	fix(host): query package allowlist without literal quotes	2026-08-31 10:44:15 -04:00
archipelago	5b6d278c46	fix(host): preserve shell variables in privileged fixups	2026-08-31 10:24:06 -04:00
archipelago	699669a5f7	fix(host): retain captured kdump vmcores	2026-08-31 09:57:09 -04:00
archipelago	54431fc856	fix(host): enforce the full kdump crash reservation	2026-08-31 09:16:18 -04:00
archipelago	3409db569e	docs(release): complete the v1.7.44→current release-notes audit Demo images / Build & push demo images (push) Failing after 37s Details 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.	2026-08-31 08:05:42 -04:00
archipelago	cb71c25ea0	chore(catalog): carry the Cuprate store entry into the frontend public catalog Demo images / Build & push demo images (push) Failing after 39s Details 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.	2026-08-31 07:48:31 -04:00
archipelago	c5eeb31055	fix(ui): wifi setup on a fresh install — reveal toggle + a no-network callout (#145 ) Demo images / Build & push demo images (push) Failing after 39s Details 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).	2026-08-31 07:47:47 -04:00