meshbay.git/packages/meshbay-hub/src/meshbay_hub/api, branch 0.8

feat(hub): let a hub admin disable public groups instance-wide

2026-08-28T00:51:00Z

A new General tab in Administration carries one switch, allow_public_groups, stored in a hub_settings key/value table (runtime-editable, unlike hub.toml). Default is on; an absent row means on, so an upgrade changes nothing. Enforcement is server-side on every hub-mediated path, not just the SPA: - create_group refuses visibility=public (403), staff included - list_public_groups the directory returns nothing (local + federated) - join_group open-joining a public group is refused - group_online_nodes a non-member of a public group is handed no node - signaling.webrtc_offer drops the "node hosts an open group" fallback - federation.export_directory advertises nothing to peer hubs The switch is read live, so flipping it back restores every path. Existing members of a group that predates the switch keep their membership row and their access — this is plan A, not a purge. GET /v1/hub/info exposes the flag (unauthenticated) so the create-group form and the sidebar's "Public groups" link render correctly. Also in the admin Groups tab: a Revoke action beside Suspend. Suspend is the reversible hub flag; Revoke calls POST /v1/admin/revoke, which sets status=revoked and broadcasts a signed revocation every node enforces (denylist + dropped live sessions). It is confirm-guarded and names the group. And a message fix the revoke work surfaced: group_online_nodes, join_group and webrtc_offer answered "Group is suspended" for any non-active status. They now report the real state, so a member of a revoked group is told "Group is revoked" rather than something reversible-sounding. Tests: test_public_groups_toggle.py (10) covers the switch end to end and the five enforcement paths; test_revocation.py gains the status-message assertion. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_018gKJ85aZyvEwarXMFzFEwi

feat(music): network-adaptive prefetch depth, opt-in keep-screen-on toggle

2026-08-26T12:43:16Z

Prefetch depth (music-player.js): 5 tracks ahead on Wi-Fi, 3 on cellular — more runway through a screen-lock network gap when the connection is cheap and fast, less when it's metered. navigator.connection is Chromium-only; Firefox/Safari (where it's undefined) get the same conservative tier as an unrecognized connection type, never assumed fast. MAX_CACHED_BLOBS raised to 6 to hold the largest case (current + 5). Keep-screen-on-during-audio (new user preference, off by default): a Settings toggle, backed by a new whitelisted key on /v1/users/me/preferences (music_keep_screen_on). music-player.js holds a Screen Wake Lock only while a track is playing and only when the user has opted in — unlike the video player's unconditional lock, this must not fight the ordinary expectation (matching Spotify/Deezer) that the phone locks on its own while listening.

fix(hub): no-store on the SPA HTML shell — pull-to-refresh wasn't enough

2026-08-26T10:16:10Z

Likely root cause of a very confusing test result: the /app HTML response had no Cache-Control at all, so a browser that decided to cache it heuristically could keep re-serving the SAME old page (old ASSET_V, old JS) indefinitely — a normal reload, pull-to-refresh included, has no reason to override a cache entry it still considers fresh. Every static asset already gets a fresh URL from ASSET_V precisely so a change is visible, but that only matters if the HTML naming that URL is itself refetched. no-store forces every navigation here to hit the network.

feat: add Photos group app

2026-08-25T09:46:17Z

A new group application (docs/apps.md's plug-in mechanism), following the plan in docs/photos.md. Unlike Videos/Music: several photo roots per group instead of one (photo_roots is a set, one signed op replaces it whole), a single album-grid view with no third-party matching step, and per-photo info read from the file's own EXIF at index time — no metadata service, no credential, no outbound network call at all. Protocol (meshbay-common, MNP 0.10 -> 0.11, additive): `taken_at`/`camera` on IndexEntry; `photo_roots`/`photo_roots_ack`; `OP_PHOTO_ROOTS`. Node: roster.py stores photo_roots as a group_settings entry (JSON list, same shape as enabled_apps); ops.py/webrtc_server.py validate and sign the whole set in one op, same pattern as apps_enabled; a new PhotoEnricher (indexer/enrich_photo.py) runs Pillow in its own small bounded pool, separate from the video/audio pools, producing a resized thumbnail plus the two EXIF fields — never GPS, checked by a grep-based regression test. Client: photos-app.js — one album card per directory containing images, a per-album photo grid, and a lightbox with next/previous (keyboard and buttons), zoom in/out/fit/100% starting from the actual on-screen fit percentage, and a "zip this album" button reusing files-app.js's own zip mechanism (lifted into file-utils.js's downloadDirectory so both call the same implementation). group-settings.js gets an add/remove multi-root picker, distinct from Videos/Music's single-value one. Bugs found and fixed before this ever shipped, worth keeping the story of: - enrich_photo.py read width/height from the raw image *before* applying EXIF orientation correction, and read DateTimeOriginal off the plain 0th-IFD Exif object — a real camera stores it in the Exif sub-IFD, which Pillow only exposes via get_ifd(Exif). A flat, hand-built EXIF dict round-trips through Pillow either way, which is exactly what would have hidden both bugs; the regression test builds EXIF with piexif instead, matching what real hardware produces. - photos-app.js's album grouping stripped a trailing path segment from entry.path under the assumption it still carried a filename — it doesn't (files-app.js's own convention: e.path is already the containing directory), so every album collapsed one level into its parent. Found live against a real multi-folder library. - transport.js's ADMIN_OP_TYPES allowlist (already the fix for an identical bug on video_root/apps_enabled, see 4783d81) was missing photo_roots: its admin_challenge matched no pending request and was silently dropped, so saving a photo root just timed out after 30s with no error. - daemon.py pruned a thumbnail when its file left the index (root removed or reconfigured) but never forgot the content hash was "already attempted" — the same bytes reappearing under a renamed/relocated root (an operator's real workflow) were then permanently skipped, forever, with nothing to indicate why. Discarding the attempt alongside the cache entry on prune is what makes pruning actually reversible. - packages/meshbay-client's app:// protocol handler served every file with no Cache-Control header, so Chromium was free to serve a stale cached copy indefinitely — none of several `npm run sync-ui` + reload cycles during development actually picked up the new code until the renderer's disk cache was cleared by hand. Now sends Cache-Control: no-store. - the lightbox's zoomed image used flex centering (align-items/ justify-content: center) combined with overflow: auto — a well-known trap where the browser centers overflowing content by shifting it, and the leading half of that overflow (here, the top of a zoomed photo) sits outside what the scrollport can actually reach. Reported live as "unusable". Fixed by switching to top/left alignment once zoomed. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01TiZG4AuSnxHohQMpwTHTyL

feat(hub): Music app client — album grid, flat list, persistent player

2026-08-24T15:39:41Z

Implements the client half of docs/musicbay.md against MNP 0.8: - music-app.js: album grid (grouped by artist -> album, from index-time artist/album fields) or flat folder view, per-group localStorage toggle like Videos. MusicBrainz (music_meta_req) is only looked up when a track has no embedded cover at all — well-tagged files never trigger a network call, unlike Videos where TMDB is unconditional. Reuses video-app.js's MediaThumb/LazyTile (now exported) rather than duplicating the chunk-path thumbnail decode + virtualization. - music-player.js: the persistent player bar — queue, shuffle (Fisher- Yates, keeps the current track in place when toggled), repeat (off/ all/one), volume (localStorage), prev/next, a one-track prefetch cache. No MSE, no node-side streaming: a track is downloaded and decrypted once via file-utils.js's pipelinedDownload, same chunk pipeline Files already uses, then played from a blob URL. - group-page.js: owns musicQueue/musicbrainzConfig state and renders MusicPlayerBar outside the tab-switched area — deliberately, so playback survives navigating to Chat/Files, the same reasoning the video/preview modals are shell-owned rather than app-owned. - apps.js: registers "music". transport.js: fetchMusicMeta (keyed by path, same reordering-hazard fix as fetchMediaMeta), setMusicbrainzConfig/setMusicbrainzEnabled (signed ops, mirroring TMDB's), and the three new ack handlers. group-settings.js: a MusicBrainz settings section (contact string, per-group toggle) — the existing Applications checklist already picks up "music" for free, per apps.md's own claim. - icon.js: music/pause/skip-next/skip-prev/shuffle/repeat/volume, drawn in the same stroked style as the existing set. - i18n: group.tab_music, the music.* and settings_node.musicbrainz_* keys, translated (not just copied) across all ten locales, Polish carrying full one/few/many/other plural forms for music.n_tracks. - webapp.py's _ASSETS, test_hook_ordering.py's STATIC_FILES and test_transport_contracts.py's SPLIT_FILES gain the two new files. Full suite (common + hub + node): 1116 passed, no regressions. `npm run sync-ui` in meshbay-client confirmed both files copied. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01KBi7ALLGfwcjBXt57yNMcy

feat(node,hub): add Videos group app (poster grid, flat list, TMDB metadata)

2026-08-24T08:04:46Z

Implements docs/mediacenter.md: a "Videos" group application built on the existing files index rather than a separate catalogue. On the node side, new indexer enrichment (technical probe, filename/season parsing, thumbnail generation) runs per-file once an operator has chosen a video_root for the group, plus a TMDB client for on-demand poster/metadata lookups (never client-side, thumbnails delivered over the existing chunk path). On the hub side, a new video-app.js renders a lazily-mounted poster grid or a thumbnail-only flat list, with TMDB entirely optional per group. Along the way: the global apps registry now drives Settings' default-tab picker instead of a hardcoded list, and the video_root is configured from group Settings (like uploads) rather than from Files, with the node refusing to run any TMDB/thumbnail work until one is set. Fixes several bugs found via live testing against a real library, notably a race between two effects writing the same "image ready" state that could leave a poster grid spinning forever on a same-tab revisit — see mediacenter.md §5.4 for the full account of each one.

feat(hub): split the group UI into a pluggable "applications" architecture

2026-08-23T13:15:35Z

GroupPage's 6620-line app.js carried Chat and Files wedged in directly, with no way to add another group-level app without touching the shell itself. It is now app.js (routing, non-group pages) plus nine focused files — apps.js (the registry), chat-app.js, files-app.js, video-player.js, group-page.js (the shell), group-settings.js, hub-client.js, icon.js and file-utils.js — with docs/apps.md as the checklist for adding one (Videos/Music/Photos are sketched there, not built). Node side gained the matching enablement mechanism, mirroring member_upload exactly: a roster setting, a signed apps_enabled op enforced by _has_admin_authority, exposed in the handshake ack. Operators toggle applications per group from Settings, which also gained a small reorder: Invite, Pairing, Applications, Shared directories, Uploads, danger zone, Your devices, Members. Two bugs surfaced during the split, both missing an import across the new file boundary and invisible to node --check or a module-load probe since they only throw when the code path actually runs: - group-page.js called onRefreshAuth on a stale-token handshake rejection, but app.js never imported refreshAccessToken from hub-client.js — so a brand new member (including a group's own creator) hit "Not a member of this group" and the retry silently failed, throwing before it could refresh the token. - chat-app.js called getLocale() for message timestamps without importing it from i18n.js. Opening Chat on a group with real messages threw mid- render; uncaught, that appears to wedge Preact's render scheduler, so every button on the page stopped responding until reload. Caught the second class of bug with a proper no-undef audit across all split files (a temporarily installed ESLint 9, since the system one is too old to parse this codebase's syntax) rather than trusting grep. 827 tests pass; 6 new ones cover the apps_enabled policy. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_016SF6RKNBKg9qejmoMJ9ybA

fix: delete notifications and detach content_reports before deleting a group

2026-08-21T16:10:19Z

The DELETE /v1/groups/{id} endpoint only deleted group_members before removing the group row, causing a FK violation (500) when notifications or content_reports referenced the group. Delete notifications outright and nullify group_id on content_reports to preserve moderation history. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6

feat: unified group management, public groups, and activity-based sidebar

2026-08-20T20:21:19Z

Create Group wizard (Electron-only) consolidates 6 steps across 4 interfaces into a single multi-step page: group creation on hub, node attachment, root selection via folder picker, GEK initialization, and auto-pairing — all in one flow. Browser SPA keeps its current behavior unchanged. Public group support (Option A — GEK for all groups): - All groups have GEK regardless of visibility; open-join groups auto-admit via TOFU when join_policy is "open" - Key rotation blocked for public groups (API guard + UI hidden) - Hub signaling allows WebRTC offers for nodes hosting open-join groups even when the caller isn't a member yet - attach_group writes join_policy to node.toml - Daemon loads GEK for all groups, not just private ones - Known-device path in join_request now auto-admits to open-join groups Node loopback API bridge (Electron IPC): - node:detect, node:call, node:pairing-code IPC handlers in main process - Renderer never sees tokens, paths, or keys (session token = physical access) - platform.js node namespace for UI consumption - Loopback endpoints: roots CRUD, member-upload toggle, reload Bug fixes: - Root change detection: removed premature ctx["roots"] updates from add_root and remove_root that prevented indexer retarget on reload - Duplicate offline message: global fallback now gated on !group - Signaling membership check: fallback to open-join groups for non-members Sidebar groups sorted by last_activity_at (most recent first): - New Group.last_activity_at column with Alembic migration - POST /v1/groups/{id}/activity endpoint, called on connect and chat send - Client-side sort + throttled hub updates (1/min) Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6

feat(ui): 11-point UI overhaul — tabs, transfers, settings, uploads

2026-08-19T14:36:29Z

Hub/UI: - Icon-only group tabs (chat, files, settings) with per-group default tab - Transfer widget: filename becomes a clickable link to open completed downloads - Pulse animation on transfer icon (pale→dark green) while active - Download button feedback in FilePreview (spinner, auto-reset) - Group mute toggle persists across navigation - Login page autofocus, chat refocus after send - Theme toggle closes menu, status badge and duplicate connecting removed - Create-folder restricted to operators, download-path note removed - User preferences API (CRUD) with Alembic migration - Profile: email display/edit via PATCH /v1/users/me - Settings: "Defaults" section for default tab selector - All 10 locale files updated Node: - upload_dir in node.toml: separate filesystem path for uploads - Root.direct flag: uploads land at root path, no subdirectory - CLI --upload-dir flag on `group add` - Admin UI accepts upload_dir Client (Electron): - shell.openPath bridge for opening completed downloads - platform.js passes open callback from native save Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6