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<title>refactor(spa): stop asking a node what version it is</title>
<updated>2026-09-10T15:29:50Z</updated>
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<name>Christophe Besson</name>
<email>cbesson@gmail.com</email>
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<published>2026-09-10T15:29:50Z</published>
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`MNP_MIN_SUPPORTED` is the version this build speaks, so `check_version`
refuses everything below it at the handshake. Every capability the client was
gating on the node's version is therefore true of every peer it can reach:

  * `supportsSealedUpload` — an upload is sealed or it is not sent;
  * `supportsAppOps` — one `app_directories` op, and no `setVideoRoot` /
    `setAudioRoot` / `setPhotoRoots` wrappers behind it;
  * `supportsTransferSlots` and `Lease._skip()` — a lease is always real, so
    there is no branch where a transfer runs without one;
  * `legacyNode`, the read-only shared-directories table, and the two hints
    telling an operator their node is too old to configure an app.

The version the node declares is still recorded, for diagnostics. Nothing
branches on it, and the comment says so, because a field kept "just in case" is
how the branches came back last time.

`test_mnp_1_0_node_compat.py` goes with them: it existed to hold the fallbacks
in place, and holding a fallback that cannot execute is how a suite starts
lying. The two locale strings for those hints are removed from all ten
catalogues.

Hub suite 872 passed (test_sticky_header deselected — failing before this).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 &lt;noreply@anthropic.com&gt;
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01AsoWC3GmhNdwVFomW3QjH3
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<title>refactor(mnp)!: one answer to "may this member write", and it is the root</title>
<updated>2026-09-10T15:23:40Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Christophe Besson</name>
<email>cbesson@gmail.com</email>
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<published>2026-09-10T15:23:40Z</published>
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The group-wide `member_upload` switch is gone: the message, the signed
operation, the field on the handshake ack, the `upload` alias on every root in
the index payload, and the client's fallback path to it.

Whether a member may write has been a property of each root for a while, and
that is the model that survives: a single flag over the group cannot express
"this library is published read-only and that folder is a drop box", which is
the ordinary arrangement. What was left of the switch was a handler that logged
a deprecation and acted on nothing, and a client that read `ack.member_upload`
whenever the roots carried no `writable` — a second source for one question,
with whichever the code consulted first deciding it.

`roots.describe()` drops `upload` for the same reason: it was `writable` under
an older name, and two names for one boolean is one too many.

The paperclip now says "nowhere to write" rather than picking a root, in a group
that has none writable. That is the honest answer; the fallback picked whatever
came first and failed at send time.

Node suite 1215 passed.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 &lt;noreply@anthropic.com&gt;
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01AsoWC3GmhNdwVFomW3QjH3
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<title>fix(client): degrade against a node still speaking MNP 1.0</title>
<updated>2026-09-06T17:27:38Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Christophe Besson</name>
<email>cbesson@gmail.com</email>
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<published>2026-09-06T17:27:38Z</published>
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The SPA is served by the hub, so deploying the hub puts this client in front of
every node — including the ones not updated yet. That window is the normal
state for as long as an operator takes, and for a node someone else runs it may
be indefinite. Three controls were broken across it, and the failure mode is
quiet: an unknown message type is logged by the node and never answered, so the
click produces a thirty-second wait ending in a timeout with nothing on screen
to say the node simply cannot do this.

Files' Upload button read `root.writable`, which a 1.0 node does not send — it
says `upload`, the same answer under the older name. The button disappeared on
every un-upgraded node. It reads both now, and still respects an explicit
`writable: false` rather than falling through to the legacy flag.

The per-app folder pickers spoke `app_directories`. Videos, Music and Photos
each had their own message before that and those still work, so the page
chooses by version: an operator on an older node keeps the ability they had.
`video_root` and `audio_root` hold one folder, so several are refused with a
reason rather than stored as the first and silently truncated.

Root management — writable, removable, eject, plug — has no older equivalent to
route to, so the table goes read-only with a line saying why and pointing at
the `meshbay-node root` commands. Chat's two settings are new with nothing
before them and are hidden the same way.

None of this was inferred from a payload's shape: `_checkNodeVersion` already
parsed the node's version and threw it away, and it is kept now. Coupling a
capability to whether some field happens to be present is how a flag flips
because an unrelated payload changed.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 &lt;noreply@anthropic.com&gt;
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_011pvMdvLBG92jyhvD5pD6us
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