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<updated>2026-08-23T13:15:35Z</updated>
<entry>
<title>feat(hub): split the group UI into a pluggable "applications" architecture</title>
<updated>2026-08-23T13:15:35Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Christophe Besson</name>
<email>cbesson@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2026-08-23T13:15:35Z</published>
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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 &lt;noreply@anthropic.com&gt;
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_016SF6RKNBKg9qejmoMJ9ybA
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>fix: update source-reading tests that drifted from the code</title>
<updated>2026-08-22T09:50:35Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Christophe Besson</name>
<email>cbesson@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2026-08-22T09:50:35Z</published>
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- test_transport_contracts: CreateGroupPage was refactored into a
  routing wrapper; assertions now read CreateGroupFormSimple
- test_task_lifetime: _spawn now uses an _on_done wrapper instead of
  a bare self._tasks.discard callback; assertion checks both parts
- test_video_buffer_ceiling: target the real updateend handler, not
  the settled() utility; add awaitingInitRef to the MSE harness scope
- test_video_seek: silence debug console.log in window_leak harness
  so it does not pollute the JSON output

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 &lt;noreply@anthropic.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>fix: update test_desktop_shell.py for build/ → scripts/ rename</title>
<updated>2026-08-22T09:19:24Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Christophe Besson</name>
<email>cbesson@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2026-08-22T09:19:24Z</published>
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The test reads index.html and sync-ui.js to verify security properties.
Update the paths to match the directory rename from the prior commit.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 &lt;noreply@anthropic.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>feat(node): the operator can close uploading to everyone but themselves</title>
<updated>2026-08-18T16:21:57Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Christophe Besson</name>
<email>cbesson@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2026-08-18T16:21:57Z</published>
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A group where every member may add files stays the default. Some groups want a
library the operator curates, and until now the only way to get one was to
designate no upload root at all — which refuses the operator too.

**The node enforces it; the interface merely stops offering it.** The Upload
button in the Files toolbar and the paperclip in the chat composer both
disappear, which is a courtesy to the people who are not trying. The control is
`_do_file_upload` refusing with `member_upload_off`, so a member on an old tab,
or one speaking MNP directly, gets the same answer. There is a test for each,
and the enforcement test is in the node package rather than beside the UI one so
nobody reads the hidden button as the mechanism.

**Changing it is a signed operator instruction** — `OP_MEMBER_UPLOAD`, on the
same path as removing a member. An unsigned one would let any member turn it
back on and make the setting a suggestion. The transcript's subject is `on` or
`off`: what the operator is shown before signing has to name the outcome, not
the operation.

**It lives on the node**, in a new `group_settings` table in `roster.db`. Not
the hub, which has no business deciding who may write to someone else's disk.
Not `node.toml` either: that file is hand-written and full of comments recording
decisions, `ops.py` appends to it rather than round-tripping it through a
writer, and a setting toggled from a panel must not rewrite the operator's file
or need a restart. The value is cached in the group context because the upload
path is synchronous, and the signed operation updates both — storing it without
applying it would make the panel say one thing while the node did another.

**Absent means allowed**, at every layer: no row in the table, no key in the
context, no field in `handshake_ack`. An older node and an older client both
behave exactly as before, and upgrading never silently closes a group. Each of
those three has its own test, because they fail independently.

The operator is always exempt — otherwise turning it off locks them out of their
own node with a config file and a restart as the only way back. `is_node_admin`
was being computed in two places by then and is now one function, since two
copies of "is this the operator" is how the ack and the gate come to disagree.

A change reaches everyone already connected via `member_upload_ack`, so the
button goes without a reconnection. That message is both a broadcast and the
reply to the request that caused it, which is why the client does not return
early on it.

Docs updated for a cold start: draft-v6 §2.1b and change 9, a new "Where Phase
13 stands" section in CLAUDE.md recording what is built, deployed and still
missing, the module map row, and desktop-client-v1 §10b on the Settings tab and
where group settings live.

883 tests pass.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 &lt;noreply@anthropic.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>fix: the chat tab no longer scrolls, and a group is listed or invite-only</title>
<updated>2026-08-18T15:46:54Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Christophe Besson</name>
<email>cbesson@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2026-08-18T15:46:54Z</published>
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**The chat tab was 8px too tall, at every window size.** The panel is sized from
JS to `viewport - top - 16`, which puts its bottom 16px above the fold — but it
sits inside `.main`, which adds 24px of padding below it. Eight pixels of
document past the window, whatever the window. Measured at 700, 900 and 1200:
`scrollHeight` 708, 908, 1208.

This is the second one of these — the sign-in card was `.page-center` and
`.layout` each reserving `100vh - 52px` — so it is now measured in the suite
rather than reasoned about. `tests/harness/scroll_probe.py` renders the real
markup against the real stylesheet and **runs the real `fit()` lifted out of
`app.js`**: a copy of the formula in a test would go on passing after the
original changed, which is exactly the bug being guarded.

The fix does not encode 24 anywhere. The first pass runs as before, then the
leftover is measured and taken off, so anything added below the panel later is
absorbed the same way. Now `scrollHeight == innerHeight` at all three heights,
nothing below the fold, and the panel still fills the room it has — that last
one has its own test, because shrinking the chat to 240px would satisfy every
other assertion here and be useless.

The Settings tab was measured too and is **not** a bug: it fits at 1200px and
overflows only when its content is genuinely taller than the window.

**Group creation asked one question twice.** Visibility and admission were
separate selectors that could only ever be set together — picking Public reached
over and set the policy — and two of the four combinations are meaningless. The
API already refused public+invite with a 422, so the form could build a request
that could not succeed. Private+open was accepted and should not have been: a
group anyone may join that nobody can find is a listing with the listing
removed, since joining goes through the node and there is no link to pass
around.

So: one selector, "who can join", and the request derives the rest. The API now
refuses the other impossible pair as well, with a message that says which way to
resolve it. Six locale strings the visibility box owned are deleted rather than
left unread in ten files, and the two surviving descriptions now say what each
choice means for who can *find* the group — with the word "public" gone from the
page, nothing else would have said it, and someone would publish a group without
meaning to.

865 tests pass.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 &lt;noreply@anthropic.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>fix(ui): name the section after its button, drop the folder slash, colour the widget</title>
<updated>2026-08-18T15:11:00Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Christophe Besson</name>
<email>cbesson@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2026-08-18T15:11:00Z</published>
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**"Zone sensible" said nothing.** The heading is now the name of the action in
it — "Quitter le groupe", or "Supprimer le groupe" for the owner, who sees a
different button. Worth stating because it is not quite what was asked for: a
fixed "Quitter le groupe" would have sat above a delete button for whoever owns
the group. The red goes with it; only the button is red, which is where the
warning belongs. `members.danger_title` is gone from all ten locales rather than
left behind unread.

**A folder name no longer ends in a slash.** The folder icon in the cell beside
it already says what it is.

**The transfers widget turns green while transfers run.** The badge counts them,
but a count has to be read; colour is what carries from across the room, which
is the point of a widget in the nav bar rather than on the page. Derived from
the live list on every render, so there is no state that can forget to clear
when the last transfer ends.

The class is set in `app.js` and coloured in `style.css` — either alone does
nothing and neither fails loudly, so there is a test for each half.

848 tests pass.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 &lt;noreply@anthropic.com&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>fix: two waits with no deadline, resume positions per account, group settings tab</title>
<updated>2026-08-18T14:34:12Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Christophe Besson</name>
<email>cbesson@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2026-08-18T14:34:12Z</published>
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**Joining a group could hang.** Reported after a first attempt that never
finished and a later one that worked — the shape of a network wait with no
deadline, and there were two.

Signaling here is non-trickle: the offer is not sent until ICE gathering says
it is done. A STUN server that is slow, filtered, or resolved through a DNS that
is not answering means `icegatheringstatechange` never reaches `complete`, and
`connect()` never returns. Same shape as the fullscreen denial fixed yesterday:
a promise that never settles leaves no error to find. Gathering now has four
seconds, after which the offer goes out with what it has — host candidates are
already there, which is enough on a LAN, and giving up instead would turn a slow
STUN server into a refusal to connect.

The second: `hub:fetch` in the desktop client had no timeout, so a host that
accepts a connection and then says nothing holds the request for as long as the
OS allows. `hub:probe` had one; the handler that carries signaling did not. Now
thirty seconds — longer than the hub's own fifteen-second signaling wait, so it
cannot abort a call that was about to succeed — and it says the hub did not
answer rather than "fetch failed".

**Resume positions belonged to the machine, not the account.** Stored as
`mb:pos:&lt;file&gt;`, so a second account signing in on the same computer was offered
"resume where you left off" in a film it had never opened. Wrong on its own
terms, and a small disclosure of what the other person watches, since the offer
only appears for files someone has actually been through. The account is in the
key now. Positions written before this are deleted rather than re-keyed: there
is no record of whose they were, and guessing hands them to whoever signs in
next, which is the bug.

**The staggered rules in the members table.** `display: flex` on the actions
`&lt;td&gt;` — a flex table cell stops being a table cell, so it no longer stretches
to its row and its bottom border is drawn wherever its own content ends.
Measured: in a row whose other cells were `top 76, height 40`, that cell was
`top 77, height 30`, its rule nine pixels above the rest. It is a table cell
again, held open by a zero-width strut so the owner's row — which has no remove
button — stays as tall as the others. Every cell now shares its row's top and
bottom exactly, at 420px and 900px.

**Members became Settings.** It was a list with three unrelated forms stacked
above it, laid out with inline styles on whichever element needed them, and the
group's own controls somewhere else entirely — leaving or deleting a group sat
in the page header beside the title. Now one tab in sections: invitations,
operator pairing, your devices on this node, leaving or deleting, and the roster
last, since it is the only part with no upper bound.

One consequence worth stating: the tab bar no longer waits for the node.
Membership is hub-side, and gating it on a live connection would have made
"leave this group" unreachable exactly when a node is down — which is when
someone most wants it. Files and chat still need the node and say so.

**A download button in the viewer**, beside the close button and in the same
style, for both the video player and the file preview.

844 tests pass.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 &lt;noreply@anthropic.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>fix(client): a film can go full-screen, and automatic saving is automatic</title>
<updated>2026-08-18T12:07:16Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Christophe Besson</name>
<email>cbesson@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2026-08-18T12:07:16Z</published>
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**Full-screen was denied, and the denial was invisible.** The permission
handler was written from a true sentence — nothing here needs a camera, a
microphone or a location — and implemented as `callback(false)` for everything.
Chromium's own video controls ask for the `fullscreen` permission, so a film
could not be watched full-screen.

What made it hard to find, and what the test now pins: **a denied `fullscreen`
does not reject.** `requestFullscreen()` returns a promise that never settles.
No exception, no console message, nothing in the renderer that mentions a
permission — the button just does nothing. Measured rather than reasoned: the
probe reported `NEVER SETTLED` while the main process, instrumented for one run,
logged `PERMISSION ASKED: fullscreen`. After the fix the same probe reports
`granted` with `document.fullscreenElement` set.

The handler now enumerates what is *granted* — `fullscreen`, and nothing else —
so a camera, a microphone, a location, notifications and MIDI are still refused
and whatever Chromium adds next arrives refused rather than quietly allowed.
`Permissions.query` takes the other handler, so both now answer from the one
list instead of eventually disagreeing.

The old test asserted `callback(false)`, which is to say it locked in the bug.
It is replaced by three: what must stay denied, that `fullscreen` is granted,
and that both handlers read the same list.

**"Save automatically" opened a dialog.** The automatic path required a folder
to have been chosen first, and on a new profile nobody has chosen one — so the
very first download fell through to Save As, which is the one thing the setting
promises not to do. A browser does not make you pick a folder before it will
save a file; the system Downloads folder is the answer when there is no other.
Verified on a fresh profile with a home of its own: no dialog, 1024 bytes on
disk, destination reported as the default (`/home/…/Téléchargements` on this
machine, via the localized XDG directory).

A folder that *was* chosen and has since gone still asks. Silently redirecting
those files is worse than a dialog: someone who picked an external drive wants
to be told it is not there, not to find the film in their home directory a week
later. Settings shows the effective destination either way, and offers "forget"
only for a folder somebody actually chose.

813 tests pass.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 &lt;noreply@anthropic.com&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>fix(client): three defects a real desktop found in ten minutes</title>
<updated>2026-08-18T10:54:29Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Christophe Besson</name>
<email>cbesson@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2026-08-18T10:54:29Z</published>
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All three came from the operator running the application on Ubuntu GNOME. None
would have been found by anything already in the suite.

**A second copy of the hub address.** `keyderive.js` carried
`const HUB = '' // same origin` — true of a page the hub served, false of one
loaded from a package, where the origin is `app://meshbay` and `/v1/users/register`
resolves against the application's own protocol handler. **Sign-up and sign-in,
the first two things anybody does, failed with "Not found."** The seam was
changed in `app.js` and in the signalling call and this was missed: the same
shape as the duplicate `MNP_VERSION` in `protocol.py`, a second copy of a
constant that is harmless until the context changes. `test_hub_address_seam.py`
refuses any file that decides where the hub is, and any `fetch('/v1/…')`
relative to the page origin.

**A window handler reading a variable another path reassigns.** Changing the hub
closes one window and opens another; `closed` arrives *after* the replacement is
assigned, so the outgoing window nulled the reference to the incoming one and
its `ready-to-show` crashed on it — a modal "A JavaScript error occurred in the
main process". Every handler now belongs to the window it was created with. The
CDP test wrote `config.json` in advance, so it never took the one path that
creates a second window; it does now, starting from an empty user-data dir.

**A first run that could not be undone.** The hub address was accepted on
anything URL-shaped and there was no way to change it afterwards — the prompt
only appears when none is set, so a typo meant editing JSON by hand. `https`
typed at a hub speaking `http` produced `TypeError: fetch failed`, which names
nothing. Now: the address is probed before being written, failures say which
URL and why ("does not speak https. If this hub is on your own machine, it is
probably http"), Settings can change it, and Electron's
"Error invoking remote method" wrapper is stripped from what a person reads.

Verified on the operator's desktop: **safeStorage really uses the GNOME
keyring** — Settings reports `gnome-libsecret`, and `secrets.bin` is written
0600 with Chromium's `v11` prefix, the marker for keyring-backed encryption
(the fixed-key fallback writes `v10`). Headless, the same code reports
`unavailable` and refuses to store rather than downgrading in silence, which is
now explained in Settings instead of shown as a bare word.

Unrelated but found while testing: `test_locales.py` assigned to
`globalThis.navigator`, which is read-only from Node 22. The client's build
already requires Node 22+, so the first CI machine configured for it would have
failed these tests for no visible reason. 809 tests pass on Node 18 and Node 24.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 &lt;noreply@anthropic.com&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>fix(client): the desktop client runs, and running it corrected three things</title>
<updated>2026-08-18T08:30:59Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Christophe Besson</name>
<email>cbesson@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2026-08-18T08:30:59Z</published>
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Electron 42 / Chromium 148, launched under xvfb. The packaged interface mounts
over `app://` with a secure context, `crypto.subtle` present, Argon2 WASM
loaded, and no console errors. Three statements in the design were wrong, and
only launching it found them.

**A CSP in a `&lt;meta&gt;` tag silently drops `frame-ancestors`.** Chromium says so
in the console. A policy carrying a directive that does nothing is worse than
one without it, so the policy is sent as a header by the protocol handler —
which is also the only thing serving the interface, so one source instead of
two.

**`secure: true` is not what makes the service worker register.** Chromium
refuses a worker on a custom scheme whatever its privileges: "The URL protocol
of the current origin ('app://meshbay') is not supported". The application has
no service worker and needs none — it saves through a native dialog, which is
the better of the two paths. `sw.js` stays in the package because the same files
serve the browser, where it is one of only three ways to write a large file.

What `secure: true` is actually for was measured at the same time: without it
**the whole of `crypto.subtle` is undefined**. The first probe loaded a `data:`
URL and every algorithm failed with TypeError, AES-GCM included — which is why
the probe was rewritten before believing its answer. X25519 and Ed25519 are both
present on Chromium 148, settling the version floor left open as O6.

**The renderer cannot call the hub.** Its origin is `app://meshbay` and CORS
refuses it. The hub has *no CORS middleware at all* — its API is reachable from
no web origin whatever — and that is worth keeping. Widening it for
`app://meshbay` would be worse than it looks: that origin is not a credential,
since any Electron application can claim the same scheme and host name.

So every hub call leaves from the main process, exactly as saving a file does,
and it refuses any origin that is not the hub the user signed in to.
`platform.apiFetch()` is `fetch` in a browser and the bridge in the application,
so no caller has to know which it got. `transport.js` reaches it through a
global because it is a classic script, not a module — the alternative was a
second fetch path, which is how two callers of one hub start disagreeing about
how to reach it.

Verified from inside Electron: the main process gets 200 from
/v1/hub/version, the renderer is refused by CORS, and **a script served by the
hub is refused by the policy** — T3's mitigation demonstrated rather than
asserted.

Build note, written into the README because it will bite the next person:
**Ubuntu 24.04's nodejs 18 cannot install Electron at all** — the download
script `require()`s an ESM module, which Node gained in 22. Node 24 LTS,
checksum-verified against nodejs.org, is what this was built with.
package-lock.json is committed; builds use `npm ci`, not `npm install`.

799 tests pass, e2e.py still passes end to end. The session harness needed a
platform stub: it lifts `hubFetch` out of app.js as text and runs it, so the
adapter is now part of the environment it models.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 &lt;noreply@anthropic.com&gt;
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