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<updated>2026-08-28T00:51:00Z</updated>
<entry>
<title>feat(hub): let a hub admin disable public groups instance-wide</title>
<updated>2026-08-28T00:51:00Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Christophe Besson</name>
<email>cbesson@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2026-08-28T00:51:00Z</published>
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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 &lt;noreply@anthropic.com&gt;
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_018gKJ85aZyvEwarXMFzFEwi
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<entry>
<title>feat: add Photos group app</title>
<updated>2026-08-25T09:46:17Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Christophe Besson</name>
<email>cbesson@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2026-08-25T09:46:17Z</published>
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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 -&gt; 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 &lt;noreply@anthropic.com&gt;
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01TiZG4AuSnxHohQMpwTHTyL
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<entry>
<title>feat(hub): Music app client — album grid, flat list, persistent player</title>
<updated>2026-08-24T15:39:41Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Christophe Besson</name>
<email>cbesson@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2026-08-24T15:39:41Z</published>
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Implements the client half of docs/musicbay.md against MNP 0.8:

- music-app.js: album grid (grouped by artist -&gt; 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 &lt;noreply@anthropic.com&gt;
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01KBi7ALLGfwcjBXt57yNMcy
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<entry>
<title>feat(node,hub): add Videos group app (poster grid, flat list, TMDB metadata)</title>
<updated>2026-08-24T08:04:46Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Christophe Besson</name>
<email>cbesson@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2026-08-24T08:04:46Z</published>
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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.
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<entry>
<title>fix(node,hub): always transcode video audio to stereo AAC, never copy</title>
<updated>2026-08-23T20:43:35Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Christophe Besson</name>
<email>cbesson@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2026-08-23T20:43:35Z</published>
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MSE only decodes AAC/Opus, so copying a source's real audio codec left
non-AAC files silently unplayable in-browser (E-AC-3 additionally made
ffmpeg itself refuse to write the fragmented MP4 header). Audio is now
always transcoded to AAC and downmixed to stereo — multichannel AAC is
accepted by ffprobe/VLC but silently rejected by some browsers' MSE
decoder once real fragments are appended, which forces the SourceBuffer
out of its MediaSource with no explicit error. Video stays copy-only.

Also: report a clear client-side error instead of a bare STREAM_END when
ffmpeg exits nonzero before producing any output, add video-element/
MediaSource error logging on the client for the next time this class of
bug needs diagnosing, and fix a hub test that had grown too broad a scan
window after an earlier, unrelated transport.js change.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 &lt;noreply@anthropic.com&gt;
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_016SF6RKNBKg9qejmoMJ9ybA
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<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>
<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>
<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>
<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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