refactor(node): JSON-only control API, Node page absorbs the admin dashboard

2026-09-01T12:08:32Z

Remove the node daemon's server-rendered admin UI (GET / and /audit, the _render_* helpers and inline templates) and the `meshbay-node ui` CLI verb. The loopback control API stays; it is now JSON only, ruff-clean, and 453 lines (was 1074). Also drop three never-wired endpoints (/api/config, /api/chat/history, /ws/chat, plus broadcast_chat) and the pointless 18000/tcp firewall profiles. The desktop client's Node page (static/node-page.js) takes over what the dashboard showed, reorganised into six tabs (Overview, Groups, Roster, Peers, Audit, Settings): - Overview: version, node id, QUIC port, hub, index-cache maintenance - Roster: node-wide view with unpin - Peers and Audit: auto-load on open, no Load button - Audit: real usernames and group names (resolved from the roster and node.toml), Previous/Next pagination newest-first, Export CSV of every matching row - Settings: node settings, STUN, ICE, denylist, then Unlink from hub Backend: audit.get_entries gains `offset`; /api/audit and /api/peers resolve ids to names via a new _display_names helper; CSP tightened to default-src 'none' now that no HTML is served. draft-v6 sections 2.11 and 2.12 corrected -- the Node page uses the loopback API, not MNP. One capability is intentionally dropped: browser-based admin on a headless server. The CLI covers every operation there. See docs/refactor-node-ui.md. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01MQCaZnde4Bjjdu84dhSuF5

feat(packaging): 4-package .deb/.rpm build system under /opt

2026-08-31T08:49:45Z

Shared venv architecture: meshbay-common owns the Python venv with all pip deps pre-installed; hub and node add only their code into it. Client is a standalone Electron app. No pip runs at install time. - Add build scripts (packaging/build/) for common, hub, node, client - Add orchestrator build-packages.sh with deb/rpm auto-detection - Add .deb control/postinst for all 4 packages - Add .rpm specs for all 4 packages (replaces python3-meshbay-common) - Add Gnome .desktop launcher and icon resizing - Add firewalld services (meshbay-cast, meshbay-node) and UFW profiles - Update systemd units to use /opt/meshbay-common/venv/bin/ paths - TMDB token baked into node package at build time via QE/node.env - Fix package-lock.json sync for protobufjs override Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6

meshbay.git/packaging/firewall/ufw/meshbay, branch 0.10

refactor(node): JSON-only control API, Node page absorbs the admin dashboard

feat(packaging): 4-package .deb/.rpm build system under /opt