meshbay.git/packaging, branch 0.20

build: audit the shipped Python dependencies with pip-audit

2026-10-15T12:56:35Z

No lock file pins the dependencies, so each build installs the newest releases and what ships is only known once it has. packaging/audit_deps.py runs pip-audit then: build-common.sh on the venv before stripping it, build-node-runtime.ps1 on the environment before PyInstaller freezes it. A known vulnerability stops the build, unless its id is listed in packaging/pip-audit-ignore.txt with why it does not apply. No network only skips the audit with a warning, as does a pip-audit that cannot be installed or writes no report. pip-audit runs from a venv of its own, never from the one that ships. Our packages are not audited (not on PyPI), nor pip, setuptools and wheel, which do not ship. Checked with the real build-common.sh (79 packages, none known), with PyJWT 2.14 (the build stops on its two advisories, and goes on once they are listed) and offline (a warning, the build goes on). The PowerShell step was not run here. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5

fix(packaging): ship only the TMDB token line of QE/default.env

2026-10-15T12:24:25Z

build-node.sh and build-node-runtime.ps1 copied QE/default.env whole into every deb, rpm and Windows build after checking only its first 30 bytes. The file is unversioned and sits beside other QE notes, so any line added to it later would have gone out publicly. Only its first line ships now, and only once it is exactly MESHBAY_TMDB_DEFAULT_TOKEN=; a missing file, a BOM, a token not on the first line or an empty one still stop the build. The Linux step is run by a test against a scratch repo; the PowerShell one has the same rule and was not run here. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5

feat(cli): account, rm -r and mkdir, Tab completion

2026-10-15T10:32:24Z

account shows the account and does what the sign-up form and the Profile page do: register (the passphrase floor and the hub's proof of work checked here, the recovery key printed once), verify, change the passphrase, reset a forgotten one, change the e-mail address, sign out everywhere, delete. A new passphrase carries the copy of the account's keys each node keeps for browsers first — opened under the old M, the same keys sealed under the new one — and only then tells the hub; a refusal sets the copies back. A reset restores them from the recovery copy. The connections that do it never make keys nor ask for a device approval. This machine keeps the M it changed away from, so a node out of reach is carried at its next connection; a copy under an M it does not know is no longer rewritten, which locked the browsers out after a passphrase changed elsewhere. rm -r removes a folder and all it holds, from the node's operator key: the files, then the folders deepest first, one confirmation that counts them. mkdir makes folders, --parents the missing ones (not -p, the passphrase). completion bash|powershell prints the script that makes Tab complete actions, verbs, options and the paths of the groups this machine is signed in to, cached two minutes; the deb and rpm packages install the bash one. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5

feat(cli): help, and right-click copy and paste in the interactive chat

2026-10-15T07:33:28Z

help prints what --help prints; help ACTION, what ACTION --help prints. In the interactive chat a right-click on the conversation copies the text selected with the mouse, else the line under the pointer: to the terminal (OSC 52) and to the platform's clipboard tool. A right-click on the line written in pastes the system clipboard's text at the cursor, its lines side by side, read with wl-paste, xclip or xsel, pbpaste or PowerShell, else what was copied here last. The conversation is selectable with the mouse, which RichLog alone is not. The deb and rpm packages recommend wl-clipboard or xclip for the paste. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5

feat(cli): meshbay-cli, a command-line client for members

2026-10-14T20:20:15Z

Signs in to the hub, lists the account's groups and their folders, and downloads and uploads files directly with each group's node, end-to-end encrypted. With no argument it opens a two-pane interactive mode (Textual). Session and device keys are kept encrypted under the system's key storage, or a 0600 key file where there is none; node keys are pinned at first contact; a new machine links as a device. Packaged on its own on Linux (deb and rpm, on meshbay-common's venv, with a man page generated from the parser) and frozen next to meshbay-node in the full Windows installer, not the light one, with a self-test the build runs. client/keys.py ports keyderive.js and is LGPL like it. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5

feat(hub): replace reCAPTCHA with a self-hosted proof of work

2026-10-14T11:34:47Z

Sign-up and passphrase reset sent every visitor's address and browser details to Google, which needed a consent the sign-up form could not ask for freely. The hub now issues its own challenge (ALTCHA's scheme, signed with a key derived from the hub's private key, single-use, 30 minutes) and the page solves it with SubtleCrypto while the form is filled in. - GET /v1/users/captcha issues a challenge; 404 captcha_disabled when off. - [captcha] enabled / max_number replace site_key / secret_key, which are now ignored with a warning; MESHBAY_CAPTCHA_ENABLED replaces the old variables. - No Google origin left in the CSP of the hub, the desktop shell or the Android shell; captcha_site_key leaves /v1/hub/info. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5

test(node): run the connection processes on Windows, source and frozen

2026-10-12T22:30:39Z

Connection processes and the larger UDP receive buffer were written and measured on Linux; nothing had run on Windows, and `meshbay-node.exe webrtc-worker` had never run from a frozen build on any system. - test_connection_processes.py failed on Windows (8 tests): the selector loop the suite uses there cannot start a process. A test marked `daemon_loop` now runs on the daemon's own loop, chosen through pytest-asyncio's loop factories. - The build starts both frozen executables as connection processes and carries a connection through each (smoke-connection-process.py). The daemon's own smoke test never signs in to a hub, which is when the processes start. - The warning for a receive buffer below what was asked named net.core.rmem_max on every system; it names it on Linux only. Windows grants the 4 MB. Measured on an installed build in service mode, docs/WINDOWS-PORT.md §5.12: two processes at startup and on a live change, a browser's handshake, chat, a 200 MB download over 8 connections across both processes, an upload, a video stream, and stop, restart and start leaving no process behind. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5

feat(packaging): the Store package declares what the NSIS scripts do

2026-10-10T07:57:29Z

A test-signed install of the MSIX build, in the WindowsApps folder a Store install uses, showed that every script-made piece of the NSIS model breaks there, because each names the install folder and every update deletes it: the firewall rules went stale, the PATH entries piled up pointing at deleted folders, and the Startup-folder .vbs was refused ("Permission denied") right after sign-in. The network capabilities the manifest declared covered nothing: they make rules for sandboxed apps only, and a listener in the package still got the Windows firewall prompt. The package's own startup task was on by default, started the node whatever mode the Node page said, and ran the console executable, whose window stopped the node when closed. The package now declares what Windows then creates at install, carries across updates and removes with the app, all without an administrator prompt (each measured on the real install, through an update and a reboot): - firewall rules for the node, in a custom manifest template, since only a package-level element can hold them; - the startup task, off by default, running meshbay-nodew.exe, a new build of the daemon without a console; - an execution alias for meshbay-node.exe, so the app adds no PATH entry. The node's CLI switches the startup task (platform.startup_task, ctypes over the WinRT ABI): Windows gives the package's identity to the executables in it, not to a powershell.exe the app starts, which got "Element not found". `meshbay-node autostart install | remove | status` therefore works in the Store package from the app and a terminal alike; the app caches the answer, since the Node page polls. Starting at boot stays the .exe installer's: the Store package offers no service mode, and the CLI refuses `service install` there. Process listings count both image names. The Node page's status poll cleared the message of a refused action within five seconds; the two errors are kept apart now (all Windows builds). Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5

fix(packaging): ship QE/default.env as is, the one TMDB token source

2026-10-09T16:22:42Z

Both builds copy QE/default.env beside the node and stop without it. No token parsing, no other source, no MESHBAY_ALLOW_NO_TMDB. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5

fix(client): remove firewall rules and boot task on uninstall, unasked

2026-10-07T11:48:28Z

The Yes/No before it defaulted to No, so they stayed behind. Read both unelevated and raise the UAC prompt only when one is left. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5