meshbay.git/packaging, branch v0.9.0

chore: bump version to 0.9.0

2026-08-31T10:05:24Z

Packaging system complete and verified on Ubuntu 26.04 and Fedora 44. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6

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

fix(node): fall back to a loose MusicBrainz query when the strict one finds nothing

2026-08-25T12:50:36Z

search_release() only ever tried a field-scoped exact-phrase Lucene query (artist:"..." AND release:"..."). Verified live against musicbrainz.org: any deviation from MusicBrainz's own spelling (a year suffix, an edition tag, an artist credited under an older/aliased name) drops it to zero results outright rather than a low-scored one, so the confidence check never even ran — this is why well-recognized artists were still getting almost no cover art. Add an unscoped loose-query fallback, escape Lucene special characters in the interpolated tag text, and make the confidence score consider the artist match too (not just the album title) now that the fallback has no field scoping to rely on. Also document MESHBAY_MUSICBRAINZ_CONTACT_DEFAULT in the systemd units and man page, mirroring MESHBAY_TMDB_DEFAULT_TOKEN's precedent — never a literal value in source, configured via node.env. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_013XSohfUQQiaE77qyFLgSv3

feat(node,hub): add Videos group app (poster grid, flat list, TMDB metadata)

2026-08-24T08:04:46Z

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.

chore: release 0.6.0

2026-08-23T13:15:47Z

The group UI's applications split, and the two missing-import bugs it surfaced and fixed along the way. MNP goes to 0.4: apps_enabled/apps_enabled_ack, and enabled_apps on the handshake ack, for the group-applications registry. Additive — a node that predates it is never sent the op, and a client that predates it never looks for the field. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_016SF6RKNBKg9qejmoMJ9ybA

fix: first-run wizard reliability and node startup performance

2026-08-22T14:40:54Z

Node daemon no longer blocks startup on slow directory scans — initial indexing runs in the background so the node reaches "running" immediately after transports are up. Fixes the wizard failing to detect the node when large USB/NAS roots take minutes to scan. Also: wizard key-linking deadlock resolved (main.js links during poll), invite form stays in DOM during reconnects (disabled instead of destroyed), pairing code bridges to renderer, and firewall docs for LAN casting added. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6

feat(client): the platform seam, and an Electron shell that has never been run

2026-08-18T07:42:34Z

Stage D, and the honest half of it. D1 — the seam (done, and verified) ---------------------------------- `static/platform.js`. `HUB` becomes `platform.hubBase()` and the transport is built with the same base, so one address has one source. In a browser it returns '' and every path stays relative to the origin that served the page — the acceptance criterion for this split was "the browser SPA behaves identically", and it does. `platform.js` joins `_ASSETS`, or a change to it would not move the content hash and a cached browser would never ask for it. D2 — the shell (written, never launched) ----------------------------------------- **There is no npm on this machine. Electron was never installed and `packages/meshbay-client/` has not been run once.** That is stated here rather than discovered later. What is there: a main process serving the packaged interface over a privileged `app://` scheme (`secure` and `standard` are not cosmetic — without them the service worker refuses to register and streamed downloads break silently), a preload exposing an enumerated bridge that never passes a filesystem path, a window with `sandbox`, `contextIsolation` and no node integration, navigation away from the package refused, and a CSP where the hub is reachable over connect-src and is not a script source. The hub address arrives as a process argument because `platform.hubBase()` runs before anything can await. `test_desktop_shell.py` pins each of those by reading the source — the treatment `test_downloads.py` already gives the three browser save paths. It catches a property being removed and proves nothing about the application running. Two were checked by breaking them. The interface is *copied* into the package by `build/sync-ui.js` from the hub's static directory, and `ui/` is gitignored: a silent fork is the only real way to end up maintaining the interface twice. D3 — partial ------------ The bridge, and the part worth having now: safeStorage's backend is reported rather than assumed. On Linux it falls back to a fixed key when no keyring is running, silently — someone who believes the OS is holding their keys is told when it is not. The native key lifecycle belongs with D4 and needs a running application to mean anything. D8 — partial, and a real defect found -------------------------------------- `meshbay-node.spec` installed the SYSTEM template — the one carrying `User=%i` — into `%{_userunitdir}`. A user unit already runs as its owner and cannot carry `User=`; systemd refuses the file, so the packaged unit could never have started. Nothing noticed because nobody had built and installed the RPM. Two units now: the template to `%{_unitdir}`, and a new `meshbay-node-user.service` that a person enables themselves without a password — which is what lets the desktop client install a node without asking for one. It carries ExecReload, so `meshbay-node reload` does not have to stop a service somebody is streaming from, and documents the drop-in for a drive outside the home, RequiresMountsFor included. 798 tests pass; e2e.py still passes end to end. Nothing here was built or launched: no npm, no rpmbuild. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5

docs: settle the desktop client, and draft v6

2026-08-18T00:14:39Z

A design discussion on 2026-08-17 settled Phase 13 and, in doing so, changed four things the spec states. v6 restates only those; v5 stays authoritative for everything it does not touch, per the convention v5 itself used with v4. What changed: * The native shell is **Electron**, not pywebview — structural decision 18 reversed. The SPA depends on Chromium-class APIs (WebRTC, WebCrypto X25519/Ed25519, MSE, Service Workers), so keeping Chromium keeps transport.js, crypto.js, keyderive.js, downloads.js and sw.js *as the client*. A system webview meant reimplementing ~2500-3000 lines. The old "69 % reused" figure was measured against an app.js of ~2600 lines; it is 4586. * A group's content is **several named roots**, not one directory, because the planned video and audio libraries will not live in one folder on one disk. * **Device linking**: one person may hold several devices on a node, admitted by a key the node already pinned and bound by a one-time code the new device generates. Without it a native client is refused where a browser is not, and an account created natively could never be opened in a browser. * **Authorship is authenticated, not asserted** — chat senders sign, uploads have a provable owner, and delete authorization moves from the uploading key to the account. And one rule v5 assumed without writing down: **group-related server state lives on the node.** Verified for multi-root — SwarmSource carries hashes and endpoints, no paths. Also here: the Caddy configuration, which was a snippet in the roadmap that would have broken the SPA (it predates /a// asset versioning and would have 404ed /sw.js, silently killing streamed downloads on Firefox and Safari); and downloads.html, which becomes a security page once a release key exists. Phase 15 was re-read against device linking and is wrong as written: a sender key must be per **device**, never per person, or two devices sharing a chain produce key and nonce reuse — C1 again, one level down. senderkeys.py already fails this silently. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5

chore: release 0.5.0

2026-08-16T13:29:30Z

Two rounds of features and one long hunt. The hub gained leaving a group, a cap of ten live public groups per owner, and the rule that a group is listed only once a node has announced it — with `prune-groups` to collect the ones that never got one. Presence rides on the group list, from the registry the hub already keeps for signaling. The web client speaks ten languages, splits Profile from Settings, and reads chat the way it is written: newest first, paging backwards. The rest was one symptom — "close the viewer, the next video hangs" — with three independent causes underneath, none of which the test suite or e2e.py could see. A background task the loop only weakly referenced, collected while it held a transcode slot. A connection-state handler that forgot a peer without stopping it. And `await proc.wait()` deadlocking on ffmpeg's own unread output, which no amount of SIGKILL resolves. Found by instrumenting the node and reading the log, after two confident fixes that addressed real but different bugs. MNP goes to 0.2: PING/PONG and backward chat paging, both additive. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5

chore: release 0.4.0

2026-08-15T22:22:01Z

The web client speaks ten languages instead of one: French, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, Simplified Chinese, Japanese, German, Italian, Dutch and Polish, all formal, with `hub`, `node` and `GEK` deliberately left in English so the interface still matches the CLI and the docs. Catalogues are fetched per language rather than shipped together, plural forms go through Intl.PluralRules because Polish needs four of them, and locale matching keeps the region so pt-BR and zh-CN resolve to the files written for them. Splitting one module into a loader and ten catalogues gave the SPA a version dependency it did not have before, and the hub was serving static assets with no explicit freshness at all. A browser that cached half a deploy either rendered every string as its own key or, in the other direction, failed to link the module graph and showed nothing. Static responses now carry no-cache, which costs one conditional request and answers 304 with no body. The node and common packages carry no functional change; they move with the version because the three are released together. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5