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* fix: two waits with no deadline, resume positions per account, group ↵Christophe Besson2026-08-1818-153/+838
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | settings tab **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:<file>`, 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 `<td>` — 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 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* fix(client): a film can go full-screen, and automatic saving is automaticChristophe Besson2026-08-185-17/+136
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | **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 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* fix(client): downloads stream to disk, and two rough edges on first runChristophe Besson2026-08-1817-39/+218
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | **Downloads were going through RAM.** `_openDownloadTarget` tries a granted folder, then a service worker, then its floor: collect the whole file in the page and hand the browser a blob. Both of the first two are absent in the desktop application — `showDirectoryPicker` does not exist, and Chromium refuses a service worker on a custom scheme — so every download under 512 MB took the floor. A gigabyte of film meant a gigabyte of RAM, and the only visible symptom was a Save As dialog at the *end* rather than the start, which is what the operator noticed and asked about. The main process now streams to disk: it honours "save automatically" with a folder chosen once and no dialog, never overwrites (a colliding name gets a suffix), awaits each write so the renderer cannot outrun the disk and queue the file in memory anyway, and unlinks a cancelled download rather than leaving a truncated file that looks complete to whoever opens it next. Settings now offers the native folder picker instead of saying downloads are unsupported. Measured in the running application: the file on disk grows 256 KB → 512 KB → 768 KB → 1 MB as the chunks arrive, and an aborted download leaves nothing behind. **A permanent scrollbar on sign-in.** `.layout` and `.page-center` each reserved `100vh - 52px`, and `.page-center` sits inside `main`'s 24px vertical padding — so the page overflowed by exactly 48px at every window size. Found by measuring in the app rather than reading the stylesheet: `scrollHeight` 819 against a 771 viewport, then the bottom edge of every element. The centring page brings its own padding, so main's is dropped for it and the duplicated arithmetic goes rather than growing a third term. Now `scrollHeight == innerHeight`, no overflowing elements. **The first-run screen was unstyled.** It used a class name I invented (`auth-page`) that appears nowhere in the stylesheet, so it had no card and the button sat against the input. It now uses the same `page-center` + `login-card` markup as sign-in, which is where the 12px gap comes from. The sign-in link in the nav is hidden until a hub is chosen — it led to a page that could not work. 809 tests pass. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* docs: D4 verified end to end — relaunch signs in with no passphraseChristophe Besson2026-08-181-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | The last thing that could only be checked on a real desktop. The application was quit and relaunched on Ubuntu GNOME and signed in with the device key alone; safeStorage is genuinely keyring-backed (secrets.bin carries Chromium's v11 prefix, where the fixed-key fallback would write v10). Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* fix(client): three defects a real desktop found in ten minutesChristophe Besson2026-08-1818-31/+312
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* feat(client): hybrid sign-in — passphrase once, then this device's keyChristophe Besson2026-08-1816-4/+330
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | D4. The passphrase stays the account's credential and its only recovery path; what changes is that it is not asked for on every launch. **The renderer never holds the device key.** It is generated, stored and used entirely in the main process, which signs `meshbay:user_auth:<username>:<ts>` on request. Same rule as the save dialog, for the same reason: the renderer is the part of this application that parses decrypted content from nodes, which is attacker-controlled input. And this key is *not* a per-node identity key — those are generated per node and never leave that relationship, so nothing here correlates a person across operators. First run asks which hub, with no default. A client that picks its own hub is a client that can be pointed at one, and the address is the whole of what this application trusts a hub for — the interface comes from the package. Verified against a hub running this code, not against the deployed one: register 201 → passphrase login 200 → device register 201 → **device sign-in 200 with a real session** → `/v1/users/me` 200 → a stranger's key 401. The signature was also checked directly against the hub's own Python verifier before any of that. Inside the running application, over the debugging protocol: the bridge reaches the main process, the renderer calls the hub **through it** (200 — the CORS fix working end to end), and a call to a host that is not the configured hub is refused. **Not verified:** safeStorage persisting the key. This session has no secret service, and standing one up in xvfb did not succeed. The application behaves correctly there — it *refuses* rather than storing unprotected, and now says so in Settings, which is a real case rather than a hypothetical one since it is exactly what a headless or minimal desktop looks like. Worth remembering for next time: meshbay.org runs whatever was last deployed. It answered 405 on the Stage-C endpoints and reported MNP 0.2 while the tree had 0.3, so a local `uvicorn meshbay_hub.app:create_app --factory` on SQLite is what tests hub changes. Nothing was deployed to production for this. 799 tests pass; e2e.py passes end to end. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* fix(client): the desktop client runs, and running it corrected three thingsChristophe Besson2026-08-1812-37/+4822
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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 `<meta>` 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 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* feat(client): the platform seam, and an Electron shell that has never been runChristophe Besson2026-08-1824-10/+1028
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* feat: device linking, and signing in to the hub with a device keyChristophe Besson2026-08-1828-29/+2173
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Stage C. Identity keys are per node, so a browser and a desktop client are two keys on one account there — and the node refused the second where it accepted the first. Without this, an account created natively could never be opened in a browser without an operator code per node, and "a native client must not prevent web use" would have been dead on arrival. Device linking (node) --------------------- `identities` is keyed by `(user_id, pk_ed25519)` instead of `user_id` alone. The old shape did `INSERT OR REPLACE`, so a second device overwrote the first silently; SQLite cannot change a primary key in place, so the table is rebuilt. Existing pins are carried over — verified against a live roster with 10 of them, nobody re-pairs. A new device files a request bound by `sha256(code ‖ its own keys)`, and a key the node **already pinned** countersigns it. The hub cannot: it has stored no user keys since 2026-08-14, which is what makes this safe to do without an operator in the loop. **The code never reaches the node.** It lists this account's pending requests with their stored hashes; the approver recomputes and keeps the match. A node offering fabricated keys would have to produce a hash over a code it has never seen. Nothing rests on a human comparing digits — that ritual was dropped in 12.1 as "correct, unusable as the default" and must not return by the back door. The design document had the approver look a request up *by* its hash, which is circular: computing it needs the keys being asked about. Corrected in both. Revocation marks rather than deletes, because a deleted row is a key the node would happily pin again — which is the laptop somebody just reported lost. Your last device cannot be revoked: coming back would need an operator's code. Hub — the only change in the whole plan --------------------------------------- `POST /v1/users/auth` signs in with a device Ed25519 key, on the same pattern as `/v1/nodes/auth`, plus `/v1/users/devices` to register, list and retire. New `user_devices` table with an Alembic migration, because `create_all()` is not one. This is **not** the key directory that was H3, and the tests say so: nothing reads it but the hub, no group key is ever wrapped for one, and it is a different key from the per-node identities. What it does cost is metadata — the hub now knows how many devices an account has and when each last signed in. Also `client.minimum` / `client.recommended` in `GET /v1/hub/version`: an installed client meets a newer hub the day the interface ships in a package, and that is cheap now and awkward to retrofit. Browser ------- The `key_changed` refusal becomes `unknown_device` and offers a linking code instead of telling someone to find their operator. The Members panel lists this account's devices here, approves one by code, and retires one. 773 tests pass. `e2e.py` gained a step that links a device end to end against the live deployment — file, list, recompute, countersign, then open the group with the new keys and no code — and it also gained `recv_type`, because a step that assumes the next message is its own answer reads an ack left by the step before. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* feat(node): several named roots per group, and one implementation per operationChristophe Besson2026-08-1840-521/+3489
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Stage A — a group's content is a set of named roots --------------------------------------------------- `shared_dir` becomes a list of {name, path, kind}. The name is the directory's basename, derived once at add time and *stored*: recomputing it would re-identify a whole library the day someone renames a folder on disk. Duplicate names are refused case-insensitively and no root may contain another — both compared with NFC folding, because most of these directories live on exFAT or NTFS where `Films` and `films` are one directory. Every index path carries its root name, in a one-root group as much as in a five-root one. One path shape has to be got right once; two have to be kept right for ever. **A root that goes away freezes; it never empties.** Unmounting a volume makes watchdog report every file under it as deleted, or presents an empty directory to the next scan. Acting on either propagates deletions for a whole library to every member, as though the owner had erased it. So a deletion is acted on only once its root is confirmed readable, and availability is tracked per root — one unplugged drive leaves the others serving. 12 tests, verified to fail against an indexer without the check. Events are not trusted to be complete either: ReadDirectoryChangesW drops them under load and inotify on a FUSE mount misses changes made outside it. A periodic reconciliation sweep is the only thing that recovers a missed event. MNP 0.2 → 0.3 (additive). The hub needs no change: SwarmSource carries a content hash, a node id and an endpoint — no paths, no filenames — and private groups register nothing (H7). Stage B — one implementation behind every front door ---------------------------------------------------- C1 and C6 were both "a second path into the node with its own weaker handshake". Two implementations of `revoke` with two authorization checks is that shape one size down. `meshbay_node/ops.py` holds each operation once, takes the daemon state, and knows nothing about HTTP, argv or MNP. The loopback API is one `_op(...)` line per endpoint; the MNP handlers call the same functions. test_ops.py asserts the shape rather than trusting it. Phase 14 is finished on top of it — `group list`, `gek init|rotate`, `reload` (SIGHUP), `denylist show|clear`, `file list|rm`. **No operator action requires a browser any more.** Plus `gek_rotate` and `member_unpin` as operator-signed MNP operations: rotation is the half of revocation that revocation cannot do, since the ex-member holds the current key, and the node generates the replacement with its own CSPRNG — no key material crosses the wire, which is what the C5b rule is actually about. Two bugs found by running it rather than by testing it ------------------------------------------------------ GroupIndex is keyed by **content hash**, so the same bytes at two paths are one entry — which is also why a scan reports ten files and indexes nine. Reconciliation compared paths, so it decided the second path was a missed event every 60 s, rewrote the entry and pushed an index update to every connected peer. Seen in a live node's log. `meshbay-node reload` crashed on first use with `subprocess` unimported: the module compiles fine, which is the "syntax, not names" trap already recorded for the SPA. test_cli_dispatch.py now walks every verb and refuses to let one be added to the parser without an entry there. Also corrected: protocol.py declared a second MNP_VERSION of "0.1" while the wire carried "0.2" — harmless only because nothing imported it. And _do_dir_create/_do_dir_delete referenced an undefined `filename` on their error path. 740 tests pass; QE/deploy/e2e.py passes end to end against the live deployment. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* docs: settle the desktop client, and draft v6Christophe Besson2026-08-1811-143/+1942
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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/<hash>/ 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 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* docs: sessions renew themselves, and two faults of the same shape0.5Christophe Besson2026-08-172-9/+54
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | USERGUIDE said an hour in five places and presented renewal as something the reader does with curl. Both are now wrong: it is four hours, the web app renews for itself, and the endpoint rotates — so anyone driving it by hand has to store the refresh token that comes back, or their next call revokes the family. Also corrects what the token's life actually bounds. It is not how long a revocation takes: the hub reloads the account on every request and refuses a suspended one at once, and it pushes signed revocations to nodes. What remains is a leaked token on an account still in good standing, which is the reason to keep the number small. Two lessons in CLAUDE.md. A rotated refresh token has to be stored or it is spent once. And an effect keyed on a value that used to be constant: the WebRTC dial listed `token` among its dependencies, harmless while a token only ever expired, fatal once the session renewed itself — it tore the connection down mid-handshake and the node waited for ever. That and the hook declared after its own dependency are the same shape, and worth naming as one: code that reads correctly on its own and is wrong against the component lifecycle.
* fix(hub): a session that renews itselfChristophe Besson2026-08-175-19/+582
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Reported: after an hour of watching a film, every action answers "token expired or invalid", with signing out and back in as the only way on. Reopening the tab the next day did the same. The access token lasts an hour and the refresh token thirty days, and nothing used the second one. `hubFetch` reported a 401 like any other error, and watching a film is precisely an hour in which the hub hears nothing at all, because the video travels over WebRTC. So the token aged out with no request to notice, and a tab reopened the next morning presented a stale token with a perfectly good refresh token sitting beside it in localStorage. Underneath was the reason it could not be recovered from. The hub *rotates*: the refresh endpoint revokes the token presented, returns a replacement, and treats a revoked one presented again as theft, revoking the whole family. The client kept only the access token out of that response. So the refresh token was spent on first use and the second attempt did not merely fail — it destroyed the family. Which is exactly the reported symptom. Renewal now happens on a margin, on returning to the tab, on mount, and on a 401 with the request replayed. Concurrent renewals share one request: two 401s racing would otherwise present the same refresh token twice, and the hub cannot tell that from theft, so the remedy would have been worse than the fault. A refusal signs out cleanly rather than leaving a session that fails every call while looking signed in. The lifetime goes to four hours, which is not what makes long sessions work — renewal is — but is what someone has to notice by if renewal itself breaks. An hour was less than a feature film. Twelve was considered and declined: it widens the window in which a leaked token cannot be turned off, and it lets the renewal path go a whole day between uses, which is how it came to be broken here without anyone noticing. Production sets this in its own hub.toml, so both moved. The tests run the shipped code against a hub that enforces rotation, because a stub that accepted the same refresh token twice would have passed against the broken client. Checked that dropping the rotated token reproduces the revoked family, so the guard is guarding something. Also widens the orphan-setter rule to ignore `setX` functions declared in the module: `setAuth` is not a hook setter, and a rule that cries wolf is one somebody eventually silences. Verified it still catches a real orphan.
* fix(hub): the transfers panel hung off the side of a phoneChristophe Besson2026-08-175-3/+332
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Reported: on mobile you see only the right-hand edge of the panel, without the content. Measured, before anything was changed: 320 px viewport -> panel at -138..192, 138 px off the left 360 px -> -98..232 412 px -> -46..284 The panel is 330 px wide and anchored to the right edge of its button — but that button is not at the right edge of the screen, since the bell and the user menu come after it. What falls off is the left-hand side, which is where the file names are, so what stayed on screen was a strip of progress bars belonging to nothing. Narrowing it would not have helped: the overflow comes from where the right edge is pinned, not from the width. Below the existing 768 px breakpoint the panel is anchored to the viewport instead, full width on a phone and capped at 420 px on a tablet, where stretching two filenames across 750 px would be silly. Desktop keeps its 330 px against the button. The interesting part is how it was found. The responsive tests read numbers out of the stylesheet and said, in their own docstring, that a layout could not be measured because the suite had no browser. It has one now — Chrome, from the video work — so layout_probe.py renders the real stylesheet at a given width and returns rectangles. `width: 330px` was never the thing worth asserting on. An iframe carries the viewport, because a headless window will not go below about 500 px, and one browser measures every width: launching one per test put three minutes on the suite against twenty-six seconds for all of them. Checked that the new tests fail with the rule removed — three of them do — and that they pass with it back.
* test(hub): a hook that depends on one declared below it never runsChristophe Besson2026-08-175-8/+571
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | `const a = useCallback(fn, [b])` evaluates `[b]` where it is written, so a `b` further down the component is still in its temporal dead zone. ReferenceError on every render, before anything the component does can run — and the symptom is the component simply not appearing. Clicking a video did nothing at all: no picture, no error on screen, nothing in the node's log because nothing was ever requested. It reached production. Nothing caught it. `node --check` passes, the code is well-formed. Worse, the MSE harness extracts the player functions into an order of its own and therefore *reordered* them before running — quietly repairing the one class of defect it was best placed to catch. It sorts by position in the file now, and test_hook_ordering.py checks the property directly across the whole SPA. Both the rule and the harness are checked against the layout that actually shipped. test_video_seek.py covers the rest of seeking, and window_leak.mjs forces the race that made the third seek hang: the whole in-flight window arriving while `reinitAt` is still awaiting. Before, the player is left believing eight segments are in flight and grants nothing; after, the window comes back. A run that happens to work proves nothing about a race, which is the point of forcing the worst case rather than trusting a longer session.
* feat(hub): move about in a film, and pick it up where it was leftChristophe Besson2026-08-1712-22/+372
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Clicking the scrubber now restarts the stream there. A seek inside what is already buffered never reaches the node. Dragging is debounced at 350 ms, because `seeking` fires continuously and each one acted on kills an ffmpeg and spawns another. `SourceBuffer.mode` changes from 'sequence' to 'segments', and each stream sets `timestampOffset` to where the node says it started — otherwise a stream beginning at forty minutes is buffered at zero and the scrubber lies about everything. Proved in Chrome before any of it was written: abort, remove, offset 600, append, and playback resumes at 600 with `readyState` 4. A seek makes the buffer discontinuous, and everything reading `buffered` then has to mean a particular range. "The last one" stops being "the one playing": the read-ahead would report a full buffer across a gap while the player starves, and the eviction would take out everything between the first range and the playhead, including what is showing. Both work from the range around the playhead now. `reinitAt` also clears the buffer outright rather than keeping two ranges, and calls `abort()` first — ffmpeg was killed mid-fragment, so the parser holds half of one and the next header would land on top of it. The position is kept in localStorage, per file: no protocol, no storage anyone else has to keep, and nothing new learns what you watch. Not below thirty seconds, not past 97% of the film, and a pill offers the beginning back. Two things this had to get right and did not at first, both found by running it rather than reading it. Between asking for a seek and its `stream_init`, everything on the channel belongs to the film being left — same file, so `file_id` cannot separate them, but ordering can. And a segment that arrived is no longer in flight whatever is then done with it: discarding one before decrementing the window leaked a slot every time, and `reinitAt` is asynchronous, so a whole window could arrive while it waited. The player then believed eight segments were in flight, granted nothing further, and the node waited for credit that could not come — a race, which is why the same seek worked twice and hung on the third.
* feat(node): seeking, as a stream restarted somewhere elseChristophe Besson2026-08-172-12/+51
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The scrubber was drawn the length of the film — `ms.duration` has always been the real duration — and then `onSeeking` quietly clamped every target back into whatever happened to be buffered. The bar invited a click and refused it. `stream_req` gains a `start`. The session's previous stream is retired by the path that already exists for switching films, and ffmpeg is spawned again with `-ss` **before** `-i`: an index lookup rather than decoding and discarding up to the point, which is milliseconds on a 500 MB film instead of tens of seconds. Measured over real MNP: 0s -> 492 MB, 600s -> 418 MB, 3000s -> 179 MB. A seek at or past the end is pulled back, because ffmpeg would produce nothing and the player would wait for segments that are never coming. `stream_init` reports the position actually used. It has to: ffmpeg restarts its output timestamps at zero however far in it seeks — `-copyts` does not change that for this input, measured — so the client is the one that puts the fragments back on the film's timeline, and it cannot guess by how much. The value is also not what was asked for, since `-c copy` lands on the keyframe at or before it. The diagnostics that found the rest of this are here too: a seek, a first init and a re-init are each one line at INFO, which is rare enough to keep on. The five-second client report stays at DEBUG.
* docs: what this session cost to findChristophe Besson2026-08-162-12/+90
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Five lessons, and the first is the expensive one: a test that models a fix agrees with it by construction. The buffer-ceiling test passed against a player that still hung, because the model and the fix had the same author and the same misunderstanding. Also: `no-cache` only binds a browser that asks; redeploying during someone else's test kills their session and truncates the log holding the reproduction; `updateend` fires for `remove()`; and flow control on a media stream is a window, not a debt. USERGUIDE section 7 rewritten — it still described 24 segments in flight and two transcode slots, and said "transcode" where ffmpeg does a `-c copy` remux, which is exactly why a slot costs little and why 500 MB really does go on the wire.
* feat(node): the stream capacity is the operator's to set, and a log that ↵Christophe Besson2026-08-165-25/+325
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | says who stopped Bounding the client's read-ahead changed what a transcode slot is. It used to be a burst — the browser took segments as fast as it could append them, so a slot came back within the minute whatever the length of the film. Now it is held for as long as someone is watching, so the cap counts simultaneous viewers, and two of them meant the third was refused for the next hour and a half. The right number depends on the machine, so it belongs to the operator: `[node] max_concurrent_streams` in node.toml, or MESHBAY_MAX_CONCURRENT_STREAMS. Default 8 — one ffmpeg per viewer, remuxing rather than encoding, idle on a pipe for most of the film. Zero, a negative number, a non-number and a bool are refused with a warning naming the setting: `Semaphore(0)` is not "no limit", it is a node where no video ever plays and nothing says why, and TOML `true` would have become 1 by way of `int()`. A stream also ends on the peer's silence now rather than on its stinginess. A viewer buffered well ahead deliberately grants nothing for minutes, and the old budget accumulated over the whole wait, so a keepalive that granted no credit could not keep a paused film alive. The rest is diagnosis, which is what this cost. `client_diag` carries the player's own view — readyState, refused appends, buffered ranges, the video element's error — into the node's log at DEBUG, next to the node's view of the same stream. It is the only window into a phone, and every field is stringified and cut short because all of it is peer-controlled. The node also logs the first keepalive, which distinguishes a paced client from an unpaced one at a glance, and progress every hundred segments, whose last line says where a stream stopped and which side stopped it.
* fix(hub): serve the SPA under a fingerprint of what it isChristophe Besson2026-08-164-14/+188
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | `Cache-Control: no-cache` requires a browser to revalidate, but it only binds one that asks. A browser that cached app.js before that header existed applies heuristic freshness instead — a fraction of the file's age, which for a file dated weeks ago is days — and never asks. It then runs an old player against a new node. That cost most of a session. A phone kept a player without the read-ahead bound and filled the browser's buffer ceiling at 106 MB, the exact symptom the bound had been written to remove, for an hour after the bounded player went live. A fix that is written, tested, deployed and served, and still not what runs, is indistinguishable from a fix that does not work. The whole module graph now lives under `/a/<content-hash>/`. A path prefix rather than a query string, because relative imports inherit it: `app.js` reaching for `./i18n.js` gets the build it was written against, and never a mixture of two — which does not render a stale page, it fails to link. The URL changes with the content, so those may be cached hard. `sw.js` stays at the root. Its scope is its own path, and under the prefix it would no longer control the pages whose downloads it exists to intercept.
* fix(hub): bound the video read-ahead by the playhead, not by the networkChristophe Besson2026-08-164-10/+565
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | A 500 MB film loaded about 100 MB and hung on "buffering" for good. 100 MB is not a number in our code: it is where the browser stops. ffmpeg remuxes with `-c copy`, so the bytes on the wire are the file's own, and credit granted per append meant taking them as fast as the network allowed — which for a film is very much faster than watching it. The SourceBuffer ceiling arrived in the first minute. Past it every append was refused, and the refusal was unrecoverable: a refused append fires no `updateend`, `updateend` was where credit was granted, so the node sent nothing and no segment arrived to retry the append. Every wakeup the pipeline had was downstream of the append that had just failed. Playback continuing — the one thing that frees room — woke nothing at all. Credit now follows the buffer instead of the writes. `pump()` is the only place it is granted, it keeps `STREAM_WINDOW` segments in flight while less than `BUFFER_AHEAD_S` of film is held past the playhead, and it is driven by a one-second clock and by playback progress, never by arriving data. Buffering by time makes a two-hour film cost what a two-minute clip costs. A window rather than a debt, and this took a second measurement to get right: accumulating a credit per append and releasing the balance when the buffer finally drained sent six megabytes in one burst, overshot by a minute of film, then said nothing for forty-six seconds. Measured in Chrome against real fragmented MP4. Two smaller things found on the way. `updateend` fires for `remove()` as well as `appendBuffer()`, so crediting from it paid the node for the player's own evictions. And a viewer that is deliberately far enough ahead grants nothing for minutes, which the node read as a closed tab — it now sends `stream_more` with n=0, which grants no room but proves someone is there. The first version of the test modelled the credit loop and passed while the player still hung: a model written by whoever wrote the fix agrees with it by construction. `tests/harness/mse_harness.mjs` lifts the real functions out of app.js as text and runs them against a SourceBuffer that has a ceiling. What is modelled is the browser.
* chore: release 0.5.0Christophe Besson2026-08-168-10/+29
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* docs: record what this session cost to findChristophe Besson2026-08-161-1/+56
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Six lessons, each of which took a deployment and a user's patience to locate. Five are the same shape: something that fails silently and looks like something else. The asyncio task nobody holds, `proc.wait()` deadlocking on a pipe it will not read, a peer whose loss is noted but not acted on, a service worker that is active without controlling the page, and a React setter that outlives its state. The sixth is about method: `node --check` validates syntax and not names, and `e2e.py` is a second implementation of the client rather than a test of this one. Neither caught any of the above. Source-reading tests are weak evidence and are the only evidence available for the SPA — so prefer ones that re-derive a value from the source over ones that restate it. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* feat(hub): chat, presence, a Profile page, and downloads that do not freezeChristophe Besson2026-08-1620-291/+1693
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Chat opens on the newest hundred messages, loads fifty older on demand with the reading position anchored — the distance from the *bottom*, since everything above the viewport just grew — and follows new messages only when the reader was already at the end. Day separators, sender grouping, an unread marker, and a jump-to-latest pill. Messages are keyed by id: index keys plus prepending makes Preact reuse the wrong bubbles. A presence dot per group in the sidebar, three states, each backed by something: the hub's registry, or a connection this browser made or failed to make. Never colour alone — red and green are the pair colour-blind readers cannot separate — so each dot carries a title and an aria-label. Profile is split out of Settings: identity, node link, pinned node identities and account deletion. Mixing them put an irreversible button two scrolls under a theme picker. The create-group page loses its centred 520 px card, which left 190 px of margin either side, and its two button panels become a radio group — a button conveys no chosen state to a screen reader, and side by side they read as two independent actions rather than one either/or. The Files toolbar shows its actions as icon buttons the moment Select is on, disabled when they do not apply rather than appearing and vanishing. On a phone the right-hand group could not wrap and ran 130 px off the screen. Streamed downloads no longer freeze after one chunk. `registration.active` says a worker exists, not that this page is controlled by it — and an uncontrolled page's requests never reach its fetch handler, so the worker took the stream and was never asked for it, leaving `writer.write()` waiting on backpressure that would never lift. The page now requires control and the worker confirms it actually served the request before the sink is trusted. Fixed on the way: `setActionsOpen` outlived the state it belonged to and threw on every Files action; the chat scrollbar stopped short of the bottom; the owner's row sat lower than the rest; About showed a version hardcoded two releases ago. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* fix(node): stop losing transcode slots, and reap ffmpeg without deadlockingChristophe Besson2026-08-163-43/+551
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Reported from a phone: play a video, close the viewer, open another — the second hangs and the third is refused. Three separate causes, found by instrumenting rather than guessing, after two fixes that addressed real but different bugs. A task nobody holds can be collected mid-flight. asyncio keeps only a weak reference, so `ensure_future` with the result discarded may be garbage-collected while running — "Task was destroyed but it is pending!" — and `_stream_video` never reached the exit of its `async with sem`. `_spawn` holds every background task; all nineteen call sites go through it. Losing the peer must stop its work. The connectionstatechange handler popped the session from a dict and nothing else, so a closed tab went on transcoding for the full 120 s credit timeout. Measured in the log: 91 s of ffmpeg after the connection closed. `shutdown_tasks()` now runs on the way out, and the credit wait checks the channel before sleeping and polls in slices instead of once. And `await proc.wait()` after `kill()` still deadlocks. ffmpeg outruns a credit-paced viewer and fills the stdout pipe; stop reading it and the transport cannot finish closing, SIGKILL or not. Measured against the live node with a 169 MB video, closing the viewer after 20 segments and asking for the next one: 15.1 s then "Server busy" before, 0.1 s / 0.0 s / 0.0 s after. Chunk replies wait for room on the channel. Eight megabyte-sized chunks answered as they arrived queued 8 MB with nothing watching — measured at 7.3 MB of bufferedAmount in milliseconds. Fine on a LAN, minutes of head-of-line delay on a busy link. Upload names accept any script. The rule was ASCII-only, so `été.txt` was refused — and so was `rapport (1).pdf`, which is the form `_free_name` produces itself, meaning the node rejected names it had chosen. Widened to Unicode with the C5a and H2 protections intact, plus a refusal of names that lie about themselves: trailing space or dot, and the right-to-left override. Errors now name the file, so one bad name no longer fails every upload in flight. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* feat(common): MNP 0.2 — liveness, and chat history read the way it is writtenChristophe Besson2026-08-165-3/+212
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | `get_messages` pages forward from the oldest message. That is the right shape for "what happened since I last looked" and the wrong one for opening a conversation, and the browser asked it for `since=0, limit=200` — so a group with more than two hundred messages showed its first two hundred and the exchange anyone came for was unreachable. Demonstrated on 300 messages: the newest was simply absent from the answer. `get_recent` and `get_before` page backwards, cursored on the row id rather than the timestamp. Nothing makes a `time.time()` float unique, and a cursor on a value two rows can share eventually skips a message or repeats it. PING/PONG covers liveness on an already-open channel: a DataChannel whose peer vanished without closing still reads as connected, and nothing noticed until a real request hung. It is not a discovery mechanism — opening a connection to ping costs a full ICE/DTLS handshake, measured at 0.6-7 s across two ISPs — so presence in the group list comes from the hub's registry instead. Both additions are backward compatible: an 0.1 peer sends no `before` and is answered with the newest page, which is what it wanted. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* feat(hub): leaving a group, a cap on public ones, and hosting as a preconditionChristophe Besson2026-08-1610-14/+863
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Leaving is its own endpoint rather than a relaxation of the owner's removal check — an authorization rule with an exception in it is the one that gets read wrong later. The owner cannot leave: the group would be left with nobody able to admit, edit or delete it, which is the answer removal and account deletion already give. Public groups are capped at ten live ones per owner. They are the ones that cost other people something — listed in Discover, joinable by anyone — so a script that opens hundreds fills the directory for everybody. Private groups are invisible to non-members and are not capped. Hub staff are exempt; the cap is anti-spam, not a rule about running an instance. Creation is the only place it can be checked, and deliberately so, because PATCH refuses to change visibility at all. A group is now listed only once a node has announced that it hosts it. Before that it has no files, no key and nothing to connect to, so showing it to a member produces a name they cannot open and cannot be told why; its owner still sees it while they set the node up. `meshbay-hub prune-groups` collects the ones that never got a node, meant for cron, with --dry-run. The migration backfills hosted_at from created_at: without that the first run would have deleted every live group. Presence rides on the group list itself, read from the signaling registry the hub already keeps — no poll, no timer. It says a node is connected *to the hub*, which is not a promise that this browser can reach it and not something a dishonest hub could not fake; the client downgrades it on a connection it tried and failed, which is the evidence that concerns the reader. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* chore: release 0.4.00.4Christophe Besson2026-08-169-11/+24
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* fix(hub): revalidate static assets so a split SPA version cannot loadChristophe Besson2026-08-161-1/+23
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The SPA became a module graph that has to agree with itself: app.js imports i18n.js, which imports a catalogue from locales/. Serving one of them from cache while fetching another is not a stale page, it is a broken one, and both directions were reproduced: - a browser holding the previous i18n.js fails to *link* the new app.js ("does not provide an export named 'initLocale'"). That happens before any code runs, so the fallback in the boot cannot catch it — blank page. - the reverse pairing links and renders, but nothing calls initLocale(), so every string comes out as its own key: nav.logout, group.tab_files. Starlette sends only etag and last-modified, and with no explicit freshness a browser is entitled to guess one — roughly 10% of the age since last-modified, which is comfortably long enough to catch a deploy. Caddy is a plain reverse proxy and adds nothing. `no-cache` does not disable caching; it requires a conditional request, which the existing ETag answers with a 304 and no body. Measured: 304, 0 bytes, on every static path. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* feat(hub): translate the web client into nine more languagesChristophe Besson2026-08-1615-395/+4371
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | French, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, Simplified Chinese, Japanese, German, Italian, Dutch and Polish, all in the formal register. `hub`, `node` and `GEK` stay in English: they name the CLI, node.toml and the docs, and translating them would cut the interface off from everything an operator reads and types. Catalogues move out of i18n.js into locales/, one file per language, fetched with a dynamic import. A visitor downloads their language plus English as a fallback — about 36 KB rather than the ~180 KB that ten inlined catalogues would have cost everyone. i18n.js keeps only the loader, so the first render now waits for initLocale(). Three things the old code got wrong, none of them visible until there was a second language: - Resolution trimmed a tag to its base before matching, so a browser reporting pt-BR looked for a `pt` catalogue that does not exist and fell back to English. Matching is now exact first, then by base language. - Counted strings were single strings, so Polish could not express 1 plik / 2 pliki / 5 plików at all. t() selects through Intl.PluralRules; en.js gains the same treatment, which incidentally fixes "1 files". - Interpolation used String.replace, which reads `$&` in the replacement. A file named rap$&sody.mp3 rendered corrupted in its own delete dialog. Five strings were still hardcoded in app.js — the group name placeholder and the four visibility/join-policy descriptions — and are now keyed. test_locales.py holds the nine translations to the shape of en.js: same keys, a counted string stays counted everywhere, every plural entry covers each category Intl actually produces for that language, and the {placeholders} survive translation. Verified failing first, against a catalogue with a key removed, a placeholder dropped and the Polish `few` form deleted. The language menu also grew from one entry to ten, which overran a short viewport inside a dropdown that clipped instead of scrolling. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* chore: release 0.3.00.3Christophe Besson2026-08-159-11/+27
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Twenty-one commits since 0.2, and enough of them change what the thing does that moving the old tag would have been the wrong description. Node: video streaming paced by the client rather than pushed at it, and a stream that ends when the viewer closes instead of holding a transcode slot for two minutes. An operator can remove an empty directory and revoke a member over MNP. `meshbay-node group add` attaches another hub group without hand-editing node.toml. The node.toml operator key is gone; the roster is the only source of authority. Hub and web client: transfers outlive the page that started them, with a widget that shows the rate and can cancel them; downloads stream to disk in every browser, through the File System Access API where it exists and a service worker where it does not; a folder can be taken as a zip built in the browser. A group owner can remove a member and edit the description. Nodes are recorded at the address their signed announcement arrived from, not the one STUN told them about. Deleted accounts stop being counted while the connection log keeps their name. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* docs: record which download paths have actually been runChristophe Besson2026-08-152-0/+23
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The download-to-disk story is three mechanisms — File System Access in Chrome, a service worker streaming a response in Firefox and Safari, a blob as the floor — and no test in this repository exercises any of them. test_downloads.py pins their contracts by reading the source; whether a browser really writes to disk needs a person with a large file. One now has: Firefox, 180 MB, written to disk rather than assembled in the tab. That is the path worth confirming, since it is the only one Firefox has and it was written blind. It is also not the scale it exists for, and the guide says which rows of that table are measured and which are still only designed. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* fix: stop a stream on close, count only real users, record where a node isChristophe Besson2026-08-1514-16/+448
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | **Closing the viewer left the node working.** Nothing told it to stop: the player dropped its handlers, which only made the browser deaf. ffmpeg kept running and held one of the node's two transcode slots until the credit timeout expired two minutes later — which is why the next video answered "server busy". `stream_stop` ends it at once, and the viewer also drops its queue, ends the MediaSource and revokes the object URL on the way out, any of which could be holding megabytes of decrypted video. While there: `file_chunk` replies were matched to their requests by arrival order, which was true by luck rather than by construction. The reply now names the file it belongs to and is matched on that and the chunk index; a chunk nobody is waiting for is dropped instead of being handed to whatever request happens to be oldest. **The administration panel counted its own history.** A deleted account is tombstoned so the connection log stays readable, and every count and list treated that row as a user — including a group's member count, and the member list of the group itself. They do not any more. **Where a node is.** `endpoint_hint` is what a node believes its address to be, learned from a STUN server and sent to us: useful for reaching it, and a claim. The announcement that carries it is signed with the node key over a fresh timestamp, so the address that request *arrives from* is the address of whoever holds that key — that is now recorded on the node row and shown in a Nodes tab, next to the hint, with the difference spelled out. Clients get the same treatment: `webrtc_offer` is logged with the address the hub saw when a browser starts a peer connection. Verified against the live deployment: the node's row reads 90.112.206.172 after a restart, and in e2e a stopped stream goes quiet in one message and the next one starts immediately instead of being refused. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* feat(groups): remove a member, and keep gigabytes out of the tabChristophe Besson2026-08-1513-19/+760
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | **Removing a member.** The owner can do it from the Members tab, and it is two halves in the order that fails safe: the node stops serving the group key first (an operator-signed request, so a paired browser only), then the hub drops the membership row. The other order would leave someone able to reach a node that still serves them. It is a membership, not an account. The user row is never written: their other groups, their files and their pinned identity survive, because one group's owner must not be able to erase someone from the hub. It is also per group — a node hosting two loses them from one — and it does not take back the key they already unwrapped, which is what rotating the GEK is for. The confirmation and the panel both say so. **Downloads and streaming through the disk, in both browsers.** The audit this started as found two ways to put gigabytes in a tab. Firefox and Safari have no File System Access API, so every download there was collected in memory. A service worker fixes it: the page keeps the writable half of a transferred stream, the worker answers a made-up URL with the readable half and a Content-Disposition header, and the browser writes it to disk as it arrives, with real backpressure. The worker caches nothing and falls through on every request that is not one of these downloads. A zip announces no Content-Length, since the archive is larger than the files in it and a length we miss truncates the file. Video was worse and affected both browsers. The node pushed ffmpeg's whole output as fast as it was produced while the player consumed a segment at a time, so the queue held the film — and appending all of it hit the SourceBuffer's cap, where the handler logged the error and dropped the segment, leaving a hole in the middle of the film with nothing to show for it. Streaming is credit-based now, 24 segments of 256 KB in flight, verified against the live node: three credits, three segments, then silence until more are granted. The player evicts what is more than a minute behind the playhead and retries a refused segment rather than dropping it. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* fix(downloads): automatic really is automatic, and a selection downloads all ↵Christophe Besson2026-08-158-63/+293
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | of it Two bugs in what shipped last, and both were mine. Automatic mode still opened Save As, because with no folder granted the code fell through to the file picker — while the documentation said it would use the browser's own download folder. It does that now. Over 512 MB it still asks, since getting there means holding the file in memory and a tab will not survive a 40 GB blob; Settings is where to stop it asking again. Selecting two files downloaded one. They were started without awaiting, so each asked the browser for a save dialog at once, and a browser allows exactly one — the rest were rejected and the errors went nowhere. They are awaited one at a time now, which serializes the dialogs and not the transfers: each call returns as soon as its transfer is registered. Then the adjustments. The transfers widget offers Open on a finished download that went into a granted folder — the bytes go to a new tab, and that is the whole of what a page can do: no browser lets one start a desktop application or show a file manager, so the folder half of that request cannot be built and the guide says so. The Files toolbar was four controls of three different heights in a row. It is three groups now — what you can add, where you are, what you can do with what is here — on one baseline, with icons from the set and a gap between the dots and the word Actions. Chat comes first among the tabs and is the one you land on. The three Discover entries in the sidebar have icons. And a link in a chat message becomes a link: built as an element and never as markup, http and https only, so `javascript:` is not one message away from running here. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* feat(settings): choose between Save As and saving into a folderChristophe Besson2026-08-156-32/+406
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Downloading a selection of twenty files meant twenty Save As dialogs, which is the wrong answer for the feature that had just been built. Settings → Downloads now offers saving automatically, and that is the default; asking every time stays available for people who want it. The correction worth recording: a web page cannot be given a filesystem path and cannot read one either. There is no ~/Downloads to configure and nothing to type, on any operating system — which is also why none of this will need changing on Windows. What a browser grants is a handle to a folder the user picked in a dialog, so that is what the setting keeps: picked once, stored in IndexedDB, re-confirmed once a session because the grant comes back as a claim rather than a permission. Where no folder has been granted, and in Firefox and Safari where none can be, files go to the browser's own download folder — which on most machines is the folder that was meant all along. Automatic saving has one risk a dialog does not: it can silently replace a file. It does not — a taken name gets a suffix before the extension, `clip (2).mp4`, so a download folder does not fill up with files the system no longer recognises. That, and the default, are what test_downloads.py pins. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* feat(files): transfers that outlive the page, and selection instead of ↵Christophe Besson2026-08-158-261/+887
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | per-row menus Downloads and uploads were state inside GroupPage. Leaving a group unmounted the component, its cleanup closed the DataChannel, and a half-written file was all you had — which is also why only one thing could be in flight at a time. They live in a module-level store now. A group page hands its transport over on the way out rather than closing it, and the last transfer using it closes it; signing out is the one thing that cancels everything, because those transfers are moving data on a token about to stop being ours. The store is plain JavaScript with no browser globals, so test_transfers.py runs it under Node and pins the parts that are timing and lifetime rather than markup: that a cancel stops the work instead of greying out a row, that a stalled transfer reads as stalled rather than reporting its own historical average, and that a released transport is closed by the last transfer and not before. The widget by the bell shows each transfer with its rate and a cancel button, so the Files panel no longer carries progress bars — you can watch a 40 GB archive from the chat, or from another group. Selection replaces the per-row menu: a Select toggle puts checkboxes on files and folders, and ⋮ Actions acts on what is ticked. Ticks survive walking into another folder, so a selection can span directories. Downloads start together and run together. Videos offer Play only — View did the same thing, which is the sort of duplication that makes people wonder what the difference is. Uploads had to become parallel-safe for any of this to mean anything: their acks were matched by arrival order, so two at once credited each other's progress. The node names the file in every ack, so they are keyed by name now — with the same file twice refused, since the node keys its own upload state that way too. Two mistakes worth recording. The selection column went into the body rows and not the header, because that edit matched nothing and I had not made it assert; the columns were misaligned until a screenshot showed it. And the Actions menu opened leftwards from a button at the right edge of the toolbar, half of it off-screen. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* feat(files): download a folder as a zip, and remove an empty oneChristophe Besson2026-08-1511-7/+834
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Two things a Files panel needs and did not have. **Removing a directory** is privileged, where creating one is not: it acts on a name other members are using, on the operator's disk. It is refused unless the directory is empty, and that rule is the safety property — whatever the browser sends, this cannot destroy content. The check runs twice, once before the challenge and once after the signature comes back, because a file can land during the round trip. A file also accepts its uploader's key; a directory has no uploader, so only the operator's key will do. **Downloading a folder** produces a zip built in the browser, written straight to disk as the chunks arrive. An archive of a group folder is routinely tens of gigabytes, so nothing is held: peak memory is one chunk plus a small record per file. The node is not involved at all — it serves the same encrypted chunks as any other download, holds no temporary files, and cannot be asked to compress anything. zipstream.js is store-only. Group content is video and images, already compressed, so deflate would spend CPU on every byte to save nothing, in the thread that is also decrypting. Sizes and CRCs go in a data descriptor after each file because a stream cannot seek back to patch a header, and zip64 kicks in per entry past 4 GiB and for the archive itself. Because none of that can be checked from the Python side of the house, test_zipstream.py runs the real module under Node and reads what it produces with zipfile — CRCs, UTF-8 names, zip64 records and all. The archives also pass `unzip -t`. Firefox and Safari have no File System Access API, so there is nowhere to stream to: the fallback builds the archive in memory and says so, with the size, before starting rather than after failing. One mistake worth recording: the first version of deleteDirectory passed the node's own answer as the value to check the challenge against, which turns the comparison into a tautology. It checks the path we asked for. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* feat(node): meshbay-node group add — host another of your groupsChristophe Besson2026-08-155-12/+224
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Attaching a group to a node meant hand-editing node.toml with a UUID copied from a browser URL, restarting, and knowing that gek-init exists. Nothing in the CLI said so, and on a node reached over SSH there is no paste buffer to carry a UUID across in the first place. meshbay-node group add grenet --dir ~/grenet-share The name is resolved against the operator's groups on the hub by the daemon, which is the process holding the session. The [[groups]] block is appended to node.toml as text rather than round-tripped through a TOML writer: the file is hand-written and its comments explain decisions worth keeping. The directory is created, and the command says what remains — restart, then gek-init for that group. It refuses a name it cannot find by printing the groups it can, with their ids. That listing is the useful half of the answer and it was missing everywhere: _daemon_api now renders an `available` list from any endpoint that offers one. The key is per group and pairing is not, which is the part that reads as a gap until it is written down: one paired browser covers every group the node hosts, while each group's key admits only its own members. §4 of the user guide now says all three of those in one place. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* fix(cli): --group takes a name, and operator pair says it takes noneChristophe Besson2026-08-151-2/+35
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Two ways the CLI misled someone attaching a second group to a node. `meshbay-node operator pair --group grenet` accepted the flag and ignored it: pairing is node-wide and always was. That invites exactly the wrong reading — that a code belongs to a group, and that pairing had failed because the group did not change. It now refuses the flag and says one paired browser covers every group the node hosts. `--group` also only ever accepted a UUID. A name went through untouched and the daemon answered as though the group did not exist, which is not what happened. It now resolves a name against node.toml, and when there is no match it prints the groups there are, with their ids — the missing half of the answer. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* perf(upload): several chunks in flight, instead of one per round tripChristophe Besson2026-08-153-32/+120
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The uploader read a 48 KB slice, sent it, and waited for the node to acknowledge it before reading the next one. That caps throughput at one chunk per round trip regardless of available bandwidth, and it is worse than the arithmetic suggests: the sender is idle for almost the whole time, so SCTP's congestion window never opens either, and the transport stays slow even when the link is not. Measured against the real node over a 100 ms path (netem on loopback): 48 KB chunks, one at a time 0.16 MB/s 48 KB chunks, 32 in flight 3.47 MB/s On loopback with no latency both are ~32 MB/s, which is why nothing here ever caught it: the local end-to-end run cannot see a round-trip problem. transport.uploadFile() now keeps a window of chunks in flight and matches acks by arrival, with the node's own ordering rule as the guard — a DataChannel is ordered and reliable, and the node refuses any chunk that is not the one it expects next. It pauses when the channel's buffered amount gets high, so the progress bar keeps reporting what the node has taken rather than what the browser has queued. Both callers, the Files panel and chat attachments, go through it. The end-to-end harness grew an opt-in benchmark behind MESHBAY_BENCH=1 that removes its own files afterwards, and it taught me something about the harness rather than the code: it took an unsolicited index_sync push for an upload ack, because unlike app.js it had no place to put one. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* feat(groups): editable description, and one source of operator authorityChristophe Besson2026-08-1513-66/+348
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | A description could only be set the moment a group was created, so every group made before anyone thought of one stayed blank for good. The owner can now edit it from the group's page, and PATCH /v1/groups/{id} takes it. That endpoint takes the description and nothing else, deliberately. The name, the visibility and the join policy are the terms members joined on; a private group that can quietly become public is not the group they agreed to be in. Changing those needs a decision about who gets told, not a field on a form — there is a test saying so. Separately, the legacy operator key is gone. `admin_pk_ed25519` in node.toml named the operator before the roster existed and was kept so that an existing deployment would keep working; nothing uses it, and a second source of node authority is not something to carry around out of politeness. Authority is the roster, read fresh on every check. It is removed rather than ignored: a config that still names the key gets a warning at startup pointing at the file. Dropping it in silence would refuse invites and file deletion with a signature error that looks like a bug somewhere else — which is exactly how finding M3 presented. Two tests were verifying admin operations by naming a key in the context, which was the legacy path. They now pair an operator into a roster, the way an operator does. The authority test anchored on the deleted function and passed vacuously once it disappeared; it states the invariant against the verifier and the daemon instead. Also defined .btn-secondary, used in four places and styled in none. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* The Files panel stops guessing, and search says how old its answer isChristophe Besson2026-08-153-32/+78
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Four small things, two of which were the same bug wearing different hats. The index cache seeded the Files panel and then raced the live index: IndexedDB is async, so a fast node could hand you the real list and have it overwritten a moment later by the cached one. That is the "choses bizarres". The panel now shows what the node says, or says it cannot reach the node — no third state that looks like data but is memory. The cache stays, written on every sync, and the search page is the only thing that reads it. Search across groups has no other source: it cannot connect to every node to answer a keystroke. So it now says how stale each hit is — "synced 2 hours ago", per group — and a line under the results explains that opening a group refreshes what search knows about it. Deleting a file also rewrites the cache now; it used to refresh the table and leave the cache holding a file that no longer existed, which is why search kept offering it. The invite form is shown only once this browser holds an operator key. Invites are signed with it and the node checks the signature against its roster, so an unpaired browser could fill the form in and fail on submit. An owner who is not the node's operator is told to ask the one who is. Group descriptions now show on the home cards, as they already did in Explore. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* feat(logs): keep the username on records the account no longer answers forChristophe Besson2026-08-158-4/+90
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The connection log took the name from a join on `users`, and deletion tombstones that row — so every record belonging to a deleted account reported `deleted-3f9a1c`, which is the one answer that helps nobody. The log is kept for a legal retention period precisely so it can say who did what; losing the name at deletion kept the data and lost the point of it. `ip_logs.username` is written as the account is erased, and stays NULL while the account is alive, where the join is better because it cannot go stale. The admin view prefers the stored name when there is one: the join still answers after deletion, just with the tombstone. Releasing the username for re-registration and keeping it in the log are separate things, and the guide now says so. On the node side, the pre-proof audit line records the username the session already knew, instead of leaving the column empty. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* fix(members): restore the member list and invite form, and retire the ↵Christophe Besson2026-08-154-48/+106
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | pairing form Moving the invite form above the member list cut both out of MembersPanel and pasted them into AdminPage, where `doInvite`, `members`, `adminId` and `inviteCode` do not exist. A standard member saw an empty Members tab, the group owner saw only a pairing form, and the hub's own Users tab referenced four undefined names. The pairing form outstaying its welcome is a second bug and an older one. `is_node_admin` compares the connecting account with the account that owns the node — it says nothing about whether *this browser's key* was ever paired, which is the thing pairing changes and the thing that lets you sign an invite. So the form showed for an operator who paired months ago, accepted a fresh code, reported success, and stayed exactly where it was. The node already reports the roster role in `join_result`; the transport keeps it, and the form appears only when this identity is not an operator key yet. Also dropped a clause from the pairing hint: the code never passing through the hub is worth saying, the theory behind it is not. test_spa_ordering.py gets three checks for this class of bug — a cut-and-paste between components is invisible to every other test we have. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* docs: account deletion, notifications, and the APIs that no longer existChristophe Besson2026-08-154-124/+232
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Account deletion is the headline, in the user guide and in draft-v5 §6.1, and the important half is what deletion does *not* do. It releases the username, clears the email and password hash, drops memberships, notifications, refresh tokens and node registrations, and refuses any access token still inside its hour. It does not touch a node: files, the pinned identity and the keypair bundle stay on machines the hub does not command, which is the same sovereignty §5.5 relies on — so deleting a hub account is not an erasure request to the operators hosting you. The IP log survives too, attributable, for its legal retention period. The claims table in §2 gets a row saying exactly this, adversary by adversary. Notifications get a section: one entry per conversation rather than per message, never one for your own message, invitations that clear when you join, muting that lives on the hub so it works from any browser. Then the corrections, which is most of the diff. The guide still described a node HTTP API — `GET /index`, `GET /file/{id}`, an HLS playlist, and a `player.js` that does not exist — with curl examples inviting the reader to expose port 19001. That surface was removed in 0.2.0 as findings C1 and C6, precisely because it served files outside the handshake that decides what a peer may see. Sections 6, 7 and the API reference now describe MNP message pairs, and the quickstart says the same in French. Also corrected: the JWT table advertised a `pk_user` claim that no longer exists (it was what let the token issuer decide who could delete a file), `/pubkeys` no longer returns identity keys, and the GEK-distribution endpoints are gone entirely rather than merely unused. draft-v5 §5.2 had uploads landing in `.uploads/{user_id}/`; they land in `uploads/`, chat attachments included. §6.1 now says the hub learns the author's user_id from chat_notify — a stable identifier, and a metadata leak worth naming rather than leaving as "by whom". CLAUDE.md records why the deployed hub broke this week: create_all() creates missing tables, never missing columns, so a schema change passes every test (fresh DB per run) and never reaches production. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* One stroked icon set, matching the Administration shieldChristophe Besson2026-08-152-23/+94
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The site drew its icons with colour emoji, which means a different drawing on every operating system and never the same line weight twice — except the Administration entry, whose shield is a text-default glyph and so rendered as a thin outline. That one was the odd one out and also the one that looked right. Fifteen inline SVG paths now replace it: menu, bell, shield, globe, gear, sun, moon, power, lock, envelope, door, clip, check, chevron, close. They are stroked in currentColor and sized in em, so an icon takes the colour and size of the text beside it and needs no rule of its own — the caret in the dark nav bar and the gear in a light dropdown are the same file. The explorer keeps its emoji. There the icon says what kind of file this is and the colour is doing real work; a wall of identical grey outlines would be a worse file list. One bug fell out of the change: .nav-notif was painted with --text, the page's text colour, on a nav bar that is nearly black. The emoji bell carried its own colours and showed anyway; a stroked one was invisible until it was given --nav-text. Checked by rendering the real stylesheet in headless Chrome, light and dark. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* Notifications: one per conversation, none for your own messagesChristophe Besson2026-08-1410-27/+422
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Four things were wrong, and they compounded: a busy chat produced one row per message, muting a group did nothing at all, there was no way to clear the list, and the one person guaranteed to know about a message — its author — was told about it. The author bug was a name mismatch across two processes. The node sent chat_notify without saying who wrote the message, so the hub used the node's own token subject, which is the operator's account. The skip therefore matched the operator and no one else: everybody was notified of their own messages, and the operator was notified of nobody's. The node now names the author and the hub reads that field. Muting lived in the browser's localStorage and nothing ever read it, so the checkbox was decoration. It is a column on group_members now, checked where the notification is created — a notification nobody wants is not written at all. Chat keeps a single row per (user, kind, group) whose date moves and whose read flag clears, so a conversation is one line saying when it last spoke. Clicking it opens the group and dismisses it; joining a group dismisses its invitation; and DELETE /v1/notifications clears the lot. The hub deploy now runs alembic. create_all() only creates missing tables, so group_members.muted never arrived on the running hub and /v1/groups/mine answered 500 — worth catching in the script rather than in a browser. Verified end to end against the deployed hub and node: the author receives nothing, the other member receives exactly one, carrying its group_id. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* feat(account): a user can delete their own account, an admin can delete oneChristophe Besson2026-08-147-5/+402
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Both go through the same erasure, so there is one description of what happens rather than two that drift. Gone: credentials, email, node key, group memberships, notifications, refresh tokens, node registrations. The username is released. Kept, on purpose and stated in the UI: the row itself, emptied, and the IP log that points at it. Those logs exist for a year to answer legal requests, and a log that can no longer say whose connection it recorded keeps the data while losing the only thing it is for. So the account becomes a tombstone rather than a hole in the table. Out of reach, also stated: files uploaded to nodes, and the identity keys nodes pinned. Those are on machines the hub does not command, and only their operators can remove them — `member unpin` and a delete on their own disk. Saying so in the confirmation matters more than the button. Owning groups blocks deletion, with the list. Cascading would delete other people's groups out from under them; the account holder can hand them over or delete them first, deliberately. Self-deletion re-checks the passphrase. A live token may be a borrowed laptop or a tab left open, and it is not consent to something irreversible. Admin deletion requires admin rather than moderator: suspension is the reversible moderation tool and stays one click away. A deleted account's access token stops working at once — the status check already refuses anything but "active", which the tests now pin down, because refresh tokens being gone would otherwise leave up to an hour of usable session. Tests: 8 covering what survives and what does not, plus a db_session fixture for assertions that cannot honestly be made through the API. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* feat(files): one uploads/ directory, for files and chat alikeChristophe Besson2026-08-144-66/+107
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Correction to the previous commit. Uploads went wherever the member happened to be looking, which spreads chat attachments through the tree and makes the destination a client-supplied path — surface that had to be defended. Everything a member sends now lands in `uploads/` at the root of the shared directory: visible, one place, easy for the operator to look into or empty. Chat attachments go there too, so the separate out-of-tree thumbs directory is not needed and is not built. They were already ordinary uploads; now they are ordinary uploads that land somewhere sensible. The destination is chosen by the node, so a client naming somewhere else changes nothing — the traversal surface simply is not there on this path. safe_subdir() remains for dir_create, where the path genuinely does come from the client, and keeps its tests. One shared directory means name collisions are ordinary rather than adversarial: every camera produces IMG_1234.jpg. The node finds a free name — "IMG_1234 (2).jpg" — and reports it in the ack, because a chat message has to point at the file that was actually written and not at someone else's. Nothing is ever replaced, which is the property the per-user quarantine existed for (C5a) and the one the tests assert; they fail if the free-name search is removed. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>