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* feat(packaging): ship a node firewall profile for inbound WebRTCChristophe Besson2026-09-041-0/+30
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The packages carried a profile for LAN casting and none for the node's own peer traffic, on the reasoning that the node exposes only a loopback admin API. That is true of its administration surface and false of its transport. WebRTC binds an ephemeral UDP port per connection, so there is no fixed port to open, and a connection succeeds only if one side can initiate. Browsers publish their host candidate as an mDNS `<uuid>.local` name, which aioice cannot resolve on any platform and discards — so the node can never call a browser back, and the browser must call the node. A node that refuses unsolicited inbound UDP is unreachable from every browser on its own LAN, leaving reflexive candidates, which fail whenever both peers share one public IP and the router will not hairpin. Hit twice in one session on two different hosts: a firewalld zone narrowed to mdns + 19550-19553/tcp, and a ufw host with default deny-incoming. Both presented as "the app cannot connect", neither as a firewall message. Passive like the cast profile: packaged, not activated. The guide says to scope it to a LAN zone or source, including the libvirt case, where traffic from a guest to its own hypervisor is not masqueraded and so must be scoped to the guest subnet rather than the LAN. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01DtfG7z6wHWj8RKHCvxQtY1
* feat: Windows installer (W4) — one per-user NSIS package, client + nodeChristophe Besson2026-09-041-0/+45
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | `npm run dist:win` produces MeshBay-Setup-<version>.exe: the Electron client and, beside it under resources/node-runtime/, the frozen meshbay-node daemon (meshbay-common inside it). No hub. Per-user, no elevation — matches the W3 constraint that a logon-triggered scheduled task needs admin. electron-builder / package.json build.win nsis, build/icon.ico, extraResources -> node-runtime/ build.nsis oneClick:false perMachine:false allowElevation:false allowToChangeInstallationDirectory:true dist:win -> packaging/win/build-win.ps1 (mirrors dist -> build-client.sh) packaging/win/ meshbay-node.spec + node-entry.py PyInstaller freeze of meshbay_node.daemon:main. The awkward deps (aiortc, av, aioquic, pydantic_core, uvicorn, watchdog, guessit, blake3, tzdata) are pulled in whole with collect_all — that list is expected to grow when a frozen run raises ModuleNotFoundError. build-node-runtime.ps1 throwaway venv -> pip install -> PyInstaller -> packages/meshbay-client/node-runtime/ (gitignored) build-win.ps1 Node>=22 check, npm ci, Electron bump, sync-ui, node runtime, electron-builder --win nsis bump-electron.mjs the Chromium-CVE "build against latest Electron" policy, out of the PS script (5.1 here-string terminator rules) README.md PyInstaller, not the python-embed zip: the frozen meshbay-node.exe is a genuine relocatable single binary, which is what src/main.js:findNodeBinary spawns (process.resourcesPath/node-runtime/meshbay-node.exe when packaged) and what the W3 autostart launcher points at. The embeddable zip needs pip to make that wrapper and the wrapper bakes in an absolute interpreter path. build/installer.nsh: on uninstall, taskkill meshbay-node.exe and delete the W3 Startup .vbs (it would point wscript at a deleted binary every sign-in). %LOCALAPPDATA%\meshbay\ — node.toml, keystore.enc — is never touched. ffmpeg is not bundled by default (node finds it on PATH); build-win.ps1 -FfmpegDir copies ffmpeg.exe/ffprobe.exe in for a self-contained installer. Verified on the Windows guest: PyInstaller freeze builds first try (node-runtime 147 MB), frozen `meshbay-node status` talks to the live daemon's loopback API; electron-builder --win nsis produces MeshBay-Setup-0.1.0.exe (155 MB), oneClick/perMachine flags applied, node-runtime bundled at the path findNodeBinary expects. test_packaging_win.py (14) pins the config invariants and the NSIS <-> platform.py autostart seam. Node suite 798 pass / 34 skip. Open: Authenticode signing (13.9 — unsigned => SmartScreen), Windows CI (18.3), electron-updater. First clean-machine install + DPAPI + autostart round-trip is a manual check. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* refactor(node): JSON-only control API, Node page absorbs the admin dashboardChristophe Besson2026-09-011-12/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Remove the node daemon's server-rendered admin UI (GET / and /audit, the _render_* helpers and inline templates) and the `meshbay-node ui` CLI verb. The loopback control API stays; it is now JSON only, ruff-clean, and 453 lines (was 1074). Also drop three never-wired endpoints (/api/config, /api/chat/history, /ws/chat, plus broadcast_chat) and the pointless 18000/tcp firewall profiles. The desktop client's Node page (static/node-page.js) takes over what the dashboard showed, reorganised into six tabs (Overview, Groups, Roster, Peers, Audit, Settings): - Overview: version, node id, QUIC port, hub, index-cache maintenance - Roster: node-wide view with unpin - Peers and Audit: auto-load on open, no Load button - Audit: real usernames and group names (resolved from the roster and node.toml), Previous/Next pagination newest-first, Export CSV of every matching row - Settings: node settings, STUN, ICE, denylist, then Unlink from hub Backend: audit.get_entries gains `offset`; /api/audit and /api/peers resolve ids to names via a new _display_names helper; CSP tightened to default-src 'none' now that no HTML is served. draft-v6 sections 2.11 and 2.12 corrected -- the Node page uses the loopback API, not MNP. One capability is intentionally dropped: browser-based admin on a headless server. The CLI covers every operation there. See docs/refactor-node-ui.md. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01MQCaZnde4Bjjdu84dhSuF5
* chore: bump version to 0.9.0v0.9.0Christophe Besson2026-08-311-8/+8
| | | | | | Packaging system complete and verified on Ubuntu 26.04 and Fedora 44. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* docs: add PACKAGING-GUIDE.md with install steps for Ubuntu and FedoraChristophe Besson2026-08-311-0/+190
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>