- Fresh installs now include the full Wi-Fi userspace stack (`wpasupplicant`, `wireless-regdb`, `iw`, `rfkill`, `polkitd`, `pciutils`, and `usbutils`) so NetworkManager can scan and connect with Intel Wi-Fi cards out of the box.
- The installed system now grants the `archipelago` service user explicit NetworkManager PolicyKit access for web-triggered Wi-Fi scans and connection changes.
- Wi-Fi connect now replaces stale/partial NetworkManager profiles and creates an explicit WPA-PSK profile with the supplied password, avoiding no-secret retry failures after a failed attempt.
- Settings password changes now update the Linux/SSH password through non-interactive sudo, so the web password and SSH password stay in sync when the checkbox is enabled.
- Quadlet environment values with spaces or shell metacharacters are quoted consistently, preventing env drift recreate loops for apps like nostr-rs-relay and Grafana.
- Boot/bootstrap reconcile avoids restarting running Bitcoin containers while repairing RPC config, preserving IBD progress on active nodes.
- Exit code 137 is labeled as SIGKILL instead of assuming OOM, avoiding false OOM alerts for orchestrator-managed recreates.
- Container reconcile force-recreates Podman records stuck in `Stopping`, preserving bind-mounted app data while recovering wedged containers automatically.
- Container health reporting is honest for running containers: Archipelago surfaces Podman's actual health state instead of marking every running container healthy.
- Quadlet reconciliation restarts services when stale health gates, port bindings, network aliases, exec commands, or healthchecks drift from the current manifest.
- Bitcoin Knots sync performance improves on fresh installs and updates with 8Gi container memory, a 4Gi dbcache, and full CPU parallelism.
- ElectrumX initial indexing gets more headroom: CPU caps are removed, memory is raised to 4Gi, cache is raised to 3Gi, and oversized sends are allowed for heavier wallet/indexing workloads.
- Mempool/ElectrumX lifecycle qualification respects pruned/non-archival Bitcoin nodes instead of installing a half-running stack with unhealthy dependencies.
- LND wallet/RPC helpers are more tolerant of container-owned files and updated REST port metadata, improving LND lifecycle and wallet-connect flows.
- Marketplace/catalog metadata carries richer container config so remote lifecycle tests install apps using the same settings users get from the UI.
- The app screensaver no longer activates during media-heavy app sessions such as IndeeHub, Jellyfin, Immich, PhotoPrism, and File Browser; apps can also pause/resume it with media playback messages.
- A fresh `1.7.56-alpha` unbundled installer ISO is built from the same primary VPS2 release line for easy download and USB flashing.
- Container reconcile now force-recreates Podman records stuck in `Stopping`, preserving bind-mounted app data while recovering wedged containers automatically.
-`.198` is green after the container-layer hardening pass: focused and broad non-destructive lifecycle audits pass, raw Podman health/state sweep is clean, and direct app probes return healthy responses.
- Release-candidate artifacts are staged separately from live update publishing while Gitea artifact hosting is repaired.
- Existing installs now self-repair nginx backend proxy locations for `/bitcoin-status` and `/api/app-catalog`, including hosts where `sites-enabled/archipelago` is a copied active file instead of a symlink.
- LND UI is consistently served on `18083` across first boot, Tor config, companion Quadlet reconciliation, OTA runtime payloads, and ISO scripts; stale companion units/images are rewritten instead of only checking service active state.
- OTA frontend tarballs now carry a clean runtime payload with updated scripts, docker UI sources, and canonical nginx config, preventing startup promotion from reintroducing stale host assets.
- Release ISO builds now support the primary HTTP app registry when bundling core images, so unbundled media includes File Browser/Cloud support instead of requiring a post-install Marketplace download.
-`.116` was live-updated with the new backend and runtime scripts; focused non-destructive lifecycle audit passes for Bitcoin Knots, LND, BTCPay, Mempool, and Grafana.
- Bitcoin Knots/Core config generation no longer duplicates RPC bind and port settings between `bitcoin.conf` and container command args, fixing `Unable to bind all endpoints for RPC server` startup failures.
- Legacy Bitcoin container healthchecks no longer depend on `bitcoin-cli`, which is absent from current Knots images and can wedge Podman healthcheck runners.
- Update checks now prefer manifest OTA releases over stale git remotes unless `ARCHIPELAGO_GIT_UPDATES` is explicitly enabled, so installed nodes can see published releases from the VPS mirror.
- Tailscale now launches the local installed web UI on port `8240` and starts `tailscaled` before `tailscale web`, fixing unreachable installs after container creation.
- Grafana install/start/restart now repairs missing rootless host listeners on port `3000`, matching the existing SearXNG, Uptime Kuma, and Gitea recovery path.
- Debian 13/Trixie ISO and disk-install paths now force security updates from `trixie-security` during image/install creation so rebuilt release media includes patched base packages.
- Broad `.198` lifecycle audit passes with the current qualified app set; known absent blockers remain `electrumx`, `photoprism`, `dwn`, and `ollama`.
- Bitcoin Knots/Core UI now reports connection, reconnecting, syncing, and error states from a backend status bridge instead of showing a stale "Unable to connect" message while the node is warming up.
- ElectrumX UI now exposes indexed height, local Bitcoin height, known headers, status, and progress source so indexing/waiting states are readable during long initial sync.
- Added container doctor timer and smoke/lifecycle test coverage for Bitcoin Knots/Core, ElectrumX, Mempool, BTCPay/NBXplorer, and UI surface availability.
- Bitcoin Core and Bitcoin Knots are mutually exclusive variants, with a real Bitcoin Core manifest and corrected install conflict handling.
- IndeeHub now launches only on direct web UI port `7778`; the broken `/app/indeedhub/` path proxy was removed, and port `7777` remains the Nostr relay.
- BTCPay/NBXplorer Postgres environment formatting fixed so installs do not carry malformed connection strings.
- archipelago.service no longer fails to start with "Failed to set up mount namespacing: /run/containers: No such file or directory" on nodes where /run/containers wasn't pre-created. ExecStartPre now creates it. Existing nodes need a one-time `systemctl edit archipelago` to add the mkdir; ISO installs from this version forward have the fix baked in.
- Bitcoin Knots/Core sync is now significantly faster. The container now uses every available core for script verification (was capped at 2) and has 8GB of memory instead of 4GB so its 4GB UTXO cache has headroom for the mempool and peer connections. Existing nodes pick up the new limits on next install/update; freshly-installed nodes start at full speed.
- Health monitor no longer pages "Auto-restart failed" for orphaned containers. After a variant switch (bitcoin-core ↔ bitcoin-knots) the previous variant's container could survive uninstall and the health monitor would try restarting it forever. Now skipped silently with a debug log.
- Apps no longer disappear from My Apps when an install fails. The card stays visible with state=Stopped so the user can retry or uninstall, with the failure reason surfaced via the new install_progress.message field.
- "Downloading…" progress now actually advances during multi-image stack pulls. Was sticking at 20% until all pulls finished; now interpolates 20%→70% based on which image of N has landed.
- Pulled four docker.io images (bitcoin, gitea, nextcloud, valkey) into the lfg2025 registries on OVH and tx1138. Removes a docker.io dependency from first-boot installs.
- Resilience harness improvements: install-fail entries no longer vanish, install/uninstall/probe cells are timing-tolerant (60s retry on ui_probe and auth_probe), dep snapshots no longer leak companion containers into the dependent app's "new containers" set.
- Bitcoin RPC auth is durable. The dashboard reliably connects across container restart, image update, and reboot. Was failing on registry-pulled images that shipped a stale baked-in password.
- Multi-container apps show real install progress. IndeedHub (7), BTCPay (4), Mempool (3), Immich (3) — bar advances through Preparing → Pulling → Creating → Done instead of sitting at 0% until the very end.
- Apps no longer disappear from the dashboard mid-install. The container scanner now respects in-flight installs and updates instead of evicting an entry while its containers are still being created.
- IndeedHub installs cleanly on a fresh node. Five missing environment variables fixed; Nostr sign-in works on first install.
- Tailscale install no longer fails with "executable not found". Container command was a malformed shell string; now a proper command array.
- Removed three catalog entries that hung installs for ten minutes (dwn, endurain, ollama — no source images in our registries). Restored Nextcloud, sourced from docker.io.
- Bitcoin Core update path uses the correct image name (was pulling from a non-existent path).
- New ISO installs now allocate swap (sized to RAM, capped at 8GB, on the encrypted data partition). Without swap, container image builds and memory spikes were hitting OOM under load.