Lets an app grant the node's users owner rights, e.g. a Blossom server's
allowed uploaders. The value is the Nostr keys of the identities the app
identity picker offers for NIP-07 signing, chosen by the same rule as
NostrIdentityPicker.vue, so the node's own appliance identity is never
included. It is resolved only for manifests that template it, and an
empty set is an error rather than an empty owner list.
identity.list now shares its is_node test with the new helper.
Nodes offer an update when the signed catalog pins something newer than
what's running, and that machinery is fine. The missing step was the one
before it: nothing told *us* when upstream shipped. A pin could sit at
fedimintd v0.10.0 for months while every node in the fleet correctly and
confidently reported "up to date".
The reason nothing could tell us is that a manifest records only our
mirror — `source.archipelago-foundation.org/lfg2025/fedimintd:v0.10.0`
says nothing about the project it was mirrored from. So this adds an
optional `app.upstream` block naming the real source, and a script that
asks each one what it has released.
Running it answers the question that prompted this. Of 58 apps, 28 are
behind, including LND v0.18.4-beta against v0.21.2-beta, Bitcoin Core
28.4 against 31.1, and fedimintd/gatewayd v0.10.0 against v0.10.1.
Two choices worth stating. An app with no `upstream` block is reported
as UNTRACKED rather than skipped — a silent skip is how this stayed
invisible, and before this commit all 58 were silently skipped. And a
suggestion prefers our own tag variant: telling someone pinned to
`postgres:16.13-alpine` that the newest tag is `18.6-trixie` is true and
useless, because swapping the base image is a different decision from
bumping a version.
Five apps are deliberately left untracked (barkd, immich-postgres,
indeedhub-minio, lightning-stack, pine-whisper): I could not establish
their upstream with confidence, and a wrong `repo` produces a confident
wrong verdict, which is worse than an honest gap.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Some apps carry a complete account system and are broken by an upstream
challenge: git clients speak basic-auth (not browser cookies), and a
BTCPay checkout link handed to a customer must open for that customer.
Both were behind the gate's login page — the "non-browser clients need an
access token" gap disclosed in five consecutive releases.
- New manifest port policy `auth: open`: the daemon still fronts the port
exactly like `gated` (loopback pin, external binds, frame-header fixes,
app-down retry page, Tor upstream) but serves it without the login
challenge. Requires auth_rationale, same burden of proof as `none`.
Gitea 3001 and BTCPay 23000 declare it.
- Runtime operator override per app (security.set-app-gate → app-configs/
<id>.json "gateEnabled"), surfaced as Settings → app → Access control.
Wins over the manifest in both directions and applies on the next
request — no restart, and it works today on catalog-covered apps whose
signed manifest still says `gated`.
- The gate resolves policy per-request from the live port map, so a
toggle takes effect without waiting for the 60s rebind sweep. "Off"
never releases the port: gated apps are loopback-pinned, so releasing
would strand them, not open them.
- security.app-gate-status now reports gate_enabled + any override.
- New guard test pins the `auth: open` set (both entries reviewed); the
`auth: none` count moves 25 → 26, absorbing pre-existing drift from the
phoenixd onboarding (loopback JSON API with its own generated password).
- Docs: the manifest spec's ports row documented only host/container/
protocol — bind, auth, auth_rationale and session_passthrough were
undocumented. Added a full "Ports & the app gate" section plus a
developer-guide entry telling app authors to enforce their own auth
regardless, since the operator can flip the gate either way.
Verified live on archi-dev-box from an external address: gated → 401 gate
page; override off → Gitea 200 own page, BTCPay 302 to its own login,
git-over-HTTP info/refs 200; override on → 401 again; clear → default.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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