- New "Served by {mirror}" line on the System Update page so operators can see
which mirror actually served the available manifest (vs. which is configured
primary). Backend threads the served URL through UpdateState.manifest_mirror.
- New update.test-mirror RPC + per-row lightning-bolt button that pings a
mirror and renders reachable/latency or error inline under the URL.
- UI polish on the mirrors section: Set Primary, Remove, and the new Test
action are compact icon buttons; add-mirror form moved into a dialog.
- "What's New" block prepended for v1.7.27-alpha.
21/21 update module tests pass. vue-tsc + vite build clean.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Adds a multi-mirror manifest fetch. `check_for_updates` walks a
configurable list (data_dir/update-mirrors.json) in priority order
and falls through to the next mirror on any HTTP / parse / timeout
failure. Two defaults bake in: Server 1 (git.tx1138.com) and Server 2
(23.182.128.160:3000).
Critical fix: after parsing a manifest, rewrite every component's
`download_url` so its origin matches the manifest URL we fetched.
Before this, the manifest hard-coded absolute URLs pointing at one
specific server — so even when a node fetched the manifest from a
faster mirror, the actual 200MB download went back to the slow
original. Now the faster mirror wins end-to-end.
New RPCs: update.list-mirrors, update.add-mirror, update.remove-mirror,
update.set-primary-mirror. New UI section on the System Update page
for operator management. 5 new unit tests for origin parsing and
manifest rewriting (21/21 green).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
download_update
Each component download is now resumable via HTTP Range requests
(Range: bytes=N-) and retried up to 6 times with exponential
backoff (5/15/30/60/120/180s). On a dropped connection the next
attempt picks up at the last written byte offset instead of
restarting at zero. Streams via reqwest::Response::chunk() to the
staging file so a 160 MB frontend tarball doesn't sit in RAM. SHA
is verified over the complete file at the end of each component;
mismatch nukes the staged file and restarts from scratch.
Real download progress counters
New AtomicU64 globals DOWNLOAD_BYTES/DOWNLOAD_TOTAL are updated
from the chunk loop. update.status exposes them as
download_progress.{bytes_downloaded, total_bytes, active}. The
SystemUpdate.vue progress bar now polls update.status every
second instead of incrementing a fake random counter — and
crucially, if the user navigates away and back, the component
picks up the in-progress download from the backend atomics
immediately.
Update-check retries
handle_update_check now retries the manifest fetch up to 3 times
with a 5s gap if the first try hits a transport error, so a
momentary gitea hiccup doesn't make a node report "up to date"
when there actually is a new release. Tight 10s connect timeout
per attempt keeps the total bounded.
Artefacts:
archipelago 1070c87f…c081c162b 40584792
archipelago-frontend-1.7.15-alpha.tar.gz 8e630eba…63fd43f 162078068
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Install UX
SystemUpdate.vue now shows a full-screen overlay after apply: the
BitcoinFaceAscii logo, a target-version label, an indeterminate
progress stripe (solid orange; solid green on ready), and an
elapsed-time readout. Polls /health every 1.5s and auto-reloads
once the backend reports the new version. 3-min stall → "Reload
now" button. Download UI also shows a spinner + "Finishing
download — verifying checksum…" while the fake bar sits at 95%.
FIPS reconnect — for real this time
New fips.reconnect RPC does stop → start → wait 20s → re-poll →
classify. Classification buckets: connected / daemon_down /
no_seed_key / no_outbound_udp_or_anchor_down / peers_but_no_anchor,
each with a plain-language hint surfaced verbatim by the Reconnect
button. The real reason nodes like .198/.253 couldn't reach the
anchor: identity::write_fips_key_from_seed was writing fips_key.pub
as a bech32 npub TEXT file, but upstream fips expects 32 raw
bytes. The daemon silently authenticated with garbage. Fix:
PublicKey::to_bytes() → raw 32 bytes, and new
fips::config::normalize_pub_file migrates legacy files by decoding
the npub and rewriting in place. fips.reconnect also re-installs
the config + healed keys to /etc/fips before restarting.
AIUI preservation + restore
apply_update was wiping /opt/archipelago/web-ui/aiui because the
Vue build doesn't include it — every OTA lost the Claude sidebar.
The preserve block now copies aiui/ + archipelago-companion.apk
from the old web-ui into the staging dir before the swap, and
prefers new-tar versions if present. To restore it on the three
nodes that already lost it (.116/.198/.253), this release bundles
the 85 MB aiui build into the frontend tarball. Frontend component
size is now ~155 MB.
Download / install timeouts
Backend download client timeout 1800s → 3600s (1 h). Larger
tarball + slow gitea raw throughput put us above the old cap.
Frontend update.download rpc timeout 30 min → 65 min to match.
package.install rpc timeout 15 min → 45 min — IndeedHub pulls
6 images and was timing out mid-install.
UI nit
"Rollback to Previous" → "Rollback Available".
App-catalog proxy already landed in v1.7.13.
Artefacts:
archipelago 725e18e6…3c525e6 40462288
archipelago-frontend-1.7.14-alpha.tar.gz c35284be…ff2c16 162077052 (+aiui)
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
apply_update was extracting the frontend tarball with
`tar -xzf -C /opt/archipelago`, but the tar contents are the *inside*
of web-ui/ (root entries are ./test-aiui.html, ./assets/, etc.). So
the files landed directly in /opt/archipelago instead of under web-ui/,
and tar bailed on nginx-owned paths mid-extraction. First end-to-end
OTA test (.198) found it: "tar: ./assets/SystemUpdate-…js: Cannot
open: No such file or directory".
Now extracts into web-ui.new, chowns, then atomically swaps: move
existing web-ui → web-ui.bak, then web-ui.new → web-ui. Same pattern
as the manual sideload that's been working.
Frontend: SystemUpdate.vue fake download progress was capped at "<90"
with a Math.random()*15 increment — the last tick could push to
~104.99%. Capped at 95% with a smaller step so it stops at 95 and the
real RPC completion jumps it to 100.
Artefacts:
archipelago a14ad7e4…2a2be3 40361984
archipelago-frontend-1.7.4-alpha.tar.gz 4fb79664…0172e9 76984615
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Follow-up to 1fb71b4b on the same v1.7.0-alpha line.
Identity avatars
• New module `avatar.rs` generates two deterministic SVG styles keyed
off the pubkey: a 5×5 mirrored identicon for sub-identities and a
hexagonal-network motif for the master (seed index 0) identity.
Both returned as base64 data URLs, so a fresh identity has a
recognisable picture before the user uploads anything.
• `IdentityManager::create()` and `create_from_seed()` populate
`profile.picture` on creation. Index 0 gets the node SVG; all
other seed-derived + ad-hoc identities get the identicon.
Blob store — public flag for profile assets
• `BlobMeta.public` (default false) added; `BlobStore::put()` takes
a `public: bool`. Missing in legacy meta files = false.
• `POST /api/blob` now stores uploads with public=true and returns
`public_url` alongside `self_test_url`. public_url is
`http://<node-onion>/blob/<cid>` (no cap) if Tor has published the
archipelago hidden service, else falls back to the local path.
• `GET /blob/<cid>` bypasses the HMAC capability check when the
requested blob is flagged public — external Nostr clients fetching
a kind-0 `picture` URL can't hold a cap.
• Mesh callers (content_ref attachments, dispatch rehydration) pin
public=false explicitly so nothing leaks out of the mesh path.
Profile editor UX
• Collapsed Save + Save & Publish into one button — the Save action
now persists locally AND publishes the kind-0 metadata event in
one step. Uploads store `public_url` into `profile.picture` /
`profile.banner` so the published URL is reachable by external
clients.
Update client — the 15-second cliff
• Frontend `rpcClient.call` for `update.download` now has an
explicit 30-minute timeout (was falling back to the default 15 s).
`update.apply` gets 5 min, `update.git-apply` gets 15 min. Matches
what the backend is actually willing to wait for.
• Backend `load_state()` reconciles `state.current_version` with
`CARGO_PKG_VERSION` on every start. Sideloaded or reflashed nodes
were stuck advertising the old version even with a new binary in
place, which kept re-offering the same release as an update.
Manifest changelog rewritten for fleet readers per the saved feedback
(no function names, no file paths). Artefacts refreshed:
binary 12f838c5…5ba82d 40381864
frontend dc3b63af…e9a8370 76984288
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Follow-up to 56d4875b, same v1.7.0-alpha shipping band.
Backend download timeout bumped from 300s to 1800s (update.rs) with an
explicit 30s connect timeout. git.tx1138.com raw-file throughput can sit
around 70–80 KB/s, which meant OTA downloads were timing out at ~55%
through the 40 MB binary even though the SHA would have matched on a
full pull. 30 min gives ample headroom for the worst LAN-to-VPS link we
actually hit.
Frontend: SystemUpdate.vue now formats downloadPercent with toFixed(2)
via a new computed, so the progress card shows "45.23%" instead of
"45.270894%". Cosmetic only; the underlying ref still tracks raw floats.
Manifest changelog rewritten in user-facing language per the saved
feedback — no file paths, function names, or "root cause" phrasing.
Artifacts refreshed:
binary d85a71c5…982f4 40360936
frontend 8adcdacf…e687f6 76986852
ISO at image-recipe/results/archipelago-installer-unbundled-x86_64.iso
(Apr 20 09:00) carries both fixes for fresh installs.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Two fixes bundled into the OTA:
1. update.download hard-fail on git-path nodes. handle_update_check's git
branch reported update_available=true + update_method="git" but never
populated state.available_update, so update.download returned "No update
available to download" even though the UI showed one. SystemUpdate.vue
now routes update_method=="git" through update.git-apply (pull+rebuild+
restart via self-update.sh); manifest-path nodes keep the download→apply
flow. i18n strings + confirm modal added for the git path.
2. Reconciler creating containers behind the user's back. On fresh
unbundled installs (.198, .253) archy-mempool-db and archy-btcpay-db
materialised ~10 min after first boot because reconcile-containers.sh
walked container-specs.sh's canonical tier list and created any
"missing" container. reset_spec() now defaults SPEC_OPTIONAL="true",
so reconcile is strictly a repair tool — baseline comes from
first-boot-containers.sh (filebrowser on unbundled), everything else
from the install RPC.
Also forces OTA trigger for nodes on 1.6.0-alpha that otherwise saw
"I'm at manifest.version, nothing to do" and skipped the refreshed 1.6
artifacts.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Set up vue-i18n with English locale file containing 500+ keys organized
by view namespace. All 15 views converted to use t() calls instead of
hardcoded strings. Infrastructure ready for community translations.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
