#1 control passes (harness validated); #2 fails (200 vs expected 409 — false success);
#4 fails (s2sHealthy false — Re-peer reports success on dead peering). Turned green by the fixes.
lookupRemoteUser now maps peer HTTP failures (403/5xx, malformed body) to a
structured {ok:false,reason:'unreachable'} instead of throwing, and the
federated friend-add wraps the call in try/catch as defense-in-depth. A
desynced/unreachable peer no longer surfaces as a raw 500 on a user action.
README.md left unstaged.
A reset peer can reach needs_attention via the auth-failure path (HTTP up,
401/403 from a new incarnation crossing AUTH_FAILURE_THRESHOLD) without ever
passing through unreachable, so the unreachable-only recovery probe never
observes its epoch change and no reset journal is created — leaving a later
manual Re-peer with nothing to heal.
Add detectResetOnNeedsAttentionPeers() to the 15-minute health-check tick:
probe needs_attention peers with a non-null baseline (excluding those already
peer_reset_detected) and call markPeerReset on an observed epoch mismatch.
Detection only — never recovers a needs_attention peer to active; baseline
(peer_instance_id) and hmac_secret untouched.
Add healResetIncarnation (federationReset.ts): fires from onPeerActivated after
an authenticated re-peer to soft-tombstone the flagged pure S2S stubs of a reset
peer's dead incarnation, clearing stale friendships/DMs so the reported bug is
fixed. Two mandatory guards: a reason gate (allow-list of 8 genuine handshake
activation reasons; excludes health_check_recovery + startup_bootstrap so their
stale baseline can never silently resolve a journal without healing) and an
epoch comparison (dead_epoch === newEpoch => false alarm, no tombstone). Uses
tombstoneUser(uid, { purgeContent: false }); real federated accounts are left
flagged + intact for Phase 2. Runs outside any transaction. Wire into
onPeerActivated before the mutation-log re-sync.
macOS screen recordings are HEVC inside a .mov container, which Chromium,
Firefox and stock Electron can't decode. The file uploaded fine and a
server-side ffmpeg poster was generated, but inline <video> playback failed
silently — stuck at 0:00 with no error, since AttachmentRenderer had no error
handling. Root cause: the system had no concept of web-playability.
Server detects, client degrades:
- mediaPlayable.ts: classifyVideoPlayable(mimetype, codec) — tri-state
(false = known-undecodable e.g. HEVC/ProRes, true = web codec in web
container, null = unknown/optimistic). Never widens `false` beyond codecs
that fail everywhere, so ffmpeg-less instances keep prior behaviour.
- probeMediaMeta now captures the video codec_name; the upload finish hook
stores the verdict in the new attachments.playable column (migration 0007).
- Flag propagated through every serializer: space messages, DMs, WS, and
federation relay (outbound + inbound) — federation-compatible.
- VideoAttachment component: playable===false renders a download card (poster
+ "Can't play here — download" + name/duration/size) with no dead-player
flash; otherwise plays inline with an onError fallback to the same card.
Specs updated: uploads.md, database.md, federation.md.
Voice presence (voiceStates/voiceUserStates/spaceVoiceStates) was only ever
delivered in the WS `ready` payload — i.e. at connect/reload. A user joining a
space mid-session got `member_joined` (no voice data) and a bare space object;
`GET /api/spaces/:id` (the channel-sidebar hydrator) carries no voice state
either. So members already sitting in a voice channel stayed invisible in the
new member's sidebar until a full page reload.
Fix at the systemic root: ConnectionManager.addUserSpace — the single chokepoint
every join path funnels through (invite, public join, join-request approval),
and which is NOT used on reconnect (that path uses setUserSpaces) — now pushes a
scoped `space_voice_state` snapshot to the joining user. The snapshot is built by
a new buildSpaceVoiceState(spaceId, userId) helper that is also the single source
of truth feeding buildReadyPayload (refactored to use it), so the connect-time
and join-time paths can never drift.
Robustness:
- Delivered over the same ordered WebSocket as voice_state_update deltas — no
REST snapshot-vs-event-stream race.
- VIEW_CHANNEL-filtered via computePermissions exactly like `ready`: a joiner is
never told who occupies a voice channel they cannot see.
- Client applies it scoped to the space (utils/voiceStateSync.applySpaceVoiceState):
merges occupants/statuses and rebuilds only that space's restriction keys,
never disturbing voice state in other spaces.
- Skipped when the space has no active voice and no restrictions (e.g. space
creation).
Tests: server helper behavior, the join push, and private-channel exclusion;
client scoped-apply. Specs updated (websocket.md, voice.md, spaces.md).
The sidebar's visibleChannels filter is keyed on the channelPermissions
Map. Creating a channel raced two state updates: the optimistic create
(added to channels with no permission entry) and the channel_created WS
event (the only thing that set the permission). When the optimistic add
won the race, the WS handler hit its dedup guard, skipped setChannels,
and set the permission by mutating the Map in place — no new reference,
so visibleChannels never recomputed and the channel stayed hidden until
loadSpace rebuilt the maps (i.e. leaving and returning to the space).
Centralize the logic in a new upsertChannel store action that replaces
channels and channelPermissions with fresh references, used by both the
create path and the channel_created handler. Also return the creator's
computed myPermissions (and isPrivate) from POST so the channel renders
immediately from the response, independent of WS timing.
Adds spaceStore.upsertChannel.test.ts covering the reference-identity
regression and the optimistic-reconcile path.
Three layered bugs all manifesting as "the group name doesn't show / the
placeholder is a 40-character wall of names":
1. **WS ready payload was missing `name`/`icon`.** The handler serialized
DmChannel rows with only `id, federatedId, ownerId, createdAt, members,
lastMessage`. The optional metadata fields were silently dropped, so
the client store never received `dm.name` until a subsequent
`dm_channel_updated` event fired (i.e. only mid-session renames worked,
never the initial render). `ownerHomeUserId`, `ownerHomeInstance`, and
`metadataUpdatedAt` were also missing — added too because federated
routing depends on `ownerHomeInstance` (`getDmOwnerHomeInstance`).
2. **Header surfaces silently dropped `dm.name`.** `MainContent` (desktop
chat header) and `MobileChatScreen` always rendered the joined member
names, even when `dm.name` was set. Five other surfaces (`DmListItem`,
`MobileDmsScreen`, `MessageList` welcome hero, `MobileGroupDmInfo`,
`GroupDmSettings`) honored it correctly, so a renamed group showed
different titles depending on which surface you looked at.
3. **Message-input placeholder rendered joined names.** Once a group
has 4+ members "Message #Alice, Bob, Charlie, Dave" overflows the
textarea and obscures the call-to-action.
Consolidates the display-name logic behind two utilities in
`dmFormatters.ts`:
- `formatDmHeaderName(dm, currentUser)` — `dm.name` verbatim if set,
else joined names (excluding self); falls back to `'Group'` /
`'Direct Message'`. Used by all 5 header surfaces (was inlined
5 different ways).
- `formatDmInputLabel(dm, currentUser)` — `'#<name>'` if set,
`'the group'` for unnamed groups (collapses the unreadable
joined-names form), `'@<partner>'` for 1-on-1.
`MessageInput` accepts an optional `placeholder` prop that bypasses the
default `Message {#|@}<channelName>` derivation; DM call sites use it
to inject the `formatDmInputLabel`-based form. 1-on-1 DMs keep the
canonical-view lookup so replicated aliases still surface the home
account's displayName; the placeholder reuses the canonical `dmName`
so header + placeholder stay aligned even when raw partner ≠ canonical.
13 new unit tests covering `formatDmHeaderName` (8 cases: named, blank,
joined, federated-username base, empty group, 1-on-1, no-displayName,
no-partner) and `formatDmInputLabel` (4 cases: named, unnamed,
whitespace-only, 1-on-1). 365 → 377 web tests, 1053 server tests,
typecheck clean.
Manual ownership transfers between two federated instances diverged because
`dm_channels.ownerHomeInstance` was stored as a BARE host (`orbit.ddns.net`)
for federated owners — via `transferGroupDmOwnership` copying `users.homeInstance`
verbatim — while `sourceInstance` always arrives as a full URL on the wire.
`processOwnershipTransferEvent` and `processMemberRemoveEvent` then compared the
two with strict equality and rejected legitimate inbound events as
`unauthorized_source`, keeping ownership permanently divergent across peers.
Live DB inspection on the two test instances confirmed both rows (nova + orbit)
had a BARE `owner_home_instance`, matching the bug report exactly.
Three compounding fixes:
1. Receiver authority checks now compare via `normalizeOriginForCompare` so
legacy bare-vs-full rows accept legitimate transfers (and kicks).
2. New `canonicalizeHomeInstance` helper in `federationAuth.ts`; every write
site that persists `ownerHomeInstance` (`transferGroupDmOwnership`, group DM
creation, lazy federation in member-add, `processMemberAddEvent` bootstrap,
`processOwnershipTransferEvent` receiver storage) routes through it. Full URL
is the canonical storage form, matching how `sourceInstance` arrives.
3. `dm_owner_updated` WS event extended with optional `newOwnerHomeUserId` and
`newOwnerHomeInstance` fields. Client `updateDmOwner` writes them when
present and leaves existing values untouched otherwise (legacy-server safe).
Without this, `getOwnerInstanceForDm` returned the previous owner's home
after a successful WS broadcast, routing the next owner-only op to the wrong
instance.
Coverage: new `federation.ownershipTransfer.test.ts` (7 receiver tests including
the headline bare-vs-full regression and the dedup replay guard); new bare-vs-full
case in `federation.kick.test.ts`; two new client-side cases in
`groupDm.ownerRouting.test.ts` covering both the extended-payload write path and
the legacy-server passthrough. Tests: 1053 server + 364 web, all green.
Specs updated: `dm-system.md` historical bugs + frontend handler table + WS
state-change events table; `federation.md` `ownership_transfer` receiver flow;
`websocket.md` event-fields table.
Transferring ownership or kicking a member surfaced "Target user is not a
member of this DM channel" whenever the target was a federated user.
Root cause: the client passed `canonical.id` from `useCanonicalUserView`,
which returns the user's HOME id when the home view is in the userViews
cache. After owner-routing the request to the owner instance, that
instance's `dm_members.userId` (its own local replicated id) never
matched the home id, so `isDmMember` returned false. The same failure
mode applied across any cross-instance scenario where the
channel-serving instance and the owner-serving instance disagree on the
local replicated user id for the same federated user.
Fix: both endpoints now accept federated identification, mirroring the
existing pattern on `POST /api/dm/:id/members`:
- `POST /api/dm/:id/transfer` body: `{ newOwnerId? } | { homeUserId, homeInstance }`.
Federated args win when both are supplied (strictly more specific).
- `DELETE /api/dm/:id/members/:targetUserId` reads optional
`?homeInstance=<origin>` query; when present, the URL segment is
treated as a homeUserId and resolved via `resolveOrCreateReplicatedUser`.
Client `api.dm.kickMember` and `api.dm.transferOwnership` gain an
optional `federated` argument; `DmRosterPanel` and `MobileGroupDmInfo`
pass it whenever the target has `homeUserId` + `homeInstance` populated.
Adds 5 server tests (3 transfer + 2 kick) covering federated targets,
the federated-wins-over-local precedence rule, and federated-non-member
rejection. Updates 2 client routing tests and 2 DmRosterPanel test
assertions for the new signature. Updates `docs/systems/dm-system.md`
and `docs/systems/api.md`.
Server: 965 tests pass (was 960). Web: 362 tests pass (was 360).
Jannis Braun