The v0.7.0 release surfaced a real bug: parallel cargo invocations
all writing to target/ caused linuxdeploy to fail mid-AppImage bundle
("Error failed to bundle project failed to run linuxdeploy"). Cargo's
own target-dir locking doesn't fully serialize three concurrent
cargo-front-ends across CLI + Android-cross-compile + tauri-bundle.
Solo cargo tauri build succeeded immediately after deploy.sh aborted,
confirming the parallel invocation was the root cause.
Switching to serial builds. The extra wall time is small because
cargo's incremental cache deduplicates compilation of the shared
itsgoin-core crate across the three builds.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
New primitive: `VisibilityIntent::Announcement`, a public post whose
author MUST be the hardcoded bootstrap anchor posting identity
(`DEFAULT_ANCHOR_POSTING_ID`) and whose content carries an ed25519
signature by that key. Forged announcements (any other author, or
bad signature) are rejected by `control::receive_post` before storage
— they never enter the DB and never propagate via neighbor-manifest
diffs. Only the real anchor can publish announcements, and it does so
sparingly as part of the release deploy flow.
Uses release announcements to drive an in-app upgrade banner:
- Anchor publishes a signed `{category:release, version, channel,
download_url, ...}` post during every deploy.
- Clients receive it via the normal CDN; `apply_announcement_if_applicable`
stores the latest-per-category/channel in the settings kv, keyed
e.g. `announcement:release:stable`.
- Welcome screen checks storage on startup; if the stored release
version > CARGO_PKG_VERSION on the user's selected channel, a banner
appears with a Download button that opens the system browser.
- Settings gets "Updates" section with Stable / Beta radio + Check-now
button + current status line.
Core:
- `DEFAULT_ANCHOR_POSTING_ID: NodeId` constant (32 bytes, the anchor's
current posting id — `17af141956ae...`).
- New `VisibilityIntent::Announcement` variant; feed filters in all 6
`get_feed*` / `list_posts*` query sites updated to also exclude the
new intent AND the pre-existing `GroupKeyDistribute` intent.
- `types::AnnouncementContent` + `ReleaseAnnouncement` structs.
- `crypto::{sign,verify}_announcement` — length-prefixed field digest
with a "has release" 1-byte flag.
- New `announcement` module with `verify_announcement_post`,
`apply_announcement_if_applicable`, `latest_release`,
`build_announcement_post`, and a `StoredAnnouncement` envelope saved
to settings so the UI can render without a full post scan.
- `Node::publish_announcement` refuses to run unless the default posting
id equals the anchor constant — accidental use on client installs
fails loud.
Wire / receive:
- `control::receive_post` verifies announcement signatures upfront
alongside Control and Profile. Same pattern; same guarantees.
CLI one-shots (no daemon):
- `itsgoin <data_dir> --print-identity` — prints network_id +
default_posting_id, exits.
- `itsgoin <data_dir> --announce --ann-category release
--ann-channel stable --ann-version X --ann-title ... --ann-body ...
--ann-url https://itsgoin.com/download.html` — builds + stores +
propagates the signed post, exits.
deploy.sh:
- Now runs the announce one-shot inside the anchor-restart window
(after binary swap, before start). The DB is free during that gap,
so the one-shot can write without conflicting with the running
daemon. The restarted daemon loads all storage on boot and serves
the new announcement to pulling peers.
Tauri IPC:
- `check_release_announcement(channel)` → Option<ReleaseAnnouncementDto>
— returns None when up-to-date.
- `get_update_channel` / `set_update_channel(channel)` — persists in
settings kv key `ui_update_channel`; defaults to stable.
- `open_url_external(url)` — desktop-only (xdg-open / open / cmd start);
refuses non-http(s) URLs. Android needs the opener plugin — TODO.
Frontend:
- Upgrade banner on the welcome screen, populated by
`loadUpgradeBanner()`. Hidden when no newer release is known.
- Settings → Updates section with Stable/Beta radio + Check-now button
+ current status line.
Tests: announcement signature roundtrip; non-anchor author rejection;
non-announcement intent is a no-op. 124 / 124 core tests pass.
The deploy pipeline builds AppImage, APK, and CLI on Linux, but the
Windows installer is produced on a separate Windows host (no
cross-compile toolchain here). Print a reminder at the end of every
deploy with the exact filename the Windows team needs to upload, so
the handoff stays unambiguous.
Reset All Data:
- Sentinel now written at the app-level data_dir instead of the
active identity's subdir. On Android the subdir path was never
checked at startup, so reset silently did nothing.
- On detection, wipe EVERYTHING under the app data_dir: identity.key,
itsgoin.db + WAL + SHM, blobs, all identity subdirs. Next launch
is truly fresh — new network key, new posting key, no prior data.
First-run name:
- Display name is optional. Blank submits as anonymous.
- First-run modal + profile overlay placeholder updated to say
"Display name (optional)".
Android file picker:
- pick_file on Android now uses tauri-plugin-android-fs'
show_open_file_dialog (Storage Access Framework OPEN_DOCUMENT).
Read the picked URI's bytes, stage them in the app's private cache
as a timestamped file, return the staged path so existing
import_* code can read it as a regular filesystem path.
- Zip filter passes application/zip + application/octet-stream (some
file providers report the latter for .zip).
Android auto-backup off:
- AndroidManifest: allowBackup="false", fullBackupContent="false",
dataExtractionRules pointing at new data_extraction_rules.xml
- New data_extraction_rules.xml excludes all domains from both
cloud-backup and device-transfer. Prior default (allowBackup=true)
silently replicated identity.key to Google Drive for any user with
cloud backup on — which effectively published the root secret to
a third party without asking. Users who want off-device backup use
Settings -> Export (explicit zip they control).
Import as personas:
- New import_as_personas function in core/import.rs + new
import_as_personas_cmd Tauri IPC.
- Reads identity.key from the bundle and adds it to posting_identities
as a persona. Also reads posting_identities.json (v0.6+ bundles)
and adds each entry. Dedupes by node_id.
- Posts stay AS-AUTHORED — original post_id, original author,
original signatures, original wrapped_key recipients. No
re-encryption. Content encrypted to any of the imported keys
becomes decryptable because we now hold the secrets.
- Blobs, follows, profiles copied across.
- If current device has <=1 posting identity (the fresh-install one)
and the bundle brings more, auto-switch the default to the first
imported persona. Covers first-run-then-import flow cleanly.
Import wizard UI:
- New default option: "Restore as personas" — posts keep original
authors; source's keys become personas you can post as.
- Old "Merge with decryption key" retained as "Consolidate under
current default persona (requires source key)" for the case where
a user intentionally abandons a persona.
- "Public posts only" and "Add as separate identity" retained.
deploy.sh made executable (chmod +x tracked).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Phases 1-5 of the Identity Architecture rollout are on master; Phase 6
(rotating DM IDs) is deferred. This bumps the protocol-breaking
release: v0.5 and v0.6 cannot interoperate.
Packaging:
- Cargo + tauri.conf: 0.5.3 -> 0.6.0
- deploy.sh: drop -beta filename suffix
- download.html: single v0.6.0 section with fork notice at the top;
changelog entry summarising the five phases and the schema migration;
Phase 6's rotating-DM-ID status noted as deferred
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
