The desktop nightly has failed on every push to main since 2 October, at 'publish the nightly
release'. vpk 1.2.0 creates the draft release and then reads release.Assets from the forge's
answer, which the upgraded server (28.0.0) no longer fills in for a new release, so it threw a
NullReferenceException at GiteaRepository.cs:136. The step deletes the previous nightly-desktop
release before it uploads, so desktop clients have had no nightly to update from since.
1.2.161 reads the assets null-safely. The library moves with the tool, since Velopack expects the
two to match. Every vpk option the workflow and the release scripts pass is present in 1.2.161;
the only renamed ones are two MSI options nothing here uses.
The key bar above the software keyboard is now the user's own: which keys, in what order, up to sixteen
in two rows that never scroll. Ctrl and Alt latch across the bar and the phone's keyboard, and Ctrl or Alt
with a cursor key sends the modified CSI form. Seven predefined groups (essentials, cursor, control,
symbols, tmux, vim, function) and keys of one's own, written in \e / ^C notation, are arranged on a
customise sheet that saves as it goes.
A grid button swaps the software keyboard for a quick-access keyboard of the same height, with KEYS,
SNIPPETS, HISTORY and APPEARANCE tabs; it reopens to the tab last used. Snippets go through the shell's
existing InsertSnippet. History keeps a typed command only once the remote has echoed it, so nothing
typed at a password prompt is ever recorded; it is memory-only and LOCK clears it. Each session pump now
keeps its last kilobyte of output and the alternate-screen state for that test (OutputTail).
Long-press and drag on the terminal sends arrow keys, as a joystick with three speeds by distance;
scrolling is unchanged and there is no mode switch. It takes the touch before Chromium's own long press,
so a held finger no longer pastes; paste is on the bar by default instead. A switch in APPEARANCE turns
the gesture off. The text-size buttons moved from the bar to APPEARANCE.
On wide screens the same tabs open as a side panel beside the terminal, toggled from the top bar, with
the bar's own keys repeated at the top of KEYS while the bar stands down.
The model, gesture arithmetic, echo reading and history are in DodoSSH.Client.Shell and covered by
TerminalKeyboardTests and OutputTailTests. Builds clean; not yet exercised on a device, because the
emulator's install is locked behind a passphrase that was not recorded.
REPORT.md is the full-app sweep and what became of each finding. ANDROID-DESIGN.md is a walk through
every phone screen on the emulator, from a cleared install to SFTP, with findings ranked by severity
and a screenshot for each. The home-folder listing in the sweep's transfers screenshot is blurred.
The server now forgets a deletion past its retention and refuses cursors
from before it. The client then reads everything again, but everything
again says nothing about what went. So a machine away for longer than the
retention kept those items for good, and its next edit of one put it back
on the server for everyone.
A read from the beginning now marks each item it reads, keeping the mark in
the sync state because the read can span passes. When it finishes, it
removes the items of the synced types it never marked. Two kinds are kept:
items newer than the read's bound, which this machine pushed during it, and
items with a change still waiting, which are the user's work. For those,
the push finds the server without the item and sends it as a create, as
before, but now records a RecreatedAfterCollection conflict and counts it,
so the sync message says so instead of undoing someone's deletion silently.
The bound is the highest sequence the cache held when the read began, or
anything higher it has read since. Taking only what the read returned would
have left the last item of a vault in place for ever.
A cursor behind the horizon was refused on position alone. But the read a
refused client starts from the beginning is itself behind the horizon on
every page until it passes the collected deletion, since older untouched
items come first. So its second page was refused, it started over, and it
never finished, on any vault larger than one page.
The cursor now records the horizon read before the page that produced it,
and only a cursor issued under an older horizon is refused. A cursor issued
under no horizon keeps the v1 format, so a server from before this still
reads it.
- Choosing a vault while the screen was busy went through a gate that did nothing, so the members
panel kept showing the previous vault's people under the new name. The read now starts regardless;
the selection generation discards answers for an earlier choice.
- Locking or signing out from Settings left the window in settings mode under the lock card, with no
title bar to drag, minimise or close, and unlock returned to Settings. Leaving the unlocked state
leaves Settings and closes the members panel; Escape closes that panel before leaving Settings.
- Both importers reported success when the keychain was busy and skipped the batch, or failed partway.
ImportOutcome now carries refused hosts and why a batch stopped, and the screens say so.
- Host cards: the sync badge took 70 of 214 pixels from the name ("bastion" drew as "bast…", two k8s
workers both as "k8s…"); it now sits on the address line. Tag chips wrap and trim inside the card.
Keychain names trim inside their column instead of printing over TYPE, and the Security page's
caption wraps inside its card.
- The Windows CNG key and the macOS keychain tag were one name for every profile, so signing out of
the nightly deleted the key the release build's device unlock was sealed to. DeviceKeyNames keeps the
existing name for the default profile and gives every other profile its own; sign-out deletes only
its own key, and a profile sealed before this keeps reading the shared one.
- DevicePinWindow named two palette resources that do not exist and loaded itself with
AvaloniaXamlLoader.Load, which never assigns the named fields, so it threw on construction and no
PIN prompt was ever shown. A layout test now builds it against the real palette.
- A message larger than the 64 KiB receive buffer was skipped and its tail dispatched as a frame of its
own. Messages are now reassembled up to 16 MiB; one beyond that is dropped whole.
- Input frames are handed to the pump without waiting, and ShellStream takes no lock around its write
buffer, so a snippet's text and its carriage return could interleave or lose bytes. Writes are
serialised per pump in arrival order.
- A resize reaching a shell SSH.NET had already disposed threw out of the receive loop and closed the
socket every tab shares. Each frame's failure now stays with its session.
- Pull hydrated every historical change entry with the item's current ciphertext under that entry's
old revision. The AAD binds the revision, so a client opened it at the wrong version, failed, and
parked its own pending edit as undecryptable. Entries an item has since moved past are left out; the
later entry carries the same payload under the right number, and a fresh device no longer downloads
an item once per edit it ever had.
- Deleting a team's last vault archived the team whoever deleted it, so an admin could archive it out
from under its owner. Only the owner's delete archives it now, and TeamService.ArchiveAsync checks.
- UserStatus was checked nowhere on the request path. ActiveAccountRequirement on both policies answers
403 account-not-active for a suspended or deprovisioned account.
- The hourly last-seen update moves xmin under the tracked user, and enrolment then saved that user
against the stale token: a 500 for anybody enrolling more than an hour after first signing in. The
entity is reloaded after the update.
- The outbox coalesces a new save into the row a push already read, under a new operation id, but
Complete, Revise and Park found the row by sequence alone. The acknowledgement of the earlier state
deleted the row holding the later one and the edit was gone without a word. They now take the
PendingOperation and act only while the row still holds it; a later edit is rebased onto the version
just accepted, so it pushes cleanly instead of conflicting with its own earlier save.
- A pull filtered by type moves the cursor past changes of types it did not ask for, so a build that
added a type (SpelunkKey, ObjectStore) never received the items of that type made before it.
sync_state.pulled_types records the list a cursor was read under, and a different list starts the
pull over once. Migration AddSyncStatePulledTypes.
- A remote name went straight into Path.Combine. A POSIX name may hold backslashes, a colon or a drive
letter, and an S3 key may hold "../", so a name chosen by whoever could write to the host decided
where on this machine a download landed. LocalDirectory.ChildPath cleans the name and requires the
resolved parent to be the target folder; every download path and EDIT use it, and a name that cannot
be a file there is left on the host and reported.
- EDIT handed the copy to the shell's default action, which for .bat, .hta, .js and friends is to run
it. LocalEditor opens such a file with its own "edit" verb or Notepad on Windows and `open -t` on
macOS, and refuses a .desktop launcher on Linux.
- A failed bucket upload leaves its part object, and a retry asked for an offset no bucket accepts, so
the row could never finish. IRemoteFileStore.CanWriteFromAnOffset is false for buckets and the queue
starts those over.
- The SFTP host picker re-found its selection from the empty moment of every vault reload and landed
on the first host once a minute; the chosen host is now remembered, and a typed password is only
sent to the host it was typed for.
Pins are stored per algorithm, so an endpoint pinned for ssh-ed25519 that was answered with only an
ECDSA or RSA key found no pin and raised SshHostKeyUnknownException: the first-use question, where a
pin exists to produce a hard refusal. Anybody in the middle needed nothing more than a key of a
different type.
The connection factory now reads every pin for the endpoint before the handshake, offers the pinned
algorithms first so a server that still holds its pinned key negotiates it, and in the gate accepts a
key under an unpinned algorithm only when its fingerprint matches one of the endpoint's pins (one RSA
key signs as rsa-sha2-256 and rsa-sha2-512). Anything else is a mismatch. IKnownHostStore gains
FindForEndpointAsync for this.
Settings → Security gains a SPELUNK section: an API address and a key, saved as a new keychain item, a Spelunk key (SyncEntityType 14, AadResourceType 17, server table spelunk_key via the AddSpelunkKeyItem migration). It is ciphertext only on the server, lives in the personal vault, syncs like every secret, and holds the key together with the one address it may be sent to. The key box empties once saved; the list shows name, address and how many hosts use each key, never the key. Saving a key for an address that already has one replaces it, and deleting goes through the shared confirmation card with the hosts that would stop connecting.
A host's route names a saved key where it named a credential, in the same apiKeyCredentialId field, so no host schema changes and an older build reads such a host as one whose key credential has gone. At connect a saved key is sent only to its own address; a host naming it with another Spelunk address is refused in words. Keys kept as a credential's password still work. The editor offers saved keys first and picks the one saved for an address as it is typed.
A link from a Spelunk with a saved key now connects straight away, including the first one: saving the key is the user's say-so that the first-link editor used to ask for.
The address and key merge as one pair, so two concurrent edits can never pair one device's key with another's address, and the key never reaches the conflict log.
A Spelunk route can now say that Spelunk signs the user in. Each connection makes a throwaway Ed25519 key pair in memory, sends the public half with the ticket request ({"signIn":{"publicKey":...}}), and logs in as the account Spelunk names (root when it names none) with that key, over the agent's one-connection sshd. Such a host needs no username, key, credential or typed password: the editor greys the login out and saves none, the password box and sheet stay down, and shells, file transfer and port forwards all take the key and account from the route. The flag is nested in the spelunk object at host schema version 10; hosts without it keep their version-9 bytes.
A dodossh://spelunk/connect link now connects: to the personal vault's host tagged spelunk for that server, or, when a saved host already sends an API key to that Spelunk, to a new sign-in host saved in the personal vault with that key and the spelunk tag (made if missing). Only the first link from a Spelunk opens the editor, pre-filled with sign-in ticked and the tag on, so the key credential is chosen once and never sent to an address no saved host already sends it to.
git.dodotech.cloud/dodotech-public/dodossh-api, under the repository's owner, the way Spelunk publishes its images. REGISTRY_USERNAME and REGISTRY_PASSWORD now have to be a Gitea account and a package token for that owner.
The API Dockerfile copied four of the five root build files before restoring and left out Directory.Build.targets, which pins Microsoft.NET.ILLink.Tasks. The image's locked-mode restore therefore asked for whatever ILLink its SDK bundled, and when sdk:10.0-noble moved to 10.0.401 (ILLink 10.0.12) it failed with NU1004 against lock files that correctly say 10.0.11 - while ci.yml, which sees the pin, stayed green.
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