Eight fixes from live testing:
Systems Operational modal:
- Drop the "test from your phone on mobile data" (hairpin NAT) sentence
from the router note — too technical for the intended audience.
- Node-only role: when BTCPay Server and Lightning Wallet Connections
(LNURL) are both off, the router card becomes a simple "No router
setup needed yet" note explaining that ports 80/443 only matter if
one of those services is turned on. When one is enabled, the card
shows the same port steps and live domain/port diagnostics as the
Desktop + Server role (diagnostics now poll only enabled services).
Service modals:
- The Domain Diagnostic Checklist now shows only the domain-active
step (Domain Configured). DNS and port diagnostics live in Systems
Operational, which shows the full checklist.
- Node-only role: BTCPay Server and Lightning Wallet Connections
modals gain a "Ports to Forward in Your Router" section with the
standard 80/443 wording and this computer's LAN address.
- Domain setup and reconfigure dialogs no longer contain router
port-forwarding instructions (already handled during Desktop +
Server onboarding and shown in Systems Operational).
Lightning Wallet Connections:
- Refresh and New Wallet toolbar buttons now share one height and
baseline (a leftover 12px top margin on Refresh was offsetting it).
- The header status chip has a proper gap between the status dot and
its label.
Zeus Connect / QR codes:
- QR codes render at the original 240px with the white frame and
pixelated upscaling, restoring scannability.
Brand:
- The sidebar logo loads via /static/sovran-hub-icon.svg (same as the
login page) instead of an inline <use> symbol — the gradient-heavy
symbol did not render reliably. The icon sprite is hidden with the
browser-safe zero-size pattern instead of display:none.
The update dialog kept the old bare title + spinner layout from the
previous theme. Rework it (and the rebuild dialog, for consistency) to
the approved The Hub dialog anatomy:
- Header: green chip icon, title, version chip, status pill
(Checking… / Up to date / Updating… / Restart required / Update
failed / Status unknown) and a header close button. A spinner appears
in the header while an update is starting or running.
- System Details card: current version, release channel, and last
checked (relative time, refreshed on every check).
- The log renders as a console with green "ok" and dim hint lines; the
up-to-date result shows as a single green console line exactly once
(the redundant status line is hidden in that state).
- Footer: Close plus a "Check again" primary action that re-runs the
update check. Close and Check again are disabled while a check or
update is in flight; all existing recovery actions (Save Error
Report, Retry Status, Retry Update, Restart Entire System) keep their
exact semantics.
- Opening the dialog now shows a "Checking…" state immediately while
the existing reattach-then-check logic runs; reattaching to an
in-progress update (page reload, RDP reconnect) is unchanged.
Sidebar Update System status tints now use the theme palette (red /
amber / blue / green), and the periodic background check refreshes the
dialog's "last checked" value.
Rebuild dialog gets the same header (icon, version chip, Applying… /
Done / Restart required / Failed pill, header close disabled while a
rebuild runs); its log stays hidden as before.
No API or state-machine changes: same endpoints, same polling, same
reattach and recovery behavior.
Apply the approved "The Hub" redesign to the web admin while keeping every
existing mechanic intact (polling, service-detail modals, Matrix and system
password management, NWC wallet manager, update/rebuild/backup/security/
reboot flows, feature manager, onboarding, role handling).
Layout (templates/index.html):
- Old header bar + IP bar replaced by a sidebar + topbar app shell.
Sidebar carries the brand (The Hub / Sovran_SystemsOS version), category
navigation with live counts, the System actions (Update System, Tech
Support, Manual Backup, Security, node-only Upgrade), Feature Manager /
Preferences, and the role badge.
- Topbar carries the page title, a service search box, the LAN | WAN
network chip (external IP always visible, one line), Reboot and Sign Out.
- New widgets row: Systems Operational summary (opens the new Systems
Operational modal) and Bitcoin Core sync progress with block/ETA.
- New Systems Operational modal: service counts, router port-forwarding
steps (80/443 to this machine's LAN IP), the live domain diagnostics
checklist, and which services use those ports.
New static/js/dashboard.js (namespaced IIFE, no new globals) renders the
nav, search filtering, widgets, and the Systems Operational modal; it is
driven by the existing /api/services payloads via a
window.dashboardServicesUpdated() hook called from buildTiles/updateTiles.
Visual design (static/css/*):
- New token set (softer dark surfaces, lifted contrast, Sovran green
reserved for status and actions) with legacy variable names aliased so
every secondary sheet re-skins automatically.
- Tiles, dialogs, buttons, inputs, toggles, tables, forms, overlays and
the login page restyled to the GNOME/libadwaita-flavored surfaces:
20px cards, 26px dialogs, pill buttons, libadwaita switches, mono value
pills with Copy buttons, consistent modal anatomy.
- Inline SVG symbol set for chrome/nav icons (monochrome, currentColor);
service icons still load from /static/icons/*.svg as before.
- Sidebar system buttons now use vector glyphs instead of emoji.
Behavioral details:
- Service detail modal header gains a status pill next to the version
chip; credentials render with pre-wrap for multiline values.
- First-login security banner now renders as a card inside the content
area instead of a full-width strip above the app.
- Search + category filtering hide/show sections and tiles without
touching the polling or update logic.
Onboarding and login pages rebranded to "The Hub" with aligned palette.
Updater/rebuild self-heal:
- Add a shared run_step wrapper used by both the update and rebuild
scripts. On the first failure matching a transient fetch/cache signature
(truncated tarball, corrupt NAR, hash mismatch, network timeout,
interrupted download), clear Nix's fetch caches and repair the store,
then retry once. Real config errors do not match and still fail loudly.
- The kernel-change boot fallback in the rebuild path is also wrapped.
- Fixes the reported 'cannot read file from tarball: Truncated tar archive
detected' failure, which a plain re-run cannot clear because Nix reuses
the corrupt cached archive.
Failed-update recovery / reporting:
- check_for_updates() now compares the running Hub version against the
branch VERSION, so a failed 'nix flake update' (lock advanced but no
generation staged) can no longer masquerade as 'up to date' and block
retries.
- /api/updates/check surfaces a persistent 'failed' state; /api/updates/run
never blocks a retry after a failure.
- Dashboard shows a red 'Update failed - click to retry' tile; the modal
offers a Retry Update button and stops offering a reboot on failure.
The full-system updater runs as a detached systemd service and can finish
successfully even when the browser loses its status connection. In that
case the update log and status file correctly report REBOOT_REQUIRED, but
the Hub modal can remain on "Updating..." with its controls disabled.
There were four independent ways for the frontend to get stuck:
* update status fetches had no deadline, so a request that stayed pending
never rejected and never advanced the existing failure counter;
* setInterval started async polls without waiting for the previous poll,
allowing slow requests to overlap and responses to arrive out of order;
* each log chunk used textContent +=, replacing the complete and growing
Nix build log every two seconds, which could stall browser rendering and
was especially visible over RDP; and
* page reload, tab resume, and RDP reconnect did not reattach the modal to
the update status persisted by the backend.
This produced a dangerous UX mismatch: the machine had a fully staged
NixOS generation and was ready to reboot, while the Hub continued telling
the user that the update was still running.
Bound status requests with AbortController, prevent overlapping polls, and
replace the endless spinner after sustained failures with an explicit
"Update status unavailable" state and Retry Status action. Reconcile state
immediately on focus, visibility, online, page startup, and before starting
a new update. Use no-store requests and render verbose logs incrementally
with a bounded visible tail while retaining the complete report in memory.
Apply the same timeout and single-flight protection to rebuild polling.
Record the exact generation produced by `nixos-rebuild boot`. The Hub now
keeps REBOOT_REQUIRED visible until that generation matches
/run/current-system, then clears the marker after reboot. For an update
started by an older updater that did not write the marker, recover the
staged generation from the final nixos-rebuild log line. The dashboard
sidebar also distinguishes update-in-progress and restart-required states.
Regression coverage verifies generation marker/log recovery, pre- versus
post-reboot detection, request timeout wiring, single-flight polling,
connection-loss UX, RDP/tab resume reconciliation, bounded log rendering,
page-reload recovery, and JavaScript syntax.
Validation:
* python3 -m unittest discover -s tests -p 'test_*.py' -v (170 passed)
* node --check app/sovran_systemsos_web/static/js/*.js
* python3 -m py_compile for changed Python modules
* git diff --check
A Nix evaluation was not available in the development sandbox; the NixOS
module should still be evaluated and built in CI or on a test machine before
release.
Keeps the modal-matching neutral pill styling; the badge now reads
"v1.0.5" as plain uniform text instead of the bare number.
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The header badge now uses the exact visual treatment of
.creds-title-version-badge from modals.css: neutral translucent pill
(rgba(255,255,255,0.06) background, 0.08 white border, 12px radius,
--text-secondary text, 0.72rem/600/2px-10px padding), no hover
animation, and a bare version number like the modals show (e.g.
"2.8.4") instead of the green pill with a "v" prefix.
The badge markup flattens to a single text span; the .version-label
and .version-number rules are removed.
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Single source of truth (static/js/domain-prereqs.js) for the domain
prerequisite instructions so all three surfaces read identically:
- Server + Desktop first-boot onboarding wizard (step 3)
- Lightning Wallet Connections (NWC) enable modal (Node-only mode)
- BTCPay Server (web) enable modal (Node-only mode)
Both feature-enable flows share openDomainSetupModal(), which now drops
its role-branched intro and 'Option A/B' blocks in favor of the shared
renderers. All surfaces now consistently cover:
1. A domain from Njal.la (account, subdomain-vs-separate-domain,
Dynamic record with host-part-only Name field, auto-filled IP,
DDNS curl command)
2. Router access — forward ports 80 & 443 (TCP) to this computer's
internal IP, once, for HTTPS/SSL (with CGNAT note)
3. How to get Njal.la working, step by step
The reconfigure/troubleshooting modal gains the same router reminder,
since 'domain not reachable' is often the port forwarding rather than
DNS. domain-prereqs.js is loaded via asset_version cache busting and
ships automatically (installPhase copies the package wholesale).
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- The Hub header badge could render 'vdev' because the runtime
/etc/nixos/VERSION lookup fell back to the literal string 'dev' when
the file was missing (e.g. dev/test environments, or before the
Nix-generated config carried a version at all).
- modules/core/sovran-hub.nix now reads the repo's VERSION file at
Nix eval time and bakes a real semantic version (sovran_version)
into the generated config.json and a VERSION file shipped with the
package, so the Hub always has a solid value to display.
- server.py's _get_sovran_version() now reads that baked-in
sovran_version first, and explicitly rejects a literal 'dev' value
from any of its file-based fallbacks so the badge never shows
'vdev' again.
- templates/index.html + header.css: wrapped the title and the
version badge in a '.title-group' column so the version badge sits
directly underneath 'Sovran_SystemsOS Hub', left-aligned with it.
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- Add release-stable.sh script with automatic tagging, CHANGELOG updates,
GitHub/Gitea release creation, and VERSION file management
- Update iso/common.nix to include version from VERSION file in ISO filename
- Add VERSION file (current: 1.0.3)
- Polish OS version badge in Sovran Hub header (top-right)
- Update README.md download link to versioned ISO
- Update CHANGELOG.md with existing tags (v1.0.0 – v1.0.3)
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- Onboarding: remove the redundant/error-prone 'Router Setup' step (5 steps -> 4).
A compact 80/443 (+22 SSH) note now lives inside Domain Configuration,
and the Element Call ports are only shown at the moment they matter:
when enabling the feature, and afterwards on the service tile.
- Onboarding step 3: fix domain prefill bug (API returns {domains: {...}}),
make /api/network fetch best-effort so it can never block the step.
- Enable-time port modal: streamline copy (one intro + table + pointer to
the tile's live status view).
- Element Call tile detail: replace 5 repetitive prose blocks with 2 compact
notes around the live-status port table.
- Njal.la DDNS: run njalla.sh immediately when a DDNS-backed feature is
enabled (previously only ran on domain save or the 15-min cron tick).
- Harden njalla.sh handling: create the base script (shebang + IP lookup)
if missing before appending curl lines; invoke via bash explicitly.
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- Add security-reset-overlay HTML element to index.html that shows immediately
when the user confirms "Erase & Reset", before the synchronous API call runs
- Add .security-reset-overlay CSS to security.css (reuses reboot-card styles,
adds fade-in animation, z-index 1000 to sit above all other content)
- Fix reboot overlay class bug: classList.add("open") → classList.add("visible")
so the overlay actually renders per the .reboot-overlay.visible CSS rule
- Show overlay step text "Erasing data and resetting credentials…" during wipe,
update to "Reset complete. Rebooting now…" when API returns
- Call waitForServerReboot() (globally defined in update.js) after reset so the
page auto-reloads when the system comes back online
- Hide the security-reset-overlay and re-enable the button on error
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- Replace complex per-service/health-check UI with a clear, hardcoded
table of required ports (80, 443, 22, 8448) and an optional Element
Calling section (7881 TCP, 7882-7894 UDP, 5349 TCP, 3478 UDP,
30000-40000 TCP/UDP).
- Add totals line: 4 openings without Element Calling, 9 with.
- Drop /api/ports/health fetch and all dynamic breakdowns (affected
services loop, closed-port warnings, "View All Required Ports" table).
- Keep internal-IP display box, SSL-cert warning, and "How to set up
port forwarding" collapsible section.
- Add prominent note that each port only needs to be forwarded once.
- Update Step 3 header description in onboarding.html to match.
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