J3vbandClaude d3526968bb release: v1.2.0-alpha.2 (#1333)
* docs: add bug-detection improvements plan

Plan for mechanical bug detection alongside the agentic hunt: activate the 14
unused Go fuzz harnesses, the configured-but-never-run Stryker setup, and
browser-mode vitest; encode recurring bug classes as semgrep rules; add
model-based and fault-injected ordering tests; add a persistent seen-ledger
and sibling-sweep lens to the hunt.

All local-only and on demand - fuzz crashers are working reproducers, and this
repo is public.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* build: add make fuzz target and ignore mutation-test output

`go test ./...` runs each Fuzz* function against its committed seed corpus
only - one pass per seed, zero generated inputs - so the 17 fuzz harnesses in
Server/ have never actually fuzzed. `make fuzz` enumerates every target and
runs each with a time budget (Go fuzzes one target per package per
invocation, hence the loop). Local-only by design: a crasher is a working
reproducer and this repo is public.

Also gitignore Client/tauri-client/.stryker-tmp/ and reports/ - a Stryker run
left 200+ untracked files, and a surviving-mutant report maps exactly which
behaviour nothing tests.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* test(client): pin reconnect auth-frame and replay-dedup arming

Stryker found 14 surviving mutants across ws.ts:413/422/428 - the auth frame
built on reconnect. Every condition there could be flipped with all 4777
tests still green: the replay-dedup arming guard, the resume-vs-fresh-connect
ternary, and the conditional active_channel_id spread.

Seven tests through the public send/isReplaying surface, no new exports. Two
isolate each half of the `reconnectAttempt > 0 && lastSeq > 0` AND condition -
the combination no existing test reached, and the one an && -> || mutant
walked straight through.

Verified by flipping the line 413 guard to `if (true)`: 3 of 7 fail, revert
restores green.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* docs: record two fuzz corpus traps

Interrupting a fuzz run manufactures a false crasher: Go cannot distinguish a
worker that crashed on an input from one killed externally, so it saves the
in-flight input to testdata/fuzz/ as a suspect. It looks exactly like a real
security finding. Replay before believing it.

And committed seed corpus shares the testdata/fuzz/<Target>/ directory with
any false crasher, so clearing one by removing the directory deletes the
seeds too.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* feat(client): enforce three prose invariants as ESLint rules

CLAUDE.md documents the voice-supersession, E2EE staleness and dispatcher
invariants in English. English fails no build, and bug hunts keep rediscovering
the same classes. Five rules encode them as an inline flat-config plugin - no
new dependency, and `npx eslint src/` is already a blocking CI gate.

- no-leave-voice-when-superseded: a global leaveVoice() inside a branch that
  already confirmed supersession tears down the newer live session
- e2ee-epoch-needs-keypair-check: a non-key-holder never bumps the epoch, so
  an epoch-only staleness guard cannot see a restarted session
- e2ee-verified-status-literal: keeps "verified" tied to a hand-written call
  site that earned it, never a computed status
- no-identity-scope-fallback: a `?? 0` placeholder scope mints a keypair under
  the wrong account
- no-store-write-in-ws-on: page-local ws.on handlers may read stores, not
  write them

Each rule proven to fire by reintroducing the historical bug shape and
reverting; RuleTester cases cover both the real shapes that must stay clean
and the bug shapes that must not.

A fourth candidate - await-then-stale-snapshot - was declined as not
AST-expressible: whether an await needs a guard, and whether the guard is
sufficient, is intent rather than shape, and the rule would flag most of the
already-correct guard code in livekitSession.ts.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* docs: correct dispatcher invariant, record Tier 2 as shipped

The client CLAUDE.md claimed ws.on(...) appears only in dispatcher.ts. Eight
handlers across main.ts, MainPage.ts and ChannelController.ts say otherwise -
page-local UI (ringing, overlays, slow-mode timers) legitimately subscribes.
The real invariant is narrower: dispatcher is the single path by which server
events WRITE to domain stores. That is what local/no-store-write-in-ws-on
enforces, and the doc now matches the code.

Also record that Tier 2 shipped as ESLint rules rather than semgrep, and why
the fourth candidate was declined.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix(client): move the status-picker dot onto the avatar corner

The corner dot on the user bar avatar was a static hardcoded-green div —
never reflected real status and did nothing on click. Removed it and
relocated the actual StatusPicker trigger dot (real color, opens the
status dropdown) to that same corner instead of its own row. The
"Online"/"Idle"/... text label under the username is unchanged.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix(client): return the saved password over IPC again

The remember-password box saved a password the client could never read
back. Hardening had put #[serde(skip)] on CredentialData::password, so
load_credential returned a record whose password was always absent and
the login form could not prefill it — the box appeared to work and
silently did nothing.

Drop the skip and carry the field through the TS wrapper, which now maps
a non-string password to undefined rather than trusting the payload.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* feat(client): add an auto-connect checkbox to the login form

Auto-connect already existed end to end — ServerProfile.autoConnect,
setAutoLogin(), and the boot auto-login block with its cancel overlay —
but was only reachable through the zap button on a server card. This
surfaces the same state as a checkbox under Remember password, where
users look for it.

Ticking it forces Remember password on and disables it: boot auto-login
replays the stored token, which saveCredential only writes when the
password is remembered, so the two cannot be set independently without
producing a setting that silently does nothing.

Unticking is guarded. setAutoLogin(null) clears autoConnect on every
profile, so a bare toggle-off would wipe another server's setting; the
clear now only fires when this profile is the current holder. The guard
lives in ensureProfileExists, which all four auth paths already route
through.

Also consume the password restored in the previous commit, so selecting
a saved server prefills it instead of leaving the field blank.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* chore(release): bump client to 1.2.0-alpha.2

The client version is not derived from the tag — release.yml's
verify-versions job compares the tag against package.json and
tauri.conf.json and fails the release if they drift, so all five
manifests (both lockfiles included) move together.

Also refreshes the literal version in the README and docs build
examples, and closes the Unreleased changelog section as v1.2.0-alpha.2.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* docs(changelog): record the three bug-hunt sweeps in v1.2.0-alpha.2

PRs #1328, #1331 and #1332 merged to main after v1.2.0-alpha.1 was tagged
and closed 233 verified defects between them, but none of the three left
an entry in the curated changelog — the generated list covers commits,
this file covers behaviour, and nothing bridged the two.

Verified unreleased by ancestry rather than by date (none of the three
merge commits is an ancestor of v1.2.0-alpha.1), so all of it ships for
the first time in alpha.2.

Nine entries grouped by subsystem, leading with the changes an operator
or user would actually notice: the 24h-retention desync, the avatar-
deleting orphan sweep, the zero-byte restore truncation, the six hot-mic
paths, and the TOFU re-pin that would have warned every install at once.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* test(client): drop the e2e assertion for the removed user-bar status dot (#1334)

26b46cc removed the hardcoded-green `.status-dot` div from the user bar
avatar and relocated the real StatusPicker trigger dot into that corner,
adding "status picker dot sits on the avatar" to cover the new element.
The old "user bar has status dot" test was left behind and now fails on
an element that no longer exists by design.

The replacement test already asserts the corner dot is present and
visible, so removing the stale one loses no coverage.


Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Rkv9dVo5YEYArqrDRfW41w

Co-authored-by: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>

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CI Release Status Go Tauri Platforms License: AGPL-3.0

OwnCord

A self-hosted chat app I build for me and my friends — text channels, voice and video, and a server you actually own.

Alpha, and a hobby project. This is something I build for fun and run for a small group of friends. It isn't a product, there's no support, and it isn't production-ready. Expect rough edges, rapid changes, and the occasional breaking change.

Don't use it for anything sensitive.

It's a Go server plus a Tauri desktop client: real-time messaging, voice/video via LiveKit, file sharing, and a web admin panel. Run the server on a spare box or a VPS, hand your friends an invite code, and that's the whole thing.

OwnCord Client

Login Page Admin Panel

How it's built

Most of the implementation is generated with AI tooling, with quality held up by automated checks — CI, tests, linting — and by me and my friends actually using it. That keeps iteration fast, and it also means behaviour can change quickly between releases.

What works right now

Area Status
Core chat flow Working in alpha
Voice/video Working in alpha
Admin panel Working in alpha
Security hardening Ongoing review passes; findings and their statuses are tracked in the dated audits in docs/ (see the Docs Index below)

Platform Support (Current Releases)

Component Windows x64 Linux x64 Linux ARM64
Server binary Yes Yes Not yet
Desktop client Yes (NSIS installer) Yes (AppImage, .deb) Yes (AppImage, .deb)
Docker server N/A Build from source (compose) Not yet

Start Here

Quick Start

Option A: Prebuilt binaries

  1. Download assets from Releases (binaries, checksums, signatures, and a full source snapshot per release).
  2. Run the server binary:
    • Windows: chatserver.exe
    • Linux: ./chatserver
  3. Open https://localhost:8443/admin and complete the setup wizard — it creates your Owner account and configures the server for you (settings are saved to config.yaml automatically).
  4. Generate invite codes in the admin panel and share them with friends.

Option B: Docker (Linux server)

cd Server
cp .env.example .env
cp livekit.yaml.example livekit.yaml
# Edit both files before starting
docker compose up -d

See the full setup guide in docs/deployment.md.

The client uses TOFU (Trust On First Use) for self-signed certificates: it prompts once, then pins the certificate for future connections.

What OwnCord Already Has

  • Real-time channels and direct messages over WebSocket
  • Voice/video channels via LiveKit — the LiveKit server binary is downloaded and managed for you
  • Invite-only registration and role-based permissions
  • Web admin panel with logs, backups, and update tooling
  • File uploads and inline media rendering
  • TOTP 2FA support and API rate limiting
  • Desktop client auto-update with signature verification
  • WASM plugin system (slash commands; sandboxed, default-disabled — enable via plugins.enabled and build with -tags wazero)
  • GIF picker — off by default; each server supplies its own Klipy key via gif.api_key (setup)

See deeper feature and architecture docs in docs/architecture/ and docs/protocol.md.

Architecture

Two main components:

  • Go server (REST API, WebSocket hub, SQLite, admin panel)
  • Tauri v2 desktop client (Rust backend + TypeScript frontend)
+---------------------+         +---------------------+
|   OwnCord Client    |         |   OwnCord Server    |
|   (Tauri v2)        |         |       (Go)          |
|                     |         |                     |
|  +---------------+  |  WSS    |  +---------------+  |
|  |  Chat UI      |--+------->|  |  WebSocket Hub|  |
|  +---------------+  |         |  +---------------+  |
|  +---------------+  |  HTTPS  |  +---------------+  |
|  |  REST Client  |--+------->|  |  REST API     |  |
|  +---------------+  |         |  +---------------+  |
|  +---------------+  | LiveKit |  +---------------+  |
|  |  Voice/Video  |--+------->|  |  LiveKit SFU  |  |
|  +---------------+  |         |  +---------------+  |
+---------------------+         |  +---------------+  |
                                |  |  SQLite DB    |  |
                                |  +---------------+  |
                                +---------------------+

Build and Test

Prerequisites

  • Go 1.26+
  • Node.js 20+
  • Rust stable (client builds)

Build from source

# Server (Windows)
cd Server
go build -o chatserver.exe -ldflags "-s -w -X main.version=1.2.0-alpha.2" .

# Server (Linux)
cd Server
CGO_ENABLED=0 go build -o chatserver -ldflags "-s -w -X main.version=1.2.0-alpha.2" .

# Client
cd Client/tauri-client
npm install
npm run tauri build

Core verification commands

# Server
cd Server
go test ./...

# Client
cd Client/tauri-client
npm run typecheck
npm run lint
npm test

For the full command set, use docs/contributing.md.

Configuration

On first run, the server generates config.yaml and a local data/ directory:

data/
├── chatserver.db
├── certs/
├── uploads/
└── backups/

Key options include TLS mode, upload limits, LiveKit settings, and admin CIDR restrictions. See docs/server-configuration.md.

Security and Vulnerability Reporting

  • For vulnerabilities, use GitHub Security Advisories (private disclosure flow).
  • Do not open public issues for security bugs.
  • Read full policy and hardening notes in docs/security.md.

Update Signing Notes (Maintainers)

Client and server update signing keys are intentionally separate.

Required Actions secrets for release signing:

  • TAURI_SIGNING_PRIVATE_KEY
  • TAURI_SIGNING_PRIVATE_KEY_PASSWORD
  • SERVER_UPDATE_SIGNING_PRIVATE_KEY
  • SERVER_UPDATE_SIGNING_PRIVATE_KEY_PASSWORD

When rotating the server updater key, update Server/updater/server_update_public_key.txt and use staged rollover for live fleets.

Docs Index

Contributing

  1. Create a branch from dev (the active development branch).
  2. Keep changes focused and tested.
  3. Open a PR targeting devdev is merged to main for releases.

See docs/contributing.md for the full process.

License

AGPL-3.0

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