Centralize PTT and voice audio-session ownership, harden courier/bridge/outbox delivery and recovery, correct location and delivery-state races, add privacy/release metadata, and ship reproducible universal Arti slices with Release CI coverage.
Validated by the full iOS suite, repeated audio/fragment/performance regressions, BitFoundation tests, strict lint and dead-code analysis, universal iOS Release builds, and iOS/macOS archives.
Periphery 3.7.4 audit of both schemes (macOS + iOS, intersected so
platform-specific code is never touched), with test targets indexed and
the share extension built. 277 dead declarations removed or demoted:
dead forwarding wrappers (ChatViewModel+Nostr/+PrivateChat), removed-
feature remnants (autocomplete command suggestions, back-swipe tuning,
MediaSendError, GeohashParticipantTracker), unused Tor dormancy
bindings, assign-only properties, unused parameters (renamed to _), and
redundant public accessibility. 13 orphaned localization keys deleted
across all 29 locales (old pre-#1392 location-notes UI, app_info
warnings).
Two real tests were flagged as unused because they never ran: Swift
Testing methods missing @Test (NostrProtocolTests.
testAckRoundTripNIP44V2_Delivered, NotificationStreamAssemblerTests.
testAssemblesCompressedLargeFrame). Re-armed both; they pass.
Deliberately kept, now recorded in .periphery.baseline.json: iOS-only
code invisible to the CI macOS scan, C FFI signatures, keep-alive
NWPathMonitor reference, InboundEventKey.eventID (dedup semantics),
wifiBulk capability bit (reserved for Wi-Fi bulk work, used by
BitFoundation package tests), and the String secureClear cluster
(exercised by package tests).
New: .periphery.yml config and an advisory Dead Code CI job (mirrors
the SwiftLint precedent from #1361) that fails on findings not in the
committed baseline.
Verified: full macOS app suite, BitFoundation (119) and BitLogger (13)
package tests green; periphery scan --strict exits clean.
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Four spurious CI failures on July 5, all loaded-runner flakiness:
- ViewSmokeTests.voiceAndMediaViews_renderAndWarmCaches asserted an exact
bin count on WaveformCache.shared for the same URL the mounted
VoiceNoteView was concurrently warming at its default 120-bin width;
whichever barrier write landed last owned the entry. Probe the cache with
a dedicated audio file no view touches, and purge both URLs. Also replace
the fixed 250ms sleep for loadDuration's background hop with a waitUntil
poll.
- sendImage_privateChatProcessesAndTransfersImage (and its sendVoiceNote /
sendImage siblings) wait on work that hops through Task.detached; the
global executor is shared with every parallel test worker, so a loaded
runner can exceed the 5s wait. Raise those positive waits to
TestConstants.longTimeout (10s) — waitUntil returns as soon as the
condition holds, so passing runs are unaffected.
- subscribeNostrEvent_addsToTimeline_ifMatchesGeohash raced concurrently
running suites (e.g. CommandProcessorTests) on the process-wide
LocationChannelManager singleton: a mid-test channel flip reroutes or
drops the event permanently, so no fixed wait recovers. The wait loop now
re-asserts the channel and redelivers the event on each poll — idempotent
because channel switches clear the processed-event set and the store
dedups by message ID — so interference heals while genuine failures still
time out.
- The performance floor gate failed on a saturated runner
(gcs.buildAndDecode at 85% of floor). check-perf-floors.sh now re-runs
the benchmark suite up to twice when a metric lands below floor,
appending to the same PERF log and keeping each benchmark's best value
across attempts: noise clears on a retry, a real algorithmic regression
fails every attempt. Floors are unchanged and never lowered by the
mechanism; missing-benchmark failures exit immediately without retrying.
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* Add SwiftLint as an advisory CI-only lint job (no Xcode plugin dependency)
* Harden the advisory lint job and exclude build dirs from local runs
The lint job runs a third-party container image, so drop its token to
read-only, stop actions/checkout from persisting credentials into the
workspace the container can read, and pin the image by digest as well
as tag (tags are mutable). Also add an excluded: list to .swiftlint.yml
so local swiftlint runs don't drown in .build/DerivedData artifacts —
CI checkouts are fresh, so this only affects working trees.
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The unpinned setup-swift action installs Swift 6.1, which refuses the
SDK on runner images that have rolled to Xcode 26.5 ("this SDK is not
supported by the compiler"). Jobs passed or failed depending on which
image they landed on. The Xcode-bundled toolchain always matches the
image's SDK, and matches local development. Cache keys now include the
toolchain version so artifacts from one compiler are never restored
into builds with another.
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* Exclude perf baselines from parallel CI via --skip; sample hung tests
Every app-suite CI run since the perf baselines landed (#1335) has
timed out at the 15-minute job limit — main has been red for five
consecutive runs. The job logs show the PerformanceBaselineTests
fixtures dispatched into the parallel phase despite the
BITCHAT_SKIP_PERF_BASELINES env guard from #1336, followed by ~11
minutes of silence until the timeout kills swiftpm-testing. The suite
passes locally in seconds with identical flags, so the hang is
specific to the CI toolchain/runners — consistent with the known
XCTest-measure-under-parallel-workers hang the serial step was
created to avoid.
Two changes:
- Exclude the baselines from the parallel phase with --skip at the
SPM level, which removes them from the worker processes entirely
instead of relying on the env guard reaching setUpWithError. They
still run (and gate) in the dedicated serial step.
- Wrap the parallel run in a 10-minute watchdog that samples any
still-running test processes before killing them, so if anything
else ever hangs, the run fails fast with thread stacks in the log
instead of a silent 15-minute timeout.
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* Arm the test-hang watchdog only for the test execution phase
Codex review: swift test builds before running, so the watchdog timer
included dependency resolution and compilation — a cold-cache coverage
build on a slow runner could be killed before tests ever started.
Build the tests in their own step (bounded by the 15-minute job
timeout like any build) and run the watchdog around swift test
--skip-build, tightened to 5 minutes now that it times only test
execution.
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* Hammer transport thread-safety tests from the dispatch pool, not the cooperative pool
The watchdog added in this PR captured the actual CI hang twice, with
identical stacks both times: NostrTransportTests' 100-task groups park
every Swift Concurrency cooperative thread in a blocking queue.sync
(the pool has one thread per core — 3 on CI runners, 10+ on dev
machines, which is why this never reproduced locally). Blocking the
entire cooperative pool violates the forward-progress contract, and
the runners' dispatch wedges under the resulting asyncAndWait flood —
taking concurrently running tests down with it (the panic-reset test
deadlocked in a serviceQueue barrier that never got scheduled).
Run the same 100 concurrent hammer iterations via
DispatchQueue.concurrentPerform from a single global-queue hop instead:
identical thread-safety coverage, executed on dispatch worker threads
where blocking is legal, zero cooperative threads parked.
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The intermittent CI hang was caught by the new job timeout: the run
froze on the last remaining parallel test slot, an XCTest measure
benchmark (testNostrInboundEventHandling_freshEvents), after 4 hangs
in 5 runs - while the same suite completes in seconds locally and the
test itself is bounded. Independent of the micro-cause, benchmarks
do not belong inside the parallel suite: measuring while test processes
contend for cores is where our 2x CI variance came from. The parallel
run now skips benchmarks (BITCHAT_SKIP_PERF_BASELINES=1) and a
dedicated serial step runs them on an otherwise idle runner with a
6-minute step timeout, feeding the floor gate as before.
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Two app-test jobs hung intermittently (40+ minutes against a normal
~4-5), holding macOS runners against GitHub's 360-minute default and
starving the queue - subsequent runs sat pending, which read as "CI now
takes 10+ minutes". Jobs now time out at 15 minutes (3x the normal
duration) so a hang fails loudly instead of silently consuming the
runner pool. The intermittent hang itself is under investigation
separately.
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Package.swift's .process("Noise") resource claim silently excluded all
of bitchatTests/Noise/ from compilation since Oct 2025 - including a
complete official-vector runner (cacophony + snow XX transcripts,
transport messages, handshake hash, byte-identical to upstream).
Narrowing the resource to the JSON file and loading via Bundle.module
brings 51 Noise tests back to life, with a guard asserting each
vector's protocol name matches the app's.
CI gains a performance floor gate: perf-floors.json carries deliberately
generous floors (~25% of measured throughput) that catch algorithmic
regressions without flaking on runner variance; PERF lines reach the
gate via an O_APPEND side-channel file since swift test --parallel
swallows passing tests' stdout.
Tests are now hermetic: FavoritesPersistenceService uses an in-memory
keychain under test (fixes the securityd hang that blocked pipeline
benchmarks locally) and read-receipt persistence uses a wiped scratch
UserDefaults suite instead of .standard.
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swift test runs with --enable-code-coverage and each matrix job prints
an llvm-cov per-file + total summary (informational only - no
thresholds, so coverage can never be the reason a build goes red).
Local baseline at introduction: 69.7% lines.
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NostrRelayManager no longer strands work when Tor is slow to bootstrap:
failed readiness waits retry (bounded by nostrTorReadyMaxWaitAttempts)
instead of dropping queued relay connections, parked EOSE callbacks fire
after exhaustion so callers never hang, and sends made before Tor is
ready are queued locally (capped) instead of being dropped on a failed
wait - still strictly fail-closed.
MessageRouter now prefers a connected transport over a merely
window-reachable one, and sends made on a weak reachability signal are
retained in the outbox until a delivery/read ack confirms receipt
(receivers dedup by message ID), with resends bounded by attempt count.
GCS sync filters from the wire are bounds-checked (p in 1...32, m > 1)
at both the packet decode and filter decode layers; oversized Golomb
parameters previously decoded to garbage via silent shift overflow.
BLELinkStateStore is now explicitly pinned to bleQueue: debug builds
trap any access from another queue, enforcing the ownership discipline
the surrounding code already relied on by convention.
CI gains an iOS simulator build job (arm64 only; the vendored Arti
xcframework has no x86_64 simulator slice) so iOS-conditional code
paths are compile-checked - SPM tests only cover the macOS slice.
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Vendored arti.xcframework rebuilt from source (Rust 1.96.0, normalized
archive metadata for reproducible hashes). New ARTI-BINARY-PROVENANCE.md
records toolchain, rebuild steps, and a SHA256 manifest for every file
in the xcframework. A new CI workflow turns that policy into a gate:
PRs must keep the binary matching the manifest, and binary changes must
ship with source/lockfile/build-script evidence.
Also raises TorManager.awaitReady's default timeout from 25s to 75s to
match the bootstrap monitor deadline - a shorter wait reported "not
ready" while Arti was still legitimately bootstrapping, silently
stranding queued relay work.
Privacy policy, Tor integration doc, and privacy assessment updated to
match the current implementation.
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* SPM Test target + Github Action to build and test
Because the tests are XCTests `swift test` runs them first and then runs another batch of empty tests which results in "0 tests" at the end of the report - https://github.com/swiftlang/swift-package-manager/issues/8529#issuecomment-2815711345
* Fix dependency and library issues + handle mixed languages
`include` folder has to be next to the `*.c` file for it to work
