- Add handshakeRequest packet type (0x25) to notify recipients about queued messages
- Create HandshakeRequest struct with binary encoding for efficient transmission
- Send handshake requests when messages are queued due to missing session
- Display notifications when someone wants to send messages
- Fix verification persistence bug by adding forceSave on app termination
- Update UI to handle optional encryption icons (hide when no handshake attempted)
Co-authored-by: jack <jackjackbits@users.noreply.github.com>
* Remove sequence numbers from protocol
- Remove sequenceNumber field from BitchatPacket struct
- Update BinaryProtocol to not encode/decode sequence numbers (header size reduced from 17 to 13 bytes)
- Replace sequence-based duplicate detection with content-based using packet ID hash
- Update packet ID generation to use SHA256(senderID + timestamp + type + payload prefix)
- Remove all sequence tracking variables and methods
- Simplify duplicate detection to rely on timestamp and content hashing
* Fix connection stability issues
- Increase peer availability check interval from 5 to 15 seconds
- Fix availability logic to not mark connected peers as unavailable
- Add BLE connection keepalive timer (20s) to prevent iOS timeouts
- Fix missing delivery ACKs by passing peripheral context through Noise decryption
- Reduce identity announce frequency from 2 to 10 seconds minimum
- Remove unnecessary identity announces on connection
- Debounce identity cache keychain saves (2 second delay)
- Add message retry notification handler in ChatViewModel
- Fix version negotiation redundancy by checking existing negotiations
- Keep Noise sessions for already-connected peers
* Fix build errors in message retry handler
- Fix reference to 'displayedMessages' - should be 'messages'
- Fix sendMessage call signature to use individual parameters instead of message object
- Both iOS and macOS builds now succeed
* Fix remaining connection stability issues
- Fix duplicate identity announces with content-based deduplication
- Simplify peripheral mapping with cleaner temp ID to peer ID transitions
- Improve graceful leave detection across peer ID rotations
- Track previousPeerID from announcements to maintain state
- Add time-based cleanup for gracefully left peers
* Fix connection stability issues
- Add special duplicate detection for identity announces
- Simplify peripheral mapping with dedicated structure
- Improve graceful leave detection with peer ID rotation handling
- Track graceful leave timestamps for cleanup
- Transfer states properly during peer ID rotation
* Improve BLE connection stability and message reliability
- Increase peer availability timeout from 5s to 15s to prevent flapping
- Add BLE keepalive timer with 30s interval to maintain connections
- Fix missing delivery ACKs by passing peripheral context through decryption
- Reduce identity announce frequency from 2s to 10s minimum interval
- Add keychain save debouncing with 2s delay to prevent excessive writes
- Implement message retry system for failed deliveries to favorites
- Fix version negotiation redundancy by checking existing state
- Add special duplicate detection for identity announcements
- Implement graceful leave detection with peer ID rotation support
- Simplify peripheral mapping to reduce complexity
- Fix switch statement structure issues causing build errors
These changes significantly improve connection stability, eliminate peer availability flapping, and ensure reliable message delivery.
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Co-authored-by: jack <jackjackbits@users.noreply.github.com>
- Convert BitchatMessage from struct to class for efficient caching
- Cache formatted AttributedStrings to avoid expensive regex on every render
- Replace ScrollView+LazyVStack with native List for better cell reuse
- Implement message windowing (show last 100 messages for performance)
- Add LazyLinkPreviewView that defers loading for 0.5s to improve scroll performance
These optimizations significantly improve scroll performance, especially with large message lists.
Always accept handshake initiations even with valid sessions, as the peer must have cleared their session for a good reason (e.g., decryption failure). This prevents deadlock where one peer has no session while the other maintains an invalid one.
- Remove channel UI elements from ContentView
- Remove channel data structures and methods from ChatViewModel
- Remove channel commands (/j, /leave, /channels)
- Remove channel field from BitchatMessage protocol
- Remove channel message types and handling
- Remove NoiseChannelEncryption.swift entirely
- Clean up all channel references across the codebase
- Fix compilation warnings (var to let conversions)
- Remove all outdated test files that used incorrect APIs
- Simplify app to only support public broadcast and 1:1 private messages
This change introduces a comprehensive binary protocol to replace JSON encoding
for all network messages, resulting in ~70% bandwidth reduction and 10-20x
faster parsing.
Key changes:
- Add BinaryEncodingUtils with common binary encoding/decoding operations
- Implement toBinaryData/fromBinaryData for all 9 message types
- Maintain backward compatibility with JSON fallback
- Add safety checks including minimum size validation and data copying
- Fix thread safety issues with concurrent data access
- Update all message handlers to try binary first, then JSON
Benefits:
- Reduced bandwidth usage (critical for Bluetooth)
- Faster message parsing
- Better MTU efficiency
- Eliminates JSON injection vulnerabilities
- Consistent binary format throughout the protocol
The implementation maintains full backward compatibility - new messages are
sent as binary while the app can still receive and process JSON messages
from older clients.
- Remove NoisePostQuantum.swift entirely (placeholder with no implementation)
- Remove Double Ratchet placeholder code from NoiseChannelKeyRotation.swift
- Remove NoisePostQuantumTests that tested mock implementations
- Handle TODO for version negotiation rejection (now properly disconnects)
- Remove legacy comment about removed message type 0x02
- Keep deprecated ownerID field as it's still used for compatibility
This cleanup removes ~400 lines of placeholder code that was not
being used and unlikely to be implemented in the near future.
- Add Ed25519 signing key pair to NoiseEncryptionService
- Update NoiseIdentityAnnouncement to include signingPublicKey
- Replace HMAC signatures with proper Ed25519 signatures
- Fix timestamp synchronization between signing and verification
- Add signature verification in PeerIdentityBinding
- Persist signing keys in keychain alongside Noise static keys
This provides cryptographic non-repudiation for peer identity claims
and strengthens the security of the identity rotation mechanism.
- Add version negotiation messages (0x20 versionHello, 0x21 versionAck)
- Implement VersionHello and VersionAck message types with platform info
- Add ProtocolVersion struct for version management and negotiation
- Update BinaryProtocol to check supported versions
- Add version negotiation to connection flow before Noise handshake
- Maintain backward compatibility with legacy peers (assume v1)
- Add comprehensive test suite with 40+ test cases
- Update documentation with version negotiation details
This ensures BitChat clients can negotiate protocol versions for smooth
upgrades while maintaining full backward compatibility with existing clients.
- Changed system messages from green to grey with consistent 12pt font
- Fixed text wrapping to flow naturally under timestamps
- Changed default nickname to anonXXXX format
- Replaced text with icon representations in status bar
- Added icons to sidebar section headers
- Made autocomplete UI consistent between commands and @mentions
- Added welcome message for new users (3 second delay)
- Changed sidebar header to 'YOUR NETWORK'
- Added command aliases (/join, /msg)
- Implemented /hug and /slap commands with haptic feedback
- Improved command help display with alphabetization
- Renamed 'rooms' to 'channels' throughout entire codebase
- Fixed BinaryProtocol to actually read and use the message ID
- Pass the decoded ID to BitchatMessage constructor
- This ensures ACKs reference the correct original message ID
- Added ReadReceipt structure and .readReceipt message type
- Added .read delivery status with blue checkmarks in UI
- Send read receipts when viewing a private chat
- Send read receipts immediately for new messages if chat is open
- Update message status from delivered to read when receipt received
- Pass message ID from ChatViewModel to BluetoothMeshService
- Preserve original message ID when creating ACK messages
- Move delivery tracking to ChatViewModel for consistent IDs
- Update project.yml to match current project structure
- Add LZ4 message compression for 30-70% bandwidth reduction
- Implement adaptive battery optimization with power modes
- Optimize Bloom filter with bit-packed storage and SHA256 hashing
- Create WiFi Direct integration plan for future implementation
- Enable and update Bloom filter tests
- Implement room-wide message retention controlled by room owners
- Change username format from <name> to <@name> throughout UI
- Fix text alignment in chat messages (consistent font sizes)
- Add comprehensive technical whitepaper with Mermaid diagrams
- Update README with current features and commands
- Add retention status indicators and announcements
- Update command help text to use short versions (/j, /m)
- Add key commitment scheme for immediate password verification
- Implement ownership transfer with /transfer command
- Add password change functionality with /pass command
- Include room metadata in initialization messages
- Remove /help command and rename /changepass to /pass
- Make room names tappable to show sidebar
- Remove spaces in person/room counter display
- Update UI to show lock icons and orange colors for protected rooms
- Fix password verification to work with empty rooms
- Add comprehensive tests for new functionality
This update significantly improves the security and usability of
password-protected rooms by allowing immediate verification without
waiting for encrypted messages.
- Room creators can set/remove passwords for their rooms
- Passwords are used to derive encryption keys via PBKDF2
- All messages in password-protected rooms are encrypted with AES-GCM
- Room protection status is announced to all peers
- Password and room data persists across app launches
- Visual lock indicators for password-protected rooms
- Password prompts when joining protected rooms
- Only room creators can modify password settings
- Encrypted messages show placeholder text if password is unknown
- Send leave notifications when users exit rooms
- Update room member lists when peers leave rooms
- Change current user icon from dot to person.fill
- Handle room-specific leave messages via protocol
- Maintain backwards compatibility for general peer disconnection
- Add room field to BitchatMessage structure
- Update BinaryProtocol to encode/decode room information
- Create room management in ChatViewModel (join/leave/switch rooms)
- Add BluetoothMeshService support for room messages
- Implement rooms UI in sidebar with unread counts
- Create clickable hashtags in messages to join rooms
- Add room persistence across app restarts
- Filter message display by current room selection
- Added LICENSE file with Unlicense (public domain dedication)
- Added public domain headers to all main source files
- Updated README to mention public domain status
- All code is free and unencumbered, released into the public domain
Anyone is free to use this code for any purpose without restriction.
- Fixed BitchatPacket convenience initializer to use milliseconds (was using seconds)
- Fixed BitchatMessage binary encoding to use milliseconds for consistency
- Updated decoding logic to properly handle millisecond timestamps
- This resolves the issue where packets were being dropped due to timestamp validation failures
All timestamps are now consistently in milliseconds throughout the codebase.
- Single tap logo shows comprehensive app info and features
- Triple tap logo triggers panic mode (instant data wipe)
- Implement adaptive Bluetooth scanning based on battery level
- Remove hardcoded development team ID for security
- Fix store-and-forward description (12h for all, indefinite for favorites)
- Add technical debt remediation plan
- Fix macOS compatibility issues with navigation
- Change message cache timeout from 5 minutes to 12 hours for regular peers
- Add indefinite message storage for favorite peers with 1000 message limit
- Cache relayed messages for offline favorites
- Automatically send cached messages when favorites come online
- Use public key fingerprints to identify favorites persistently
- Add isFavorite delegate method to check favorites by fingerprint
- Add favorites functionality for peers with persistent storage
- Star icon to toggle favorites in sidebar
- Favorites appear at top of peer list
- Storage persists across app launches using peer ID
- Add local notifications for mentions and private messages
- Notifications appear when app is in background
- Separate notification types for mentions vs private messages
- Request notification permissions on app launch
- Fix sidebar header alignment to match main toolbar (44pt)
- Add background color to sidebar header for visual consistency
- Improve voice note fragment transmission
- Send fragments in batches of 5 with delays to prevent congestion
- Better logging to debug fragment transmission issues
- Reduce delay between fragments from 50ms to batch-based timing
- Fix other UI issues
- Ensure mic recording ripples originate from mic button
- Update sidebar to swipe from right edge smoothly
- Added voice note support to BitchatMessage with audio data and duration
- Updated binary protocol to encode/decode voice notes (flag 0x40)
- Created AudioRecordingService for recording up to 10s voice clips
- Created AudioPlaybackService for playing voice notes
- Added microphone permission to Info.plist and project.yml
- Implemented push-to-talk UI with mic button in ContentView
- Voice notes use AAC compression at 16kHz/32kbps for small file sizes
- Added play/pause buttons for voice notes in message list
- Voice notes display as '🎤 Voice note (X.Xs)' in chat
- Platform-specific audio session handling for iOS/macOS
- Added autocomplete state tracking in ChatViewModel
- Implemented updateAutocomplete() to parse @ mentions and show suggestions
- Added completeNickname() to handle nickname completion
- Created autocomplete UI overlay above input field
- Shows list of matching nicknames when typing @
- Highlights selected suggestion
- Clicking suggestion completes the mention
- Implemented compact binary encoding for packets and messages
- Reduced packet size significantly (13-byte fixed header + variable payload)
- Optimized for BLE's limited MTU with smaller message sizes
- Added BinaryProtocol.swift with encode/decode functions
- Updated all message types to use binary serialization
- Maintains all existing functionality with better performance
- Implement 1:1 private messaging with IRC-style interface
- Add private message type to protocol with routing through mesh
- Show orange notification dot for unread private messages
- Fix peer list not showing connected peers
- Update peer nicknames immediately on first message
- Auto-exit private chat when peer disconnects
- Improve join/leave channel messages visibility
- Make send button larger for better UX
- Center and color private chat header in orange
