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jackandGitHub 820c933958 Harden PTT audio and the 1.7.1 release (#1423)
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.
2026-07-10 14:04:09 +02:00

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Arti Binary Provenance

This repo vendors a prebuilt Arti static-library xcframework at:

localPackages/Arti/Frameworks/arti.xcframework

SwiftPM links it through localPackages/Arti/Package.swift as the binary target named arti. Treat changes to this artifact like dependency updates: review the Rust sources, lockfile, build script, produced headers, and artifact hashes together.

Source Inputs

  • Rust workspace: localPackages/Arti/Cargo.toml
  • Crate: localPackages/Arti/arti-bitchat
  • Dependency lockfile: localPackages/Arti/Cargo.lock
  • Build script: localPackages/Arti/build-ios.sh
  • Exported C header: localPackages/Arti/Frameworks/include/arti.h

The crate declares rust-version = "1.90" and uses arti-client / tor-rtcompat 0.38 with minimal Tokio/Rustls features. The current lockfile requires Rust 1.90 or newer. The build script currently targets:

  • aarch64-apple-ios
  • aarch64-apple-ios-sim
  • x86_64-apple-ios
  • aarch64-apple-darwin
  • x86_64-apple-darwin

It builds release static libraries with size-oriented flags (opt-level=z, fat LTO, one codegen unit, panic=abort, stripped symbols), normalizes static-archive metadata with xcrun libtool -static -D, then packages them with xcodebuild -create-xcframework.

Regenerating The Artifact

From the repo root:

cd localPackages/Arti
rustup toolchain install 1.96.0
rustup target add --toolchain 1.96.0 aarch64-apple-ios aarch64-apple-ios-sim x86_64-apple-ios aarch64-apple-darwin x86_64-apple-darwin
rustup run 1.96.0 cargo install cbindgen --version 0.29.4 --locked
./build-ios.sh

build-ios.sh defaults to the audited 1.96.0 toolchain and refuses a rustc version other than 1.96.0; it likewise requires cbindgen 0.29.4. Set RUST_TOOLCHAIN, RUSTC_VERSION, or CBINDGEN_VERSION explicitly only when intentionally updating the binary provenance and hashes below.

After rebuilding, verify that:

  • Cargo.lock changes are intentional and reviewed.
  • Frameworks/include/arti.h still matches the exported FFI functions used by TorManager.
  • Frameworks/arti.xcframework contains iOS device arm64, universal iOS simulator arm64+x86_64, and universal macOS arm64+x86_64 slices.
  • The main app still passes iOS tests and the macOS build.

Audited Rebuild

The July 2026 artifact below was rebuilt from source on this host with:

rustc 1.96.0 (ac68faa20 2026-05-25)
cargo 1.96.0 (30a34c682 2026-05-25)
rustup 1.29.0 (28d1352db 2026-03-05)
cbindgen 0.29.4
Xcode 26.6
Build version 17F113

Rust 1.86.0 was also checked during the audit and no longer builds this lockfile because typed-index-collections@3.4.0 requires Rust 1.90.0 or newer.

The build script now normalizes static-archive metadata and writes a stable xcframework Info.plist. Two consecutive no-source-change rebuilds on this host produced the same hashes below.

Current Artifact Hashes

Run this from the repo root to verify the checked-in artifact:

find localPackages/Arti/Frameworks/arti.xcframework -maxdepth 3 -type f -print0 | sort -z | xargs -0 shasum -a 256

Current hashes:

cac99db408280bbef15cae8ce64c8ccdbf2e8863c205168d59f83fe8ab680f94  localPackages/Arti/Frameworks/arti.xcframework/Info.plist
551655904834748c9dc36034fdbc9465e7533aef1e4a6514b4fcc75875b93058  localPackages/Arti/Frameworks/arti.xcframework/ios-arm64/Headers/arti.h
5461a231a786812e91e7965290031ea3479fdc5c6459553e46988ecafbbc2a3d  localPackages/Arti/Frameworks/arti.xcframework/ios-arm64/libarti_bitchat.a
551655904834748c9dc36034fdbc9465e7533aef1e4a6514b4fcc75875b93058  localPackages/Arti/Frameworks/arti.xcframework/ios-arm64_x86_64-simulator/Headers/arti.h
af8f5f636eb6affb309b3e44f13e48498eb2540c77af44ddcd7fdf9241b1e317  localPackages/Arti/Frameworks/arti.xcframework/ios-arm64_x86_64-simulator/libarti_bitchat.a
551655904834748c9dc36034fdbc9465e7533aef1e4a6514b4fcc75875b93058  localPackages/Arti/Frameworks/arti.xcframework/macos-arm64_x86_64/Headers/arti.h
7c9afe98227f1767567ddcd4e35d9dfffe70309c302c4dbc9a6c9d6aeefab007  localPackages/Arti/Frameworks/arti.xcframework/macos-arm64_x86_64/libarti_bitchat.a

Review Checklist

  • Record rustc --version, cargo --version, cbindgen --version, and xcodebuild -version in the PR when refreshing the binary.
  • Include the hash output above after any binary change.
  • If a rebuild changes only xcframework/library bytes, record the new hashes and app validation evidence in the PR.
  • Keep target/, .build/, and .swiftpm/ out of source control.
  • Do not accept an xcframework-only update without matching source, lockfile, or build-script evidence explaining where it came from.