* Script for beta config; unique data dir, in-app env/type display
To release a beta build, increment the version and add -beta-N to the
end, then go through all the standard release activities.
The prepare-build npm script then updates key bits of the package.json
to ensure that the beta build can be installed alongside a production
build. This includes a new name ('Signal Beta') and a different location
for application data.
Note: Beta builds can be installed alongside production builds.
As part of this, a couple new bits of data are shown across the app:
- Environment (development or test, not shown if production)
- App Instance (disabled in production; used for multiple accounts)
These are shown in:
- The window title - both environment and app instance. You can tell
beta builds because the app name, preceding these data bits, is
different.
- The about window - both environment and app instance. You can tell
beta builds from the version number.
- The header added to the debug log - just environment. The version
number will tell us if it's a beta build, and app instance isn't
helpful.
* Turn on single-window mode in non-production modes
Because it's really frightening when you see 'unable to read from db'
errors in the console.
* aply.sh: More instructions for initial setup and testing
* Gruntfile: Get consistent with use of package.json datas
* Linux: manually update desktop keys, since macros not available
* Remove reload options, new file/help menus, tools/log at bottom
* Further menus refactor: install handlers at template creation
* WIP: Further tune menus, add custom about window
* New About window, new help menu items, menu labels now i18n
* Default device name on registration is now computer hostname
The OS of the device makes sense for those of us testing across a lot of
different OSes. And maybe for a user with just one desktop device. But
most users with multiple desktop devices are using the same OS for both.
* About window: Only show window when content is ready
* Fix typo in app/menu.js
* Add setting to hide menu bar
Add a setting in the themes section to hide the menu bar.
The menu bar is not needed in everyday use and might not fit in with
signals dark theme. The hidden menu bar can still be shown by pressing
alt.
autoHideMenuBar is added to windowConfig and saved and restored on
startup to prevent flickering.
* Trigger events only when related setting changes
Set the event to trigger on instanciation of the view.
Notification settings no longer reapply the theme or menu bar settings.
* Save window state when closing the window
When not moving or resizing the window, no BrowserWindow config would be
created and saved.
* Re-enable fullscreen on OSX
We were inadvertantly disabling the fullscreen button due to a quick of the
BrowserWindow api. Add some guards to make sure we no longer save or use a
previously-stored `fullscreen: false` in our window configs.
// FREEBIE
* Use logger.info instead of console.log
Note the use of stringify to make config object safe for bunyan
https://github.com/trentm/node-bunyan#log-method-api
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- Logging is available in main process as well as renderer process, and
entries all go to one set of rotating files. Log entries in the
renderer process go to DevTools as well as the console. Entries from
the main process only show up in the console.
- We save three days of logs, one day per file in %userData%/logs
- The 'debug' object store is deleted in a new database migration
- Timestamps and level included in the new log we generate for publish
as well as the devtools
- The bunyan API is exposed via windows.log (providing the ability to
log at different levels, and save objects instead of just text), so we
can move our code to it over time.
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* Add AES-GCM encryption for profiles
With tests.
* Add profileKey to DataMessage protobuf
// FREEBIE
* Decrypt and save profile names
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* Save incoming profile keys
* Move pad/unpad to crypto module
// FREEBIE
* Support fetching avatars from the cdn
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* Translate failed authentication errors
When AES-GCM authentication fails, webcrypto returns a very generic error. The
same error is thrown for invalid length inputs, but our earlier checks in
decryptProfile should rule out those failure modes and leave us safe to assume
that we either had bad ciphertext or the wrong key.
// FREEBIE
* Handle profile avatars (wip) and log decrypt errors
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* Display profile avatars
Synced contact avatars will still override profile avatars.
* Display profile names in convo list
Only if we don't have a synced contact name.
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* Make cdn url an environment config
Use different ones for staging and production
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* Display profile name in conversation header
* Display profile name in group messages
* Update conversation header if profile avatar changes
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* Style profile names small with ~
* Save profileKeys from contact sync messages
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* Save profile keys from provisioning messages
For standalone accounts, generate a random profile key.
// FREEBIE
* Special case for one-time sync of our profile key
Android will use a contact sync message to sync a profile key from Android
clients who have just upgraded and generated their profile key. Normally we
should receive this data in a provisioning message.
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* Infer profile sharing from synced data messages
* Populate profile keys on outgoing messages
Requires that `profileSharing` be set on the conversation.
// FREEBIE
* Support for the profile key update flag
When receiving a message with this flag, don't init a message record, just
process the profile key and move on.
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* Display profile names in group member list
* Refresh contact's profile on profile key changes
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* Catch errors on profile save
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* Save our own synced contact info
Don't return early if we get a contact sync for our own number
// FREEBIE
When clicking on a notification in Windows when a window had been stuck
to one side of the screen using Snap, the window would be repositioned.
Fixes#1453
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* main.js: check for truthiness of mainwindow, not === null
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* background.js: Connect to websocket even if we are unlinked
We know registration isn't done, but it has been done before. So instead
of sitting tight, we connect to the socket to start everything up and
attempt to the websocket once more.
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* Add certificate pinning on https service requests
Make https requests to the server using node apis instead of browser apis, so we
can specify our own CA list, which contains only our own CA.
This protects us from MITM by a rogue CA.
As a bonus, this let's us drop the use of non-standard ports and just use good
ol' default 443 all the time, at least for http requests.
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* Make certificateAuthorities an option on requests
Modify node-based xhr implementation based on driverdan/node-XMLHttpRequest,
adding support for setting certificate authorities on each request.
This allows us to pin our master CA for requests to the server and cdn but not
to the s3 attachment server, for instance. Also fix an exception when sending
binary data in a request: it is submitted as an array buffer, and must be
converted to a node Buffer since we are now using a node based request api.
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* Import node-based xhr implementation
Add a copy of https://github.com/driverdan/node-XMLHttpRequest@86ff70e, and
expose it to the renderer in the preload script.
In later commits this module will be extended to support custom certificate
authorities.
// FREEBIE
* Support "arraybuffer" responseType on requests
When fetching attachments, we want the result as binary data rather than a utf8
string. This lets our node-based XMLHttpRequest honor the responseType property
if it is set on the xhr.
Note that naively using the raw `.buffer` from a node Buffer won't work, since
it is a reuseable backing buffer that is often much larger than the actual
content defined by the Buffer's offset and length.
Instead, we'll prepare a return buffer based on the response's content length
header, and incrementally write chunks of data into it as they arrive.
// FREEBIE
* Switch to self-signed server endpoint
* Log more error info on failed requests
With the node-based xhr, relevant error info are stored in statusText and
responseText when a request fails.
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* Add node-based websocket w/ support for custom CA
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* Support handling array buffers instead of blobs
Our node-based websocket calls onmessage with an arraybuffer instead of a blob.
For robustness (on the off chance we switch or update the socket implementation
agian) I've kept the machinery for converting blobs to array buffers.
// FREEBIE
* Destroy all wacky server ports
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Just send an event from the main process to the renderer,
The latter routes it the appropriate view method.
For now it's a no-op unless the main window exists and it is showing the inbox,
which will be addressed in a future commit.
// FREEBIE
It seems that makeSingleInstance will always return true in the MAS
build.* Luckily, OSX mostly enforces single-instance for us when opening
the app from Finder. If the user attempts to run a second instance from
the command line, it will create a window but fail to load.
*TODO: Revisit why makeSingleInstance is broken in the MAS build.
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