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ignacionelson b128b114b5 Make an announcement say who it is for
The first version refused clients outright. That was right for the only
message that existed — a hosted instance telling its administrator about
their plan — and it stopped being right the moment a message needed to
reach the *clients* of a shared instance, where the administrator is the
operator and the customers are client accounts.

The unsafe fix would have been to drop the guard and let each listener
check `isStaff`. The safe one is to make every caller say who it is
talking to and have core enforce it: `show()` now takes a required
`audience` with no default, and a message aimed elsewhere is dropped
before it reaches the props. A listener that forgets therefore reaches
nobody rather than everybody, which is the direction a mistake should
fall.

An unrecognised audience reaches nobody either, and is ignored rather
than thrown — a listener aimed at the wrong people should show nothing,
not break the page it was decorating.

The old "a client is never shown one" test became "a message for staff
reaches no client, even from a listener that never checks", which is the
property that actually matters and the one the enforcement provides. Two
more pin the other directions: a client message reaches clients and no
staff, and an unknown audience reaches neither.

cloud-modules declares `staff` for the free-plan band, and its test fake
enforces the same rule, so a listener aimed at the wrong audience fails
in the package's own suite rather than passing there and misbehaving in
the host.
2026-09-08 15:48:29 -03:00
ignacionelson d7d7acce85 Put the announcement behind the header icon too, from one source
A message worth showing was only on the dashboard, which means somebody
who works in Files and Clients all day never meets it. It now also sits
behind an icon next to the notification bell, and that is on every page.

**One shared prop, not two.** "The same message in both places" is the
requirement, and two props would have drifted the first time anybody
edited one — so the hook moved out of DashboardController into
HandleInertiaRequests, and the dashboard reads the same shared value the
header does. The band and the dropdown also share the component that
renders the words, for the same reason: the reliable way to keep two
renderings identical is not to have two.

Renamed with it. ResolvingDashboardCallout was accurate for about an hour
and became a lie the moment it appeared somewhere else; it is
ResolvingAnnouncement now, and the prop is `announcement`. Free to rename
because nothing has shipped yet — the only other reference was
cloud-modules', by string, updated alongside.

The icon follows UpdateAvailableIcon beside it: absent entirely when there
is nothing to say rather than a dead control, and a plain dot instead of a
count, because there is only ever one of these and a "1" would invite
somebody to look for the second.

Two tests worth naming. One asserts the message reaches a page that is not
the dashboard, which is the whole point of the addition. The other asserts
a client is shown nothing even from a listener that sets it
unconditionally — a client's header carries the bell too, and staff
messages must not reach it however careless the listener.
2026-09-08 02:17:56 -03:00
ignacionelson 334b11d562 Give packages a way into the sidebar and the top of the dashboard
Two seams, in the shape docs/extension-points-architecture.md settles on:
a Laravel event with a mutable payload, dispatched unconditionally, and
with nothing listening the documented default holds. A community
installation gets an empty list and a null callout, which is exactly what
it had before.

ResolvingNavigationLinks exists because the sidebar is a hardcoded array
in app-sidebar.tsx, so a package could not contribute to it at all — the
nav entry was a separate manual edit every time a package grew a screen,
and being manual it was forgotten more than once. Staff-only, decided in
HandleInertiaRequests rather than trusted to each listener: these render
in the administration area, and a client's portal shows their own files
and nothing about the installation. There is a test that a listener adding
unconditionally still reaches no client.

ResolvingDashboardCallout is one band above the widget grid rather than a
widget in it. The grid is a closed list of keys that dashboard.tsx renders
one by one and each viewer arranges, so a message that mattered would sit
wherever somebody dragged it, or under a fold, or switched off. One at a
time, first listener wins: a dashboard that can accumulate banners
accumulates them, and the second is what teaches people to skip the first.

Core learns nothing about what either seam carries. Titles, URLs and copy
all arrive from the listener, and that is not fastidiousness — the first
caller is the hosted edition's link to its own customer portal and its
pitch to free instances, which is commercial copy belonging to one
offering and has no business sitting in the public repository because the
sidebar happens to live here.

An external link renders as a plain anchor opening in a new tab, never an
Inertia <Link>: Link expects a page component back and another origin will
not give it one, so it fails without saying so. It is also never marked
active — nothing outside this app is the page you are on.
2026-09-08 02:07:08 -03:00
ignacionelson 5d99ab94fd Say on screen when nothing is building zip downloads
Zip building moved onto its own queue, which a manual install's worker
has to be told about. update.sh repairs the service file and Docker is
unaffected, so the population left is somebody upgrading by hand who
skipped the release note — and for them the failure is the worst shape
available. Email keeps going out perfectly. Zip downloads never finish.
Nothing in any log says why, because nothing went wrong: the jobs sit on
a queue nobody is reading. The person who missed it has no reason to
suspect anything, so the notice has to go looking for them.

The application cannot see its own worker processes, only whether work
gets done, so the question is asked from the other end: was a build
requested that no worker ever picked up? That needs a record of when a
build *started*, which is what the new zip_downloads.started_at column
is — stamped before any of the work, so it says a worker had the row,
not that the row succeeded.

Two conditions, because either alone cries wolf. A build has waited past
five minutes and was never started, *and* no other build is in hand. The
second matters because one worker builds one archive at a time: a queue
behind a large build is a healthy queue, and its waiting rows look
exactly like abandoned ones until you notice something running. "In
hand" is bounded by the job's own timeout, so a worker that died holding
a build stops counting as alive an hour later.

The banner sits beside the stale-code one, on every staff page rather
than the dashboard alone, gated on view_system_info for the reason that
one already argues: a background worker not picking work up is a fact
about the machine, not a feature of an edition. It names the fix rather
than the symptom — "your worker command needs --queue=default,zips" —
because somebody reading that downloads are not being processed still
has to work out what to do about it.

Eight tests, covering both halves of the discrimination rather than just
the happy one: a queue waiting behind a live build stays quiet, and a
build held by a worker that died does not.

Translated into all sixteen locales in the same commit, since a release
is close and a banner nobody can read is worse than none.

Checked on screen as well as in assertions, with a real stalled row on
the dev stack: the banner renders, wraps, and reads correctly.
2026-08-27 00:12:42 -03:00
denkfabrik-li 8a6543073b Group membership is a library boundary, not just a list
The four routes that edit a group's membership -- add and remove, web
and API -- contain no authorization call of any kind. `can:edit_groups`
in front of them is the whole of it, and a permission is not a boundary.

The authorization sweep looked at these and let them stand, on the
grounds that groups are installation-wide by design: GroupsController
::index lists every group unfiltered, so list and single-object access
agree, and there is no listing/direct-access mismatch to fix. That is
true, and it is the answer to the question of who may *see* a group.
This is a different question: what a write to one *does*.

Joining a group hands the new member everything shared with it. When
that member is one of a client-scoped staff member's own clients,
File::scopeVisibleToClient hands the same content straight back to them
-- that scope is what StaffLibraryScope::files() is built out of. So the
one write turns a file they get a 403 on into a file in their library,
and the download that follows is a 200. ResolvesShareTargets draws that
line on the sharing path through canAssignGroup(); nobody drew it on the
membership path, and canAssignGroup() is *derived from membership*, so
whoever may edit the list also decides what the list entitles them to.

StaffLibraryScope::allowsGroupMembership answers it directly instead of
through the derived predicate, which is the wrong tool here twice over.
Membership asks about reach, so it checks reach: the client must be one
this staff member holds, and the group must not already reach past their
library -- no file assigned to it, and no folder shared with it, outside
StaffLibraryScope. A group nothing has been shared with passes trivially,
which matters, because canAssignGroup() would have said no to a group
that has no members yet and left a scoped staff member unable to put the
first client into one they had just created.

The same write has a second door. MembershipRequestsController::approve
joins a client to a group with identical consequences, under
`approve_groups_memberships_requests`, and deny() decides about somebody
else's client and emails them about it. Both go through the same
boundary, answering 404 to match the guard already above approve().

The queue and its sidebar badge are narrowed to the clients the viewer
holds, through one scope on the model that both read -- the rule the
comment badge in HandleInertiaRequests already states two branches down
("a client-scoped staff member is not shown a number they cannot act
on"), and the reason VisibleCommentScope owns its own pendingTotal()
rather than leaving the middleware to count for itself. Each row carries
the client's name and email, so an unnarrowed queue was also handing
those over for clients outside the roster. Unscoped staff still see every
pending request.

That narrowing is on the client, not on the group: whether a group is
reachable depends on what is shared with it, which is not a question to
ask row by row in a listing. A scoped viewer may therefore still be
shown a request they would be refused on -- one of their own clients
asking to join a group out of their reach. The names were the part that
leaked.

Unscoped staff are unaffected throughout -- both halves of the predicate
are true for them by construction. No seeded role reaches this: Client
Manager is the only client-scoped role that ships, and it holds no group
permissions, so a custom role is needed to get here at all.

The published API document gains a 403 on both member routes.
Regenerated with php artisan scramble:export; Scramble reads abort_unless
out of the method body but not out of a private helper, which is why the
guard is written out at each of the four call sites rather than shared.
2026-08-26 08:49:48 +02:00
ignacionelson 928173e8be Let a package's translations reach the screen it wrote
The frontend's catalogue was read straight out of lang/{locale}.json, so
it held exactly the strings this repository owns. That was true for as
long as this repository owned every screen — but the companion packages
own several: Branding, Custom Assets, the whole v1 import. Their strings
have been rendering in English in all sixteen languages, in silence,
because a package catalogue registered through loadJsonTranslationsFrom()
never got as far as the browser.

Asked of the framework's own loader now, which is where that registration
already lands. Same answer as before for this installation — no package
registers a path today, and the merged result is byte-identical to the
file — and the right answer the moment one does.

Precedence comes free and is the useful way round: the loader merges the
application's own catalogue last, so an installation can override a
package's wording without editing the package. There is a test for that,
because it is the kind of ordering that gets reversed by accident.

One thing the test needed and is worth knowing: SetLocale honours an
account's chosen language only while that language is enabled for the
installation, and the Settings cache outlives RefreshDatabase. A test that
sets users.locale and assumes it takes effect gets English and a very
confusing failure.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-16 14:44:58 -03:00
ignacionelson a8a7f3f340 Send each edition to its own front door, and stop asking payers for money
Two things on the About screen were written when there was only one
edition. "Website" pointed at projectsend.org for everybody, and the
donation link was offered to hosted customers who are already paying for
this — on the same screen that thanks them for choosing it.

projectsend.org is the way in for the software you run yourself and
projectsend.cloud is the way in for the hosted service, so `links.website`
now resolves to whichever one the reader is actually using. That reaches
further than About by design: the "Powered by ProjectSend" line at the
foot of every outgoing email and on every client-facing page is where a
recipient meets this product for the first time, and sending a hosted
customer's recipients to self-hosting instructions is the wrong door.

The donation link is *omitted* rather than hidden by the page, so a
surface added later cannot ask a paying customer for money by forgetting
to check. Its TypeScript type is optional now, which makes the compiler
enforce the same thing.

Also fixed on the way past: the settings footer hardcoded the text
"projectsend.org" next to that link, so on the hosted service it named a
site it did not link to. It reads the host off the resolved URL now.

Verified in a browser against both editions, not only in tests. Cloud:
projectsend.cloud, no donation link, on both screens. Community:
projectsend.org and Open Collective, exactly as before.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-16 00:55:41 -03:00
Ignacio Nelson ed0d36de25 Reduce a manual update to one command that asks first (#1628)
Updating a server install cost nine artisan invocations plus a PHP-FPM
reload, written out in three places that had already drifted apart. One
of those steps is silently fatal to skip: with opcache.validate_timestamps
off — what production guides recommend and what our own image ships — the
database moves to the new version while every visitor keeps being served
the old code, and artisan reports the new version throughout.

`sudo ./update.sh` is now the whole procedure. It asks whether to check
GitHub, asks whether to download the release and verifies the checksum
published beside it, and asks whether there is a backup — offering to dump
the database when the answer is no. Then it takes the site down, replaces
the files, runs the update, reloads PHP-FPM, restarts the worker and
brings the site back. The application still has no self-updater: nothing
is fetched or applied unless somebody runs this and answers yes.

Underneath it is `php artisan projectsend:update`, which is everything an
update does that needs no root — and now the only definition of it. Both
container entrypoints call it instead of carrying their own copy of the
sequence, so the two paths cannot drift again.

Three findings worth keeping in the record, all from rehearsing rather
than reasoning:

  - queue:restart has to come last. It writes its signal into the cache,
    so clearing the cache afterwards deletes it and the worker runs old
    code forever.
  - optimize:clear is not safe to recommend. It runs cache:clear, which
    on Redis is FLUSHDB — harmless on the default two-database layout,
    but on a single-database Redis it takes the sessions and the queue
    with it. The compiled caches are cleared individually instead.
  - update.sh overwrites itself mid-run, because the zip contains it and
    bash reads its own script lazily by byte offset. It re-execs from a
    temporary copy before touching anything.

And when the reload is skipped anyway, the application now says so:
projectsend:update records the version it applied, and any staff page
compares that with what the running process actually compiled. The same
check catches the mirror image — new files in place, update never run.

Rehearsed end to end against real installs: a container upgrade (69 to 73
migrations, key and data intact, healthy), a scripted update on a real
nginx + php-fpm install with OPcache pinned (web process moved 2.1.0 to
2.1.1), the skipped-reload case (banner appears naming both versions, and
clears on reload), the refusals (downgrade, non-release zip, truncated
zip, URL passed to --zip, non-root), a database taken down mid-update
(site comes back out of maintenance mode by itself), and a real download
of the published 2.0.0 zip with its checksum verified.

Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-14 20:29:20 -03:00
ignacionelson 6e47d76ba6 ProjectSend 2.0.0
Client file sharing, rebuilt from the ground up: a private area per
client, resumable uploads, folders, groups and categories, sharing with
expiry dates and download limits, comments, file versions, an activity
log, a REST API, and sixteen languages.

This repository begins here. ProjectSend 2 was developed privately, and
that development history is not published — the previous generation
remains available, with its own history, at projectsend/legacy.

Free software under the GNU General Public License v2, or (at your
option) any later version.
2026-08-14 01:38:12 -03:00