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Author SHA1 Message Date
ignacionelson 896675d631 Tell a client whether their own file arrived
"Did it arrive?" is the question somebody asks about a file they sent, and
on a hosted free account — where a link is the whole of the sharing — the
count is the only evidence either way. Every file a client uploaded now
shows how often it has gone out and when it last did, in every render mode
of every theme.

Only their own. A download entry says somebody fetched the file, so a
count on a file shared with several clients tells each of them about the
others' activity, and nobody is entitled to that but the person who put
the file there. A file shared *with* this client carries null, not zero:
a zero would itself be a claim, and the two have to be distinguishable
because zero is an answer the owner came looking for and is shown as
words.

Counted from the activity log through the same three actions
DownloadAllowance uses, so a file leaving by the public site counts as
much as one leaving by its link. One query for a listing, none at all for
a client with no files of their own. Both filters have a test that fails
when only that filter is removed.

Two things a render check caught that types and a green build did not.
`t()` does no plural selection — the catalogues are flat key/value — so a
"one|many" string reached the screen with its pipe intact; the strings are
whole sentences now, with the singular spelled out. And the gallery card
was already laying its text out beside the action icons in a 200px column,
truncating the filename to "Q…" and the size to "75 …" on main today;
stacking them gives every line its full width.
2026-09-08 16:56:54 -03:00
ignacionelson 92bb807849 Show a client the public link to their own file
A client's portal lists two kinds of file side by side: what they
uploaded, and what somebody shared with them. Where a link exists on one
of their own, they can now copy it from the row — which is what makes the
hosted free plan a product rather than a place to put files, since a
customer there has no staff screen on which to make one.

The rule is narrow, and both halves are load-bearing: a link this client
created, on a file this client uploaded.

Not "a link on a file shared with them" — that link is the sharer's
decision about who may reach the file, and handing the recipient the URL
would quietly turn "you may download this" into "you may pass this on to
anyone".

And not "any link on their own file" either — a link staff minted on a
file a client uploaded exists for a reason the client may be no part of,
and on the shared instance it would sit beside the one link they were
promised. Ordering is by id, so an unfiltered lookup would hand them
whichever was minted first.

Both halves have a test that fails when only that half is removed. The
first draft did not: every case was carried by the ownership filter
alone, so the creator check was green for the wrong reason.

Links that no longer work are left out rather than shown greyed. The only
thing a client can do here is copy it, and a URL that answers "this link
has expired" is worse than no URL at all.

One query per listing, not one per row, and none at all for a client with
no files of their own.
2026-09-08 16:47:57 -03:00
ignacionelson 7c16733c16 Stop a managed instance being able to hide the project news
I shipped both daily calls as the same kind of thing — an operator's
preference — and only one of them is. That was wrong in the direction that
matters, because it handed a decision over rather than keeping it.

An update notice on a hosted tenant is useless: they cannot act on it, the
image is ours, and the screen that would show it is closed by capability.
So that check does not run there at all, which is right and unchanged.

News is the reverse. Announcements about the product are exactly what a
hosted customer should be told, and a Cloud client with view_news sees
that card today. One administrator switching it off for everybody on that
instance is not a decision the platform meant to hand over — so on a
managed instance the news now runs whatever any setting says, including a
row left behind by an instance that used to be self-hosted.

Capability::NewsConfigure, Community-only, and the thing it gates is the
*choice* rather than the news. A self-hosted operator keeps the switch,
because there nobody else decides what their installation reaches out for.
An edition difference through the capability registry rather than an
edition check, as everything here is.

Gated in all three places rather than only the screen: the command ignores
the setting without the capability, the controller neither sends nor reads
the field, and the checkbox is absent. There is a test that a hand-crafted
PATCH cannot do what the missing checkbox could not, and the guard is
proved load-bearing — remove it and the managed-instance test goes red.

The changelog and product highlights said "two switches" and now say what
is actually true, including that neither appears on Cloud and why they are
absent for opposite reasons.
2026-09-08 02:34:00 -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 ea214fc27e Give the client portal a file editor
The authorization landed last commit; this is the way in. A client with
edit_files now gets an Edit action on the files they uploaded, opening a
form with every field their role actually grants, and a Delete beside it.

One page for every theme, not one per theme. portal/edit-file.tsx picks
its shell from the `theme` prop exactly as portal/upload.tsx does, because
a form with eight fields behind five separate permissions, rebuilt four
times, is four places for a field to go quietly missing. What *is*
per-theme is only the entry point: one <FileRowActions /> in each theme's
row actions group, the file twin of the FolderRowActions that was already
there.

Row actions gate on can_update/can_delete, sent per file by
MyFilesController and answered by FilePolicy — never on is_mine, which is
half the question. Holding the file is one half and the role's keys are
the other, and a theme that reads is_mine offers an Edit button that
403s. Written into docs/theming-files-checklist.md so the next theme does
not have to rediscover it.

The folder picker offers only folders the client could have uploaded to,
so it cannot present a destination the save would refuse. Publishing says
in plain words that anyone with the link will be able to open the file
without signing in, and says so differently when the installation has no
public page configured, because there the switch would do nothing visible.

Hiding a control is a courtesy, never the enforcement. Every can_* prop
here is the same question ApplyFileEdits asks when the form posts, and the
tests assert both ends.

Verified in a real browser over CDP rather than only by types and tests,
which say nothing about whether a page mounts: 23 edit actions on the
client's 23 own files and none on the file shared with them, the editor
mounting with its real values, every gated field present, no console
errors. The dev instance's Client role was snapshotted before the run and
restored to exactly what it was.

Refs #1771
2026-09-07 11:15:22 -03:00
ignacionelson d32788e4a1 Put the CAPTCHA settings screen behind a capability
The screen is open in both editions and stays that way by default, so a
self-hosted installation loses nothing: nobody else supplies its keys, and
nobody else is affected by what it decides.

What the key buys is the ability to take it away. A hosted fleet puts every
tenant on one parent domain and one sending reputation, so an administrator
who turns their own CAPTCHA off is spending everybody else's deliverability
rather than only their own. That is not the shape LDAP and social login
have, which is why those two stay ungated and this one does not.

Gated all-or-nothing on the route, read included, exactly as Storage and
Branding are. Per-field gating in the controller would not have closed it:
switching the CAPTCHA off needs none of the gated fields — `provider: none`
does it, and so does unticking the four per-form switches while leaving good
keys in place — so the PATCH had to be closed too, and the middleware closes
both verbs at once. Which keys the screen may offer is still the separate,
narrower question Capability::CaptchaManagedKeys answers per field.

An operator withdraws it by naming captcha.configure in
PROJECTSEND_CAPABILITIES_DISABLED. Note that the key also joins the list
`projectsend:status` and GET /api/v1/me report, which is additive — the
OpenAPI document types capabilities as an untyped array, so nothing there
needed regenerating.
2026-09-07 01:20:22 -03:00
ignacionelson 479dc61d2d Move branding into core, and leave white-labelling behind
Logo and watermark belonged in the private package for one reason: that
is where they were written. Nothing about them needs a hosted platform,
and an installation wanting its own mark on the pages it serves is the
ordinary case rather than the exotic one. They are core's now, and every
installation has them.

Hiding "Powered by ProjectSend" did not come. That is what a hosted
customer pays for, and its gate is not a capability key but the absence
of the code: cloud-modules keeps the listener, so an installation without
that package holds the column and has nothing able to read it. Flipping
an edition variable buys nothing, which was true before and stays true.
Core renders the switch where Capability::AttributionHide is held and has
no route that can save it -- there is a test asserting exactly that, which
fails the day white-labelling quietly becomes free.

The migrations move with their original filenames on purpose. A Cloud
tenant already ran them under those names, so Laravel skips them there
and the table and its data are untouched; a fresh install or a community
one runs them from here for the first time.

What got better on the way rather than merely moving:

The watermark listeners take core's real RenderingImage and
ResolvingImageRendering instead of duck-typed `object` payloads, and the
tests construct the genuine events rather than anonymous stand-ins that
imitated their shape. The package had to do it that way -- it builds with
no host present -- so three PHPStan ignore entries existed to describe
what the type system could not see. They are gone.

ModuleBoundaryTest asserted "branding is cloud-only, and the suite runs as
community", which was never what it was testing. It now reads the
capability off the route and subtracts it, so the invariant holds for
whichever module is installed.

The 43 branding strings arrived in all sixteen locales from the package's
own catalogues rather than being retranslated, and the package's are
pruned to the one string it still uses.

A hosted plan without branding subtracts branding.customize and
attribution.hide from the instance's environment. The row is never
deleted by that: a downgrade is usually an expired card rather than a
decision, and wiping somebody's artwork over a billing event is a loss
they would find weeks later with no way to know what it used to be.
Hiding reverses; deleting does not.
2026-08-28 13:27:10 -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
ignacionelson 88c182cf3b Preview video, audio and PDF, not only images
v1 could preview four kinds of file in a modal — images, video, audio and
PDF. v2 previewed only images, and not by decision: preview shipped as part
of the image *thumbnail* work (1c68aa1), so "previewable" quietly became a
synonym for "GD can decode it". FileThumbnailController::preview() gated on
ThumbnailGenerator::SUPPORTED_MIME_TYPES, the frontend mirrored the same
four types, and the dialog was a hardcoded <img>.

Rather than widen that list — it drives pathFor(), extensionFor(),
generate() and FileDiskCleanup, and a video reaching getimagesize() is a
500 — this separates the two questions. PreviewKind now answers "may these
bytes be served inline, and what element renders them?", while
ThumbnailGenerator keeps answering the narrower "can this app decode it
itself?", which is what renditions, the cache and the watermark hook
actually depend on. Image delegates to it so the two cannot drift.

The allowlist stays a security boundary: mime_type is sniffed from the
bytes, so text/html and image/svg+xml remain excluded, and PreviewKind is
deliberately narrower than "formats a browser might cope with" — no
quicktime, avi or matroska, because an embedded player for those shows a
black rectangle. Those still download exactly as before.

docs/security-audit-2026-08-05.md finding 1 recorded that adding
application/pdf "should be a conscious decision". This is that decision,
and three things were measured rather than assumed:

- An <iframe sandbox> cannot be used. Chrome refuses to run its PDF viewer
  in a sandboxed frame at all (ERR_BLOCKED_BY_CLIENT, with or without
  allow-same-origin) — the attribute removes the feature, it does not
  harden it.
- nginx's `Content-Security-Policy: sandbox; default-src 'none'` on
  /protected-files/ does work (a <video> frame lands in an opaque origin),
  but Chrome exempts its PDF viewer from it, so it is not what protects
  the PDF case.
- What does is the allowlist plus the browser's own PDF sandbox, where PDF
  JavaScript has no DOM and no cookies.

Range requests were verified end to end: 206 with a correct Content-Range,
a byte-perfect file reassembled from three ranges, and a real browser
seeking to 10s of a 20s clip. nginx drops the upstream Content-Length on
the X-Accel path, so there is no collision.

Two settings, both defaulting on so no installation loses what it has:
clients_can_preview_files and public_listing_preview_enabled. Staff are
never gated. The anonymous side needed a route of its own — there was no
public preview endpoint — with its own throttle bucket, since a bare
throttle: shares one counter across that whole block.

A preview now logs at most one FilePreviewed per viewer per file per five
minutes: a <video> turns one deliberate act into a long tail of Range
requests, and a row each would bury the log.

Also fixes a layout bug the tests could never catch. A portal file row was
flex justify-between with three children — name, comment trigger, download
— so the middle one settled wherever the name happened to end and the
comment icon sat at a different place on every row. The name block now
takes the slack and every action lives in one trailing group, with the
comment trigger in a fixed-width slot so the icons form a column. And
because half the previewable files have no thumbnail to click — a PDF, an
mp3 and an mp4 all render as a generic icon — every row gains an explicit
PreviewAction beside DownloadAction, matching whatever style that theme
gives its download control.
2026-08-21 14:14:23 -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
ignacionelson 6ddfc1aa5d Greet the administrator once, on the first visit after an update
An update finished and nothing said so. The dashboard looked identical to
yesterday's, and whatever the release brought was in a file nobody opens.

The first time the installation's administrator opens ProjectSend after
an update, they now land on a page that names the version they are on,
invites them to the Discord — the same invitation update.sh prints, made
again where they are actually looking — and then lays out what the
release brought.

The notes come from CHANGELOG.md inside the release, not from GitHub: the
one moment this page exists for is the moment after an update, possibly
on a server with no outbound access, describing code already on disk.
Parsed rather than rendered, so nothing in it can become HTML.

Once, and to one person. The update happened to the installation, so
greeting five staff members — each having to dismiss a page they did not
ask for — would turn a pleasant moment into a support question. It goes
to the oldest active administrator, which on any installation that went
through setup is whoever set it up. No owner flag was invented for this:
administrators are equal in authority, and changing that for a greeting
is not a trade worth making.

Only forwards, and only for a real update. A fresh install has nothing to
catch up on, a container reboot has not updated anything, and somebody
restoring an older release is dealing with a problem rather than
celebrating. Managed installations never see it at all — nobody signed in
there performed the update it thanks them for, which is the same gate the
System card and About's environment block already carry.

The redirect is attached to the dashboard alone, not the web group: it
catches a login and the sidebar logo both, without ever interrupting a
download to congratulate somebody. Reading the page clears the marker,
but the address keeps working — closing it by accident should not be
unrecoverable — and About now links to it.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-15 14:22:17 -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