morphit/RELEASE-NOTES-v1.9.13.md

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Morphit v1.9.13

Theme: the warrant-canary upload survives upgrades on a root-owned install — for real this time.

v1.9.12 was meant to keep the canary upload working across upgrades without re-fixing folder permissions by hand. On a root-owned /opt/morphit install it didn't: the upgrade read the served folder's ownership from the freshly-extracted (root-owned) tree instead of your previous install, found no non-root owner to preserve, and left the folder root-owned. This release fixes that, and also removes an internal chat-debugging facility that is no longer needed.

Fixed

Canary upload no longer breaks on upgrade (root-owned installs). If you serve Morphit from a root-owned /opt/morphit and sign your canary on a separate machine, every upgrade used to re-root the served folder, so your next canary upload failed with "permission denied" until you fixed the ownership by hand. The upgrade now reads the folder's owner from your previous install — where your ownership actually lives — and restores it, so the upload just works.

One-time note for this upgrade: an upgrade runs the version you're upgrading from, so the fix takes effect on the next upgrade after this one. On a root-owned install, run sudo chown -R <your-ssh-user> /opt/morphit/apps/web/build once more right after you upgrade to v1.9.13 — and you won't need it again after that.

Changed

Removed the chat delivery debug tracer. The opt-in chat tracer (the ?chatdebug / morphit.debug.chat toggle) built during an earlier chat investigation is gone — the investigation is resolved, and removing it drops a console-debug path from production and trims the footprint. No effect on normal use.

Notes

  • No database migrations. No breaking changes.
  • Home-hosted (user-owned install) nodes were never affected by the canary bug and need nothing here.
  • The canary's signing model is unchanged: signed with your own PGP key, off the served box when you want it that way, so it goes stale exactly when it should.