compat: SemVer version windows between app and server
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Both sides now declare what they will talk to, and enforce it. Two axes kept
deliberately separate, because conflating them is the trap:

  protocol_version  — CAN these builds talk. The correctness axis. Below 1.0.0
                      the minor is the breaking axis, per SemVer §4.
  release window    — MAY they, per policy. [min, max), advertised in the
                      profile, overridable by the operator.

The server refuses out-of-window apps with 426 and a body naming both versions
and the accepted range; the app checks the profile in both directions before a
run rather than discovering mid-measurement that it will be refused.

Three rules that shape the rest:

  - GET /v1/profile is never gated. It is where a refused client learns which
    version it needs; gating it leaves the user with a network error instead of
    an answer, which is precisely the confusion this exists to remove.
  - An unparseable or absent version is "unknown", and is allowed. Development
    builds report "dev", and a client too old to send the header cannot be
    identified anyway.
  - Bounds sit at breaking boundaries, not at releases, so shipping a patch
    never requires editing a range. The app's server minimum is 0.4.2 for a
    stated reason: earlier multi-homed servers mis-addressed granted sends and
    the client measured 100% downstream loss that never happened.

The app's versionCode is now derived from its SemVer instead of being a second
number someone has to remember to bump.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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mrambossek
2026-08-01 11:36:34 +02:00
co-authored by Claude Fable 5
parent 277e33da75
commit 0c5b021b63
18 changed files with 1213 additions and 47 deletions
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@@ -58,6 +58,11 @@ type Config struct {
UploadMaxRuns int // ECHOLOT_UPLOAD_MAX_RUNS / --upload-max-runs (per device)
UploadMinAnon string // ECHOLOT_UPLOAD_MIN_ANONYMIZATION / --upload-min-anonymization
// Client compatibility window. Bounds are SemVer; an empty maximum means unbounded. The
// defaults sit at breaking boundaries, so shipping a patch never requires changing them.
MinAppVersion string // ECHOLOT_MIN_APP_VERSION / --min-app-version
MaxAppVersion string // ECHOLOT_MAX_APP_VERSION / --max-app-version (exclusive)
// Mode
Docker bool // --docker (or autodetected; env ECHOLOT_DOCKER=1 forces)
}
@@ -106,6 +111,8 @@ func Load(args []string) (*Config, *Actions, error) {
fs.IntVar(&c.UploadRetentionDays, "upload-retention-days", envInt("UPLOAD_RETENTION_DAYS", 90), "delete uploaded runs older than this; 0 disables")
fs.IntVar(&c.UploadMaxRuns, "upload-max-runs", envInt("UPLOAD_MAX_RUNS", 200), "keep at most this many runs per device; 0 disables")
fs.StringVar(&c.UploadMinAnon, "upload-min-anonymization", envOr("UPLOAD_MIN_ANONYMIZATION", "full"), "least anonymization accepted: full|balanced|strict")
fs.StringVar(&c.MinAppVersion, "min-app-version", envOr("MIN_APP_VERSION", "0.2.0"), "oldest app version this server will serve (SemVer, inclusive)")
fs.StringVar(&c.MaxAppVersion, "max-app-version", envOr("MAX_APP_VERSION", "1.0.0"), "first app version this server will refuse (SemVer, exclusive); empty = unbounded")
fs.BoolVar(&c.Docker, "docker", envOr("DOCKER", "") == "1", "force container mode (config from env, no systemd/self-update)")
fs.BoolVar(&a.InstallSystemd, "install-systemd", false, "install a systemd unit for this binary and exit")