The subprocess-booting test suites hand-picked fixed ports in a cramped ~3955-4021 range, and
156-schedule-read-path deviated to a RANDOM port (3900 + rand%90) that overlapped those fixed
ports. Under CI load two servers could race on the same port, surfacing as flaky "no such table:
devices" / "FOREIGN KEY constraint failed" (a server answering a request against a half-migrated
or wrong DB). It's environmental — the suites pass locally and in isolation.
Fix: a shared test/helpers/free-port.js (bind :0 on loopback, read the OS-assigned port, release)
called in before() so every suite gets a guaranteed-unique ephemeral port — concurrent suites can
no longer collide, and no one has to hand-assign ports.
- Codemod converted 30 suites: const PORT = <fixed|random> -> let PORT (+ BASE) assigned via
`PORT = await freePort()` at the top of before().
- 3 hand-fixed (different structure): 148-eviction-storm (lowercase `base`), boot-health (no
before() — allocates PORT + a throwaway SEED_PORT inside the test, replacing the hardcoded
3894), totp-keyrotation (no before() — allocates at the test start before bootServer()).
No fixed 39xx/40xx ports remain. Full server suite 435/435; the 4 hand-touched suites pass in
isolation. Pure test-infra change — no app code touched.
Server-side keystone: the server now honors the v4 liveness contract uniformly across the MIXED
fleet (v4 + old pre-v4 + disconnected), all three clients depending on it.
- UNIFORM heartbeat-ack: emitted from the single shared device:heartbeat handler (uniform by
construction; no per-client/per-path branch), BEFORE the auth guard so a known device's watchdog
stays armed. Harmless to old clients (they ignore it).
- RECONNECT-WINDOW ack-gap fix (ackableHeartbeat): ack a KNOWN device (authed socket OR a device_id
that resolves) even mid-reconnect; NOT anonymous/never-authenticated sockets (degrade-safe);
identity-agnostic. No state mutation before requireDeviceAuth (auth surface unchanged; device_ids
are uuidv4).
- DASHBOARD LIVENESS (deriveLiveness): server-derived, VERSION-AGNOSTIC Healthy/Degraded/Offline
from signals every client sends (socket presence, heartbeat age, reconnect frequency); no client
status-push.
- IDENTITY CAPTURE (capture-don't-act): client_type/client_version/platform/contract_version columns;
degrades to legacy/unknown for old clients; NEVER breaks register.
- A-BUCKET FIX (QA): recordReconnect + persistIdentity gated on !isPlaylistRefresh (a ~45-60s refresh
is not a reconnect/new identity — matches #134), and the identity write is change-detected — closing
the WAL write-amplification (A1) and the benign-refresh -> false-"Degraded" (A2) regressions.
New lib/liveness.js (pure helpers, unit-tested). 30 new tests (uniform ack, ack-gap, mixed fleet,
identity capture, cross-client conformance, refresh-gate reproduce-then-prove); 366/366 total.
OTA artifact-availability is a separate concern (out of scope).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
