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>