screentinker/server
Claude 301c76c3f7 Let a display opt in to pre-release builds, so a test build is not reverted under the tester
Handing someone a test build was a trap. A prerelease sorts BELOW its own release — 1.9.25-fix234d
is semver-older than 1.9.25 — so a sideloaded display asked "anything newer?", was correctly told
yes, and updated itself straight back off the build we had asked someone to test. Same versionCode,
so Android installed it without complaint. Silent, and within minutes.

That is what happened on #234: the reporter installed the fix, tested for an evening, and reported
nothing had changed. They were right. Their tablet was running the old code again by then, and I had
told them it was fixed without ever checking what the device reported.

Adds a per-display opt-in (devices.ota_beta, default 0, checkbox next to the OTA toggle). When set,
the display keeps a prerelease of the CURRENT core instead of being pulled back to its release.

Deliberately narrow in one direction and deliberately wide in the other:

- Narrow: it only holds a prerelease of the core already installed. A plain release, a -patchN
  build, an upgrade to a newer core, and a display ahead of the server all behave exactly as before,
  and the flag defaults off so a fleet that never sets it is unaffected.
- Wide: an opted-in display is exempted from the superseded-prerelease guard. That guard would
  otherwise pin a tester on an old test build permanently — an older-core prerelease is never
  offered anything, so they would have to notice and sideload their way out. Writing the test is
  what surfaced that; opting in must never mean never updating again.

9 tests covering both directions, including that shipping a newer release pulls a beta display back
onto the release line. 845 server tests green.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Uaeo9MvzKoyXuN6ZsbhtkL
2026-07-30 18:35:31 -05:00
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config fix(logging): gate CF-Connecting-IP on a Cloudflare peer, not any trusted proxy 2026-07-26 10:23:04 -05:00
db Let a display opt in to pre-release builds, so a test build is not reverted under the tester 2026-07-30 18:35:31 -05:00
lib Let a display opt in to pre-release builds, so a test build is not reverted under the tester 2026-07-30 18:35:31 -05:00
middleware Merge branch 'fix/recovery-grants' into release/auth-campaign 2026-07-26 16:22:59 -05:00
player Attribute a widget play to the widget that played 2026-07-28 19:06:56 -05:00
routes Let a display opt in to pre-release builds, so a test build is not reverted under the tester 2026-07-30 18:35:31 -05:00
scripts fix(content+android): rotation-aware media — portrait upright on dashboard AND player (#170) (#172) 2026-07-12 22:05:11 -05:00
services Report zero event-loop lag when a window recorded no samples 2026-07-28 14:11:32 -05:00
test Let a display opt in to pre-release builds, so a test build is not reverted under the tester 2026-07-30 18:35:31 -05:00
ws Report the screen's own IP, and make the Wi-Fi name an honest optional 2026-07-29 21:57:59 -05:00
.gitignore feat(email): Microsoft Graph send + alert spam protection + preferences UI 2026-05-12 18:16:40 -05:00
config.js Add an operator override for self-update on MDM-managed panels 2026-07-28 23:07:30 -05:00
package-lock.json chore(release): v1.9.25 2026-07-29 20:38:47 -05:00
package.json chore(release): v1.9.25 2026-07-29 20:38:47 -05:00
server.js Let a display opt in to pre-release builds, so a test build is not reverted under the tester 2026-07-30 18:35:31 -05:00
smoke-ui.js Keep the smoke test out of npm test, and update the lockfile 2026-07-28 20:34:34 -05:00
version.js chore(version): single-source VERSION, env-configurable data paths, bump tooling 2026-06-10 12:56:03 -05:00