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fr34akyandJohnathan Corgan 429d77731b add a pfSense package
pfSense is FreeBSD underneath, but the FreeBSD package does not work
there, failing in three silent ways. pfSense runs only
/usr/local/etc/rc.d/*.sh at boot and re-runs them when WAN gets a new
address, so a suffixless rc script never starts; unbound.conf is
generated from config.xml with no conf.d, so a drop-in is never read;
and on a firewall where the default-on "Allow IPv6" has been turned off,
unbound is then generated with do-ip6: no and a responder on ::1 is
unreachable. So this ships fips.sh, wires the fips. zone into the DNS
Resolver through config.xml, and binds the responder on 127.0.0.1 for
robustness against that last case.

The rc script is plain sh: what pfSense imposes is the .sh name and that
a re-run leave a running daemon alone and exit 0. It identifies the
daemon by process name and recovers an orphaned daemon(8) supervisor
found via fstat, since a locked empty pidfile makes daemon(8) report
pid -1. The DNS setup is a manual step, never run from post-install, and
validates the merged options with unbound-checkconf (pfSense's
test_unbound_config) before touching config.xml, so a bad merge cannot
take DNS from every client behind the firewall. The daemon runs under
daemon(8) -H so newsyslog can rotate its log by signalling a reopen.

Packages link statically by default: pfSense runs a FreeBSD base that
cannot be obtained to link against. A firmware upgrade keeps the package
(pfSense-upgrade removes only pfSense-pkg-*; confirmed on a live Plus
26.03.1 -> 26.07 upgrade, aarch64 — the package survived and the daemon
restarted at boot. That is a minor, FreeBSD 16 -> 16 change; the
cross-major compat case is still only source-reasoned). aarch64 is
refused, where a static binary faults at posix_spawn.

The mechanics the two builders share — version derivation, the stage
layout, the manifest fields, the @sample scripts and pkg create — live
in packaging/common/pkg-lib.sh, which both source; the FreeBSD package
is byte-identical before and after that extraction.

One ABI can serve more than one product: CE 2.9 and Plus 26.x on Intel
are both FreeBSD:16:amd64 with a byte-identical artifact, named
...-ce2.9-plus26-amd64.pkg. The pfSense package is built and checked in
its own CI job — separate from the FreeBSD package, and not a dependency
of the release job, so a pfSense-only failure reds that job alone and is
never a release asset. It is kept as a workflow artifact until it has
been installed on a real pfSense box. CI produces the CE 2.8.1
(FreeBSD:15:amd64) package; CE 2.9, Plus 26.x Intel and ARM need a
FreeBSD 16 build host the CI does not have, and ARM stays
build-it-yourself because rustup ships no toolchain for it.

testing/check-pfsense-pkg.sh validates a built package on any FreeBSD
host and runs in that CI job: contents, modes, a positive boot-script
lifecycle against a stub daemon, php -l and a fips_strip_block unit test
of the config.xml helper. Installing on a real pfSense box, and the
firmware-upgrade behaviour, are covered only by an aarch64 hardware run
and pfSense-upgrade's source; the README records what is and is not
tested.

Co-authored-by: Johnathan Corgan <johnathan@corganlabs.com>
2026-09-12 14:41:38 +00:00
Johnathan Corgan 30a283907b Correct the release documents the readiness pass found wrong
The closing code fence in the release notes carried an info string, so under
CommonMark it was not a closer and the block ran to the end of the file.
Rendered through GitHub's own markdown endpoint the published body stopped
emitting headings after "Upgrade notes" and ended inside a code block, so
the download section, the changelog and security links and the contributor
credits all became preformatted text. Rendering the corrected file the same
way returns all seven headings and a working release link. A lint fix had
rewritten both fences rather than only the opening one.

The post-upgrade instruction named a subcommand that does not exist: it said
to run fipsctl status, which exits 2, where the command is fipsctl show
status. That instruction is aimed at exactly the users this release exists
for.

Several claims were broader than the tree supports, and each is narrowed to
what is true. The two discovery fixes carry no platform gating, so the notes
no longer tell macOS, Windows, FreeBSD and OpenWrt users that nothing
changed for them, and no longer say the release contains no behavioral
change. The supported-distribution paragraph now covers the .deb and the
tarball rather than all Linux artifacts, since Arch and NixOS build from
source and OpenWrt is a musl target that does not depend on the glibc floor.
The install-test sentence says x86_64, because the arm64 package is
install-tested by nothing. The changelog no longer claims every producer
runs the floor check, since the deprecated host-build targets do not.

The counter guidance was wrong about which counter moves, the objdump line
prints the symbol beside the version, and the two relative links in the
notes resolve inside the repository but 404 in a release body, so they are
absolute now. That last change also makes the root mirror byte-identical to
the versioned copy for the first time.

The FreeBSD install line takes a concrete filename again: a placeholder is
not pasteable, which is the whole point of an install instruction.
2026-09-06 20:20:56 +00:00
Johnathan Corgan f0ee81ec7c Prepare the v0.5.1 release content
Move the staged changelog entries under a 0.5.1 heading dated 2026-09-06,
and add an entry for the deb-install hang: the suite started a oneshot unit
that requires the daemon, so a daemon that could not execute left the start
job undispatched and the suite reported nothing at all. That is the whole
class of fault the suite exists to find, and it protects the run that gates
artifact publication, so it is owed an entry.

Add the release notes and mirror them to the root file. The notes lead with
who should upgrade and who is unaffected, because for most users this
release changes nothing and for Debian 12 and Ubuntu 22.04 users the daemon
has never run at all. They state what was measured and what was not, and
give an objdump line that reads the floor of a binary already installed:
2.34 from this release, 2.39 from any earlier one.

The root mirror is not byte-identical to the versioned copy and cannot be.
The two files sit at different depths, so a link that resolves in one breaks
in the other; the mirror is content-identical with the relative link paths
rewritten, and the check is a diff whose every hunk is a link path. Here
that is two hunks, both confirmed to resolve.

The currency audit found five stale version sites and two claims that do
not match the tree, all corrected here. The status badge, the release-notes
link and the status sentence in the README follow the release, as they did
at v0.4.2. The FreeBSD install line gave a filename that does not exist,
since the tree is 0.5.1-dev; it now takes a version placeholder so it stops
going stale at every bump, and the example above it keeps a concrete name.

The design document recorded the first lookup fix and not the second: it
still said a returning copy is dropped as a duplicate, which the next commit
in this release exists to stop doing. It now names the counter that actually
receives the drop.

The README claimed the .deb is exercised per release. The install suite is
real and covers the five distributions it names, but it runs on push and
pull request, not at a tag, and no workflow installs the published artifact.
The sentence now says that, so the released package being checked by hand is
written down rather than assumed.

Getting-started gains the statement this release should have produced:
which distributions are supported and why the binaries run on all of them.
Until now the policy and the floor lived only in the build environment file,
so an operator had nowhere to read either.
2026-09-06 19:10:43 +00:00
Johnathan Corgan 6a564e26ac Prepare the v0.5.0 release content
Everything the release needs except the version number, which stays at
0.5.0-dev until the tag.

The changelog entry covers only the work that is new on this line. The
point release's forty-six entries arrived under their own heading with the
forward merge and are left alone; the twenty that remained are regrouped by
topic and eight more added for changes no entry covered. Three of those
eight matter to someone upgrading. Five root modules and four re-exports
left the public library surface and Node::connections narrowed, none of it
recorded anywhere; the entry names what to use instead and distinguishes
the removed connection-phase enum from the Noise type of the same name,
which is a different type that still exists. Tracing targets moved, so an
existing RUST_LOG filter stops matching rather than erroring. And the
handshake resend interval key no longer governs the first resend, which is
now a constant, though it still governs later ones.

Seven more entries cover the work that landed after the first content pass
was written: the experimental native datagram API, the fipsctl probe
diagnostic, per-instance transport addressing, the app-owned UDP socket
seam, and the connect, disconnect and path-MTU fixes. The four bug fixes
among them all reach the deployed line, so the release notes no longer
claim this release carries exactly one fix for a shipped bug; it carries
four.

There is no security section, because after the split every security entry
belongs to the point release. The release notes say so plainly rather than
leaving a reader upgrading across both releases to conclude this one
carries no security work.

The notes are organized by audience, since the release spans OpenWrt
routers, embedders, FreeBSD, and the existing platforms, and a single list
serves none of them. The native datagram API is given a section of its own
rather than folded into the embedding seam: it is a client-facing API
rather than a way to host a node, and its one rule with no Berkeley-socket
counterpart, that the v1 wire carries no half-close, needs to be somewhere
a client author will read it. FreeBSD is advertised as supported on x86_64
only, stated wherever the platform appears. Android is advertised as an
embedding seam and not as a supported platform: a compile-gated library
surface with no artifact and no host application guide.

The configuration table rename is carried through every shipped file that
taught the old spelling: nine documentation files, the OpenWrt sample
config and a test generator, twenty-two sites in all. Guides written this
same cycle were among them, which is how the omission was found. The
documentation that arrived with the native API was checked for the same
omission and was already clean. The compatibility tests keep the old
spelling deliberately, since they exist to test the fold.

The changelog section is the fold of master's [Unreleased], not a snapshot
of it. An earlier version of this commit took a copy that then drifted, so
each section ended up holding a bullet the other did not and re-folding
them would have picked a winner silently. Both causes were fixed on master
instead — the NixOS module had never been recorded there, and the
pre-release batch of fixes was new — so [Unreleased] is a strict superset
and this is a copy rather than a merge. [0.5.0] carries all forty-six
bullets byte for byte, [Unreleased] is empty, and [0.4.2] is untouched,
checked by hashing it against master's copy.

The BLE work landed after the content pass and gets one summary entry in
the changelog and one section in the release notes rather than nine
bullets: the ble_available gate replacing target_os = "linux",
packet-boundary recovery for stream-oriented backends, peer recognition by
node identity instead of a rotating link address, the L2CAP PSM moving
into the backend seam and onto the advertisement, the embedder-supplied
Android radio, bounded probe retry, and inbound handshakes moved off the
accept loop.

The two release-notes copies no longer share their link paths. Relative
links resolve from one directory only, so the seven written for
docs/releases/ all 404ed from the root copy. The root copy now uses paths
from the repository root and the versioned copy keeps the ../ form; both
sets were resolved against the tree. The same two links are broken the
same way in the v0.4.0 through v0.4.2 notes, left as shipped history.

The contributor tallies are re-derived against maint..HEAD rather than
adjusted: twenty commits from outside the project and 171 from me, with
Arjen at fifteen and fr34aky at two. An earlier count of twelve and 138
was carried from a measurement taken three days before this content was
written, and the BLE branch widened the gap after it. Arjen's NixOS flake
module, the UDP sin6_scope_id fix and most of the BLE rework were
uncredited, as was fr34aky's L2CAP PSM seam. They want one last re-derive
at tag time if anything lands before the tag.

A sweep of all 99 tracked markdown files against the tree corrected
fifty-three of them. Four told the reader to run a build.sh that does not
exist; the only harness builder is testing/scripts/build.sh. The BLE build
prerequisites were described as optional on the strength of a probe that
build.rs does not perform, and bluez was named a build prerequisite when
libdbus-sys asks only for libdbus-1-dev and pkg-config and bluez is the
runtime daemon. Link cost is the primary sort key in next-hop ranking, not
reserved for future use; Ethernet runs on macOS as well as Linux; the BLE
MTU is the L2CAP CoC MTU rather than a negotiated ATT_MTU; effective
Ethernet MTU is 1497; the LAN discovery subsystem is src/mdns and eight
citations still named a src/discovery that never existed here. The
connectivity states in three tutorials were invented, and their jq filters
matched nothing including healthy peers. One command filtered on a literal
fd97: address prefix, which only the first byte of fixes, so it returned
empty for all but one reader in 256 and every later step using the
variable failed silently. transports.tor.advertise_on_nostr was
undocumented despite being validated against node.rendezvous.nostr.enabled.

The transport design document gains the BLE section it never had, written
from the source: the backend cascade and its compile_error tripwire, the
platform gate, the PSM advertisement wire layout and the byte budget that
forces a 16-bit service-data key, and the probe and admission bounds.

Three source files carried the same class of staleness and are corrected
with the documentation: the OpenWrt ipk usage line and Makefile error text
both named a packaging/openwrt that does not exist, and chaos.sh parsed
--subnet without listing it.

Folded in with the content commit, having been prepared alongside it:

The three GitHub Action pins that had gone stale. Every third-party
action is pinned to a commit SHA, nothing reports that a pin has aged,
and re-resolving all ten against their tags found dorny/test-reporter@v2,
taiki-e/install-action@v2 and vmactions/freebsd-vm@v1 had moved. The
three install-action@nextest references stay unpinned, since that action
reads the tool to install from the ref name. check-action-pins.sh passes
at 75 references and all nine workflow files parse.

The lockfile refresh, which is the mutating half of the dependency sweep.
Thirty-six packages move to their latest semver-compatible versions and
every one is transitive; nothing declared in Cargo.toml changes version.
No advisory forces any of them. It was taken before the validation
battery, because a gate run against a lockfile that later moves proves
nothing about what ships.

The sha2 0.10 to 0.11, hkdf 0.12 to 0.13 and bech32 0.11 to 0.12 majors,
three of the four deferred at v0.4.0 for change surface rather than
security. All three land with no source change. sha2 and hkdf must move
together, since both depend on digest 0.11, and neither changes an
algorithm. That matters because the chaining-key KDF in the Noise
handshake is built on Hkdf::<Sha256>, where an output change would be a
wire break rather than a compile error; no known-answer vectors exist for
that path, so the wire-compatibility gate is what covers it. secp256k1
0.31 is deliberately absent, since nostr's own requirement would leave
two copies of the ECC library in the tree.

The README support matrix, rebuilt as one feature table broken out by
Linux variety. A single Linux column hid that Debian, Ubuntu, Arch and
NixOS are one glibc build differing in packaging, that OpenWrt is musl
and drops BLE, and that Android is not a daemon platform. Transport rows
sort by how many platforms carry them. A Native API row reads its
platform set from the cfg gates. The installer row becomes a package
format row naming the artifact, and only the .deb is exercised per
release.

Four changelog and release-note gaps the BLE re-walk found: a Bluetooth
LE bullet stranded inside the released 0.4.2 section, a missing Fixed
entry for the scan and probe loop counting a pool-refused connection as
an established link, the unnamed embedder call that installs an
application-owned radio, and the fact that stopping the transport now
stops scanning as well as advertising.

Three release-document gaps found walking the unsurveyed commits: the UDP
reuse-flag fix stated in the direction opposite to the one it was made,
with the silent second-daemon bind it prevents left unsaid; the corrected
native-API socket paragraph carried into both release-note copies, which
still named SOCK_SEQPACKET on FreeBSD and two kernels where three are
handled; and the coordinate-cache hardening, which shipped with no text
anywhere despite adding four operator-visible status fields. That last
entry states plainly that the checks are mitigations and not a closure,
since the coordinate is still not authenticated.

Also folded in, the documentation pass that followed the content commit:

A stage-pipeline diagram for the probe, embedded in the fipsctl
reference under the five-stage list. It draws the five stages left to
right with each stage's failure reasons below it, and the bypass that
skips both lookup stages when the coordinates are cached or the target
is a direct peer. Its branches come from the probe state machine rather
than from the report, so the path stage is drawn as the one failure that
does not stop the probe.

A rewrite of the README's "What FIPS does" section. It now opens with
what a machine running FIPS gets, rather than with the two deployment
modes, and gives the self-organizing and permissionless property its own
paragraph since it holds for both modes.

A regrouping of the README's feature list into the mesh, getting traffic
onto it, and running a node, with a bullet added for the native datagram
API, which had none despite sitting in the support matrix. The Quick
start now leads with the released packages rather than a source build.
It also fixes a real defect: the package enables fips.service and
fips-dns.service and starts neither on a fresh install, so .fips name
resolution was silently dead until the next reboot and neither page said
to start the service.

A rewrite of the release notes. They opened with seven subsections of
upgrade caveats and reached the first feature two hundred lines in; they
now open with a summary of the release and elaborate below it in the
same order. Android is stated as supported through an embedded crate
rather than as a standalone daemon, consistently across all three
documents. The OpenWrt pair is corrected: it is 802.11s between routers
with FIPS supplying encryption, authentication and routing, plus a
convention of an open !FIPS SSID a client joins over WiFi, not meshing
over a router's own radios. The probe's path output is described as the
least-common-ancestor walk, which is the worst-case fallback route
rather than the route a packet takes. Detail that did not change what a
reader does was cut from the notes and kept in the changelog.
2026-08-30 10:42:59 +00:00
sandwichandJohnathan Corgan 3733349d33 packaging(nix): add a Nix flake for reproducible from-source builds
Add a flake that builds all four binaries (fips, fipsctl, fips-gateway,
fipstop) on Linux and macOS, pinning the exact toolchain from
rust-toolchain.toml (1.94.1 + rustfmt/clippy) via fenix so Nix builds
match CI and the AUR/Debian packaging.

Wire up the build-time native deps the source tree needs: pkg-config and
bindgenHook (libclang) for the rustables/libdbus-sys bindgen step, and
dbus for bluer's BLE support. autoPatchelfHook rewrites the binary RPATHs
so the daemon resolves libdbus-1.so.3 and libgcc_s.so.1 from the Nix store
at runtime — without it `fips` fails to load on NixOS, which has no global
/usr/lib.

Outputs: packages.{default,fips}, apps for each binary, checks.fips, and a
devShell with the pinned toolchain plus cargo-edit. Tests are skipped in
the package build since they exercise TUN devices, raw sockets, and mDNS
that aren't available in the sandbox, mirroring the AUR/Debian packaging.

Verified end-to-end in a pure Nix store (nixos/nix container): nix build,
nix flake check, and running all four binaries succeed against the
committed flake.lock.

Documented across the install and developer docs: a Nix / NixOS section in
packaging/README.md, the from-source guide in docs/getting-started.md
(noting the flake produces binaries only, with NixOS system integration
through the system configuration rather than the installer), the CHANGELOG,
README, CONTRIBUTING, and the v0.4.0 release notes.

Co-authored-by: Johnathan Corgan <johnathan@corganlabs.com>
2026-06-17 16:36:38 +00:00
Johnathan Corgan 77fdd52fe0 docs: reviewer feedback pass on Nostr-discovery surface
Walk through reviewer feedback on the Nostr-discovery docs and
land 18 items.

Bulk patterns:

- `external_addr` / `public: true` semantics consistently
  misdescribed. The advert path is gated on `cfg.is_public()`;
  inside that branch the daemon picks an address by precedence
  (`external_addr`, non-wildcard `bind_addr`, STUN). The docs
  treated `public: true` and `external_addr` as alternatives when
  they are stacked: `public: true` is the master switch and
  `external_addr` populates the address inside it. Reconciled
  across `enable-nostr-discovery.md` and `advertise-your-node.md`:
  add `public: true` to the `external_addr` examples; replace
  "STUN as a logging cross-check" with "STUN is skipped entirely";
  fix "neither flag is needed" for direct public bind (both flags
  still required); make the publish-tutorial Step 3 conditional
  on the chosen Step 2 path (STUN runs only on the `public: true`
  path); rewrite the troubleshooting "wrong public IP advertised"
  bullet with two coherent fixes.

- `udp:nat` overpromised as a symmetric-NAT solution. Symmetric
  NAT on either side typically defeats the punch. Reframe
  `udp:nat` as best-effort hole-punching for nodes without a
  directly reachable UDP endpoint in the how-to, the publish
  tutorial (intro, callout, section heading rewrite from "If
  you're behind symmetric NAT" to "If your direct UDP advert
  isn't reachable"), the consume tutorial's "What's next"
  pointer, and `tutorials/README.md`. Promote reachability over
  named NAT classes: STUN can confirm the public IP but not that
  the listener-port mapping is open.

- YAML "silently ignores unknown keys" is wrong. Config parser
  rejects unknown fields via `serde(deny_unknown_fields)` on the
  per-section structs; misspelled fields refuse the daemon's
  start with a parse-error line in the journal. Fixed in the
  publish tutorial's troubleshooting and the open-discovery
  tutorial's `policy` typo bullet.

Mechanical fixes:

- Repoint stale anchors. `getting-started.md` and
  `configuration.md` linked to `#installation` / `#inspect` on
  the README; the README has no such headings. Repoint to
  `#quick-start` and `cli-fipsctl.md`. Two stale anchors in the
  publish tutorial pointing at non-existent sub-scenarios in the
  how-to (`#sub-scenario-2c-...`,
  `#sub-scenario-2b-tor-onion-node`) repointed to the correct
  anchors.

- Drop the `fipsctl show status` claim from the open-discovery
  troubleshooting bullet (`show_status` doesn't include
  `discovery.nostr.policy`). Replace with daemon startup logs.

- Fix the `advertise: false` parenthetical in the consume-only
  tutorial (`default_advertise()` returns `true`; we set `false`
  explicitly for the consume-only path).

- Drop the "supplies a relay list" overstatement in two
  activation paragraphs (the how-to and the design doc). Default
  relay / STUN-server lists ship in the config; both are
  optional overrides.

- Add the missing `transports.udp.public` entry to the
  open-discovery tutorial's prerequisites checklist. Tutorial
  users coming out of advertise-your-node could be on either the
  direct-UDP (`public: true`) or `udp:nat` (`public: false`)
  path; list both.

Files: docs/getting-started.md, docs/reference/configuration.md,
docs/how-to/enable-nostr-discovery.md, docs/tutorials/README.md,
docs/tutorials/advertise-your-node.md,
docs/tutorials/resolve-peers-via-nostr.md,
docs/tutorials/open-discovery.md,
docs/design/fips-nostr-discovery.md.
2026-05-10 21:56:09 +00:00
Johnathan Corgan 5abf9a9325 docs: four-section /docs/ restructure with new-user content, accuracy pass, and gateway feature-set rewrite
Restructures /docs/ by reader purpose (tutorials, how-to,
reference, design), adds the new-user-progression and
operator-recipe content the prior layout lacked, runs an
accuracy pass against current source across the pre-existing
design docs, and rewrites the gateway feature-set documentation
end-to-end around its actual operational profile (a niche
feature designed for systems already serving DHCP/DNS to a
LAN, with two independent halves — outbound LAN→mesh, inbound
mesh→LAN — sharing one nftables table, one binary, and one
control socket). Top-level README and getting-started rewritten
around two equally-weighted deployment modes (overlay on
existing IP networks; ground-up over non-IP transports).

## Additions

- 11 new tutorials in docs/tutorials/: an 8-step new-user
  progression from single-daemon test-mesh peering through
  to a ground-up two-device mesh, an IPv6-adapter side-trip
  walkthrough, an Advanced Tutorials index, and a hand-held
  OpenWrt walk-through for fips-gateway deployment that
  exercises both halves of the feature.
- 12 new how-tos in docs/how-to/: firewall activation,
  Nostr discovery (resolve / advertise / open across five
  scenarios), Tor onion (directory + control_port modes),
  UDP buffer tuning, unprivileged-user setup, persistent
  identity, host aliases, Bluetooth LE peering, MTU
  diagnostics, manual Linux-host gateway deployment (covers
  both halves), gateway troubleshooting (organised by half),
  and a section index.
- 9 new reference docs in docs/reference/: configuration,
  wire formats, control-socket protocol, four CLI references
  (fips, fipsctl, fipstop, fips-gateway), security posture
  matrix, and Nostr events catalog. Configuration and
  wire-formats are renamed-and-extended from prior design/
  versions; the other seven are net-new.
- 6 new design docs: fips-concepts, fips-architecture, and
  fips-prior-work split out of the deleted fips-intro.md;
  consolidated fips-mmp and fips-mtu aggregations; and a
  new generic port-advertisement-and-nat-traversal doc
  (Nostr-signaled port advertisement plus UDP NAT-traversal
  protocol, FIPS as an example implementation, suitable for
  eventual NIP submission).
- Top-level docs/getting-started.md walking through the
  binary-installer-only Install story.
- packaging/common/hosts pre-populated with the eight public
  test-mesh nodes so shortnames resolve out of the box on
  every fresh install.

## Changes

- 23 wire-format diagrams relocated to reference/diagrams/
  alongside the wire-formats move.
- 4 design diagrams corrected against source code
  (fips-protocol-stack, fips-identity-derivation,
  fips-coordinate-discovery, fips-routing-decision).
- 10 pre-existing design docs reconciled with current
  source. Numeric corrections: stale link-MMP report bounds
  (now [1s, 5s] with 200 ms cold-start floor); UDP default
  MTU (now 1280, IPv6 minimum); node_addr formula
  (SHA-256(pubkey)[..16]); Noise patterns (IK at link, XK
  at session); peer-ACL semantics (strict allowlist requires
  ALL in peers.deny); daemon DNS upstream ([::1]:5354);
  on-the-wire bloom-filter size (1,071 bytes); obsolete
  Cargo-feature references (PR #79 dropped them) removed.
- Transport framing tightened across the docs: TCP is for
  UDP-filtered networks (not NAT traversal); Tor is a
  deployment mode (not failover); WebSocket dropped (not a
  shipped FIPS transport); WiFi promoted to Implemented via
  Ethernet in infrastructure mode; classic-Bluetooth row
  removed (BLE is the only Bluetooth-mode transport).
- docs/design/fips-gateway.md rewritten end-to-end to lead
  with the niche-feature framing and the two-halves
  structure. Title moved from "FIPS Outbound LAN Gateway"
  to "FIPS Gateway"; architecture section describes the
  common machinery (the fips-gateway service, the nftables
  table, the control socket) before splitting into separate
  "Outbound Half" and "Inbound Half" sections of equal
  weight; security considerations split per-half; no Future
  Work section (speculative directions live in the project
  tracker, not in protocol design docs). Inbound port
  forwarding is a first-class half rather than a buried
  "Implemented Extensions" subsection.
- Gateway terminology unified across all gateway docs as a
  separate Linux service running alongside the fips daemon
  (its own systemd unit / OpenWrt init script). Container-
  pattern terms (sidecar) are reserved for the
  Docker/Kubernetes sidecar deployment examples — the
  testing/sidecar/ tree, examples/k8s-sidecar/,
  examples/sidecar-nostr-relay/,
  examples/wireguard-sidecar-macos/, and the related
  CHANGELOG / top-level README entries — where the term
  carries its standard container meaning.
- Net-new design body content: rekey section in
  fips-mesh-layer (Noise IK msg1/msg2 over the established
  link, K-bit cutover, drain window, smaller-NodeAddr-wins
  tie-breaker on dual-init); Mesh Size Estimation and
  Antipoison FPR Cap sections in fips-bloom-filters;
  Mesh-Interface Query Filter subsection in
  fips-ipv6-adapter; failure-suppression knobs and clock-
  skew tolerance in fips-nostr-discovery; loop-rejection
  and mid-chain ancestor swap added to spanning-tree
  propagation / stability rules; Priority Chain in
  fips-mesh-operation renumbered to match the
  routing-decision diagram.
- Top-level README: dropped the stale nostr-discovery
  cargo-feature parenthetical. docs/README.md and the four
  section READMEs (tutorials, how-to, reference, design)
  refreshed for the new structure; index rows reflect both
  halves of the gateway feature and the new fips-gateway
  CLI reference.
- Cargo.toml [package.metadata.deb] assets path updated for
  the fips-security.md move; .gitignore /reference/ rule
  anchored to repo root so docs/reference/ is trackable.
- packaging/openwrt-ipk/files/etc/fips/fips.yaml
  configuration-doc URL updated to the new
  docs/reference/configuration.md location.

## Deletions

- docs/design/fips-intro.md (split into the three new intro
  design docs).
- docs/design/document-relationships.svg (orphan, no longer
  referenced).
- docs/proposals/ tree removed; the only proposal it
  contained (the Nostr UDP hole-punch protocol) was
  rewritten as the new generic
  design/port-advertisement-and-nat-traversal.md.
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