A server that stops answering without closing the socket left a running
sync waiting forever. Requests now fail with TimeoutException after 30 s
(10 s for the handshake, both configurable in ConnectAsync) and the
connection is marked dead so the app reconnects. See ADR 0034.
After a protocol error (e.g. a malformed line) the read loop ended but
the client still reported IsConnected and later requests waited forever
for a response that could never arrive. The read loop now marks the
connection closed before failing pending requests, and RequestAsync
throws IOException on a closed connection. Adds regression tests and a
raw-line helper to the fake server.
MaxInFlight was a hardcoded constant (32); different indexing servers
tolerate different levels of request concurrency before throttling, so
expose it as an optional ConnectAsync parameter instead of requiring a
recompile to tune initial-sync throughput against a given server.
Balance/history now render as soon as tx downloads finish instead of
blocking on every historical Merkle proof, critical for mobile where
proof-checking can take much longer than the download itself. Proofs
continue to be checked in the background and each tx's Verified flag
catches up progressively; header ranges are now fetched in batches
(blockchain.block.headers) instead of one call per header to keep this
fast over high-latency links.
Coin selection (UtxoSpendability.IsSpendable) refuses to spend a UTXO
until its Merkle proof is actually checked, regardless of confirmation
count, so a server that fabricates a confirmed balance can get it
displayed early but never spent before the forgery is caught. The disk
cache only ever persists the fully-verified end state of a sync.
UI surfaces the new PendingVerificationSats/SpendableSats split with a
"verifying..." badge, and the sync save now runs off the UI thread to
avoid freezing on slower hardware.
server.peers.subscribe is attacker-controlled data: ParsePeers assumed
the standard [ip, hostname, [features...]] shape and threw on anything
else (non-array response, wrong element types), and GetString() on a
JSON string containing invalid UTF-8 bytes threw InvalidOperationException
instead of failing to parse — both found by fuzzing. Any unexpected
shape or unparseable string now degrades to "no usable data" instead of
propagating an exception into the sync/discovery path.
CheckAsync built its own HttpClient inline, so nothing beyond tag
parsing was testable without hitting the real GitHub API. Added an
internal CheckAsync(currentVersion, HttpMessageHandler, ct) overload
(the public method now delegates to it) as a seam for a stub handler,
and tests for the full best-effort matrix: newer/equal/older/unparseable
tag, missing html_url, HTTP error status, malformed JSON, a thrown
HttpRequestException, and an unparseable local version — all of which
must resolve to null or the correct LatestRelease, never throw.
Send/Donate/Sync/Wizard view models wrote status/error strings
directly in Italian ("Importo non valido.", "Errore: …", the TLS
pin-mismatch message, …), so a user running the app in English/German/
etc. still saw them in Italian despite the 6-language Loc system
covering the rest of the UI.
Added the missing Loc keys and routed every occurrence through
Loc.Tr(...). CertificatePinMismatchException (Core) no longer bakes an
Italian message into .Message; it now exposes Host/Port so the UI can
translate it, with an English fallback for any exception type the UI
doesn't specifically handle. Also drops the now-stale USERGUIDE.md
caveat about a few messages staying in Italian regardless of language.
Real loopback TCP socket speaking newline-delimited JSON-RPC 2.0, optionally
TLS with a self-signed certificate, with per-method handlers and call
counters. Lets ElectrumClient, WalletSynchronizer, TransactionInspector, and
CertificatePinStore be exercised against the same code paths used in
production instead of being mocked.
Also exposes UpdateChecker's tag-parsing logic internally so its version
comparison can be tested without a real GitHub API call.
CertificatePinStore.Load threw on a corrupted pin file, blocking every SSL
connection until the user manually deleted it; EncryptedFile.IsEncrypted
threw on valid JSON with a non-object root or invalid UTF-16 instead of
returning false. Both now degrade gracefully. Found by property-based tests
while extending the test suite.
Compares the running assembly version against the latest GitHub release
tag on every app launch (desktop and Android) and shows an in-app
overlay with the new version tag when one is available. Best-effort:
network/parse failures are silent, matching the app's existing
non-blocking startup checks.
Translate every Italian /// XML doc comment, <!-- --> XAML comment, and
// inline comment to English across all source files (Core, App, tests).
Add the language policy to CLAUDE.md (conversation Italian; all code
and docs English). Update one test assertion that checked an Italian
exception message that was also translated.
Rework the ElectrumClient transport to cut latency and allocations
during sync:
- Channel-based single-reader write loop: drains the whole queue into a
single WriteAsync+FlushAsync, replacing the _writeLock that forced one
flush per message. N queued requests now travel in one TCP segment.
- PipeReader read loop parsing via Utf8JsonReader over pooled spans: no
StreamReader/ReadLineAsync and no intermediate string per response.
- TcpClient.NoDelay = true: no Nagle wait on small packets.
- Concurrency gate (SemaphoreSlim, MaxInFlight=32) in RequestAsync:
caps requests in flight to the server without serializing writes,
avoiding floods (-101/-102) and connection drops on wallets with large
history.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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