fix(#319): bundle start.bat + start.sh into the MSI/EXE installers

Follow-up to the start-script DLL fallback fix in the prior commit.

ChrisMTheMan's report on #319 made it clear the workaround flow was:

  1. MSI install crashes on launch (different bug, fixed in v0.9.81)
  2. User goes looking for start.bat to launch the backend manually
  3. start.bat isn't in their install dir, so they go fetch it from GitHub
  4. They get a working script but it doesn't know about the bundled
     privacy_core.dll layout, so they see a scary "install Rust" warning

The prior commit fixed step 4. This commit fixes step 3 — start.bat and
start.sh now ship inside the MSI/EXE installers (staged into
backend-runtime/ next to the privacy_core.dll they expect to find).
After the rebuild lands, an MSI user looking for these scripts finds
them right inside their install dir, already pointing at the correct
bundled DLL location.

What changed
------------

* ``build-backend-runtime.cjs`` now has a ``stageStartScripts()`` step
  that copies start.bat and start.sh from the repo root into the
  staged backend-runtime/. Preserves the executable bit on .sh under
  POSIX.

* ``release_digests.json`` v0.9.81 block hashes refreshed for the
  rebuilt MSI / EXE / source-zip (the scripts being bundled changed
  the MSI/EXE contents; the source zip also includes the start-script
  fix from the prior commit).

  ShadowBroker_v0.9.81.zip                  6.06 MB
    af8c87ccdece8fbb9aadc6be63cce10d3fcba74e6d87ef83289dda6d555fd270
  ShadowBroker_0.9.81_x64_en-US.msi       122.4 MB
    8977c9a1c54e1f0d030436be9c4e3d81d766cc0080699eb747649095f360c7ff
  ShadowBroker_0.9.81_x64-setup.exe        76.5 MB
    4e866fa0423c0c2470ed32f4809167a7815dc23ee7762b69e95681c1f3a28250

Post-merge plan
---------------

Force-move the v0.9.81 tag to this commit and replace ALL release
assets on the GitHub release: zip, msi, exe, both .sig files,
latest.json, SHA256SUMS.txt, release-manifest.json.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>

backend/data/release_digests.json

@@ -41,5 +41,10 @@
     "ShadowBroker_v0.9.8.zip": "183bb5cd62b9b9349d95df5ef7696cb6ca810ab4b991fa9dab6f898af4c7a175",
     "ShadowBroker_0.9.8_x64-setup.exe": "94a0309862e9c81c92cdcbfea8eec9dbb97eef19ded82b26217b397defbc810c",
     "ShadowBroker_0.9.8_x64_en-US.msi": "fe22f9d51e4360d74c18a7250c2fbb9ed4fa4c7a884b3ac0d04a21115466386b"
+  },
+  "v0.9.81": {
+    "ShadowBroker_v0.9.81.zip": "af8c87ccdece8fbb9aadc6be63cce10d3fcba74e6d87ef83289dda6d555fd270",
+    "ShadowBroker_0.9.81_x64-setup.exe": "4e866fa0423c0c2470ed32f4809167a7815dc23ee7762b69e95681c1f3a28250",
+    "ShadowBroker_0.9.81_x64_en-US.msi": "8977c9a1c54e1f0d030436be9c4e3d81d766cc0080699eb747649095f360c7ff"
   }
 }

backend/main.py

@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ from dataclasses import dataclass, field
 from typing import Any
 from json import JSONDecodeError
 
-APP_VERSION = "0.9.8"
+APP_VERSION = "0.9.81"
 
 logging.basicConfig(level=logging.INFO)
 logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)

backend/pyproject.toml

@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ py-modules = []
 
 [project]
 name = "backend"
-version = "0.9.8"
+version = "0.9.81"
 requires-python = ">=3.10"
 dependencies = [
     "apscheduler==3.10.3",
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ dev = ["pytest>=8.3.4", "pytest-asyncio==0.25.0", "ruff>=0.9.0", "black>=24.0.0"
 
 [tool.ruff.lint]
 # The current backend carries historical style debt in large legacy modules.
-# Keep CI focused on actionable correctness checks for the v0.9.8 release.
+# Keep CI focused on actionable correctness checks for the v0.9.81 release.
 ignore = ["E401", "E402", "E701", "E731", "E741", "F401", "F402", "F541", "F811", "F841"]
 
 [tool.black]

backend/routers/ai_intel.py

@@ -1590,7 +1590,7 @@ async def agent_tool_manifest(request: Request):
 
     return {
         "ok": True,
-        "version": "0.9.8",
+        "version": "0.9.81",
         "access_tier": access_tier,
         "available_commands": available_commands,
         "transport": {
@@ -2226,7 +2226,7 @@ async def api_capabilities(request: Request):
     access_tier = str(get_settings().OPENCLAW_ACCESS_TIER or "restricted").strip().lower()
     return {
         "ok": True,
-        "version": "0.9.8",
+        "version": "0.9.81",
         "auth": {
             "method": "HMAC-SHA256",
             "headers": ["X-SB-Timestamp", "X-SB-Nonce", "X-SB-Signature"],

backend/routers/health.py

@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ from services.data_fetcher import get_latest_data
 from services.schemas import HealthResponse
 import os
 
-APP_VERSION = os.environ.get("_HEALTH_APP_VERSION", "0.9.8")
+APP_VERSION = os.environ.get("_HEALTH_APP_VERSION", "0.9.81")
 
 router = APIRouter()
 

backend/tests/test_per_operator_outbound_attribution.py

@@ -240,6 +240,8 @@ class TestNoMonsterUserAgentRemains:
         "ShadowBroker/0.9.79 Finnhub connector",
         "ShadowBroker/0.9.8 local Shodan connector",
         "ShadowBroker/0.9.8 Finnhub connector",
+        "ShadowBroker/0.9.81 local Shodan connector",
+        "ShadowBroker/0.9.81 Finnhub connector",
         "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; ShadowBroker CCTV proxy)",
     )
 

desktop-shell/package-lock.json

@@ -1,12 +1,12 @@
 {
   "name": "@shadowbroker/desktop-shell",
-  "version": "0.9.8",
+  "version": "0.9.81",
   "lockfileVersion": 3,
   "requires": true,
   "packages": {
     "": {
       "name": "@shadowbroker/desktop-shell",
-      "version": "0.9.8",
+      "version": "0.9.81",
       "devDependencies": {
         "typescript": "^5.6.0"
       }

desktop-shell/package.json

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "@shadowbroker/desktop-shell",
-  "version": "0.9.8",
+  "version": "0.9.81",
   "private": true,
   "description": "ShadowBroker desktop shell packaging, runtime bridge, and release tooling",
   "scripts": {

desktop-shell/tauri-skeleton/scripts/build-backend-runtime.cjs

@@ -130,6 +130,45 @@ function stageBackendRuntime() {
   });
   stagePrivacyCoreArtifact();
   stageReleaseAttestation();
+  stageStartScripts();
+}
+
+/**
+ * Copy ``start.bat`` and ``start.sh`` from the repo root into the
+ * staged backend-runtime/ so they sit next to ``privacy_core.dll``.
+ *
+ * Why: an MSI/EXE/AppImage user who wants to launch via the dev-style
+ * scripts (because the desktop shell is failing, or they prefer the
+ * browser frontend at localhost:3000) shouldn't have to clone the
+ * source repo just to get the scripts. Having them inside the install
+ * directory also means the bundled ``privacy_core.dll`` fallback in
+ * those scripts resolves to the SAME directory as the script, which
+ * is exactly the layout the v0.9.81 script update is looking for.
+ *
+ * Tracked from issue #319: users who fell back to start.bat from
+ * their MSI install dir had to go fetch it from GitHub, then saw a
+ * scary "install Rust" warning because the script didn't know where
+ * the bundled DLL was. Bundling the script removes both problems.
+ */
+function stageStartScripts() {
+  const scripts = ['start.bat', 'start.sh'];
+  for (const name of scripts) {
+    const src = path.join(repoRoot, name);
+    if (!fs.existsSync(src)) {
+      console.warn(`backend-runtime staged without ${name} (not at repo root)`);
+      continue;
+    }
+    const dst = path.join(outputDir, name);
+    fs.copyFileSync(src, dst);
+    // Preserve executable bit on POSIX systems for the .sh script.
+    if (name.endsWith('.sh') && process.platform !== 'win32') {
+      try {
+        fs.chmodSync(dst, 0o755);
+      } catch {
+        /* best-effort; not fatal on filesystems that don't honor chmod */
+      }
+    }
+  }
 }
 
 function stagePrivacyCoreArtifact() {

desktop-shell/tauri-skeleton/src-tauri/Cargo.lock

@@ -4201,7 +4201,7 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "shadowbroker-tauri-shell"
-version = "0.9.8"
+version = "0.9.81"
 dependencies = [
  "axum",
  "base64 0.22.1",

desktop-shell/tauri-skeleton/src-tauri/Cargo.toml

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [package]
 name = "shadowbroker-tauri-shell"
-version = "0.9.8"
+version = "0.9.81"
 edition = "2021"
 
 [build-dependencies]

desktop-shell/tauri-skeleton/src-tauri/tauri.conf.json

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 {
   "$schema": "https://schema.tauri.app/config/2",
   "productName": "ShadowBroker",
-  "version": "0.9.8",
+  "version": "0.9.81",
   "identifier": "com.shadowbroker.desktop",
   "build": {
     "frontendDist": "../../../frontend/out",
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@
   },
   "plugins": {
     "updater": {
-      "pubkey": "dW50cnVzdGVkIGNvbW1lbnQ6IG1pbmlzaWduIHB1YmxpYyBrZXk6IEUxODExMjQ4MkJBMThFNTgKUldSWWpxRXJTQktCNFF3ZXNQbndUK0pVWUEwNDNuajcrUGI3ZEI4TWtDUDlQdHhudmlHUkNjQUUK",
+      "pubkey": "dW50cnVzdGVkIGNvbW1lbnQ6IG1pbmlzaWduIHB1YmxpYyBrZXk6IDVEMTFERDdCNjhBRTk3MDcKUldRSGw2NW9lOTBSWGRjS1ZobFN5TkZsd3NkZ2g2L09WZzU4aytTR2FtN3ZtR0ZKejlNNldTbFUK",
       "endpoints": [
         "https://github.com/BigBodyCobain/Shadowbroker/releases/latest/download/latest.json"
       ],

frontend/package-lock.json

@@ -1,12 +1,12 @@
 {
   "name": "frontend",
-  "version": "0.9.8",
+  "version": "0.9.81",
   "lockfileVersion": 3,
   "requires": true,
   "packages": {
     "": {
       "name": "frontend",
-      "version": "0.9.8",
+      "version": "0.9.81",
       "dependencies": {
         "@mapbox/point-geometry": "^1.1.0",
         "@tauri-apps/plugin-process": "^2.3.1",

frontend/package.json

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "frontend",
-  "version": "0.9.8",
+  "version": "0.9.81",
   "private": true,
   "scripts": {
     "dev": "node scripts/dev-all.cjs",

frontend/src/__tests__/desktop/updateRuntime.test.ts

@@ -9,12 +9,12 @@ import {
 } from '@/lib/updateRuntime';
 
 const RELEASE: GitHubLatestRelease = {
-  html_url: 'https://github.com/BigBodyCobain/Shadowbroker/releases/tag/v0.9.8',
+  html_url: 'https://github.com/BigBodyCobain/Shadowbroker/releases/tag/v0.9.81',
   assets: [
-    { name: 'ShadowBroker_0.9.8_x64_en-US.msi', browser_download_url: 'https://example.test/windows.msi' },
-    { name: 'ShadowBroker_0.9.8_x64-setup.exe', browser_download_url: 'https://example.test/windows-setup.exe' },
-    { name: 'ShadowBroker_0.9.8_aarch64.dmg', browser_download_url: 'https://example.test/macos.dmg' },
-    { name: 'ShadowBroker_0.9.8_amd64.AppImage', browser_download_url: 'https://example.test/linux.AppImage' },
+    { name: 'ShadowBroker_0.9.81_x64_en-US.msi', browser_download_url: 'https://example.test/windows.msi' },
+    { name: 'ShadowBroker_0.9.81_x64-setup.exe', browser_download_url: 'https://example.test/windows-setup.exe' },
+    { name: 'ShadowBroker_0.9.81_aarch64.dmg', browser_download_url: 'https://example.test/macos.dmg' },
+    { name: 'ShadowBroker_0.9.81_amd64.AppImage', browser_download_url: 'https://example.test/linux.AppImage' },
   ],
 };
 

frontend/src/components/ChangelogModal.tsx

@@ -20,22 +20,22 @@ import {
   Heart,
 } from 'lucide-react';
 
-const CURRENT_VERSION = '0.9.8';
+const CURRENT_VERSION = '0.9.81';
 const STORAGE_KEY = `shadowbroker_changelog_v${CURRENT_VERSION}`;
-const RELEASE_TITLE = 'Cumulative Fuel/CO2, AIS Resilience, and Data-Layer Repair';
+const RELEASE_TITLE = 'Signed Auto-Update + Update Button Race Fix';
 
 const HEADLINE_FEATURES = [
   {
-    icon: <Plane size={20} className="text-orange-400" />,
+    icon: <KeyRound size={20} className="text-purple-400" />,
     accent: 'purple' as const,
-    title: 'Cumulative Fuel & CO2 per Flight',
-    subtitle: 'The aircraft tooltip now shows how much fuel each plane has actually burned in the air, not just the per-hour rate.',
+    title: 'Signed Auto-Update Going Forward (one manual hop)',
+    subtitle: 'After installing v0.9.81, the in-app Update button finally works end-to-end. This release establishes a fresh signing key — every release from here is a one-click upgrade.',
     details: [
-      'New flight_observations module tracks first-seen-at per ICAO24 hex. Multiplies the model-based rate by elapsed observation time to produce running totals — FUEL BURNED (gal) and CO2 EMITTED (kg) — in the EMISSIONS ESTIMATE block.',
-      '15-minute gap between sightings resets the session (treated as a new flight: landed and took off again, or transited a dead zone). The cumulative counter survives trail pruning so map-rendering lifecycle and emission tracking are independent.',
-      '24-hour clamp defends against clock-skew bugs; per-icao prune every 5 minutes keeps memory bounded. The per-hour rate is still shown as smaller context underneath each cumulative figure.',
+      'tauri.conf.json now carries a fresh minisign pubkey (the previous keypair was generated before v0.9.79 shipped but the matching private key was lost before any release was actually signed, so no release before v0.9.81 has working auto-update).',
+      'The v0.9.81 release artifacts ship with a signed latest.json + .sig files so every install on v0.9.81 or later can verify and apply the next release automatically via the Tauri updater plugin.',
+      'One-time cost: if you are upgrading from v0.9.79 or v0.9.8, the click-Update path falls back to a manual download because the new pubkey does not match the one baked into your install. Click the MANUAL DOWNLOAD button in the update dialog → grab the .msi from the release page → run it → from then on auto-update works in-app.',
     ],
-    callToAction: 'OPEN A FLIGHT TOOLTIP → EMISSIONS ESTIMATE',
+    callToAction: 'CLICK UPDATE → DOWNLOAD MSI ONCE → AUTO-UPDATE FOREVER',
   },
   {
     icon: <Network size={20} className="text-amber-400" />,
@@ -64,6 +64,11 @@ const HEADLINE_FEATURES = [
 ];
 
 const NEW_FEATURES = [
+  {
+    icon: <Plane size={18} className="text-orange-400" />,
+    title: 'Cumulative Fuel & CO2 per Flight',
+    desc: 'Aircraft tooltip now shows how much fuel each plane has actually burned in the air since first observation, not just the per-hour rate. 15-minute gap between sightings resets the session; 24-hour clamp protects against clock skew; per-icao prune every 5 minutes keeps memory bounded.',
+  },
   {
     icon: <Plane size={18} className="text-cyan-400" />,
     title: 'Per-Flight Source Attribution',
@@ -82,6 +87,8 @@ const NEW_FEATURES = [
 ];
 
 const BUG_FIXES = [
+  'Update button no longer throws "admin_session_required" on desktop installs. The initial updateAction now syncs to Tauri detection at React-init time (window.__TAURI__ is injected before mount), so a click before the async runtime probe completes opens the GitHub release page in a browser instead of POSTing to /api/system/update.',
+  'Desktop installer now bundles defusedxml + PySocks (declared in pyproject.toml but missing from the venv shipped with v0.9.79 and the initial v0.9.8 publish). Fixes the bundled-backend launch crash reported in #319 and #296 (managed_backend_exited_early:exit code: 103).',
   'UAP layer no longer serves 3-year-old NUFORC sightings via the Hugging Face static-mirror fallback (60-day cutoff now applied to the fallback path too).',
   'GPS jamming detection now counts nac_p == 0 (the actual GPS-lost signal) instead of filtering it out as an old-transponder artifact.',
   'GPS jamming thresholds lowered (MIN_AIRCRAFT 5 → 3, MIN_RATIO 0.30 → 0.20) so sparser hotspots clear the bar without losing the 1-aircraft noise cushion.',

frontend/src/components/OnboardingModal.tsx

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ import React, { useState, useEffect } from 'react';
 import { motion, AnimatePresence } from 'framer-motion';
 import { X, ExternalLink, Key, Shield, Radar, Globe, Satellite, Ship, Radio, Bot, Copy, Check, Network } from 'lucide-react';
 
-const CURRENT_ONBOARDING_VERSION = '0.9.8-agentic-onboarding-1';
+const CURRENT_ONBOARDING_VERSION = '0.9.81-agentic-onboarding-1';
 const STORAGE_KEY = `shadowbroker_onboarding_complete_v${CURRENT_ONBOARDING_VERSION}`;
 const LEGACY_STORAGE_KEY = 'shadowbroker_onboarding_complete';
 

frontend/src/components/StartupWarmupModal.tsx

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ import React, { useEffect, useState } from 'react';
 import { motion, AnimatePresence } from 'framer-motion';
 import { Database, Clock, X } from 'lucide-react';
 
-const CURRENT_VERSION = '0.9.8';
+const CURRENT_VERSION = '0.9.81';
 const STORAGE_KEY = `shadowbroker_startup_warmup_notice_v${CURRENT_VERSION}`;
 
 interface StartupWarmupModalProps {

frontend/src/components/TopRightControls.tsx

@@ -91,7 +91,19 @@ export default function TopRightControls({
   const [manualUpdateUrl, setManualUpdateUrl] = useState(DEFAULT_RELEASES_URL);
   const [releasePageUrl, setReleasePageUrl] = useState(DEFAULT_RELEASES_URL);
   const [dockerCommands, setDockerCommands] = useState('');
-  const [updateAction, setUpdateAction] = useState<UpdateActionKind>('auto_apply');
+  // Pre-detection initial value: the right action depends on the runtime.
+  // For desktop installs (Tauri webview), the default should be
+  // ``manual_download`` so that clicking Update before the async runtime
+  // probe completes opens the release page in a browser instead of POSTing
+  // to /api/system/update — which throws ``admin_session_required`` on
+  // fresh sessions and confused v0.9.79/v0.9.8 users with a cryptic error.
+  // ``window.__TAURI__`` is injected synchronously by Tauri before React
+  // mounts, so this check is safe to do at useState init time.
+  const initialUpdateAction: UpdateActionKind =
+    typeof window !== 'undefined' && (window as { __TAURI__?: unknown }).__TAURI__
+      ? 'manual_download'
+      : 'auto_apply';
+  const [updateAction, setUpdateAction] = useState<UpdateActionKind>(initialUpdateAction);
   const [updateDetail, setUpdateDetail] = useState(AUTO_UPDATE_DETAIL);
   const pollRef = useRef<ReturnType<typeof setInterval> | null>(null);
   const timeoutRef = useRef<ReturnType<typeof setTimeout> | null>(null);

helm/chart/Chart.yaml

@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 ---
 apiVersion: v2
 name: shadowbroker
-version: 0.9.8
-appVersion: "0.9.8"
+version: 0.9.81
+appVersion: "0.9.81"
 description: simple shadowbroker installation
 type: application
 

pyproject.toml

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [project]
 name = "shadowbroker"
-version = "0.9.8"
+version = "0.9.81"
 readme = "README.md"
 requires-python = ">=3.10"
 dependencies = []

start.bat

@@ -237,6 +237,14 @@ echo [*] Backend Node.js dependencies OK.
 echo.
 echo [*] Checking privacy-core shared library...
 set "PRIVACY_CORE_DLL=%ROOT%\privacy-core\target\release\privacy_core.dll"
+:: MSI/EXE installers stage privacy_core.dll directly in backend-runtime/
+:: alongside this script. If somebody runs start.bat from an installed
+:: app directory (no source checkout, no Rust toolchain), they shouldn't
+:: see a spurious "install Rust" warning because the DLL is right next
+:: to them — just at a different path than the source-tree build.
+if not exist "%PRIVACY_CORE_DLL%" if exist "%ROOT%\privacy_core.dll" (
+    set "PRIVACY_CORE_DLL=%ROOT%\privacy_core.dll"
+)
 if not exist "%PRIVACY_CORE_DLL%" (
     where cargo >nul 2>&1
     if errorlevel 1 (

start.sh

@@ -203,6 +203,17 @@ echo ""
 echo "[*] Checking privacy-core shared library..."
 PRIVACY_CORE_SO="$SCRIPT_DIR/privacy-core/target/release/libprivacy_core.so"
 PRIVACY_CORE_DYLIB="$SCRIPT_DIR/privacy-core/target/release/libprivacy_core.dylib"
+# MSI/AppImage/DMG installers stage the platform-specific shared library
+# directly alongside this script (in backend-runtime/). If somebody runs
+# start.sh from an installed app dir without Rust, they shouldn't see a
+# spurious "install Rust" warning — the library is right next to them,
+# just at a different path than the source-tree build.
+if [ ! -f "$PRIVACY_CORE_SO" ] && [ -f "$SCRIPT_DIR/libprivacy_core.so" ]; then
+    PRIVACY_CORE_SO="$SCRIPT_DIR/libprivacy_core.so"
+fi
+if [ ! -f "$PRIVACY_CORE_DYLIB" ] && [ -f "$SCRIPT_DIR/libprivacy_core.dylib" ]; then
+    PRIVACY_CORE_DYLIB="$SCRIPT_DIR/libprivacy_core.dylib"
+fi
 if [ ! -f "$PRIVACY_CORE_SO" ] && [ ! -f "$PRIVACY_CORE_DYLIB" ]; then
     if command -v cargo >/dev/null 2>&1; then
         echo "[*] Building privacy-core release library..."

uv.lock

@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ wheels = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "backend"
-version = "0.9.8"
+version = "0.9.81"
 source = { editable = "backend" }
 dependencies = [
     { name = "apscheduler" },
@@ -2231,7 +2231,7 @@ wheels = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "shadowbroker"
-version = "0.9.8"
+version = "0.9.81"
 source = { virtual = "." }
 
 [package.metadata]