fix: harden iOS handoff recovery and resource lifecycle - #212
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Use the tunnel provider's long-lived path state during disconnect callbacks, keep restart ownership in the restart transaction, break the foreground polling retain cycle, deliver status updates outside locks on the main queue, clean up observers, and batch log synchronization to reduce I/O wakeups.
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Serialize restart transactions, queue path changes that arrive mid-restart, reject stale callbacks, avoid starting on an unavailable path, and retry non-auth startup failures with bounded exponential backoff. Also reduce foreground polling frequency and skip malformed optional Firebase configuration instead of aborting at launch.
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In `@NetbirdKit/AppLogger.swift`:
- Line 111: Update the writeToFile synchronization flow so the syncInterval
timer is scheduled on queue when pending bytes first appear, independently of
subsequent log writes; retain the existing byte-threshold sync behavior and
ensure the scheduled task flushes pending data after the interval.
- Around line 112-114: Update the synchronization flow around
fileHandle?.synchronize() so bytesSinceLastSync and lastSyncDate are reset only
when synchronization succeeds. Preserve the pending counter and timestamp when
synchronization fails, allowing the existing threshold or interval logic to
retry.
In `@NetbirdKit/ConnectionListener.swift`:
- Around line 69-70: Update ConnectionListener.onDisconnected() to preserve the
network-loss fallback when the asynchronously published isNetworkUnavailableFlag
is not yet current; retain or derive the current network path, or represent an
unknown state, so an early SDK callback does not set .disconnected when
connectivity is unavailable and still reaches the keep-alive .connecting state.
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In `@NetBird/Source/App/NetBirdApp.swift`:
- Around line 40-41: Update the Firebase configuration validation in NetBirdApp
so the app ID is accepted only when it matches the complete
1:<project>:ios:<hash> format, rather than merely containing “:ios:”. Perform
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existing plist-loading flow.
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- Line 95: Update getExtensionStatus() to select VPN managers using both
localizedDescription and providerBundleIdentifier == self.extensionID, matching
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- Around line 92-94: Update the restore logic around configFile() and
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updateVPNDisplayState: disconnectPressed can pin the UI at "Disconnecting…" over a connected tunnel
Before this PR the .connected branch cleared both intent flags. Now .connected and .connecting both render .disconnecting while disconnectPressed is set, and the flag is only cleared in the .disconnected branch (or on foreground activation / server change). If the app never samples a .disconnected status, the UI stays on "Disconnecting…" while the tunnel is up.
Steps (tvOS):
- Connect On Demand enabled, tunnel connected.
- Change the pre-shared key →
updatePreSharedKey()→performClose()setsdisconnectPressed = trueand stops the tunnel. - On Demand reconnects within a few seconds (disconnecting → disconnected → connecting → connected).
- tvOS has no
NEVPNStatusDidChangeobserver;extensionStateis refreshed only by the poll, now every 10 s. The next sample is.connectedwithdisconnectPressedstill true. - UI shows "Disconnecting…" indefinitely; the toggle in
TVMainViewignores presses in.disconnecting(case .disconnecting: break). Only leaving and re-entering the app clears it.
Same on iOS when vpnManager is nil: stop() never calls stopVPNTunnel(), the tunnel stays connected, the UI and the widget show "Disconnecting…".
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Thanks for the detailed reproduction, especially the tvOS On Demand case — you were right that I addressed this in
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Summary
This change hardens the iOS packet-tunnel lifecycle during Wi-Fi/cellular handoffs and reduces avoidable foreground memory, polling, and logging overhead.
Network handoff and recovery
NWPathis unavailable; wait for a satisfied path and reconcile thenisRestartingowned by the complete restart transaction instead of clearing it early from connection callbacksNWPathMonitorand waiting only 100 ms for its first updateResource and memory lifecycle
ViewModel,NetworkExtensionAdapter, itsTimer, and the polling callbackLogging and startup robustness
FirebaseApp.configure; malformed or CI-placeholder configuration now disables Firebase instead of raising an uncaught Objective-C exception at startupWhy
Wi-Fi/cellular transitions can produce several
NWPathupdates while the previous Go engine is still stopping. The previous implementation discarded updates received during an active restart and allowed connection callbacks to clear restart state before the transaction completed. A late completion could then act on a newer lifecycle, while a failed start left the tunnel installed without a working engine.ConnectionListeneralso created a new path monitor for each disconnect and waited only 100 ms. A fresh monitor is not guaranteed to publish its initial path in that window, so this could report an unreliable availability result while the provider already had an authoritative long-lived monitor.Separately, foreground polling formed a retain cycle and repeatedly decoded the full status/peer response every three seconds. Swift logging also forced a storage synchronization for every line.
Validation and proof
Automated
git diff --check upstream/main...HEADalso passes.Physical device
Built, signed, installed, and launched an optimized Release build on:
0.3.4 (35)supplied through the same build-time version overrides used by TestFlightVerified:
codesign --verify --deep --strictpassed for the Release app bundle0.3.4 (35)NetbirdNetworkExtensionprocesses were both active after installationThe automated and device checks validate compilation, tests, signing, launch, and an active tunnel. They do not claim a controlled long-duration Wi-Fi/cellular soak test; that remains useful follow-up validation.
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