Terminay Files

Terminay v2.8.7 strengthens remote workspace recovery with a unified connection controller and single-owner WebRTC transport architecture, ensuring exact terminal input ordering and elimination of silent reconnect failures.

Remote connection and recovery

Unified transport architecture

• Replaced overlapping connection entry paths and split bridge model with one stable connection controller keyed by profile identity.
• Made the session transport host the sole authority for WebRTC signaling, peers, data channels, and generation management.
• Eliminated raw RTCDataChannel exposure to the server-bundled application and separate enrollment/recovery contracts.

Deterministic recovery behavior

• Unified initial pairing, automatic recovery, and manual Retry through a single state machine covering idle, connecting, authenticating, resubscribing, hydrating, connected, retry-wait, blocked, and stopped phases.
• Closed and fenced old clients synchronously at generation retirement; fully authenticated, resubscribed, and hydrated new terminal panels before publishing the connection as usable.
• Proved via native WebRTC testing that required-lane closure triggers immediate replacement regardless of peer connection state, eliminating the scenario where Retry cleared presentation but left terminals unable to deliver input.

Terminal state during recovery

• Preserved the mounted terminal emulator and render position across recoverable failures while discarding uncertain input queues.
• Resumed terminal hydration against the replacement client exactly once, preventing duplicate commands or missed state after reconnect.
• Bound complete renderer generation lifetime so transport failures during hydration return to retry-wait rather than trapping Retry indefinitely.

Testing and acceptance

• Expanded native WebRTC test coverage to inject faults on individual required lanes while the peer remains connected, proving single-owner recovery works for control, application, terminal, and assets lane failures.
• Covered offline/online transitions where Retry is invoked repeatedly during backoff, with network restoration coalescing into one successful replacement generation.
• Asserted exact cardinality of peer generations, data channels, application connections, and mounted PTY across all native failure modes.

Workspace and panel handling

• Fixed panel close convergence by reconciling confirmed closes at the server; kept empty selections JSON-safe across sequential panel removals.
• Improved e2e determinism for sequential panel operations and deterministic tab drop gestures through the file explorer.

Infrastructure and documentation

• Moved completed task specifications to tasks_completed/ and advanced three major recovery-related tasks to permanent documentation.
• Documented single-owner WebRTC generation boundaries, unified renderer connection state machines, and native recovery acceptance criteria.
• Updated remote access and terminal stream congestion specifications with recovery ownership and lifecycle requirements.

Release Assets

• macOS installer: https://github.com/markwylde/terminay/releases/download/v2.8.7/Terminay-Mac-2.8.7-Installer.dmg
• Linux AppImage: https://github.com/markwylde/terminay/releases/download/v2.8.7/Terminay-Linux-2.8.7.AppImage
• Standalone server: https://github.com/markwylde/terminay/releases/download/v2.8.7/terminay-server-2.8.7.tgz