Backend — Photos timeline now groups by real capture date instead of upload time. New MediaMetadataService (FileLifecycleHook) extracts EXIF DateTimeOriginal from images and container creation_time from videos (mov/mp4/mkv) via nom-exif, timezone-correct (OffsetTimeOriginal), persisting captured_at so the existing media_sort_date trigger takes over. Adds POST /admin/photos/metadata/reextract to backfill existing media. Falls back to upload date when no embedded date exists.
Frontend — premium grid cards: combined metadata line (relative date · size, owner avatar when shared), custom selection checkbox with a clear checked state, uniform full-width 4:3 thumbnail tiles independent of filename length, centered file-type icons, and a hit-test fix so checkbox/star/kebab clicks reach the controls (the decorative thumbnail no longer captures pointer events). Notification messages internationalised across all 16 locales. Broader polish: design tokens, a11y/focus-visible states, brand + PWA assets.
Chore — bump semver-compatible dependencies (cargo upgrade); add nom-exif 3.6.1.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Phase 0 of the delta-sync plan. Re-uploading a file the user already has
(another device, a restore, a duplicate) used to transfer every byte just
for the server to discard them as a dedup hit. The frontend now computes
the file's BLAKE3 locally and, on a hit, registers the file with a single
~150-byte metadata call.
Server — POST /api/files/by-hash:
- All checks live in the application service per the AuthZ rule:
Create permission on the target folder via the authorization engine,
hash ownership via the existing user-scoped query (a non-owned hash
returns 404 — same shape as "no such blob" — and emits an
instant_upload.rejected audit event), quota on the logical size.
- On success: one ref_count bump + the existing save_file_with_blob row
registration (compensation included); is_new_blob=false so lifecycle
hooks skip thumbnail regeneration. ~10 ms warm.
- The storage-usage service is now built before the application services
and injected, instead of only living on AppState.
Client — WASM BLAKE3 + worker:
- wasm/oxicloud-hash: the exact same blake3 crate the server uses,
compiled with WASM SIMD128 (~660 MB/s measured) so browser hashes match
server content addresses bit for bit. Built by scripts/build-wasm.sh;
the artifacts (45 KB wasm + 8 KB glue) are vendored like pdf.js — no
npm dependencies, no wasm toolchain needed for regular builds.
- static/js/workers/hashWorker.js streams the File in 8 MiB slices off
the main thread (constant RAM at any file size).
- features/files/instantUpload.js orchestrates: threshold (8 MiB — below
it the round-trips cost more than the bytes), user-scoped
/api/dedup/check, by-hash registration, and silent fallback to the
normal byte upload on any miss, race or unsupported environment.
Wired into both uploadFiles and uploadFolderEntries.
- biome.json vendors exclusion fixed to cover nested directories
(previous vendors were .mjs and never matched the *.js include).
Verified end-to-end against PostgreSQL 16: node-driven WASM hash equals
the server's content_hash for a 20 MB file; by-hash returns 201 in ~10 ms
warm with a 151-byte request (vs 20,971,873 bytes for the byte upload);
the copy downloads byte-identical and the manifest ref_count goes 1→2;
a second user probing the same hash gets exists:false and 404 plus the
audit line; duplicate name → 409, malformed hash → 400; worker and wasm
are served with correct MIME (application/wasm).
https://claude.ai/code/session_01WdNenpnujNR2sc32XVvwfS
Bradley Nelson