Fixes#68160.
Drops stale optionality from the hello-ok auth schema and keeps generated Swift models, macOS fixtures, browser client types, protocol docs, and merged-base test boundaries aligned.
Require Control UI updates to observe a real gateway process replacement, surface skipped/error update outcomes, and verify the running gateway version after restart.\n\nAdds update.status restart-sentinel plumbing, docs, generated protocol model updates, and changelog attribution.\n\nLocal verification:\n- pnpm test src/gateway/server-methods/update.test.ts src/cli/gateway-cli/run-loop.test.ts src/infra/restart-sentinel.test.ts src/infra/process-respawn.test.ts src/infra/update-runner.test.ts ui/src/ui/app-gateway.node.test.ts ui/src/ui/controllers/config.test.ts\n- git diff --check\n- pnpm exec oxfmt --check --threads=1 CHANGELOG.md docs/gateway/protocol.md docs/gateway/configuration.md docs/web/control-ui.md\n- pnpm docs:check-mdx
Polishes the basic config identity layout, aligns assistant avatar rendering with chat, and adds a Control UI assistant avatar override with IDENTITY.md fallback.
Keep WhatsApp QR login state synced across gateway, macOS, and UI wait flows.
- Preserve the latest QR data URL/version while login polling rotates codes.
- Keep the wait-result protocol bounded to current QR metadata.
- Stabilize QR rendering and media fixture coverage after rebasing on main.
Validation:
- pnpm test extensions/whatsapp/src/login-qr.test.ts extensions/whatsapp/src/media.test.ts extensions/whatsapp/src/agent-tools-login.test.ts src/gateway/protocol/channels.schema.test.ts src/gateway/server-methods/web.start.test.ts ui/src/ui/controllers/channels.test.ts
- pnpm test:extension whatsapp
- cd apps/macos && swift test --filter ChannelsSettingsSmokeTests
- GitHub PR checks: 62 success, 5 skipped
* WhatsApp: harden auth persistence and backup recovery
* WhatsApp: model unstable auth state across runtime and setup
* WhatsApp: recover login and monitor startup from unstable auth
* Channels: surface auth stabilizing in status and health
* Gateway protocol: add channels.start surface
* Gateway: reconcile local channel runtime after CLI login
* Channels UI: reflect recovered login start state
* Changelog: note WhatsApp auth stabilization
* Gateway: fix lint in call test
* fix(macOS): enable undo/redo in webchat composer text input
Set `allowsUndo = true` on ChatComposerNSTextView in makeNSView().
NSTextView defaults allowsUndo to false, which prevented Cmd+Z and
the Edit menu Undo/Redo items from functioning.
Fixes#34898
* fix(macos): enable webchat composer undo/redo (#34962) (thanks @tylerbittner)
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Co-authored-by: Nimrod Gutman <nimrod.gutman@gmail.com>
