Merge branch 'docs/privacy-policy-accuracy'

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <[email protected]>

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -5,17 +5,52 @@ Versions follow [semver](https://semver.org/): MAJOR.MINOR.PATCH
 
 ---
 
+## [Unreleased]
+
+### Removed
+- **The background server check while disconnected.** The app no longer contacts
+  the server every 30 seconds while you are not connected to it. Nothing about
+  the connected session changes.
+
+### Changed
+- **The status bar no longer guesses whether the server is up.** It reads
+  "Ready" while disconnected and shows "Online" once a session has synced, so a
+  green dot now means a session that is actually working rather than a
+  reachability check made beforehand.
+
+## [3.3.8] — 2026-10-17
+
+### Changed
+- **Reconnecting always starts a fresh session.** In SOCKS5 mode, the
+  **Reconnect** button used to re-attach to the session you already had. It now
+  ends that session and starts a new one, exactly as the connect button does —
+  one way to begin a session instead of two, and you get a full window back
+  rather than the remainder of a broken one.
+
+### Fixed
+- **SOCKS5 "Reconnect" works again.** In 3.3.7 it ended your session and then
+  asked for the session it had just ended, failing with "Session not activated".
+
+---
+
 ## [3.3.7] — 2026-10-17
 
+> **Known issue — fixed in 3.3.8.** In SOCKS5 mode, the **Reconnect**
+> button in Settings ends your session instead of re-attaching to it, and then
+> fails with "Session not activated". It only appears when a proxy session has
+> been orphaned, and you lose the rest of that session rather than anything
+> worse. Workaround: connect again from the main screen. The "SOCKS5 Reconnect"
+> entry below describes the intended behaviour, which this build does not have.
+
 ### Added
 - **A warning before a session ends.** The VPN service schedules it off the same
-  deadline it already enforces, so it still arrives when the app is closed, and
+  deadline it already enforces, so it arrives even with the app closed, and a
-  a support top-up moves it with the deadline. It does not promise an exact
+  support top-up moves it with the deadline. It does not promise an exact number
-  number of minutes: on a sleeping phone Android may hold it back, and the app
+  of minutes: on a deeply sleeping phone Android can hold it back past the end
-  would rather say "soon" than say "5 minutes" with one left.
+  of the session, in which case it is skipped rather than shown late.
-- **"Disconnected — not protected" notification** when a session ends without
+- **A "disconnected — not protected" notification** when a session ends without
-  you asking: the 2-hour expiry, the data limit, the server ending the
+  you asking: the 2-hour expiry, the data limit, or the server ending the
-  session, or the tunnel stopping unexpectedly.
+  session.
 - **SOCKS5 mode now asks for the notification permission.** It never did,
   because it never raises the VPN consent dialog, so on Android 13+ these
   alerts would have been dropped before they were shown.
@@ -28,36 +63,32 @@ Versions follow [semver](https://semver.org/): MAJOR.MINOR.PATCH
   to disconnect itself after about two minutes of failed status polls, putting
   you back on your real IP; it now keeps the tunnel up and shows
   "Can't reach the server — still connected". Expiry is still enforced by the
-  VPN service's own deadline and by the server.
+  VPN service's own deadline, which keeps running regardless.
 
 ### Fixed
-- **Rewarded ads no longer break connecting.** With ads enabled, the ad's
+- **The countdown no longer over-reports after the phone sleeps**, and a clock
-  server-side-verification nonce and the nonce the connect flow waited for were
+  moved backwards can no longer stretch a session.
-  minted separately, so the client rejected the very session the ad created and
+- **A session that expired while the phone was asleep is recognised on waking**,
-  failed with "Session not activated". The ad's nonce is now passed through to
+  by wall clock rather than by time the device spent awake.
-  the connect call, the fake bypass callback is skipped when a real ad was
-  watched, and the client polls longer (~36 s) for Google's callback.
-- **SOCKS5 "Reconnect" re-attaches to the current session** instead of
-  requesting a new one, so repairing a lost proxy no longer needs (or grants)
-  a fresh session.
-- **The end-of-session warning now actually arrives when the app is closed.**
-  It was scheduled only on an inexact alarm, and a sleeping phone could hold
-  that alarm back past the end of the session it was warning about — so in the
-  one case the warning exists for, it never came. It now also runs off the VPN
-  service's own timer, the same one that already ends the session on time.
 - **Disconnecting from Android's VPN settings no longer leaves a countdown in
   the notification shade.** It used to sit there frozen, showing time remaining
   on a tunnel that was already gone.
-- **The VPN reconnects itself after the tunnel core stops.** Recovery never
+- **The VPN recovers after the tunnel core stops.** Recovery never worked:
-  worked: every attempt failed on the same internal error, and each one left
+  every attempt failed on the same internal error, and each one left another
-  another copy of the core running in the background. One restart now brings it
+  copy of the core running in the background. It now usually comes back on the
-  back without dropping the connection.
+  first retry, without dropping the connection.
-- **Disconnecting now releases your session on the server** instead of leaving
+- **Disconnecting with the app's own button now releases your session on the
-  it open until it expires on its own.
+  server** instead of leaving it open until it expires.
-- **A core that fails to start now says why.** Its output was being thrown
+- **SOCKS5 "Reconnect" re-attaches to the current session** instead of
-  away, so the only trace was an exit code.
+  requesting a new one — see the known issue above; this does not work in 3.3.7.
+- **A core that fails to start now logs why.** Its output was being discarded,
+  so the only trace was an exit code.
 
----
+### Groundwork
+- **Rewarded-ad plumbing.** Ads are switched off in this build, so none of this
+  is reachable yet: the ad's verification nonce is now carried through to the
+  connect call rather than being minted twice, and the client waits longer
+  (~36 s) for Google's callback. Reviewed, not yet exercised end to end.
 
 ## [3.3.6] — 2026-10-08
 

PRIVACY_POLICY.md

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # Privacy Policy
 
-**Last updated:** September 2026
+**Last updated:** October 2026
 
 ReVoltVPN is a free VPN service built and operated by ReVolt Team.
 
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ When you first open the app, we show a brief summary of this policy before you c
 
 We collect the minimum required to operate the service:
 
-- A randomly generated device ID created on your phone. This is not linked to your identity in any way.
+- A randomly generated device ID created on your phone. It is stored on your device and reused between sessions, and it is not linked to your identity in any way.
 - Your connection duration and data usage for the current session, linked to your device ID. This is used solely to enforce the per-session quota (see below).
 
 ## What our server sees
@@ -27,14 +27,14 @@ Support ads (the "Support us" button) extend an active session by 30 minutes and
 
 ## Operational logs
 
-Server logs are written to the systemd journal (`journalctl -u hivemind`). These logs include truncated device IDs (first 8 characters only), session start/stop events, and error messages. Logs stay on the server and are accessible only to the server operator via local console; retention follows the server's systemd journal settings. We also maintain an aggregate total of all data ever transferred (in GB) for capacity planning — this counter is not tied to any individual device.
+Server logs are written to the system journal. These logs include truncated device IDs (first 8 characters only), session start/stop events, and error messages. Logs stay on the server and are accessible only to the server operator via local console; retention follows the server's journal settings. We also maintain an aggregate total of all data ever transferred (in GB) for capacity planning — this counter is not tied to any individual device.
 
 ## What we do not collect
 
 - We do not collect your name, email, or any personal information.
 - We do not log your internet traffic, browsing history, DNS queries, or destination IPs.
 - We do not inspect or store the content of your traffic.
-- We do not sell or share any data with third parties.
+- We do not sell your data. We do not share it with anyone, apart from what Google's ad SDK collects for ad delivery — see “Ads & Consent” below.
 
 ## Ads & Consent
 

lib/components/status_bar.dart

@@ -49,15 +49,14 @@ class StatusBar extends StatelessWidget {
       builder: (context, vpn, timer, _) {
         final isConnected = vpn.status == VpnStatus.connected;
         final isConnecting = vpn.status == VpnStatus.connecting;
-        final serverHealthy =
+        // Rule 60: reachability is known only from a session sync that
-            vpn.serverReachable || (isConnected && timer.hasSyncedOnce);
+        // succeeded, never from a probe. While disconnected the app knows
-        final sessionOrTunnelHealthy = timer.hasSyncedOnce || vpn.serverReachable;
+        // nothing about the server, so it claims nothing either way.
+        final serverHealthy = isConnected && timer.hasSyncedOnce;
 
         final statusLabel = isConnected
-            ? (sessionOrTunnelHealthy ? 'Online' : 'Syncing…')
+            ? (timer.hasSyncedOnce ? 'Online' : 'Syncing…')
-            : (isConnecting
+            : (isConnecting ? 'Connecting…' : 'Ready');
-                ? 'Connecting…'
-                : (vpn.serverReachable ? 'Ready' : 'Offline'));
 
         final detail = _detail(vpn, timer);
 

lib/logic/hivemind_service.dart

@@ -146,14 +146,13 @@ class HivemindService {
     _expectedNonce = null;
   }
 
-  // Fetches this device's VLESS URL.
+  // Fetches this device's VLESS URL. Every session starts the same way, so
-  //   adNonce — wait for the session that ad created (SSV can lag, so poll longer)
+  // there is always a nonce to bind it to: either the one the ad minted, or one
-  //   resume  — re-attach to the session already held; any nonce accepted
+  // we mint here before firing the bypass (rule 87). The re-attach path that
-  //   neither — ads off: mint a nonce and fire the bypass (rule 87)
+  // used to accept any nonce is gone - see rule 4.
   static Future<String> fetchConfigDirectly({
     void Function(int attempt, int total)? onAttempt,
     String? adNonce,
-    bool resume = false,
   }) async {
     // Capture the generation before the first await. Otherwise a disconnect
     // that lands while secure storage is resolving the device ID can be lost
@@ -162,11 +161,11 @@ class HivemindService {
     final deviceId = await CryptoService.getDeviceId();
     _throwIfCancelled(callId);
 
-    final nonce = resume ? null : (adNonce ?? newNonce());
+    final nonce = adNonce ?? newNonce();
     _expectedNonce = nonce;
 
-    if (!resume && adNonce == null) {
+    if (adNonce == null) {
-      await _runConfiguredBypass(deviceId, nonce!);
+      await _runConfiguredBypass(deviceId, nonce);
       _throwIfCancelled(callId);
     }
 
@@ -198,18 +197,6 @@ class HivemindService {
     throw Exception('Session not activated. Server callback may have timed out.');
   }
 
-  static Future<bool> checkHealth() async {
-    try {
-      final response = await controlGet(
-        _publicUrl('/health'),
-        timeout: const Duration(seconds: 3),
-      );
-      return response.statusCode == 200;
-    } catch (_) {
-      return false;
-    }
-  }
-
   static String newNonce() {
     final random = Random.secure();
     final high = random.nextInt(0x7FFFFFFF);
@@ -229,10 +216,9 @@ class HivemindService {
     }
   }
 
-  // nonce == null accepts whatever nonce the server holds (resume path).
   static Future<_HivemindSessionConfig?> _fetchActiveSession(
     String deviceId,
-    String? nonce,
+    String nonce,
   ) async {
     final statusUri = _publicUrl('/session/status').replace(
       queryParameters: {'device_id': deviceId},
@@ -245,9 +231,7 @@ class HivemindService {
 
     final serverNonce = decoded['nonce'];
     if (_expectedNonce != nonce) return null;
-    if (nonce != null && (serverNonce is! String || serverNonce != nonce)) {
+    if (serverNonce is! String || serverNonce != nonce) return null;
-      return null;
-    }
 
     if (decoded['active'] != true || decoded['vless_uuid'] == null) {
       return null;

lib/logic/session_timer.dart

@@ -158,9 +158,7 @@ class SessionTimer extends ChangeNotifier with WidgetsBindingObserver {
     }
   }
 
-  // resetSupportClaim is false when re-attaching to a session already held:
+  Future<void> start() async {
-  // the top-up is once per server session and this flag is what enforces it.
-  Future<void> start({bool resetSupportClaim = true}) async {
     _sessionEpoch++;
     _remainingSeconds = 0;
     _remainingAtLastSync = 0;
@@ -178,12 +176,11 @@ class SessionTimer extends ChangeNotifier with WidgetsBindingObserver {
     _lastEndMessage = null;
     NotificationService.reset();
 
-    if (resetSupportClaim) {
+    // Every session is new, so the once-per-session top-up resets with it.
-      _supportStateEpoch++;
+    _supportStateEpoch++;
-      _supportRewardClaimed = false;
+    _supportRewardClaimed = false;
-      _supportRewardStateLoaded = true;
+    _supportRewardStateLoaded = true;
-      unawaited(_persistSupportRewardState(false));
+    unawaited(_persistSupportRewardState(false));
-    }
 
     _timer?.cancel();
     _timer = Timer.periodic(const Duration(seconds: 1), _tick);

lib/logic/vpn_connection.dart

@@ -38,9 +38,6 @@ class VpnConnection extends ChangeNotifier {
   bool _adoptedRunningRuntime = false;
   bool get adoptedRunningRuntime => _adoptedRunningRuntime;
 
-  bool _serverReachable = false;
-  bool get serverReachable => _serverReachable;
-
   ConnectionMode _activeMode = ConnectionMode.tun;
   ConnectionMode get activeMode => _activeMode;
 
@@ -73,7 +70,6 @@ class VpnConnection extends ChangeNotifier {
     );
   }
 
-  Timer? _healthTimer;
   StreamSubscription<NetworkSnapshot>? _networkSubscription;
 
   SecureSocksSession? _lastSecureSocks;
@@ -142,11 +138,6 @@ class VpnConnection extends ChangeNotifier {
       },
     );
 
-    unawaited(_checkHealth());
-    _healthTimer = Timer.periodic(const Duration(seconds: 30), (_) {
-      unawaited(_checkHealth());
-    });
-
     try {
       final coreVersion = await _vless.getCoreVersion();
       if (!_disposed) {
@@ -200,7 +191,7 @@ class VpnConnection extends ChangeNotifier {
     }
   }
 
-  Future<bool> connect({String? adNonce, bool resume = false}) async {
+  Future<bool> connect({String? adNonce}) async {
     if (_disposed ||
         _userDisconnecting ||
         _status == VpnStatus.connected ||
@@ -266,7 +257,6 @@ class VpnConnection extends ChangeNotifier {
     try {
       realUrl = await HivemindService.fetchConfigDirectly(
         adNonce: adNonce,
-        resume: resume,
         onAttempt: (attempt, total) {
           if (!_isCurrentConnect(connectEpoch)) return;
           _setStatus(
@@ -473,14 +463,6 @@ class VpnConnection extends ChangeNotifier {
     notifyListeners();
   }
 
-  Future<void> _checkHealth() async {
-    if (_disposed || _status == VpnStatus.connected) return;
-    final reachable = await HivemindService.checkHealth();
-    if (_disposed || _status == VpnStatus.connected) return;
-    _serverReachable = reachable;
-    notifyListeners();
-  }
-
   @override
   void dispose() {
     _disposed = true;
@@ -488,7 +470,6 @@ class VpnConnection extends ChangeNotifier {
     _suppressNativeConnect = true;
     _userDisconnecting = true;
     HivemindService.cancel();
-    _healthTimer?.cancel();
     _networkSubscription?.cancel();
     // Provider/UI disposal is not a user disconnect command. Keeping teardown
     // in disconnect() prevents lifecycle churn from silently dropping the VPN.

lib/screens/settings/in_settings/connection_mode.dart

@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 import 'package:flutter/material.dart';
 import 'package:provider/provider.dart';
+import 'package:revoltvpn/logic/ad_manager.dart';
 import 'package:revoltvpn/logic/app_colors.dart';
 import 'package:revoltvpn/logic/connection_settings.dart';
 import 'package:revoltvpn/logic/local_socks_tester.dart';
@@ -67,20 +68,27 @@ class _ConnectionModeTileState extends State<ConnectionModeTile> {
     widget.onChanged?.call(next);
   }
 
-  // Recovers an orphaned proxy: tear the runtime down and re-attach to the
+  // Recovers an orphaned proxy by ending the session and starting a new one,
-  // session already held. No ad, no new session.
+  // exactly as the connect button does. Re-attaching to the session already
+  // held was the one place a session began without an ad and without a nonce
+  // to bind it to; a fresh one is the same path everywhere and hands back a
+  // full window rather than the remainder of a broken one.
   Future<void> _reconnect() async {
     if (_reconnecting) return;
     final vpn = context.read<VpnConnection>();
     final timer = context.read<SessionTimer>();
+    final ad = context.read<AdManager>();
 
     setState(() => _reconnecting = true);
     try {
       await timer.disconnect();
       if (!mounted) return;
-      if (await vpn.connect(resume: true)) {
+      final adNonce = await ad.showAd('main');
+      if (adNonce == null && AdManager.adsEnabled) return;
+      if (!mounted) return;
+      if (await vpn.connect(adNonce: adNonce)) {
         if (!mounted) return;
-        await timer.start(resetSupportClaim: false);
+        await timer.start();
       }
     } finally {
       if (mounted) {

pubspec.yaml

@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ publish_to: "none" # Remove this line if you wish to publish to pub.dev
 # In iOS, build-name is used as CFBundleShortVersionString while build-number used as CFBundleVersion.
 # Read more about iOS versioning at
 # https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/General/Reference/InfoPlistKeyReference/Articles/CoreFoundationKeys.html
-version: 3.3.7+33
+version: 3.3.8+34
 
 environment:
   sdk: ">=3.0.0 <4.0.0"

test/session_lifecycle_regression_test.dart

@@ -116,7 +116,7 @@ void main() {
     // /session/stop takes a device_id as its only proof of ownership, so it
     // must never be reachable from an error path. disconnect() is called only
     // by the connect button; _doDisconnect is every other ending.
-    final disconnectEntry = timer.indexOf('Future<void> disconnect(');
+    final disconnectEntry = timer.indexOf('Future<void> disconnect({');
     final doDisconnect = timer.indexOf('Future<void> _doDisconnect(');
     final release = timer.indexOf('HivemindService.releaseSession()');
     expect(release, greaterThan(disconnectEntry));
@@ -131,4 +131,57 @@ void main() {
       reason: 'exactly one call site',
     );
   });
+
+  test('every session starts the same way - no re-attach path', () {
+    final mode =
+        File('lib/screens/settings/in_settings/connection_mode.dart')
+            .readAsStringSync();
+    final hivemind = File('lib/logic/hivemind_service.dart').readAsStringSync();
+    final vpn = File('lib/logic/vpn_connection.dart').readAsStringSync();
+    final timer = File('lib/logic/session_timer.dart').readAsStringSync();
+
+    // SOCKS5 Reconnect used to re-attach to the session already held. It was
+    // the only place a session began without an ad and without a nonce binding
+    // it, and it needed three parameters and a carve-out in rule 4 to support.
+    // Reconnect now ends the session and starts a fresh one, like the button.
+    expect(mode, contains("ad.showAd('main')"));
+    expect(mode, contains('vpn.connect(adNonce: adNonce)'));
+    expect(mode, isNot(contains('resume: true')));
+    expect(mode, isNot(contains('release: false')));
+    expect(mode, isNot(contains('resetSupportClaim')));
+
+    // The special cases that only existed for it are gone.
+    expect(hivemind, isNot(contains('bool resume')));
+    expect(vpn, isNot(contains('bool resume')));
+    expect(timer, isNot(contains('bool release')));
+    expect(timer, isNot(contains('resetSupportClaim')));
+
+    // So the nonce is now unconditional: no path accepts whatever the server
+    // happens to hold.
+    expect(
+      hivemind,
+      contains('if (serverNonce is! String || serverNonce != nonce) return null;'),
+      reason: 'the nonce check must not be skippable',
+    );
+  });
+
+  test('nothing probes the control plane while disconnected - rule 60', () {
+    final vpn = File('lib/logic/vpn_connection.dart').readAsStringSync();
+    final hivemind = File('lib/logic/hivemind_service.dart').readAsStringSync();
+    final bar = File('lib/components/status_bar.dart').readAsStringSync();
+
+    // The runtime excludes the app from its own tunnel
+    // (XrayVPNService.kt addDisallowedApplication), so a periodic /health probe
+    // was a cleartext-SNI metronome to the API host - which resolves to the
+    // tunnel IP. It fed step 1 of the kill chain in KNOWN_SECURITY_ISSUES #3,
+    // in exchange for a green dot before the user had connected to anything.
+    expect(vpn, isNot(contains('_healthTimer')));
+    expect(vpn, isNot(contains('_checkHealth')));
+    expect(hivemind, isNot(contains('checkHealth')));
+    expect(hivemind, isNot(contains("'/health'")));
+
+    // Reachability is passive now: a session sync that succeeded, nothing else.
+    expect(bar, isNot(contains('serverReachable')));
+    expect(bar, contains('isConnected && timer.hasSyncedOnce'));
+  });
 }