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Why

Snapchain 0.15.0 (tag and image 23 Oct) activated protocol V21/V22 on mainnet at 2026-10-23 12:00 UTC. Nodes on 0.14.3 stop on shards 1 and 2. Both of ours were stuck at shard 1 height 49477354, about 75k blocks behind; snap.farcaster.xyz runs 0.15.0.

What changes

• Node: Snapchain is pinned to 0.15.0 in infra/node-setup.sh, scripts/devnet-compose.yml, README.md and the two "pinned to" sentences in site/index.html. The tutorial's sample output and docs/evidence/* stay as they are: they record real runs.
• Upgrade in place: re-running ./outpost node on a 0.14.3 node fetches the compose file again from the v0.15.0 tag, pulls the image and recreates only the snapchain container. The data stays and the snapshot is not loaded again. Upstream's compose file and validators.toml are identical between v0.14.3 and v0.15.0 apart from the image tag.
• Client (src/core/verify.ts, used by the CLI and the web client): 0.15.0 adds format_version (field 9) and chain (field 10) to CastAddBody, and its HTTP API returns them as formatVersion and chain. @farcaster/core 0.20.0, the latest on npm, does not have them, so the client encoded such casts without them and dropped them as altered. verify.ts now encodes both fields itself, in both byte forms apps produce, and carries them into the rebuilt message. A node still cannot add, drop or change them.
• A cast id's fid (a chain's root, a parent cast) must now be a plain integer. Before, "1234" or 1234.9 encoded to the signed 1234 and reached callers. An independent review found this.

Tested for real

• Test server outpost-shrink2 (DigitalOcean, synced from the snapshot on 0.14.3, stuck): re-ran ./outpost node with this node-setup.sh at 02:43 UTC on 25 Oct. Shards 1 and 2 moved straight away and their delay fell about 4.6 blocks/s. The 557 GB of data was kept.
• Society node fcprize-node: image tag changed to 0.15.0 and only the snapchain service recreated. Shards 1 and 2 are moving, and the gate still returns 401 without a token.
• Casts: I scanned all 6171 casts on shards 1 and 2 since the fork, through snap.farcaster.xyz /v1/events.
  • None carries formatVersion or chain yet.
  • 15 are 10k casts, up to 10000 bytes. All 15 pass, before and after this change.
  • Snapchain's own cast_add_chain_part conformance vector is reported altered by main and passes here.
• Fixtures (test/fixtures/snapchain-0.15.0-casts.json): three of those real 10k casts and the conformance vector.
• Tests: the new tests cover tampering (adding, dropping or changing either field, root fid tricks), the first cast of a chain, an empty chain, a multi-byte formatVersion, and a chained cast written the @farcaster/core way. The new tests fail when the encoding is reverted.
• Checks: typecheck, npm test (118 of 118 pass), build, test/providers.sh, test/watchdog.sh and shellcheck all pass.

Not done: the web client shows formatVersion: 1 (article Markdown) as plain text and doesn't group chains. That would need a product decision.

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Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features
  • Added support for verifying Snapchain 0.15 cast messages, including article format versions and chained casts. Cast signatures are checked with these fields included, and malformed cast identifiers are flagged as altered.
• Bug Fixes
  • Improved handling of cast identifiers, including rejecting fractional or invalid FIDs during verification.
• Documentation
  • Updated the documented and default Snapchain version to 0.15.0. The devnet and node setup now use the same version.

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Walkthrough

Outpost updates its default and documented Snapchain version to 0.15.0. Cast message handling adds optional format and chain fields, and verification includes these fields when validating and rebuilding signed messages.

Changes: Snapchain 0.15 support

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Update Snapchain version references README.md, infra/node-setup.sh, scripts/devnet-compose.yml, site/index.html	The documented and configured Snapchain image version changes from 0.14.3 to 0.15.0.
Represent and verify v0.15 cast fields src/core/hub.ts, src/core/verify.ts	The cast message shape adds optional formatVersion and chain fields. Verification validates and encodes these fields when hashing and rebuilding cast messages. FID validation rejects values that are not safe, non-negative integers.
Validate v0.15 cast verification test/fixtures/snapchain-0.15.0-casts.json, test/verify.test.ts	Fixtures and tests cover v0.15 messages, round trips, altered fields, alternate encodings, and invalid cast FIDs.

Priority: Normal

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Snapchain
  participant verifyMessage
  participant castExtra
  participant castBytes
  participant signedMessage
  Snapchain->>verifyMessage: Provide cast JSON and signed hash
  verifyMessage->>castExtra: Validate formatVersion and chain
  castExtra-->>verifyMessage: Return CastExtra
  verifyMessage->>castBytes: Encode cast with extra fields
  castBytes-->>verifyMessage: Return cast encodings
  verifyMessage->>signedMessage: Pass verified hash and CastExtra
  signedMessage-->>verifyMessage: Return rebuilt HubMessage

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Merge Risk: Low · up to 8d967

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Pre-merge checks: 4 · 1

Failed checks: 1 warning

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Docstring Coverage		Docstring coverage is 66.67% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 12 functions across 4 files. (4 skipped: …	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

Passed checks: 4 passed

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check		The title clearly and concisely summarizes the two main changes: adopting Snapchain 0.15.0 and supporting its new cast fields.
Description check		The description explains the motivation, implementation, upgrade behavior, testing, and known limitations. It does not use the template headings exactly and does not explicitly confirm the private-key…
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