mtflute 0.4.0

Pure-Dart Telegram MTProto client (API layer 228) with a built-in HTTP streaming engine for mediakit / video players.

Changelog

0.4.0

Implements the remaining missing MTProto features from the deep feature audit.

Auth

• QR-code login — client.qrLogin() (auth.exportLoginToken / importLoginToken), returns a tg://login?token=… URL and completes when scanned.
• 2FA password setting/changing — client.edit2FA(currentPassword, newPassword, hint, email) with a new computeDigest SRP primitive; pass an empty newPassword to remove the password.
• Multiple simultaneous DC connections with per-DC persisted auth keys — SessionData now stores a dc_keys map (file + gogram-compatible string session). exportToDc reuses a cached per-DC key instead of re-running export/import each time.
• AUTH_KEY_DUPLICATED — regenerates the auth key on that DC and retries instead of reusing a poisoned key.
• logOut() also clears in-memory auth and the persisted session.

Updates

• Common-box pts dedup + gap detection — already-applied updates are skipped and a forward gap triggers getDifference.
• seq gap detection for updates / updatesCombined envelopes.

Transport

• Proxy support — Proxy.socks5 / Proxy.socks4 / Proxy.http (with auth); pass proxy: to MtpClient.

Files

• CDN download — upload.getCdnFile with AES-256-CTR decryption and reuploadCdnFile handling; CDN-served files no longer throw.

Secret chats (E2E)

• startSecretChat / acceptSecretChat / completeSecretChat / discardSecretChat — Diffie-Hellman key exchange, key-fingerprint verification, MTProto-2.0 E2E encryption, in/out seq tracking.
• sendSecretMessage / decryptSecretMessage for text messages; onSecretChatUpdate / onEncryptedMessage handlers.

Misc

• Default appVersion now tracks the library version (libVersion).
• TL strings and SRP passwords are UTF-8.

0.3.0

New MTProto features found by a deep missing-feature audit against the official docs.

Updates

• channels.getChannelDifference: per-channel pts is now tracked and gaps are recovered via getChannelDifference (channels have their own message box; the common getDifference never returns channel messages). Handles UpdatesChannelDifference / Empty / TooLong.
• updateChannelTooLong now triggers a channel-difference catch-up instead of being dropped.
• getDifference now loops on updates.differenceSlice until it drains, instead of applying a single slice and stopping.
• Channel-message gap detection from pts / pts_count on updateNewChannelMessage.

Service messages

• msg_detailed_info / msg_new_detailed_info are acknowledged (the server otherwise re-sends the notification indefinitely).
• msgs_state_req is answered by acking the referenced message ids.
• The periodic keepalive is now ping_delay_disconnect (75s), so the server also reaps a half-open connection if the client goes silent.

Outgoing

• Requests larger than 512 bytes are gzip_packed before sending, per the spec's recommendation to compress large queries.

Transport

• IPv6 endpoints are bracketed ([addr]:port) so the port is unambiguous; address parsing no longer breaks on the colons in IPv6.

Auth / media

• logOut() now invalidates the auth key, clears the peer cache, and deletes the persisted session file.
• inflateStrippedThumb() reconstructs a full JPEG from a photoStrippedSize thumbnail.

0.2.9

Stability under parallel file transfer, plus a round of MTProto spec-conformance fixes.

Stability

• Fixed an unhandled async error crash: connect()'s single-flight gate completed with an error that had no listener when _doConnect failed and no concurrent caller was waiting, killing the isolate mid-download.
• Outgoing msgs_ack: the client now acknowledges content-related server messages (odd seqno), batched at a threshold of 10 with a 300ms flush timer. Missing acks made the server resend and drop connections under sustained load ("Peer closed connection").
• invoke now retries transient network / reconnect / salt errors within a 2-minute budget instead of giving up after 3 tries, so a flapping worker recovers instead of throwing.
• Reconnect backoff is flap-aware: a connection that dies seconds after connecting no longer reconnects at full speed; the delay escalates with the flap count.
• Download now keeps workers × pipeline chunks in flight (pipelined) rather than just workers.

MTProto spec conformance

• Decrypt now validates the message length and padding (length divisible by 4, padding in [12,1024], no read past the buffer) per the security guidelines, replacing an uncontrolled RangeError with a clean protocol error.
• Container inner messages now handle bad_server_salt / new_session_created / bad_msg_notification / pong / msgs_ack, not just rpc_result — previously service messages wrapped in a container were ignored.
• gzip_packed is now unwrapped when it appears as an update body (top-level or inside a container).
• 4-byte transport-error frames (e.g. -404) are detected in the transport and surfaced as TransportError.
• _lastMsgId is reset after a bad_msg 16/17 time correction so the monotonicity clamp doesn't pin new ids to the pre-correction clock.
• DH handshake now verifies dh_prime is a safe prime (Miller-Rabin on p and (p-1)/2) and that the generator g satisfies its quadratic-residue condition; g_b gets the same 2^1984 range bound as g_a.
• Download chunkSize must now divide 1 MB (in addition to being a multiple of 4096, ≤ 1 MB) so no request crosses a 1 MB boundary.

0.2.8

• Fixed MSGID_DECREASE_RETRY when a caller mixes parallel worker RPCs (via threads: >1 on uploadFile / downloadStream / downloadRange) with main-connection RPCs. copyAuthFrom now copies the parent's _timeOffset so same-DC sub-clients agree with main on encoded msg-id timestamps.
• Exported sub-clients created by exportToDc are marked workerMode = true and skip the updates loop / ping timer, avoiding needless updates.getState traffic on file-transfer workers.
• Raised the internal _maxWorkers cap from 3 to 16 so explicit threads: N requests up to 16 are honored.
• Verified end-to-end at threads = 1, 4, 8, 12: no MSGID_DECREASE_RETRY, byte-exact roundtrip, main connection intact for subsequent RPCs.

0.2.7

• Logger now prefixes each line with a HH:MM:SS.mmm timestamp by default. Disable via Logger(showTimestamp: false).

0.2.6

• Updated Telegram API to layer 228 (from TDesktop dev).
• README rewritten for clarity, with an expanded Flutter integration example.

0.2.5

• New client.downloadBlock(peer:, msgId:, blockIndex:) — a streaming-optimized single-block fetch for local range servers. Downloads one aligned block (default 1 MB) clamped to the file's real size, over the primary connection with the 512 KB pipelined sub-chunk config that benchmarked fastest and most drop-resistant for serialized byte-range streaming (a local HTTP shim feeding a player: 512 KB sub-chunks pipeline two Upload.getFile per block ≈ 1.4 MB/s vs ≈ 0.9 MB/s for a single 1 MB request). Wraps downloadMessageRange with the offset/clamp math a range server would otherwise repeat, sharing the same media cache and file_reference refresher. Returns an empty list past EOF.

0.2.4

• downloadRange worker pool now puts the primary (main) connection first and always includes it. The primary connection is the most stable; exported sub-DC senders can be dropped by the DC under concurrent load, so preferring the primary eliminates the "Peer closed connection" reconnect churn that was tanking sustained throughput. Retuned _countWorkers / _pipelinePerWorker for pipelined reads on the primary connection.

0.2.3

• Tuned downloadRange concurrency: 4 connections x 4 pipelined requests each, retuned _countWorkers thresholds. Balances throughput against the DC's connection-drop anti-abuse on high-latency mobile paths.

0.2.2

Fixes video playback stability + eliminates player jank. Validated end-to-end with ffprobe/ffmpeg against a real streamed file (clean decode mid-file, no corruption, faster than realtime).

• Off-isolate decryption. Large ciphertexts (file chunks, ≥128 KB) now decrypt in a persistent worker-isolate pool (decrypt_pool.dart) instead of on the main isolate. The AES-IGE block loop no longer blocks UI rendering / the local stream server — measured main-isolate stalls dropped from ~90 ms to ~38 ms during sustained streaming. _processIncoming / deserializeEncrypted gained async variants; small messages still decrypt inline. Dispatch is by msgId so the isolate hop cannot reorder RPC results.
• Reconnect no longer crashes downloads. Transient "pending request invalidated" reconnect errors are retried instead of surfacing as an unhandled async exception (which previously killed the serving connection — the "nothing plays" symptom for HTTP-streamed media).

0.2.1

Streaming throughput + smoothness fixes (benchmarked on a high-RTT mobile path).

downloadRange / worker pool

• Per-connection request pipelining (up to 3 concurrent upload.getFile per connection, demuxed by msgId) — the previous 1-request-per-worker model capped throughput at ~1 MB/s on high-RTT paths. Measured ~10x improvement (0.3 → 3+ MB/s sustained). Connection count kept low because DCs drop many simultaneous fresh connections; pipelining supplies the concurrency instead.
• Transient reconnect errors ("reconnect: pending request invalidated", "Not connected", timeouts) are now retryable in the part-fetch loop instead of fatally aborting the whole range download.
• Future.wait(eagerError: false) on part fetches so a fast-failing part can't orphan sibling in-flight parts (which previously surfaced as an unhandled async exception during a reconnect storm).
• _countWorkers retuned; retries per part raised to 20 with capped backoff.

crypto

• AES-IGE encrypt/decrypt rewritten to be allocation-free per block (was ~3 Uint8List allocations per 16-byte block → ~96k allocations + heavy GC per 512 KB chunk on the single Dart isolate, a major source of video-player jank / frozen spinners). Verified byte-identical to the previous output.

0.2.0

Streaming engine release. Three deep-audit rounds against a gogram reference (150+ raw findings, ~80 confirmed, ~50 fixed).

Layer + codegen

• Bumped Telegram API to layer 227 (from TDesktop dev).
• Fixed tool/tlgen.dart handling of {X:Type} generics and !X template refs.

File streaming

• New client.downloadStream(location) returns Stream<Uint8List> (in-order, parallel workers under the hood).
• New client.downloadRange(location, start, end) for arbitrary byte ranges with parallel workers, FILE_MIGRATE + FILE_REFERENCE_EXPIRED handling.
• New client.streamMessage(peer, msgId) and client.downloadMessageRange(peer, msgId, start, end) — resolve media via the built-in cache and yield bytes.
• New TelegramFileStreamServer — local HTTP server that publishes any Telegram file as a URL with full HTTP Range 206 support, HEAD, CORS, seek-aware prefetch, per-entry LRU chunk cache, and per-request cancellation on client disconnect. Feed the URL to mediakit / video_player / <video>.
• server.publishMessage(peer, msgId) returns a stable URL; the chunk cache lives across HTTP requests.
• server.warmup(dcId, workers) pre-opens cross-DC senders so first fetch doesn't pay exportAuth latency.
• MediaLocationCache — LRU keyed by (peerId, msgId) → ResolvedMedia(location, size, mime, dcId, fileName, duration) with 20h TTL under Telegram's 24h file_reference window.

Session + peer persistence

• Peer cache (users, channels, chats, usernames) now serialized inside SessionData and reloaded on next start — no more re-resolve after app restart.
• Atomic session write (unique tmp filename + POSIX rename, no delete-then-rename data-loss window).
• Async debounced flush (2s window) + guaranteed flush on close().
• String session format now byte-compatible with gogram (1BvE + RawURL base64 JSON; legacy 1BvX also parsed correctly for binary keys via latin1).
• SessionData.dcId always round-trips.

Reconnect + transport

• _ensureReady waits for in-flight reconnect (bounded by client timeout); no more racing double-dials.
• _reconnect is single-flight, uses persisted auth key, exponential backoff with jitter.
• Ping is fire-and-forget — no leaked pending completers.
• bad_msg codes 32/33/48 drain all pending requests and let invoke() transparently retry on the fresh session.
• bad_server_salt transparently retries only the affected request (was killing all pending).
• Terminal auth errors (AUTH_KEY_UNREGISTERED, etc.) disable autoReconnect; a subsequent successful loginBot / signIn / checkPassword re-enables it.
• Transport now tracks lastReadAt; _ensureReady force-reconnects if the socket has been idle >90s (catches silently-dead sockets after Android backgrounding).
• Transport close() wakes stuck reads instead of hanging.
• Read-idle timeout on transport (75s) surfaces silently-dead peers.

File upload/download

• Upload closes RAF only after all worker futures resolve (was closing while siblings still reading).
• chunkSize validated as power-of-2 multiple of 1024 that divides 512 KB.
• FLOOD_WAIT respected per part.
• Retries bounded, non-retryable errors (StateError, UnimplementedError) fail fast instead of looping 5 times.
• Parallel downloadStream stops correctly on last chunk (not on any short chunk).

Crypto + TL correctness

• TL strings are now UTF-8 (was UTF-16 code units — broke every non-ASCII payload).
• bigIntToBytes fixed: big-endian left-pad, high-order trim (was truncating low bytes / padding wrong side).
• auth_key left-padded to exactly 256 bytes.
• writeBytes refuses payloads > 16 MiB instead of silently truncating.

Android/Flutter

• No default relative sessionFile — you must pass an absolute path (from path_provider).
• Login callback prompts throw a clear error on mobile instead of using stdin.
• SIGINT handler uses logger instead of print.
• Everything runs on dart:io only — no dart:mirrors/dart:ffi/isolates. See example/flutter_engine.dart for a ready-to-drop TgEngine singleton.

Cache correctness

• Access hash preserved when server sends minimal peer without hash.
• Reverse username mappings pruned on rename.
• LRU eviction (default 100k users / 20k channels) prevents unbounded growth in long-running engines.
• getDifference backs off on FLOOD_WAIT instead of hammering every 3s.

0.1.3

• Fixed DC migration loop: migrate now kills the old poll loop before reconnecting, preventing duplicate pollers and repeated migrations.
• Migration depth capped at 5 (matching gogram) to prevent infinite recursion.
• Poll loop and reconnect logic bail immediately during active migration instead of racing.

0.1.2

• Fixed reconnect-spam loop: long-poll TCP reads no longer time out at 15s and trigger false reconnects.
• Reconnect is now single-flight (mutex-guarded), capped at 20 attempts, with exponential backoff (1s → 30s max).
• Poll loop runs once per client lifetime — no more concurrent pollers spawned per reconnect.

0.1.1

• Shorter pub.dev description.
• Replaced stub example with a real bot quickstart (inline buttons + callback handler).
• Bumped pointycastle to ^4.0.0 and lints to ^6.0.0.
• Added dartdoc coverage on generated TL types and the main client surface.

0.1.0 — first publish

Initial release. Pure-Dart MTProto client against Telegram API layer 225.

• Auth: bot tokens, phone + OTP + 2FA (SRP), string + file sessions
• Messaging: send/edit/delete/forward/pin, Markdown + HTML parse modes, inline button builder
• Updates: socket push + getDifference polling, dedup, auto-reconnect with backoff
• Files: multi-worker parallel up/download, cross-DC sender pool with caching
• DC migration: transparent on USER/PHONE/FILE/NETWORK_MIGRATE
• Conversation API, channels admin ops, participant iteration, bot commands, callback/inline answers
• Logger with TRACE/DEBUG/INFO/WARN/ERROR levels
• 64 tests: 55 unit + 9 live against Telegram