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Labels freddie.producer.outcomes with the consumer's broflake version, from the X-BF-Version header consumers already send. This lets us compare stall rates for consumers on old and new pion without a client release.

Why

The pion upgrade (#478) shipped in Lantern 10.0.4-beta.5. In rtcprobe it took connections at 20% loss from 16/26 to 27/30, and the fix is on the consumer side. The consumer makes the offer, so it's the DTLS server, and DTLS is where about a quarter of attempts stall after ICE connects. But freddie's outcome labels said nothing about which build a consumer runs. 13 hours after the beta, the population totals were dominated by non-beta clients and by the daily cycle of consumers in China, so we couldn't see any effect.

Every consumer already sends broflake's common.Version in X-BF-Version on its offer, and it lines up with the pion upgrade:

Lantern	X-BF-Version	pion/dtls
10.0.0	v2.3.12	v3.1.2
10.0.4-beta.4	v2.3.20	v3.1.2
10.0.4-beta.5	v2.3.23	v3.1.15

No release has shipped a broflake between v2.3.20 and #478. So v2.3.23 means the new pion, and labeling from this header measures beta.5's attempts as soon as Freddie deploys.

How

sequenceDiagram
    autonumber
    participant C as Consumer<br/>consumer.go
    participant F as Freddie<br/>freddie.go
    participant P as Volunteer<br/>producer.go

    C->>F: consumer.go:334<br/>POST offer + X-BF-Version v2.3.23, unchanged
    Note over F: freddie.go:840<br/>cache offer ID → country, NormalizeConsumerVersion ⚠️
    F->>P: offer, ReplyTo = offer ID
    P-->>C: answer, ICE, DTLS handshake
    P->>F: next genesis: prev-outcome + prev-offer-id
    Note over F: outcomes.go:39<br/>take offer ID → consumer_country, consumer_version

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The version travels the same path consumer_country already uses (#475). It's cached per offer when the offer arrives, and taken once when the volunteer reports how that attempt ended.

Changes

• common/outcome.go:

  • NormalizeConsumerVersion maps the client-controlled header onto at most 42 values, relative to the Version Freddie itself was built from (Freddie deploys from main, so it's the newest):

    Header	Label
    Freddie's major and minor, from 31 patches behind to 8 ahead	the version (v2.3.23)
    Any other version with Freddie's major	older or newer
    Empty	not_sent
    Anything else, including pre-release suffixes	invalid

    The window moves with Freddie, so there's no list to maintain. Once a client falls more than 31 patches behind, it shows up as older. A minor-version bump turns every previous-minor client into older too.

  • The label is rebuilt from the parsed numbers, never a substring of the header, so a cached entry can't pin a large header. Parsing uses SplitN(…, 4), so a header full of dots costs nothing.

  • OutcomeConsumerVersion adds unknown (Freddie has no record of the offer) and unreported (the volunteer predates offer IDs), matching consumer_country.

• freddie/offerconsumer.go: the offer-country cache, renamed and now holding {country, version}. Its TTL, size cap and take-once behaviour are unchanged.
• freddie/freddie.go: offers are now cached even without a ConsumerCountry hook. Country targeting itself is untouched.

No client changes. An earlier revision of this PR added a pion/dtls version header to the consumer instead. That needed a client release to measure anything, and it put one more header in front of the CDN, so it was dropped.

Caveat: a proxy, not the pion version

A broflake version identifies a commit range, not a pion version. For this comparison it's exact (see the table). For future pion bumps, look up which pion/dtls each broflake version's go.mod pins, or bump common.Version in the same PR as the pion change.

Testing

• go test -race ./...: ok. GOOS=js GOARCH=wasm go build ./clientcore/ ./common/: ok.
• New tests:
  • common/outcome_test.go:
    • the window's edges, older and newer, other majors, malformed versions, and a window reaching below patch 0;
    • a bound check: every v2.M.P with M ≤ 20 and P ≤ 200 yields at most 42 labels;
    • a check that the label doesn't share the header's memory.
  • freddie/offerconsumer_test.go: end to end through Freddie's HTTP handler:
    • a delivered offer is labeled with both country and version;
    • an old consumer gets older;
    • the version is still recorded without a country hook;
    • a second report of the same offer gets unknown.

Risk

Low: one more metric label, read from a header Freddie already validates (major version) on every request. The riskiest file is freddie/freddie.go: offers are now cached even without a country hook. That changes nothing in production, where the hook is set, and the cache's cap and TTL still bound it.

How to revert

Revert the merge commit.

Pre-PR review (local Codex gate)

• Rounds: 3 on the first revision at high reasoning effort, then a verification round on the fix below. After the rework, one more round covered the whole branch.
• Final: CODEX GATE: verdict=approve critical=0 important=0 minor=0 preexisting=0 reviewed=18, reviewed at 5fa7b6c over origin/main...5fa7b6c. The first attempt failed with "Selected model is at capacity" and was retried.
• Exit: approve
• Step back: not needed
• Fixed during review of the first revision (the pion/dtls header). Each carried over to this design:
  • Label cardinality, about 20,000 values (background security review). Now at most 42.
  • The cached label was a substring of the header, so a padded header stayed in Freddie's 24-hour cache (Codex r2, important). Labels are now rebuilt from the parsed numbers.
  • An empty version from a replace with a local directory (CodeRabbit at cb20dc8). This no longer applies, since the client no longer reads build info.
• Fixed in the rework: strings.Split on a header full of dots allocated one string per dot. Now SplitN(…, 4).
• Dismissed: none
• Pre-existing (not introduced here, worth filing): none
• Proposed AGENTS.md additions: none
• Copilot (at cb20dc8, the first revision): no open issues.

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Walkthrough

Client offers now report Pion DTLS information. Freddie stores consumer country and DTLS values by offer ID, then includes normalized consumer labels in producer outcome reporting.

Changes: Consumer DTLS attribution

Layer / File(s)	Summary
DTLS reporting and normalization common/outcome.go, common/outcome_test.go, clientcore/consumer.go, clientcore/webrtc_api.go, clientcore/webrtc_api_js.go, clientcore/webrtc_api_test.go	Client offers send a Pion DTLS header. Shared functions normalize version values and represent missing, unknown, and unreported values. Tests cover version discovery, header transmission, and normalization.
Offer consumer cache freddie/freddie.go, freddie/offerconsumer.go, freddie/offerconsumer_test.go, freddie/offercountry.go, freddie/offercountry_test.go	Freddie stores normalized consumer values for offers, removes entries after retrieval or failed delivery, and enforces expiration and capacity limits. The country-only cache and its tests are removed.
Producer outcome labels freddie/outcomes.go, freddie/outcomes_test.go	Producer outcome reporting consumes the prior offer’s consumer record and adds country and DTLS labels.

Priority: Normal

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Change: Feature

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant ClientcoreConsumer
  participant FreddieOfferHandler
  participant offerConsumerCache
  participant recordProducerOutcome
  ClientcoreConsumer->>FreddieOfferHandler: Send offer with Pion DTLS header
  FreddieOfferHandler->>offerConsumerCache: Store consumer values by offer ID
  recordProducerOutcome->>offerConsumerCache: Take values for prior offer ID
  offerConsumerCache-->>recordProducerOutcome: Return consumer values
  recordProducerOutcome->>recordProducerOutcome: Add normalized outcome labels

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Possibly related PRs

• getlantern/unbounded#478: Updates the linked Pion DTLS dependency whose version this change reports.
• getlantern/unbounded#475: Adds the offer ID flow and country attribution that this change extends.
• getlantern/unbounded#470: Adds the producer outcome report and metric that this change extends.

Suggested reviewers: noahlevenson, reflog

Merge Risk: Low · up to cb20d

Clients built with a local DTLS replacement would be counted as older clients that did not report a version. This is a bounded attribution error that should be fixed or accepted before merging.

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Title check		The title "Label volunteer outcomes with the consumer's broflake version" is inconsistent with the changeset. The change labels producer outcomes with the consumer's github.com/pion/dtls/v3 version, r…	Change the title to name the pion/dtls version, for example: "Label volunteer outcomes with the consumer's pion/dtls version".

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Explanation

The title "Label volunteer outcomes with the consumer's broflake version" is inconsistent with the changeset. The change labels producer outcomes with the consumer's github.com/pion/dtls/v3 version, reported as consumer_dtls, not a broflake version. The title is partially related: it names the right area (volunteer outcome labeling tied to the consumer), but the version it names is wrong, so it misleads a reader about what changed.

Resolution

Change the title to name the pion/dtls version, for example: "Label volunteer outcomes with the consumer's pion/dtls version".

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What changed in this PR

Adds the consumer’s pion/dtls version to volunteer outcome metrics, extending the existing consumer-country attribution so handshake stall rates can be compared across client versions.

Changes:

• Reports the native DTLS dependency version on consumer offers, with a browser-specific value for WebAssembly.
• Normalizes versions into bounded labels and caches them alongside consumer country without changing cache limits or expiry.
• Extends tests for version reporting, normalization, cache behavior, and outcome labels.

File	Description
freddie/​outcomes.go	Adds consumer DTLS and country labels from one cache lookup.
freddie/​outcomes_test.go	Updates metric assertions for the DTLS label.
freddie/​offercountry.go	Removes the country-only cache implementation.
freddie/​offercountry_test.go	Replaces country-only tests with combined attribution tests.
freddie/​offerconsumer.go	Stores country and DTLS values with existing cache bounds.
freddie/​offerconsumer_test.go	Tests cache lifecycle and HTTP offer attribution.
freddie/​freddie.go	Caches normalized DTLS values independently of the country hook.
common/​outcome.go	Defines the header and bounded DTLS label mappings.
common/​outcome_test.go	Tests normalization, cardinality, and input-memory independence.
clientcore/​webrtc_api.go	Reads and caches the linked native DTLS version.
clientcore/​webrtc_api_test.go	Tests dependency lookup and offer headers.
clientcore/​webrtc_api_js.go	Supplies the browser DTLS identifier.
clientcore/​consumer.go	Attaches the DTLS version header to offers.

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