/_badge request <userId> sends the profile's badge request now, while
its badge is shown, and runs the badge pass on the answer, so a renewal
or an ended subscription can be watched by hand against the dev
service.
It is allowed only when ChatConfig's badgeDevRequests is set, which no
shipped build does and nothing sets at runtime: the dev-service branch
sets it beside its own badge service overrides. A request off the shared
expiry would tell requests apart, so every other build refuses it, and
it is refused from a paired remote controller.
Run: 011-subscription-tools, slice S3b
[dev] check_store_during_coverage = on makes every issueBadge for a
subscription ask the dev mock, during paid coverage too, and bank the
month of a charge it can grant, issued once coverage reaches it. So a
renewal can be watched by hand without waiting a month, and a mock that
forgot the plan after a restart answers ended at once.
Off by default, and refused unless accept_unverified_store_receipts is
on, which is itself refused beside a real store: a real store has not
started its next charge while coverage runs, and asking spends the
quota every subscriber shares.
Run: 011-subscription-tools, slice S3a
Restoring a subscription on a new device or under another profile fails for two independent reasons, the client's restore reading only unfinished transactions on iOS and the service answering any key but the one it credited receipt_used, and a lapsed iOS subscriber cannot subscribe again on the same install either. Both gaps files record it in their own format, and both restorePurchases() say why reading the store's entitlements alone would not help.
Run: 010-subscription-lifecycle, slice S2c
A subscription badge retired only on an ended answer to a request that was due, and only once the ledger's paidThrough had passed, so an ended answer while the ledger still covered, or the iOS app's report of StoreKit's expired or revoked state, left the badge shown, Support SimpleX unreachable and every purchase refused until a later request. Now an answered ended state is stored even while coverage runs (the service writes it only from a store check, after which it grants nothing), and every pass retires a subscription whose state, from this pass's answer or else as stored, is ended, whatever the ledger covers. The paidThrough guard stays at the prepaid call site, its only remaining user.
Run: 010-subscription-lifecycle, slice S1
A plain-English summary for anyone on the team, with the seven
diagrams and a self-contained HTML page; the plan links it again.
Diagrams follow the branch: Restore purchases is on Support SimpleX,
"Renewing" shows past paidThrough, and only a present retryAfter is
raised to an hour.
A summary of PR #7716 as built: buying, renewing and retiring on each
store, the retirement window, lanes and store limits, RPC, API and
database changes, alerts, tests, open items, and a review map. Seven
SVG diagrams, an HTML page with them inline, and a link from the plan.
The branch and master each added import System.FilePath ((</>)) to
Direct.hs on 2026-10-14 at different positions, and an earlier merge
kept both, so GHC warned that one was redundant. Keep master's.
Run: 008-subs-migration-split, slice 2
M20261016_badge_store_receipts shipped to master in #7587, so it must
stay as released. Restore it in both dialects and move the
subscription_status, unrenewed_since and last_unrenewed_at columns,
with the down step that clears subscription_cancelled acknowledgements
master cannot read, into M20261016_badge_subscriptions.
Run: 008-subs-migration-split, slice 1
R1-A1: the docs and the PlayReads comment said the purchase path reads Play's subscriptions at most 300 times a minute; it asks about at most 300 subscriptions, and a credited one is read once more to acknowledge it, so made-up tokens can spend at most a tenth of the quota renewal checks share.
R1-A2: a comment on RequestLane repeated the one above the queues.
R1-B1: a test that a held pass, which sends no request, leaves the unrenewed run unchanged.
R1-B2: the outage test's last wait for the run is 30 s instead of 5 s.
Run: 007-subscriptions-retirement-lane, review round 1
The window was counted from the client's paidThrough, which moves only when the client asks, so after months away the first answer that granted nothing for any reason, a transient error, Play's clipped last days or a billing retry, retired a subscriber whose store may still have been charging. The purchase now stores its unrenewed run: the first answered request after which the ledger covered nothing, and the latest one. The badge retires once the window has passed since the run started, still only after an answer; a renewal ends the run, and an answer that comes a window or more after the latest one starts a new run, since an absence or an outage that long may hide a renewal. The window stays 67 days, written as Apple's 60-day billing retry plus the week contacts give an expired credential.
Run: 007-subscriptions-retirement-lane, slice 4
spacedandy-agents-simplex