Negotiate new TCP sessions even when the peer epoch is known, and let the retry timer send reciprocal challenges to avoid feedback loops when confirmations are lost.
Cover peer restarts, simultaneous connects, REALITY, confirmation loss, second links, stale confirmations and deadlines. Remove forced client resets and count only validated test payloads in the UDP reconnect test.
Validation: 149 tests passed; proxy, burst and load integration tests passed; Android assembleDebug succeeded.
- u_async.c: process immediate_queue BEFORE epoll_wait in uasync_poll
- stcp_link.c: defensive NULL etcp_conn/etcp_link in stcp_link_close
- utun_instance.c: move stcp_server_list_destroy_all to Phase J (before ETCP),
add deferred drain in both Phase J and L
- stcp.h/c: STCP_HS_ENC_CLIENT 6→38, STCP_HS_ENC_SERVER 7→39,
exchange ed25519_pubkey in both handshake directions
- etcp_connections.c: copy peer_ed25519 from STCP to ETCP_CONN in
etcp_link_enter_ready_tcp; guard link->etcp in tcp_link_close_cb
- chat_sync.c: fix lk->conn NULL dereference for TCP links
- test_stcp.c: update stcp_server_create/stcp_client_connect callsites
- tools/chat_tcp_test: change transport udp→tcp
tcp_server_on_link sets conn->peer_node_id after etcp_connection_create
which adds the entry with peer_node_id=0. instance_find_conn couldnt
find TCP connections until the queue entry was re-indexed.
evgeny