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Uploading a debug bundle hands the user an upload key and nothing else. Users who want to see what the bundle holds before sharing it, or who will not upload from a beta build, have no way to get at the file.

Adds a second action to the Troubleshoot screen that writes the bundle wherever the user picks, through the system file picker. The anonymization switch applies to it exactly as it does to the uploaded bundle.

The engine generates the zip into the app cache before the picker opens. The picker stops the activity, which unbinds the VPN service, so generating afterwards failed with VPN service not connected — the result callback now only copies a finished file, which needs no binder. A spinner covers both the generation and the copy, and the picked document is deleted on failure so no empty file is left behind. Both bundle buttons are disabled while either action runs, since they share one generator.

Depends on netbirdio/netbird#7528, which adds the DebugBundleFile bridge call, the stale bundle cleanup, and the sync response persistence that makes network_map.json appear in Android bundles at all.

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  • New Features

    • Added an option in Troubleshooting to save a diagnostic bundle to a file using the system file picker.
    • Shows progress while the bundle is prepared and provides success or failure feedback after saving.
    • Added localized text for the new workflow across supported languages.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Reports an error rather than attempting to create a debug bundle when the VPN service is disconnected.

Uploading the debug bundle hands the user a key and nothing else. Users
who want to see what the bundle contains before sharing it, or who will
not upload from a beta build, have no way to get at it.

Add a second action to the Troubleshoot screen that opens the system
file picker and writes the bundle where the user chooses. The engine
generates the zip into the app cache through the new DebugBundleFile
bridge call; the fragment copies it into the picked document and
removes the temporary file. On failure the picked document is deleted
so no empty file is left behind. Both bundle buttons are disabled while
either runs, since they share one generator.

The anonymization switch applies to the saved bundle exactly as it does
to the uploaded one.

Bump the netbird submodule to the commit that adds DebugBundleFile and
the stale bundle cleanup. Until that change lands on netbird main the
pointer references the branch commit; it has to move to the merged
commit before this is merged.
The picker stops the activity, which unbinds the VPN service, so calling
the engine from the result callback failed with "VPN service not connected".
Generating the zip first leaves the callback with plain file IO, which needs
no binder. A spinner covers both the generation and the copy.
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📝 Walkthrough

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The change adds debug bundle file generation through the VPN service and a troubleshoot-screen flow that saves the generated ZIP through the system document picker. It adds temporary-file cleanup, state restoration, progress handling, UI resources, and localized messages.

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Debug bundle export

Layer / File(s) Summary
Service debug bundle API
app/src/main/java/io/netbird/client/ServiceAccessor.java, app/src/main/java/io/netbird/client/MainActivity.java, tool/src/main/java/io/netbird/client/..., netbird
The service API generates a debug bundle in the app cache and returns its ZIP path. The engine uses active platform files and delegates generation to goClient.
Troubleshoot save flow
app/src/main/java/io/netbird/client/ui/troubleshoot/TroubleshootFragment.java, app/src/main/res/layout/fragment_troubleshoot.xml, app/src/main/res/values*/strings.xml
The fragment generates the bundle in a background thread, opens a ZIP document picker, and copies the bundle to the selected URI. It restores the pending path after recreation and removes temporary files. The layout and string resources provide the save action, progress indicator, and localized status messages.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

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

Change: Feature

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant User
  participant TroubleshootFragment
  participant VPNService
  participant SystemDocumentPicker
  participant ContentResolver
  User->>TroubleshootFragment: Select save debug bundle
  TroubleshootFragment->>VPNService: Generate cached ZIP
  VPNService-->>TroubleshootFragment: Return ZIP path
  TroubleshootFragment->>SystemDocumentPicker: Open picker with suggested filename
  SystemDocumentPicker-->>TroubleshootFragment: Return selected URI
  TroubleshootFragment->>ContentResolver: Copy ZIP to selected URI
  TroubleshootFragment-->>User: Show save result
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Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to e2043

A narrow recreation timing window can lose a debug-bundle export and leave its cached ZIP behind. The issue is bounded but worth fixing before merge.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to e2043

The export requires user selection of a destination and does not expose a new cross-app service interface. The main risk is temporary diagnostic data outliving an interrupted export because cleanup ownership is not durable throughout the operation.

Retained concerns

  • Low · security · inferred: The new export does not preserve durable cleanup ownership through every transition. Only the pending ZIP path is saved; generation can publish it after a saved-state snapshot, and the picker callback clears it before copying finishes. Activity recreation or process interruption can consequently leave diagnostic data without a restored cleanup path. Normal cleanup attempts mitigate this, but dependency-level recovery could not be verified. This is a bounded retention concern, not a verified cross-app disclosure.
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Security Blast Radius

  • inferred — The evidenced exposure is diagnostic data generated using active-profile configuration and state paths, temporarily held in app cache and then delivered to the selected document provider. Complete archive contents, downstream readers, and provider retention policies remain unverified; no broader service or tenant compromise is established.

Security Findings and Attack Paths

  • inferred — The supported concern is loss of temporary-data cleanup ownership under interruption. It does not demonstrate attacker access to the cached ZIP. An external document provider receives bytes only after user-mediated destination selection; access beyond that provider boundary was not established.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed — The new sink is the Storage Access Framework document selected by the user, not a caller-supplied URI from an exported diagnostic endpoint. The existing non-exported FileProvider is scoped to logcat cache files and is not used to share the generated ZIP.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • observed — Cancellation deletes the pending source, detached generation deletes the returned file, and copying attempts source deletion in finally. Copy failure attempts destination deletion. These are meaningful controls, but deletion failures are only logged and process interruption can bypass completion cleanup.

Hardening Proposals

  • proposed — Consider a lifecycle-independent export owner with a durable operation record covering generated source, selected destination, and completion phase. Recovery could reconcile abandoned artifacts and enforce serialization, complementing verified producer-side stale-file cleanup rather than relying solely on fragment callbacks.
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The picker opens; a name is shown
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- Line 627: Update the troubleshoot delegation around debugBundleFile to capture
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197-235: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

When the document-picker result arrives after the fragment is detached, this callback clears pendingBundle and returns without deleting the generated source ZIP. Delete source before returning in the activity == null branch so abandoned exports do not leave debug bundles in the app cache.

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In
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around lines 197 - 235, Update the activity-null branch in saveDebugBundleTo so
it deletes the captured source bundle with deleteQuietly(source) before
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Design is oK. nothing critical.. only two smaller issues.
Apart for this, I don't know if it's possible/worth to test something of it..
As you address the two comments I can stamp

Comment thread app/src/main/java/io/netbird/client/ui/troubleshoot/TroubleshootFragment.java Outdated
Open the picked document with "wt" so a shorter bundle written over an
existing file does not keep trailing bytes from the previous one.
The picker creates the target document before the result callback runs,
so returning early without an activity left an empty zip in the user's
folder and the generated bundle in the app cache. Remove both, using the
application context for the content resolver.
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Approved but the submodule is still not pointing to the merged branch so you'll need stamp again for this

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Update the head of this one to main after merge and I stamp

# Conflicts:
#	app/src/main/java/io/netbird/client/ui/troubleshoot/TroubleshootFragment.java
#	tool/src/main/java/io/netbird/client/tool/EngineRunner.java

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pappz added 2 commits October 5, 2026 17:12
When the bundle finishes after the activity has saved its state, the
picker was launched from the background and the pending bundle path was
missing from the saved state. A recreation during the picker then lost
the bundle. Hold the path and open the picker on the next resume
instead, and drop the cached zip if the fragment is destroyed first.
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Update the head of this one to main after merge and I stamp

Done

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There is some red in CI here:

EngineRunner.java:72: error: method does not override or implement a method from a supertype

netbird#7548 (2b5293687, "Skip late session warnings on desktop and schedule them in the app on Android") removed OnSessionExpiring

You can either pin the submodule to 1c7d87d5f so it becomes green or adapt

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There is some red in CI here:

EngineRunner.java:72: error: method does not override or implement a method from a supertype

netbird#7548 (2b5293687, "Skip late session warnings on desktop and schedule them in the app on Android") removed OnSessionExpiring

You can either pin the submodule to 1c7d87d5f so it becomes green or adapt

maybe now

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