A long-lived Baileys bridge survives gateway restarts AND hermes update:
connect() adopted any bridge already listening with status connected, and
disconnect() only kills bridges the adapter spawned itself. Users who
updated to get inbound media support kept talking to a bridge process
serving months-old bridge.js — images and voice notes still arrived as
placeholders with no cached file path (refs #19105 follow-up reports).
Three fixes in the same stale-bridge class:
- Staleness handshake: bridge.js reports a sha256 self-hash in /health
(scriptHash); connect() compares it against bridge.js on disk and
restarts the bridge on mismatch. Pre-handshake bridges report no hash
and are treated as stale, so every existing stale bridge gets recycled
exactly once on the next gateway start.
- npm dep refresh: deps reinstall when package.json changes (stamp file
in node_modules), not only when node_modules is missing — a Baileys
pin bump now actually lands.
- Cache-dir passthrough: the gateway passes profile-aware
HERMES_{IMAGE,AUDIO,DOCUMENT}_CACHE_DIR to the bridge instead of the
bridge hardcoding ~/.hermes/image_cache etc., fixing media paths under
HERMES_HOME overrides, profiles, and the new cache/ layout.