A single fast probe (2.5s per transport) used to be the only chance a
connection got on cold launch and resume, so a just-woken network, a
WireGuard re-handshake, or a relay cold start (TLS + WS + E2EE) regularly
produced false "unreachable" verdicts that kicked the user to the connect
screen. Now:
- cold launch releases the splash on the fast verdict and retries once in
the background with the full connect budget — a reachable instance
reconnects on its own, and a manual connect started meanwhile wins;
- resume retries on a 4s/10s ladder, the last attempt with the full budget,
before tearing the connection down; needs-login still disconnects
immediately on every path;
- full-budget relay probes are capped at the shared 8s connect budget
instead of inheriting the 15s relay session default, so a genuinely dead
server does not pin the retry for 15 extra seconds.
Probe steps, budgets, and retry decisions all land in the connection log.
Bohdan Triapitsyn
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