From 8f1370a18c9389fae46caf2587a3b8ae94bcab9e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Jos=C3=A9=20dos=20Santos=20Junior?=
 <8673366+MarToxAk@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Sat, 7 Nov 2026 09:53:17 -0300
Subject: [PATCH] fix(baileys): ack top-level <status> stanzas

WhatsApp is rolling out delivery of contacts' statuses as a top-level
<status> stanza instead of <message from="status@broadcast">. Baileys
7.0.0-rc13 has no handler for it, so it is never acked: the server ends
the stream ~50 min later (stream:error ack class="status", code 500)
and holds back new inbound messages for that session, which then stays
"open" but receives nothing.

Backport WhiskeySockets/Baileys#2883 via patch-package until it ships in
a Baileys release.

Fixes #2778

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
---
 patches/baileys+7.0.0-rc13.patch | 42 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 42 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 patches/baileys+7.0.0-rc13.patch

diff --git a/patches/baileys+7.0.0-rc13.patch b/patches/baileys+7.0.0-rc13.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..079b12e448
--- /dev/null
+++ b/patches/baileys+7.0.0-rc13.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,42 @@
+diff --git a/node_modules/baileys/lib/Socket/messages-recv.js b/node_modules/baileys/lib/Socket/messages-recv.js
+index f2003ac..f6ef9e0 100644
+--- a/node_modules/baileys/lib/Socket/messages-recv.js
++++ b/node_modules/baileys/lib/Socket/messages-recv.js
+@@ -1576,11 +1576,25 @@ export const makeMessagesRecvSocket = (config) => {
+             return exec(node, false).catch(err => onUnexpectedError(err, identifier));
+         }
+     };
++    // Some accounts now get contacts' statuses as a top-level <status> stanza
++    // instead of <message from="status@broadcast">. It isn't decoded here, but it
++    // must be acked: otherwise the server ends the stream ~50 minutes later with
++    // <stream:error><ack class="status"/></stream:error> and holds back new messages.
++    // Backport of WhiskeySockets/Baileys#2883.
++    const handleStatus = async (node) => {
++        try {
++            await sendMessageAck(node);
++        }
++        catch (error) {
++            onUnexpectedError(error, 'acking status stanza');
++        }
++    };
+     const offlineNodeProcessor = makeOfflineNodeProcessor(new Map([
+         ['message', handleMessage],
+         ['call', handleCall],
+         ['receipt', handleReceipt],
+-        ['notification', handleNotification]
++        ['notification', handleNotification],
++        ['status', handleStatus]
+     ]), {
+         isWsOpen: () => ws.isOpen,
+         onUnexpectedError,
+@@ -1621,6 +1635,10 @@ export const makeMessagesRecvSocket = (config) => {
+     ws.on('CB:notification', async (node) => {
+         await processNode('notification', node, 'handling notification', handleNotification);
+     });
++    ws.on('CB:status', async (node) => {
++        // processNode acks ignored JIDs itself, outside handleStatus' try/catch
++        await processNode('status', node, 'acking status stanza', handleStatus).catch(error => onUnexpectedError(error, 'acking status stanza'));
++    });
+     ws.on('CB:ack,class:message', (node) => {
+         handleBadAck(node).catch(error => onUnexpectedError(error, 'handling bad ack'));
+     });