## Offband Meshcore 1.2.0 Our biggest release yet. A ground-up interface redesign, a real database under the hood, GIFs that work across every MeshCore client, and hands-on control of your radio's RF front end. This is also the first Offband release built, signed, and shipped to every platform automatically. ### One app, every platform From this release on, every Offband build ships everywhere at once, signed with the same key so updates just work: - **Android**: install from Google Play or sideload the signed APK - **Windows**: desktop build - **Linux**: desktop build - **Web**: run it right in your browser, no install, at offband.app Pick your platform below. ### A brand-new interface The headline feature. Offband has been rebuilt around a modern navigation shell that finally gets out of your way. - A **left rail** you open from the hamburger button, and can **pin open** so it lives right alongside your conversation instead of covering it. - Your **channels live in the rail** and switch **in place**, so jumping between channels never loses your spot or your scroll position. - Map layer toggles, Disconnect, and Settings all found sensible new homes in the panel, and the back button finally behaves the way it should: it backgrounds the app instead of killing it, and never knocks you off a connected radio. ### Your data, on solid ground Under the surface, Offband now keeps your messages, contacts, and channels in a real SQLite database instead of a pile of loose preference files. - Your **existing data migrates automatically** the first time you open this version. Nothing is thrown away, and your **full message history is preserved**. - Storage problems that used to fail silently now surface, so nothing goes wrong in the dark. - On desktop, your data no longer gets swept into OneDrive/Documents sync. ### GIFs everyone can see GIFs are no longer an Offband-only party trick. - Send a GIF and it goes out as a **plain Giphy link**, so people on **stock MeshCore and other clients can tap it and watch it** too, not just Offband users. - Paste a **Giphy or Tenor** link and it renders inline, behind a trusted-host safety allowlist. ### Take command of your radio's front end Power users, this one's for you. On supported hardware, Offband now gives you direct control of your radio's **FEM / LNA** (the front-end module and low-noise amplifier that shape receive sensitivity and transmit path). - Toggle **FEM LNA** right from Radio Settings. - Device Info now reads out your radio's Offband capabilities, so you can see at a glance what your hardware supports. Both are gated on firmware capability, so they appear only where the radio actually supports them. ### Deeper diagnostics More signal, less guesswork when you need to see what your mesh is doing. - Message **arrival time is now logged and persisted** separately from the claimed send time, so you can tell when a message really reached you versus when the sender says it left (#285). - Path diagnostics report **honest, width-aware units** instead of mislabeled hop counts, and path lengths decode exactly per the firmware contract. ### Faster across the board The new storage engine and a round of under-the-hood work add up to a noticeably snappier app. - Connecting no longer rewrites your entire preferences file for every channel, so connect time is quicker and lighter on storage. - Bulk reads and writes go through the database now, which scales far better as your message and contact history grows. ### And a few more - Desktop remembers your window size and position between launches. - Reach a contact's settings straight from its long-press menu. - You can no longer accidentally block your own node. --- See the full, itemized changelog in the repository.