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🚀 Offband Meshcore 1.7.0 is out. A foundations release: faster storage, every radio keeps its own data, and a contact list that matches your radio. Over 100 changes since 1.6.0.
⚠️ Read this before updating: it's a one-way upgrade. On first launch, 1.7.0 converts your message history to a new database format. After that, older versions of the app can't open it, so there's no going back to 1.6.0. Your messages carry over. The old copy is kept 30 days and then cleared automatically, so the database is bigger for a while. Want the space back now? App Settings > Storage > Clear Stale History Now (it asks first and never touches your messages).
💾 Storage that keeps up. One row per message instead of one giant blob per conversation, so a new message costs the same at 50,000 messages of history as at 50, and the heavy lifting is off the UI thread.
📻 Every radio keeps its own data. Discovered nodes, blocked contacts, channel notification modes, path history, and delivery records all belong to the radio they came from. A brand-new radio no longer shows up pre-blocked, and switching radios no longer flashes the last radio's history.
👥 Contacts that match your radio. No more phantom contacts piling up from adverts your radio rejected; a contact your radio actually stores still shows up on its own. And custom names: rename any contact, keep seeing what the node calls itself underneath, and your label never goes over the air or into exports.
🗺️ Region scoping. Discover a repeater's regions and scope a channel to one, so its messages flood only there. Needs MeshCore companion 1.16+ or current Offband firmware.
⚙️ Settings, reorganized. Location gets its own category (and is the one home for GPS), Buzzer and tones moves to Message Settings, and import/export plus GPX live under Actions. Badge tones, custom tunes, screen settings, and GPS power save are built in and will appear once the matching Offband firmware ships.
🖥️ CLI for stock 1.18 companions. A Device CLI console for your radio, remote CLI to another companion from the chat menu, and a per-contact Remote CLI permission toggle. CLI stays out of your chat.
📶 Steadier Bluetooth. Auto-reconnect now gives up after 5 tries or 3 minutes, Stop ends it right away, and a connect you start always wins. Plus a fix for a race that could leave the composer unusable, and a Windows crash on close.
🔧 Fixes. Messages with 2- or 3-byte path hashes show the right hop count (no more 13 hops reading as 39).
📥 Get it on Google Play: search Offband MeshCore, or https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=app.offband.meshcore (rolling out in stages, so it may take a few days to reach you) 💻 Desktop (Windows / Linux) and Android APK: https://github.com/OffbandMesh/meshcore-client/releases/tag/v1.7.0 🌐 Or run it in your browser: https://offband.app
💚 Thanks as always to the OKIMesh community (https://okimesh.org/). Offband is open source and always will be; if you'd like to help keep it going: https://offband.org/donate