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