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## Offband Meshcore 1.7.0
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A foundations release. Message history moves to a new storage format that stays fast no
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matter how much of it you have, every radio you connect now keeps its own data, and the
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contact list follows what your radio actually holds. On top of that: custom contact
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names, region scoping for channels, a reorganized Settings, a CLI console for stock
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MeshCore 1.18 companions, and a steadier Bluetooth reconnect. Over 100 changes since
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1.6.0.
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### Please read before updating: a one-way storage upgrade
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The first time 1.7.0 starts, it converts your message history to a new database format.
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**After that, going back to an earlier version of the app is not possible**: older
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versions cannot open the converted database. Your messages carry over; the conversion
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checks every conversation and keeps the original data for any it cannot verify.
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The old copy of your history is kept for 30 days and then cleared automatically. Until
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then the database is larger than before, because it briefly holds your history twice.
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To reclaim that space now, use **App Settings > Storage > Clear Stale History Now**. It
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asks first, shows what will be cleared, and never touches your messages. Anything it
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cannot verify, it keeps and tells you so (#917, #919, #920, #943, #952, #962, #965, #966).
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### Message storage that keeps up
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- History is stored **one row per message** instead of one large block per
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conversation, so receiving a message costs the same at 50,000 messages of history as
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at 50 (#920).
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- Saving, merging, and deleting history now run **off the UI thread**, so a long
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channel no longer stalls the screen (#919).
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### Every radio keeps its own data
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If you use more than one radio, switching between them no longer mixes their data:
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- **Discovered nodes** belong to the radio that heard them (#754).
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- **Blocked contacts** belong to the radio that holds them, and a brand-new radio no
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longer comes up with another radio's blocks (#471). With no radio connected, the
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Blocked pane says so instead of looking empty (#938).
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- **Channel notification modes** are set per radio and can be reset properly (#839).
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- **Path history and delivery records** are kept per radio (#937).
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- After a dropped connection, connecting a different radio no longer briefly shows the
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previous radio's history (#939). Isolation is checked across radio switches and app
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restarts (#940).
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### Contacts that match your radio
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- The contact list now comes from your radio's own contact sync. Overheard adverts the
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radio rejected (past its hop limit or capacity) no longer pile up as phantom
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contacts, and a contact the radio does store still appears on its own, with no
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manual sync needed (#838).
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- **Custom names**: give any contact a name of your own. Adverts keep updating what the
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node calls itself underneath without moving your label, and where the two differ you
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can see both. Your label is never sent over the air or included in exports or
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contact shares. Custom names belong to the radio you set them on (#750).
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### Region scoping
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- **Discover the regions** a repeater knows, then **set a channel's region scope** so
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its messages flood only within that region. The repeater picker is searchable and
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lists the repeaters you can actually reach (#812, #830, #836).
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- Requires MeshCore companion firmware 1.16 or newer, or current Offband firmware. On
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older firmware the option stays hidden.
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### Settings, reorganized
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- **Location** is its own Settings category and the one place for GPS (#977).
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- **Button actions** stay in Node Settings, and **Buzzer and tones** moves to Message
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Settings, since some boards have a buzzer and no buttons (#978).
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- Config import and export, GPX exports, and "Sync queued messages now" moved to
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**Actions**, and the Debug section is reordered (#902).
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- Event tones, custom tune editing, screen settings, and a GPS Off / On / Power save
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control are built in, and appear only on a radio whose Offband firmware supports
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them. That firmware is not released yet, so for now these stay hidden (#969, #970,
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#971, #981, #986, #987).
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### CLI for stock MeshCore 1.18 companions
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- A **Device CLI console** for the connected radio, at the top of the Debug section,
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with per-reply timing and secret replies masked (#868).
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- **Remote CLI** to another companion over the mesh, from the chat menu's CLI console
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action, plus a per-contact **Remote CLI** permission toggle that controls who may run
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CLI on your radio. CLI traffic stays in the console and out of your chat (#870).
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- Both need a stock MeshCore 1.18 companion; on other firmware they stay hidden.
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### Bluetooth and stability
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- **Automatic reconnect is bounded**: it stops after 5 attempts or 3 minutes,
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whichever comes first, **Stop** ends it immediately, and a connection you start
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yourself always takes over (#997).
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- A connection started while a disconnect was still finishing no longer leaves the
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status stuck and the composer unusable (#997).
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- Windows: fixed a crash when closing the app (#989).
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### Fixes
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- Messages with 2- or 3-byte path hashes show the right hop count (a 13-hop message
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no longer reads as 39 hops), and the Packet Path screen agrees with the chat (#985).
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- The Device CLI console now appears on stock MeshCore 1.18.0 radios whose version
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string carries a build suffix (#946).
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### For troubleshooting
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- On Android 11 and newer, the exported debug log now includes the system's own record
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of why the app last stopped, including any "app not responding" trace, so a report
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can explain a freeze without anyone digging (#906).
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