meshcore-client/CHANGELOG.md

Changelog

All notable changes to Offband Meshcore. Pre-releases are tagged -beta.N / -rc.N.

[1.2.0] - 2026-07-21

A major uplift: the storage engine moved to a real database, the app got a new navigation shell, and GIFs are now shareable across MeshCore clients. First release cut end-to-end through CI (signed, all platforms).

Storage

• Bulk data (messages, contacts, channels, and more) now lives in a drift / SQLite database instead of individual SharedPreferences entries. Existing data is migrated automatically on first launch and preserved, not discarded (#335, #355, #348).
• The database is stored in the app-support directory, so it is not caught up in OneDrive/Documents sync on desktop (#335).
• Message history is kept in full; only the in-memory window is bounded, so reopening a conversation no longer risks losing older messages (#343).
• Storage failures that used to fail silently now surface (#306, #333).

Navigation

• New app shell with a hamburger nav drawer that can be pinned open (#292).
• The channel list lives in the drawer and is switchable from inside a channel; channels swap in place so a pinned panel stays put (#289).
• Map layer toggles moved into the nav panel; Disconnect and Settings moved into the panel footer (#291, #290).
• Contacts gained a prebuilt filter rail, including a Sensors type (#307, #308).
• Back-button behavior fixed: back now backgrounds the app instead of killing it, and no longer drops a user off a connected radio (#291).

GIFs

• GIFs are now shared as a Giphy URL instead of the Offband-only g:<code>, so other MeshCore clients can open them (#282).
• Pasted Giphy / Tenor URLs render inline, behind a trusted-host allowlist (#283, #284).

Other features

• Desktop window position and size are remembered across launches (#349).
• Reach a contact's settings from its long-press menu (#351).
• FEM LNA toggle in Radio Settings and Offband capabilities shown in Device Info, gated on firmware support (#304).
• Message arrival time (rxTime) is logged and persisted, distinct from the claimed send time (#285).

Fixes

• You can no longer accidentally block your own node (#250).
• Path length decodes per the firmware contract (width-aware), and path diagnostics report units truthfully (#309, #298).
• Connecting no longer rewrites the entire preferences file per channel (#306).

Under the hood

• Offband is now available as a web app at offband.app, and every release is built, signed, and published across Android, Windows, Linux, and web through CI.

[1.1.2-rc.3] - 2026-07-17

Combined entry for rc.2 (versionCode 59) and rc.3 (versionCode 60). Both shipped to the Play closed test with only a version bump; this backfills the changelog they should have carried.

Added

• Block / mute system: block a contact or a channel sender from contacts, DMs, discovery, or a channel message; blocked DMs and adverts are suppressed with a visible marker, and a name-only block promotes to the sender's public key on the next advert or DM and ages out after 30 days. Managed from Settings → Blocked. Synced to firmware on connect where the radio supports it (#168–#180, #172–#174, #169, #170).
• Per-channel notification modes: a 3-way selector (all / mentions / mute) on the Channels screen, applied at the notification gate and stored keyed to the channel PSK (#260, #261, #262).
• Path trace and topology: width-matched path tracing, a topology service and readout, RX ingestion, and a route-builder UX that groups hops by hash width rather than raw bytes (#150, #186, #156, #155, #224).
• Channel QR: share a channel as a scannable QR and scan one to add it, unified with the community scanner and using the reference-app format (#163).
• Own device public key is now full, selectable, and one-tap copyable (#234).
• Reply-to chip shown above a reply-gif, with inline @[Name] mention chips (#235).
• GPS refresh falls back to stock-firmware self-telemetry when the fork-specific query is unavailable, chosen by firmware capability (#123).
• Queue-sync diagnostics: a file log of queue-drain activity plus a manual force-drain action (#51).

Fixed

• USB open no longer wedges ESP32-C6 boards: the DTR open pulse is gated by USB vendor ID, so it fires only for nRF52 reconnect and is skipped for chips it would reset into ROM download mode (#248).
• Outgoing DMs to a blocked contact are dropped at the send path (#252).
• Contact path-length byte decodes at the device's hash width instead of being read as a raw byte count (#224).
• Stale channel slot history is cleared on channel reassignment, and the message store's device-key scope is aligned (#193, #194).
• Enter selects the highlighted emoji or mention in autocomplete (#238).
• Manual path entry honors the configured path-hash width (#155).

Changed

• The fork-only GPS query is gated on firmware capability, so stock and non-Offband radios degrade gracefully instead of erroring (#123, #144).

1.1.2-rc.1 - 2026-06-28

Added

• Channel reply UX: replying focuses the composer, and one-click route-reply sends back along the path the message arrived on (#131, #106).
• Device Info shows the connected radio's firmware version and model, and logs them to the app log on connect (#134).
• GPS state query — when a GPS-capable radio (Offband firmware) has GPS enabled, read its live GPS state (detected / fix, coordinates, satellites) from Settings → Location (#135).

Fixed

• BLE write flood (recv_queue / send_queue full) during sync on slower links: the per-minute GPS refresh no longer re-initializes the whole device each minute (which had been re-walking channels and re-draining messages) (#140).
• Repeater path-hash labels decode at the device's hash width, so multi-byte hashes render correctly (#115).

Changed

• The fork-only GPS query (0xC1) is gated on firmware capability, so stock / non-Offband MeshCore radios are never sent a command they can't answer; the GPS status section is hidden on unsupported firmware (#144).

Known issues

• The connect-time contact load can hang (red sync bar stuck) if a contact frame is lost — there's no timeout/watchdog yet (#86); reconnect to clear it.
• Companion message-sync may miss public history after a long offline gap (#91); a firmware-side fix is in progress.

[1.1.2-beta.3] - 2026-06-24

Added

• Diagnostic logging of the Observer broker-pool fetch lifecycle (request sent, header count, completed with N brokers + timing, or failed with the reason) to the shared log, so a Share-logs capture shows in plain text whether a pool load succeeds or stalls (#108).

[1.1.2-beta.2] - 2026-06-24

Fixed

• Observer broker pool no longer falsely reports "the device did not finish sending it" on large pools — the broker-list GET now uses an inactivity watchdog re-armed on each frame, so a pool that streams over several seconds completes instead of timing out at a fixed deadline (#103).

1.1.2-beta.1 - 2026-06-24

First public beta.

Added

• Observer config + MQTT broker editor: field-at-a-time SET with enabled-last activation, honest enable/disable that verifies the device actually applied the change, and broker runtime-state + resolved-default hints (#80, #89, #93).
• Cross-platform file logging to a rotating file under the app support directory, with "Open logs folder" (desktop) / "Share logs" (mobile) on the log screen (#97).
• Friendlier repeater path-hash labels (#90).
• Self-contained Windows packaging that bundles the VC++ runtime so the zip runs on a clean machine (#96).

Fixed

• Channel sync advances immediately on a device error instead of stalling on empty channel slots (#82).
• The BLE connect handshake retry is capped with backoff so it can't churn the connect or starve the contact-list load (#88).

Known issues

• Companion message-sync may miss public history after a long offline gap (#91); a firmware-side fix is in progress.
• MQTT broker / Observer features require the firmware currently in review.