WHAT
- route_page: _default_reply_channel() derives the reply select default
from msg.channel instead of the first entry in the channel list
- models: new Message.date field, now_date() and display_timestamp();
format_line() and incoming()/outgoing() use them
- message_archive: persist "date" alongside "time" and "timestamp_utc"
- room_server_panel + route_page info header use display_timestamp()
- VERSION 1.22.2 -> 1.22.3
WHY
The route page exists to show one specific message, so that message —
not the ordering of the channel list — is the correct source for the
reply default. The date could not be fixed at the render site because
Message had no date at all: now_timestamp() yields HH:MM:SS and the
date lived only as timestamp_utc inside the archive layer, unread by
from_dict(). A first-class field plus a single formatting helper fixes
the cause and keeps the format in one place.
NOTES
No breaking changes. The archive schema gains one additive field;
pre-1.22.3 entries have their date derived from timestamp_utc
(converted to local time) and fall back to time-only when absent.
Message.incoming() gained an optional keyword-only date parameter.
Message display lines are ~11 characters wider.
### FIXED
- **Multibyte path hash support** (`ble/events.py`, `core/shared_data.py`):
corrected docstrings in both `_resolve_path_names` methods that incorrectly
described path hashes as "2-char hex strings". The actual contact lookup
uses `startswith` matching, which is hash-size agnostic and correctly
handles 1-byte (2 hex chars), 2-byte (4 hex chars) and 3-byte (6 hex chars)
path hashes as introduced in MeshCore firmware v1.14.0. No functional code
was changed — only the documentation was incorrect.
- **MariaDB schema** (`meshcore_schema.sql`): `meshcore_messages.path_hashes`
column widened from `VARCHAR(128)` to `VARCHAR(255)`. The old limit caused
silent truncation for paths longer than ~40 hops in 1-byte mode or ~25 hops
in 2-byte mode. Migration is backward-compatible; existing data is unchanged.
### CHANGED
- `config.py`: version bump `1.17.0 → 1.17.1`.
### RATIONALE
- MeshCore firmware v1.14.0 (2026-03-06) introduced configurable path hash
sizes (1-, 2- or 3-byte per repeater). Verification confirmed that
`meshcoredecoder 0.3.2` already returns correctly sized hex strings via
`_decode_path_len_byte`. The GUI path-resolution logic was already
forward-compatible; only the docstrings and the MariaDB column width required
correction.
### IMPACT
- No BLE handler, GUI panel, service or API endpoint modified.
- `meshcoredecoder` library unchanged; no pip update required.
- MariaDB migration: single `ALTER TABLE` statement, no downtime, no data loss.
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