Remote-Terminal-for-MeshCore/CHANGELOG.md

[3.9.0] - 2026-04-06

• Feature: Add hop counts to hop-width selection options
• Feature: Show cached repeater telemetry inline in settings
• Feature: Retain recent traces and make them click-to-re-run
• Feature: Autofocus channel/DM textbox on desktop
• Feature: Favorites on the radio are now imported as favorites
• Bugfix: Be clearer on issue identification for missing HTTPS context in channel finder
• Bugfix: Don't use sender timestamp for message sequence display
• Bugfix: Function on subdomains happily
• Misc: Be gentler, room s/cracker/finder/
• Misc: Test and frontend correctness & test fixes
• Misc: Don't repeat clock sync failure logs
• Misc: Make warning in readme clearer about taking over the radio
• Misc: Improve readme phrasings
• Misc: Better y-axis selection for battery read-out
• Misc: Provide clearer warning on docker setup without docker installed
• Misc: Default visualizer stale pruning to on/5 minutes
• Misc: Migrate favorites to better storage pattern
• Misc: Provide dumper script for API + WS interfaces for prep for HA integration

[3.8.0] - 2026-04-03

• Feature: Per-channel hop width override
• Feature: Intervalized repeater telemetry collection
• Feature: Auto-resend option for byte-perfect resends on no repeater echo
• Feature: Attach RSSI/SNR to received packets
• Feature: Add motion packet display to map
• Feature: Map dark mode
• Bugfix: Make DB indices more useful around capitalization
• Misc: Bump required Python to 3.11
• Misc: Performance, documentation, and test improvements
• Misc: More yields during long radio operations
• Misc: Dead code & crufty test removal
• Misc: Remove all but stub frontend favorites migration for very very old versions

[3.7.1] - 2026-04-02

• Feature: Redact Apprise URLs to prevent sensitive information disclosure

[3.7.0] - 2026-04-02

• Feature: Repeater battery tracking
• Feature: Repeater info pane just like contacts
• Feature: Make repeaters blockable
• Feature: Add new-node advert blocking
• Feature: Add bulk deletion interface
• Feature: Bulk room add on alt+click of new channel button
• Feature: More info in debug endpoint
• Bugfix: Be more conservative around radio load limits and don't exceed radio-reported capacity
• Misc: Default auto-DM decrypt to true
• Misc: Reorganize some settings panes
• Misc: Enable FK pragma
• Misc: Various performance and correctness fixes
• Misc: Correct TCP default port

[3.6.7] - 2026-03-31

• Misc: Remove armv7 (for now)

[3.6.6] - 2026-03-31

• Misc: Please I'm begging for the build scripts to be working now

[3.6.5] - 2026-03-31

• Bugfix: Maybe fix problem with publish script

[3.6.4] - 2026-03-31

• Feature: Clarify New Channel/Contact button
• Bugfix: Rename "Best RSSI" to "Strongest Neighbor"
• Bugfix: Improve layout of Trace pane
• Misc: Docker setup improvements

[3.6.3] - 2026-03-30

• Feature: Add multi-byte trace
• Feature: Show node name on discovered node if we know it
• Feature: Add docker installation script
• Feature: Add historical noise floor to stats
• Feature: Add trace tool
• Bugfix: 100x performance on statistics endpoint with indices and better queries
• Misc: Performance and correctness improvements for backend-of-the-frontend
• Misc: Reorganize scripts

[3.6.2] - 2026-03-29

• Feature: Be more flexible about timing and volume of full contact offload
• Feature: Improve room server and repeater ops to be much more clearer about auth status
• Feature: Show last error status on integrations
• Feature: Push multi-platform docker builds
• Bugfix: Fix advert interval time unit display
• Bugfix: Don't cast RSSI/SNR to string for community MQTT
• Bugfix: Map uploader follows redirect
• Misc: Thin out unnecessary cruft in unreads endpoint
• Misc: Fall back gracefully if linked to an unknown contact

[3.6.1] - 2026-03-26

• Feature: MeshCore Map integration
• Feature: Add warning screen about bots
• Feature: Favicon reflects unread message state
• Feature: Show hop map in larger modal
• Feature: Add prebuilt frontend install script
• Feature: Add clean service installer script
• Feature: Swipe in to show menu
• Bugfix: Invalid backend API path serves error, not fallback index
• Bugfix: Fix some spacing/page height issues
• Misc: Misc. bugfixes and performance and test improvements

[3.6.0] - 2026-03-22

• Feature: Add incoming-packet analytics
• Feature: BYOPacket for analysis
• Feature: Add room activity to stats view
• Bugfix: Handle Heltec v3 serial noise
• Misc: Swap repeaters and room servers for better ordering

[3.5.0] - 2026-03-19

• Feature: Add room server alpha support
• Feature: Add option to force-reset node clock when it's too far ahead
• Feature: DMs auto-retry before resorting to flood
• Feature: Add impulse zero-hop advert
• Feature: Utilize PATH packets to correctly source a contact's route
• Feature: Metrics view on raw packet pane
• Feature: Metric, Imperial, and Smoots are now selectable for distance display
• Feature: Allow favorites to be sorted
• Feature: Add multi-ack support
• Feature: Password-remember checkbox on repeaters + room servers
• Bugfix: Serialize radio disconnect in a lock
• Bugfix: Fix contact bar layout issues
• Bugfix: Fix sidebar ordering for contacts by advert recency
• Bugfix: Fix version reporting in community MQTT
• Bugfix: Fix Apprise duplicate names
• Bugfix: Be better about identity resolution in the stats pane
• Misc: Docs, test, and performance enhancements
• Misc: Don't prompt "Are you sure" when leaving an unedited interation
• Misc: Log node time on startup
• Misc: Improve community MQTT error bubble-up
• Misc: Unread DMs always have a red unread counter
• Misc: Improve information in the debug view to show DB status

[3.4.1] - 2026-03-16

• Bugfix: Improve handling of version information on prebuilt bundles
• Bugfix: Improve frontend usability on disconnected radio
• Misc: Docs and readme updates
• Misc: Overhaul DM ingest and frontend state handling

[3.4.0] - 2026-03-16

• Feature: Add radio model and stats display
• Feature: Add prebuilt frontends, then deleted that and moved to prebuilt release artifacts
• Bugfix: Misc. frontend performance and correctness fixes
• Bugfix: Fix same-second same-content DM send collition
• Bugfix: Discard clearly-wrong GPS data
• Bugfix: Prevent repeater clock skew drift on page nav
• Misc: Use repeater's advertised location if we haven't loaded one from repeater admin
• Misc: Don't permit invalid fanout configs to be saved ever`

[3.3.0] - 2026-03-13

• Feature: Use dashed lines to show collapsed ambiguous router results
• Feature: Jump to unred
• Feature: Local channel management to prevent need to reload channel every time
• Feature: Debug endpoint
• Feature: Force-singleton channel management
• Feature: Local node discovery
• Feature: Node routing discovery
• Bugfix: Don't tell users to us npm ci
• Bugfix: Fallback polling dm message persistence
• Bugfix: All native-JS inputs are now modals
• Bugfix: Same-second send collision resolution
• Bugfix: Proper browser updates on resend
• Bugfix: Don't use last-heard when we actually want last-advert for path discovery for nodes
• Bugfix: Don't treat prefix-matching DM echoes as acks like we do for channel messages
• Misc: Visualizer data layer overhaul for future map work
• Misc: Parallelize docker tests

[3.2.0] - 2026-03-12

• Feature: Improve ambiguous-sender DM handling and visibility
• Feature: Allow for toggling of node GPS broadcast
• Feature: Add path width to bot and move example to full kwargs
• Feature: Improve node map color contrast
• Bugfix: More accurate tracking of contact data
• Bugfix: Misc. frontend performance and bugfixes
• Misc: Clearer warnings on user-key linkage
• Misc: Documentation improvements

[3.1.1] - 2026-03-11

• Feature: Add basic auth
• Feature: SQS fanout
• Feature: Enrich contact info pane
• Feature: Search operators for node and channel
• Feature: Pause radio connection attempts from Radio settings
• Feature: New themes! What a great use of time!
• Feature: Github workflows runs for validation
• Bugfix: More consistent log format with times
• Bugfix: Patch meshcore_py bluetooth eager reconnection out during pauses

[3.1.0] - 2026-03-11

• Feature: Add basic auth
• Feature: SQS fanout
• Feature: Enrich contact info pane
• Feature: Search operators for node and channel
• Feature: Pause radio connection attempts from Radio settings
• Feature: New themes! What a great use of time!
• Feature: Github workflows runs for validation
• Bugfix: More consistent log format with times
• Bugfix: Patch meshcore_py bluetooth eager reconnection out during pauses

[3.0.0] - 2026-03-10

• Feature: Custom regions per-channel
• Feature: Add custom contact pathing
• Feature: Corrupt packets are more clear that they're corrupt
• Feature: Better, faster patterns around background fetching with explicit opt-in for recurring sync if the app detects you need it
• Feature: More consistent icons
• Feature: Add per-channel local notifications
• Feature: New themes
• Feature: Massive codebase refactor and overhaul
• Bugfix: Fix packet parsing for trace packets
• Bugfix: Refetch channels on reconnect
• Bugfix: Load All on repeater pane on mobile doesn't etend into lower text
• Bugfix: Timestamps in logs
• Bugfix: Correct wrong clock sync command
• Misc: Improve bot error bubble up
• Misc: Update to non-lib-included meshcore-decoder version
• Misc: Revise refactors to be more LLM friendly
• Misc: Fix script executability
• Misc: Better logging format with timestamp
• Misc: Repeater advert buttons separate flood and one-hop
• Misc: Preserve repeater pane on navigation away
• Misc: Clearer iconography and coloring for status bar buttons
• Misc: Search bar to top bar

[2.7.9] - 2026-03-08

• Bugfix: Don't obscure new integration dropdown on session boundary

[2.7.8] - 2026-03-08

[2.7.8] - 2026-03-08

• Bugfix: Improve frontend asset resolution and fixup the build/push script

[2.7.1] - 2026-03-08

• Bugfix: Fix historical DM packet length passing
• Misc: Follow better inclusion patterns for the patched meshcore-decoder and just publish the dang package
• Misc: Patch a bewildering browser quirk that cause large raw packet lists to extend past the bottom of the page

[2.7.0] - 2026-03-08

• Feature: Multibyte path support
• Feature: Add multibyte statistics to statistics pane
• Feature: Add path bittage to contact info pane
• Feature: Put tools in a collapsible

[2.6.1] - 2026-03-08

• Misc: Fix busted docker builds; we don't have a 2.6.0 build sorry

[2.6.0] - 2026-03-08

• Feature: A11y improvements
• Feature: New themes
• Feature: Backfill channel sender identity when available
• Feature: Modular fanout bus, including Webhooks, more customizable community MQTT, and Apprise
• Bugfix: Unreads now respect blocklist
• Bugfix: Unreads can't accumulate on an open thread
• Bugfix: Channel name in broadcasts
• Bugfix: Add missing httpx dependency
• Bugfix: Improvements to radio startup frontend-blocking time and radio status reporting
• Misc: Improved button signage for app movement
• Misc: Test, performance, and documentation improvements

[2.5.0] - 2026-03-05

• Feature: Far better accessibility across the app (with far to go)
• Feature: Add community MQTT stats reporting, and improve over a few commits
• Feature: Color schemes and misc. settings reorg
• Feature: Add why-active to filtered nodes
• Feature: Add channel and contact info box
• Feature: Add contact blocking
• Feature: Add potential repeater path map display
• Feature: Add flood scoping/regions
• Feature: Global message search
• Feature: Fully safe bot disable
• Feature: Add default #remoteterm channel (lol sorry I had to)
• Feature: Custom recency pruning in visualizer
• Bugfix: Be more cautious around null byte stripping
• Bugfix: Clear channel-add interface on not-add-another
• Bugfix: Add status/name/MQTT LWT
• Bugfix: Channel deletion propagates over WS
• Bugfix: Show map location for all nodes on link, not 7-day-limited
• Bugfix: Hide private key channel keys by default
• Misc: Logline to show if cleanup loop on non-sync'd meshcore radio links fixes anything
• Misc: Doc, changelog, and test improvements
• Misc: Add, and remove, package lock (sorry Windows users)
• Misc: Don't show mark all as read if not necessary
• Misc: Fix stale closures and misc. frontend perf/correctness improvements
• Misc: Add Windows startup notes
• Misc: E2E expansion + improvement
• Misc: Move around visualizer settings

[2.4.0] - 2026-03-02

• Feature: Add community MQTT reporting (e.g. LetsMesh.net)
• Misc: Build scripts and library attribution
• Misc: Add sign of life to E2E tests

[2.3.0] - 2026-03-01

• Feature: Click path description to reset to flood
• Feature: Add MQTT publishing
• Feature: Visualizer remembers settings
• Bugfix: Fix prefetch usage
• Bugfix: Fixed an issue where busy channels can result in double-display of incoming messages
• Misc: Drop py3.12 requirement
• Misc: Performance, documentation, test, and file structure optimizations
• Misc: Add arrows between route nodes on contact info
• Misc: Show repeater path/type in title bar

[2.2.0] - 2026-02-28

• Feature: Track advert paths and use to disambiguate repeater identity in visualizer
• Feature: Contact info pane
• Feature: Overhaul repeater interface
• Bugfix: Misc. frontend rendering + perf improvements
• Bugfix: Better behavior around radio locking and autofetch/polling
• Bugfix: Clear channel name field on new-channel modal tab change
• Bugfix: Repeater inforbox can scroll
• Bugfix: Better handling of historical DM encrypts
• Bugfix: Handle errors if returned in prefetch phase
• Misc: Radio event response failure is logged/surfaced better
• Misc: Improve test coverage and remove dead code
• Misc: Documentation and errata improvements
• Misc: Database storage optimization

[2.1.0] - 2026-02-23

• Feature: Add ability to remember last-used channel on load
• Feature: Add docker compose support (thanks @suymur !)
• Feature: Better-aligned favicon (lol)
• Bugfix: Disable autocomplete on message field
• Bugfix: Legacy hash restoration on page load
• Bugfix: Align resend buttons in pathing modal
• Bugfix: Update README.md (briefly), then docker-compose.yaml, to reflect correct docker image host
• Bugfix: Correct settings pane scroll lock on zoom (thanks @yellowcooln !)
• Bugfix: Improved repeater comms on busy meshes
• Bugfix: Drain before autofetch from radio
• Bugfix: Fix, or document exceptions to, sub-second resolution message failure
• Bugfix: Improved handling of radio connection, disconnection, and connection-aliveness-status
• Bugfix: Force server-side keystore update when radio key changes
• Bugfix: Reduce WS churn for incoming message handling
• Bugfix: Fix content type signalling for irrelevant endpoints
• Bugfix: Handle stuck post-connect failure state
• Misc: Documentation & version parsing improvements
• Misc: Hide char counter on mobile for short messages
• Misc: Typo fixes in docs and settings
• Misc: Add dynamic webmanifest for hosts that can support it
• Misc: Improve DB size via dropping unnecessary uniqs, indices, vacuum, and offering ability to drop historical matches packets
• Misc: Drop weird rounded bounding box for settings
• Misc: Move resend buttons to pathing modal
• Misc: Improved comments around database ownership on *nix systems
• Misc: Move to SSoT for message dedupe on frontend
• Misc: Move DM ack clearing to standard poll, and increase hold time between polling
• Misc: Holistic testing overhaul

[2.0.1] - 2026-02-16

• Bugfix: Fix missing trigger condition on statistics pane expansion on mobile

[2.0.0] - 2026-02-16

• Feature: Frontend UX + log overhaul
• Bugfix: Use contact object from DB for broadcast rather than handrolling
• Bugfix: Fix out of order path WS messages overwriting each other
• Bugfix: Make broadcast timestamp match fallback logic used in storage code
• Bugfix: Fix repeater command timestamp selection logic
• Bugfix: Use actual pubkey matching for path update, and don't action serial path update events (use RX packet)
• Bugfix: Add missing radio operation locks in a few spots
• Bugfix: Fix dedupe for frontend raw packet delivery (mesh visualizer much more active now!)
• Bugfix: Less aggressive dedupe for advert packets (we don't care about the payload, we care about the path, duh)
• Misc: Visualizer layout refinement & option labels

[1.10.0] - 2026-02-16

• Feature: Collapsible sidebar sections with per-section unread badge (thanks @rgregg !)
• Feature: 3D mesh visualizer
• Feature: Statistics pane
• Feature: Support incoming/outgoing indication for bot invocations
• Feature: Quick byte-perfect message resend if you got unlucky with repeats (thanks @rgregg -- we had a parallel implementation but I appreciate your work!)
• Bugfix: Fix top padding out outgoing message
• Bugfix: Frontend performance, appearance, and Lighthouse improvements (prefetches, form labelling, contrast, channel/roomlist changes)
• Bugfix: Multiple-sent messages had path appearing delays until rerender
• Bugfix: Fix ack/message race condition that caused dropped ack displays until rerender
• Misc: Dedupe contacts/rooms by key and not name to prevent name collisions creating unreachable conversations
• Misc: s/stopped/idle/ for room finder

[1.9.3] - 2026-02-12

• Feature: Upgrade the room finder to support two-word rooms

[1.9.2] - 2026-02-12

• Feature: Options dialog sucks less
• Bugfix: Move tests to isolated memory DB
• Bugfix: Mention case sensitivity
• Bugfix: Stale header retention on settings page view
• Bugfix: Non-isolated path writing
• Bugfix: Nullable contact fields are now passed as real nulls
• Bugfix: Look at all fields on message reconcile, not just text
• Bugfix: Make mark-all-as-read atomic
• Misc: Purge unused WS handlers from back when we did chans and contacts over WS, not API
• Misc: Massive test and AGENTS.md overhauls and additions

[1.9.1] - 2026-02-10

• Feature: Contacts and channels use keys, not names
• Bugfix: Fix falsy casting of 0 in lat lon and timing data
• Bugfix: Show message length in bytes, not chars
• Bugfix: Fix phantom unread badges on focused convos
• Misc: Bot invocation to async
• Misc: Use full key, not prefix, where we can

[1.9.0] - 2026-02-10

• Feature: Favorited contacts are preferentially loaded onto the radio
• Feature: Add recent-message caching for fast switching
• Feature: Add echo paths modal when echo-heard checkbox is clicked
• Feature: Add experimental byte-perfect double-send for bad RF environments to try to punch the message out Frontend: Better styling on echo + message path display
• Bugfix: Prevent frontend static file serving path traversal vuln
• Bugfix: Safer prefix-claiming for DMs we don't have the key for
• Bugfix: Prevent injection from mentions with special characters
• Bugfix: Fix repeaters comms showing in wrong channel when repeater operations are in flight and the channel is changed quickly
• Bugfix: App can boot and test without a frontend dir
• Misc: Improve and consistent-ify (?) backend radio operation lock management
• Misc: Frontend performance and safety enhancements
• Misc: Move builds to non-bundled; usage requires building the Frontend
• Misc: Update tests and agent docs

[1.8.0] - 2026-02-07

• Feature: Single hop ping
• Feature: PWA viewport fixes(thanks @rgregg) Feature (?): No frontend distribution; build it yourself ;P
• Bugfix: Fix channel message send race condition (concurrent sends could corrupt shared radio slot)
• Bugfix: Fix TOCTOU race in radio reconnect (duplicate connections under contention)
• Bugfix: Better guarding around reconnection
• Bugfix: Duplicate websocket connection fixes
• Bugfix: Settings tab error cleanliness on tab swap
• Bugfix: Fix path traversal vuln UI: Swap visualizer legend ordering (yay prettier)
• Misc: Perf and locking improvements
• Misc: Always flood advertisements
• Misc: Better packet dupe handling
• Misc: Dead code cleanup, test improvements

[1.7.1] - 2026-02-03

• Feature: Clickable hyperlinks
• Bugfix: More consistent public key normalization
• Bugfix: Use more reliable cursor paging
• Bugfix: Fix null timestamp dedupe failure
• Bugfix: More consistent prefix-based message claiming on key receipt
• Misc: Bot can respond to its own messages
• Misc: Additional tests
• Misc: Remove unneeded message dedupe logic
• Misc: Resync settings after radio settings mutation

[1.7.0] - 2026-01-27

• Feature: Multi-bot functionality
• Bugfix: Adjust bot code editor display and add line numbers
• Bugfix: Fix clock filtering and contact lookup behavior bugs
• Bugfix: Fix repeater message duplication issue
• Bugfix: Correct outbound message timestamp assignment (affecting outgoing messages seen as incoming) UI: Move advertise button to identity tab
• Misc: Clarify fallback functionality for missing private key export in logs

[1.6.0] - 2026-01-26

• Feature: Visualizer: extract public key from AnonReq, add heuristic repeater disambiguation, add reset button, draggable nodes
• Feature: Customizable advertising interval
• Feature: In-app bot setup
• Bugfix: Force contact onto radio before DM send
• Misc: Remove unused code

[1.5.0] - 2026-01-19

• Feature: Network visualizer

[1.4.1] - 2026-01-19

• Feature: Add option to attempt historical DM decrypt on new-contact advertisement (disabled by default)
• Feature: Server-side preference management for favorites, read status, etc. UI: More compact hop labelling
• Bugfix: Misc. race conditions and websocket handling
• Bugfix: Reduce fetching cadence by loading all contact data at start to prevent fetches on advertise-driven update

[1.4.0] - 2026-01-18

UI: Improve button layout for room searcher UI: Improve favicon coloring UI: Improve status bar button layout on small screen

• Feature: Show multi-path hop display with distance estimates
• Feature: Search rooms and contacts by key, not just name
• Bugfix: Historical DM decryption now works as expected
• Bugfix: Don't double-set active conversation after addition; wait for backend room name normalization

[1.3.1] - 2026-01-17

UI: Rework restart handling

• Feature: Add dutycyle_start command to logged-in repeater session to start five min duty cycle tracking Bug: Improve error message rendering from server-side errors UI: Remove octothorpe from channel listing

[1.3.0] - 2026-01-17

• Feature: Rework database schema to drop unnecessary columns and dedupe payloads at the DB level
• Feature: Massive frontend settings overhaul. It ain't gorgeous but it's easier to navigate.
• Feature: Drop repeater login wait time; vestigial from debugging a different issue

[1.2.1] - 2026-01-17

Update: Update meshcore-hashtag-cracker to include sender-identification correctness check

[1.2.0] - 2026-01-16

• Feature: Add favorites

[1.1.0] - 2026-01-14

• Bugfix: Use actual pathing data from advertisements, not just always flood (oops)
• Bugfix: Autosync radio clock periodically to prevent drift (would show up most commonly as issues with repeater comms)

[1.0.3] - 2026-01-13

• Bugfix: Add missing test management packages
• Improvement: Drop unnecessary repeater timeouts, and retain timeout for login only -- repeater ops are faster AND more reliable!

[1.0.2] - 2026-01-13

• Improvement: Add delays between router ops to prevent traffic collisions

[1.0.1] - 2026-01-13

• Bugixes: Cleaner DB shutdown, radio reconnect contention, packet dedupe garbage removal

[1.0.0] - 2026-01-13

• Initial full release!