wadamesh beta_13
wadamesh beta_13 — community drop 🎉
A big community release: most of the headline features came straight from contributor pull requests, alongside the keyboard, typing and quality-of-life fixes promised after beta_12. Huge thanks to everyone sending PRs, opening issues and reporting bugs — @Yazutsu, @tun0, @Vybo and @samuelcoustet all have their work in this build. 🙏
From contributors
Room-server posts show the author — by @Yazutsu (#40, closes #32)
Room-server messages now show the actual poster's name on each bubble instead of the room's own name.
Direct (0-hop) filter — by @tun0 (#39)
A new "Direct (0-hop)" filter for the contact list and the map: show only the nodes you're hearing directly, with no repeater hops in between.
Trackball edge-scroll — by @tun0 (#38)
Optional "edge scroll" — push the trackball cursor past a screen edge to scroll the list underneath it (off by default, under Settings → Keyboard).
Emoji, unread tap, contact toast, Czech accents — by @Vybo (#22)
Beer emoji baked in colour, tap the status-bar unread badge to jump to your Chats, a new "notify on new contact" toggle, and Czech accents in the accent pop-up.
Companion / transport fixes — by @samuelcoustet (#29)
TCP now restarts immediately after off → on, the OTA action is hidden when there's no update slot to use, and a TCP-toggle alert race is fixed. (Cherry-picked from #29; the rest of that PR — the EU keyboards and the Expansion-Kit UI — will follow as focused PRs.)
Typing & keyboard navigation (T-Deck + Tanmatsu)
- Open a chat or channel and the cursor is ready — type straight away. Every other field waits for Enter before it captures the keyboard, so the letter-navigation keys keep working.
- Enter (or Esc / back) on an empty message box drops the cursor and re-selects the field, so you can navigate away with the buttons again.
- The menu-bar letter shortcuts no longer jump you to another page while you're typing.
- New "Show menu-bar letters" setting under Settings → Keyboard (off by default).
- The accent pop-up no longer grabs the keyboard when it appears.
Composer & clock
- New dedicated "Special characters" picker for symbols that aren't on the keyboard (
% $ @ # & =, currency, maths, accents) — separate from the emoji picker. - Long-press one of your sent messages to Resend it.
- The 12-hour clock setting now applies everywhere — top bar, chat bubbles and lock screen — not just the chat list.
Fixes
- Heltec V4: removed the after-crash report prompt — that board has no SD card or reachable storage to save the report to, so it was a dead end. (The T-Deck still offers it.)
- When both Wi-Fi and GPS are off, the clock now sets itself from the timestamps on messages received over the mesh.
Full notes in release-notes/beta_13.txt. Thanks again to all contributors and bug reporters — keep it coming! 🚀
