Release 0.9.12

🚀 Major Architecture Overhaul & SQLite Telemetry

This release represents a comprehensive modernization of the application architecture, moving from a static frontend and CSV logging to a robust Vue.js application and database-backed telemetry.

✨ Key Changes

🏗️ Complete Frontend Rewrite (Static JS → Vue.js)

We have fully migrated the frontend from static HTML/JavaScript to a modern Vue.js 3 Single Page Application (SPA).

• Motivation: The legacy static-site architecture had become unmaintainable. Managing state across disparate files and ensuring UI consistency was increasingly difficult and error-prone.
• Improvements:
  • Component-Based Architecture: Modular, reusable components greatly improve code organization and maintainability.
  • Robust State Management: Implemented Pinia for predictable, centralized management of device application state.
  • Unified UX: A consistent design language and global modal system replace the disjointed legacy UI.

💾 SQLite Telemetry Backend

The file-based CSV logging system has been replaced with an SQLite database engine.

• Why: CSV files were prone to concurrency issues and made querying historical data inefficient.
• Benefits:
  • Performance: Instantaneous retrieval of historical data for graphing.
  • Reliability: ACID transactions prevent data corruption during writes.
  • Scalability: Supports complex querying for the new Telemetry Explorer efficiently.

🐛 Critical Fixes

• fix: Hybrid approach for FindPort with guaranteed cleanup
  • Implemented a hybrid approach for serial port detection to solve hanging issues.
  • Keeps a goroutine for hard timeout protection against hanging ports.
  • Stores the port handle in a shared variable for reliable external cleanup.
  • Force closes the port when the main thread times out, preventing both process hangs and orphaned port handles.

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Run npm run build in AscomAlpacaProxy/frontend-vue before building the Go binaries to ensure these changes are included.