798 gcs connection announcement

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Pull Request Overview

This PR adds flight software version detection and validation during drone connection, along with UI improvements for status messages. The system now checks that the connected autopilot is running ArduPilot 4.x.x and displays the version to the user.

• Implements flight software version detection via MAVLink AUTOPILOT_VERSION message
• Adds version validation to reject unsupported versions (only 4.x.x supported)
• Improves status message UI to work when not connected to drone
• Updates MAVLink connection to properly identify as a GCS

Reviewed Changes

Copilot reviewed 9 out of 9 changed files in this pull request and generated 4 comments.

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File	Description
radio/app/utils.py	Adds utility functions to decode and format flight software version from MAVLink message
radio/app/drone.py	Implements version detection during initialization with proper validation and error handling
radio/app/endpoints/comPorts.py	Includes flight software version in connection response to frontend
radio/app/endpoints/states.py	Removes STATUSTEXT from endpoint message list (now handled as always-on listener)
gcs/src/redux/slices/droneInfoSlice.js	Adds Redux state for storing flight software version
gcs/src/redux/slices/statusTextSlice.js	Adds action to reset messages on new connection
gcs/src/redux/middleware/socketMiddleware.js	Dispatches flight software version and resets messages on connection
gcs/src/dashboard.jsx	Updates status messages panel to display when not connected
gcs/src/components/dashboard/statusMessages.jsx	Handles messages without timestamps for non-connected state

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