Releases

Releases

Every tagged release, newest first. Downloads (firmware + merged image + checksums) are on the Releases page. See Flashing and Recovery for how to apply them.

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v0.10.1 — FeralCat icons + fast boot

• App icons — new red FeralCat icons for the six native security apps and the MeowGotchi tile; each app now has its own icon.
• Fast-boot fix — the SD /apps scan no longer runs at boot (it stalled the splash for a few seconds once several apps were installed); it's done lazily the first time the Apps menu is opened.

v0.10.0 — FeralCat: native signed apps + rebrand

• Native signed apps — load, verify and run signed native ELF apps from the SD card through a stable app SDK, each with its own launcher tile. Ed25519 signatures verified on-device; unsigned apps are opt-in (Settings ▸ Features).
• Six security tools now ship as signed SD apps: WiFi Analyzer, [[Deauth Detector]], Rogue Radar, BLE Spam Detector, Probe Sniffer and Tracker Detector.
• FeralCat rebrand + red theme — new name, red UI, new mascot.
• Firmware updater moved into Settings ▸ System ▸ Update (a system module, no longer an app).

v0.9.0 — MeowPlayer + Lua apps

• MeowPlayer — a real MP3 music player. Plays from /music, with play/pause, seek, volume, a Songs list and a Speaker/Jack output switch. Native player UI on a contributed audio engine.
• Lua Apps — an opt-in installable-app platform: drop Lua apps in /apps and they get launcher tiles, no rebuild needed. Off by default — enable it in Settings ▸ Features ▸ Lua apps (reboots to apply). Ships with a Hello Meow example.
• New Settings ▸ Features tab for opt-in/experimental toggles.
• Credit: the audio engine and the Lua runtime/app platform were contributed by Caliun (PR #2). Thank you!

v0.8.1 — Keyboard symbols

• On-screen keyboard now types every ASCII symbol. The password/text keyboard's symbol mode went from 2 pages to 4 (cycle with the ◄► key), adding the previously-missing ; : , < > [ ] { } ~ ^ ` \ |. Fixes not being able to enter WiFi passwords that contain those characters.

v0.8.0 — Meow XP (leveling)

• Meow XP — a device-wide experience/leveling system that rewards using the MeowKit. XP trickles in from active/idle time, opening apps (big bonus the first time you open each), running scripts, and capturing WiFi handshakes. Your level + XP bar show on the Home screen (by the nav cross), with a green level-up banner. Progress is saved to NVS and mirrored to /system/xp.txt on SD (survives reflashes, portable between devices, checksum-guarded against edits). Backup XP / Restore XP added to Settings ▸ Backup.
• Fix: a reboot when flicking the joystick the opposite direction mid-slide — a pre-existing crash from starting a new screen transition while one was still animating. Navigation now ignores the extra press until the slide finishes.

v0.7.0 — Script Runner (Berry)

• Script Runner — run small Berry scripts from /scripts/*.be on the SD card, with print() output on screen. Device API for scripts: led(r,g,b) (onboard WS2812), pin_mode/write/read, button(), delay, millis, print. A safety hook stops any script after ~20 s or when you hold B — an infinite loop can't hang the device. The Berry VM adds only ~120 KB.
• Boot splash rewritten — the old ~2 MB boot GIF is replaced by a title + a progress bar tied to the real boot stages. Frees ~1.6 MB (88.6% → 70.6% flash) and boots faster.

v0.6.0 — Settings backup & restore

• SD settings backup — all settings (incl. WiFi credentials, plaintext by design) are mirrored to /config/meowkit.cfg on the SD on each change, and auto-restored on boot after a reflash wipes NVS. New Settings ▸ Backup tab: Backup now / Restore all / Restore WiFi / Restore settings (→ confirm → reboot). See Settings and Backup.
• Scrollable settings rail replacing LVGL's non-scrolling tab bar.
• Fix: unreadable gray-on-gray dialog text (backup/restore, Factory Reset, Time Sync).

v0.5.2 — Firmware update in Settings

• Settings ▸ System ▸ Firmware ▸ Open launches the Firmware app (SD / GitHub / USB update) straight from Settings — reachable even if the apps grid is broken.

v0.5.1 — Fix: empty apps menu

• The apps menu is built once at boot before the app list loads; v0.5.0's rebuild left it empty on device. Tiles are now populated when the list loads.

v0.5.0 — Two detectors, screenshots, time sync

• Tracker Detector — BLE anti-stalking: AirTag/Find My, Tile, Samsung SmartTag → FOLLOWED! when one persists near you.
• Probe Sniffer — logs the probe-request frames nearby devices broadcast (MAC + signal + the SSIDs they leak).
• On-device screenshots — hold the joystick Up+Down in MeowGotchi/detectors to save the screen to /screenshots/*.bmp on the SD.
• WiFi Time Sync — NTP (UTC) + IP-geolocation (timezone) → sets the clock and RTC, no manual timezone; clock also restored from RTC at boot.

v0.4.0 — Self-update over WiFi

• Firmware ▸ Update over WiFi — the device reads this repo's latest release from GitHub and, if newer, downloads firmware.bin to the SD and flashes it — all on-device. See Firmware Updates.

v0.3.0 — SD-card firmware updates (dual-OTA)

• Repartitioned to two ~7.94 MB app slots so the device can update its own firmware from a .bin on the SD card (safe rollback) — no computer.

v0.2.0 — More tools + fork branding

• Additional WiFi/BLE detector apps; Settings ▸ About shows the fork version + "Fork: Janud".

v0.1.0 — Initial fork (makes it actually boot)

• Boot fixes (upstream issue #27): DIO flash mode + brownout/watchdog disable — retail units bootlooped on any build from the public repo. See Hardware and Gotchas.
• Clean-clone build restored (.gitmodules was never committed).
• UI fixes: WiFi long-SSID truncation, PC-Monitor °C, working Settings ▸ About.
• First new apps in the empty slots: MeowGotchi, WiFi Analyzer, the detectors.