v5.0.0-alpha.6.1

Genie 5 — v5.0.0-alpha.6.1

The Secure Login release. Genie now signs in over an encrypted TLS
connection — the same secure path Lich 5 uses — and falls back to the legacy
plaintext login only if the secure port is blocked. A padlock in the title
bar tells you which you got. This point release also lands a clutch of fixes
on top of Weighted Travel:
the updater no longer freezes at 70%, your config files stay human-readable, and
#var stops chattering when scripts set variables.

Alpha software. Expect rough edges. Builds are unsigned — Windows
SmartScreen will warn on first launch (More info → Run anyway). Signing is
tracked in #33.

✨ New since alpha.6

• Secure (TLS) login. Genie authenticates over TLS (eaccess.play.net:7910,
  certificate-pinned) by default, so your password travels inside an encrypted
  tunnel instead of the old lightly-obfuscated plaintext scheme (#61).
  • Padlock indicator. The title bar shows 🔒 with "Connected over TLS
    (encrypted)" on a secure login, or 🔓 with "login was obfuscated, not
    encrypted" when it had to fall back.
  • Automatic fallback. If the secure port is blocked (firewall, network
    filter), Genie doesn't fail the login — it drops to the legacy plaintext
    path and shows the 🔓 so you know what happened.
• Clearer connection failures. A failed or refused login now surfaces the
  actual reason in the game window (bad password, already-logged-in, billing,
  timed-out…) instead of a generic error.
• #config conndebug — opt-in connect trace. Turn it on and the next login
  prints each protocol step (TLS handshake, key exchange, auth, character list,
  game select) with timings into the game window, so a stalled login can be
  pinned to an exact step and pasted into a bug report. Off by default.
• Updater: no more frozen 70% (#60) — the in-app Core updater now reports
  real phase-based progress and has a stall watchdog, so it no longer appears to
  hang partway through an update.
• Quieter #var / #tvar — variables echo "Variable set:" only when you
  type the command yourself, not every time a script, trigger, or alias sets one
  (community report).
• Readable config files (#78) — settings are written with a relaxed JSON
  encoder, so regex patterns and non-ASCII (UTF-8) text in your config stay
  human-readable instead of being escaped into \u00NN soup. Thanks to VTCifer
  for the report.

✅ What works

Connection (Secure SGE / Lich proxy / dev-replay), the StormFront XML parser and
live GameState, the full Genie 4 .cmd script engine plus JavaScript .js
scripts, the rules engines (#alias / #trigger / #highlight / #substitute
/ #gag / #macro / #class / #var) with .cfg persistence, the AutoMapper
(click-to-goto, #goto, weighted + cross-zone routing), dockable panels with
save/load layouts, the plugin host, and the in-app updater. See the
README status table for the full list.

🚧 Not working yet / known gaps

• Unsigned builds — SmartScreen warning on Windows (#33).
• macOS / Linux update channels — the in-app updater self-updates on Windows
  only; other platforms install fresh builds manually for now (#27).
• Same-description rooms — server-uid pacing greatly improves walking through
  identical rooms, but routes through them can still occasionally mis-resolve
  (#76 / #77); #mapper reset helps. Learning terrain RT from play is future
  work.
• No light theme yet (single dark palette, #20); no injuries panel (#18);
  no Familiar/Death/Assess stream tabs (#17); no raw-XML inspector window (#14).

⬇️ Downloads

Grab the installer or portable build for your platform from the assets below:

Platform	Installer	Portable
Windows	01-Windows-Genie5-Setup.exe	01-Windows-Genie5-Portable.zip
macOS (Apple Silicon)	02-macOS-Apple-Silicon-Genie5.dmg	02-…-Portable.zip
macOS (Intel)	03-macOS-Intel-Genie5.dmg	03-…-Portable.zip
Linux (x64)	04-Linux-Genie5.AppImage	—

Full changelog: v5.0.0-alpha.6...v5.0.0-alpha.6.1