Offband offband-v0.17.0

First release under OffbandMesh/meshcore-firmware. Bundles the 0.16.0 observer
work below (which landed on firmware-base but was never separately tagged) with
the Crosswire→Offband rebrand and the OffbandMesh org cutover. (Version pending
owner confirmation; the tag is hardware-gated per VERSIONING.md.)

Changed

• Rebranded the fork from Crosswire to Offband (GitHub org OffbandMesh):
  the C++ namespace, build macros, embedded identity blob, version prefix
  (offband-v*), MQTT / flash-audit identity fields (offband_*), brand
  strings (serial banner, version command, OLED splash, Home Assistant
  manufacturer), and the WiFi setup-AP SSID (Offband-Observer-). Historical
  crosswire-v* release tags are preserved; the _sys PSK domain separator
  and the MeshCore interop topic namespace are intentionally unchanged. (#100)
• Repo / board / working-dir cutover to OffbandMesh — repo
  OffbandMesh/meshcore-firmware, OffbandMesh org Projects board, and the
  preflight / CLAUDE.md / label-sync workflow re-pointed; removed the stale
  upstream CNAME. (#107, #111)

Docs

• Finished the rebrand reference cleanup across docs + code comments. (#113, #114)
• Release-readiness pass: README getting-started + multi-role positioning, the
  docs index surfaces the observer guides, and observer _sys CLI reference
  corrections. (#117)

What's Changed

• feat: observer MQTT connectivity (crosswire-v0.15.0) — #53 #48 #63 #68 by @Strycher in #72
• docs: fix README license link (LICENSE.txt -> license.txt) — #73 by @Strycher in #74
• docs: 2026-06-10 observer-MQTT session handoff — #75 by @Strycher in #76
• chore: relocate to C:/Dev/Crosswire — canonical hook sync + AM repin by @Strycher in #78
• docs(#79): correct stale active-agents line in CLAUDE.md by @Strycher in #80
• Observer: time arbiter (#69) + position in /status (#31) + _sys CLI grammar (#45) by @Strycher in #91
• Observer follow-ups: arbiter decouple + held-state (#87) + /status radio from runtime prefs (#88) by @Strycher in #92
• docs: README/CHANGELOG 0.16.0 (#93) + observer instructions (#94) by @Strycher in #99
• #95: observer MQTT broker pre-config + per-device auth by @Strycher in #105
• #98: mqtt view + mqtt clear (broker config inspection) by @Strycher in #106
• Offband rebrand: Crosswire -> Offband (code + docs) by @Strycher in #108
• chore(#107): finish OffbandMesh local cutover (preflight, CLAUDE.md, board #1) by @Strycher in #109
• chore(#111): remove stale upstream CNAME (docs.meshcore.nz) by @Strycher in #112
• docs(#113): finish rebrand — Strycher/Crosswire refs + CLAUDE.md PROJECT_PAT note by @Strycher in #115
• chore(#114): update stale Strycher/Crosswire# refs in code comments -> #N by @Strycher in #116
• epic(#117): Offband release-readiness — docs, observer reference, CHANGELOG prep by @Strycher in #125

Full Changelog: crosswire-v0.14.0...offband-v0.17.0

Offband offband-v0.17.0-rc1

(No CHANGELOG entry for v0.17.0-rc1.)

What's Changed

• feat: observer MQTT connectivity (crosswire-v0.15.0) — #53 #48 #63 #68 by @Strycher in #72
• docs: fix README license link (LICENSE.txt -> license.txt) — #73 by @Strycher in #74
• docs: 2026-06-10 observer-MQTT session handoff — #75 by @Strycher in #76
• chore: relocate to C:/Dev/Crosswire — canonical hook sync + AM repin by @Strycher in #78
• docs(#79): correct stale active-agents line in CLAUDE.md by @Strycher in #80
• Observer: time arbiter (#69) + position in /status (#31) + _sys CLI grammar (#45) by @Strycher in #91
• Observer follow-ups: arbiter decouple + held-state (#87) + /status radio from runtime prefs (#88) by @Strycher in #92
• docs: README/CHANGELOG 0.16.0 (#93) + observer instructions (#94) by @Strycher in #99
• #95: observer MQTT broker pre-config + per-device auth by @Strycher in #105
• #98: mqtt view + mqtt clear (broker config inspection) by @Strycher in #106
• Offband rebrand: Crosswire -> Offband (code + docs) by @Strycher in #108
• chore(#107): finish OffbandMesh local cutover (preflight, CLAUDE.md, board #1) by @Strycher in #109
• chore(#111): remove stale upstream CNAME (docs.meshcore.nz) by @Strycher in #112
• docs(#113): finish rebrand — Strycher/Crosswire refs + CLAUDE.md PROJECT_PAT note by @Strycher in #115
• chore(#114): update stale Strycher/Crosswire# refs in code comments -> #N by @Strycher in #116
• epic(#117): Offband release-readiness — docs, observer reference, CHANGELOG prep by @Strycher in #125

Full Changelog: crosswire-v0.14.0...offband-v0.17.0-rc1

Crosswire crosswire-v0.15.0

Observer MQTT connectivity -- hardware-validated against three brokers
(CoreScope / W8OOF tcp-anon, eastme.sh wss/jwt, LetsMesh-US wss/jwt).

Added

• Owner broker registry: seed the default 6-slot broker set with an iata=HAO
  default; per-broker GTS Root R4 + ISRG Root X2 CA certificates added and
  mapped, registry cert-names corrected. (#48)
• Per-broker JWT identity claims jwt_owner / jwt_email
  (set mqtt.broker.<N>.jwt_owner|jwt_email), surfaced in mqtt status. (#63)
• Multi-frame mqtt status over the BLE _sys channel: the per-slot broker
  table spans multiple frames instead of truncating. (#48)

Fixed

• BLE _sys command channel no longer hangs when set mqtt.broker.* runs. The
  blocking esp_mqtt lifecycle ops (connect / destroy) moved off loopTask to a
  dedicated mqtt_worker task with a per-broker lock and a per-slot reconcile
  flag. (#53)
• wss/JWT broker authentication: send the MQTT CONNECT username
  v1_<UPPERCASE pubkey> (was a null username) so eastme.sh / LetsMesh accept
  the connection -- the broker verifies the token's publicKey claim against it
  and rejects a null username (CONNACK rc=5) even with an otherwise-valid token.
  (#68)

What's Changed

• fix(#27): pio-flash firmware_dir -> repo root + --firmware-dir override by @Strycher in #28
• pio-flash artifact-flash: flash CI release artifacts through the identity gate (#29, #34) by @Strycher in #35
• fix(#33): OLED splash carries pre-release identifier (v0.14.0-rc1, not v0.14.0+0) by @Strycher in #37
• chore(#38): gitignore pycache/ by @Strycher in #40
• feat(#42): strip observer companion to minima + delete dead ring buffer by @Strycher in #50
• docs: pin Crosswire project identity (Citadel + Agent Mail keys) (#55) by @Strycher in #56
• docs(#32): position-to-map pipeline architecture draft by @Strycher in #57
• docs: MeshCore 1.16.0 base-update impact assessment (spike #54) by @Strycher in #58
• chore(#59): port /work + session-state.py compaction-recovery hook into Crosswire by @Strycher in #60
• docs(#61): correct CLAUDE.md build/flash + migration-status after meshcore-firmware retire by @Strycher in #62
• feat: observer MQTT connectivity (crosswire-v0.15.0) — #53 #48 #63 #68 by @Strycher in #72

Full Changelog: crosswire-v0.14.0-rc1...crosswire-v0.15.0

Crosswire crosswire-v0.14.0

Added

• CI release pipeline (epic #14): dev-channel firmware artifacts on every
  firmware-base push / PR (ci.yml), and a release.yml workflow that builds
  the curated community board set from crosswire-v* tags and publishes a
  GitHub Release (pre-release for -rc*, "Latest" for stable). Curated env set
  in .github/release-envs.txt (72 envs; heltec_v4_repeater_telemetry gated on
  #20). Design of record: docs/architecture/2026-06-06-ci-release-pipeline.md.
  (#15, #16, #17)

Changed

• Reconciled inherited CI workflows: removed 7 dead/superseded
  (pr-build-check, auto-promote, github-pages, the three upstream-tag
  build-*-firmwares, branch-cleanup); kept build-safeboot-firmwares +
  sync-labels-to-board. (#18)

What's Changed

• fix(#27): pio-flash firmware_dir -> repo root + --firmware-dir override by @Strycher in #28
• pio-flash artifact-flash: flash CI release artifacts through the identity gate (#29, #34) by @Strycher in #35
• fix(#33): OLED splash carries pre-release identifier (v0.14.0-rc1, not v0.14.0+0) by @Strycher in #37
• chore(#38): gitignore pycache/ by @Strycher in #40
• feat(#42): strip observer companion to minima + delete dead ring buffer by @Strycher in #50
• docs: pin Crosswire project identity (Citadel + Agent Mail keys) (#55) by @Strycher in #56
• docs(#32): position-to-map pipeline architecture draft by @Strycher in #57
• docs: MeshCore 1.16.0 base-update impact assessment (spike #54) by @Strycher in #58
• chore(#59): port /work + session-state.py compaction-recovery hook into Crosswire by @Strycher in #60
• docs(#61): correct CLAUDE.md build/flash + migration-status after meshcore-firmware retire by @Strycher in #62

Full Changelog: crosswire-v0.14.0-rc1...crosswire-v0.14.0

Crosswire crosswire-v0.14.0-rc1

(No CHANGELOG entry for v0.14.0-rc1.)

What's Changed

• docs: adopt versioning + CHANGELOG + release-channel discipline (#11) by @Strycher in #12
• chore: roll CHANGELOG to v0.13.2 + fix em-dashes to ASCII (#11) by @Strycher in #13
• epic(#14): CI release pipeline -- dev artifacts + crosswire-v* releases by @Strycher in #24
• docs(#25): roll CHANGELOG to [0.14.0] (CI release pipeline) by @Strycher in #26

New Contributors

• @Strycher made their first contribution in #12

Full Changelog: https://github.com/Strycher/Crosswire/commits/crosswire-v0.14.0-rc1