v1.1.0-alpha.1

First pre-release of the 1.1 line — a near-complete rewrite. The bot gains a
full web UI, moves all configuration into SQLite, and is now distributed under
the OwlShack name. This is an alpha: expect rough edges and please
report issues.

Highlights

• New web UI (React SPA at :8080). Operator-console aesthetic over a
  single embedded static binary — no separate frontend to host.
• Configuration lives in SQLite, not files. A first-run setup wizard
  bootstraps a node; config files become one-time imports. Per-resource config
  screens (Radio, MQTT, Companions, Bots/triggers) edit one thing at a time and
  reload in place — most changes apply with no restart and no dropped sessions.
• Rebrand to OwlShack.

Web UI

• Overview / Peers / Map — live peer count and type spectrum, searchable
  peer table, Leaflet map of geolocated peers with type filters and GPS
  track visualization (altitude-colored).
• Packets — live stream grouped by hash with a detail panel (route, hops,
  signal, observation timeline, raw hex).
• Trace — interactive path builder + result timeline.
• Companions → chat — channels and DMs per companion, with delivery status,
  retry, and reply/quote affordances.
• Contacts / Channels / Repeaters — per-companion management.
• Repeater Detail — login, status telemetry, CLI terminal with
  autocomplete, neighbours, and a full settings panel (radio, position map
  picker, advert intervals, routing, owner info, security/ACL).

Node monitoring

• Type-agnostic background poller writing time-series metrics + latest-snapshot
  state, with per-node intervals, on-demand polls, and UI staleness indicators.
• Telemetry decoding (battery, MCU temp, external sensors) gated by the remote
  node's sharing prefs.

Contacts & peers (this release)

• Contacts are now self-contained address-book records — each caches its own
  name, type, location, routing path, feature flags and last-seen, refreshed
  from adverts and path learning. Deleting a discovered peer no longer touches a
  saved contact.
• Per-companion routing — DMs route from the contact's own learned path;
  companions never share a route to a peer.
• Discovered-peer deletion — individual and bulk, from the Peers and Map
  pages.
• Cross-linking + self-add prevention — every entity is reachable to its
  detail view from anywhere it's shown; you can't add your own node as a contact.

MQTT observer

• Configurable broker presets (LetsMesh, Waev, MeshMapper, …), templated
  packet/status topics, and per-broker auth (Ed25519 JWT or basic).
• Fixes: UTC zone-aware timestamps in payloads; shutdown is panic-safe against
  in-flight deliveries.

Other

• Room-server chat (login, post, ACK-gated push), repeater ACL surface, and
  unified first-heard reception with a total-heard count.
• CI guards :latest and the GitHub release flag for pre-release tags.

Upgrade notes

• Config moves into the database. On first run, point the binary at your
  existing config file once (-config path) to import it; after that the DB is
  the source of truth and the file is no longer read. The legacy
  nodeType/[[bot]]/[[observer]] format imports cleanly.
• The schema is created/migrated automatically on startup.

Full changelog: v1.0.6...v1.1.0-alpha.1