Vela 0.4.955

What's changed in 0.4.955

• Vela now actually conserves data on satellite links, not just claims to
• Add an opt-in nav smoothness trace so a jittery map can be diagnosed from a real drive
• Simulated drives no longer run the map three times too fast, which was making the whole map swim around the puck
• Navigation puck is 15 percent bigger
• Navigation map no longer lurches sideways when the phone hiccups mid-drive
• Railway crossings and speed humps now draw on the map alongside the traffic lights and stop signs
• Roadmap: Waze alerts probed as an incident source and ruled out, the endpoint now sits behind reCAPTCHA scoring
• Themed launcher icon chevron shrunk 30 percent so it sits better in the icon circle
• Spoken transit walk cues say minutes and miles in full instead of reading the abbreviations aloud
• Transit guidance now shows the map: the step-by-step guide is a bottom panel with the trip drawn above it, and the camera follows the leg you are on
• Search your contacts: typing a contact's name suggests their saved address, opt-in with the permission asked only when you turn it on
• Transit routes now draw on the map: expanding an itinerary shows each bus or train leg as a colored line through its stops, with walking links dotted and the camera framing the whole trip
• Traffic lights and stop signs now load once along the whole route when navigation starts, so they show up reliably during a drive instead of appearing rarely and vanishing (the moving map kept refetching them and they also sat above the highway-speed zoom floor)
• Deep satellite imagery fades in over a zoom level instead of snapping between capture eras
• Search results rank by distance from you instead of wherever the map happens to be centered
• Avoid tolls and highways stops hanging the route chooser and says when it could not be applied
• Spoken directions get a volume setting with louder tiers so the voice cuts through music
• Sharper satellite view when zoomed in close, with automatic fallback where high resolution imagery is missing

Full changelog: v0.4.935...v0.4.955