v2.0.0

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WiFi Lens v2.0.0

WiFi Lens 2.0 is a major engineering release focused on making Wi-Fi analysis more accurate, diagnostics more reliable, and the codebase easier to evolve. It includes a substantial rewrite of the app architecture, major IEEE 802.11 parsing fixes, a hardened Network Self-Check, Russian localization, and reliability improvements across the open-source edition.

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Highlights

More Accurate Wi-Fi Analysis

WiFi Lens now interprets more of the underlying 802.11 information correctly instead of relying on simplified assumptions.

• Fixed HT channel-width parsing that could incorrectly report some 20 MHz networks as 40 MHz.
• Improved handling of 20, 40, 80, 160, and 80+80 MHz operating widths.
• Corrected HE / Wi-Fi 6 capability parsing from standard 802.11 Extension Information Elements.
• Improved detection of 802.11k, 802.11r, and 802.11v capabilities.
• Corrected RSN security, AKM, cipher, WPA3, Fast Transition, and OWE interpretation.
• Hardened malformed Information Element handling to avoid reporting capabilities that cannot be established from the available data.
• Updated Spectrum, network tables, MCP output, and saved network snapshots to use the corrected operating-width semantics consistently.

Network Self-Check Improvements

Network Self-Check is now more conservative and resilient when the network changes while diagnostics are running.

• Improved default-route, interface, and gateway selection.
• Network changes now invalidate stale diagnostic runs more reliably.
• Route checks are bounded so a stalled system command cannot leave diagnostics waiting indefinitely.
• Improved handling of VPN/TUN routes, proxy configuration, PAC resolution, DNS uncertainty, and HTTPS failures.
• Cancelled or replaced diagnostic runs can no longer publish stale results into a newer run.
• Diagnostic conclusions preserve uncertainty instead of turning incomplete evidence into overly confident results.

Russian Localization

WiFi Lens is now available in Russian.

• Added Russian localization across the open-source app.
• Refined compact terminology for channel metrics and network tables.
• Improved layouts for longer localized strings.
• Expanded localization regression coverage while preserving the existing English, German, Spanish, Japanese, and Chinese interfaces.

Architecture and Reliability

WiFi Lens 2.0 also includes a major internal restructuring designed to make future development safer and more predictable.

• Extracted shared application logic and UI into the new WiFiLensCore module.
• Simplified the open-source app into a thin macOS application host around the shared core.
• Reorganized the project around explicit module and product boundaries.
• Centralized application storage paths and runtime namespaces.
• Hardened the local MCP server with stricter HTTP request validation and bounded request sizes.
• Improved privacy-manifest and localized permission-description handling.
• Preserved backward compatibility for previously saved network snapshots.
• Expanded regression coverage across scanning, diagnostics, Spectrum, MCP, storage, and protocol parsing.

Other Changes

• Improved localized layouts and accessibility coverage.
• Updated dependencies and project tooling.
• Simplified the repository and Xcode project structure.
• Continued reliability work across network observation and diagnostic state handling.

This release covers the open-source (OSS) edition; Pro-specific updates ship separately.

Links

• WiFi Lens Website: https://wifi-lens.shiinalabs.com/
• Get WiFi Lens Pro on the Mac App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6776590746

New Contributors

• @rvetlyakov made their first contribution in Add Russian localization and improve localized layouts #98

Full Changelog: v1.6.0...v2.0.0

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