Pitmasters Grill 1.0.0

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Pitmasters Grill v1.0.0 — General Release

Pitmasters Grill v1.0.0 is the first General Release of PMG.

This release moves PMG out of technical-preview framing and turns it into a fuller daily-use EVE local-intel companion: faster board reads, stronger public killmail freshness, better cockpit layout behavior, improved diagnostics, and a complete app identity.

Highlights

• Graduated PMG from Technical Preview to General Release.
• Added the Grill / Analysis / Intel / Ignore List / Settings / Help workflow.
• Added PMG branding, executable icon, header logo, and Windows tray icon.
• Made Panel/Board-style behavior the default PMG experience.
• Added Today’s Freshness for visible-pilot same-day/recent zKill repair.
• Added Historical Freshness for visible-pilot recent completed-day repair.
• Added Background Historical Repair after startup with cooldown/checkpoint protection.
• Added optional R2Z2 live zKill feed support.
• Added killmail DB write coordination to reduce overlapping SQLite writer risk.
• Added pilot Watchlist support with watched-first sorting.
• Added persistent window position/size and improved multi-monitor restore behavior.
• Added saved board column layout, reset behavior, Character A-Z default sort, and stronger column resizing/autofit.
• Added relative Last Seen values such as 3h ago or 4d ago.
• Added Analysis summary surfaces for visible-pilot composition/context review.
• Added EVE Session Context confidence display for copied-local context.
• Expanded diagnostics for freshness, live feed state, checkpoints, and background repair settings.
• Added a Help tab with PMG shortcuts and workflow reminders.

Freshness model

PMG now uses layered public-data freshness:

1. Archive Backfill — historical baseline from completed public zKill archive days.
2. R2Z2 Live Feed — optional ambient live zKill-known deltas.
3. Today’s Freshness — manual visible-pilot same-day/recent repair.
4. Historical Freshness — manual visible-pilot recent completed-day repair.
5. Background Historical Repair — bounded startup enrichment over known/recent pilots.

These tools improve PMG’s local public-evidence cache. They do not make public data complete or private data visible.

Board and UI improvements

• Board columns now persist, reset safely, manually resize, and autofit to the visible grid width.
• The rightmost visible column fills to the inner right edge even after hiding other columns.
• Default board sort is Character A-Z while preserving watched-first grouping.
• Last Seen now displays relative recency.
• Help tab added.
• PMG Themes label replaces the old dark-mode label.
• Panel/Board-style behavior is now the default experience.

Diagnostics and safety

Diagnostics now include broader freshness/background state, R2Z2 status, checkpoint counts, and live-killmail source counts.

PMG remains evidence-first and does not read client memory, inspect network traffic, automate gameplay, use private ESI character data, or claim live grid/location/cloak certainty.

Upgrade notes

Existing users can update normally.

On first launch, PMG may evaluate archive freshness and/or perform bounded background historical repair. This is expected.

R2Z2 live feed is optional and disabled by default.

If local killmail intel appears stale, use Intel → Today’s Freshness or Historical Freshness before reaching for heavier reset/rebuild tools.

Full patch notes

See Patch Notes/General-Release_1-0-0.md for the full release notes.

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