v1.9.0
Elite Trader v1.9.0 — cockpit everywhere, arrange mode & painless setup
🖥️ Every flight-panel page is a cockpit display now
Panel mode used to look right only on the status screen. Now all eight pages
share the same MFD design language — orange rails, glowing letter-spaced
labels, solid chunky controls, touch-sized tables — so the whole app looks like
it belongs on your dashboard.
🧩 Arrange mode
Tap ⇅ ARRANGE (next to the tabs, or the floating ⇅ in panel mode) and every
card collapses to a compact header with a drag handle. Drag pages into the
order that suits how you play — bio signals on top of Explore, jump history
first in Local. Layouts are remembered per page, per device. (Explore now
defaults to bio signals first, too.)
🛠️ Journal setup that just works
- Auto-detection now resolves a relocated Saved Games folder via the
Windows known-folder API. - New Settings → Journal folder field with live validation ("✓ 60 journal
files found") — applies immediately, no restart, no environment variables. - If the folder doesn't exist yet (app installed before the game's first run),
the app recovers by itself the moment it appears. - The "journal not found" banner now has an OPEN SETTINGS button instead of
telling you to set an env var.
📄 Release notes in the app
Clicking release notes on the update banner now opens the notes right in
the app instead of your browser (this text you're reading, for instance).
🐛 Fixes
- SRV / Nomad no longer triggers false "low fuel" callouts — Status.json
reports the vehicle's tiny tank while you're driving; the app now keeps the
ship's reading until you're back aboard (fixes the fuel gauge during SRV
trips as well).
Run from source (run.bat / run.sh) or grab the attached EliteTrader.exe
(no Python needed). On the packaged app, updates install in place — click
Update & restart when it appears.
Full Changelog: v1.8.0...v1.9.0