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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