App v1.1.0

The Linux AppImage works properly, and the flash log becomes a page in the app. The AppImage's file buttons and notifications are fixed, a finished job lights up the taskbar, the flash log has its own history page, and the app is ready for firmware 1.3.

Downloads

• Windows: HydraFlasher-Setup-1.1.0.exe (installing it over 1.0.0 updates it) or HydraFlasher-1.1.0-portable.exe.
• Linux: HydraFlasher-1.1.0-x86_64.AppImage: chmod +x, then run it. It needs FUSE (sudo apt install fuse3; the 1.0.0 notes wrongly said libfuse2), or start it with --appimage-extract-and-run. Desktop notifications need notify-send (libnotify-bin).
• Firmware 1.3 is released the same day: settings → firmware → latest.

New

• Flash history page (flash log ▸): every write and verify as a table, newest first, with socket names and green/red results; filter all / failures / today; export CSV…, open folder, and clear…, which archives the old log as flash_log-<date>.csv instead of deleting it.
• The taskbar entry lights up when a job ends while you're in another window (Linux: until you switch back; Windows: it flashes), whether notifications are on or not.
• Firmware 1.3's USB identity (2E8A:000A) is recognised, also when the Pico restarts during a firmware update.
• Licenses: the packages include the licence texts of everything bundled with HydraFlasher (Python, Tcl/Tk, customtkinter, pyserial, …); settings → version → licenses opens them.
• Settings show the git commit a package was built from next to the version.

Changed

• Notifications only appear while the HydraFlasher window isn't focused, close after 6 seconds and show the hydra icon. A successful probe (or the automatic identify of a new chip) no longer notifies; a failed one still does. On Linux they go through notify-send.
• Padding or truncating an image no longer leaves a _padded/_truncated file next to it: the copy is temporary and deleted once the queue is done.
• File dialogs on Linux: KDE gets its own dialog (kdialog) even when zenity is installed, with the image filter, in front of the HydraFlasher window. The window keeps drawing and scanning while a dialog is open.
• Builds use pinned tools: appimagetool 1.9.1 with its checksum, GitHub Actions pinned to commits.

Fixed

• Linux AppImage: the buttons that open a file did nothing. The AppImage's bundled libraries leaked into every program it started, and KDE's file dialog couldn't start with them. Programs started from the app (file dialog, flashprog, notify-send…) now use the system's libraries, and if the desktop's file dialog still fails, HydraFlasher opens its own.
• Linux AppImage: notifications stayed on screen until clicked.
• Status LEDs under sudo (when your user can't open the serial port) didn't work in the packages.
• Firmware downloads are checked against the SHA-256 checksum GitHub lists for the release file, and only files from this repository's releases are downloaded. A damaged download is refused instead of installed.
• The settings file can't be left half-written by a crash or a full disk. An unreadable one is kept as hydra_flasher.json.broken instead of being overwritten with defaults.
• A file name starting with =, +, - or @ is written to the flash log with a leading ', so spreadsheets don't run it as a formula.

What's Changed

• Release titles: "Firmware v1.2" and "App v1.0.0" by @Waffelo in #9
• Release titles: "Firmware v1.2" and "App v1.0.0" by @Waffelo in #10
• AppImage: file picker works, notifications close after 6 s, no notifi… by @Waffelo in #11
• LEDs work under sudo in the packaged app by @Waffelo in #12
• Polish: file dialogs don't freeze the window, KDE dialog with filter, quieter notifications, build commit by @Waffelo in #13
• Taskbar entry lights up when a job ends while you're in another window by @Waffelo in #14
• Temporary padding, flash history page, audit fixes, firmware 1.3 USB ID, new screenshot by @Waffelo in #15
• Release app 1.1.0 and firmware 1.3 by @Waffelo in #16

Full Changelog: app-v1.0.0...app-v1.1.0