v0.1.0 — One-click install, keyless boot, Provider Settings
The first formal release: one-click install, a keyless boot that lands on a real satellite globe, and in-app key management.
Get started in one click → Quick Start — no keys, no signup, no config file.
Highlights
- One-click install via Pinokio. Keyless boot lands on live Esri World Imagery with keyless terrain; OSM takes over automatically if Esri is unreachable, and the globe continues without terrain if its source is unavailable.
- Provider Settings (the POWER UP panel): add, replace, or remove API keys inside the app. Credential files are made owner-only before any secret is written — verified on macOS and Windows — and keys configured outside the panel are shown read-only. The panel answers only local, unproxied requests and disables itself whenever the server is shared.
- Keyless capability responses: the optional HUD summary and place-search endpoints return a deliberate "not configured" success instead of errors, without consuming rate-limit quota.
- Aircraft-identity voice answers explicitly cover operator, type, and route, and say so plainly when enrichment is unavailable.
- README rewritten keyless-first around the provider ladder (zero-key Esri → free Cesium ion for eligible personal/non-commercial use → direct, billing-enabled Google), with the walkthrough video and corrected media paths. The changelog gains a concise 0.1.0 section with pre-release history retained below it.
- CI arrives with this PR (unit suite + build on Node 24/26 + Windows onboarding job).
Validation (local, on this exact tree)
| Gate | Result |
|---|---|
| Unit suite | 2,672 pass / 0 fail |
| Build | clean |
| Tracking regression (live dev server) | 108/108 |
| Map-source tray QA (keyless fallback) | pass |
| Setup doctor | ready |
Community
- @ethanstoner — thank you for the repo's first merged contributions: #81 (line-ending normalization via
.gitattributes, which un-breaks the test suite on Windows clones) and #83 (keepingnode:fsout of the browser-built data modules, plus the boundary scan test that guards it). Both authored commits remain intact in v0.1.0. - @tdkxygonjhif-blip — for requesting a keyless provider option (#64), and @C-EO for suggesting Esri as the route. That is exactly what shipped as the zero-key default.
- @xsoft — special credit for researching and proving the Cesium ion route to Google Photorealistic 3D from Europe/EEA (#71). That work is now a supported, documented path.
- @asabino2 — for reporting the Google authentication failure (#59) and making the need for a documented alternative route obvious.
- @Anoymoushackz and @eabase — for surfacing the setup, billing, and privacy friction (#69, #74) addressed by keyless boot, the ion route, and Provider Settings.
Thanks again to everyone in #59, #64, #69, #71, and #74 — I'll share the release in those threads once it's live.