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Setup

  • The app no longer relaunches itself as administrator. Only the steps that need admin rights (MSYS2 install, update, and uninstall) are elevated, and the window stays a normal user process.
  • If you decline the administrator prompt, the app stays open and tells you the action was cancelled instead of closing.
  • MSYS2 is now downloaded and installed directly, with no winget dependency. If the automated install fails, the app offers to open the MSYS2 download page and explains the manual steps.
  • Installation runs silently, and the MSYS2 update runs pacman -Syuu twice so core and remaining packages are both upgraded.
  • The app checks that all required MSYS2 packages are present, not just the base install. It reports any that are missing.
  • The main button reflects what's needed: INSTALL WORKER when MSYS2 or the worker files are missing, SETTINGS when credentials are missing, and START WORKER when everything is ready.
  • Installing or re-installing the worker keeps the existing worker folder until the new one is ready, so a failed install no longer leaves you without a working worker.
  • Uninstalling MSYS2 waits for the uninstaller to finish before the UI refreshes, and the uninstaller runs without opening a console window.
  • Worker setup deletes only the temporary folders it created, not unrelated directories.

Settings

  • Settings moved from a popup window to a page in the main window, with a sidebar and a Settings button. Saving returns to the dashboard and refreshes the controls.
  • Fishtest username, password, and concurrency are passed to the setup script as environment variables instead of command-line arguments, so special characters no longer break the install.
  • Concurrency is validated when you save: plain numbers are checked against your CPU count, and expressions such as MAX-1 are accepted and passed to the worker unchanged. The settings page shows how many cores your computer has.
  • The GitHub token is stored only in your netrc file. Saving no longer overwrites other netrc entries, and the NETRC environment variable is respected.

Interface

  • The main window has a new dashboard with a status card that shows Idle, Running, or Stopping, along with the Fishtest user and core count.
  • While the worker is starting up, the progress label shows each stage: compiling Stockfish, downloading task files, uploading results, and so on.
  • The worker now runs with unbuffered output, so its log and status lines appear immediately.
  • Stopping the worker gracefully now explains what happens and shows a FORCE STOP NOW button. The progress label shows "Stopping after batch" until the worker exits.
  • The force-stop confirmation now states that in-progress batch results will be lost. Right-click force stop still works.
  • Console output from the setup, update, and worker processes is decoded correctly on non-English Windows systems. UTF-8 is tried first, then the OEM code page.
  • A sidebar holds the Dashboard, Settings, install, update, and uninstall actions, plus links to the Fishtest site and to report an issue on GitHub.
  • When a newer version is available, the update button appears in the sidebar instead of at the top of the window.
  • The window opens slightly wider than before and has a minimum size.

Maintenance

  • GitHub Actions are pinned to full commit SHAs.
  • .gitignore now excludes __pycache__, *.spec, and the worker/ folder.