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v1.1.12 — Utility widgets are back

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Update from v1.1.11 — worth doing now. A server-side change went out ahead of this release, and v1.1.11 can't cope with it: six widgets disappeared from your Library. Updating puts them back.

🐛 Fixes

  • Clock, Timer, Weather, System Monitor, Uptime and GitHub are in the Library again. These six run entirely on your machine, and the app used to tell them apart from the live-data widgets by a label the server attached to every widget. That label has been removed — it was a second copy of something the server already said another way — but v1.1.11 needed it to find each widget's display code, so it quietly skipped all six. Nothing was uninstalled and no settings were lost; the app simply stopped listing them. This version works it out from what the server still sends.

  • Widget pages know which kind they are again. Every widget page was identifying itself as a local-only widget, because the check was looking for a /channel/ address that stopped existing when the old redirects were deleted. That branch could never match, so the answer was always the same one.

  • "Which widget?" on the support form now lists actual widgets. It offered four broad groups — Finance, Sports, RSS, Fantasy — so reporting a problem with NFL scores meant picking "Sports". It now lists the real widgets and picks up new ones on its own.

🔧 Under the hood

"Channel" is gone as a word for anything that isn't literally a channel. It was the app's original name for what is now a widget, and it lingered in about five hundred places the interface never showed you — internal names, stored settings, the support form's categories, and one database column. Those all say widget now.

The bigger change is one fewer thing to keep in sync. A widget's source — which feed drives it — already indicated whether it was live-data or local-only, but a separate label said the same thing, and a category tag said it a third time. Two of those could drift out of agreement with the third. Now there's one answer, derived from the source.

💾 Anything to do after updating?

No. Your widgets, layout, and settings carry over. The six local widgets reappear in the Library on first launch.

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