Knit 2.11.0-alpha.2 (pre-release)

Added

• In the US, Australia and New Zealand, you can now set a LoRa board up on a frequency only Knit boards use.
  Knit then uses the full airtime your region allows, but other people's Meshtastic radios no longer pass
  your messages on.
• Knit now comes in Brazilian Portuguese, Spanish, Ukrainian, French and German: it follows a phone set to
  one of them, and on Android 13 and later you can pick one for Knit alone in
  Settings › Apps › Knit › Language. Native speakers are still checking them on Weblate, where anyone can
  suggest a fix.
• Select words in a message you're writing to make them bold, italic, struck through or monospace. Older
  versions of Knit, and Knit for iPhone for now, show the message as plain text.
• Long-press a message and pick Pin message to keep it in a bar under the chat's name, where a tap jumps back
  to it. Each chat holds three pins, and for now they stay on your phone: nobody else in the chat sees them.
• The menu at the top of every chat now has Search, which looks only through that chat's messages. Tapping a
  result takes you back to that message.
• You can now see when a contact or group member is typing over an internet relay, and they can see when you
  are. A new Typing indicators switch in Settings › Chats turns this off both ways.
• Stable releases on GitHub now include a slim APK, about 49 MB smaller, that leaves out internet relays,
  calls, transcription and Knit Anywhere. You can switch between it and the full app without losing your
  messages.

Changed

• Message notifications now play Knit's own sound, a soft long-short-long chime that is K in Morse code. Only
  new installs get it, so if Knit is already on your phone, its notifications keep the sound they have now.
• Low-power mode in Settings is now a Wi-Fi Aware switch, and Battery Saver no longer turns it on. If you had
  Low-power mode on, Wi-Fi Aware stays off until you switch it back on.
• Knit now turns Wi-Fi Aware off while no nearby phone can use it, and back on when one comes into Bluetooth
  range or at its check every 12 minutes. On some phones that keeps your Wi-Fi faster and your Bluetooth
  headphones steadier when you're alone.
• When an internet relay runs more than one server for calls, Knit now relays each call through the one
  nearest you, checked whenever your network changes. If that server is full as the call starts, Knit tries
  the next one.
• The Support Knit screen now says Knit is funded by its supporters and is its developer's full-time job. The
  relay screen and your profile now name your ticket key where they used to say Knit Anywhere ended or needed
  renewing.
• Walkie-talkie calls now record your voice the way regular calls do, with your phone's own noise reduction
  and volume leveling. Background noise drops, and voices sound about as loud from one phone to the next.
• Typing indicators, link previews, content filtering and the large Bluetooth download limit have moved to a
  new Chats screen in Settings.

Fixed

• Tapping Back twice quickly now goes back one screen. The second tap used to close the screen underneath too,
  which from a chat or Settings left Knit on a blank screen.
• Voice notes and files no longer show up in the Nearby room. Knit never offered them there, but a modified
  app could post one, and Knit can't screen either for nearby strangers.
• Tapping a quote, a pinned message or a search result now lands on that message while someone is typing.
  It used to stop one message short, so after a photo or a long message the one you wanted sat off screen.
• A phone outside a busy group no longer sends its members the same old messages over and over, and a message
  you already have no longer sends its sender a new delivery tick every ten minutes. Both used airtime and
  battery on every phone nearby.

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Pre-release — a test build, not a shipping release. It is not on F-Droid, is not marked
Latest, and is not what F-Droid's Binaries: URL points at. Install it only if you mean to
test it.

knit-2.11.0-alpha.2.apk — sha256:0a00bf7d2410b6b5f00471d14ccc1ef092bd2ea62ca353ce7b3eba680017780e

Signed with Knit's distribution key (certificate b18a283d11797c2a84a008c1fcb9e1b864e7b4c3b301408f7a4a80624b0e631c) — the same key every off-Play Knit
build carries — so it installs straight over an existing F-Droid, GitHub or mesh-shared install
without an uninstall, and keeps your messages.

Going back to the current stable is not possible in place: Android refuses the versionCode
downgrade, so reverting costs an uninstall and everything stored on the device with it. The next
stable release will update over this build normally.

CI verified this APK is byte-identical, apart from the signature, to an independent unsigned
rebuild produced inside F-Droid's own buildserver image — the same reproducibility gate stable
releases pass.

mapping-2.11.0-alpha.2.txt.gz is the R8 deobfuscation map for symbolicating crash reports from this build.