v1.8.9

Fixed:

• Changing the screensaver on the web while it was up (weather to clock,
  say) left the old one's picture behind the new one. The screen is now
  cleared first.

v1.8.8

New:

• With nothing playing, the station list opens with the cursor on the
  station played last rather than the first - after coming back from the
  sound settings through the menu, for one.
• The screensaver has a new "Comes on" setting: "Always" - as before, the
  set time after the last touch - or "When nothing plays": while something
  plays the screen stays up, and the screensaver comes on the same time
  after a pause or a stop. Music starting - the alarm, say - wakes the
  screen by itself. In the web settings, under Screen.
• A weather screensaver: the whole weather, like a weather station, with
  colour pictures - the clock, the temperature and what it feels like,
  humidity, pressure, the wind with an arrow and gusts, sunrise and sunset,
  cloud cover and precipitation, a three-day forecast (from Open-Meteo and
  OpenWeatherMap). On every screen, each with its own layout; once a minute
  the picture moves by a pixel against burn-in. Chosen under Screensaver on
  the device or on the web.
• The remote's keys work like a television's. On the player Up/Down open the
  station (track) list and move the cursor, OK opens the list, Prev/Next
  change station or track. In menus and lists Up/Down and Prev/Next move the
  cursor, OK and Play/Pause choose what is highlighted. The volume is its own
  keys only. An FM radio key is added.

Fixed:

• Crackle and dropouts in the first second on some high-bitrate HTTPS
  stations (256-320 kbps). A station now starts playing once about a second
  of sound is in hand, and the big backlog is built up gradually, out of the
  decoder's way. Such stations start 0.2-0.4 s later, and clean.
• Rare artifacts on the ST7796S screen: the display lines' signal is made a
  little stronger.

v1.8.6

Fixed:

• A crackle on 22050 Hz AAC stations with the loudness on or the tone off
  zero. On those stations a block of sound went to the DAC in two halves,
  and the second went through the tone's filters twice - the seam clicked.

v1.8.5

New:

• Even volume: stations and tracks play equally loud. The radio measures a
  station's loudness the way broadcasters do (EBU R128), brings it to
  -14 LUFS and remembers it per station. Yandex Music tracks and files with
  ReplayGain/R128 tags already have theirs known, and start at their level.
  Switched on under Sound on the device or in the web's tone panel; off by
  default. The correction shows over the volume figure, in the station
  name's colour while the level is being found and in its own once settled.
• A volume nudge of your own for an internet station, +-6 dB: a Station row
  in the quick panel and a slider in the web's tone panel. Kept per station,
  and works without even volume as well.
• The boot log names the button pins, and warns of a button held at power-on.
• The encoder's and the buttons' internal pull-ups are always on, and the
  editor's switches for them are gone. A button can go straight between its
  pin and ground: a Sleep button with no pull-up of its own no longer
  presses itself and puts the board to sleep.

Fixed:

• Bad internet: a station no longer gives up with "could not connect". While
  the backlog plays, the radio reconnects in the background, so a short drop
  goes unheard; once it is spent, "Reconnecting..." shows and the tries go
  on until the station is back (every second at first, then less often, down
  to once a minute). A press of the encoder during "Reconnecting..." stops
  the station.
• After a dropped connection the station played again while the screen kept
  "Reconnecting..." and the buffer gauge froze.
• A station that did not answer could stay unreachable until a reboot: its
  address is now looked up afresh after a failed try. The wait for a server
  is 5 seconds rather than 10.
• Switching station from the web flashed the station list on the screen for
  a second.
• The warning about an all-zero audio block repeated in the log hundreds of
  times in a row.

v1.8.1

New:

• The tone and loudness are at hand: in the web player behind a button beside
  the volume (a sheet from the bottom on a phone), on the device in the quick
  panel. The web settings drop their Sound group.
• In the quick panel the switches (alarm, BT speaker) flip with one press of
  the encoder.
• Three buttons instead of the encoder: +, - and OK on the same pins, chosen in
  the wiring. Held, + and - repeat, faster and faster.
• A remote's volume keys step as the encoder does, by the "Volume step"
  setting.

Fixed:

• Yandex Music: after a dropped connection a track is picked up in about half a
  second instead of 4-10: the radio first tries the same stream address,
  without the API.
• VBR MP3: the bitrate on screen no longer jumps (the average is shown), the
  track length is exact and a jump lands where it should.
• Firmware built from a ZIP download (no git) showed version "1".

v1.8.0

New:

• Tone controls (bass and treble, ±12 dB) and loudness in three strengths -
  on the device in a new Sound group, and in the web interface.
• Yandex Music: genres, moods, activities and artist waves are back - the same
  ones the site shows under "My Wave". Yandex's station list shrank to "My
  Wave" alone in the last days; the stations now come from where the site
  takes them. Artist waves are marked "artist-style wave".
• Yandex Music plays through radio "sessions", as the official apps do.
• Ordinary MP3 and AAC stations keep everything the server sends ahead, up to
  128 KB - usually 3-8 seconds instead of 1-2.

Fixed:

• Dropouts with a full buffer on HTTPS stations: with packet loss a read
  waited for the missing part of a TLS record and held the decoder. Now the
  buffer plays out, and the meter shows it draining.
• A dropped station connection no longer means silence: the reconnect runs in
  the background while the backlog plays, and a server gone quiet is noticed
  after 1.5 s.
• Yandex Music: a track cut off is fetched on from the same byte in the
  background - no skipped track, no repeated stretch, no gap; no more extra
  seconds of silence at the end of a track.
• Yandex Music: the list no longer reshuffles on a refresh, and the wave
  picked in the web page is the one pressed.
• A Bluetooth module that answered late could stay on the bus with the board:
  USB crackled and DLNA was silent until a restart.

v1.7.0

New:

• A station search on the Stations page: the open Radio Browser catalogue
  (about 50 000 stations) by name, genre and country; a station can be
  listened to in the browser and added to the list with its picture.
• "Find pictures" - pictures for stations that have none, by stream address
  or by name.
• The catalogue is searched through a jRadio copy on GitHub, which opens
  where the catalogue itself does not; the catalogue directly is a choice too.
• A DS3231 or DS1307 real-time clock: the time is there right after power-up,
  even with no network, and the alarm wakes without Wi-Fi.
• The alarm can play FM radio when there is a tuner.
• The alarm can switch the radio off at a set time - only when the alarm woke
  it.

Fixed:

• A sleeping radio no longer wakes on noise from the IR receiver, only on the
  remote's Power key.
• Switching Yandex Music stations, the web page showed the previous station
  for a couple of seconds.
• The saved Yandex Music station sometimes did not start at power-up after a
  network hiccup in the first seconds - the request is now repeated.

v1.6.2

Fixed:

• Noise on the ILI9488 screen since 1.6.0: its lines have their former
  drive strength back.

v1.6.1

New:

• A new memory layout: 4 MB for the firmware instead of 3 - room for new
  features.
• Update rollback: when a new firmware does not start, the radio goes back to
  the one before by itself.

When moving to it:

• Flashing by cable or from the flasher onto a board with a version before
  1.6.1 changes the layout and erases the settings, the Wi-Fi networks and
  the stations. Download a backup and an export of the stations first and
  restore them after. The flasher warns and writes everything needed by
  itself.
• A radio on 1.6.0 updates over the network as usual, keeping its data; it
  gets the new layout at its next flash by cable.

v1.6.0

New:

• Firmware updates over the network: once a day the radio learns about a new
  version, the web interface shows what is new and installs it with one
  button. Versions that were skipped are listed together.
• An update from a file in the web interface, confirmed with the encoder on
  the radio.
• The settings sections of the web interface in a new order.

Fixed:

• Crackle on some boards: HTTPS is decrypted in hardware again.
• Clicks on the ILI9341 and ST7789 displays: the data goes to the screen in
  shorter, gentler bursts.
• Clicks while the volume changes: it now changes smoothly, and the volume
  and the brightness are saved without a pause in the sound.
• The screen no longer freezes after a turn of the encoder or while a browser
  downloads the backup.
• Yandex Music starts even when the network came up a moment late.
• N16R8 boards with two Type-C connectors start (the flash runs in QIO).
• The flasher finishes writing the data to a slow flash in time, and refuses
  Firefox, where the write came out broken.
• More free memory: steadier HTTPS and updates.