v2.8.1 (29321949)

What's Changed

🏗️ Features

• feat(settings): add 2.8 amateur and EU Lite/Narrow LoRa regions by @jamesarich in #6548
• feat(takserver): surface mesh nodes to ATAK as CoT contacts (mesh-to-CoT) by @jamesarich in #6554
• feat: distinguish saved coverage estimates in the map layers sheet by @jamesarich in #6578
• Align Android message status wording by @RCGV1 in #6133
• feat(settings): export the node database as JSON by @jamesarich in #6610
• feat(tak): show local server status by @RCGV1 in #6599
• feat(messaging): add optional full message timestamps by @simulationstation in #6639
• feat(settings): warn before enabling licensed (ham) mode by @jamesarich in #6632
• perf(startup): move WorkManager and AppFunctions init off the main thread by @jamesarich in #6648
• feat(analytics): report key user interactions as named RUM actions by @jamesarich in #6654
• feat(node): surface incomplete nodes with a badge and show them by default by @jamesarich in #6673
• refactor(maps): share custom tile providers by @simulationstation in #6641
• feat(demo): make Demo Mode reachable and populated in release builds by @jamesarich in #6691
• feat(lora): honor a pinned-preset intent advertised for UNSET by @jamesarich in #6711
• feat(icons): add Material icons for custom SF Symbols and fix soil telemetry icons by @jamesarich in #6722
• feat(settings): add About screen with hardware carousel and rename license screen to Acknowledgements by @jamesarich in #6721
• feat(firmware): add nRF52/RP2040 factory erase and OTAFIX bootloader upgrade over USB by @jamesarich in #6526
• feat(node): label SNR quality on the Node Details signal row by @beecho01 in #6703
• fix(database): raise default cache limit and warn before eviction by @jamesarich in #6742
• feat(tak): add TAK Mesh Channel setting for outbound TAK traffic by @jamesarich in #6770

🖥️ Desktop

• fix(desktop): stop SIGSEGV on every Linux notification by @jamesarich in #6543
• fix(desktop): free the GError and release libnotify on shutdown by @jamesarich in #6544
• fix(desktop): restore BLE scanning and connecting in packaged builds by @jamesarich in #6558
• fix(service): stop blocking getString on Dispatchers.Default-reachable notification paths by @jamesarich in #6668
• fix(messaging): disambiguate sender-scoped packet IDs by @simulationstation in #6624
• fix(connections): hide the replay demo entry when its capture asset is absent by @jamesarich in #6692
• fix(lifecycle): harden packet admission and transport ownership by @jeremiah-k in #6716

🛠️ Fixes

• fix(ui): give rx_snr real presence semantics end to end by @jamesarich in #6523
• fix(debug): restore node ID hex annotations broken by the Wire migration by @jamesarich in #6532
• fix(nodes): suppress alerts during initial database sync by @jeremiah-k in #6538
• fix(ble): pause background RSSI polling by @jeremiah-k in #6539
• fix(database): recover wedged observer pools by @jeremiah-k in #6540
• fix(docs): publish only screenshots a synced page references by @jamesarich in #6557
• fix(icons): differentiate google/fdroid debug launcher icons by @jamesarich in #6564
• fix(tak): re-encode bundled .p12 certs with legacy PKCS#12 algorithms for Android ≤ 9 ATAK compatibility by @jamesarich in #6569
• fix: Site Planner map/camera parity with iOS by @jamesarich in #6577
• fix(service): unwedge the inbound pipeline behind stale-Connected zombies by @jamesarich in #6587
• fix(map): scope location tracking to the visible lifecycle by @simulationstation in #6602
• fix(konsist): normalize source paths on Windows by @simulationstation in #6604
• fix(map): reuse cluster items across camera recompositions by @simulationstation in #6605
• fix(fdroid): ship 16 KB-compatible GeoPackage SQLite by @simulationstation in #6606
• fix(tak): gate V2 packets on known firmware by @RCGV1 in #6600
• fix(messaging): wait for shared-contact routing ACK by @simulationstation in #6603
• fix(build): sign debug builds with a shared checked-in keystore by @jamesarich in #6615
• fix(ci): unbreak the merge queue on Gradle 9.6.1 by @jamesarich in #6636
• fix(ui): add MQTT context to channel uplink/downlink toggle labels by @jamesarich in #6614
• fix(i18n): localize emoji picker strings by @jamesarich in #6628
• fix(database): delete nodes and metadata atomically by @simulationstation in #6623
• fix(ci): sync Flatpak Gradle distribution by @simulationstation in #6625
• fix(mqtt): isolate overlapping client sessions by @simulationstation in #6616
• fix(data): stop "1 hour" log retention from wiping the MeshLog table by @jamesarich in #6635
• fix(node): chart environment metrics in the user's display units by @jamesarich in #6634
• fix(messaging): time out orphaned "Sending..." messages into a retryable failure by @jamesarich in #6630
• fix(ui): stop emoji picker clipping text at large font scales by @jamesarich in #6631
• fix(service): await persisted device before boot reconnect by @simulationstation in #6617
• fix(node): stop compass updates while backgrounded by @simulationstation in #6620
• fix(service): load persisted MeshLog cleanup policy by @simulationstation in #6621
• fix(usb): validate permission callbacks by @simulationstation in #6622
• fix(settings): refresh delayed remote public keys by @simulationstation in #6638
• fix(ui): locale-aware unit formatting and message-view font scaling (design audit) by @jamesarich in #6629
• fix(android): preserve shared text in deep links by @simulationstation in #6619
• fix(test): isolate androidApp unit tests from the production Application by @jamesarich in #6644
• fix(settings): show REDACTED for a remote node's withheld private key by @jamesarich in #6649
• fix(ui): surface watchdog-forced reconnects in the nav connection icon by @jamesarich in #6655
• fix(ble): enable Kable preConflate to prevent scan-callback ANRs by @jamesarich in #6652
• fix(ui): restore bottom time-axis height at large font scales by @jamesarich in #6656
• fix(telemetry): repoint 1-Wire temperature at per-channel fields, adopt ADC voltage by @jamesarich in #6653
• fix(analytics): cover local firmware sideloads and report message_send in the foreground by @jamesarich in #6660
• fix(database): bound withDb execution so one wedged callback can't stall every write by @jamesarich in #6661
• fix(konsist): anchor path rules to the scanned checkout root so the commonMain guard isn't vacuously green in agent worktrees by @jamesarich in #6665
• fix(database): recover from Room's silent connection-pool wedge (#6608) by @jamesarich in #6658
• fix(settings): restore channels from device profiles by @simulationstation in #6618
• fix(map): open Site Planner for the selected node by @simulationstation in #6640
• fix(map): allow layers with generic MIME types by @ayysasha in #6663
• fix(ui): move event firmware branding off the app bar by @jamesarich in #6676
• fix(lora): validate 2.4 GHz bandwidth options by @RCGV1 in #6529
• fix(build): track compose-multiplatform's actual version in the flatpak arm64 force-resolve by @jamesarich in #6694
• fix(build): declare navigationevent-compose explicitly, fixing Dokka's metadata compile by @jamesarich in #6698
• fix(notifications): stop repeated protected position alerts by @ayysasha in #6700
• fix(lora): keep a deliberately pinned preset at fresh setup by @jamesarich in #6710
• fix(admin): retain session refresh across multi-hop latency by @jeremiah-k in #6718
• fix(discovery): restore radio state after interrupted scans by @jeremiah-k in #6717
• fix(network): handle IPv6 mDNS addresses correctly, refresh on re-announce by @jamesarich in #6729
• fix(ui): request HIGH error correction for generated QR codes by @jamesarich in #6730
• fix(barcode): narrow the F-Droid scanner to QR-only by @jamesarich in #6731
• fix(ai): read the real inference source instead of hardcoding it by @jamesarich in #6732
• fix(firmware): add fallback painter to device hardware image by @jamesarich in #6733
• fix(map): restore osmbonuspack native styling, fix tile-scaling gap by @jamesarich in #6735
• fix(takserver): wire TAKPacket-SDK's logger, surface remarks-stripped by @jamesarich in #6736
• fix(node): confirm before clearing a node's position track by @jamesarich in #6745
• fix(takserver): route TAK self-test through the real v1/v2 dispatch path by @jamesarich in #6746
• fix(map): scope Google Maps clustering to the viewport above 1000 nodes by @beecho01 in #6739
• fix(node): make node-list search case-insensitive for non-ASCII names by @jamesarich in #6753
• fix(ble): refresh a stale GATT cache during ordinary reconnects by @jamesarich in #6744
• fix(connections): open the region picker directly from the region card by @jamesarich in #6743
• fix(tak): duplicate ATAK contacts on v1 GeoChat + surface v1-fallback notice by @jamesarich in #6759
• fix(connections): gate manual + recent TCP connects on ACCESS_LOCAL_NETWORK by @jamesarich in #6766
• fix(service): explain, don't hang, when a TCP reconnect lacks local-network access by @jamesarich in #6767
• fix(firmware): point OTAFIX bootloader self-update at meshtastic's own fork by @jamesarich in #6769
• fix(firmware): map T_ECHO_CARD (136) to SoftDevice 6.1.1 by @jamesarich in #6776
• fix: derive temperature unit from locale temperature preference, not distance system by @jamesarich in #6775
• fix(ci): bump verify-flatpak's vendored Gradle dist to 9.7.1 to match the wrapper by @jamesarich in #6782
• fix(dfu): back off correctly when Android throttles BLE scan-starts by @jamesarich in #6784

📝 Other Changes

• refactor(compose): adopt keyed SideEffect and drop redundant config write-back effects by @jamesarich in #6684
• refactor(firmware): dedupe the Android/JVM download byte-copy loop by @jamesarich in #6737

New Contributors

• @clayburn made their first contribution in #6531
• @simulationstation made their first contribution in #6602
• @ayysasha made their first contribution in #6663
• @beecho01 made their first contribution in #6703

Full Changelog: v2.8.0...v2.8.1