Changelog

3.0.0 Beta — Runtime, Connected Phone, and Diagnostics Overhaul

This prerelease contains every change made after 2.25.1.

Added three external-map performance presets:
- Eco: up to 6 map frames per second, 0.5-second vehicle snapshots, and a 1× canvas pixel-ratio cap;
- Balanced: up to 15 map frames per second and 0.25-second vehicle snapshots;
- Smooth: up to 30 map frames per second and 0.125-second vehicle snapshots.
Added independent External map and Terrain layer switches to Connected Phone settings. Disabling terrain also prevents terrain metadata from being rebuilt and transmitted.
Replaced continuous mobile map repainting with motion-driven rendering. The canvas redraws only after meaningful position, heading, speed, route, or camera changes and stops drawing while its map view is not visible.
Reduced repeated HUD traffic while a phone is connected by publishing revisioned field-level patches instead of complete state documents on every periodic update.
Kept full authoritative snapshots for initial load, explicit resynchronization, settings/profile operations, and the in-game UI App when no phone is connected.
Increased heartbeat tolerance from 3.5 to 8 seconds so mobile-browser timer throttling does not cause needless disconnect/reconnect cycles.
Added cache revisions to the external bootstrap, HTML, styles, scripts, and localization requests so phones do not retain mixed assets from an older mod build.

Added a HUD epoch and monotonically increasing revision to every authoritative state stream.
Added baseRevision validation for delta packets. Missing, delayed, duplicated, or out-of-order patches are rejected instead of being merged onto stale state.
Added automatic full-state recovery through both in-game and external-client heartbeats when a revision gap is detected.
Fixed the in-game UI App showing an offer screen while Connected Phone had already entered an active trip.
Fixed the Connected Phone route being drawn once and then remaining frozen while the vehicle continued moving.
Made Lua's active trip phase authoritative for external navigation. Hiding the in-game CEF layer or backgrounding a browser can no longer silently stop the live phone route.
Added explicit external-view reporting for home, orders, trip, compact, fuel-route, settings, profile, fuel, and status screens.
Protected recently changed settings from older periodic packets until Lua acknowledges the same normalized settings document.
Fixed language, toggle, and other setting controls briefly changing and then reverting to their previous values.

Removed TaxiDriver telemetry and cargo extensions from BeamNG's automatic Vehicle Lua extension directory.
Telemetry now loads only while a TaxiDriver shift needs it and unloads when inactive. Physical cargo support follows the same lazy lifecycle.
Added a Vehicle Config guard that suspends TaxiDriver vehicle scans, energy requests, telemetry, cargo work, HUD work, and the in-game Angular root before BeamNG rebuilds the vehicle VM.
Added a 1.5-second settle window after parts/configuration changes before deferred vehicle-side work resumes.
Added generation checks so late callbacks from a replaced vehicle VM cannot overwrite the stable current-vehicle state.
Changed vehicle-history identity tracking to treat live part changes on the same BeamNG vehicle object as the same automobile.
Prevented repeated vehicle-detail lookups, JSON writes, profile-row recreation, odometer jumps, and cargo/telemetry reloads during parts selection.
Restored telemetry and active delivery mass lazily after the replacement vehicle VM becomes stable.

Added Tank / battery level, allowing the current vehicle's compatible energy storages to be set from 0% to 100%.
Reused the exact BeamNG energy-storage bridge used by Realistic Mode: Realistic Mode supplies its fixed 5% fuel / 30% charge values, while the cheat supplies the player's selected percentage for both.
Fixed the range control sending a stale Angular value by reading the actual HTML slider value at the moment Set is pressed.
Updated Set rating to re-rate the driver's complete history rather than changing only the visible aggregate.
Rating changes now update stored reviews, rating-history points, vehicle journal totals, the active/previous shift summaries, and the profile approximation consistently.
Added God Mode, disabled by default. When enabled, resetting the current vehicle preserves the active trip and reapplies required delivery state after the VM settles.
Added Debug logging, enabled by default, to Cheat Zone.
Added structured [TaxiDriver] records for public operations, runtime phase changes, LAN lifecycle and map preparation, vehicle-config suspension, deferred vehicle work, and cheat actions.
Warnings and errors remain visible even when verbose debug logging is disabled.

Added hudPublisher.lua for full snapshots, compact patches, epochs, revisions, and resynchronization checks.
Added vehicleScanGuard.lua for configuration-screen detection, lifecycle generations, and stable-VM settling.
Added logger.lua for consistent structured diagnostics.
Kept cargo-mass control in delivery.lua and vehicle telemetry lifecycle in vehicleControl.lua.
Moved Vehicle Lua files from lua/vehicle/extensions/auto/ to lua/vehicle/extensions/ so they can only be loaded on demand.
Extended the deterministic packaging check to require all new runtime modules, reject automatic TaxiDriver vehicle extensions, and verify the complete 40-entry archive.

Passed 258 responsive UI states across the in-game UI App, Connected Phone, eight localizations, compact/expanded layouts, interface scaling, and DPR 2 HiDPI rendering.
Added 48 combinations covering map enablement, terrain enablement, Eco/Balanced/Smooth quality, God Mode, and debug logging.
Added mobile-map frame-budget checks for all new rendering behavior, including idle-frame suppression and continued phone updates while the in-game CEF layer is hidden.
Added revision-gap, delayed-patch, full-resynchronization, settings-race, and external-view heartbeat regression tests.
Added a physical HTML range-input test that verifies a selected 73% is transmitted as cheatSetEnergyPercent(73).
Added Lua combinatorics for structured logging, full-history rating changes, lazy vehicle extensions, and 500 deferred vehicle respawns/configuration events.
Parsed all 19 Lua files successfully and retained the LuaJIT main-chunk local/size guards.

Existing 2.25.1 settings, custom difficulty, profile, progress, shift, LAN identity, and vehicle-history files remain compatible.
New Connected Phone performance options, God Mode, and debug logging are sanitized into the existing settings schema.
Connected Phone sharing remains session-only and disabled whenever the UI App starts.
This build is published as a GitHub prerelease while the new synchronization and lazy vehicle lifecycle receive wider hardware, browser, map, and mod-compatibility testing.