Changelog

0.9.18 Android (.apk) alpha

2026-09-04 · 1 file

• Report a bug, from inside the app. There is a button on the About page now. It shows you exactly what will be sent — the version, the diagnostics block, a screenshot if you attach one — and lets you take any of it off before it goes. Nothing identifying you is attached, the contact box starts empty, and no screenshot is ever taken by itself: a screenshot of this app usually has other people's messages in it.
• Fixed: the chosen update channel was drawn the same as the others, so Released, Beta and Alpha all looked unselected. Android only.

Replaces 0.9.17, which went out before the reporting button was finished.

0.9.18 Linux (.deb) alpha

2026-09-04 · 1 file

• Report a bug, from inside the app. There is a button on the About page now. It shows you exactly what will be sent — the version, the diagnostics block, a screenshot if you attach one — and lets you take any of it off before it goes. Nothing identifying you is attached, the contact box starts empty, and no screenshot is ever taken by itself: a screenshot of this app usually has other people's messages in it.
• Fixed: the chosen update channel was drawn the same as the others, so Released, Beta and Alpha all looked unselected. Android only.

Replaces 0.9.17, which went out before the reporting button was finished.

0.9.17 Android (.apk) alpha

2026-09-04 · 1 file

• The update channel is remembered again. Choosing Beta or Alpha did not survive closing the app: the setting was read before the archive was open, found nothing, and fell back to Released every launch. Android only.

Everything else is as 0.9.16, which this replaces.

0.9.17 Linux (.deb) alpha

2026-09-04 · 1 file

• The update channel is remembered again. Choosing Beta or Alpha did not survive closing the app: the setting was read before the archive was open, found nothing, and fell back to Released every launch. Android only.

Everything else is as 0.9.16, which this replaces.

0.9.16 Android (.apk) alpha

2026-09-04 · 1 file

A correction to the version number. Builds briefly went out numbered 9.1.x. That was a mistake: this line is 0.9.x, and it continues from 0.9.14 where it left off. The 9.1.x builds have been withdrawn and are no longer offered on any channel.

If you are running one of them, this build has to be installed by hand — the updater will not offer it to you. It never offers a lower version number than the one you are running, deliberately, because the archive migrates forward only and going back is not something it could carry out. Install this once and automatic updates work again from here.

Nothing else changed from the withdrawn builds. What they contained:

• Each client checks its own update feed, so the desktop and the phone no longer have to share one version number.
• Messages the phone received were being thrown away. Every message arriving over the radio failed a database constraint and was discarded silently, while the notification still appeared. Those are gone — the radio deletes each message as the app takes it — but from here they are kept, and a refused write says so instead of being silent.
• Channels are read from the radio properly. The phone asked for four channel slots; radios have forty.
• A tablet looks like a tablet. Navigation rail down the left and the conversation beside the list, as on the desktop. Phones are unchanged.
• Administer a repeater from the phone over a USB-C cable.
• The Radio page has moved into Settings › Radio.

0.9.16 Linux (.deb) alpha

2026-09-04 · 1 file

A correction to the version number. Builds briefly went out numbered 9.1.x. That was a mistake: this line is 0.9.x, and it continues from 0.9.14 where it left off. The 9.1.x builds have been withdrawn and are no longer offered on any channel.

If you are running one of them, this build has to be installed by hand — the updater will not offer it to you. It never offers a lower version number than the one you are running, deliberately, because the archive migrates forward only and going back is not something it could carry out. Install this once and automatic updates work again from here.

Nothing else changed from the withdrawn builds. What they contained:

• Each client checks its own update feed, so the desktop and the phone no longer have to share one version number.
• Messages the phone received were being thrown away. Every message arriving over the radio failed a database constraint and was discarded silently, while the notification still appeared. Those are gone — the radio deletes each message as the app takes it — but from here they are kept, and a refused write says so instead of being silent.
• Channels are read from the radio properly. The phone asked for four channel slots; radios have forty.
• A tablet looks like a tablet. Navigation rail down the left and the conversation beside the list, as on the desktop. Phones are unchanged.
• Administer a repeater from the phone over a USB-C cable.
• The Radio page has moved into Settings › Radio.