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# Changelog
## v1.8.00-alpha (2026-06-18)
## v1.7.100-alpha (2026-07-14)
Polishes the mesh AI assistant and Fedimint, on top of all the v1.7.99 features (kept listed below so you can still see what's new).
- Bitcoin now supports multiple versions of both Bitcoin Core and Bitcoin Knots: install the version you want, switch between them, pin a version, or let it auto-update — and switching is designed to be safe, with no surprise resyncs.
- Lightning grew up: your LND wallet's recovery seed is captured at setup and kept as an encrypted backup you can reveal from Settings, there's a new Channels tab with a fee control when opening channels, and on-chain and Lightning balances now show side by side.
- Installing Lightning (and other Bitcoin-dependent apps) on a fresh node no longer fails repeatedly — the node now waits until Bitcoin is genuinely ready to answer before starting them, and Bitcoin sizes its storage to your actual disk and its memory cache to your RAM, so small machines stop swapping and stalling.
- The wallet understands more money: Cashu v4 tokens are supported, you can pay for a peer's files from either your Cashu or Fedimint ecash, and the Transactions view now shows your Lightning, Cashu, and Fedimint activity together — with a payment confirmation screen and an automatic refund if a purchase fails.
- Mesh radios got a major upgrade: Meshtastic direct messages are now true end-to-end-encrypted radio messages that interoperate with off-the-shelf Meshtastic phone apps, your radio's region and a shared channel are provisioned automatically, and a new setup window appears when a radio is plugged in — with board pictures, full radio settings, and signal-strength indicators.
- Reticulum joins as a third mesh radio protocol with RNode LoRa hardware support, including sending images and voice messages over the radio — and every chat message now carries a small pill showing how it travelled (Mesh, FIPS, or Tor).
- Your node can manage an OpenWrt router: set up its internet uplink from the UI with a Wi-Fi network scan, turn it into a TollGate pay-for-Wi-Fi hotspot with a real captive portal, and sweep the router's earnings into your node's wallet. The gateway's status appears on the Home screen's Network tile.
- Peering is now trust-aware: "Invite a Peer" grants view-only Observer access while "Link Your Nodes" grants Trusted access, incoming requests ask for your confirmation with an optional message, Node Visibility is a single clear switch plus a list of discoverable nodes you can peer with, and the Fleet view shows your trusted nodes' health.
- Updates and apps are verified end-to-end: release updates are cryptographically signed and checked against a key baked into your node, app definitions arrive via the signed catalog, and container images are checked against trusted sources before anything installs or runs.
- Dozens of reliability fixes: failed installs no longer leave phantom app cards, uninstalling can't hang forever, apps you stopped stay stopped, crashed apps heal themselves (even "running" containers whose process actually died), the login page no longer refresh-loops, and the mobile layout fits real phone screens instead of hiding the last row behind the browser bar.
- The off-grid mesh radio no longer posts cryptic identity codes to the shared public channel. Your node was announcing a line starting with "ARCHY:" to the public channel about once a minute, which everyone else on that channel saw as spam; that broadcast has been removed.
- You can now use your node's AI assistant straight from a normal chat. Send "!ai <your question>" in a direct message to an AI-enabled node and the answer comes right back in the same conversation — whether your message travelled over the internet or the LoRa radio. Before, the reply could be sent on the wrong path and never arrive.
- The Mesh AI Assistant panel is easier to set up: pick the Claude model from a dropdown (Haiku, Sonnet, or Opus) instead of typing it, and add specific contacts to an "always allow" list so chosen people can use "!ai" even when the assistant is set to trusted-nodes-only.
- Fedimint federations show up in Wallet Settings again. The Fedimint client app wasn't starting because of a configuration error, so the federation your node auto-joins never appeared; the client is fixed and runs again.
- In Settings, "App Updates" and "App Registry" now sit directly under your Account section for quicker access.
- In Mesh chat, scrolling the conversation no longer also scrolls the contact list behind it.
- Mesh direct messages are now private and end-to-end encrypted to the recipient — they're sent as real radio DMs instead of being broadcast on the public channel, so other people on the mesh no longer see them, and the answer arrives intact (even on standard meshcore phone apps).
- You can now message standard meshcore apps (like the phone companion) and they can message you — text shows up readable on both sides, and your node's AI answers come back as a private reply rather than on the public channel.
- New contacts you hear on the radio are added automatically, so people show up in your Peers list without any extra steps.
- "Clear All" now actually removes contacts (rather than hiding them forever); a contact comes back on its own the next time it's in range. Each contact also shows a reachability dot so you can see who's currently reachable.
- The Peers list has a search box (with a clear button) to quickly filter your contacts by name, DID, npub, or key.
### Also in this release
All the v1.7.99-alpha features are included as well:
- Your node can now hold Fedimint ecash as well as Cashu, with tabbed Wallet Settings for each and both balances shown side by side on the home wallet card.
- You can buy files shared by another node right from their cloud, paying from this node's ecash, your Lightning wallet, on-chain, or by scanning a Lightning QR with any outside wallet.
- Your node can act as an AI assistant on the off-grid mesh: peers ask by starting a message with "!ai" and get an answer back over the radio, with a panel to turn it on or off.
- You can view your node's 24-word recovery phrase any time from Settings, behind a password (and 2FA) confirmation and a tap-to-show blur.
- Setting up a brand-new node is smoother: it waits and retries quietly instead of flashing errors, and shows a gentle "securing your private connection…" status that turns to "ready" on its own.
- The NetBird VPN app now logs in (it's served over HTTPS and opens in a browser tab).
- Phone remote-control of a node's screen now supports two-finger scrolling inside apps, and external-browser apps open on your phone.
- You can choose whether your node shares Bitcoin block headers over the mesh, and your choices are remembered.
- Version numbers display cleanly everywhere (no more doubled "v"), and "Back" buttons look and behave consistently across desktop and mobile.
- For advanced testing, Settings includes an optional update & app source choice between the usual trusted origin and an experimental peer-to-peer (DHT swarm) mode, with the trusted origin remaining the default.
- Ask your node things over the radio: send "!archy" for node status with no AI involved, or "!ai <your question>" in a direct message for an AI answer that comes back on the same path it arrived — with a model dropdown (Haiku, Sonnet, or Opus) and an "always allow" list in the Mesh AI Assistant panel.
- The off-grid mesh radio no longer posts cryptic identity codes ("ARCHY:") to the shared public channel every minute.
- Mesh contacts take care of themselves: new radios you hear are added automatically, "Clear All" really removes contacts (they return when in range), each contact shows a reachability dot, and the Peers list has a search box.
- You can message standard meshcore phone apps and they can message you — readable text both ways, private replies instead of public-channel broadcasts.
- Federated Archipelago nodes now appear on the Mesh Map.
- Apps open as an overlay on top of whatever page you're on, in every display mode, instead of yanking you to a different screen; the Services tab groups apps by category with proper icons.
- BTCPay Server keeps its plugins across restarts, connects to your node's own LND out of the box, and its invoices stay payable over private Lightning channels.
- Fedimint federations show up in Wallet Settings again (the client app's configuration error is fixed), and Wallet Settings has tabbed sections for Cashu and Fedimint.
- The phone companion app can upload and download files, edit saved server entries, opens non-embeddable apps in an in-app browser, and got a proper round launcher icon.
- Six placeholder "apps" that were just web bookmarks (484.kitchen, arch-presentation, call-the-operator, nwnn, syntropy-institute, t-zero) are gone from the store.
- The Bitcoin dashboard works fully offline (no more loading its styling from the internet), Gitea opens on the right port, and mempool, strfry, and Electrum stopped their restart/health-check loops.
- Kiosk displays: HDMI audio no longer stutters, and a bad display-clone state no longer sticks after reboot.
- Consistent dropdowns, toggles, tabs, and modal styling across Settings, Federation, and the rest of the UI; in Mesh chat, scrolling the conversation no longer also scrolls the contact list; "App Updates" and "App Registry" sit directly under Account in Settings.
- A fresh node no longer reinstalls apps just because their definition file exists on disk — only apps you actually installed come back.
## v1.7.99-alpha (2026-06-17)

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</div>
<div class="overflow-y-auto flex-1 min-h-0 space-y-6 pr-1">
<!-- v1.8.00-alpha -->
<!-- v1.7.100-alpha -->
<div>
<div class="flex items-center gap-2 mb-3">
<span class="text-xs font-mono px-2 py-0.5 rounded bg-orange-500/20 text-orange-300">v1.8.00-alpha</span>
<span class="text-xs text-white/40">June 18, 2026</span>
<span class="text-xs font-mono px-2 py-0.5 rounded bg-orange-500/20 text-orange-300">v1.7.100-alpha</span>
<span class="text-xs text-white/40">July 14, 2026</span>
</div>
<div class="space-y-3 text-sm text-white/80 pl-3 border-l border-white/10">
<p>The off-grid mesh radio no longer posts cryptic identity codes to the shared public channel. Your node was announcing a line starting with "ARCHY:" to the public channel about once a minute, which everyone else on that channel saw as spam; that broadcast has been removed.</p>
<p>You can now use your node's AI assistant straight from a normal chat. Send "!ai &lt;your question&gt;" in a direct message to an AI-enabled node and the answer comes right back in the same conversation — whether your message travelled over the internet or the LoRa radio. Before, the reply could be sent on the wrong path and never arrive.</p>
<p>The Mesh AI Assistant panel is easier to set up: pick the Claude model from a dropdown (Haiku, Sonnet, or Opus) instead of typing it, and add specific contacts to an "always allow" list so chosen people can use "!ai" even when the assistant is set to trusted-nodes-only.</p>
<p>Fedimint federations show up in Wallet Settings again. The Fedimint client app wasn't starting because of a configuration error, so the federation your node auto-joins never appeared; the client is fixed and runs again.</p>
<p>In Settings, "App Updates" and "App Registry" now sit directly under your Account section for quicker access.</p>
<p>In Mesh chat, scrolling the conversation no longer also scrolls the contact list behind it.</p>
<p>Mesh direct messages are now private and end-to-end encrypted to the recipient — they're sent as real radio DMs instead of being broadcast on the public channel, so other people on the mesh no longer see them, and the answer arrives intact (even on standard meshcore phone apps).</p>
<p>You can now message standard meshcore apps (like the phone companion) and they can message you — text shows up readable on both sides, and your node's AI answers come back as a private reply rather than on the public channel.</p>
<p>New contacts you hear on the radio are added automatically, so people show up in your Peers list without any extra steps.</p>
<p>"Clear All" now actually removes contacts (rather than hiding them forever); a contact comes back on its own the next time it's in range. Each contact also shows a reachability dot so you can see who's currently reachable.</p>
<p>The Peers list has a search box (with a clear button) to quickly filter your contacts by name, DID, npub, or key.</p>
<p>Your node can now hold Fedimint ecash as well as Cashu, with tabbed Wallet Settings for each and both balances shown side by side on the home wallet card.</p>
<p>You can buy files shared by another node right from their cloud, paying from this node's ecash, your Lightning wallet, on-chain, or by scanning a Lightning QR with any outside wallet.</p>
<p>Your node can act as an AI assistant on the off-grid mesh: peers ask by starting a message with "!ai" and get an answer back over the radio, with a panel to turn it on or off.</p>
<p>You can view your node's 24-word recovery phrase any time from Settings, behind a password (and 2FA) confirmation and a tap-to-show blur.</p>
<p>Setting up a brand-new node is smoother: it waits and retries quietly instead of flashing errors, and shows a gentle "securing your private connection…" status that turns to "ready" on its own.</p>
<p>The NetBird VPN app now logs in (it's served over HTTPS and opens in a browser tab).</p>
<p>Phone remote-control of a node's screen now supports two-finger scrolling inside apps, and external-browser apps open on your phone.</p>
<p>You can choose whether your node shares Bitcoin block headers over the mesh, and your choices are remembered.</p>
<p>Version numbers display cleanly everywhere (no more doubled "v"), and "Back" buttons look and behave consistently across desktop and mobile.</p>
<p>For advanced testing, Settings includes an optional update &amp; app source choice between the usual trusted origin and an experimental peer-to-peer (DHT swarm) mode, with the trusted origin remaining the default.</p>
<p>Bitcoin now supports multiple versions of both Bitcoin Core and Bitcoin Knots: install the version you want, switch between them, pin a version, or let it auto-update — and switching is designed to be safe, with no surprise resyncs.</p>
<p>Lightning grew up: your LND wallet's recovery seed is captured at setup and kept as an encrypted backup you can reveal from Settings, there's a new Channels tab with a fee control when opening channels, and on-chain and Lightning balances now show side by side.</p>
<p>Installing Lightning (and other Bitcoin-dependent apps) on a fresh node no longer fails repeatedly — the node now waits until Bitcoin is genuinely ready to answer before starting them, and Bitcoin sizes its storage to your actual disk and its memory cache to your RAM, so small machines stop swapping and stalling.</p>
<p>The wallet understands more money: Cashu v4 tokens are supported, you can pay for a peer's files from either your Cashu or Fedimint ecash, and the Transactions view now shows your Lightning, Cashu, and Fedimint activity together — with a payment confirmation screen and an automatic refund if a purchase fails.</p>
<p>Mesh radios got a major upgrade: Meshtastic direct messages are now true end-to-end-encrypted radio messages that interoperate with off-the-shelf Meshtastic phone apps, your radio's region and a shared channel are provisioned automatically, and a new setup window appears when a radio is plugged in — with board pictures, full radio settings, and signal-strength indicators.</p>
<p>Reticulum joins as a third mesh radio protocol with RNode LoRa hardware support, including sending images and voice messages over the radio — and every chat message now carries a small pill showing how it travelled (Mesh, FIPS, or Tor).</p>
<p>Your node can manage an OpenWrt router: set up its internet uplink from the UI with a Wi-Fi network scan, turn it into a TollGate pay-for-Wi-Fi hotspot with a real captive portal, and sweep the router's earnings into your node's wallet. The gateway's status appears on the Home screen's Network tile.</p>
<p>Peering is now trust-aware: "Invite a Peer" grants view-only Observer access while "Link Your Nodes" grants Trusted access, incoming requests ask for your confirmation with an optional message, Node Visibility is a single clear switch plus a list of discoverable nodes you can peer with, and the Fleet view shows your trusted nodes' health.</p>
<p>Updates and apps are verified end-to-end: release updates are cryptographically signed and checked against a key baked into your node, app definitions arrive via the signed catalog, and container images are checked against trusted sources before anything installs or runs.</p>
<p>Dozens of reliability fixes: failed installs no longer leave phantom app cards, uninstalling can't hang forever, apps you stopped stay stopped, crashed apps heal themselves (even "running" containers whose process actually died), the login page no longer refresh-loops, and the mobile layout fits real phone screens instead of hiding the last row behind the browser bar.</p>
<p>Ask your node things over the radio: send "!archy" for node status with no AI involved, or "!ai &lt;your question&gt;" in a direct message for an AI answer that comes back on the same path it arrived — with a model dropdown (Haiku, Sonnet, or Opus) and an "always allow" list in the Mesh AI Assistant panel.</p>
<p>The off-grid mesh radio no longer posts cryptic identity codes ("ARCHY:") to the shared public channel every minute, and mesh contacts take care of themselves: new radios you hear are added automatically, "Clear All" really removes contacts (they return when in range), each contact shows a reachability dot, and the Peers list has a search box.</p>
<p>You can message standard meshcore phone apps and they can message you — readable text both ways, private replies instead of public-channel broadcasts. Federated Archipelago nodes now appear on the Mesh Map.</p>
<p>Apps open as an overlay on top of whatever page you're on, in every display mode, instead of yanking you to a different screen; the Services tab groups apps by category with proper icons.</p>
<p>BTCPay Server keeps its plugins across restarts, connects to your node's own LND out of the box, and its invoices stay payable over private Lightning channels.</p>
<p>Fedimint federations show up in Wallet Settings again (the client app's configuration error is fixed), and Wallet Settings has tabbed sections for Cashu and Fedimint.</p>
<p>The phone companion app can upload and download files, edit saved server entries, opens non-embeddable apps in an in-app browser, and got a proper round launcher icon.</p>
<p>Six placeholder "apps" that were just web bookmarks are gone from the store, the Bitcoin dashboard works fully offline, Gitea opens on the right port, and mempool, strfry, and Electrum stopped their restart loops.</p>
<p>Kiosk displays: HDMI audio no longer stutters, and a bad display-clone state no longer sticks after reboot.</p>
<p>Consistent dropdowns, toggles, tabs, and modal styling across the UI; in Mesh chat, scrolling the conversation no longer also scrolls the contact list; "App Updates" and "App Registry" sit directly under Account in Settings; and a fresh node no longer reinstalls apps just because their definition file exists on disk.</p>
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