Stable. This is the same build as the beta_85 test release, promoted unchanged after testing, and it replaces beta_83 as the recommended version.
Flash it at flasher.wadamesh.com, or update on the device.
Read this first if you have a T-Display P4
Do not switch the screen to landscape on this build. Landscape arrived in beta_85 and the touch screen comes back rotated and offset, so the control to switch back cannot be hit and the only way out is reflashing over USB. It is fixed in the beta_86 test build, which is the way out if you have already hit it. Portrait is the default and is unaffected.
Read this first if you have a T-Deck Max
A Max running beta_84 that updates itself installs T-Deck Pro firmware, because it is the firmware you are running that picks which file to download. Update to this one over USB from the flasher rather than from the device. From beta_85 onwards it is fixed.
Tell us whether a build works, from the device
Settings, About now has Send a test report. Say whether it works on your board, tick what you actually exercised, say how long you have run it, and send. What comes in lands on wadamesh.com/beta, and that is what the next stable release gets promoted on, instead of a build going out because nobody complained.
The report carries the board, the version, your ticks and the free memory. No name, no contacts, no position, and the device lists exactly what it will send before it sends it. Your device is identified by a salted hash of its public key, so a second report replaces your first rather than counting twice and nobody reading the page can work back to a node. It needs Wi-Fi.
Report a bug on the same page draws a QR code. Scan it with your phone and a GitHub issue form opens with your board, version and diagnostics already filled in, so you only type what went wrong, and it is filed under your own account so the replies reach you.
Optional and off by default: Count this device lets the update check say which board and build it is running, so a board nobody has reported on can be told apart from a board nobody owns.
New board: LilyGo T-Deck Max
Contributed and tested by @pelgraine. The T-Deck Pro's hardware with the peripheral power rails and resets behind an I/O expander, and a fuel gauge for the battery. The e-paper screen gets its own handling: no fades, no black frame left on the glass when it sleeps, tap to wake, and the keyboard backlight on a both-Shift chord. It starts with Wi-Fi off and Bluetooth on, because both at once leave this board short of memory. Experimental.
Things you can do now
- High contrast day and night themes, for sunlight where the normal palette washes out.
- Channel regions can be discovered instead of typed: the region page scans for repeaters you can hear and lists the regions they allow, and channel scope offers them in a picker.
- Text size presets on the ThinkNode M9, under Settings, Display, UI size. It grows the text and leaves the layout alone, so rows and controls keep their size and nothing becomes unreachable. Your current setting is untouched by the update.
- Coordinates in a chat message open on the map, by @TerryTel93. The message menu gains Map, tapping the message does the same, and the spot is marked so you can find it again or remove it.
- Czech, by @brebtatv.
Fixes
Radio settings save again when the region field holds a name the new rules reject, such as one with capitals: only the region is skipped now, instead of the frequency, bandwidth and power going with it. The Show button on telemetry shows its label in Russian, Ukrainian, Bulgarian, Serbian and Greek instead of empty boxes. Scanning for regions no longer leaves nameless entries in Contacts. The V4-R8 image fits again, having stopped carrying the compiled-in translations it inherited from the V4 and never needed. The Wio Tracker L2's SD card gets a power cycle and a second try when it does not mount at boot.
On the ThinkNode M9: with the home drawer locked, Back stays on it instead of escaping to the tabs behind it; the Language settings cursor returns where it was after visiting the Store; and a channel keeps its unread colour.
On the Heltec V4: an M5Stack CardKB can be plugged into the I2C bus and used as a keyboard, detected when present so nothing changes without one. On the V4-R8: bigger text sizes to choose from, and the top row of the screen no longer swallows taps meant for the page.
Thanks
@oumike, @pelgraine, @TerryTel93, @brebtatv, and everyone who reported a bug with their board name and what they did.