This release adds full support for all voice features of Sideband on …

…all supported platforms. All audio processing is now handled by the interal LXST backends, improving and simplifying multi-platform audio handling. This also means that the number of external dependencies have been greatly reduced. Several other improvements and bugfixes are also included.

**Changes:**
- Added native filters and AGC to LXST voice calls
- Added full support for voice calls on Windows and macOS
- Added full support for voice messaging over LXMF on Windows and macOS
- Added in-call profile switching for voice calls
- PTT button now ignores very short / accidental presses
- Moved LXMF audio message processing to use LXST as audio backend
- Improved call status feedback and decreased call connect timeout
- Improved voice call UI feedback on establishment failure
- Removed a whole bunch of now unnecessary dependencies
- With significantly reduced external dependency complexity, Sideband is now much easier to install on many different systems and operating systems.
- Reduced build size
- Fixed saved window positioning not working on rotated displays
- Fixed notifications not appearing on Windows
- Fixed repo server not serving filenames with spaces

1.8.1 Preview

This release adds support for LXST voice calls on Android, to and fro…

…m all other LXST telephony clients over Reticulum. It also fixes a number of issues with BLE stability and power consumption on some android devices, and adds a whole range of other improvements and fixes.

**Changes**
- Updated LXST to version `0.4.1` to include Android audio backend
- Added voice call support on Android
- Added voice call notification channel on Android
- Added low-latency output mode configuration for LXST on Android
- Added ability to start Sideband at device boot on Android
- Added call profile selection to voice screen
- Added automatic incoming call profile configuration
- Added missed call notifications
- Added a call log to the voice screen
- Added reject button to the voice screen
- Added ability to connect to RNode devices over WiFi and Ethernet
- Added WiFi connection option to RNode hardware configuration
- Added window size and position persistence on desktop
- Added interference stats to status output for RNode interfaces
- Unified notification toast display to always use in-application rendering regardless of platform
- Fixed BLE pairing not working on some Android versions due to missing location permission check
- Fixed recently received keys not being persisted on Android if the app had been running for less than 5 minutes
- Fixed a regression in Android service RPC signature, that would cause live-tracking to not initiate
- Fixed BLE connection timeouts occurring with some combinations of Android devices and nRF52-based RNodes
- Fixed high BLE power consumption with some combinations of Android devices and RNodes
- Fixed intermittent packet corruption on some RNode types when using BLE and device was configured at high on-air bitrates
- Fixed contact appearance updates from bulk telemetry transfers for new contacts
- Fixed text field rendering bug on Android
- Implemented Kivy/SDL2 workaround for slow window resize updates on Linux
- Implemented a workaround for Android intents dropped by Kivy at launch which was leading to external actions (share, etc.) being ignored if the foreground app had been closed.

Updated version

Sideband 1.8.0

This version upgrades LXMF to the latest version with support for propagation node stamps. It also improves voice message quality, fixes RNode bluetooth connection issues, makes installation easier across Linux and Raspberry Pi platforms, includes various UI improvements and fixes a number of bugs.

Enjoy!

**Changes**
- Updated LXMF to 0.9.1 for new propagation node functionality
- Fixed RNode Bluetooth Low Energy connection issues on Android
- Improved voice processing for much better audio quality in voice messages, both for Codec2 and Opus
- Added Weave interface type compatibility on Android
- Added ability to backup and export entire Sideband profile
- Added ability to get and display backend service log on Android
- Added confirmation dialog when starting voice calls from conversation list
- Added proportional window scaling according to overall UI scaling factor on Linux
- Added detection and display of duplicate messages downloaded from propagation nodes
- Refactored conversation list view for improved UI performance
- Harmonized dependencies across Android and desktop platforms
- Fixed potential dependency conflicts on Raspberry Pi and other SBC platforms
- Updated Android build recipes to use newer library and Python versions
- Cleaned up some UI navigation inconsistencies
- Fixed potential race configuration in first config init

Sideband 1.7.0

This version activates the use of AES-256 for all communication by default, and also includes a few bugfixes.

**Changes**
- Added ability to restart RNS service and reload interface configuration on Android
- Added in-app Bluetooth scanning and pairing on Android 12+
- Fixed connectivity page hanging on desktop
- Updated included RNS to version `1.0.0` and LXMF to version `0.8.0`

Sideband 1.6.1

This version activates the use of AES-256 for all communication by default, and also includes a few bugfixes.

**Changes**
- Updated included RNS to version `0.9.6` to use AES-256 by default
- Added option to configure shared instance access
- Fixed a bug that caused shared instance access to be unavailable to other apps, such as Termux
- Fixed some link statistics in object details not showing up on Android

Sideband 1.6.0

This release adds support for the new AES-256 based link and packet modes introduced in RNS `0.9.5`. It also adds a few new features and bugfixes.

**Changes**
- Added compatibility with new AES-256 modes in RNS
- Added transfer speed display to outgoing messages
- Added ability to exclude objects from telemetry collector responses
- Added interactive console option to daemon mode
- Added option to specify RNS config path
- Added Windows location plugin example
- Sideband now uses abstract domain sockets for IPC on supported platforms
- Improved memory consumption
- Improved I/O performance
- Fixed missing property init

Sideband 1.5.0

This release adds the ability to make and receive LXST voice calls on Linux, Windows and macOS. A range of other improvements and bugfixes are included as well.

**Changes**
- Added the ability to make and receive LXST voice calls
- Added basic voice call UI
- Added option to configure audio devices for LXST voice calls
- Added option to block non-trusted callers
- Added support for sharing any file type as attachment on Android
- Added link stats to object details
- Added a BME280 telemetry plugin example
- Added button on Android to quickly go to full RNS interface status
- Improved map initialisation time
- Fixed audio messages sometimes inadverdently playing on swipe back on Android
- Fixed an intermittent error on telemetry plugin initialisation
- Updated RNS to 0.9.3
- Updated LXMF to 0.6.2

Sideband 1.4.0

This release adds a range of new features, improvements and bugfixes. Sideband can now export received and generated telemetry directly to MQTT brokers for integration into all kinds of other systems. Additionally, telemetry plugin examples have also been updated to make it more clear how to get custom telemetry data *into* Sideband in the first place.

**Changes**
- Added ability to export telemetry to MQTT brokers
- Added MQTT renderers for all telemetry types
- Added LXMF Propagation Node statistics sensor type to Telemeter
- Added RNS Transport statistics sensor type to Telemeter
- Added Connection Map sensor type to Telemeter
- Added periodic cleaning of old telemetry data from the database
- Improved the overall performance and reliability of the telemetry engine
- Improved markdown rendering
- Updated plugin examples
- Fixed a bug that would cause the announce stream to stop working due to missing signal icon specification