Changelog

Notable changes per release, newest first. Every tagged release’s body on GitHub is this file’s matching section, extracted by .github/workflows/release.yml — so write the section before pushing the tag, or the release job fails.

The rolling latest release tracks main. Named entries below record major updates shipped in that rolling build; versioned entries match GitHub tags.

Field Atlas map overlays - 2026-09-27 (rolling release)

• Match Flood Warning map outlines, labels and fills to the bulletin icon’s green (#00A05A).

• Apply Field Atlas to interactive radar overlays: fine bright outlines with dark casings, low-opacity fills, dashed watches and discussions, dotted advisories, and double-edge emergency polygons.

• Add compact technical labels with corner ticks and overlap rejection. Retain source geometry, map filters, alert details, and warning-motion projections.

• Space outage crosshatching at 15 pixels and add outlined county labels. Use a distinct ring-and-crosshair rotation marker, including mesocyclone detections attached to storm cells.

• Give tropical cones dashed cyan outlines and solid center tracks; retain category-colored storm points and source wind/surge intensity colors. Replace pulsing warning edges with stable Field Atlas outlines.

Embedded radar layout fix - 2026-09-27 (rolling release)

• Choose mobile radar controls by available width, not height. Wide, short website embeds retain the compact desktop menu and playback controls; narrow phone views keep the mobile layout.

Settings Home & Three Tabs - 2026-09-27 (rolling release)

• Replace the settings sidebar with Settings Home: six task cards, focused pages, a home link, and a persistent Done button. Keep radar products, shortcuts, sync, advanced settings and help available.
• Organize Alerts settings into On the radar, Notify me, and Delivery. Keep map visibility separate from nearby dock thresholds, sound/push severity, and integrations; retain all existing controls.
• Keep drawer headers below both Quick Launch rows so Close remains accessible, including expanded desktop drawers.

Quick Launch - 2026-09-27 (rolling release)

• Replace the desktop’s stacked navigation with Quick Launch: four Radar, Layers, Alerts and Tools cards, compact search and settings, and focused menus with a return to the menu home. Keep advanced controls and workspaces available.
• Use the same compact launcher in single-radar and comparison views. Put panel count, linked maps/times, inspector and comparison presets under Options.
• Fix return from four-panel comparisons, including the four-tilt shortcut and legacy saved layouts. Back to radar always restores one map.

Cobalt playback - 2026-09-26 (rolling release)

• Give the radar playback bar a solid cobalt surface, pale blue border, white timeline and white play/pause button for better visibility over the map. Keep the compact layout and matching priority dock width.
• Improve clock, data-age and playback-status contrast without changing radar or alert colors.

Radar alert visibility - 2026-09-26 rolling release

• Keep active warnings, watches, advisories, and statements visible on radar regardless of priority dock distance or severity thresholds. Existing map layer/category switches and alert expiration still apply.
• Clarify that nearby alert thresholds control the dock, while storm-track rules control estimated projections.

Context bar - 2026-09-26 (rolling release)

• Compact, content-sized Radar / Layers / Alerts / Tools navigation stays available while a menu is open. Search and Settings remain one click away; selecting the current section closes it.
• Focused layer and analysis menus reuse the existing action registry, with source health, favorites, glossary links, workspaces, map settings and sharing preserved. All controls opens the full catalog and advanced options.
• Priority dock and radar playback form a matching-width bottom-right stack, leaving the radar center clear. The existing play/pause, frame steps, scrubber, live/archive state and playback settings remain functional. Analyst and phone layouts keep their existing arrangements.

Priority dock - 2026-09-26 (rolling release)

• The Clearview map now leads with one relevant advisory, watch, warning, or high-impact bulletin above the compact timeline. Open its official text, the full alert list in view, storm tracks, or display rules from the dock.
• Each alert category has its own nearby-distance limit. Warnings containing the reference point remain visible through display thresholds; expired bulletins are excluded. Use a saved home or, otherwise, the selected radar site as the reference.
• SCIT track projections have independent maximum-age, forecast-error, and horizon controls. Missing or stale projection inputs stay out of the projection without removing the underlying detection or official warning. Real forecast error replaces the design study’s illustrative confidence percentage.
• Display preferences persist and are also available under Settings → Alerts → Priority dock & map display. Notification and sound rules remain separate.

Clearview - 2026-09-26 (rolling release)

• Compact floating logo/search/settings toolbar and a separate Layers / Alerts / Settings dock leave more radar visible on desktop and wide browser layouts.
• A smaller live playback bar keeps frame stepping, the clock, source freshness, archive controls and cut playback.
• Graphite Silver is the default dark appearance. Midnight Blue, Deep Pine, Smoked Plum and Warm Ember are available under Settings → Appearance. Existing theme preferences and radar data colors are preserved.
• Advanced tools remain available from the Layers panel; the existing compact phone controls remain touch sized.

Radar and Analyst navigation - 2026-09-23 (rolling release)

• A fixed Radar | Analyst switch keeps both ways of working reachable with the menu closed, Settings open, or a section scrolled. Radar restores the previous single-map view; Analyst resumes its last pane arrangement.
• The long mixed panel is now four short task sections: Radar, Overlays, Alerts, and Tools. Site, product, tilt, threshold and Custom locations stay together; SPC Day 1–3 and the risk legend stay together; alerts remain closed until opened.
• The Analyst toolbar holds presets, pane count, map/time links, active-pane label, and Inspector above the scrolling content. Mode switching retains products, overlays, thresholds (even disabled ones), and selected archive time during the session. Saved workspaces continue to persist across restarts.
• Ctrl+S focuses search, Escape closes search or the menu, and Settings opens from the fixed header in one click. The same task sections work as a fixed-header sheet on compact screens.

Analyst Workstation - 2026-09-22 (rolling release)

The U.S. analyst workstation is live in the web app and rolling desktop and Android builds.

Shared data and live radar

• An optional Analyst Workstation adds docked product and inspector panels, linked four-pane task layouts, and direct settings access while retaining the map-first default. The menu control stays reachable above the panel, and saved workspaces restore new docks without breaking older files.

• SPC forecast-day controls show Days 1–3 in both the main panel and layer options.

• Ctrl+S opens search from any page, including Settings, without invoking the browser’s Save Page dialog; Escape closes the menu.

• Radar, MRMS, satellite and model fields now share stable product IDs, provenance, native-value sampling, source health, time alignment and a persistent object cache. Linked panes show the actual valid time for each source and refuse incompatible comparisons instead of silently combining mismatched data.

• Live Level II radar updates progressively during a scan, retains explicitly aged prior azimuths where a block has not arrived, reports VCP/cut/latency details and falls back to complete archive volumes after a bounded failure.

• Debris-signature alerts now require a nearby low-level velocity couplet and avoid repeat notifications as partial scans update the same storm.

• The MRMS catalog expands to 82 metadata-driven products. GOES adds all 16 native ABI channels, CONUS/mesoscale/full-disk sectors, declarative true color and GLM density on the common timeline.

• HRRR, RAP, RRFS, REFS, NAM, NBM, GFS, GEFS and ECMWF use shared model definitions and comparison rules. Ensemble work includes available-member probabilities, statistics, point plumes and postage stamps.

Analysis and field work

• RTMA and URMA add temperature, dewpoint, pressure, wind, gust, visibility and one-hour precipitation. HookEcho objective analysis can blend nearby METAR, NDBC or personal-station observations into the surface boundary of a model sounding while keeping the original profile available.
• Surface tools add station residuals, theta-e, dewpoint gradients, temperature advection, near-surface moisture-flux convergence and labeled contours. Selected points and stations compare observed, RTMA, HRRR and GFS values on an exact-time history without filling missing hours.
• User-defined radar products run through a bounded typed expression engine. Radar analysis adds temporal reflectivity trails, native-value area statistics, moment scatterplots and time series, detector histories, beam-rise/blockage tools and multi-radar reflectivity fusion with contributor confidence.
• The 3D view supports six moments, transfer and clipping controls, CAPPI and vertical slices, isosurfaces and transmitted-tilt beam paths without rebuilding the source volume for camera-only changes.

GIS, cases and output

• Import GeoJSON, KML/KMZ and zipped Shapefiles. Supported WGS84/NAD83 projections are transformed to map coordinates; DBF fields can drive labels, colors and validity windows, and original properties survive GeoJSON export.
• Portable case manifests retain exact radar objects, annotations and bookmarks, with a reproducible Markdown report. Routes show alternatives, warning intersections, native-value exposure profiles and storm crossing timing.
• Scientific export now covers native-value CSV, WGS84 GeoTIFF, CF-labeled NetCDF-3 and GeoJSON for storm tracks, imported vectors, annotations, routes, alerts and displayed contours. Deterministic PNG, JPEG, WebP, GIF and MP4 capture includes exact source-time provenance.
• A token-protected local API exposes alerts, radar/product discovery, frame provenance, point probes, cells, health, stills and loops. Diagnostics omit credentials, signed URLs and private locations.

Reliability and access

• Browser IndexedDB and native disk caches share integrity checks, family quotas, pin-aware LRU eviction and preserved receipt times. Saved chase packs remain separate from automatic eviction.
• Existing settings and workspaces migrate by stable IDs while unknown future products are skipped safely. Windows, Linux, web and Android share the new field, timeline and export behavior; tablet layouts, keyboard navigation, touch targets and non-color status cues remain covered by release tests.

GPS connects itself

• Connect GPS at launch (Chase tab; gps_autoconnect in settings.json) opens the gpsd stream every start on desktop, so a receiver on the dash no longer needs the connect button clicked every morning. Turning autoconnect on connects at once; Disconnect GPS turns it off again. Android and the web keep the click, since there it is a permission prompt.

Warnings say where, and what to do

• Spoken warnings are on by default and now say something the tone cannot. The script leads with the hazard, then where the warning sits against a place you saved (“covering Home”, “12 miles northeast of Home”), then the counties with the state spoken in full, the towns from the bulletin’s own “Locations impacted include…” list, the motion, and the office’s call to action. Previously a warning that covered a saved marker was announced as “Tornado warning for covers Home” and never named a county at all.
• The tone plays first and the voice follows it, one announcement at a time. Every cue used to open its own audio stream on its own thread, so the alert tone played over the opening words and a squall line warning four counties in one refresh produced four voices at once.
• An emergency now runs immediately after the sentence already being spoken, discarding queued ordinary warnings and chase updates. Warnings delivered together are spoken from highest to lowest escalation.
• Spoken warnings honour quiet hours the way the tone always has. Escalated warnings still go past it. The voice previously ignored quiet hours entirely.
• Speech follows the alert volume slider. Piper’s output ignored it, so the voice was louder than the tone introducing it.
• Settings grows a “Speak a test warning” button that runs the whole chain on a made-up warning, and tells you when a configured Piper cannot run — on Arch the text-to-speech Piper is piper-tts-bin in the AUR, while extra/piper is a mouse-configuration tool that installs the same binary name.
• An audio device unplugged mid-playback no longer strands the thread waiting on it forever.

0.12.0-beta.2 - 2026-08-30

Third R18 checkpoint, and the biggest one: the app stops being a US radar viewer. Germany, Europe and Canada get their own radars, composites and warnings; the whole render and data path got measured and made faster; and the site, the Lite viewer and the headless server all grew up. Still a prerelease — 0.12.0 waits on RRFS and the remaining store submissions.

The world, not just the States

• German DWD radars decode natively, velocity and dual-pol moments included, and the DWD national composites are a basemap layer.
• The OPERA network via EUMETNET OpenRadarData puts European radars on the map, with a generic WMS bridge behind them for composite layers.
• Canada: ECCC GeoMet radar composites and ECCC public alerts.
• MeteoAlarm European warnings, ranked by their own severity scale rather than forced through the US one — Red now outranks Yellow, which it did not.
• GIBS Himawari and IMERG basemaps for the rest of the planet.
• Distances read in the units of the region on screen. A radar in Germany measures in kilometres without being asked.
• Site pages for the German and European networks, and a radar-data attribution surface that names whose data you are looking at.

Faster

A measured pass end to end, not a guess:

• The decode path stops allocating per sweep, binned sweeps survive the playhead, and the wasm build lost weight (fonts fetched, rayon and gif degated).
• The renderer reuses radar GPU state, wind particle bind groups and a palette-only LUT; field textures get evicted; the tile cache weighs bytes instead of counting entries (it was 512 MB while claiming 134 MB).
• Overlay re-tessellation comes off the gesture, one janitor thread replaces several, and an idle window slows its own heartbeat.
• Every data feed asks before downloading (conditional requests), the proxy caches, and neither cache can grow forever.
• The Lite viewer fetches frames in parallel, decodes them as they arrive, and a refresh only fetches what it does not already have.

Serve and headless

• Every network renders headlessly, with warnings and chrome in the output.
• /national.png, mp4 loops and velocity presets; the national mosaic moves.
• A busy renderer serves a stale image rather than queueing, and the image cache prunes itself.
• One command stands the image origin back up (scripts/img-origin).

Analysis and data (R18 batch)

• Dealiasing solves the whole sweep at once — a maximum spanning tree over region-boundary votes — so a couplet folded twice comes back right.
• Derived products extrapolate down to the surface under a low beam, so VIL near the radar stops reading low.
• 2 m dewpoint joins the global layers and the model-diff readout.
• SPC watch boxes, tornado and severe thunderstorm, drawn under the warnings.
• Local cell tracking computed from reflectivity, with 15- and 30-minute extrapolation and a closest-approach ETA — for sites and networks with no Level 3 storm-cell table.
• Level 3 Digital Base Velocity (N0G) decodes.

Integrations and quality of life

• MQTT gained a command topic (point the app at a site, a product, or mute it from an automation) and optional Home Assistant discovery, so HA creates the device itself.
• A lightning-strikes layer fed from your own broker, plus a standalone relay in scripts/strikes-relay that fills it. The app never connects to a strike network itself.
• A curated Piper voice picker instead of one hardcoded voice.
• ?palette= on snapshot renders.
• Web retries actually back off now, and the quiet-hours queue is written as it changes rather than only on exit.

The web build

• Alert-rule backtests run in the browser.
• Offline chase packs: save a loop into the browser and play it with no signal.
• Zoom controls, full screen, a warnings overlay and neighbouring-radar switching in the Lite viewer, whose app bundle is now content-hashed.

The site

hookecho.io grew from a landing page into the product’s front door: docs with search, a blog with RSS, per-site and per-state radar pages, TDWR and international pages, historic storm pages, a glossary, an honest comparison section, a live roadmap, an embed generator, comments, and OG cards built at build time. Live radar renders on the pages themselves.

Fixes

• Archive-less sites (TDWR, DWD) no longer claim “(no volumes)” while showing a live volume.
• 1-degree sweeps filled every other azimuth bin.
• Crash reports are honest: a caught decode panic is not a crash.
• The live stream survives a network drop instead of restarting its backfill every minute.

0.12.0-beta.1 - 2026-08-26

Second R18 checkpoint. The phone gets the same chrome the desktop got in alpha.1, onboarding stops asking questions, and the data lanes land. Still a prerelease: a few lanes (RRFS, the remaining store submissions) come at 0.12.0.

The phone

• The persistent bottom sheet and the five-slot toolbar are gone. The phone draws the same floating chrome the desktop does — search pill, control column, scrubber — with content in Material modal sheets instead of a drawer. Predictive back still works.
• Long-press the map to inspect what is under your finger, double-tap and drag to zoom with one hand, swipe sideways between panes.
• Haptics: ticks as the scrubber crosses a frame, a buzz when a warning lands on you, a bump when a sheet snaps.
• Tablets and landscape phones get a side rail and a docked drawer instead of sheets.
• Widgets show how far the nearest storm is. A battery-saver mode stretches the poll cadence and throttles repaints. On a chase, the next radar down the road is prefetched before you need it, and a chase can be replayed against the archive afterwards.

Getting started

• The setup wizard is gone. First run finds you, picks the nearest radar and draws it — about ten seconds, no questions.
• Notification permission is asked for when you turn on something that notifies, or when a warning lands near you. Never at install.
• One help hub behind ?: glossary, hotkeys, the tour and what’s new, all searchable in one place. Labels across the app read in plain language, with the abbreviation kept in parentheses for anyone who wants it.
• Text products — area forecast discussions, tropical advisories — render in a real webview with real typography, on both desktop and Android.

Weather

• GOES loops run over archive dates alongside the radar timeline, and the mid-level water vapor bands are selectable.
• MRMS rotation tracks (30/60/120 minutes) are field layers now, and hail swaths accumulate locally over a window you choose.
• Snow squalls and banding get their own emphasis in winter.
• An alert rule can trigger on a lightning jump — the rate of change of flash density inside a cell.
• NAM nest and NBM join the model list. Synoptic mesonets join the surface obs, with your own API key.
• Cells are ranked by a composite severity score, and tapping one opens the 3D volume already centered on it.
• Panes remember their own thresholds and field layers. Events can be saved as replay bundles — time range, site, camera — and replayed with archived radar, warnings, reports and outlooks in sync.

The web build

• Installable as a PWA, with the app shell cached offline.
• Tiles, volumes and palettes persist between visits.
• File dialogs, GPS and notifications all work in the browser now.
• A share button writes a permalink that carries the site, camera and time.

Elsewhere

• MQTT publishing, a Home Assistant camera loop endpoint and a live dashboard at the --serve index.
• An update chip appears when a newer release exists. No self-updating.
• Motion throughout, with reduce_motion and an automatic degrade on slow frames. Labels, roles and focus order on all of the new chrome.
• The application id is io.hookecho.HookEcho, and every screenshot in the README, the store listings and this repo was reshot on the new chrome.

0.12.0-alpha.1 - 2026-08-25

First R18 checkpoint: the desktop and web chrome, rebuilt. A prerelease — the mobile chrome is still the old sheet-and-toolbar layout, and the data lanes land later in the cycle.

• The docked sidebar and the docked timeline bar are gone. The map runs edge to edge, and everything that used to eat it now floats over it: a search pill top-left, a control column down the right edge beside the color scale, and a scrubber pill along the bottom with time ticks, play, a LIVE badge and the loop range.
• Tools you browse rather than watch — settings, the event library, alert rules — open as pages in one slide-over drawer with a back-stack, one page at a time, on every platform. Anything you click on the map answers in a card anchored next to the click instead of in a window wherever egui last left one.
• The window is borderless: its three buttons float with the rest of the chrome, the empty strip along the top edge drags it, double-clicking that strip maximizes, and any edge or corner resizes. --decorated hands the frame back to your window manager if it disagrees.
• Design tokens: one metrics module with a Comfortable default and a Compact density, the theme list curated to six, a free accent color, and Inter bundled on every platform including web.
• The 60-second tour now points at the chrome that exists; the keyboard cheat sheet and every hotkey work unchanged; workspaces round-trip and now also remember which panel and drawer page were open.
• Streamer (OBS) mode and ?embed=1 strip all of the new chrome, same as before.

0.11.0 - 2026-08-25

• Basemaps stopped being an afterthought: every pane now draws its own style instead of borrowing the active pane’s, tiles are fetched at retina resolution and overzoomed from the deepest resident ancestor rather than going blank, the built-in vector cartography gained buildings, a full road ladder and POIs, and the 40-item dropdown became a categorized thumbnail grid on both desktop and Android. New sources: keyless hybrid satellite (Esri imagery under our own labels), the Esri gray/NatGeo/Oceans canvases, an “Auto” entry that follows the theme, and a custom XYZ template on desktop and Android.
• The live data path no longer re-merges the whole volume per chunk, which is what made a site switch stall and left seams across a partial sweep. Label placement, alert rows and the desktop frame loop were profiled and fixed in that order; the Android loop cache and site-switch fetches now run in parallel.
• Alerts identify a warning by its VTEC event key instead of its message id, so a continuation stops re-firing; an outbreak collapses into one rolling summary past a threshold; webhooks retry with backoff; Android gained exact alarms, a battery-exemption prompt, a watchdog and a delivery-health readout; and the spoken script leads with hazard, place and direction through an optional local neural voice.
• The rules engine can attach a snapshot, play a per-rule sound, combine conditions with one level of AND/OR, and backtest a rule against archived volumes.
• Radar accuracy: dealiasing scores region merges by boundary vote and anchors on the previous sweep, gate edges stay crisp under smoothing, and beam height uses each site’s real tower height instead of a flat 20 m.
• Products the app could not show: specific differential phase (KDP, derived from the phase field already fetched), single-site composite reflectivity, a gate inspector that reads every moment at the gate under the cursor, MRMS precipitation rate, nowcast leads out to 120 minutes drawn faintly enough to read as a guess, an archive date picker, a wind row on the meteogram, trend sparklines in the cells table, NHC advisory and discussion text, TFRs and G-AIRMETs, and reflectivity tinted by precipitation type.
• German radar. DWD’s open data is the only keyless international volume feed there is — seventeen sites, five-minute volumes, reflectivity only. The browser build does not offer it; a volume is 4.4 MB and the web build fetches through a shared cache.
• A share link can carry the reflectivity threshold (thr:25, or thr:off), which is what an embedded dashboard needs to open at its own threshold without changing anyone else’s defaults.

0.10.0 - 2026-08-14

• The browser build can be embedded in another page’s dashboard: ?embed hides all chrome and holds the map at one frame a minute until it is touched, so a radar living in someone else’s iframe stops costing them a CPU core.
• An embedded map hands its view (site, product, tilt, basemap, camera) to the page hosting it once a second, and takes one back through the share link’s new bm:<basemap> and srv fields. Browsers partition an iframe’s storage, so the host is the only place an embedded view can persist — this is what stops StormDesk’s radar resetting on every launch.
• A lost graphics context or a panic after startup now says so instead of leaving the last frame on screen forever.
• cargo run -p wxdata --example sites_json dumps the radar site registry for embedders that want a site picker without the crate.

0.9.0 - 2026-08-11

• Three dual-pol signatures the app never computed: three-body scatter spikes (near-proof of large hail), ZDR columns (an updraft proxy that deepens before a storm intensifies), and the melting-layer bright band. Off by default, and none of them makes a sound — the only detection that alarms is still the one that means debris is in the air.
• Satellite lightning gains a density field: where the GLM flashes are thickest over the last 15 minutes, which is where a lightning jump shows up first.
• Colorblind-safe reflectivity and velocity palettes ship built in, alongside an OLED theme, a caption on share cards, a new-scan chime, and beam height on the Measure tool.
• Alerting learns restraint and reach: quiet hours with a severity floor, rotation near a place you watch, alerting on your own live position, and a radar snapshot attached to the push. Pushes held back by quiet hours now come back as one summary when the window ends, instead of vanishing.
• The GOES frame follows the radar’s clock, so scrubbing back through an event takes the satellite with it.
• SPC Day 4-8 outlooks and TAFs on station tooltips.
• A chase breadcrumb log with GPX export, and desktop notifications.
• Android: a home-screen radar widget and a quick-settings tile.
• A small always-on-top mini-loop window on the desktop, and a Debian package next to the AppImage so the menu entry, icon and updater are the system’s job.
• A crash the app can explain: a panic now leaves a report, and the next start offers it back with a Copy button. Nothing in it identifies you.
• Fuzzing the decoders that eat outside bytes found four real bugs — a panic on a half-written volume from the live head, two hangs on malformed GRIB2, and a parser that died on a mangled hurricane-hunter bulletin. All fixed, all now regression-tested, with the fuzz job running nightly.
• First run is four cards and an optional spotlight tour on the real interface, down from ten pages of wizard.
• Trackpad pinch zooms and horizontal scroll pans; hookecho:// links reach an already-running instance and carry product and tilt; placefile icon sheets cache on disk; a temperature unit the station plots honor.
• Errors you can read, copy and actually see, and a sweep of the unwraps behind decoded and user-supplied data.

0.8.0 - 2026-08-09

• A model difference layer: GFS−ECMWF and HRRR−RAP, resampled onto a common grid and drawing nothing where the two models agree.
• Effective-layer severe parameters on the full pressure ladder, up to 100 hPa, so the depth-dependent ones exist on the days they describe.
• Soundings fetch the 150 and 100 hPa levels, so a parcel has an equilibrium level instead of running off the top of the profile.
• CI opens the built web bundle in a real headless browser — the check cargo check --target wasm32 structurally cannot perform.
• Saved workspaces appear in the command palette without “Show all”; CSV export writes a file, not just the clipboard.
• Android: the dialog shim can reach the activity handle again.

0.7.0 - 2026-08-09

• GPU wind particles, advected in a fragment shader with the CPU mesh kept as a fallback (HOOKECHO_CPU_WIND=1).
• Packaging: Flatpak, Snap, Homebrew and winget manifests, AppStream metadata, a full icon theme, and an experimental macOS app bundle built in CI.
• Android imports files through the Storage Access Framework.
• Workspaces remember field layers, and three starter layouts ship with the app.
• --snapshot writes a radar PNG for desktop widgets; /snapshot.png takes size and zoom.
• A Storage tab that shows and clears every disk cache.
• Live chunk streaming in the browser, so a web tab updates sweep by sweep.
• Accessibility: the widget tree is published to screen readers, plus a high-contrast palette.
• True lunar phase (Meeus) instead of the mean synodic month.
• Soundings: effective-layer parameters on the clicked profile, and CSV export of the profile and its indices.

0.6.0 - 2026-08-09

• Saved workspaces: pane layouts stored and restored.
• Archived Level 2 volumes and zone geometry kept on disk across restarts.
• GFS and ECMWF global model fields.
• Forecast-hour soundings with a full parcel, lapse rates and effective-inflow parameters.
• User-drawn watch zones that fire when a warning polygon enters them.
• 3D: reflectivity threshold, axis slicing, and off-thread volume building.
• Chase pack street tiles beside raster imagery; wildfire feeds fully paged.
• Container image published to ghcr.io; hookecho:// URL scheme registered.
• Performance: parallel site switches, faster live-stream start, fewer per-frame allocations.

0.5.0 - 2026-07-25

• Time-height wind profile (VWP) panel.
• WPC surface analysis fronts overlay.
• Rain-arrival ETA for saved locations and your chase position.
• Tap anywhere for the NWS point forecast.
• New warnings read aloud.
• Cross-sections slice velocity and correlation coefficient, not just reflectivity; compare-4-tilts pane preset.
• First-run tutorial rebuilt around the app as it is now.

0.4.0 - 2026-07-20

• Android port: the same codebase as a NativeActivity APK (arm64-v8a).
• Per-pane product picker for multi-pane layouts.

0.3.0 - 2026-07-19

• Hydrometeor classification, live and archived local storm reports, an AFD viewer, and hail sizing.

0.2.0 - 2026-07-19

• Warning intelligence, archived warnings, probabilistic outlooks, and CAPE/SRH environment overlays.
• Live-loop playback, selectable alert sounds, marker icons, more basemaps.

0.1.0 - 2026-07-18

• First release: Level 2 / Level 3 NEXRAD viewing on a wgpu + egui map, with archive replay and NWS alerts.