Release Notes

📦 Product Models

Model	Board	Hardware	Description
LC-Alpha	Heltec V3	1 onboard button	Prototype with single button
LC-Alpha+	Heltec V3	2 separate buttons	Enhanced prototype with prev/next buttons
LC-Gamma	LilyGO T5 Pro	E-paper + touch	Professional with 4.7" display

📥 Installation

Use LoRaCue Manager to flash firmware to your devices.

LoRaCue Manager provides:

• ✅ Automatic device detection
• ✅ One-click firmware updates
• ✅ Integrity verification
• ✅ Cross-platform support (Windows, macOS, Linux)

🔐 Security & Verification

All firmware binaries include:

• ✅ SHA256 checksums for integrity verification
• ✅ Embedded firmware manifest with board ID
• ✅ OTA compatibility checking (prevents wrong board flashing)

🔄 Changelog

🚀 Features

• Display driver refactor (u8g2 → LVGL)
• implement enterprise-grade BLE pairing with UI (#38)

🐛 Bug Fixes

• support both RSA and Ed25519 keys in signing
• update release workflow with build.yml improvements
• remove duplicate cache block and simplify key
• simplify ESP-IDF cache key
• install ESP-IDF directly instead of using Docker action
• prevent ESP-IDF action from building, use Makefile instead
• add ESP-IDF setup step to workflow
• skip chips dependency in build target for CI
• properly skip Wokwi chip compilation in CI
• correct MODEL name and skip Wokwi chip compilation
• install png2lvgl via cargo for asset generation
• skip png2lvgl check in CI environment
• use make build with CI environment detection
• use make build instead of manual steps
• generate all required assets in CI
• make ui_compact generated directory optional
• update glob to 10.5.0 to fix CVE-2025-64756
• generate LVGL fonts before build
• make ui_lvgl generated directory optional
• improve breaking changes formatting in release notes
• address critical security vulnerabilities and code quality issues
• revert GitVersion mode to ContinuousDeployment
• change GitVersion mode to Mainline for proper alpha numbering
• use proper newlines in release body formatting

⚡ Performance

• remove RSSI polling task, use event-driven monitoring

📚 Documentation

• add refactor round 2 completion summary
• add architectural improvements summary
• add comprehensive security and code quality audit report
• add GEMINI.md with project context and architectural decisions

🔧 Refactoring

• code elegance round 2 - eliminate redundant patterns
• code elegance improvements - extract hardcoded values, eliminate duplicates, simplify patterns
• architectural improvements for task management and BSP abstraction
• add enums and extract helper functions for code clarity
• rename bluetooth_config component to ble

📋 Other Changes

• chore(ci): remove redundant sdkconfig generation step
• ci: cache ESP-IDF installation
• chore: remove CI check bypass for png2lvgl
• chore(deps): bump next in /web-interface in the next group (#40)
• style: suppress cppcheck warnings for BSP API structs
• Refactor: Enhance enterprise architecture (HAL & Commands API)
• chore(deps): bump the dev-dependencies group (#41)
• chore(deps): bump lucide-react from 0.553.0 to 0.554.0 in /web-interface (#42)
• chore(deps): bump actions/checkout from 5 to 6 (#43)
• chore: upgrade dependencies and remove legacy code (#39)

🛠️ Technical Details

• ESP-IDF: v5.5
• Build Date: 2025-11-29 20:25:40 UTC
• Commit: 66998486724b2b3c8d13cd7c3982dfb7c8c787bc
• Branch: v0.4.0

📚 Documentation

• Installation Guide: https://github.com/LoRaCue/loracue/wiki/Installation
• User Manual: https://github.com/LoRaCue/loracue/wiki
• API Documentation: https://github.com/LoRaCue/loracue/wiki/API

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