# Changelog Notable user-facing changes to Forecast Center are recorded here. GitHub Releases contain matching downloadable installer notes. ## 1.0.2 - 2026-09-03 ### Added - Added illustrated weather artwork across current conditions, hourly forecasts, and the 10-day forecast. - Added distinct day, night, full-moon, fog, snow, heavy-snow, and wintry-mix artwork where conditions support it. ### Improved - Made weather refreshes more resilient by requesting smaller forecast groups in parallel and retrying transient provider failures once. - Refined Settings with a rounded page surface, balanced spacing, simplified tab content, and more precise hover alignment. - Made dynamically generated Settings and forecast-detail text follow light and dark theme changes reliably. - Improved cached-forecast messaging so a temporary provider failure is not incorrectly reported as a lost internet connection. ### Fixed - Reduced failed or incomplete refreshes caused by temporary Open-Meteo streaming and endpoint errors. - Fixed unreadable secondary text in Sources & data and other dynamically created content after changing themes. ## 1.0.1 - 2026-09-01 ### Added - Added an optional Ko-fi support card to About. Donations do not unlock features or benefits. ### Improved - Keep longer hero forecasts compact at three lines and show the complete narrative in the app's standard forecast tooltip only when the text is truncated. - Use a consistent home-icon Dashboard action across Settings, Radar, and Alerts pages. - Refined the description on the About page. - Keep animated hourly and 10-day pages full-width with aligned, rounded pager controls and matching hourly hover feedback. - Use a cleaner borderless treatment for detailed forecast and trend tooltips. ### Fixed - Prevent a WinUI layout cycle when paging forecasts and resizing the window. ## 1.0.0 - 2026-08-31 ### Added - A moon-phase card showing today, the next New Moon, and the next Full Moon. - Click-to-expand dashboard radar with a responsive immersive view. ### Improved - Reworked the dashboard footer into balanced Tide and Moon cards. - Replaced the sidebar with direct dashboard actions and a discoverable Settings button beside the location switcher. - Refined radar hover controls, attribution behavior, and full-screen map framing. - Expanded tide high/low panels to use card space more evenly at wide window sizes. ### Fixed - Removed obsolete sidebar state and first-run guidance after the dashboard navigation redesign. - Improved expanded future-radar framing on wide displays. ## 0.9.0 - 2026-08-29 ### Added - Automatic daily update checks and a manual check in Settings > About. - Update choices to open the GitHub release, receive a reminder the next day, or skip a version. ### Fixed - Current dew point now uses the same timestamp as current temperature and humidity, preventing stale comfort classifications near category boundaries. ## 0.8.0 - 2026-08-28 ### Added - Automatic Windows location support with a manual-location fallback. - A one-time navigation tip that introduces Radar, Alerts, Settings, and the pin-open menu option. - An **Add location** entry in the dashboard location picker and a clear dashboard return action in Settings. - Automated regression checks for provider parsing, cached forecasts, settings migration, and tide overrides. ### Improved - Adaptive first-launch window sizing for smaller desktop work areas. - Clean installs begin with the navigation pane collapsed, and first-run guidance no longer waits for radar or network initialization. - Dashboard radar reports a delayed or unavailable state instead of remaining indefinitely on its initialization screen. - The installer detects a missing Microsoft Edge WebView2 Runtime and invokes Microsoft's bundled Evergreen bootstrapper only when needed. - Setup no longer prompts for a Windows restart after installing WebView2 when Forecast Center can launch immediately. - NOAA observed radar, matching forecast-radar colors, and a simplified Light-to-Heavy scale. - Provider attribution for OpenMapTiles and GeoNames, plus an exact release dependency-license bundle. - Bundled pinned radar browser libraries instead of downloading executable JavaScript from a CDN at runtime. - Location, settings-navigation, and tide-station selection behavior. ### Fixed - Current dew point is calculated from the same current temperature and humidity observation, while UV and visibility use the nearest hourly timestamp instead of falling back to midnight. - Opening Add location no longer crashes during first-use navigation. - Automatic location updates both the dashboard title and location picker. - Tide station selection remains visible when automatic station choice is active. - WebView2 cache data is stored with the app's LocalAppData instead of leaving a runtime folder in the installation directory. ## 0.7.0 - 2026-08-27 ### Added - A categorized Settings experience for General, Locations, Sources & data, and About. - An in-app About card showing the installed version and release date. ### Improved - Redesigned every Settings category with Fluent cards, clearer descriptions, icon accents, and more compact controls. - Replaced the anonymous CARTO radar basemap with OpenFreeMap vector styles and improved light-theme radar controls. - Refined light-theme title-bar buttons, forecast tooltips, current-condition statistics, tide colors, and navigation blending. - Improved data attribution and local-cache status presentation. ### Fixed - Dew-point tooltips can escape chart bounds without restoring the resize cursor or hover flicker. - Forecast tooltips and tide information remain readable in both light and dark themes. - Radar map styling now follows theme changes reliably. ## 0.6.0 - 2026-08-25 ### Added - NOAA HRRR future radar with locally decoded 15-minute frames through roughly six hours. - A unified, time-based radar scrubber that plays continuously from observed radar through future radar. - Persistent radar timestamps and responsive timeline labels. - Version-aware installer messaging that identifies the installed and incoming versions. - Auto-hiding navigation with an optional pin-open control. ### Improved - Matched current and future radar reflectivity colors, smoother frame transitions, and a wider Fluent playback control. - Reduced HRRR network use with per-location memory caching and reuse of the availability-check download. - Stabilized and polished hourly, daily, and dew-point chart tooltips. - Simplified the default-location action and refined sidebar behavior. ### Fixed - Dew-point hover no longer exposes a resize cursor or flickers between hourly regions. - Forecast tooltip sizing and wrapping now adapt to their content. ## 0.5.0 - 2026-08-24 ### Added - Nationwide NOAA tide-station catalog with 30-day local caching, manual status/refresh controls, and bundled offline fallbacks. - Per-location tide-station overrides plus an optional global override. - Downloaded-data health information in Settings. - Native-style system-tray weather icon and live temperature/location tooltip. - Dashboard skeleton loading treatment and subtle page entrance motion. ### Improved - Refined Fluent navigation sizing, icons, selection treatment, and Settings separation. - Improved environmental-card layout and controls. - Polished environmental scale indicators, forecast tooltips, and alert/status corner treatment. - Improved tide-station labeling when Automatic selection is active. ### Fixed - Hourly and 10-day tooltip data no longer persists across location changes. - Tide overrides now follow the correct saved weather location. - Settings content scrolls correctly at smaller window sizes. - Dashboard loading can no longer remain blocked by a slow weather request. ## Earlier releases Release history before 0.5.0 is available in the repository's GitHub Releases.