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+# Changelog
+
+All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.
+
+## [Unreleased]
+
+## [v0.6.0] - 2026-08-11
+
+Reliability and documentation release. The HTTP backend now handles a
+server that is still starting up and a stream that drops mid-session.
+The documentation now says which features have been tested on real
+hardware and which have not.
+
+### Breaking
+- `AaroniaConfig` has two new public fields, `read_timeout` and
+  `auto_reconnect`. Struct-literal construction needs updating. The
+  builder methods are unchanged.
+- Dropped HTTP streams now reconnect by default. Previously a dropped
+  stream ended the session and every later read failed. Reads can now
+  block for up to about 8 seconds while reconnecting. Call
+  `auto_reconnect(false)` for the old behaviour.
+- SoapySDR plugin downloads are now per-platform archives named
+  `SoapyAaronia-<version>-<os>-<arch>.tar.gz`, or `.zip` on Windows.
+  The bare `.so`, `.dll` and `.dmg` files are gone. Scripts that
+  download them by name need to unpack the archive instead.
+
+### Added
+- **Connect retry.** Reaching the server now retries transient failures
+  up to 4 times over at most 10 seconds. A `*.local` hostname often
+  refuses the first connection while mDNS resolves, which used to look
+  like the server was down. Client errors still fail immediately.
+- **Automatic stream reconnection** (`auto_reconnect`, on by default).
+  The reader reopens the stream up to 5 times, re-applies the current
+  tuning, and marks the first packet after the gap as an overrun.
+  Re-applying tuning matters because a restarted server returns to its
+  mission's frequency, which would otherwise stream the wrong band
+  unnoticed. The retry budget resets only after a connection survives
+  30 seconds, so a server that accepts and immediately hangs up cannot
+  reconnect forever. Also available through
+  `aaronia_source_builder_auto_reconnect` and the SoapySDR argument
+  `reconnect=0|1`.
+- **Configurable read timeout** (`read_timeout`, default 30 seconds),
+  replacing a hard-coded value. Available on both builders, as a Python
+  property, through `aaronia_source_builder_read_timeout_us`, and as a
+  `read_timeout=<seconds>` SoapySDR argument. `read_samples_deadline`,
+  which the SoapySDR and seify paths use, still takes its deadline from
+  the caller.
+- `DropDetector::resync()` clears the packet-timing history but keeps
+  the counters. `reset()` clears both, which would make the running
+  total jump backwards after a reconnect.
+- **Python type stubs.** Editors and type checkers now understand the
+  module.
+
+### Fixed
+- **Channel hopping could stall for up to 30 seconds.** The hop loop
+  waited for a full block of samples, far longer than a 20-40 ms dwell,
+  so a slow server starved the remaining hops. It now stops waiting at
+  the dwell deadline.
+
+### Documentation
+- **The README says what has been tested on hardware.** Each feature is
+  marked live-verified, verified manually, mock-tested, or
+  hardware-unverified. Transmit, dual-channel and the native-SDK paths
+  have never run against a device.
+- **New quickstart** (`docs/QUICKSTART.md`) covering RTSA-Suite mission
+  setup, which everything depends on and nothing documented: adding the
+  HTTP Server block, connecting the device output to it, checking it
+  with `curl`, and the mistakes that cost the most time.
+- **New application guide** (`docs/APPS.md`) for SDR++, GQRX, GNU Radio
+  and SoapySDR from Python. It explains that the single `REF` gain
+  element is a reference level in dBm, so raising it reduces
+  sensitivity.
+- **New usage guide** (`docs/USAGE.md`) holding the worked examples that
+  were 60% of the README. They are compiled as doctests now, so they
+  cannot fall out of date. The README is down from 516 lines to 291.
+- **Install instructions for the prebuilt SoapySDR plugin.** Releases
+  always attached built modules, but the README only explained building
+  from source.
+
+### Release
+- Release archives now carry the module, install instructions and the
+  licence, and their names state the version, OS and architecture.
+- The Linux module ships stripped of debug symbols, down from about
+  19 MB. The release job checks the stripped module still loads before
+  publishing it.
+- GitHub releases now use this file's entry for the tag as their
+  description, with the generated commit list below it.
+
+## [v0.5.1] - 2026-08-11
+
+### Fixed
+- **Retuning silently did nothing on real hardware.** The `/control`
+  endpoint only applies a frequency change when `frequencyCenter` and
+  `frequencySpan` are both present. Sending one of them returns
+  `{"success":true}` and is ignored, so `set_center_frequency` reported
+  success while the device kept streaming at its old frequency. This
+  affected hop mode and the SoapySDR, seify and Python retune paths. All
+  of them now send the full set of values, and `configure_capture` warns
+  when given a partial one. Reference-level changes were unaffected;
+  they apply on their own.
+- Corrected the documents that blamed this on the Aaronia "Remote
+  Config" licence. Retuning uses the licence-free `/control` endpoint;
+  the licence only gates `/remoteconfig` writes.
+
+### CI
+- Clippy now runs across the whole workspace. The `python-aaronia`
+  member was never linted and had accumulated 12 errors.
+
+## [v0.5.0] - 2026-08-11
+
+Adds Python bindings, a SoapySDR plugin, transmit support and GPS time,
+alongside verification of the RTSA file format against the vendor
+specification. Receive paths were tested against real hardware.
+Transmit and dual-channel paths were not, and are marked as such in the
+documentation.
+
+### Breaking
+- `RtsaMetadata` lost `device_name`, `stream_sample_rate` and
+  `stream_center_frequency`, and `RtsaSource::stream_info()` returns a
+  3-tuple. Those fields came from a file layout no real capture uses and
+  were always `None`.
+- `SdkConfig` and `AaroniaConfig` gained a public `receiver_channel`
+  field, which breaks struct-literal construction.
+  `NativeSdkSource::configure_iq_receiver` takes the channel as a fourth
+  argument so retunes keep it.
+
+### Added
+- **Python bindings** (`python-aaronia`), published to PyPI: abi3
+  wheels for CPython 3.9 and later, typed exceptions, live retuning, and
+  single-copy reads into NumPy or PyArrow. Blocking calls release the
+  GIL, so other Python threads keep running.
+- **SoapySDR plugin** (`soapy-aaronia`): receive streaming in CF32 and
+  CS16, honoured timeouts with partial reads, safe retuning while
+  streaming, and device arguments for URL, file, serial, frequency,
+  rate, reference level, wire format and RX channel.
+- **Transmit support** through the native SDK, via `UnifiedSink` and the
+  `aaronia_sink_*` C API. Hardware-unverified, and unavailable outside
+  Windows and Linux.
+- **GPS time** through `get_gps_time`, native SDK only.
+- **Receiver channel selection** (`Rx1`, `Rx2`, `Rx1And2`) and true
+  dual-channel capture through `read_samples_dual`. A read-mode latch
+  stops single- and dual-channel reads being mixed by accident.
+- `StrmChunk::capture_start_offset`, an undocumented field in RTSA files
+  identified as the capture start. Reported time spans now match the
+  recorded data.
+- `scripts/ci-local.sh`, which runs CI's checks locally, including a
+  Linux VM step covering the OS-gated native-SDK code.
+- Property tests: opening arbitrary bytes as an RTSA file must never
+  panic.
+
+### Fixed
+- RTSA chunk parsing corrected against the vendor specification and real
+  captures: chunk padding and tail offsets, fixed field sizes, the STRM
+  layout, enum numbering, and end-time treated as a duration.
+- Compressed spectra chunks now report an error instead of returning
+  compressed bytes as if they were samples.
+- Native SDK: a corrupt packet no longer blocks every later read, and
+  buffers are flushed when streaming stops.
+
+## [v0.3.5] - 2026-08-06
+
+Documentation release. Every Markdown file was checked against the code
+and corrected. No API changes.
+
+### Changed
+- DESIGN.md, the README, CONTRIBUTING and the three specifications in
+  `docs/` corrected against the implementation, with explicit notes
+  where only hardware can settle a question.
+- Clarified that HTTP retuning uses the licence-free `/control`
+  endpoint.
+- Examples cleaned up. `http_iq_quickstart` takes the server URL as an
+  argument instead of hardcoding a private hostname.
+- Five tests that asserted nothing now assert something.
+
+### Fixed
+- Stale comments about symbol counts, renamed tests, and inverted
+  `?scale=` semantics.
+
+## [v0.3.4] - 2026-07-31
+
+### Fixed
+- **Native SDK: the end of every oversized packet was discarded.** The
+  reader copied out only what the caller asked for, then released the
+  whole packet back to the SDK. The SDK chooses its own packet size, so
+  everything past the request was lost. This left holes in the IQ
+  stream, which breaks the phase continuity that downstream correlation
+  and frequency tracking depend on. Extra samples are now kept and
+  returned by later calls.
+- **Native SDK: a zero-sized read destroyed a packet.** It now returns
+  immediately.
+- **Transmit bursts were scheduled at the Unix epoch.** The FutureSDR
+  sink set every burst's start time to zero, against the device's own
+  master clock. Timestamps now come from the master clock, falling back
+  to immediate dispatch when it cannot be read. Hardware-unverified.
+- **`http_source` reported a buffer capacity it did not enforce.** With
+  a buffer size of zero, a consumer computing a fill ratio divided by
+  zero.
+- **Diagnostic previews could panic on non-ASCII text.** They cut
+  strings at byte offsets, so one accented character in a mission name
+  was enough.
+
+### Changed
+- `cargo clippy --all-targets` compiles on a default checkout again.
+- `SdkConfig::timeout` and `SdkSinkConfig::timeout` documented as
+  inert. Nothing reads them. They are kept because they are public.
+
+## [v0.3.3] - 2026-07-31
+
+### Fixed
+- **A chunk scan could loop forever** on a file whose signature was
+  missing, reachable by opening an untrusted file.
+- **A failed configuration probe left the device 1 dB off.** The restore
+  now runs on every exit path.
+
+## [v0.3.2] - 2026-07-13
+
+### Added
+- `DwellAdvice::channel_override` is honoured, and hop mode no longer
+  requires the Remote Config licence.
+
+## [v0.3.1] - 2026-07-11
+
+### Fixed
+- **Decompression rejects an out-of-range compression factor** instead
+  of overflowing on it. The value can come from a network packet, so a
+  corrupt header could previously cause a panic.
+- **Decompression truncates over-long coefficient streams**, having
+  previously only padded short ones.
+- **The capture thread is panic-guarded**, so a panic is logged instead
+  of killing the thread silently.
+- **HTTP overrun detection reaches `IqPacket::overrun`.** Hop and
+  single-channel modes report real overrun status instead of always
+  `false`.
+- **The C API sample copy is bounds-checked** against the source length
+  as well as the caller's capacity.
+- Raised the `orecchiette-sdr-source-rs` floor to 0.1.2.
+
+## [v0.3.0] - 2026-07-11
+
+### Removed
+- **Breaking: the `file_performance` module is gone**, along with the
+  `memmap2` dependency. This memory-mapped reader was never used by the
+  crate's actual file path and had no callers. `RtsaSource` covers the
+  same needs through buffered I/O.
+
+### Fixed
+- A misplaced doc comment marked `with_shared_stats` a no-op when it is
+  not.
+- `HttpSink` counts a batch as dropped when its sender task has died,
+  not only on a failed push. It also stops that task on drop.
+
+### Changed
+- The last four native-SDK methods that hand-rolled error checks now use
+  the shared path, so failures carry structured errors.
+- Shared device-type parsing extracted out of `SdkConfig` and
+  `SdkSinkConfig`.
+
+## [v0.2.6] - 2026-07-10
+
+### Added
+- **Transmit through the native SDK** (`SdkSink`, `SdkSinkConfig`) with
+  FutureSDR integration, matching the receive path.
+- `examples/native_sdk_transmit.rs`, sending a LoRa-style chirp.
+
+### Changed
+- Replaced the opaque `Error::Sdk(String)` with a structured
+  `Error::SdkApi`, so callers can react to specific failures.
+- SDK warnings are logged as warnings instead of being treated as fatal,
+  matching Aaronia's own drivers.
+
+## [v0.2.4] - 2026-07-10
+
+### Performance
+- **HTTP parser:** binary formats read packet headers directly instead
+  of building and discarding a JSON document for every packet. Small
+  packets parse about 41% faster.
+- **Float32 samples** are bulk-copied on little-endian hosts instead of
+  decoded one value at a time.
+- **File replay** reads a block at a time instead of one sample per
+  call.
+- Native SDK per-read logging moved to `trace`, off the hot path.
+
+### Fixed
+- **Native SDK unsound read path.** A zero-sample request underflowed a
+  length calculation and produced an enormous slice. Packet counts and
+  strides are now bounds-checked.
+- **The HTTP reader task leaked.** It is now stopped when streaming
+  stops and on drop, instead of holding the connection open and leaving
+  the device streaming.
+- **Decompression rejects zero dimensions** instead of looping forever.
+- **`MmapRtsaReader::read_chunk` bounds check** no longer wraps on a
+  pathological offset.
+- **Default reference level corrected** from +20 dBm to -20 dBm. The old
+  default desensitised the receiver.
+- `HttpSource` reschedules itself after reconnecting.
+
+### Changed
+- `HttpSink` honours `timeout_ms`, which was previously ignored.
+
+## [v0.2.3] - 2026-07-05
+
+### Fixed
+- **The HTTP source did not tune the device.** It opened the stream
+  without sending a control request, so it streamed whatever the
+  RTSA-Suite was already set to and ignored the requested frequency and
+  span.
+
+### Changed
+- `http_iq_quickstart` takes frequency and sample rate arguments and
+  logs signal power.
+
+## [v0.2.2] - 2026-07-05
+
+### Changed
+- Dropped the explicit minimum Rust version and track stable instead, so
+  a dependency raising its own floor cannot break CI.
+
+## [v0.2.1] - 2026-07-05
+
+### Added
+- Native SDK receiver channel selection (`Rx1`, `Rx2`, `Rx1And2`).
+- HTTP wire format and stream scale settings on `AaroniaConfig` and
+  `AaroniaSourceBuilder`.
+
+### Fixed
+- Raised the minimum Rust version to 1.86 to fix CI builds. (v0.2.2
+  dropped the fixed minimum entirely.)
+- Default HTTP format changed from JSON to Float32, fixing crashes at
+  high bandwidth.
+- Fixed FutureSDR deadlocks in `HttpSink` by moving blocking HTTP calls
+  onto a background task.
+
+## [v0.1.1] - 2026-07-03
+
+### Changed
+- Disable `futuresdr` on docs.rs.
+- Fix the licence badge.
+
+## [v0.1.0] - 2026-07-03
+
+### Added
+- Initial release.