Version history

0.1.4 — 8 August 2026

1. Fixed: a healthy feed could report “Decoder keeps crashing”. On start the app launched a second decoder a fraction of a second after the first. The first one kept the SDR and the local beast port and fed normally; the second died instantly on “bind: Address already in use”, and the supervisor spent the rest of the session restarting the one that couldn’t win. Aircraft kept flowing the whole time — only the status was wrong, which is its own kind of bad.
2. The second launch came from a background refresh of feeder-config.json: any difference from the built-in fallback triggered a restart, even a changed link. Now only a moved ingest endpoint restarts the decoder, and starting while one is already running replaces it instead of racing it.

0.1.3 — 8 August 2026

1. Skydex has an off switch in Settings. Its off switch used to be a flag in config.json while adsb.lol and the others had toggles — backwards for an app whose selling point is that it doesn’t lock your stick to one network. Same rules as before: allowed, free, no account. The other networks keep feeding; the menu bar icon can’t go green while Skydex is paused, because green means the Skydex connector is healthy.

0.1.2 — 8 August 2026

1. Corrected licence notice. The licence README inside 0.1.1 labelled the bundled readsb BSD-3-Clause. It is GPL-3.0-or-later, and the decoder executable — statically linked with librtlsdr — is GPL-3.0 as a combined work. The text shipped inside the app now says so; the source offer never changed (github.com/es-ua/skydex-feeder).
2. Links to the other networks point somewhere useful. Each network’s “how to feed” page walks you through installing their own feeder client — a Linux installer for a box with no decoder, which is not your situation: this app already sends the same beast stream to the same port their client would. The links now open the station/status page instead, and the button says “Their site” rather than “Register”, because for a direct feed most of them have no registration form at all.

0.1.1 — 8 August 2026

1. Feed other networks without touching a config file. Settings gained an “Also feed other networks” section: toggles for adsb.lol, airplanes.live, adsb.fi and ADSBexchange, a feeder UUID field with a Generate button, a link to each network’s registration page, and “Add custom…” for anything else that accepts a beast stream. Editing config.json by hand still works and stays in sync.
2. Station key field. The UUID issued by “Connect a receiver” now has a home in Settings and in the setup wizard, and accepts either the bare key or the whole connector line copied from the site. Without it the network received your aircraft but could not credit them to your account.
3. Fixed: the wizard hung forever on “Use My Location”. Under macOS’s hardened runtime the location prompt was silently suppressed and the callback never arrived, so the spinner span until the app was killed. The one-shot lookup now also has timeouts — no future failure can hang the window without saying why.
4. “Open Skydex Live Map” opens the coverage map (tar1090 in front of the ingest) instead of the game.
5. Vendored libusb updated to 1.0.30, and the bundle version now follows the release tag instead of a hardcoded 1.0.

0.1.0 — 8 August 2026

First public build. A menu bar app with no Dock icon, supervising a bundled universal readsb: three-step setup wizard, gray/orange/green/red status, automatic restart with backoff, crash-loop detection with “Copy Diagnostics”, launch-at-login, and a local beast output on port 30005 so fr24feed and rbfeed can read the same decoded stream. Notarized DMG, macOS 13+, Apple silicon and Intel.