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Expand Up @@ -5,8 +5,23 @@ The format follows [Keep a Changelog](https://keepachangelog.com/); versions fol

## [Unreleased]

### Added
## [0.5.0] - 2026-08-19

**The short version.** Two things, and the first is about not losing your files when the
program is updated: profiles, window state and the CSV exports now live in your own user
folder instead of the program folder, an older version's files are copied over the first time
you start this one, and both the About window and `--doctor` tell you which folder is in use.

The second is about trusting what you downloaded. **The executable is signed now**, so Windows
names the publisher instead of saying "Unknown publisher", and the release carries proof you
can check yourself - a checksum, a bill of materials, and an attestation bound to the exact
file, verifiable without asking anyone. Groundwork for installing through WinGet and
Chocolatey is in place as well, though nothing is published on either yet.

The rest is the usual: the Statistics figures can be copied, settings can be searched by name,
and a batch of table and layout fixes.

### Added
- **The figures on the Statistics page can be copied.** Right-click any value on "Session" or
"Live" for "Copy value" or "Copy the whole tab", or use the button on the panel itself - "Copy
session details" beside the repro buttons, "Copy counters" under the grid. The text is exactly
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**as a file** as well, `BeanNetworkTester-vX.Y.Z.sigstore.json`, so `--bundle` checks the
archive from a mirror, or with no network at all.

### Changed

- **Traffic in Connections is shown in the unit that fits the number.** A big flow used to read
`5242880.0` under a `[KB]` heading, and a ninety-byte DNS answer read `0.0`. Every cell now
carries its own unit - `5.00 GB`, `340 MB`, `90 B` - and so does the total line under the table.
The `[KB]` has left the headers, because the number says it. `avg` is a packet size and stays in
bytes. Sorting is unchanged, and the CSV export still holds raw bytes for your spreadsheet.

### Fixed

- **A filter ending in a backslash no longer swallows the one after it.** Type a Windows path with
its trailing separator and a second name - `C:\, chrome.exe` - and the tool showed two filters
while using one, because that backslash ate the comma between them. The stray backslash is now
dropped as the filter is read. It never meant anything on its own, so nothing you can usefully
write is affected, and what the filter line says is what the filter does.

- **Column tooltips in Connections no longer describe the wrong column.** With any column hidden,
every header to its right explained its neighbour instead - and with only a couple of columns
left, the tooltip could describe a column that was not on screen at all. The tooltip now follows
the header the pointer is actually on, whichever columns you have chosen to show. The same fix
applies to the event log.

- **The Settings window no longer scrolls off the top of itself.** Dragging its scrollbar upwards
pushed everything down and left a blank band above the first setting, as if the window had lost
its contents. It now stops at the top, and the same fix applies to the Control page.

- **Hiding columns in Connections no longer leaves the table half empty.** The columns you keep now
widen to fill the space the hidden ones left, instead of huddling on the left with bare background
beside them. A column you have dragged to a width of your own keeps it - widening happens when you
change which columns are shown or resize the window, never behind your back. Columns still stop at
three times their normal width, so with only one or two narrow columns on screen some space is
left over rather than stretching them absurdly wide.

- **The row limit no longer says the same thing twice.** The field read
`50000 rows (0 = off) 0 = no limit`. The unit is now just `rows`, and the note beside it still
explains what 0 does.

### Docs
- **One more component named in the licence list.** `libtommath` now appears in the About window,
in `--license` and in the third-party notices, with its licence and where its source lives. It
ships with the program because the graphical interface needs Tk, and Tk brings it along - it is
public-domain software and nothing here calls it directly. Nothing about how the program works
has changed. It was missing from the list, and a list that claims to be complete has to be.

## [0.5.0] - 2026-08-12

**The short version.** This release is about not losing your files when the program is
updated. Profiles, window state and the CSV exports now live in your own user folder instead
of the program folder, an older version's files are copied over the first time you start this
one, and both the About window and `--doctor` tell you which folder is in use. Groundwork for
installing through WinGet and Chocolatey is in place as well, though nothing is published on
either yet.

### Added
- **Every release now carries an SBOM, signed against the download.** A standard SPDX file listing
each third-party component with its version, licence and source - the same list `--license`
prints, in a form tools can read. It is signed together with the archive, so
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"Apply changes" to put them into a running session.

### Changed
- **Traffic in Connections is shown in the unit that fits the number.** A big flow used to read
`5242880.0` under a `[KB]` heading, and a ninety-byte DNS answer read `0.0`. Every cell now
carries its own unit - `5.00 GB`, `340 MB`, `90 B` - and so does the total line under the table.
The `[KB]` has left the headers, because the number says it. `avg` is a packet size and stays in
bytes. Sorting is unchanged, and the CSV export still holds raw bytes for your spreadsheet.

- **Your profiles, window state and CSV exports now live in your own user folder**
(`%LOCALAPPDATA%\BeanNetworkTester`) instead of the program folder. Files from an earlier
version are copied over on first start, and the originals stay where they were, so going back
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than a guess.

### Docs
- **One more component named in the licence list.** `libtommath` now appears in the About window,
in `--license` and in the third-party notices, with its licence and where its source lives. It
ships with the program because the graphical interface needs Tk, and Tk brings it along - it is
public-domain software and nothing here calls it directly. Nothing about how the program works
has changed. It was missing from the list, and a list that claims to be complete has to be.

- **Four more guides on the website: no internet, timed scenarios, game lag and chaos testing.**
How to take the internet away from one app while the local network keeps working, how a scenario
file changes conditions on a timeline (with the seven that ship listed straight from the folder),
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are part of the project and stay GPLv3.

### Fixed
- **A filter ending in a backslash no longer swallows the one after it.** Type a Windows path with
its trailing separator and a second name - `C:\, chrome.exe` - and the tool showed two filters
while using one, because that backslash ate the comma between them. The stray backslash is now
dropped as the filter is read. It never meant anything on its own, so nothing you can usefully
write is affected, and what the filter line says is what the filter does.

- **Column tooltips in Connections no longer describe the wrong column.** With any column hidden,
every header to its right explained its neighbour instead - and with only a couple of columns
left, the tooltip could describe a column that was not on screen at all. The tooltip now follows
the header the pointer is actually on, whichever columns you have chosen to show. The same fix
applies to the event log.

- **The Settings window no longer scrolls off the top of itself.** Dragging its scrollbar upwards
pushed everything down and left a blank band above the first setting, as if the window had lost
its contents. It now stops at the top, and the same fix applies to the Control page.

- **Hiding columns in Connections no longer leaves the table half empty.** The columns you keep now
widen to fill the space the hidden ones left, instead of huddling on the left with bare background
beside them. A column you have dragged to a width of your own keeps it - widening happens when you
change which columns are shown or resize the window, never behind your back. Columns still stop at
three times their normal width, so with only one or two narrow columns on screen some space is
left over rather than stretching them absurdly wide.

- **The row limit no longer says the same thing twice.** The field read
`50000 rows (0 = off) 0 = no limit`. The unit is now just `rows`, and the note beside it still
explains what 0 does.


- **Blocking everything now warns you, like every other way of affecting everything.** A block
normally limits its own damage, because it names an address or a port - so it never raised the
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