AccessiWeather v0.4.4 — One Year Anniversary

AccessiWeather v0.4.4 — One Year Anniversary 🎂

March 13, 2026 — Exactly one year since the first commit.

New Features

Weather Assistant

• Conversational AI chat with function calling, screen reader support, and global weather coverage
• OpenRouter Free Router as default AI model option
• Token count and cost display in AI dialogs

NOAA Weather Radio

• Streaming player with station preferences
• Dynamic stream discovery via wxradio.org API
• Play/stop as a single toggle button

Nationwide Weather Discussions

• AI-powered summarization of forecast discussions
• AFD update notifications enabled by default

Alerts & Notifications

• Alert lifecycle intelligence — new, updated, and cancelled summaries with NWS messageType labels
• Independent alert polling (60-second interval), split from weather refresh
• Conditional GET caching to reduce redundant NWS requests
• Genuine cancellation detection via NWS cancel endpoint
• Suppress stale-new notifications on first load
• Toast notifications via Windows toasted library (replaces desktop-notifier)
• Tray balloon fallback and debug tools

Forecasts

• Configurable forecast duration with automatic Open-Meteo tail fill
• NWS high/low temperature pairing
• Confidence indicator from cross-source agreement
• Option to display in user's local time or location's time
• Hourly metric fields and forecast low temp support

Audio & Soundpacks

• Per-event sound controls with user-level muting
• Hazard and severity sounds in default soundpack
• Data updated and fetch error sound events
• Default soundpack included in portable zip

Portable & Onboarding

• Secure API key portability flow with encrypted bundle import/export
• First-run onboarding wizard with portable setup and readiness summary
• --wizard CLI flag to re-run onboarding
• Keyring key export offered during wizard
• Auto-import encrypted API key bundle on portable startup

Other

• Configurable NWS station selection strategies with hybrid default
• Location name shown in current conditions header
• Regenerate AI explanation in-place instead of reopening dialog
• Show changelog in update dialog before downloading
• Include locations in settings export/import

Bug Fixes

Accessibility

• Set initial focus for Air Quality, UV Index, and Discussion dialogs
• Replace hardcoded foreground colors with system colors
• Handle Escape key in all wx dialogs
• Enter key and double-click open alert details
• SetName added to all Settings dialog controls and sub-dialogs
• Unblock UI thread during soundpack wizard sound test

Stability

• Fix stale weather refresh path and rain/snow condition edge cases
• Stabilize in-app auto-update check scheduling
• Clean up wx properly before applying updates
• Restore dialog default button behavior
• Fix portable mode detection and config transfer
• Don't wipe keyring API keys when settings field loads empty
• Harden install scope to prevent duplicate ARP entries
• Persist show_nationwide_location across restart
• Wire tray weather text controls in General tab
• Rebrand .awkeys extension to .keys with legacy fallback
• Zip slip detection hardened with Path.relative_to()
• Security warning when keyring is unavailable

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Full changelog: v0.9.3.1...v0.4.4