Orb Changelog

• Bug: Fixed a potential memory leak that may cause increased memory usage over long periods of time and may even increase CPU usage.

• Bug: Fixed a bug causing retention of stale data.
• New package for aarch64_cortex-a72
• New package for arm_xscale
• New binary for linux-armv5-musl

• Cross-Verified Responsiveness measurement - uses multiple independent sources to improve accuracy and catch inconsistencies
• New Responsiveness measurement protocol support enables more accurate and robust measurement that is more aligned with real internet experience
• Refined packet loss detection reduces noise and more accurately indicates connection issues
• Configurable notifications let you control when and how Orb alerts you
• Fixes issue where some networks would over-report packet loss with the new Responsiveness measurements
• Fixes issue where web load measurements were not being executed

• Cross-Verified Responsiveness measurement - uses multiple independent sources to improve accuracy and catch inconsistencies
• New Responsiveness measurement protocol support enables more accurate and robust measurement that is more aligned with real internet experience
• Refined packet loss detection reduces noise and more accurately indicates connection issues
• Configurable notifications let you control when and how Orb alerts you
• Fixes issue where some networks would over-report packet loss with the new Responsiveness measurements
• Fixes issue where web load measurements were not being executed

• Cross-Verified Responsiveness measurement - uses multiple independent sources to improve accuracy and catch inconsistencies
• New Responsiveness measurement protocol support enables more accurate and robust measurement that is more aligned with real internet experience
• Refined packet loss detection reduces noise and more accurately indicates connection issues
• Configurable notifications let you control when and how Orb alerts you
• Fixes issue where some networks would over-report packet loss with the new Responsiveness measurements

This version was only released to Early Access users

• Cross-Verified Responsiveness measurement - uses multiple independent sources to improve accuracy and catch inconsistencies
• New Responsiveness measurement protocol support enables more accurate and robust measurement that is more aligned with real internet experience
• Refined packet loss detection reduces noise and more accurately indicates connection issues
• Configurable notifications let you control when and how Orb alerts you
• Fixes issue where closed windows continued using CPU/GPU resources
• Cleaner quit behavior, more reliable auto-start, and smoother updates
• Improved logging to better diagnose issues
• Fixes issue where some networks would over-report packet loss with the new Responsiveness measurements

• Cross-Verified Responsiveness measurement - uses multiple independent sources to improve accuracy and catch inconsistencies
• New Responsiveness measurement protocol support enables more accurate and robust measurement that is more aligned with real internet experience
• Refined packet loss detection reduces noise and more accurately indicates connection issues
• Configurable notifications let you control when and how Orb alerts you
• Fixes issue where closed windows continued using CPU/GPU resources
• Improved logging to better diagnose issues
• Fixes issue where some networks would over-report packet loss with the new Responsiveness measurements

• Cross-Verified Responsiveness measurement - uses multiple independent sources to improve accuracy and catch inconsistencies
• New Responsiveness measurement protocol support enables more accurate and robust measurement that is more aligned with real internet experience
• Refined packet loss detection reduces noise and more accurately indicates connection issues
• Configurable notifications let you control when and how Orb alerts you
• Fixes issue where some networks would over-report packet loss with the new Responsiveness measurements

This version was only released to Early Access users

• Cross-Verified Responsiveness measurement - uses multiple independent sources to improve accuracy and catch inconsistencies
• New Responsiveness measurement protocol support enables more accurate and robust measurement that is more aligned with real internet experience
• Refined packet loss detection reduces noise and more accurately indicates connection issues
• Fixes issue where some networks would over-report packet loss with the new Responsiveness measurements

• Cross-Verified Responsiveness measurement - uses multiple independent sources to improve accuracy and catch inconsistencies
• New Responsiveness measurement protocol support enables more accurate and robust measurement that is more aligned with real internet experience
• Refined packet loss detection reduces noise and more accurately indicates connection issues
• Configurable notifications let you control when and how Orb alerts you
• Fixes issue where closed windows continued using CPU/GPU resources
• Cleaner quit behavior, more reliable auto-start, and smoother updates
• Improved logging to better diagnose issues

This version was only released to Early Access users

• Cross-Verified Responsiveness measurement - uses multiple independent sources to improve accuracy and catch inconsistencies
• New Responsiveness measurement protocol support enables more accurate and robust measurement that is more aligned with real internet experience
• Refined packet loss detection reduces noise and more accurately indicates connection issues
• Configurable notifications let you control when and how Orb alerts you

This version was only released to Early Access users

• Cross-Verified Responsiveness measurement - uses multiple independent sources to improve accuracy and catch inconsistencies
• New Responsiveness measurement protocol support enables more accurate and robust measurement that is more aligned with real internet experience
• Refined packet loss detection reduces noise and more accurately indicates connection issues
• Configurable notifications let you control when and how Orb alerts you
• Fixes issue where closed windows continued using CPU/GPU resources
• Improved logging to better diagnose issues

This version was only released to Early Access users

• Cross-Verified Responsiveness measurement - uses multiple independent sources to improve accuracy and catch inconsistencies
• New Responsiveness measurement protocol support enables more accurate and robust measurement that is more aligned with real internet experience
• Refined packet loss detection reduces noise and more accurately indicates connection issues

• Redefine orb_score in orb summary response as the most recent populated timeframe of each component (Responsiveness, Reliability, and Speed)
• Add optional summary host argument (orb summary <host>) for getting summary from another Orb on the LAN
• Measure DNS resolve time for upcoming app addition

• Bug: Fixed a broken docker build

• CLI for OpenWrt packages only:
  • fix packages for arm_cortex-a9
  • New packages for aarch64_cortex-a53_neon-vfpv4
  • Micrond is now a recommended package instead of a dependency
• Bug: fixed a bug causing a potential crash edge case

• Bug: Reverted to static onboarding images as the animated images were causing rendering issues.

• Bug: Reverted to static onboarding images as the animated images were causing rendering issues.

• Improvement: Improves core latency and lag measurement to improve measurement quality in diverse network conditions, for example, in-flight Wi-Fi, captive portals, and restricted networks.
• Optimizations and bug fixes including:
  • DNS query optimization
• New feature: Launch Orb at startup setting
• New feature: Share your Orb Score! Share your Orb score with your friends, family, ISP, or on social media quickly and easily. Tap on the Orb menu (...) and choose “Share Orb Score” as seen below: This will open a browser with a custom link to your Orb Score; use the time selector at the top to toggle through the available timeframes. Date and time range for the Orb score is displayed as seen below:
• Improvement: We’ve added a little pizazz to our onboarding flow with animated images.
• Improvement: Better suggestions when using “Improve Connection” feature
• Improvement: Change your password quickly and easily through the settings menu. Tap on the gear icon/account/change password:

• Improvement: Improves core latency and lag measurement to improve measurement quality in diverse network conditions, for example, in-flight Wi-Fi, captive portals, and restricted networks.
• Optimizations and bug fixes including:
  • DNS query optimization
• New feature: Share your Orb Score! Share your Orb score with your friends, family, ISP, or on social media quickly and easily. Tap on the Orb menu (...) and choose “Share Orb Score” as seen below: This will open a browser with a custom link to your Orb Score; use the time selector at the top to toggle through the available timeframes. Date and time range for the Orb score is displayed as seen below:
• Improvement: We’ve added a little pizazz to our onboarding flow with animated images.
• Improvement: Better suggestions when using “Improve Connection” feature
• Improvement: Change your password quickly and easily through the settings menu. Tap on the gear icon/account/change password:

• Improvement: Improves core latency and lag measurement to improve measurement quality in diverse network conditions, for example, in-flight Wi-Fi, captive portals, and restricted networks.
• Optimizations and bug fixes including:
  • DNS query optimization
• New feature: Share your Orb Score! Share your Orb score with your friends, family, ISP, or on social media quickly and easily. Tap on the Orb menu (...) and choose “Share Orb Score” as seen below: This will open a browser with a custom link to your Orb Score; use the time selector at the top to toggle through the available timeframes. Date and time range for the Orb score is displayed as seen below:
• Improvement: We’ve added a little pizazz to our onboarding flow with animated images.
• Improvement: Better suggestions when using “Improve Connection” feature
• Improvement: Change your password quickly and easily through the settings menu. Tap on the gear icon/account/change password:

• Improvement: Improves core latency and lag measurement to improve measurement quality in diverse network conditions, for example, in-flight Wi-Fi, captive portals, and restricted networks.
• Optimizations and bug fixes including:
  • DNS query optimization
• New feature: Share your Orb Score! Share your Orb score with your friends, family, ISP, or on social media quickly and easily. Tap on the Orb menu (...) and choose “Share Orb Score” as seen below: This will open a browser with a custom link to your Orb Score; use the time selector at the top to toggle through the available timeframes. Date and time range for the Orb score is displayed as seen below:
• Improvement: We’ve added a little pizazz to our onboarding flow with animated images.
• Improvement: Better suggestions when using “Improve Connection” feature
• Improvement: Change your password quickly and easily through the settings menu. Tap on the gear icon/account/change password:
• Bug: fixed a flash when launching the app on iOS

• New support: New openwrt architecture support

• Improvement: Fixed issues in arm6 build process
• Bug: Fixed orb-update for entware

• Bug: Fixed a bug causing abnormal resource utilization on some non-IPv6 networks.

• Improvement: Packaging work for entware and mipsel
• Improvement: Minor improvements to installation scripts
• Bugs: Minor bug fixes

• Improves core roundtrip measurement to improve measurement quality in diverse network conditions, for example, in-flight Wi-Fi.
• Optimizations and bug fixes
  • DNS query optimization
• Adds platform and architecture support
  • Linux armv5 and armv6 support
  • Cortex a9 openwrt package
  • Cortex a15 openwrt package
  • Manjaro support
  • Bazzite support
• Fixes or improves support on some platforms/architectures
  • Install script: arch-like os, improved install process, warn that the system will be upgraded
  • archlinux packages: missing dependencies, script to restart after upgrade
  • alpine packages: script to restart after upgrade, option to uninstall orb-update, improved error handling
  • openwrt packages: option to uninstall orb-update, improved error handling
• Available for early access: FreeBSD support

• Improved onboarding experience
• Improved device discovery

• Improved install scripts
• Improved MQTT functionality

• Improved onboarding experience
• Improved device discovery

• Improved onboarding experience
• Added Android back button support
• Account creation bug fixed

• Improved onboarding experience
• Account creation bug fixed

• Bump version to 1.0.0 for consistency
• Service discovery improvements (override host name)
• Packaging improvements
  • TurrisOS support
• Change for failed ping resends

• Fixed issue where macOS app stops running after a while when other Orb devices are present on the network

• Improved messaging
• Install script improvements
  • Alpine
  • openwrt
• Automatic timeline refresh
• Port 5353 bug fix
• Device discovery improvement
• Orb link error message improvement

• Fixed issue where Windows app stops running after a while when other Orb devices are present on the network
• First hop improvement

• Fixed sign-in bug

• Added a mipsel build
• Pacman script fix

• Initial release

• Initial release

• Initial release

• Initial release

• Initial release