Changelog

What's new in each release. FrankWeather updates itself — installs see the newest version automatically.

Problem with the newest release? The previous installer stays available: reinstall v0.33.1 (your settings and locations are kept).

0.34.0

Latest July 11, 2026

New look: a redesigned FrankWeather mark — a radar disc split day and night, the F trailing off as a lightning bolt — across the app icon, tray, sidebar, and this site.
Fix: long place names ("Blue Springs, Jackson County, Missouri, United States") now display compactly ("Blue Springs, MO") instead of overflowing the toolbar, sidebar, and titlebar — full name on hover.
Fix: the FrankWeather wordmark beside the logo no longer gets cut off.

July 11, 2026

Fix: the map could come up completely blank after 0.33.0 — a label-sizing tweak produced a style the map engine rejected. The map is back, and release checks now verify the map actually draws.

July 11, 2026

New — Trip weather: type a destination and see the forecast along the actual driving route, timed to when you'll reach each stretch.
New — Snow Outlook and Marine panels — the 7-day snowfall picture and coastal wave conditions, each honest when there's nothing to show.
Instant-on: the app opens showing your last radar view immediately while live data loads underneath.
Offline honesty (a chip says so, cached data keeps showing) and leaner long sessions (hidden layers release their memory).

July 11, 2026

New — Pop-out panels: Live Reports, Atmosphere Profile, Model Confidence, and the Alert Calendar can each open in their own window — a multi-monitor storm desk.
New — Satellite pane: GOES imagery in its own window that follows your main map as you pan.
Smarter Ctrl+K: type any city — if nothing matches a command, one press geocodes it and jumps there.
Better first run: choose Simple or Advanced right in the welcome.

July 11, 2026

Modern window chrome: the clunky system titlebar is gone — FrankWeather draws its own slim, themed top bar with the native window buttons floating over it.
Skeleton loading: panels shimmer into place instead of sitting empty.
New — Compact density for laptop screens, motion polish (reduced-motion aware), one icon stroke weight everywhere, and bigger touch targets on 2-in-1s.

July 11, 2026

New — Terrain shading: subtle hillshade relief under the map labels — storms crossing ridges and valleys read like terrain, not flat paper.
New — Spotter roads: one toggle bolds the highways so you can place a storm cell against the road network at a glance.
Smarter labels: major cities outrank their suburbs at every zoom.
New — Larger map text (accessibility): scale every basemap label 1.25×.

July 11, 2026

Storm-relative velocity on the native Site radar: one click subtracts the storm's own motion so rotation couplets stand out.
New — Live Reports: Local Storm Reports stream in as spotters file them — measured hail, gusts, flooding within 250 miles, remarks included.
New — Alert Calendar: a month grid of which days alerts touched your saved places.
Loop speed control (0.5×/1×/2×) and the loop now dwells on the newest frame before wrapping.
Lightning alarm ring: the alarm radius draws as a labeled circle around home while the alarm is armed.

July 11, 2026

New — Model Confidence: GFS, ECMWF, and ICON on one chart over a 31-member ensemble band. Where the lines hug, trust the forecast; where they fan out, the panel says so — "models disagree by 8° — watch trends, not exact numbers."
New — 10-day outlook averaging the two leading global models, with a visible ± range on days where they split.
This-day records: the compared-to-normal line flags when today approaches the 10-year record — "near the 10-yr record 106° (2011)."
New — Reset map view (Ctrl+K): one command flies home and puts the radar back to default.

July 11, 2026

NATIVE RADAR — the big one. The new "Site" source decodes raw NEXRAD Level III data straight from the National Weather Service — no tiles, no third-party rendering. FrankWeather draws every radial itself, the same data class professional radar apps use.
Exact values under the cursor: hover reads the radar's own measurement — "52.5 dBZ — intense core, hail likely" — sampled from decoded data, not estimated from pixel colors.
Four elevation tilts to slice a storm vertically, right from the on-map control strip.
Dual-pol correlation (CC): the product meteorologists use to confirm tornado debris, one click away.
Native velocity decoded per-gate, plus FrankWeather's own color-blind-conscious color ramps for every native product.
The control strip shows the scan's provenance: site, tilt angle, scan time, and VCP scanning mode.

July 11, 2026

New typeface: the whole app now sets in Inter — crisper lettering and column-aligned numbers in every data readout.
Silky radar loops: frames crossfade instead of hard-cutting, and the whole loop preloads — plays like video, not a slideshow.
Weather-first map: land washes muted so radar colors read true, and stronger label halos keep city names legible on top of a filled radar screen.
Rain callout: "Rain reaching you around 2:40 PM" is promoted to the top of the dashboard whenever rain is under an hour away.
Distance scale on the map, styled to match.

Looking for older releases? The full history lives in the changelog archive.