Yeraze/meshmonitor

What's New

Features

• Packet Monitor as Sidebar Tab — The Packet Monitor is now available as a dedicated sidebar tab in addition to the map panel (#2180, closes #2179)
• Dedicated Packet Monitor Permission — New packetmonitor:read permission controls access to the Packet Monitor. Packets are filtered server-side based on channel and DM permissions (#2181)
• Dashboard Widgets — Added hop distribution, distance distribution, and heatmap dashboard widgets (#2164, closes #2162)

Bug Fixes

• Virtual Node config loop — Fixed config request loop caused by cached rebooted messages (#2182)
• MeshCore contacts — Fixed contacts not auto-updating on map and monitor page (#2165)
• Backup modal UI — Wider modal, styled buttons, improved spacing (#2163)
• Mobile message input — Full-width text input with buttons below (#2161)

Performance

• SQL COUNT optimization — Use COUNT(*) instead of loading entire tables for count queries (#2185)
• Batch DELETE operations — Convert N+1 delete loops to batch DELETE statements (#2187)

Maintenance

• Removed 1,182 lines of unused legacy functions from meshtasticManager.ts (#2186)
• Removed debug leftovers and fixed desktop version (#2183)
• Added tested hardware configurations documentation (#2166, #2167)
• Translation updates from Weblate (#2128)

Dependency Updates

• mysql2 3.18.2 → 3.19.0 (#2178)
• express-rate-limit 8.2.1 → 8.3.0 (#2177)
• pg 8.19.0 → 8.20.0 (#2176)
• recharts 3.7.0 → 3.8.0 (#2175)
• puppeteer 24.37.5 → 24.38.0 (#2174)
• Production dependencies group update (#2173)
• Development dependencies group update (#2172)
• docker/login-action 3 → 4 (#2171)
• docker/setup-buildx-action 3 → 4 (#2170)
• docker/setup-qemu-action 3 → 4 (#2169)
• actions/upload-artifact 4 → 7 (#2094)
• actions/download-artifact 7 → 8 (#2095)

Action Required for Admins

The new packetmonitor:read permission is granted to all users (including Anonymous) by default. If you need to restrict Packet Monitor access, review user permissions in Settings → Users.

System Test Results

Test Run: 2026-03-09

| Test Suite | Result |
|------------|--------|
| Configuration Import | ✅ PASSED |
| Quick Start Test | ✅ PASSED |
| Security Test | ✅ PASSED |
| V1 API Test | ✅ PASSED |
| Reverse Proxy Test | ✅ PASSED |
| Reverse Proxy + OIDC | ✅ PASSED |
| Virtual Node CLI Test | ✅ PASSED |
| Backup & Restore Test | ✅ PASSED |
| Database Migration Test | ✅ PASSED |
| DB Backing Consistency | ✅ PASSED |

Unit Tests: 139 test files, 2,938 tests passed

Full Changelog: https://github.com/Yeraze/meshmonitor/compare/v3.8.4...v3.8.5

🚀 MeshMonitor v3.8.5

📦 Installation

Docker (recommended):

docker run -d \
  --name meshmonitor \
  -p 8080:3001 \
  -v meshmonitor-data:/data \
  ghcr.io/Yeraze/meshmonitor:3.8.5

🧪 Testing

✅ All tests passed
✅ TypeScript checks passed
✅ Docker images built for linux/amd64, linux/arm64, linux/arm/v7

📋 Changes

See commit history for detailed changes.