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## v1.2.0  August 2026  LATEST SIGNED

[NEW] Catalyst Scanner
      FDA decisions, earnings within 14 days, 8-K M&A
      filings, government contract awards and press-release
      catalysts now surface as scored signals.

[NEW] Institutional Scanner
      FINRA dark-pool share, short interest and superinvestor
      13F buys (new & added positions) now feed the score.

[NEW] Full six-category confluence scoring
      Catalyst + institutional activate the complete
      100-point scale. Scores run lower than v1.1.0 by
      design — a 70 is rarer and means more.

[NEW] Live alerts in the Signal Feed
      The desktop app now pulls fresh alerts from the 24/7
      cloud scanner every 2 minutes over HTTPS.

[NEW] Auto-update
      MoonScanner checks for new releases at launch and
      offers the signed installer. No more manual
      downloads.

[NEW] Bigger MoonBot command set
      Discord + IRC: /8k /13f /contracts /s1 /wsb /si
      (! on IRC), a trading journal (!entry !exit !pnl),
      topic subscriptions and watchlist DMs.

[FIX] TTM Squeeze computed correctly
      Bollinger bands were unpacked in the wrong order —
      squeeze read "on" too often and %B was inverted.

[FIX] Sentiment now moves scores
      A key mismatch left social sentiment pinned neutral.
      Readings now carry real direction into scoring.

[FIX] Bearish signals subtract
      Bearish flow / news no longer add bullish points, and
      SELL only fires on genuine bearish confluence.

[FIX] Real dark-pool percentages
      Dark-pool share now derives from FINRA weekly ATS
      volume — removed a fallback that could report a
      generic 40% for large caps.

[FIX] Smoother under load
      Network work moved off the UI thread, single-instance
      guard, crash log, leaner installer (220 → 204 MB).

[SEC] MoonBot hardening
      The community bot now authenticates via SASL during
      the TLS handshake and reclaims its nick cleanly after
      netsplits and reboots.

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## v1.1.0  April 2026  SIGNED

[NEW] Code-signed releases
      Every binary in the installer is now digitally signed by
      LXBSTUDIO LLC via Microsoft Trusted Signing.
      SmartScreen reputation will build over time.

[SEC] TLS verification re-enabled for IRC
      The community-chat connection now properly verifies the
      Rizon server cert. Was encrypted-but-unauthenticated; now
      hardened against MITM.

[SEC] License validation fails closed
      Removed a fallback path that, under contrived conditions,
      could let forged licenses validate. License flow now hard-
      requires the cryptography package & RSA-PSS signatures.

[SEC] Hardened RSS / SEC EDGAR XML parsing
      Switched all news, SEC filings, and press-release feeds
      to defusedxml — closes a low-likelihood DoS / SSRF
      vector on tampered feeds.

[FIX] Windows 11 24H2 hardware ID
      Hardware-bound licenses now work on the latest Windows.
      Microsoft removed wmic from 24H2; Moon Scanner now uses
      PowerShell Get-CimInstance and returns the same value.

[FIX] Fresh installs no longer fail at launch
      Two missing runtime dependencies (psutil, plyer) are now
      properly declared.

[NEW] Smarter IRC reconnect
      Exponential backoff with jitter, capped at 5 minutes,
      replaces the old fixed 5-second retry. Gentler on Rizon
      and on your network.

[NEW] README Privacy section
      Explicit list of every network call MoonScanner makes
      and every file it stores under .moonscanner\.

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## v1.0.0  January 2026

Initial release. Volume, options, insider, sentiment &
technical scanners. Confluence scoring. Local LLM
integration. Three-tier licensing (Free / Pro / Elite).