Release history

What changed in Onlink.

User-facing release notes for Onlink on macOS, newest first. The app repository’sCHANGELOG.md remains the source of truth for release scope.

Version 1.2 is still marked Upcoming in the app changelog. This page will keep that status until the app release itself is updated.

1.2Upcoming

From health history to useful evidence.

Onlink 1.2 goes beyond “is my internet healthy?” and helps explain what happened, what the evidence points to, and whether the same kind of problem keeps returning.

Automatic incident diagnosis

  • Lightweight evidence can now be captured automatically for outages, unstable connections, severe latency, and captive-portal states.
  • Incident Detail shows before / during / recovery context, likely cause when supported, and evidence strength.
  • The connection path stays consumer-friendly: Wi-Fi → Router → Website lookup → Internet.
  • When evidence is ambiguous, Onlink says the cause is unclear instead of inventing certainty. Older v1.1 incidents remain readable without fabricated diagnoses.

Internet Reliability Score

  • New 0–100 Reliability Score combines measured availability, incidents, latency, jitter, and failed lightweight checks.
  • Throughput from manual speed tests is deliberately excluded: a fast connection can still be unreliable.
  • Sparse history shows Collecting data or Limited data rather than pretending an incomplete sample deserves a confident score.
  • Reliability Today is available to everyone; Pro adds 7 / 30 / 90-day score views, daily trends, and previous-period comparison when coverage is sufficient.

Patterns and ISP-ready evidence

  • Pro History adds What Onlink noticed for meaningful recurring patterns, time-of-day clustering, and supported recurring likely causes.
  • ISP-ready reports can include reliability, pattern summaries, supported cause breakdowns, notable incidents, and incident evidence.
  • Copy Summary and single-incident PDF reports are richer while continuing to omit private network identifiers by default.
  • Reports now focus on PDF and Copy Summary; the v1.1 CSV export is removed in v1.2.

Free and Pro

  • Free keeps Internet Health, Reliability Today, the last 24 hours of History, recent Incident Detail, and Copy Evidence.
  • Free includes 3 speed tests, 3 Diagnose runs, and 3 single-incident PDF reports per calendar month, counted locally on this Mac.
  • Pro keeps 7 / 30 / 90-day History and adds long-term reliability trends, recurring insights, advanced alerts, and unlimited quota features.
  • Monthly, Yearly, Lifetime, Restore Purchases, and qualifying original-paid entitlement behavior remain intact.

Still local-first

  • No Onlink account, hosted backend, cloud analysis, or AI diagnosis.
  • Automatic incident evidence does not persist Wi-Fi SSID, public IP, local IP, or gateway address.
  • Automatic diagnosis never launches a full Cloudflare or M-Lab speed test and never silently turns a lightweight health check into a bandwidth-heavy transfer.
1.1Released

Onlink became a full Internet Health app.

Version 1.1 expanded Onlink from a paid menu-bar utility into a full freemium macOS app with a native window, richer monitoring, diagnosis, history, and ISP-ready reports.

Internet Health

  • Added a full Dashboard with Excellent, Good, Slow, Unstable, Offline, No Network, and Sign-in Required states.
  • Added lightweight background sampling for latency, jitter, reachability failures, outage tracking, and a recent-latency chart.
  • Added Today summaries for measured uptime, outages, downtime, average latency, and average jitter.
  • The menu-bar companion became optional instead of being the entire app.

Diagnose

  • Added one-click diagnosis for active interface, Wi-Fi health, gateway, DNS, DNS-independent internet reachability, HTTPS, IPv4/IPv6, and recent health evidence.
  • Added direct probe quality and loaded responsiveness without turning Diagnose into a full throughput speed test.
  • Added plain-language likely-cause results for Wi-Fi, local network, DNS, ISP/internet, captive portal, or no active interface.

History, reports, and Pro

  • Free users gained the last 24 hours of Internet Health history and recent incidents.
  • Pro added 7 / 30 / 90-day history, saved diagnoses, long-term speed-test history, reports, and advanced outage/high-latency/instability alerts.
  • Existing customers who bought Onlink before the v1.1 freemium transition retained permanent Pro-equivalent access through verified App Store purchase metadata.

Privacy and reliability

  • Monitoring remained local-first with no Onlink account or hosted backend.
  • Reports and copied diagnosis summaries omit private network identifiers by default.
  • Speed tests remained explicit user actions, and health monitoring pauses during a full speed test to avoid contaminating measurements.