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NetNeighbor 2.0.0

24 May 09:22
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v2.0.0
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Complete rewrite of V1.0.0 — GTK → PySide6 (Qt). All platforms.

What's new

UI framework

  • Ported from GTK to PySide6 — native look on Windows, macOS, and Linux
  • Fusion theme with automatic light/dark mode detection (follows OS setting)
  • --theme-light / --theme-dark CLI flags to override

System tray

  • Tray icon on all platforms — click to show/hide the window
  • Minimize and close to tray (configurable)
  • Session autostart at login with start-minimized-to-tray
    • Windows: registry HKCU\...\Run
    • macOS: LaunchAgent plist (~/Library/LaunchAgents/)
    • Linux: XDG .desktop (~/.config/autostart/)

Startup performance

  • Lazy imports for zeroconf and WS-Discovery (~500 ms saved)
  • Discovery starts in a background thread — window paints immediately
  • Animated scanning overlay while waiting for first devices
  • Single-instance check timeout reduced from 800 ms to 200 ms

Device lifetime management

  • last_seen timestamp on every device — stale cache entries (> 48 h) purged at startup
  • "Last seen N min/h ago" tooltip for cache-only devices
  • TCP probe validation at startup: unreachable cached devices go offline in ~5 s,
    before full protocol discovery completes
  • NetBIOS, WSD, wsdd offline detection: devices absent for 2 consecutive sweeps
    are marked offline

UI improvements

  • Icon grid and list view — toggle from View → Display
  • Sidebar groups by Type or Location, collapsible sections
  • Scroll position preserved across discovery refreshes
  • Active context-menu guard: UI refresh deferred while a menu is open
  • User-activity guard: refresh deferred 250 ms after last mouse/keyboard event
  • Fingerprint bail-out: snapshot skipped entirely if nothing changed

Translations

  • 8 languages: French, Spanish, German, Italian, Dutch, Japanese,
    Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese
  • 74 new strings translated for all Qt-era UI (tray, overlay, preferences,
    context menus)

Maintenance

  • Reset all application data in Preferences → General
  • Notifications history (Tools menu)
  • Hidden devices manager (Tools menu)

Packages

Platform Artifact
Linux .deb (amd64/arm64), .tar.gz portable, .AppImage
Windows NetNeighbor-2.0.0-win64-setup.exe, .zip
macOS Apple Silicon NetNeighbor-2.0.0-macos-arm64.dmg (macOS 12+)
macOS Intel NetNeighbor-2.0.0-macos-intel.dmg (macOS 11 Big Sur+)

Important

macOS note:

The app is not notarized (cost-prohibitive for an open-source
project). On first launch you may see a Gatekeeper warning — right-click →
Open → Open, or run xattr -cr /Applications/NetNeighbor.app in Terminal.

Important

Windows note:

The installer and application are not code-signed (cost-prohibitive
for an open-source project). Windows Defender SmartScreen may show a warning on first
run — click More info → Run anyway to proceed.

Installation

Linux .deb:

sudo apt install ./netneighbor_2.0.0_amd64.deb

Windows: run NetNeighbor-2.0.0-win64-setup.exe

macOS: open the .dmg, drag NetNeighbor to Applications

Uninstall / reset

See User Documentation for full uninstall steps
per platform. Configuration lives in ~/.config/netneighbor, cache in
~/.cache/netneighbor.

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NetNeighbor 1.0.0 — First release

07 May 08:15
@luc-github luc-github
v1.0.0
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NetNeighbor 1.0.0 — First release

🎉 First release

NetNeighbor is a Linux desktop application that discovers and monitors devices
on your local network — a modern equivalent of the Windows Network Neighborhood.

What it does

  • Automatically discovers devices via SSDP, mDNS, WS-Discovery and NetBIOS
  • Displays them in an icon grid or list view with sidebar categories
  • Opens devices in one click: HTTP, HTTPS, SMB, SSH, FTP, SFTP, Telnet
  • Lets you rename devices, tag them by location, assign custom icons and types
  • Runs in the system tray with optional autostart at login
  • Available in French, Spanish, German, Italian, Dutch, Japanese and Chinese

Downloads

File Description
netneighbor_1.0.0_amd64.deb Ubuntu / Linux Mint / Debian (recommended)
NetNeighbor-1.0.0-x86_64.AppImage Any Linux distribution
netneighbor-1.0.0.tar.gz Tarball for manual install
SHA256SUMS-1.0.0.txt Checksums

Install

.deb (dependencies installed automatically):

sudo dpkg -i netneighbor_1.0.0_amd64.deb

AppImage:

chmod +x NetNeighbor-1.0.0-x86_64.AppImage
./NetNeighbor-1.0.0-x86_64.AppImage

Requirements

  • Ubuntu 22.04+ / Linux Mint 21+ / Debian 12+ (or equivalent)
  • Python 3.10+, GTK 3

NetBIOS name resolution requires samba-common-bin; system tray requires
gir1.2-ayatanaappindicator3-0.1. Both are pulled in automatically by the .deb.

Documentation

See USER_DOCUMENTATION.md
for the full user guide.

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