docs: add v0.34.11 release notes

Author: FahrenheitResearch

docs/releases/v0.34.11.md

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+# BowEcho v0.34.11
+
+This release substantially expands native model analysis and export, improves
+satellite loading and map behavior, and fixes several radar timeline and
+inspection workflows.
+
+## Model and GRIB analysis
+
+- Shift-clicking the map can now place a fixed model/GRIB probe. The inspector
+  reports the sampled value and units together with the run, lead, and
+  authoritative valid time, and the probe remains fixed while the view or
+  model timestep changes.
+- **Forecast graph** plots the fixed point through locally stored forecast
+  times. The same graph can display the selected field's domain-wide minimum
+  or maximum, preserves missing-data gaps, and reads only the required grid
+  windows and cached field statistics.
+- Model point sampling now uses the same bilinear curvilinear-grid sampling as
+  the displayed field, including a fallback to adjacent valid cells.
+- The Models GIS controls now use packaged data in release builds. Native plots
+  include detailed worldwide country, state/province, coastline, and lake
+  context, with U.S. county boundaries available at county detail.
+- The floating **Native plot** window now exposes durable map-detail, layer,
+  line-style, sampling, plot-style, output-scale, and saved-domain controls.
+  **Rerender** applies those choices immediately, and applied settings are
+  restored on the next launch.
+
+## WRF processing and export
+
+- Quick import and full diagnostics publish each completed WRF timestep to the
+  Models library immediately after its atomic store commit. The optional
+  **Follow completed timesteps while processing** control advances the viewer
+  as new times finish; turning it off preserves the timestep being inspected.
+- **GIF loop** and **MP4 video** actions in Field tools render the current field
+  across all completed timesteps using the native plot pipeline. GIF encoding
+  is built in; MP4 export uses `ffmpeg` when it is available on `PATH`.
+- Animation export writes an ordered PNG sequence beside the final media file,
+  reports progress, uses bounded frame memory, and removes an unfinished output
+  when cancelled.
+
+## Satellite
+
+- Tropical true-color requests now load the latest usable native frame instead
+  of starting a large multi-frame visible download. The visible action is
+  disabled on the storm's night side with IR remaining available.
+- One-shot tropical and RGB loads now select their completed result atomically
+  even when its satellite, sector, resolution, or focused crop differs from the
+  live-follow panel. GOES RGB requests retain the selected detail settings.
+- While the map is moving, an older satellite texture is reprojected across the
+  current map view instead of sliding as a single rectangle and snapping into
+  place after movement stops.
+- SimSat results now have **Save plot PNG**, using the same georeferenced
+  1600x1200 export path as the satellite Native plot window.
+
+## Radar timeline and inspection
+
+- Newly arriving low-level cuts no longer force the display through every new
+  sweep by default. **Follow new low cuts** is now an explicit persisted option
+  with a configurable minimum time gap, and it pauses during loop playback.
+- Archive warning previews retain already visible, time-valid polygons until
+  the final warning sources arrive, preventing warning boxes from briefly
+  disappearing while stepping through the radar timeline.
+- Storm-track analysis now warms complete frames from the loaded radar loop in
+  bounded background batches. The controls show analysis progress and make it
+  clearer that clicking a track exposes its motion and valid times.
+- The weak-reflectivity gate filter now applies to reflectivity itself as well
+  as velocity and dual-pol decluttering, and its label and threshold describe
+  that behavior directly.
+- Inspector-card visibility and each inspector field option now persist across
+  app restarts. Fixed probes also provide explicit forecast-graph and unpin
+  actions.
+- The bottom status bar compacts background activity on narrower windows to
+  avoid overlapping status text, and the recent-radar-cache action is shown
+  only when it can target the selected U.S. radar unambiguously.
+
+## Operational notes
+
+- Every official release asset is built from the `v0.34.11` tag by GitHub
+  Actions. Matching `.sha256` files are published beside the Windows, macOS,
+  and Linux downloads.