The relay's price_updated is the maximum price_last_updated across the grades it maps, so it cannot vouch for the selected grade: stop using it to score, gate or warn about Best Value.
- FuelPriceFreshness is now station-level and display-only: one age per station, fresh/outdated/unknown/invalid, "May be outdated" past 30 days, with future-tolerance and non-finite guards.
- Best Value restores the closest-station-selling-the-selected-fuel baseline and its savings ranking; eligibility gating, eligible-first sorting and the unavailable banner are gone.
- Price age appears in the More info sheet only - no listing-row warnings, no extra banners.
- Copy reverted from "closest eligible station" to "closest station"; stale price-confidence strings removed, "May be outdated" added.
- Dormant per-grade timestamp plumbing removed, and regression tests added for every fuel type, missing/invalid/future stamps and the bundled offline dump.
- Add FuelPriceFreshness: selected-fuel-aware eligibility plus a shared
comparison confidence, so a saving is presented as verified only when
both the candidate and the baseline pass the gate for the fuel on screen.
- Rank against the closest station with an eligible selected-fuel price
instead of the physically closest station, so a single stale neighbour
can no longer invalidate every comparison in the list. Ordinary Closest
sorting still includes every priced station.
- Keep ineligible prices visible, fall back to pump-price order, and label
Best Value unavailable when no comparison qualifies.
- Widget: same baseline and confidence path as the app.
- Tests: stale-closest baseline, alert baseline, eligibility policy,
boundary and missing-timestamp regressions.
Distance confidence
- Every distance surface takes the figure AND its "Approx." marker from one
FuelStore.stationDistanceDisplay call (station rows, detail sheet, widget,
Live Activity, watch, Siri), so a surface can never mark one figure approximate
while showing a routed one. Radius filters and Closest ordering test that same
displayed distance, so no row can read a distance outside the radius that
filtered it (the reported "14.6 mi inside a 10-mile list").
Accurate distances (Settings -> Distances, default off)
- Off: the browse layer serves the straight line, marked Approx., for every row,
so two installs agree to the metre and the app makes no route requests at all.
- On: routed distances for the whole search area, unmarked, served only from a
COMPLETE set anchored within 600 m — a partial fill reverts every row at once
rather than mixing road and straight-line bases.
- Best Value maths sits deliberately outside the toggle: it keeps using measured
road routes and its own confidence marking, so money figures never move with
the switch.
- Fills run only while the toggle is on and the app is frontmost; capacity raised
to 600 stations per pass; completeness tolerates pins Apple Maps has no route
for, which otherwise left an area permanently incomplete and the whole list
stuck on estimates.
Performance (the reported slowdown switching to Closest / launching with it)
- FuelStore.accurateDistancesEnabled was a UserDefaults(suiteName:) read per
call: a synchronous cfprefsd round-trip measured at ~1.9 us, ~200k calls per
Closest sort. Memoised, with the setter keeping it in step.
- Both keyed sorts decorate their keys — one distance per station, carried as an
index instead of copying whole stations into the decorated array — and the
comparison baseline plus per-station journeys now come from ONE pass instead of
two full scans per tab. The Stations tab also reuses its single sorted list for
the count and the TOP badge instead of sorting the country three times.
- Measured on iPhone SE (7,914-station Closest pool): sort 36.6 ms -> 17.1 ms per
list, Cheapest 6 ms, Best Value 11 ms.
- DEBUG probes: FB_PERF list timing, FB_PERF_BENCH toggle-read benchmark, and
FB_DIST_FOCUS now reports the served value, marker and mode (and re-prints when
a fill lands). FB_ACCURATE_DISTANCES / FB_SORT_MODE env forms for devices, where
devicectl eats a leading-dash argument.
Tests: 198, 0 failures. Device and simulator Debug builds green.
Expanded leading/trailing, compact and minimal island views had
no Link, so tapping them just opened the app with no destination.
Every island region now links to the same tap destination as the
Lock Screen card (Maps vs in-app detail).
Tap hint captions follow the setting too: Tap for details vs
Tap for directions.
Small widgetURL and medium list Links route through
StationTapAction via FuelStation.tapDestinationURL: Open map
keeps the Maps URL, More info uses a fuelboard://station
deep link (stationID plus coordinate/name fallback).
Deep link carries fallback coords; ContentView presents the
detail sheet when the station is cached, else the map sheet.
Live Activity detailURL upgraded to the same rich link.
The widget/Live Activity showed straight-line haversine distance (0.8 mi)
while Apple Maps routes 1.8 mi. Road routing is too heavy for the widget
execution + ~40-70/day refresh budget, so the APP now computes it:
- New RoadDistanceService (app target): for the nearest 12 stations each
pass, calls MapKit MKDirections (free, no API key, matches Apple Maps)
and caches metres keyed by station ID.
- Cache stored in KEYCHAIN (fuelboard.roadDistances) so the widget reads it
even on free SideStore accounts with no app-group container; only valid
within 600 m of the location it was built from.
- Throttled: recompute max every 10 min, or when the user moves > 400 m;
wired into the location-update hook + location onChange.
- Widget face, app station rows + Live Activity show the cached road
distance, falling back to straight-line when absent.
- 4 new cache tests (105 total).
- Move widget entry view into Shared/FuelPriceWidgetViews.swift (FuelPriceWidgetContent,
FuelPriceWidgetEntryData) so the app can render the REAL widget faces; widget
extension now wraps it (FuelPriceEntry.data) — one source of truth for the face
- WidgetMockScreen (-widgets launch arg): app icon + small + medium widget previews
for App Store captures; AppIconPreview image set (1024 drip master)
- AppStoreScreenshots: 5-8 dark-mode tab captures with real Halifax data, 9 widgets
- 95/95 tests green; Release IPA rebuilt + re-served
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