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v1.10.0 — Billing/EDC, Payphone, Signal Strength, Avatar Builder & AppGrid Pagination

New features

• Billing + EDC — job-only payment terminal tool (/billing_edc, F7 keybind, plays the same emote as opening the phone normally). Bills either a typed phone number or a live nearby player; target identity is snapshotted at creation time so it's never tied to a fragile, reconnect-unsafe player source. Unpaid bills auto-charge once overdue (online-only — an offline player is instead swept the instant their phone next loads, since forcing an offline collection would otherwise touch the wrong account namespace on some banking bridges). Self-billing is allowed on purpose (money moves from your personal balance into your own job's shared account, a legitimate transfer). Players manage bills from a new Billing app (Active/History tabs, shows the issuing job's real label, Pay Now button); every payment is logged into mBanking's own transaction history.
• External Billing API for other resources — exports.dnd_phone:CreateBill(target, price, reason, society, societyName, authorIdentifier, dueMinutes), parameter order mirrors okokBilling's CreateCustomInvoice for easy migration. Server-internal only (not network-reachable), so a client can never forge a bill against another player. See Exports & Events.
• Payphone — world-prop phones (proximity interaction, no phone item required) that place a call through the exact same session machinery a normal 1:1 call uses, so the recipient gets a fully standard incoming-call experience; caller ID always shows as "Pay Phone". One consistent booth-bezel UI covers dial → ring → active → ended (its own dedicated call UI, entirely separate from the phone's own call overlay — avoids an NUI-focus conflict that made the cursor disappear mid-call in an earlier build), with a contact-picker panel for the dial pad and an auto-hangup timer for unanswered calls. The phone-holding call emote now plays for payphone calls too.
• Signal Strength System — real tower-distance + altitude signal model (no equivalent found in comparable phone resources) that separately gates Calls/Messages, the same way Airplane Mode already gates every internet-dependent app. Signal drops with distance from the nearest of several map-spread towers, and drops further at altitude, so mountaintops and remote areas reliably lose signal; polls every ~2.5s and only pushes a UI update when the bar count actually changes.
• Avatar Builder — DiceBear-based avatar creator (hair, eyebrows, eyes, mouth, facial hair, accessories, clothing, skin, background categories) with a live preview, available from both the Settings account page and Birdie's profile editor; flattens to a PNG and uploads through the exact same pipeline a manually-taken profile photo already used, so no extra server/database changes were needed.
• Home screen app grid now paginates instead of scrolling indefinitely.

Bug fixes

• Billing payments were deducting money without crediting it anywhere — now correctly credited to the issuing job's account.
• Billing showed no readable job name once an EDC operator's character name was set (the name was fully replacing the job in the UI) — now shows the job's real label as the primary line, with the operator name as a secondary line.
• Billing payments never appeared in mBanking's own transaction history.
• Billing push notifications used the wrong (mBanking) icon.
• Contacts' own call button had no Airplane Mode check at all before this pass.

v1.9.0 — Group Call, Angpao & Typing Indicators

New features

• Group Call — shared multi-party voice channel for group chats, built on the same call-session machinery as a normal 1:1 call, joined/left directly from the Group Chat UI.
• Angpao — red-envelope-style money gift for group chats: the sender sets a total amount + packet count (deducted immediately), and the first N members to claim each get an equal share. Claims are race-safe via a single atomic guarded database update, so two people racing for the last slot (or a double-tap) can never both succeed.
• Typing indicators — [nama kontak] is typing... in 1:1 Messages; a deliberately anonymous someone is typing... in Dark Chat, matching its no-real-identity design.

Bug fixes

• New-message push notifications were showing raw JSON instead of a readable preview.

v1.8.0 — Dark Chat PIN Gate & Grouped Identity Picker

New features

• Dark Chat's identity picker groups identities by org type (Elite/Seller/Buyer/Courier) instead of a flat list — clearer when a player holds several flashdisks of the same kind.
• Opening a flashdisk-membership identity (Elite/Seller/Buyer) in Dark Chat now requires entering that org's PIN, verified fresh every time via dnd_blackmarketplace's bridge. Live gang-match identities and Courier are unaffected (neither has a PIN by design).

Bug fixes

• Fixed ESC falling through to FiveM's own pause menu while the phone was open — it now closes the phone instead, matching the pattern already used elsewhere in the resource.

See CHANGELOG.md in the repo for the full Phase 1/2 history — this entry covers only the Dark Chat work shipped in 1.8.0.