[Bikebrainz]

What changes

Repeater previously converted response bodies into UTF-8 text before Hex could inspect them: bytes 00 ff 80 41 became replacement characters. It now retains the original wire response and inspection body separately through asynchronous completion, API snapshots, per-tab history and project persistence.

• Request Hex honors UTF-8 or Latin-1. Response Hex selects body bytes or the full wire response.
• Save bytes downloads the complete selected representation, including content beyond the 64 KiB preview.
• Each tab's current response survives project switching and app restarts. The list of past sends remains session-only.
• Valid empty gzip/deflate streams are recognized. Body/Preview/Render splitting accepts CRLF headers.
• Clear, duplicate and encoding failures discard stale response bytes. Browser Clear resets download state immediately.
• Update the website roadmap, changelog, docs and September build checklist alongside the implementation.

Validation

• Windows Release build and all 102 native test suites passed.
• 64 runtime checks with the native window, 26 workspace recovery checks and 20 control responsiveness checks passed.
• CLI binary-input tests and draft synchronization regression passed.
• New live API regression covers all 256 byte values, NUL, invalid UTF-8, large bodies, gzip, empty gzip, malformed compression, chunk framing, history, project switching, restart and clearing.
• New Chromium regression verifies request encodings, exact response Hex and full binary downloads; the existing responsiveness/draft-preservation workflow also passed. Additional API and browser runs verified a 5,120,006-byte body, including gzip, full downloads, history, project switching and restart.
• Website links and generated pages passed; changelog and roadmap rendered at 1280px and 390px without script errors or overflow.
• Both new end-to-end regressions are included in CI. Merge remains gated on all eight jobs passing on the exact PR head.

Limits

Text views remain readable interpretations. The binary views/downloads preserve the selected bytes. Past-send history is session-only, and saving current response bytes increases project size. Brotli/zstd decoding and immediate socket cancellation remain separate work.

Owner: Bikebrainz.

All eight CI jobs passed on bb3c029: https://github.com/Bikebrainz/Nullock/actions/runs/36656946504