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0.4.0 - Wake-on-LAN and a fixed address

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Two small things that both mean fewer walks to the machine room.

Wake-on-LAN. If the target keeps standby power and has WoL switched on, the Power panel can now wake it with a magic packet. Put the target's MAC address in Settings and press Wake. No optocouplers, no wiring, nothing to solder - this is the one way to turn a machine on that needs no hardware at all.

Static addressing that works. The Network tab has had address fields for a while; now they actually take effect. DHCP stays the default. Two safety nets come with it: an address that does not parse falls back to DHCP at boot, and the board's button now reverts the device to DHCP as well as clearing the password. So a valid-but-wrong address - the kind that leaves a device on a network nobody can reach - is recoverable by holding a button, the same way a forgotten password is.

Release v.0.4.0 on GitHub