v0.8.7

## Desktop fixes

- The desktop app's embedded server now runs the full boot sequence the standalone server does. In practice this fixes four things that were silently broken on desktop only (#1017):
  - **Automatic backups actually run.** The Backups panel's schedule saved but never fired — the scheduler job was never started.
  - **The dashboard's Logs page now fills up**, and the desktop log file (`Open Logs Folder`) is credential-redacted — safe to attach to a bug report.
  - **A crashed provider socket can no longer take down the whole app** (the server's process safety net now installs).
  - **Waking from sleep recovers immediately**: stale pooled sockets are flushed and every key is re-probed, instead of waiting for the next health cycle.
- New tray item: **Open Backups Folder** — backups land in the app's data directory, which the dashboard only ever references by relative path.
- The in-app update check now knows it is a desktop install instead of reporting "unsupported".

## Dashboard & routing (everything since v0.8.6)

- **Named fallback chains**: build and manage chains on the Fallback page, use them as `auto:<name>` models, or hand-build a chain that stays exactly as you wrote it (#988, #986, #1004).
- **Free-tier budget clarity**: pool-deduped monthly budgets under the token bar, legend grouped by provider pool, budget explainer, and per-model quotas on the model page (#907, #1010, #1005).
- **Rate-limit awareness**: time-window usage badges in the model table, and models burning through their rpd/tpd windows are demoted in routing (#921, #1001).
- **Routing knobs**: least-remaining key selection strategy (#930), tunable headroom guardrail thresholds (#989), opt-in peak-hours adjustment (#909), with secondary knobs tucked behind "More options" (#1009).
- **Database backups with safe restore** — manual and scheduled dumps, download, and a guarded restore with a pre-restore snapshot (#999).
- **Catalog-routed video generation** (#998) and custom speech-to-text model registration with usage on the STT tab (#991, #992).
- `/v1/messages` fails over to the same model on another provider (#1000); key labels shown on the failover ladder (#871); reasoning and tool-call capability probes for custom endpoints (#881); cache-key normalization of default-valued sampling params (#901).
- Server log viewer under the Analytics menu (#993), xkiro.com provider (#967), playground and page-paint polish (#1011, #1016), agent-card descriptions + MiMo Code (#1003).

Full changelog: https://github.com/tashfeenahmed/freellmapi/compare/v0.8.6...v0.8.7

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