4.4.0: FFXIV 7.56, Beastmaster support, dependency refresh

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FFXIV patch 7.56 support, Beastmaster, and a dependency refresh. Version moves to 4.4.0.

FFXIV 7.56 via Sharlayan 9.2.3

Carries the FCS bump for 7.56 alongside chat-log resume points and player-info parity work. No public API moved, so the upgrade is the package reference in both projects.

Beastmaster

BST is registered everywhere the job checklist reaches: job colours in GameHelper, both gauge-description switches, the Experience Tracker's BST_CurrentEXP, and JobBSTBase / JobBSTHighlight palette entries, with locale keys regenerated across all seven languages. The legacy palette file maps by reflection, so it picked the new entries up without a manual edit.

Beastmaster is a limited job like Blue Mage. FFXIVClientStructs has no gauge union member for it because the game gives it none, so the Job Gauge layers report that rather than pretending otherwise.

Three tests come with it, and they guard the next job rather than only this one: every job in Sharlayan's enum must have base and highlight colours, and each must round-trip through the legacy palette file. Writing them surfaced that the nine base classes and the Unknown sentinel legitimately have no entries, so those are excluded with the reasoning recorded.

Background connection failures no longer close the app (CHROMATICS-1P)

IsBenignSocketError listed the shutdown-time socket errors but not ConnectionRefused, so a smart light switched off at the wall reached CrashHandler.HandleCrash through the unobserved-task path and closed Chromatics with a crash dialog. That code plus TimedOut, HostUnreachable, NetworkUnreachable, HostDown and NetworkDown now count as the user's network, and the handler names the device that stopped answering instead of returning silently.

Dependencies

Avalonia 12.0.4 -> 12.1.2 across both UI projects, Sentry 6.6.0 -> 6.10.0, the three Hue libraries to 3.3.0, System.Drawing.Common to 10.0.12, Test SDK to 18.10.0, and NAudio 2.3.0 -> 3.1.0.

NAudio 3 carried the only real work. It retired WasapiLoopbackCapture and moved capture to a zero-copy span delegate, so the Audio Visualizer now builds its capture through WasapiRecorderBuilder().WithLoopbackCapture() and reads spans directly into the buffered provider. Passing no device means the default render endpoint, which is the same system-wide loopback the old type gave us.

xunit.runner.visualstudio 4.0.0 is held back on purpose: it targets xunit v3 and the test project is on 2.9.3, so taking it needs a v3 migration rather than a version bump.

Notes

• 195/195 xUnit tests pass.
• The Audio Visualizer needs a listen before release. The NAudio 3 migration compiles clean and matches the documented API, but audio capture is the one part of this that can't be verified from a test run.

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