Firmware >=V1.22.0: Changes in station interface status during WiFi connection

[peterhinch]

This is for information in case anyone else is encountering changed behaviour of applications.

Previously, while connecting, station interface status was network.STAT_CONNECTING (1001).

The status now varies, but during a successful connection is >= 1000 (network.STAT_IDLE). It seems that status values >= 1000 are information states, while smaller values (200-204) are fatal errors.

[Tangerino]

So do we have a new way to initialize WiFi in V1.2X+?
I'm using V1.18 and V1.19 in production and now I wish to bump to 1.23.

I just started to use V1.23 and my DNS is getting 0.0.0.0

2024-03-30 07:43:51.738 [WIFI] Status changed: 1010
2024-03-30 07:43:51.752 [WIFI] Connected to `******`. Status: 1010. Config: ('192.168.86.32', '255.255.255.0', '192.168.86.1', '0.0.0.0')
2024-03-30 07:43:51.773 [WIFI] Got IP:.......192.168.86.32
2024-03-30 07:43:51.777 [WIFI]     Subnet:...255.255.255.0
2024-03-30 07:43:51.781 [WIFI]     Gateway:..192.168.86.1
2024-03-30 07:43:51.784 [WIFI]     DNS:......0.0.0.0
2024-03-30 07:43:51.788 [WIFI]     MAC:......30:83:98:d6:1d:f0
2024-03-30 07:43:51.795 [WIFI]     RSSI:.....-36