Change Log

Syncany 0.4.9-alpha (Date: 16 Jan 2017)

• Developer/alpha/maintanance release
• Bugfixes and other things:
  • Fixed bug with sy restore #534/#535
  • Fix .syignore recursive behavior #555/#544
  • Fixed crictical bug preventing functioning with newer JVM #595/#596/#597

Syncany 0.4.7-alpha (Date: 7 Nov 2015)

• Developer/alpha release (We are now nearing the beta phase. Stay tuned!)
• Bugfixes and other things:
  • Refactoring and simplification of UpOperation
  • Refactoring DownOperation (better memory management)
  • Refactoring of error handling (don't throw 'Exception')
  • Fix GUI crashes in 'Add folder' wizard #497
  • Fix OSX daemon start/stop to new style #281/#530
  • Fix Windows spaces in path issue #522/#529
  • Fix not resuming transactions if transaction files are corrupt #520

Syncany 0.4.6-alpha (Date: 11 July 2015)

• Developer/alpha release (We are now nearing the beta phase. Stay tuned!)
• Features and significant changes:
  • Use smaller transactions in Up #364
  • Add 'Use short links' option to GUI
• Bugfixes and other things:
  • Update licensing to match GPLv3+ #457
  • Prepare fix for read-after-write issue with S3 and Swift plugin #456
  • Fix S3 read-after-write consistent issue #448
  • Change default crypto to just AES-128/GCM
  • Fix table creation process to not throw an error
  • Fix swift read after write consistent issue #276
  • Create target in sy init by default (disable with -T)
  • Fix API to support ARM for platform-independent plugins #495

Syncany 0.4.5-alpha (Date: 8 May 2015)

• Developer/alpha release (We are now nearing the beta phase. Stay tuned!)
• Features and significant changes:
  • Add default .syignore file with typically unwanted files (.DS_Store, ...) #393
  • Add 'prevent standby' toggle in GUI #387
  • Add theme and tray icon selector in GUI
  • Add update check to GUI in general settings panel, and daily update check #415
  • Add support for enums as transfer setting values #280
  • Add automatic OAuth token handling #426
  • Add support for feature aware transfer managers #452
• Bugfixes and other things:
  • Make sure that plugin update on Windows is able to install snapshots #418
  • Working single repos for dropbox plugin #417
  • Fix Unity detection for tray icon selection #413
  • Fix Unity tray disappear after Python process crash by restarting #370
  • Several stability bugfixes #433
  • Don't use web sockets for IPC between daemon and GUI if in same JVM #373
  • Fix daemon PID empty error #439
  • Handle big repositories on dropbox backend better #353
  • Fix homebrew formula to use java >= 1.7 #449
  • Fix GUI not working with OAuth plugins #441

Syncany 0.4.4-alpha (Date: 22 Mar 2015)

• Developer/alpha release (We are now nearing the beta phase. Stay tuned!)
• Features and significant changes:
  • Unit tests for daemon #384/#397
  • Completely re-written Syncany API and website, and open-sourced it in the syncany-website repository #167
  • Added 3rd-party plugins, and a 3rd party flag in sy plugin list responses
  • Added sy update check to manually check for application updates #412
  • Added --no-delete option for up #263/#399
• Bugfixes and other things:
  • Splitting test suite between unit and integration #384/#391
  • Allowing SFTP public key auth without private key password #390
  • Setting default maxMemory to 512M to enable booting in VMs/low memory devices.

Syncany 0.4.3-alpha (Date: 25 Feb 2015)

• Developer/alpha release (We are now nearing the beta phase. Stay tuned!)
• Features and significant changes:
  • First Mac OSX release (.app.zip) #34
  • Native Mac OSX notifications #335
  • Added support for WS/REST in JSON format #285
  • Make plugins updatable via sy plugin update command #300
  • History browser in the GUI (excl. Mac OSX) #333
  • Better defaults for cleanup #345
• Bugfixes and other things:
  • Add man pages and bash completion to tar.gz/.zip distribution, to allow using them in Arch and potentially other releases #148/#388
  • Fix black notification bubble on Linux #339
  • Fix file version table in browse history detail view has too much left cell spacing #346
  • Fix flickering and newline-problem on Windows tray icon #337
  • Fix ampersands (&) in menus #367
  • Fix last modified pre-1970 issue #374
  • Fix autostart not working on OSX #371
  • Fix tests to make them clean up after themselves #377/#386

Syncany 0.4.2-alpha (Date: 10 Jan 2015)

• Patch release to fix serialization issue in 'sy ls' when daemon/GUI is running.

Syncany 0.4.1-alpha (Date: 10 Jan 2015)

• Developer/alpha release (We are now nearing the beta phase. Stay tuned!)
• Features and significant changes:
  • New 'Preferences' dialog with ability to remove/add plugins, enable/disable notifications, and change the proxy settings #334/#321
  • New 'Remove folder' feature in tray menu #330
  • New 'Copy link' feature in tray menu #336
  • Added recent changes command 'sy log' #298
• Bugfixes and other things:
  • Fix Dropbox plugin bug when deleting non-existing files #325
  • Cleanup status information / status texts in tray #317/#329
  • Code refactoring based on SonarQube output #302/#326
  • Fix invalid "uploading" status message #314
  • Fix confusing error message when plugin not installed #328
  • Fix sync-forever issue with Windows watcher #338
  • Removed <hooks> and <runAfterDown> because largly unused #311
  • Fix sy ls doesn't display deleted file versions; add --deleted #282
  • Fix Syncany trying to read all files in home dir on Arch Linux #342

Syncany 0.4.0-alpha (Date: 28 Dec 2014)

• Developer/alpha release (We are now nearing the beta phase. Stay tuned!)
• Features and significant changes:
  • Implement resume functionality for up (big!) #141
  • Implement proper init/connect GUI wizards in GUI plugin, and supporting backend REST/WS-requests in core, including OAuth support for plugins (big!) #297
  • Support S3-compatible backends in Amazon S3 plugin #301
  • New Flickr plugin (store data in images) #304
  • Implement folder management commands: sy daemon (list|add|remove) #286
  • Make sy daemon (add|remove) .. work with multiple paths/IDs #313
• Bugfixes and other things:
  • sy genlink -s now works behind a proxy #291
  • sy genlink -s now works when folder is daemon-managed #293
  • GUI: Correctly working icon rotation #296
  • Fix left-over file issue in delete action #303
  • Fix FileSystemActionReconciliator issue with unexpected 'delete file' case #316

Syncany 0.3.0-alpha (Date: 9 Dec 2014)

• Breaks compatiblity to 0.2.0-alpha local folders!
• Developer/alpha release (STILL NOT FOR PRODUCTION USE!)
• Features and significant changes:
  • Implement OpenStack Swift plugin #251
  • Allow setting repo password in sy connect and sy init via --password option #256
  • Rework of cleanup operation. Merge database files every cleanup. #266/#284
  • Added Mac OSX / Homebrew recipe #267/#281
• Bugfixes and other things:
  • Fix Windows/CMD incompatibility with batch file #270
  • Remove empty database versions during cleanup #208 (part of #266/284)
  • Drops PURGE concept #265 (part of #266/284)
  • Fixing incorrect cleanup rollback #268 (part of #266/284)
  • Fixing 'Checksums do not match' exception; duplicate chunk issue #288

Syncany 0.2.0-alpha (Date: 8 Nov 2014)

• Developer/alpha release (STILL NOT FOR PRODUCTION USE!)
• Breaks compatiblity to 0.1.12-alpha local folders!
  From now on, breaking releases will always increase the minor version number.
• Features and significant changes:
  • Allow plugin nesting and interaction via SimpleXML-ification (major!) #192/#240
  • Implement Dropbox plugin (use Dropbox-provided storage) #226
  • Implement RAID0 plugin (use two other plugins to extend storage) #191
  • Encrypt plugin credentials in config.xml #168
  • New syncany://-link format, support for short syncany://-links (with Syncany link shortener service), support for arbitrary link shorteners.
• Bugfixes and other things:
  • Fix PURGE database file history entries disappear after merging (major!) #252
  • Fix database corruption issue (caused by #252) in #247
  • Fix cannot delete/rename folders on Windows #248
  • Set default log file if no log file given #258
  • Allow user and global plugins (Linux only) #259
  • Fix FTP plugin testRepoFileExists() with some FTP servers #262
  • Fix inconsistent DB after cleanup rollback (no issue ID)
  • Harmonize Plugin API OS description calls #264/#253

Syncany 0.1.12-alpha (Date: 19 Oct 2014)

• Developer/alpha release (STILL NOT FOR PRODUCTION USE!)
• Features and significant changes:
  • Working GUI plugin with Windows installer, DEB-file and as plugin installation
  • Allow OS/arch-dependent plugins (e.g. GUI) #245
  • Offer Debian packages for all plugins, and an APT archive for plugins and main application
• Bugfixes and other things:
  • Fix integrity issue with DIRTY databases (major!) #227
  • Make 'sy daemon stop' more reliable on Windows #230
  • Fix permission issue with folders created on Windows #243

Syncany 0.1.11-alpha (Date: 29 Sep 2014)

• Developer/alpha release (STILL NOT FOR PRODUCTION USE!)
• Features and significant changes:
  • Updated, more flexible WebSocket/REST-like API (basis for GUI/web) #205
  • Interactive CLI progress status while uploading/downloading #223/#237
  • Implemented basic daemon hooks for post-sync-down event #155/#237
• Bugfixes and other things:
  • Amazon S3 plugin now uses proxy setitngs #228
  • Windows/Limit: Detect 32-bit Java on 64-bit systems in installer; limit JVM memory with <maxMemory> tag in userconfig.xml #222
  • Fixed usage of batch/shell scripts #238

Syncany 0.1.10-alpha (Date: 16 Sep 2014)

• Developer/alpha release (STILL NOT FOR PRODUCTION USE!)
• Breaks compatiblity to 0.1.9-alpha repositories!
• Features and significant changes:
  • Atomicity for changing operations (up/cleanup, major!) #64
  • Combined sy and syd script into one #210
  • Add folder to daemon config in sy init #215/#153
  • Bash completion for Arch Linux users #220
• Bugfixes and other things:
  • Fix daemon tests #185
  • Rewrite bash completion, fixes --localdir issue #209
  • Fix issue with sy daemon force-stop #212
  • Fix multichunk decryption failure cache issue (part of #59)
  • Make syncany://-links Windows CMD compatible #219/#225

Syncany 0.1.9-alpha (Date: 28 Aug 2014)

• Developer/alpha release (STILL NOT FOR PRODUCTION USE!)
• Features and significant changes:
  • HTTPS-only for WebSocket/REST-like API and web interface #185/#196
  • Add bash-completion functionality (Debian/Ubuntu) #201
  • New and awesome end user guide at https://syncany.org/r/userguide
• Bugfixes and other things:
  • Implement full cleanup to fix (big!) #187/#193
  • Fixed database integrity issue (solved by #187)
  • Fixed winning branch race condition #178 (solved by #187)
  • Fixed file not recreated from winning branch #200/#203
  • Add LRU cache for local files; no re-download of exist. multichunks #169

Syncany 0.1.8-alpha (Date: 9 Aug 2014)

• Developer/alpha release (STILL NOT FOR PRODUCTION USE!)
• Breaks compatiblity to 0.1.7-alpha repositories!
• Features and significant changes:
  • New Samba / Windows share plugin #172
  • Public key authentication for the SFTP plugin #134
  • WebSocket/REST-like daemon with user-password authentication. #171
• Bugfixes and other things:
  • Fixed cross dependency issue with plugins #162
  • Fixed signed plugin JAR dependency error #161
  • Fixed Windows/Linux attribute bingo #166
  • Fixed Windows batch script; start/stop PID file issue #163
  • Fixed Linux daemon script such that it can be symlinked #183
  • Fixed running CLI commands while sync is running #182
  • Tests: Added watch server tests for daemon #185
  • Tests: Implement plugin install test #170
  • Added 'type' attribute to database header (DEFAULT/PURGE) #181
  • Prevent standby/hibernate if uploading/downloading #164
  • Altered API backend to include 'conflicts-with' metadata #165
  • Update Arch Linux AUR package #179

Syncany 0.1.7-alpha (Date: 28 Jul 2014)

• Developer/alpha release (STILL NOT FOR PRODUCTION USE!)
• Bugfixes and other things:
  • Fixed with XML restricted chars in filenames #145
  • Fixed issue with identical files during indexing #142
  • Fixed syd.bat classpath issue on Windows for plugins #156
  • Added 'conflicts-with' metadata to plugins, and warnings to the sy plugin install <pluginid> command #154
  • Updated wrong licenses to GPLv3 #147
  • Add gradle scripts to plugins #146
  • WebDAV plugin: Remove use of deprecated SSL code

Syncany 0.1.6-alpha (Date: 25 Jun 2014)

• Developer/alpha release (STILL NOT FOR PRODUCTION USE!)
• Features and significant changes:
  • Revamp: List and filter file tree and file histories with sy ls #86
  • Revamp: Restore old/deleted files with sy restore #87
  • Implemented man pages for all Syncany commands: man (sy|sy-up|..) #87
  • Change plugin structure to allow arbitrary plugin (e.g. web inteface)
• Bugfixes:
  • Fixed issue with renaming to folder with quotes on Windows #124
  • Fix uploading large files, i.e. action file handler using same connection as upload; #140

Syncany 0.1.5-alpha (Date: 12 Jun 2014)

• Developer/alpha release (STILL NOT FOR PRODUCTION USE!)
• Features and significant changes:
  • Implemented Ubuntu PPA and signed deb files #69
  • Allow detailed daemon configuration:options for up/down/cleanup, interval times, announcements, etc. in daemon.xml #105
  • Added retriable transfer managers to support wobbly connections #125
  • Improve daemon wrapper script: PID-based, force-stop, etc. #105
• Bugfixes:
  • Fix undescriptive error message for unknown/removed plugin #119

Syncany 0.1.4-alpha (Date: 25 May 2014)

• Developer/alpha release (STILL NOT FOR PRODUCTION USE!)
• Features and significant changes:
  • Rudimentary daemon implementation: syd (start|stop|reload|status)
  • Remove automatic cleanup in 'up', add interval-based cleanup to 'watch', relates to #64
• Bugfixes and other things:
  • Fix deletion of invalid merge/cleanup and integrity issues (tough one!) #58
  • Fix remove lost multichunks from other clients' dirty databases (major!) #132
  • Fix wrong 'down' output when only a purge file is applied #129
  • Make vector clock serialization pattern unambigious (only allow A-Z/a-z) #123
  • Fix ignore purged files when loading database files #135
  • Simplify Gradle build script by splitting to several scripts

Syncany 0.1.3-alpha (Date: 12 May 2014)

• Developer/alpha release (STILL NOT FOR PRODUCTION USE!)
• Features:
  • WebDAV now supports HTTP and HTTPS (ask user for certificate confirmation) #50
  • SFTP now implements strict host checking (ask user for host fingerprint confirmation) #127
• Windows-specific:
  • Set JAVA_HOME during installation #121/#122
  • Replace uninstall icons with high-depth icons
  • Ship 'sy.bat' to allow sy command on Windows (not only syncany)
• Bugfixes:
  • Fix S3 plugin connect failure (delete repo file) #128
  • Proper remote locking for cleanup through action files #104
  • Fix WebDAV plugin/server compatibility #15

Syncany 0.1.2-alpha (Date: 27 Apr 2014)

• Developer/alpha release (NOT FOR PRODUCTION USE!)
• Features:
  • Extracted non-core plugins, allow easy plugin installation through sy plugin (list|install|remove) #26/#104
    • Shipped plugins now only 'local'
    • Installable plugins: FTP, SFTP (no host checking), WebDAV (HTTP only), Amazon S3
  • Ignore files using wildcards in .syignore (e.g. *.bak, *.r??) #108
  • Added Arch Linux 'syncany-git' package #99
  • Allow speicifying HTTP(S)/WebDAV proxy and other global system properties #109
• Bugfixes:
  • Fix semantic in TransferManager test() (incl. all plugins) #103/#102
  • WebDAV plugin fix to create "multichunks"/"databases" folder #110
  • Fix "Plugin not supported" stack trace #111
  • Windows build script fix for "Could not normalize path" #107
  • Fix database file name leak of username and hostname #114
  • Check plugin compatibility before installing (check appMinVersion) #104
  • Don't ignore local/remote notifications if sync already running #88
  • Uninstall plugins on Windows (JAR locked) #113/#117
  • Rotate logs to max. 4x25 MB #116
  • Fix multichunk resource close issue #118/#120

Syncany 0.1.1-alpha (Date: 14 Apr 2014)

• Developer/alpha release (NOT FOR PRODUCTION USE!)
• Features:
  • Ignoring files using .syignore file #66/#77
  • Arch Linux package support; release version #80 and git version #99
  • Additional command-specific --help texts
• Windows-specific:
  • Add Syncany binaries to PATH environment variable during setup #84/#91
  • Fixed HSQLDB-path issue #98
• Bugfixes:
  • Timezone fix in tests #78/#90
  • Reference issue "Cannot determine file content for checksum" #92/#94
  • Atomic 'init' command (rollback on failure) #95/#96
• Other things:
  • Tests for 'connect' command
  • Tests for .syignore

Syncany 0.1.0-alpha (Date: 30 March 2014)

• First developer/alpha release (NOT FOR PRODUCTION USE!)
• Command line interface (CLI) with commands
  • init: initialize local folder and remote repository
  • connect: connect to an existing remote repository
  • up: index and upload local files
  • down: download changes and apply locally
  • status: list local changes
  • ls-remote: list remote changes
  • watch: watches local dir, subscribes to pub/sub, and calls down/up command in a set interval
  • restore: restores a given set of files (experimental)
  • log: Outputs formatted file histories (experimental)
  • genlink: Generates syncany:// links to share
  • cleanup: Deletes old file versions and frees remote space
• Storage plugins:
  • Local: Allows to store repository files in a local/mounted folder
  • FTP: Allows the use of an FTP folder as repository
  • WebDAV: Allows using a WebDAV folder as repository (currently no HTTPS)