CHANGELOG.md

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• Fix crash when entering only a space into the search dialog.

• Fix potential fragment crash when installing/removing a package

• Fix crash when adding malformed URIs as repos

• Fix Android.mk build when the output dir is a relative path

0.98 (2016-02-01)

• Add opt-in crash reporting via ACRA

• Add support for HTTP basic authentication of repos

• Fix repo updating on older devices with little memory

• Rework search to be incremental and without a separate activity

• Add English to the list of languages to use in the settings

• Fix "database is locked" seemingly random crash

• Cache installed app information in the database

• Add counter to the installed tab

• Improve repo update test coverage

• Translation updates

• Display license and author information in app details where appropriate

0.97 (2015-11-07)

• Add option to prompt for unstable updates globally

• Add support for free Certificate Authorities: cert.startcom.org and letsencrypt.org

• Rework the privileged installer to use an extension as a privileged app instead of F-Droid itself

• Add a new night theme

• Fix crash when trying to install incompatible apps with the privileged installer

• Fix downloading from HTTP servers that did not send a Content-Length

• Material design tweaks and fixes, including repo and app screens makeovers

• Add StrictMode to debug builds

• Make the GitLab CI run the tests in an emulator

• Use gradle-witness to ensure the reproducibility of the build with libraries pulled from maven repositories

• Switched to Weblate for translations

• Translation updates

0.96.1 (2015-09-24)

• Fix crash when updating repos on Android 2.3.7 or older

0.96 (2015-09-03)

• Move the repo index update to a notification

• Handle apk downloads without a dialog

• Don't let users try to uninstall system apps that haven't been updated

• Various bugfixes in the process that installs F-Droid as a privileged app

• Fix privileged installer confirmation screen issues on Android 2.X/3.X/4.X

• Disable HTTPS support in swap until it's stable

• Fix a few crashes, including package receivers and NFC actions

• Translation updates

0.95.1 (2015-08-10)

• Disable prompt to install F-Droid into system until it's more stable

• Fix crash when updating from an older release if using the "Light with dark ActionBar" theme

• Re-add SuperUser third-party permission to the manifest since some systems require it

• Fix privileged installer confirmation screen crash on Android < 3.0

0.95 (2015-08-04)

• Start porting UI to Material Design, including a new launcher icon

• Add support for app changelog links, which will appear for apps that have them once the repositories have been updated again

• Redesign the App Details view with larger icons, expandable description and links with icons

• Add ability to make F-Droid install itself as a privileged app on /system via root, allowing the use of the system installer

• Remove the root installer, since the system installer is safer, more stable and now easy to set up with root privileges

• Speed up and simplify repo update process by streaming the data out of the jar file directly

• Can now manually add swap repo via "Repositories" screen

• Using NFC during swap now initiates a proper swap, rather than redirecting to the "Repositories" screen

• Drop ant support to greatly simplify the build process and its maintenance

0.92 (2015-06-08)

• Make swap only in portrait mode to prevent crashes and issues where UI elements are obscured

• Update Universal-Image-Loader to 1.9.4

• Make Apk downloads progress be measured in kilobytes instead of bytes

• Add missing Sardinian language to the preferences

• Fix minimum SDK to be 8 (2.2) instead of 7 (2.1) since support for version 7 was dropped long ago

0.91 (2015-05-18)

• Don't request the "Write to external storage" permission on 4.4 and later since it's not needed to use our own external app directory

• Fix a crash occuring if the user triggered a repo update that got rid of more than 450 apks at once

• Properly cache apk files on the SD card if configured this way

• Drop support for unsigned repos in favour of signed ones and TOFU support

• Provide better feedback when adding repos with same name of existing repo

• Add support for special Google Play search terms like "pub:" and "pname:"

• Fix regression where adding repos via URLs would not actually add a new repo

• Normalize and check URLs of repos being added

• Don't crash if links on descriptions cannot be handled by any application

• Support building as part of a ROM via an Android.mk using gradle

0.88 (2015-04-28)

• Show list of apps in the update notification (on devices with Android 4.1 or higher)

• User interface language can now be changed from inside the F-Droid preferences without changing the system language (locale)

• Fix an issue where xml files could pile up in the data directory

• Improve app and search link handling while also adding supporting for Amazon and Google Play links

• Fix regression where F-Droid web repo links would trigger an "Add new repo" action

• Show a message to the user when there are no apps to display.

• Swapping is now two way. Connecting to a swap on one device will initiate a swap on the other device.

• Small UI fixes to avoid overlapping text and improve app version ellipsizing

• Split up search terms when querying the app database - "fire fox" now matches FireFox

• Ignore trailing paces in search terms introduced by some input methods

• Fixed bug where categories were always empty on non-english locales

• Only log some verbose messages that are of little use to users in debug builds

• Misc fixes to the "swap" workflow (especially on Android 2.3 devices)

0.83 (2015-03-26)

• Fix possible crashes when installing or uninstalling apps

• Fix issue that caused the installed state label to sometimes not be updated

• Support for future devices with more than two cpu architectures

• Show when packages are installed but not via F-Droid (mismatching signature)

• Fix possible backround crash concerning the category list change listener

• Add an option to check for repository updates less often

• Get rid of the confusing checkbox on/off descriptions

• Enable building F-Droid without having to build all dependencies yourself

• Temporarily remove partially translated arrays to avoid potential crashes

• Translation updates

0.78 (2014-12-31)

• Fix repo updates on 5.0 (which caused no apps to show on clean installs)

• "Local repo" has an improved interface making it simpler to swap apps between devices and the "Start Swap" menu item opens a wizard to help with the process

• Be more verbose when encountering repo index update errors

• Bump the Target SDK to 21

• Update Universal-Image-Loader and the Support libraries

• Switch the directory structure to better suit building with gradle

• Translation updates

0.76 (2014-10-08)

• Added "local repo" support to host an F-Droid repo on the device itself, with full signed repo support, icons, and optional HTTPS

• Ability to set up such a local repo by choosing from any of the installed applications on the device

• Reverted self-signed support since it was broken, only HTTPS certificates with proper CA signatures will work for now

• Find local repos on the same network using Bonjour/mDNS

• Support for F-Droid repos on Tor Hidden Services (.onion addresses)

• HTTP Proxy support in Preferences

• Directly send installed apps to other devices via Bluetooth and Android Beam (NFC+Bluetooth), also compatible with Samsung/HTC S-Beam

• Initial support for root and system installers, allowing the client to install apks directly on its own

• Increased performance when updating from repository with many apps

• Switch to Appcompat from the Support library

• Fix some crashes

• Translation updates

0.66 (2014-05-01)

• Fix crash on startup for devices with more than 500 installed apps

• Send apps to other devices directly from the App Details screen via NFC or Bluetooth

• Improved performance for devices with many installed apps

• Improve ellipsizing and spacing in the app lists

• Start translating the category lists

• Keep track of installed apps internally, rather than asking Android each time

• Security fixes and updates for adding of repos

• Fix bug introduced in 0.63 which made F-Droid always omit density-specific icons, making icons blurry on high-res devices

• Fix some other crashes

• Translation updates

0.63 (2014-04-07)

• Support for Network Service Discovery of local F-Droid repos on Android 4.1+ from the repository management screen

• Always remember the selected category in the list of apps

• Send F-Droid via Bluetooth to any device that supports receiving APKs via Bluetooth (stock Android blocks APKs, most ROMs allow them)

• NFC support: beam repo configs from the repo detail view (Android 4.0+), beam the F-Droid.apk from F-Droid's main screen (Android 4.1+)

• Support for repositories using self-signed HTTPS certificates through a Trust-on-first-use popup

• Support for TLS Subject-Public-Key-Identifier pinning

• Add native Right-to-Left support on devices running 4.2 and later

• Filter app compatibility by maxSdkVersion too

• Major internal changes to enable F-Droid to handle repos with thousands of apps without slowing down too much. These internal changes will also make new features easier to implement.

• Various fixes to layout issues introduced in 0.58

• Translation updates

0.58 (2014-01-11)

• Download icons with a resolution that matches the device's screen density, which saves resources on smaller devices and gets rid of unnecessary blurriness on larger devices

• Tweaked some layouts, especially the app lists and their compact layout

• App lists now show more useful version information: current version names, rather than number of versions available

• Reduce scroll lag in app lists by caching views in a ViewHolder

• Slightly increase performance in repo index XML handling by mapping apps with a HashMap, as opposed to doing linear searches

• More app info shown in App Details: The category in which the app was found and all the categories the app is in, as well as the Android version required to run each one of its versions available

• The preferences screen now uses descriptive summaries, which means that you can see what the checkbox preferences actually mean and what the edit and list preferences are set at

• Support for dogecoin donation method added (wow)

• Don't keep app icons older than 30 days on disc cache

• Always include incompatible apks in memory to avoid issues with apps seemingly not having any apks available

• Fixed a crash when trying to access a non-existing app

• F-Droid registers with Android to receive F-Droid URIs https://*/fdroid/repo and fdroidrepos://

• support including signing key fingerprint in repo URIs

• when adding new repos that include the fingerprint, check to see whether that repo exists in F-Droid already, and if the fingerprints match

• Other minor bug fixes

• Lots of translation updates

0.55 (2013-11-11)

• Fixed problems with category selection and permission lists on Android 2.X devices.

• Lots of translation updates, including new Norwegian translation.

0.54 (2013-11-05)

• New options on the App Details screen to ignore all future updates for that particular app, or ignore just the current update.

• Apps with Anti-features are no longer hidden, and the corresponding preferences to unhide them are removed. Instead they are clearly marked on the App Details screen.

• Apps with incompatible native code architecture requirements are now correctly filtered.

• A bug that prevented update notifications from appearing has been fixed.

• Theming support, with Light and Dark themes.

• New launcher and notification icons, and new default/loading app icon. Icons are now retrieved dynamically, drastically improving startup time on first installation.

• All app donation options have been grouped into a submenu, and Litecoin donation support has been added.

• App filter settings now take effect immediately.

• Apk native code ABIs are now shown in expert mode.

• Search uris for market://search and fdroid.search: are now handled.

• A problem with ActionBar Up navigation on some devices has been fixed.

• Other minor bug fixes, and adjustments to spacings and layouts.

• Lots of translation updates.

0.50 (2013-08-20)

• New basic app sharing functionality

• Handle f-droid.org web repo as well as market:// app uris

• Search by just typing on main screen and search results screen

• Flattr and Bitcoin donation methods added

• Noticeable speedups when returning from installs and uninstalls

• Add back to home buttons to the ActionBar

• Don't recommend versions newer than the current or incompatible with the device

• Use standard Android cache locations rather than .fdroid on the SD card

• Fix for crash at boot time where the SD card was slow to initialise

• Lots of bug fixes

• Lots of translation updates