cozy-desktop

Improvements for all users:

• 🔧 We anticipate changes in the way the remote Cozy will inform Cozy Desktop
  that its OAuth token has expired and should be refreshed.

See also known issues.

Happy syncing!

Improvements for all users:

• ✨ We will now fetch the latest changes from your Cozy as soon as they've been
  made (with some delay in case many changes were made).
  This feature is hidden behind a flag so we can do more tests in live
  conditions before releasing it to everybody.
• ✨ OpenOffice lock files won't be synchronized anymore.
• ✨ The onboarding window will now honor _blank link targets during the
  onboarding process by opening the targeted URL in a default browser tab
  rather than a new Cozy Desktop window.
• 🐛 Cozy Desktop will now stop its processes when power is suspended and restart
  them when power is resumed. This should speed up suspension and prevent
  unwanted wake ups in some situations but, mostly it will ensure that
  processes are fully functional when power is resumed (we could lose the
  remote watcher leading to missed remote changes).
• 🐛 We fixed an issue in the detection of changes to synchronize (i.e. after
  they've been detected either on the local filesystem or the remote Cozy)
  which could lead to the synchronization process hanging until the application
  is restarted.
• 🔧 We fixed our network configuration as it was preventing the realtime manager,
  responsible for fetching changes from your Cozy as soon as they've bee made,
  to create a connection with the Cozy.

Improvements for macOS users:

• 🐛 We've made improvements to the local changes watcher to make sure that
  detected changes batches are not processed concurrently as this could lead to
  unexpected behavior. These also ensure that stopping the application while
  the initial local synchronization directory is being scanned will not lead to
  documents being sent to the trash without reason.

See also known issues.

Happy syncing!

Improvements for all users:

• We fixed a regression introduced in the remote watcher that could lead to a
  stuck synchronization process after an error such as failing to create a
  conflict on the remote Cozy.

See also known issues.

Happy syncing!

Improvements for all users:

• 🐛 Cozy Desktop will now stop its processes when power is suspended and restart
  them when power is resumed. This should speed up suspension and prevent
  unwanted wake ups in some situations but, mostly it will ensure that
  processes are fully functional when power is resumed (we could lose the
  remote watcher leading to missed remote changes).
• 🔧 The realtime remote changes detection feature is now hidden behind a flag so
  we can do more tests in live conditions before releasing it to everybody.
• 🐛 We fixed an issue in the detection of changes to synchronize (i.e. after
  they've been detected either on the local filesystem or the remote Cozy)
  which could lead to the synchronization process hanging until the application
  is restarted.

Improvements for macOS users:

• 🐛 We've made improvements to the local changes watcher to make sure that
  detected changes batches are not processed concurrently as this could lead to
  unexpected behavior. These also ensure that stopping the application while
  the initial local synchronization directory is being scanned will not lead to
  documents being sent to the trash without reason.

See also known issues.

Happy syncing!

Improvements for all users:

• ✨ OpenOffice lock files won't be synchronized anymore.
• ✨ The onboarding window will now honor _blank link targets during the
  onboarding process by opening the targeted URL in a default browser tab
  rather than a new Cozy Desktop window.

See also known issues.

Happy syncing!

Improvements for all users:

• We fixed our network configuration as it was preventing the realtime manager,
  responsible for fetching changes from your Cozy as soon as they've bee made,
  to create a connection with the Cozy.

See also known issues.

Happy syncing!

Improvements for all users:

• We fixed our network configuration as it was preventing the realtime manager,
  responsible for fetching changes from your Cozy as soon as they've bee made,
  to create a connection with the Cozy.

See also known issues.

Happy syncing!

Improvements for all users:

• ✨ We will now fetch the latest changes from your Cozy as soon as they've been
  made (with some delay in case many changes were made).

See also known issues.

Happy syncing!

Improvements for all users:

• 🔧 We've activated the partial synchronization feature by default. It can still
  be disabled by setting the
  settings.partial-desktop-sync.show-synced-folders-selection flag to false
  either in the client's config or on the Cozy itself.
• ✨ Google Chrome's temporary download files will now be ignored by the local
  changes watcher.
  This will prevent synchronization attempts while the file is being downloaded
  as they will most probably fail and are useless since the temporary file will
  be removed in the end.
• 🐛 We'll now try to synchronize documents that were modified even after multiple
  previous failed attempts as the new changes might fix the previous issues.

Improvements for Windows users:

• 🐛 Documents trashed or erased on the remote Cozy will now be erased on the local
  filesystem when they cannot be trashed (because the Trash is configured to be
  skipped or because the synchronized directory is located on a network disk
  without any Trash).
  This will prevent de-synchronization between the local filesystem and the
  remote Cozy and thus prevent future errors.

Improvements for Linux users:

• 🔧 We reverted our build machine Ubuntu version back to v20.04 as newer versions
  make our native addons such as the Linux local watcher incompatible with some
  current LTS versions of popular distributions like Ubuntu and Debian.
  This change does not have short term drawbacks.

See also known issues.

Happy syncing!

Improvements for all users:

• ✨ Google Chrome's temporary download files will now be ignored by the local
  changes watcher.
  This will prevent synchronization attempts while the file is being downloaded
  as they will most probably fail and are useless since the temporary file will
  be removed in the end.
• 🔧 We'll now try to synchronize documents that were modified even after multiple
  previous failed attempts as the new changes might fix the previous issues.

Improvements for Windows users:

• 🔧 Documents trashed or erased on the remote Cozy will now be erased on the local
  filesystem when they cannot be trashed (because the Trash is configured to be
  skipped or because the synchronized directory is located on a network disk
  without any Trash).
  This will prevent de-synchronization between the local filesystem and the
  remote Cozy and thus prevent future errors.
• 🔧 We'll now wait for the full synchronization stop before closing the
  application on users' request.
  This will prevent data corruption and should prevent crashes on Windows.

See also known issues.

Happy syncing!

Improvements for all users:

• ✨ We've activated the partial synchronization feature by default. It can still
  be disabled by setting the
  settings.partial-desktop-sync.show-synced-folders-selection flag to false
  either in the client's config or on the Cozy itself.

See also known issues.

Happy syncing!

Improvements for linux users:

• 🔧 We reverted our build machine Ubuntu version back to v20.04 as newer versions
  make our native addons such as the Linux local watcher incompatible with some
  current LTS versions of popular distributions like Ubuntu and Debian.
  This change does not have short term drawbacks.

See also known issues.

Happy syncing!

Improvements for all users:

• 🔧 The Electron framework was upgraded to v23.0.0. This major version fixes a lot
  of security errors as well as other smaller errors like crashes.

Improvements for macOS users:

• 🐛 Local renamings of files being uploaded will now be correctly synchronized on
  the remote Cozy without the need of a client restart.
• ✨ Desktop will now restart its local watcher when the local filesystem notifies
  that the local synchronization directory should be rescanned because some
  changes could not be transmitted to the application.
  This should prevent the few cases of trashing of all synchronized content.

See also known issues.

Happy syncing!

Improvements for all users:

• 🔧 The Electron framework was upgraded to v23.0.0. This major version
  fixes a lot of security errors as well as other smaller errors like crashes.

Improvements for macOS users:

• 🐛 Local renamings of files being uploaded will now be correctly
  synchronized on the remote Cozy without the need of a client restart.
• ✨ Desktop will now restart its local watcher when the local
  filesystem notifies that the local synchronization directory should be
  rescanned because some changes could not be transmitted to the application.
  This should prevent the few cases of trashing of all synchronized content.

Improvements for all users:

• Thanks to https://github.com/ArchangeGabriel, we should now unpack all of our
  binary dependencies before the application is run, saving some startup time
  and avoiding anti-viruses alerts.
• We fixed a bug in the process that fetches a directory's content when it is
  re-included in the synchronization that was preventing it from completing.
• We made sure to properly save the metadata of documents trashed on the remote
  Cozy so Cozy Desktop won't try to fetch that change again and potential local
  modifications made on the document can be synchronized with the remote Cozy.
• Documents moved out of a remote directory subsequently trashed or completed
  erased should now be moved out their local parent before it is trashed on the
  local filesystem. This ensures Cozy Desktop will be able to synchronize both
  changes.

See also known issues.

Happy syncing!

Improvements for all users:

• We made sure to properly save the metadata of documents trashed on the remote
  Cozy so Cozy Desktop won't try to fetch that change again and potential local
  modifications made on the document can be synchronized with the remote Cozy.
• Documents moved out of a remote directory subsequently trashed or completed
  erased should now be moved out their local parent before it is trashed on the
  local filesystem. This ensures Cozy Desktop will be able to synchronize both
  changes.

Improvements for macOS users:

• The previous beta release broke the auto-update feature on macOS as we stopped
  packaging Cozy Desktop in a format that we thought unused. We brought back
  this packaging so users running a previous beta version should be able to
  update once again.

See also known issues.

Happy syncing!

Improvements for all users:

• 🐛 Thanks to @ArchangeGabriel, we should now unpack all of our
  binary dependencies before the application is run, saving some startup time
  and avoiding anti-viruses alerts.
• 🐛 We fixed a bug in the process that fetches a directory's content when it is
  re-included in the synchronization that was preventing it from completing.

See also known issues.

Happy syncing!

Improvements for all users:

• The Electron framework was upgraded to v19.0.0. This major version fixes a lot
  of security errors as well as other smaller errors like crashes.
• We fixed the invalid path error details window which would not show up
  anymore. We took the opportunity to improve its display and have the whole
  content fit in the window without scrollbars.

Improvements for Windows and Linux users:

• We replaced our filesystem changes surveillance library to use @parcel/watcher
  as @atom/watcher is not maintained anymore and was preventing us from
  upgrading Electron.
  Although the behavior of Cozy Desktop should remain mostly untouched, it
  should be easier to follow document movements on Windows and faster to scan
  folders, especially during an app start.

Improvements for Linux users:

• The Electron upgrade should resolve issues some users can experience with
  recent Ubuntu versions and their derivatives. Cozy Desktop should start
  without issues.
• Electron does not support 32-bit Linux binaries anymore so we stopped building
  binaries for this architecture as well.

See also known issues.

Happy syncing!

Improvements for all users:

• 🔧 The Electron framework was upgraded to v19.0.0. This major version fixes a lot
  of security errors as well as other smaller errors like crashes.
• 🐛 We fixed the invalid path error details window which would not show up
  anymore. We took the opportunity to improve its display and have the whole
  content fit in the window without scrollbars.

Improvements for Windows and Linux users:

• 🔧 We replaced our filesystem changes surveillance library to use @parcel/watcher
  as @atom/watcher is not maintained anymore and was preventing us from
  upgrading Electron.
  Although the behavior of Cozy Desktop should remain mostly untouched, it
  should be easier to follow document movements on Windows and faster to scan
  folders, especially during an app start.

Improvements for Linux users:

• 🐛 The Electron upgrade should resolve issues some users can experience with
  recent Ubuntu versions and their derivatives. Cozy Desktop should start
  without issues.
• 🔧 Electron does not support 32-bit Linux binaries anymore so we stopped building
  binaries for this architecture as well.

See also known issues.

Happy syncing!

Improvements for all users:

• 🐛 We fixed a few issues that were preventing the correct processing of movements
  and renamings of documents that have never been synchronized and sometimes not
  even been saved in our local database.
  These should now be handled as creations at their new path and overwritten
  documents trashed on the other side.
• 🐛 We've fixed yet another issue with data migrations making requests to the
  remote Cozy when the Desktop's Oauth client has been revoked on the Cozy.
  You will now be be informed of the issue and given the opportunity to
  reconnect your client.
• 🐛 To prevent blocking the Desktop client to start and synchronize when an app
  update is available but downloading it consistently fail, we've decided to
  stop retrying the download after 5 failures. The client will still try to
  download the update again 24 hours later.
• 🐛 We've made changes to the dependency algorithm that decides which changes need
  to be synchronized first in order for all changes to be synchronized correctly
  (and without retry). When documents are moved to a freshly created directory,
  we should always synchronize the creation of said directory before moving the
  documents into it.
  This would work with retries before but this was a waste of time and
  resources.
• ✨ We've updated the error message displayed when we fail to send a file to the
  remote Cozy because it's size is either larger than the available space or the
  maximum allowed. It should be easier to understand and the available action
  less scary.

Improvements for Windows users:

• 🐛 The local database software could experience issues when trying to delete
  temporary databases or the main database when disconnecting the client.
  An update of said software should now handle them appropriately.

Improvements for macOS users:

• 🐛 We fixed a few issues that were preventing the correct processing of movements
  with case changes of documents that have never been been saved in our local
  database.
  These should now be handled as creations at their new path and overwritten
  documents trashed on the other side.

See also known issues.

Happy syncing!