cozy-desktop

Improvements for all users:

• We've optimized the initial listing of documents present on the remote Cozy to
  limit the number of necessary network requests and the CPU and RAM usage. This
  should also result in a quicker listing.
• Default values will now be provided by the client for remote metadata when
  they're not provided by cozy-stack.
• We updated the localizations and fixed some GUI texts which were not correctly
  localized.

Improvements for Windows and macOS users:

• The improvement introduced in the latest version around the trashing of
  complete folders (i.e. keeping their hierarchy in the Trash) would in turn
  generate visible errors in the main window and pause the synchronization until
  the remote trashing of all the documents in the folder would be fully
  synchronized.
  We're now making sure the trashing of a folder is swift and does not result in
  unnecessary errors.

See also known issues.

Happy syncing!

Improvements for all users:

• We updated the localizations and fixed some GUI texts which were not correctly
  localized.

See also known issues.

Happy syncing!

Improvements for all users:

• Default values will now be provided by the client for remote metadata when
  they're not provided by cozy-stack.

See also known issues.

Happy syncing!

Improvements for all users:

• We've optimized the initial listing of documents present on the remote Cozy to
  limit the number of necessary network requests and the CPU and RAM usage. This
  should also result in a quicker listing.

Improvements for Windows and macOS users:

• The improvement introduced in the latest version around the trashing of
  complete folders (i.e. keeping their hierarchy in the Trash) would in turn
  generate visible errors in the main window and pause the synchronization until
  the remote trashing of all the documents in the folder would be fully
  synchronized.
  We're now making sure the trashing of a folder is swift and does not result in
  unnecessary errors.

See also known issues.

Happy syncing!

Improvements for all users:

• All child moves (i.e. document moved because their parent directory was moved)
  will now be notified to the GUI so the child documents paths can be updated in
  the list of recently synchronized documents.
• We've introduced a mechanism to detect dependencies between multiple changes
  on the same side (i.e. the local filesystem or the remote Cozy) and
  synchronize them in the right order. We've added a few dependencies that let
  us solve situations that were known to fail (e.g. trashing directories as a
  whole instead of trashing every element separately) and we will add more as
  needed in the future.
• As stated above, directories will now be trashed as a whole but we'll now also
  keep empty directories in the trash instead of erasing them. It should be
  easier for you to find deleted elements in the trash and restore entire
  directories.
• We've decided to stop linking a local and remote directories at the same
  location during the synchronization as this could lead to issues (e.g. if one
  of them was moved and the other created).
  We'll handle this situation as a conflict instead.
• When propagating documents to the remote Cozy, we should now always use the
  correct parent directory which is not necessarily the remote folder with this
  path.
• The propagation of documents to the remote Cozy should now be slightly faster
  as we make fewer requests to the remote Cozy (i.e. we don't look for the
  parent directory on the remote Cozy anymore).
• Name conflicts detected during the synchronization phase will now be notified
  to you within the main window. Their resolution will only happen on your
  behalf via the action button within the error message.
• URLs entered during the client's Onboarding won't be considered as invalid if
  they contain a port but not the http protocol and will be considered as https
  URLs instead.

Improvements for Windows users:

• The detection of local overwriting moves should be more reliable. This also
  improves the propagation of remote overwriting moves to the local filesystem.
• The detection of local directory moves when they have a lot of content should
  be more reliable. This also improves the propagation of remote directory moves
  to the local filesystem.

Improvements for macOS users:

• We've fixed an issue in our local changes watcher that could lead to
  synchronizing a file deletion when actually replacing it with another one on
  the local filesystem.
• We've fixed an issue in our local changes watcher that could lead to
  synchronization errors due to invalid metadata when a file was moved then
  modified in a short period of time or modified multiple times in a short
  period of time, leaving you with a blocked synchronization until the file is
  modified, moved or removed.
• Deletions of children of moved directories while the client was stopped should
  now be correctly detected and propagated to the remote Cozy.

See also known issues.

Happy syncing!

Improvements for all users:

• All child moves (i.e. document moved because their parent directory was moved)
  will now be notified to the GUI so the child documents paths can be updated in
  the list of recently synchronized documents.
• We've introduced a mechanism to detect dependencies between multiple changes
  on the same side (i.e. the local filesystem or the remote Cozy) and
  synchronize them in the right order. We've added a few dependencies that let
  us solve situations that were known to fail (e.g. trashing directories as a
  whole instead of trashing every element separately) and we will add more as
  needed in the future.
• As stated above, directories will now be trashed as a whole but we'll now also
  keep empty directories in the trash instead of erasing them. It should be
  easier for you to find deleted elements in the trash and restore entire
  directories.
• We've decided to stop linking a local and remote directories at the same
  location during the synchronization as this could lead to issues (e.g. if one
  of them was moved and the other created).
  We'll handle this situation as a conflict instead.
• When propagating documents to the remote Cozy, we should now always use the
  correct parent directory which is not necessarily the remote folder with this
  path.
• The propagation of documents to the remote Cozy should now be slightly faster
  as we make fewer requests to the remote Cozy (i.e. we don't look for the
  parent directory on the remote Cozy anymore).
• Name conflicts detected during the synchronization phase will now be notified
  to you within the main window. Their resolution will only happen on your
  behalf via the action button within the error message.

Improvements for Windows users:

• The detection of local overwriting moves should be more reliable. This also
  improves the propagation of remote overwriting moves to the local filesystem.
• The detection of local directory moves when they have a lot of content should
  be more reliable. This also improves the propagation of remote directory moves
  to the local filesystem.

Improvements for macOS users:

• We've fixed an issue in our local changes watcher that could lead to
  synchronizing a file deletion when actually replacing it with another one on
  the local filesystem.
• We've fixed an issue in our local changes watcher that could lead to
  synchronization errors due to invalid metadata when a file was moved then
  modified in a short period of time or modified multiple times in a short
  period of time, leaving you with a blocked synchronization until the file is
  modified, moved or removed.
• Deletions of children of moved directories while the client was stopped should
  now be correctly detected and propagated to the remote Cozy.

See also known issues.

Happy syncing!

Improvements for all users:

• Cozy Notes with photos will be exported as a tar archive instead of a simple
  markdown file. Therefore, the client will now unpack the markdown file from
  the archive when displaying a note in a degraded mode (i.e. when you're
  offline or the actual note can't be found on the remote Cozy).
• Error messages will now be properly localized and the document names included
  in some of them should be properly displayed instead of their type.

See also known issues.

Happy syncing!

Improvements for all users:

• Error messages will now be properly localized and the document names included
  in some of them should be properly displayed instead of their type.

See also known issues.

Happy syncing!

Improvements for all users:

• Cozy Notes with photos will be exported as a tar archive instead of a simple
  markdown file. Therefore, the client will now unpack the markdown file from
  the archive when displaying a note in a degraded mode (i.e. when you're
  offline or the actual note can't be found on the remote Cozy).

See also known issues.

Happy syncing!

Improvements for all users:

• The client will now detect when the connected Cozy has been deleted and will
  show an error message accordingly.
  The synchronization will be stopped until you connect your client to another
  Cozy.
• We've worked on the process which decides if a synchronization error needs to
  be displayed or not to make sure you get alerted with the suspended
  synchronization status only if accompanied with an explicit error message.
• In some rare situations where a document that was previously synchronized is
  now only present on one side (i.e. we're in the middle of re-synchronizing it)
  a conflict could be generated if the document was modified on that remaining
  side.
  We've introduced some mitigations to avoid generating those conflicts.
• Due to a "bug" in Chromium (i.e. which we use through Electron to provide our
  network stack), some error responses sent by the remote Cozy to our file
  upload requests are transformed into a cryptic error which we cannot deal with
  directly. In such cases, we end up interpreting them as unreachable Cozy
  errors which is misleading to you.
  We caught and fixed two of those cases:
  • when sending files larger than the maximum allowed by the remote Cozy (i.e.
    5 GiB for Cozies hosted by us)
  • when the amount of data sent does not match the expected file size (i.e.
    because the actual local file has grown since last we detected a change)
• We'll now consider the propagation of a move to the trash either on the local
  filesystem or the remote Cozy as successful when the given document does not
  exist anymore.
  This will prevent delays during the synchronization process since we won't
  have to deal with retries.

Improvements for Windows users:

• The last modification and last access dates on Windows were not precise enough
  for Cozy Desktop to detect sub-second local modifications. This would
  sometimes lead to Invalid metadata errors when sending modifications to the
  remote Cozy.
  We've increased this precision to include milliseconds so we should not lose
  any local modification anymore.

Improvements for macOS users:

• Moving a local document to a folder that was just renamed or moved (e.g. a
  folder that was just created with a custom name) will be properly handled and
  not generate incoherent movements.
• Some steps of the initial scan could be run twice if some local modifications
  were detected while the initial scan was still running.
  We've made sure we don't lose time of consume unnecessary computing resources
  by making sure those steps are only run for the real initial scan.

See also known issues.

Happy syncing!

Improvements for all users:

• We've realized that the errors thrown when trying to trash a missing local
  document would not always be caught because of an unexpected message
  localization.
  We've completely changed the way we catch these errors to not depend on their
  message altogether.

See also known issues.

Happy syncing!

Improvements for all users:

• We'll now consider the propagation of a move to the trash either on the local
  filesystem or the remote Cozy as successful when the given document does not
  exist anymore.
  This will prevent delays during the synchronization process since we won't
  have to deal with retries.

See also known issues.

Happy syncing!

Improvements for Windows users:

• The last modification and last access dates on Windows were not precise enough
  for Cozy Desktop to detect sub-second local modifications. This would
  sometimes lead to Invalid metadata errors when sending modifications to the
  remote Cozy.
  We've increased this precision to include milliseconds so we should not lose
  any local modification anymore.

Improvements for all users:

• Due to a "bug" in Chromium (i.e. which we use through Electron to provide our
  network stack), some error responses sent by the remote Cozy to our file
  upload requests are transformed into a cryptic error which we cannot deal with
  directly. In such cases, we end up interpreting them as unreachable Cozy
  errors which is misleading to you.
  We caught and fixed two of those cases:
  • when sending files larger than the maximum allowed by the remote Cozy (i.e.
    5 GiB for Cozies hosted by us)
  • when the amount of data sent does not match the expected file size (i.e.
    because the actual local file has grown since last we detected a change)

Improvements for macOS users:

• Some steps of the initial scan could be run twice if some local modifications
  were detected while the initial scan was still running.
  We've made sure we don't lose time of consume unnecessary computing resources
  by making sure those steps are only run for the real initial scan.

See also known issues.

Happy syncing!

Improvements for all users:

• The client will now detect when the connected Cozy has been deleted and will
  show an error message accordingly. The synchronization will be stopped until
  you connect your client to another Cozy.
• We've worked on the process which decides if a synchronization error needs to
  be displayed or not to make sure you get alerted with the suspended
  synchronization status only if accompanied with an explicit error message.
• In some rare situations where a document that was previously synchronized is
  now only present on one side (i.e. we're in the middle of re-synchronizing it)
  a conflict could be generated if the document was modified on that remaining
  side.
  We've introduced some mitigations to avoid generating those conflicts.

Improvements for macOS users:

• Moving a local document to a folder that was just renamed or moved (e.g. a
  folder that was just created with a custom name) will be properly handled and
  not generate incoherent movements.

See also known issues.

Happy syncing!

Improvements for all users:

• The client will only trigger one synchronization retry loop when encountering
  an unreachable Cozy error in both the synchronization process and the remote
  watcher very closely.
• New remote documents whose path would be incompatible with the local
  filesystem will not be ignored anymore.
• Local documents who've been moved or renamed remotely to a path that would be
  incompatible with the local filesystem won't be trashed anymore.
• Changes that can't be synchronized because the document has an incompatible
  name or path with the local filesystem will now suspend the synchronization
  and an error message will be displayed so you can take action.
• Moves for which the destination path is exactly the same as the source path
  will now be treated as modifications rather than triggering errors.

Improvements for Windows and macOS users:

• After the remote Cozy has been found unreachable because of a network error
  such as a interface change, the subsequent requests won't fail anymore with
  the same error once a stable connection is back.

Improvements for Windows users:

• The client should not create conflicts anymore when propagating on Windows the
  combination of the move/renaming and the modification of a Cozy Note (via the
  Notes web application).
• It seems that paths on Windows created by the Desktop client can actually
  exceed the 259 characters limit. Therefore we've increased the limit defined
  in the client itself to 32766 characters.
  Documents that had been previously found incompatible with the local
  filesystem because of the previous path length limit will be updated to take
  the new limit into account. Most of them should thus become compatible.
• Synchronization error messages displayed in the main window will now only
  contain the name of the document involved instead of its complete path.

Improvements for macOS users:

• Custom folder icons will now be ignored to avoid blocking the synchronization
  as their name contains a character forbidden on remote Cozies.
• The app dock icon should now only be visible when an app window other than the
  main window is open. This should also prevent blocking the computer shutdown.

Improvements for Linux users:

• The client won't show a popup error message anymore when automatically
  starting with the computer.

See also known issues.

Happy syncing!

Improvements for Windows and macOS users:

• After the remote Cozy has been found unreachable because of a network error
  such as a interface change, the subsequent requests won't fail anymore with
  the same error once a stable connection is back.

Improvements for Windows users:

• Documents that had been previously found incompatible with the local
  filesystem because of the previous path length limit will be updated to take
  the new limit into account. Most of them should thus become compatible.
• Synchronization error messages displayed in the main window will now only
  contain the name of the document involved instead of its complete path.

See also known issues.

Happy syncing!

Improvements for all users:

• The client will only trigger one synchronization retry loop when encountering
  an unreachable Cozy error in both the synchronization process and the remote
  watcher very closely.
• New remote documents whose path would be incompatible with the local
  filesystem will not be ignored anymore.
• Local documents who've been moved or renamed remotely to a path that would be
  incompatible with the local filesystem won't be trashed anymore.
• Changes that can't be synchronized because the document has an incompatible
  name or path with the local filesystem will now suspend the synchronization
  and an error message will be displayed so you can take action.
• Moves for which the destination path is exactly the same as the source path
  will now be treated as modifications rather than triggering errors.

Improvements for Windows users:

• The client should not create conflicts anymore when propagating on Windows the
  combination of the move/renaming and the modification of a Cozy Note (via the
  Notes web application).
• It seems that paths on Windows created by the Desktop client can actually
  exceed the 259 characters limit. Therefore we've increased the limit defined
  in the client itself to 32766 characters.

Improvements for macOS users:

• Custom folder icons will now be ignored to avoid blocking the synchronization
  as their name contains a character forbidden on remote Cozies.
• The app dock icon should now only be visible when an app window other than the
  main window is open. This should also prevent blocking the computer shutdown.

Improvements for Linux users:

• The client won't show a popup error message anymore when automatically
  starting with the computer.

See also known issues.

Happy syncing!

Improvements for all users:

• The Electron framework was upgraded to v12.0.0. This major version fixes a lot
  of security errors as well as other smaller errors like crashes.
• The Desktop client will now use the Electron API to send local folders and
  files to the OS trash. This should ensure that these documents can be restored
  from the trash via the default trash operations and that their names are
  preserved.
• Missing parent folders when merging or propagating a child change will not be
  created by default as this could lead to conflicts down the road. We will
  instead rely on retry mechanisms to make sure ancestor folders exist before
  saving a document record in PouchDB or propagating it to the remote Cozy.
  Local parent directories will still be created if missing when propagating a
  remote change as this should not lead to conflicts.
• The synchronization error management has been improved to make sure you don't
  get stuck over a synchronization failure that should get resolved with retries
  or could manually be skipped.
• We've fixed a local watcher issue that prevented the synchronization of
  folders moves or renamings before they got propagated to the remote Cozy if
  they have child documents.
• Platform incompatibilities errors raised during the propagation of remote
  changes to the local filesystem (e.g. when characters forbidden by the local
  filesystem are present in some document's name on the remote Cozy) will now be
  handled as other synchronization errors. To mimic the previous behavior,
  changes raising those errors will be skipped altogether.
• We've fixed a regression that prevented the propagation of a file deletion if
  that file had been previously modified on the same side and this modification
  was not yet propagated.
• We've fixed an issue that prevented the propagation of a local document
  deletion if its parent folder is then moved or renamed on the same side before
  the deletion is propagated.
• We've fixed an issue that prevented the propagation of a folder deletion if it
  had been previously moved or renamed on the same side and this move was not
  yet propagated.
• We've fixed an issue that prevented the propagation of a file replacement with
  an other synced file if it was modified on the same side before the
  replacement could be propagated.
• We've made some small changes to the design of the list of recently synced
  files to harmonize it with the design you're used to in your Drive application
  on the Web.
• We're now using abbreviations for the time units used in the recently
  synchronized files list to express the time elapsed since the file was last
  synchronized.
• We've changed the default action executed when clicking on an element in the
  list of recently synced files. It will now open the file in your OS default
  application for its type. You can still show it in its parent folder by
  clicking on its parent folder path, displayed right under its name.
• The tooltips displayed when hovering over a file line or its parent path will
  now tell you which action will be performed on click (i.e. showing the file in
  its parent path when clicking the parent folder path or opening the file in
  the appropriate application).

See also known issues.

Happy syncing!

Improvements for all users:

• We've put back the original globe icon for the "Open Cozy" button as it is the
  illustration used for small icons when the newer globe is used for larger
  ones.
• We're now using abbreviations for the time units used in the recently
  synchronized files list to express the time elapsed since the file was last
  synchronized.
• The tooltips displayed when hovering over a file line or its parent path will
  now tell you which action will be performed on click (i.e. showing the file in
  its parent path when clicking the parent folder path or opening the file in
  the appropriate application).

Improvements for Windows users:

• The leading path separator in parent folder paths displayed in the recently
  synchronized files list is now the current platform's main separator.
  This means Windows users will now see a backslash (\) as is used in the rest
  of the path.

See also known issues.

Happy syncing!

Improvements for all users:

• We forgot to modify the packaging configuration and some files were left out,
  preventing the client from starting.

See also known issues.

Happy syncing!