fdroidserver/CHANGELOG.md

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Changelog

All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.

The format is based on Keep a Changelog

unreleased

Added

Fixed

Removed

  • The maven: field is now always a string, with yes as a legacy special value. It is no longer treated like a boolean in any case.

[2.2.2] - 2024-04-24

Added

[2.2.1] - 2023-03-09

Added

Fixed

Removed

[2.2.0] - 2023-02-20

Added

  • Support index-v2 format, localizable Anti-Features, Categories
  • New entry point for repos, entry.jar, signed with modern algorithms
  • New config/ subdirectory for localizable configuration
  • Script entries in metadata files (init, prebuild, build, etc) now handled as lists so they now support using && or ; in the script, and behave like .gitlab-ci.yml and other CI YAML.
  • GPG signatures for index-v1.json and index-v2.json
  • Use default.txt as fallback changelog when inserting fastlane metadata
  • scanner: F-Droid signatures now maintained in fdroid/suss
  • scanner: maintain signature sources in config.yml, including Exodus Privacy
  • scanner: use dexdump for class names
  • scanner: directly scan APK files when given a path
  • scanner: recursively scan APKs for DEX and ZIP using file magic
  • signindex: validate index files before signing
  • update: set ArchivePolicy based on VercodeOperation/signature
  • Include IPFS CIDv1 in index-v2.json for hosting repos on IPFS
  • Per-repo beta channel configuration
  • Add Czech translation

Fixed

  • apksigner v30 or higher now required for verifying and signing APKs
  • 3.9 as minimum supported Python version
  • Lots of translation updates
  • Better pip packaging
  • nightly: big overhaul for reliable operation on all Debian/Ubuntu versions
  • Improved logging, fewer confusing verbose messages
  • scanner: fix detection of binary files without extension
  • import: more reliable operation, including Flutter apps
  • Support Java 20 and up

Removed

  • Remove obsolete fdroid stats command

[2.1.1] - 2022-09-06

  • gradlew-fdroid: Include latest versions and checksums
  • nightly: update Raw URLs to fix breakage and avoid redirects
  • signindex: gpg-sign index-v1.json and deploy it
  • update: fix --use-date-from-apk when used with files (#1012)

[2.1] - 2022-02-22

For a more complete overview, see the 2.1 milestone

[2.0.5] - 2022-09-06

Fixed

  • gradlew-fdroid: Include latest versions and checksums
  • nightly: add support for GitHub Actions
  • nightly: update Raw URLs to fix breakage and avoid redirects
  • update: fix --use-date-from-apk when used with files (#1012)
  • Fix GitLab CI

[2.0.4] - 2022-06-29

Fixed

  • deploy: ensure progress is instantiated before trying to use it
  • signindex: gpg-sign index-v1.json and deploy it 1080 1124

[2.0.3] - 2021-07-01

Fixed

  • Support AutoUpdateMode: Version without pattern 931

[2.0.2] - 2021-06-01

Fixed

  • fix "ruamel round_trip_dump will be removed" 932

[2.0.1] - 2021-03-09

Fixed

  • metadata: stop setting up source repo when running lint/rewritemeta
  • scanner: show error if scan_binary fails to run apkanalyzer
  • common: properly parse version from NDK's source.properties
  • update: stop extracting and storing XML icons, they're useless
  • index: raise error rather than crash on bad repo file
  • update: handle large, corrupt, or inaccessible fastlane/triple-t files
  • Update SPDX License List
  • checkupdates: set User-Agent to make gitlab.com happy
  • Run push_binary_transparency only once

[2.0] - 2021-01-31

For a more complete overview, see the 2.0 milestone

Added

  • fdroid update inserts donation links based on upstream's FUNDING.yml (!754)
  • Stable, public API for most useful functions (!798)
  • Load with any YAML lib and use with the API, no more custom parser needed (!826) (!838)
  • config.yml for a safe, easy, standard configuration format (!663)
  • Config options can be set from environment variables using this syntax: keystorepass: {env: keystorepass} (!669)
  • Add SHA256 to filename of repo graphics (!669)
  • Support for srclibs metadata in YAML format (!700)
  • Check srclibs and app-metadata files with yamllint (!721)
  • Added plugin system for adding subcommands to fdroid (!709)
  • fdroid update, fdroid publish, and fdroid signindex now work with SmartCard HSMs, specifically the NitroKey HSM (!779) (!782)
  • fdroid update support for Triple-T Gradle Play Publisher v2.x (!683)
  • Translated into: bo de es fr hu it ko nb_NO pl pt pt_BR pt_PT ru sq tr uk zh_Hans zh_Hant

Fixed

  • Smoother process for signing APKs with apksigner (!736) (!821)
  • apksigner is used by default on new repos
  • All parts except build and publish work without the Android SDK (!821)
  • Description: is now passed to clients unchanged, no HTML conversion (!828)
  • Lots of improvements for scanning for proprietary code and trackers (!748) (!REPLACE) (!844)
  • fdroid mirror now generates complete, working local mirror repos
  • fix build-logs dissapearing when deploying (!685)
  • do not crash when system encoding can not be retrieved (!671)
  • checkupdates: UpdateCheckIngore gets properly observed now (!659, !660)
  • keep yaml metadata when rewrite failed (!658)
  • import: template.yml now supports omitting values (!657)
  • build: deploying buildlogs with rsync (!651)
  • fdroid init generates PKCS12 keystores, drop Java < 8 support (!801)
  • Parse Version Codes specified in hex (!692)
  • Major refactoring on core parts of code to be more Pythonic (!756)
  • fdroid init now works when installed with pip

Removed

  • Removed all support for .txt and .json metadata (!772)
  • dropped support for Debian 8 jessie and 9 stretch
  • dropped support for Ubuntu releases older than bionic 18.04
  • dropped fdroid server update and fdroid server init, use fdroid deploy
  • fdroid dscanner was removed. (!711)
  • make_current_version_link is now off by default
  • Dropped force_build_tools config option (!797)
  • Dropped accepted_formats config option, there is only .yml now (!818)
  • Provides: was removed as a metadata field (!654)
  • Remove unused latestapps.dat (!794)

1.1.4 - 2019-08-15

Fixed

  • include bitcoin validation regex required by fdroiddata
  • merged Debian patches to fix test suite there

1.1.3 - 2019-07-03

Fixed

  • fixed test suite when run from source tarball
  • fixed test runs in Debian

1.1.2 - 2019-03-29

Fixed

  • fix bug while downloading repo index (!636)

1.1.1 - 2019-02-03

Fixed

  • support APK Signature v2 and v3
  • all SDK Version values are output as integers in the index JSON
  • take graphics from Fastlane dirs using any valid RFC5646 locale
  • print warning if not running in UTF-8 encoding
  • fdroid build: hide --on-server cli flag

1.1 - 2019-01-28

Fixed

  • a huge update with many fixes and new features: https://gitlab.com/fdroid/fdroidserver/milestones/7
  • can run without and Android SDK installed
  • much more reliable operation with large binary APK collections
  • sync all translations, including newly added languages: hu it ko pl pt_PT ru
  • many security fixes, based on the security audit
  • NoSourceSince automatically adds SourceGone Anti-Feature
  • aapt scraping works with all known aapt versions
  • smoother mirror setups
  • much faster fdroid update when using androguard