maestral/CHANGELOG.md

v0.2.2-dev1 (2019-07-19)

Added:

• Added support for file and folder names with two or more periods.
• Temporary autosave files that are created by macOS are now detected by their extension and excluded from syncing.
• More fine-grained errors, subclassed from MaestralApiError.
• Log all events of level INFO and higher to a rotating file in '~/.maestral/logs'. The log folder will never exceed 6 MB.

Changed:

• Better handling when Dropbox resets a cursor: retry any files_list_folder calls and prompt the user to rebuild the index on files_list_folder_longpoll calls.
• Prepare for G-suite Dropbox integration: G-suite files such as Google docs and sheets will not be downloadable but can only be exported. Maestral will ignore such files.
• Moved deprecated API calls to v2.
• Better handling of OSErrors on download.

Fixed:

• Fixed a bug which would prevent some error dialogs from being shown to the user.

v0.2.1 (2019-07-18)

Changed:

• Reload all file and folder icons when the system appearance changes: the system may provide different icons (e.g., darker folder icons in "dark mode" on macOS Mojave).
• Improved notification center alerts in macOS: when installed as a bundled app, notifications are now properly sent from the Maestral itself, showing the Maestral icon, instead of through apple script.
• Improved layout of the "Rebuild index" dialog.

Fixed:

• Fixes a bug which would prevent Meastral from starting on login: the correct startup script is now called.

v0.2.0 (2019-07-17)

Major changes

Added:

• Proper handling of sync errors. Dropbox API errors are converted to a more informative MaestralApiError and a log of sync errors is kept. This log is cleared as sync errors are resolved. Errors are now handled as follows: - Individual file sync errors are indicated by the system tray icon changing. The can listed by the user through the GUI. - Unexpected errors or major errors which prevent Maestral from functioning (e.g., a corrupted index) trigger an error dialog.

• Introduced a new panel "View Sync Issues..." to show an overview of sync issues and their cause (invalid file name, insufficient space on Dropbox, etc...)

• Added a new function to rebuild Maestral's file index which is accessible through the GUI.

• Added "Recently Changed Files" submenu to the system tray menu. "Recently Changed Files" shows entries for the 30 last-changed files (synced folders only) and navigates to the respective file in the default file manager when an entry is clicked.

Changed:

• Refactored sync code: Collected all sync functionality in a the new class monitor.UpDownSync. MaestralClient now only handles access to the Dropbox API itself but is no longer concerned with version tracking, etc. MaestralClient no longer catches Dropbox API errors but raises them, augmented with useful information, as MaestralApiError.
• Moved storage of user authentication tokens from a text file to the system keyring. As a result, authentication tokens will be encrypted on the hard drive and only decrypted when the user logs in. On some systems, this may cause problems in headless mode, when the Gnome keyring is not loaded. The keyring documentation provides help for such cases.

Minor changes

Added:

• Added progress messages for uploads and downloads, e.g., "Downloading 3/98...". These are output as info messages and shown in the status field of the system tray menu.
• When unlinking your Dropbox account through the GUI, Maestral is restarted to enter the setup dialog.
• Refinements for dark interface themes such as Dark Mode in macOS Mojave

Changed:

• Use native system icons instead of macOS icons to represent files and folders.
• Some programs save file changes by deleting the old file and creating a new file. This is now correctly combined to a single FileModified event.
• Some programs create temporary files when saving changes. Those temporary files are deleted again after the save is completed. Those FileCreated and FileDeleted events, which occur in quick succession, are now ignored by Maestral.
• The following file names have been added to the exclusion list:
  • Files that start with "~$" or ".~"
  • Files that start with "~" and end with ".tmp"
• Cleaned up some of the config module code: removed Spyder specific functions and obsolete Python 2 compatibility.
• Adapted code to correctly load resources in case Maestral is packaged as a macOS app bundle.

Fixed:

• Fixed a bug which may result in a removed folder not being deleted locally if it contains subfolders.
• Fixed a bug which may result in file modifications not being uploaded, depending on how the changes were saved by the program which was used to edit the file.
• Fixed a bug which would incorrectly list top level files as folders in the "Exclude folders" dialog.
• Truncate entries in the "Recently Changed Files" menu if their width exceeds 200 pixels.
• Fixed a bug which would cause Maestral to crash when clicking "Choose folders to sync..." while Maestral cannot connect to Dropbox servers.

v0.1.2 (2019-06-25)

Added:

• Added new command line option 'autostart' to automatically start Maestral on login.

Changed:

• Limit notifications to remote changes only and only notify for changes in folders that currently being synced, unless more than 100 files have changed.
• Detect color of system tray and invert icon color automatically if not on macOS.
• Shut down immediately and kill threads instead of waiting for timeout.
• Improve appearance of Settings window in GTK 3 style.

Fixed:

• Fixed a bug which would cause uploads to fail if they are split into multiple chunks.
• Fixed a bug that would prevent Maestral from quitting if the setup dialog is aborted.
• Fixed a bug that would cause Maestral to crash during the setup dialog when switching multiple times between the "Select Folders to Sync" and "Select Dropbox location" panels.
• Do not upload files that have identical content on Dropbox. Previously: files were always uploaded and conflict checking was left to do by the Dropbox server.

v0.1.1 (2019-06-23)

Fixed:

• Fixes an issue which would prevent newly created empty folders from being synced.
• Remove references to conda in startup script.