Synchronization Improvements

Improvements for all users:

• We introduces automatic error notifications in 3.9.4-beta.1, but a few errors
  were actually not sent. They're effectively sent now.
• Renaming directories a to c then b to a was working for files but not
  for directories. This now works for simple cases. A few complex ones are
  still not working however.
• In some very rare cases where the content of a file in the Cozy doesn't match
  the correct checksum, the app will check the local file version and reupload
  it when relevant.

Improvements for Windows & macOS users:

• When renaming a remote directory by only changing its case, the change was
  applied locally but it was also triggering a weird synchronization loopback
  error. This should now work as expected.

See also known issues.

Happy syncing!

Error notifications, checksum & initial scan fixes

Improvements for all users:

• Starting from now, we will be able to automatically receive notifications of
  errors encountered by our users. Error reports won't include user logs in
  order to respect your privacy. We'll still have to ask you individually to
  send us our logs in order to investigate complex issues. But this should help
  us figuring out which errors occur the most, since not so many people can
  find the time to report them. For now, the notifications are only sent for a
  few hard-to-investigate issues, but we'll progressively send more of them.
• Checksums for new local files were computed but not sent during the initial
  upload, possibly delaying detection of content issues. Still the checksum was
  computed by the Cozy and any issue would've be detected during next polling.
  They will now be effectively detected as soon as they should be.

Improvements for macOS users:

• On devices automatically migrated from HFS+ to APFS while upgrading to macOS
  High Sierra, the initial scan was mistakenly detecting some files as conflict
  due to the new way we're detecting case/encoding conflicting files. This
  should now work as expected. This issue could theoretically have happened on
  both macOS & Windows in rare cases of weird local filename changes.

See also known issues.

Happy syncing!

Folder overwriting move with macOS Finder

Improvements for macOS users:

• A regression on folder moves overwriting their destination was fixed (#1181)

See also known issues.

Happy syncing!

Moves, Case, Encoding & Executable Synchronization Improvements

Improvements for all users:

• Moves overwriting the destination performed on another device should now be
  synchronized as expected.
• Some part of the synchronization engine dating back to Cozy v2 was not
  necessarily preventing local directory of file overwrites. This part was
  reworked to reach the same level as the other ones, possibly fixing a couple
  of bugs.
• We noticed that synchronizing a local file update to the Cozy could fail in
  some very rare cases. We added a few automatic verifications which should
  help us narrow the issue, so hopefully we'll be able to definitely fix it in
  another release.

Improvements for Windows and macOS users:

• Making the whole or some filename part upper/lower case used to be notably
  unsupported. It should now work everywhere.
• When two files and/or directories with only upper/lower case differences in
  their names are coexisting on your Cozy, only one of them will be
  synchronized locally on your case-preservative OS and the other one will be
  renamed as a conflict so you at least have a way to end up with the exact
  same tree on your Cozy and all your devices.

Improvements for macOS and GNU/Linux users:

• Local files made non-executable will now effectively be synced as
  non-executable on the Cozy and your other devices.
• Please note that currently the permissions of your local files may be forced
  to 755 or 644, depending on the executable status. However this should not
  be a major issue, unless your made both your personal directory and your
  Cozy Drive directory accessible to other users on your device. We'll
  definitely come up with a better solution at some point to make the
  executable bits match your existing local read/write ones.

Improvements for Windows users:

• Files made (non-)executable on another macOS or GNU/Linux device were
  triggering useless synchronization cycles (or conflict in the worst case).
  This should now work as expected.

See also known issues.

Happy syncing!

Folder synchronisation improvement

Improvements for all users:

• Fix synchronization bugs when merging and overwriting folders.

Improvements for macOS users:

• Better support for APFS

See also known issues.

Happy syncing!

Synchronization Improvements & TOS Notification

Improvements for all users:

• Improved timestamp conflict handling (see 3.9.0-beta.1)
• New diff-based data comparison algorithm (see 3.9.0-beta.1)
• Improved file move + overwrite handling (see 3.9.0-beta.2)
• New TOS update dialog (see 3.9.0-beta.2)

Improvements for Windows & macOS users:

• Initial scan properly ignores platform-incompatible remote files (see 3.9.0-beta.1)

Note for GNOME 3.28 or later users:

• Better use TopIcons, not TopIcons-Plus (see 3.9.0-beta.1)

See also known issues.

Happy syncing!

Move-overwrite File & TOS Update Dialog

Improvements for all users:

• Moving a file to overwrite an existing one is now effectively synchronized
  as expected.
• Users don't look at the systray popover so often. So people who have not
  accepted the new TOS may be unaware that the synchronization is currently
  paused. The app now shows up a reminder dialog on start when appropriate.

See also known issues.

Happy syncing!

Latest Timestamp, Diff, Incompatible Files & Initial Scan

Improvements for all users:

• When a file or directory exists in the cozy, the app will never try to
  assign it an older timestamp anymore. This will ensure synchronization still
  works, even when the local timestamp is actually more accurate than the remote
  one. We'll later introduce a way to save the correct timestamp without being
  rejected by the Cozy.
• The data comparison algorithm is now diff-based. This will help us investigate
  a very rare (but hard to fix) bug where a file is detected as modified while
  no change is actually visible.

Improvements for Windows & macOS users:

• When a file or directory couldn't not be synchronized locally because of
  some platform incompatibility (e.g. reserved character), it will be properly
  ignored during initial scan after restarting the app.

Improvements for support:

• Summarized and detailed traces are now always stored together to make
  analysis easier.

Note for GNOME 3.28 or later users:

• You may have to switch from TopIcons-Plus back to good old TopIcons in case
  the app doesn't show up when clicking on the tray icon, whatever the app
  version.

See also known issues.

Happy syncing!

Overlapping file updates, Office temporary files, macOS favorite

There was no 3.8.0 stable release since we had to release a 3.8.1-alpha first.
So 3.8.1 is the first stable release since 3.7.0.

Improvements for all users:

• When a change could not be applied on the other side, the document was not
  considered up-to-date anymore on the source side. This was fixed as part of
  the 3.8.0-beta.1 release.

Improvements for Windows users:

• Office temporary files should be effectively ignored since
  3.8.0-beta.1 too.

Improvements for macOS users:

• In macOS 10.13 (High Sierra), Apple removed the feature we were using to add
  the Cozy Drive directory to the Finder's favorite items. We had to find
  another way to bring it back. It should work as expected now.

Improvements for developers / contributors:

• One step less to build the app: yarn build:core is not needed anymore. If
  you were using yarn build, it should work the same as before. But now you
  won't have to rebuild in case of a core change before running the GUI.
  Less dependencies. Shorter stacktraces. This also fixed a few oddities.
• We also improved logs and jq filters.

See also known issues.

Happy syncing!

Do not install

Merge pull request #1082 from cozy-labs/macos-favorite-python

Bring back synced dir in Finder's favorite items on macOS