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SelfPrivacy Blog

This is the blog section. It has two categories: News and Releases.

Files in these directories will be listed in reverse chronological order.

New Releases

Version 0.11.0 Release

New About screen, reworked jobs management

Changelog

Features

  • Enabled the following languages:

    • Arabic
    • Estonian
    • Kazakh
    • Chinese (Simplified)
  • Server management: Add ssh settings (#477)

  • UI: Server settings is now a separate screen (#477)

  • UI: The new About page now contains links to our support channels (#464, resolves #339 and #170)

  • Jobs: Now you can track the result of jobs, and the progress of the server rebuilds and upgrades (#440, resolves #254)

  • UI: On iOS, use the Curpentino bottom navbar (#483)

  • UI: Use Curpentino widgets where possible on iOS (#483)

  • Jobs: Block starting client-side jobs when the server is rebuilding or moving a service (#477)

  • UI: On the bottom bar, show all labels, not only the selected one (#458, resolves #454)

  • UI: Move provider card titles to the top row (#449, resolves #448)

  • Unified management of API connection to the server: the app should be now more reactive to changes (#440)

  • UI: Onboarding page now looks better on big screens (#444)

Bug Fixes

  • UI: Card titles no longer overflow on small screens (#483, resolves #476)
  • DNS: Detect the situation when we have faulty link-local IPv6 records (#473)
  • DNS: Do not include faulty link-local DNS records in the list of found records (#475)
  • UI: Fix the empty server confirmation screen during recovery (#474)
  • UI: Fix the misleading value of “Do not verify TLS” (#468)
  • Jobs: When you return the server settings value back, the job to change the setting is deleted (#440, resolves #166)
  • Jobs: When removing all completed jobs, optimistically delete them in UI first (#440, resolves #277)

Other

  • Binds migration screen is now in Developer settings, as it is no longer needed on API 3.0, but might still be helpful for stuck servers.
  • Remove the server deletion function (#484)

Translation contributions

  • Kazakh

    • TabithiS (133)
  • Chinese (Simplified)

    • Nil (545)
  • Polish

    • TabithiS (52)
  • Russian

    • Inex Code (43)
  • Hebrew

    • Yaron (17)
  • Estonian

    • Dmitri B. (536)
  • Thai

    • Inex Code (2)
  • German

    • Inex Code (14)
      • Based on anonymous suggestions
  • Ukrainian

    • Nagibator Nagibuchiy (18)
    • TabithiS (26)
    • Meko (93)
  • Arabic

    • Deem Alosili (656)

Version 0.10.0 Release

Migration to the new NixOS version

Changelog

Features

  • Server installation: New NixOS version is used during server setup (#415)
    • It is also possible to set a root SSH key during server setup. This feature can be activated in developer settings.
  • DNS management: DNS records creation dynamically gets desired records from the server now (#424, resolves #265)
  • UI: Add the button to copy password on the new user creation screen (#409, resolves #299)
  • UI: Add animation to the recovery key screen (#410, resolves #164)
  • Backups: Bucket name now includes the date of creation (#403, resolves #263)
  • UI: Snapshots List page now shows the button to open the Jobs sheet (#396, resolves #290)
  • Server installation: Implement better domain ownership check during installation (#394, resolves #389)
  • UI: Implement flexible precision formatting for prices (#387)

Bug Fixes

  • UI: Domain name no longer overflows the screen (#422, resolves #408)
  • UI: Fix overflow of the filled buttons
  • Hetzner: Filter away ARM architecture from available servers (#404, resolves #402)
  • UI: Add refresh indicator on the ‘Devices’ screen (#398, resolves #258 and #163)
  • GraphQL API: Force DateTime to UTC when timezone naive (#386, resolves #385)

Other

  • Updated the copyright year (#417)
    • Happy new year!
  • Upgrade to Flutter 3.16.1
  • Rename the Recovery flow button to prevent user confusion (#399, resolves #346)
  • GraphQL API: Remove and replace deprecated mutations (#423, resolves #418)

Translation contributions

  • French

    • smtg (12)
  • Spanish

    • NaiJi ✨ (35)
  • German

    • Marvin F (23)
    • User 1234 (30)
  • Hebrew

    • Yaron (578)
  • Russian

    • def (4)
    • NaiJi ✨ (9)
    • Inex Code (10)

Version 0.9.0 Release

Backups, DeSEC DNS and more!

Release banner showcasing new UI

This release is made possible with the support of NlNet foundation

Changelog

Features

  • New backups implementation (#228, #274, #324, #325, #326, #331, #332)
  • DeSEC as a DNS provider (#211)
  • DigitalOcean as a DNS provider (#213)
  • Support drawer and basic support documentation logic unit (#203)
  • Automatic day/night theme (#203)
  • New router and adaptive layouts (#203)
  • New Material 3 animation curves (#203)
  • Add jobs button to the app bar of more screens (#203)
  • Refreshed UI of modal sheets (#228)
  • Support for XDG_DATA_HOME storage path on Linux for app data (#240)
  • Accept-Language header for the server API (#243, resolves #205)
  • Visible providers names during server recovery (#264, resolves #249)
  • Volume and IPv4 cost added to overall monthly cost of the server (#270, resolves #115)
  • Support for autofocus on text fields for keyboard displaying (#294, resolves #292)
  • New dialogue to choose a domain if user DNS token provides access to several (#330, resolves #328)
  • New app log console (#203)

Bug Fixes

  • Fix opening URLs from the app (#213)
  • Fix parsing of RAM size with DigitalOcean (#200, resolves #199)
  • Devices and Recovery Key cubits couldn’t initialize right after server installation (#203)
  • Fix BottomBar showing incorrect animation when navigating from sibling routes (#203)
  • PopUpDialogs couldn’t find the context. (#203)
  • Update recovery flow to use new support drawer (#203)
  • Improve installation failure dialogues (#213)
  • Privacy policy link pointed at wrong domain (#207)
  • Remove price lists for DNS (#211)
  • Implement better domain id check on DNS restoration (#211)
  • Add forced JSON content type to REST APIs (#212)
  • Remove unneded DNS check depending on CLOUDFLARE (#212)
  • Add background for dialogue pop ups and move them to root navigator (#233, resolves #231)
  • Make currency be properly shown again via shortcode (#234, related to #223)
  • Add proper server type value loading (#236, resolves #215)
  • Implement proper load functions for DNS and Server providers (#237, resolves #220)
  • Prevent moving a service if volume is null for some reason (#245)
  • Replace hard reset from server provider with direct server reboot (#269, resolves #266)
  • Normalize Hetzner CPU usage percentage by cached amount of cores (#272, resolves #156)
  • Change broken validations string for superuser SSH (#276)
  • Don’t let service migration to start if the same volume was picked (#297, resolves #289)
  • Wrap DNS check in catch to avoid runtime crash (#322)
  • Implement Backblaze bucket restoration on server recovery (#324)

Refactor

  • Migrate to Flutter 3.10 and Dart 3.0
  • Migrate to AutoRouter v6 (#203)
  • Get rid of BrandText and restructure the buttons (#203)
  • Remove brand alert dialogs and bottom sheet (#203)
  • Remove unused UI components (#203)
  • Remove BrandCards (#203)
  • Allow changing values for TLS settings
  • Replace String shortcode with Currency class (#226)
  • Rearrange Server Provider interface (#227)
  • Remove unused service state getters (#228)
  • Remove unused utils, add duration formatter (#228)
  • Move rest api methods according to their business logic files positions (#235, partially resolves #217 and #219)
  • Make flag getter a part of server provider location object (#238, resolves #222)

Translation contributions

  • Ukrainian

    • FoxMeste (3)
    • Mithras (31)
  • Latvian

    • Not Telling Lol (183)
  • German

    • Mithras (41)
    • FoxMeste (213)
  • Thai

    • FoxMeste (77)
  • Polish

    • Mithras (41)
    • Thary (43)
    • FoxMeste (163)
  • Slovenian

    • Mithras (212)
  • Czech

    • NaiJi ✨ (2)
    • Mithras (109)
    • FoxMeste (308)
  • Russian

    • FoxMeste (4)
    • Revertron (8)
    • NaiJi ✨ (23)
    • Mithras (54)
    • Inex Code (59)
  • Slovak

    • Mithras (29)
    • Revertron (396)
  • Macedonian

    • FoxMeste (7)
  • Belarusian

    • Thary (1)
    • FoxMeste (3)
    • Mithras (47)
  • French

    • Côme (211)
  • Spanish

    • FoxMeste (7)
  • Azerbaijani

    • Mithras (28)
    • Ortibexon (403)

Patch 0.9.1

Bug Fixes

  • Fix volume resizing on Digital Ocean (#368, resolves #367)
  • Disable the storage card while volume information is being fetched (#369, resolves #317)

Features

  • Add copy-to-clipboard for email on user page (#329, resolves #287)
  • Add support for ECDSA SSH keys (#362, resolves #319)
  • Implement confirmation modal for the volume resize (#372, resolves #308)

Other changes

  • Move service descriptions above login info for service cards (#342, resolves #341)
  • Add measure units to ‘Extending volume’ page (#344, resolves #301)
  • Make users to be ordered properly on users page (#343, resolves #340)
  • Move service card name to its icon row (#352, resolves #350)
  • Reorganize placeholders for empty pages (#359, resolves #348)
  • Remove redundant zone id cache for Cloudflare (#371)

Version 0.8.0 Release

Digital Ocean support, new setup UI, and more!

Release banner showcasing new UI

Changes

Server setup:

  • Added support for Digital Ocean as server provider
  • You can now choose server region
  • You can now choose server tier
  • Server installation UI has been refreshed
  • Fields now have more specific error messages

Common UI:

  • New app bar used in most of the screens

Services:

  • Services are now sorted by their status

Server settings:

  • Timezone search screen now has a search bar
  • Fixed job creation when switching the setting multiple times
  • Server destruction now works

Jobs:

  • Jobs panel now should take slightly less space

Auth:

  • Recovery key page can now be reloaded by dragging down

Logging:

  • Log console now has a limit of 500 lines
  • GraphQL API requests are now logged in the console
  • Networks errors are better handled

For developers:

  • App now only uses GraphQL API to communicate with the server. All REST API calls have been removed.
  • Server can now be deployed with staging ACME certificates
  • Language assets have been reorganized

Translations:

  • Added translation for Ukrainian
  • Also activated unfinished translations for German, French, Spanish, Czech, Polish, Thai

Version 0.7.0 Release

Monitor disk space usage, move services between volumes, expand server capacity, and more.

Release banner showcasing new UI

Changes:

  • Monitor disk space usage, move services between volumes, expand server capacity.
  • New redesigned server details screen.
  • User management screens were redesigned too, and you are able to reset users’ passwords now.
  • Automatic update settings and server’s timezone can be changed now.
  • Initial support for SelfPrivacy API 2.0, powered by GraphQL.
  • User list synchronization bugs are fixed.
  • App is now able to track some types of the long-running jobs which are performed on the server itself.
  • Basic support for the new API’s service management.
  • Backups screen is temporarily removed, until we fix it.
  • Minor UI changes.
  • Minor bug fixes, architectural changes.

Migration to the new disk management system

We’ve introduced a new system to control where your services’ data is stored, but an initial migration is needed. Without it, you won’t be able to move services between volumes.

We highly encourage you to manually back up your data from the server before migrating.

To use the new disk management features properly you have to perform the migration. Go to the “More” tab and tap on the “Start migration” button. This migration is also known as “binds migration” in our internals, and you may see this term if you encounter an error related to this system. If you do, please report it to us, and we will help.

Our own F-Droid repo, nightly builds and desktops

From now on, our app also deployed on our own F-Droid repository, allowing you to get our builds faster.

https://fdroid.selfprivacy.org

This repository contains two apps: SelfPrivacy and SelfPrivacy Nightly. The first one contains release builds, and the second one is for development builds. They may contain bugs, but will allow you to test our new features before release. All three Android builds (Official F-Droid, our own F-Droid and Nightly) are independent and can be installed simultaneously.

You can also try out our experimental desktop builds, available for Linux as Flatpak, Windows and macOS. https://git.selfprivacy.org/kherel/selfprivacy.org.app/releases/tag/0.7.0 Please keep in mind that we cannot guarantee that the app will launch on your distro, and that we have not adapted our UI for desktops yet.

Version 0.6.0 Release

Use SelfPrivacy on several devices.

Changes:

  • Added support for server access from SelfPrivacy apps installed on several devices.
  • You can now create recovery token to regain the access to the server if you lose your device or the app’s data.
  • You can now connect to an existing server, instead of creating a new one.
  • Initial support for Material Design 3 (Material You).
  • App now uses your system colors on Android 12 (Material You), Windows 10 (accent color) and Linux (GTK colors). While SelfPrivacy works ok on desktops, we won’t officially release desktop versions until we refactor our UI to support big screens.
  • Minor bug fixes.

Version 0.5.0 Release

Manage SSH keys and check reworked DNS management screen.

Changes:

  • DKIM key is now deployed to DNS during server setup.
  • Step 1 of server setup (DNS checks) is now faster.
  • New DNS management screen: checks current records and lets recreate them if something is wrong.
  • User creation and deletion is now more responsive.
  • User list is now synchronized with the server.
  • New SSH key management screen. SSH keys can now be uploaded for any user, including root.
  • Root SSH key generation is removed, you can now upload your own keys.