ffupdater/CHANGELOG.md

2021-12-05 Version 74.5.3 (90)

• Fix Brave update check

2021-11-08 Version 74.5.2 (89)

• Update warning for Vivaldi (thanks gnuhead-chieb - Tobi823/ffupdater#92)
• Make links in dialogs clickable

2021-11-07 Version 74.5.1 (88)

• Add Vivaldi (Tobiwan/ffupdater#89)
• Add Styx (Tobi823/ffupdater#48)
• Add Ungoogled Chromium (Tobi823/ffupdater#50)
• Update description of Firefox Klar (thanks cosify - Tobi823/ffupdater#91)
• Crash report can partially selected and copied
• Cleanup build scripts

2021-11-01 Version 74.5.0 (87)

• Improve internet check. (Tobi823/ffupdater#87)
  • Use the old network check API for Android 10 and below.
  • Handle network errors better in the app.
• Reduce storage usage for devices with low internal memory. (Tobiwan/ffupdater#88)
  • If an app update fails, keep the cached app update (APK file).
  • If an app update is successful or a critical error (wrong certificate fingerprint) occurs, delete the cached app update (APK file).
  • Download and keep the APK file in the Android/data/de.marmaro.krt.ffupdater/files/Download folder and use this folder as a cache folder.
  • Do not copy the downloaded APK file to a official cache folder which is invisible to the user.
  • User can delete the downloaded app updates (APK files) in the Android app settings > Storage > Manage Space.
  • If an app update fails, show buttons for:
    • deleting the app update in the cache folder.
    • opening the cache folder with a file manager app.
  • When migrating to this version, the app will delete old cache files.
• Update dependencies:
  • androidx.core:core-ktx to 1.7.0
  • androidx.lifecycle:lifecycle-runtime-ktx to 2.4.0

2021-10-20 Version 74.4.7 (86)

• Fix "Permission Denial" bug on Android devices (Tobiwan/ffupdater#86)
• Speed-up app installation/update by not requiring to press a button
• Improve crash report styling and add important device information to the crash report
• Improve internal condition checks and add improved error messages
• Remove unused dependencies androidx.fragment:fragment-ktx and org.jetbrains.kotlin:kotlin-stdlib-jdk7

2021-10-25 Version 74.4.6 (85)

• Download only "Firefox Focus/Klar" and not "Firefox Focus/Klar Beta" (Tobi823/ffupdater#89)
• Try out the Android 12 "silent update" feature when user manual updates an app (Tobi823/ffupdater#88)

2021-10-07 Version 74.4.5 (84)

• Small mistake, I forget to add important changes to 74.4.4
• Improve handling of Kotlin coroutine errors (Tobiwan/ffupdater#85 Tobi823/ffupdater#86)
• Improve and speed up internet check
• Handle disabled "Download Manager" better
• Improve translation
• Update dependencies

2021-10-07 Version 74.4.4 (83)

• Improve handling of Kotlin coroutine errors (Tobiwan/ffupdater#85 Tobi823/ffupdater#86)
• Improve and speed up internet check
• Handle disabled "Download Manager" better
• Improve translation
• Update dependencies

2021-09-29 Version 74.4.3 (82)

• Improve handling of concurrent code
• Fix crash when starting app (NetworkOnMainThreadException) ()
• Fix missing icon (in repomaker and maybe F-Droid)
• Improve translation files
• Cleanup and refactor code

Version 74.4.2 (81)

• Skip version

2021-09-24 Version 74.4.1 (80)

• Fix crash when canceling a download (Tobi823/ffupdater#77)
• Ignore error and retry background update (with exponential increasing waiting time) for CancellationException, GithubRateLimitExceededException and UnknownHostException (Tobi823/ffupdater#74)
• Improve error handling
• Fix download error for Focus/Klar by switching to the GitHub API (Tobiwan/ffupdater#81)

2021-08-30 Version 74.4.0 (79)

• Update Brazilian Portuguese translation (thanks mezysinc; Tobiwan/ffupdater#78)
• Abort background update check if airplane mode is enabled (Tobi823/ffupdater#74)
• Prevent simultaneous download by the background job and the user (Tobiwan/ffupdater#80)
• Reduce app permission (remove WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE permission)

2021-08-04 Version 74.3.5 (78)

• Fix update check for "Firefox Focus" and "Firefox Klar" (By removing everything after the dash + the dash itself from the version name of the installed app. "8.18.0-rc.1" will be converted to "8.18.0"; Tobi823/ffupdater#69)

2021-07-30 Version 74.3.4 (77)

• Make update check more robust for "Firefox Release", "Firefox Beta", "Firefox Focus" and "Firefox Klar"

2021-07-26 Version 74.3.3 (76)

• Fix crash when checking for "Firefox Focus" or "Firefox Klar"
• Update Firefox Focus/Klar icon

2021-07-22 Version 74.3.2 (75)

• Fix crash when checking for "Firefox Beta" (Tobi823/ffupdater#60)

2021-07-19 Version 74.3.1 (74)

• Fix crash when checking for "Firefox Release" or "Firefox Beta" (Tobi823/ffupdater#57)

2021-07-06 Version 74.3.0 (73)

• Add Polish language (thanks Eryk Michalak, Tobiwan/ffupdater_gitlab#11)
• Fix crash when checking for "Firefox Release" updates (Tobi823/ffupdater#52)

2021-06-22 Version 74.2.0 (72)

• Add Japanese language (thanks gnuhead-chieb Tobi823/ffupdater#47)

2021-06-03 Version 74.1.1 (71)

• Fix Firefox Beta by adapting to the new structure of the chain_of_trust.log (Tobi823/ffupdater#44)

2021-05-29 Version 74.1.0 (70)

• Add Brave Browser because the APK files are published on GitHub again. (https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues/15878)

2021-05-18 Version 74.0.0 (69)

• Remove Brave Browser because the APK files are no longer published on GitHub. (https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues/15878)

2021-05-18 Version 73.1.4 (68)

• Instruct user if app installation is aborted by "MIUI Optimization" (Tobi823/ffupdater#41)

2021-05-07 Version 73.1.3 (67)

• Fix crash caused by the new Firefox Nightly version name schema (Tobi823/ffupdater#40 Tobi823/ffupdater#66)

2021-04-25 Version 73.1.2 (66)

• If it is likely that it is just a network error during manual update search, then display "No network connection" instead of crashing (Tobi823/ffupdater#38)

2021-04-18 Version 73.1.1 (65)

• Fix wrong warning for Bromite (thanks mpeter, Tobiwan/ffupdater#64)

2021-04-18 Version 73.1.0 (64)

• Trust user certificates when checking for updates and downloading updates (for AdGuard, Tobi823/ffupdater#37)
• Prevent automatic backup of failed downloads by Google's "Auto Backup for Apps"

2021-04-17 Version 73.0.1 (63)

• There has been a discussion on Github if the Kiwi browser is spyware: https://github.com/Tobi823/ffupdater/issues/35 (Tobi823/ffupdater#35) I think that Kiwi is not spyware but stays removed because FFUpdater is about privacy and Kiwi has no additional privacy features. F-Droid users can use other stores (like Aurora Store) to install the Kiwi browser.
• Bug fix: automatically download app updates after disabling airplane mode
• Bug fix: catch the JobCancellationException correctly (occurs when changing the network during background update check)

2021-04-17 Version 73.0.0 (62)

• Remove Kiwi Browser because it is at least not privacy friendly and in the worst case a spyware (thanks nyanpasu64 Tobi823/ffupdater#35)

2021-04-13 Version 72.1.0 (61)

• Add support for Bromite https://github.com/bromite/bromite (Tobiwan/ffupdater#59 Tobi823/ffupdater#22)
• Add support for Kiwi Browser https://github.com/kiwibrowser/src (Tobi823/ffupdater#22)
• Automatically download app updates in the background if the current network is unmetered and the device has enough storage (Tobi823/ffupdater#34)
• Cache already downloaded updates (Tobi823/ffupdater#33)
• Keep the last version of an app in the folder "/sdcard/Android/data/de.marmaro.krt.ffupdater/cache/Download" for manual downgrading. These cached versions can be deleted by using the "CLEAR CACHE" button in the settings (Tobiwan/ffupdater#62)
• Decrease the number of false positives "background network exception" error notifications (thanks bershanskiy Tobi823/ffupdater#31)
• Improve Brazilian Portuguese translation (thanks mezysinc; Tobiwan/ffupdater#58)
• Improve Russian translation (thanks DeenHyper74; Tobiwan/ffupdater#56)
• Make download status translatable (Tobiwan/ffupdater#57)
• Ask for confirmation when the user wants to update an app but the latest app version is already installed ( Tobiwan/ffupdater#60)
• Generate UI partially programmatically (and don't use a static UI)

2021-03-14 Version 72.0.0 (60)

• !!! Remove support for Firefox Light because updates are no longer signed and therefore pose a security risk (thanks opened and mega-stoffel)
• User can disable the background update check on metered networks (thanks williamtheaker)
• By clicking on the "i"-Icon, you can see the time of the last successful background update check.
• Fix Brazilian Portuguese translation (thanks mezysinc)
• Fix Bulgarian translation (thanks StoyanDimitrov)
• Fix spelling (thanks ku)
• Fix crash when rotating device (thanks floringolintchi)
• Distinguish the morning and evening version of Firefox Nightly (thanks DctrBnsttr)

2021-02-26 Version 71.0.3 (59)

• Fix crash when installing app on Android 8 (thanks bershanskiy)
• Show the correct notification if the background check failed due to a network exception (thanks Average_User and Diridibindy)
• If it's likely that the user has enabled 'MIUI Optimization', instruct him to disable it (thanks Rafa ML)

2021-02-21 Version 71.0.2 (58)

• Fix double download (thanks Redpillbug)
• Fix crash when rotating in the settings view (thanks DeenHyper74)

2021-02-18 Version 71.0.1 (57)

• Improve error message when the background update check failed (thanks duck-rh)

2021-02-15 Version 71.0.0 (56)

• Add Iceraven browser
• Display the real available versions for Release, Beta, Nightly, Focus and Klar
• Reduce likeliness of background errors
• Fix installation problems on older devices
• Migrate from Java to Kotlin for better concurrency
• Thanks StoyanDimitrov for updating the Bulgarian translation
• Bug fixes and many more
• Thanks mega-stoffel, Iey4iej3, Redpillbug, NANASHI0X74, StoyanDimitrov, lucker999, codingepaduli, borisovg, H-Sachse, mpeter, DeenHyper74, duck-rh, mikeklem and darkludao for bug reports
• Thanks CharmCityCrab, TheOneWithTheBraid, codingepaduli and User1l0 for feature requests

2020-11-13 Version 70.0.1 (55)

• Check if system download app is installed (thanks Quantumrider)
• Fix crash during downloading (thanks hsol)

2020-11-02 Version 70.0.0 (54)

• Add Bulgarian translation (thanks StoyanDimitrov)
• Fix short description in F-Droid (thanks linsui)
• Fix typo (thanks GPery and DeenHyper74)
• A different notification for each installed app will be displayed
• Clicking on notification will update the app
• Better detect ABI of device - Firefox Focus can be installed on Android emulators
• Use Crasher (https://github.com/fennifith/Crasher) for crash reports
• Delete old downloaded APK files more reliable
• Drop permission READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE and WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE because they should not be necessary
• Check and fail if external storage is not available
• Query GitHub API with less network traffic
• Cleanup code

2020-09-23 Version 69.0.5 (53)

• Disable error when the already installed app has a different signature (because Android won't install an update with a different signature) - thanks pheki for reporting this bug
• Add translations for this bug
• Make the installation activity a little big more resilient

2020-09-08 Version 69.0.4 (52)

• Fix old download urls / update check urls for Firefox Release and Firefox Beta - thanks DctrBnsttr for reporting this bug
• Add tests to ensure that FFUpdater is always using the latest download urls

2020-08-17 Version 69.0.3 (51)

• Fix broken Firefox Nightly installation/update - thanks 132ikl for reporting this bug

2020-08-13 Version 69.0.2 (50)

• Thanks aevw for adding brazilian portuguese translation

2020-08-12 Version 69.0.1 (49)

• Thanks DeenHyper74 for updating the russian translation

2020-08-05 Version 69.0.0 (48)

• Remove Fennec Release because it's no longer supported by Mozilla
• Rename Fenix Release, Fenix Beta and Fenix Nightly to Firefox Release, Firefox Beta, Firefox Nightly
• Fix download URLs for Firefox Release, Firefox Beta, Firefox Nightly
• Use the more reliable PackageInstaller-method for installing the apps (instead of the old ACTION_INSTALL_PACKAGE-method)
• Increase minimum SDK for FFUpdater to Lollipop/21 (because PackageInstaller needs 21 and all Firefox browsers need at least 21)
• Fix bug "empty installed text field"
• Thanks trymeout, guysoft, rantpalas and RomainL972 for reporting bugs

2020-07-02 Version 68.4.1 (47)

• Fix broken Fenix download - if the download is still broken for you, wait 10 minutes or delete the storage of the app
• Check for enough free space and display warning if < 100MB

2020-06-07 Version 68.4.0 (46)

• Add Fenix Beta, Fenix Nightly and Lockwise
• Download Fenix Release/Beta/Nightly, Focus and Klar from Mozilla's Taskcluster (continuous integration server)
• Fix "Light theme is always shown at first run"
• Thanks Rail Aliiev and Johan Lorenzo from Mozilla for their support https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1627518
• Thanks KarlHeinz and DeenHyper74 for their error reporting and support

2020-05-20 Version 68.3.7 (42)

• Add simple crash reporter (by opening the mail app with the error message)
• Fix crash by asking for WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE and READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE permissions
• Show progress bar when verifying the downloaded APK
• Download APK to the public download directory of the app (for example: /storage/sdcard0/Android/data/de.marmaro.krt.ffupdater/files/Download)
• Remove old debug messages
• Thanks yhoyhoj, UltraBlackLinux, rvandegrift, vikajon, wchen342, Ulfschaper, prox and danceswithcats for your error reporting

2020-05-18 Version 68.3 (35)

• Try to fix error "Failed to check certificate hash" by switching from apksig-library to PackageManager#getPackageArchiveInfo (thanks rvandegrift). This will reduce the size of FFUpdater and improve the maintenance for future releases.
• Color of collapsed title will be always white (thanks DeenHyper74)

2020-05-13 Version 68.2 (34)

• Fix Fenix download from Github (thanks yhoyhoj)
• Show correct download progress when downloading an app

2020-05-13 Version 68.1 (33)

• Thanks DeenHyper74 for the Russian translation
• Add support for Dark Theme (thanks DeenHyper74 for the tip)
• Add setting for switching between Dark and Light Theme

2020-05-06 Version 68.0 (32)

• Really big update
• Add support for Firefox Klar, Firefox Focus, Firefox Lite and Fenix
• Download and install the app inside FFUpdater (thanks wolfgang42 for the groundwork)
• Improve UI
• Verify the certificate of the downloaded and installed app
• Many improvements
• Thanks DeenHyper74 and xin for translations
• Remove Fennec Beta and Fennec Nightly because their are not developed anymore https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1627518

2019-06-28 Version 67.4 (31)

• Fix warning dialogue disappears after screen rotation (thanks DeenHyper74)

2019-06-28 Version 67.3 (30)

• Fix crash when selecting an entry after rotating the channel dialog (thanks DeenHyper74)

2019-06-28 Version 67.2 (29)

• Fix crash when rotating on channel dialog (thanks DeenHyper74)

2019-06-28 Version 67.1 (28)

• Update Russian translation (thanks DeenHyper74)

2019-06-28 Version 67.0 (27)

• Fix broken nightly download (thanks dannycolin for the info)
• Display warning when switching from 'Release' channel to the 'Nightly' or 'Beta' channel (thanks DeenHyper74)
• Interval between update checks is now configurable (thanks aplufr, wah6Me1l and DeenHyper74)

2019-04-25 Version 66.2 (26)

• Improve french translation (thanks xinxinxinxinxin)
• Fix "update notification will be shown every 5 minutes" (bug discovered by aplufr)

2019-04-25 Version 66.1 (25)

• Add grammar fixes (thanks DeenHyper74)

2019-04-25 Version 66.0 (24)

• Notification (for a Firefox update) now works on Android 9
• Replace BackgroundService with WorkManager (AndroidX) for requesting Mozilla's API
• Clean up code (thanks DeenHyper74)
• Fix some minor bugs (thanks DeenHyper74)
• App requires API level 18 because Firefox requires API level 18
• Update translation

2019-04-01 Version 65.0 (23)

• Added support for beta and nightly channels
• Switched to light theme
• Update russian translation
• Handover maintainership to https://notabug.org/Tobiwan/ffupdater

2018-01-07 Version 57.0 (22)

• Add some translations

2017-06-13 Version 54.0 (21)

• Add license report
• Update icon
• Add some translations

2017-05-20 Version 53.0 (20)

• Update to 53.0
• Use new Mozilla API to det version information
• Remove a lot of unused code.
• Add icon
• Fix crash with SDK < 17
• Enable smaller builds

2017-01-22 Version 51.0 (18)

• Update to 51.0
• Remove a lot of unused code.
• Re-implement actual checking.

2016-04-29 Version 46.0 (16)

• No changes, just bump to remind people

2016-04-06 Version 45.0.1 (15)

• Remove everything but URL generator and download button.

2016-03-09 Version 45.0a (14)

• Really, really quickfix Android6 issues..
• Remove version check since it's broken: Just download the APK.

2016-03-06 Version 45.0 (13)

• Use lower target to quickfix Android6 permissions

2016-01-26 Version 44.0 (12)

• Update to reflect new Firefox version, but no change in architecture. Mozilla "-latest" URL still works...

2015-12-31 Version 43.0.x (11)

• Mozilla removed /latest/* downloads from archive. As recommended in https://archive.mozilla.org/pub/mobile/releases/latest/README.txt we use https://download.mozilla.org/?product=fennec-latest now.

2015-12-25 Version 43.0 (10)

• Update to 43.0
• Mozilla does not populate /latest/ anymore, see https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1233399

2015-12-24 Version 42.0.2 (9)

• Update to 42.0.2

2015-11-23 Version 42.0.1 (8)

• Update to 42.0.1

2015-11-02 Version 42.0 (7)

• Update to 42.0

2015-09-23 Version 41.0 (6)

• Bump to 41.0 (6)

2015-09-01 Version 40.0.3 (5)

• Mark background setting as non-functional for now.
• Update to 40.0.3

2015-08-10 Version 40.0 (3)

• Remove FTP lookup since Mozilla is shutting down the servers.
• Handle both request type by a single button.
• "I am feeling lucky" now gets the next release, not the latest.
• Add preferences to restrict connections: WiFi-only, metered, roaming.
• Use actionbar.

2015-07-08 Version 39.0 (1)

• Select download uri based on arch and api.
• Check filename via FTP.
• Download update file via HTTPS and DownloadManager.
• Log errors and status.
• Toast on updates.
• Prompt for update (if necessary).
• Option to use fixed/tested download location.
• Add proper LICENSE (GPLv3+).