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2020-10-?? Version 70.0.0 (54)

  • Add Bulgarian translation (thanks StoyanDimitrov)
  • Fix short description in F-Droid (thanks linsui)
  • Fix typo (thanks GPery)
  • 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)

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)

2015-12-25 Version 43.0 (10)

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+).