ffupdater/CHANGELOG.md

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+).