v1.0 - Download from official website

This release, and all the following releases will be published on GitLab and annouced on our decentralised chatroom

How to download

If you want to check the latest release, plrease download it from: https://orion.siderus.io/

v0.9.1 - Telegram, New gateways, Bugfix

For more information visit the official website: https://orion.siderus.io/

New features:

• Added an option in the settings to disable automatic wrapping ( #191 )
• Adds share via Telegram ( #192 )
• Adds Snap packages ( #198 )
• Add new Gateways: CloudFlare and Protocol Labs ones ( #202 )

BugFix

• Fix spaces in path bug ( #201 #199 )
• Clearing Activities list will now clean also the interrupted ones ( #195 #200 )
• Upgrade dependencies ( #202 )

Sharing, Connectivity, Security and Windows integration

New version out, new features available. In this release we have changed a lot of useful things as well upgraded some packages for security fixes:

• New Microsoft Windows Explorer integration (Enabled by default). Right click on files to send them to Siderus Orion and share them on IPFS ( #186 and #179 )
• Users are now able to see their PeerID / Multiaddress ( #181 )
• Users can now connect directly to a Peer from the settings ( #181 )
• New versions are going to be downloaded from Siderus/GitLab ( #174, #184 and #185 )
• It is possible to share the link to IPFS (via the gateway) directly from the app ( #180 )
• New About Siderus Orion window, to allow users to check the version they are using ( #172 )
• Added better documentation to add files from CLI ( #183 and #182 )
• Minor changes to the text in the readme ( #177 and #173, thanks @jbarthelmes! )

Fixed minor bugs:

• We are not cleaning ongoing activities if the app closes ( #175 )
• Orion uses the default behaviour for OS when dialog appears ( #136, #176 but fixed on electron/electron#14160 )
• Upgraded the dependencies to provide better security and stability of the app ( #187 )
• Fixed a minor problem when the settings directory was not found/created (#178 )

As always this release has been tested on macOS High Sierra, Windows 10, Ubuntu and Debian Linux

Release v0.8.0

A lot of changes for the new version of Orion v0.8.0!

• Now users can select multiple rows when looking at the object stored ( #150 )
• The dependencies have been updated ( #157 )
• We upgraded to IPFS v0.4.17 and we include fs-repo-migrations ( #158, #167 and #171 )
• Fix the files tab on the property window ( #159 )
• Track app updates ( #160 )
• Add copy to clipboard to details window ( #161 )
• Upgrade dependencies ( #164 )
• Adds debian repo and triggers ( #166 )
• Now when we import from hash it is marked as an activity in the background ( #165 )
• Setup tray icon after the app started, not before ( #170, #156 )
• Persist activities to a file ( #169 )
• Publishing Pipeline is performed in parallel tasks on GitLab ( #171 )

For future updates on Ubuntu, we suggest to enable the official Siderus repository. To do so, you can run:

wget -qO - https://get.siderus.io/key.public.asc | sudo apt-key add -
echo "deb https://get.siderus.io/ apt/" | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list.d/siderus.list

Then you can install Siderus Orion from the repository:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install orion

Release 0.7.0

This new release includes the following changes:

• A new Activities Window ( #142 #146 #147 )
• Hides the version from the menu ( #144 )
• Fix a bug when importing object from Hash ( #145 )
• Fix a bug when saving files to disk ( #143 )

Release v0.6.1

In this patch version, we are releasing the following improvements:

• Fixed the garbage collector button (visual bug) (#132)
• Upgraded electron to version 2.0 from 1.8 (#137)
• Added an option to add directories in the File menu (#138)
• Improved the alerts throughout the app to show more information than just the hash, i.e filenames and size as well (#139)
• Added some extra bug reporting which should allow us to better help users when they report an issue (#140)

IPNS, Bugfixes and Welcome page improvements!

New release, new version, a lot of changes:

• When downloading multiple files, there will be no more mixup with hashes and directories ( #113 )
• Fixes undefined repo size in the settings ( #118 )
• Improves anonymous metrics and debugging info, no more IP addresses ( #122 )
• Adds support for IPFS publish ( #117 )
• Improves the Welcome page ( #122 )
• Uses IPFS 0.4.15 ( #125 )

🎉

Release 0.5.0: TrayIcon settings, IPNS over PubSub, ToS and Bugfixes

🎉 Release 0.5.0 is here 🎉

What changed:

• Feature: Added support for IPNS over PubSub to speed up the resolving process #109
• Feature: Added a settings to disable/enable the "run in background" for dApps and IPFS Companion browser extension #108
• Feature: Added a Welcome wizard (now just checking the ToS for Siderus services) #106
• Bugfix: Saving files now is more secure - #107

This version has been tested on Ubuntu 16.04, macOS High Sierra and Windows 10

Release v0.4.0

This minor release brings the following changes:

• Fixes minor bugs (#99, #103, #102)
• Fixes Linux specific bug when connecting to the network (#95)
• Upgrade dependencies and components (#104)
• Add a tray icon to keep the application running in background (for dApps/Companion) (#101)
• Adds a landing page at https://orion.siderus.io

Release v0.3.0

This news brings the following changes:

• Adds more Linux pkgs and formats (#93)
• Crash reports are added correctly (#90 and #96)
• Changes the behavior when adding one or multiple files (#95 and #87)
• Changes the configuration correctly of the IPFS daemon (#94)
• Works with daemons that are already running (#89 and #92)