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@samschott samschott released this 15 Sep 13:43
v0.4.0
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Main changes are:

  • Support the exclusion of subfolders.
  • Check and notify if updates are available.
  • Decoupled GUI and sync daemon.
  • Cleaned up the command line interface. Use maestral start instead of maestral daemon start and maestral start --foreground instead of maestral sync.
  • Bug fixes and performance improvements.

Details are given below.

Added:

  • Method to get the sync status of individual files or folders. This is also accessible through the CLI via maestral file-status LOCAL_PATH. In the future, this could be used by file manager plugins to overlay the sync status of files.
  • Support to exclude subfolders in the main API, CLI and GUI.
  • Added a command group maestral excluded to view and manage excluded folders. Available commands are add, remove and show.
  • For case-sensitive file systems: Automatically rename created items which have the same name as an existing item, but with a different case. This avoids possible issues on case-sensitive file systems since Dropbox itself is not case-sensitive.
  • GUI notifications when a new version of Maestral is available, configurable to daily, weekly, monthly or never.
  • A new "Check for updates..." menu entry.
  • Better integration with systemd: When the daemon is started from systemd, status updates and ready / stopping signals are sent to systemd and the log is sent to the journal instead of stdout. This requires the installation of the systemd extra as pip3 install -U maestral[systemd], which will install sdnotify and systemd-python. The latter may require you install additional packages through your system's package manager first. See here for installation instructions.

Changed:

  • Separated daemon and CLI code into different modules.
  • Simplified CLI:
    • Moved commands from maestral daemon to main command group, i.e., maestral daemon start is now maestral start.
    • Removed maestral sync. Use maestral start --foreground instead.
  • GUI now uses only the main Maestral API which is exposed over sockets.
  • Changed returned values of the Maestral API to Python types only for better serialisation.
  • GUI now starts its own daemon on demand or attaches to an existing one. This daemon will run in a separate process, unless started from a macOS App bundle.
  • Improved startup time for large folders: Moved indexing of local files after a restart to the upload_thread.
  • Sync engine moved to a submodule.
  • Setup dialog no longer returns a Maestral instance on success but just True. It is up to the GUI to create or attach to a Maestral daemon.

Fixed:

  • Fixed an incorrect error being raised for a corrupted rev file, which could lead to a crash or misleading error message.
  • Fixed a bug which would cause a renamed file with a previously invalid name not to sync to Dropbox.
  • Fixed a bug in the GUI which would cause clicking on a recently changed file to reveal the wrong item in the file manager.
  • Fixed a bug which would cause the sync thread to crash when attempting to follow a broken symlink (#50). Now, the error will be reported to the user as a sync issue. Thanks to @michaelbjames for the fix.
  • Fixes a bug where the Dropbox path is not reset when aborting the setup dialog.

Removed:

  • Removed the CLI command maestral sync. Use maestral start --foreground instead.
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