2.1.0

This release is based on a fork by the GitHub user @jdoe0, which at the time was the only one that worked almost out of the box with recent Anki versions. The fork was quite old and introduced some backwards incompatible changes, most of which haven't been reverted since.

Supported clients

• Anki from 2.0.27 to 2.1.16
• AnkiDroid 2.3 and up

Dependencies

• Python 3.5 or newer
• the webob Python module
• all dependencies of the anki module from anki-bundled or system Anki, except for pyaudio

Major differences from the last release (2.0.6)

• Running the sync app requires at least Python 3 and Anki 2.1. Syncing with Anki 2.0.x is still supported for the time being, but the server needs to use Anki 2.1.
• The REST app is removed from the tree as it's no longer maintained.
• Config is not compatible with the previous release. See ankisyncd.conf for an example of the new config format.
• Auth and session databases use a slightly different schema (the user column is renamed to username). If you want to use your existing databases, run utils/migrate_user_tables.py.
• The server module is called ankisyncd. The sync app lives in ankisyncd/sync_app.py and can be run by either executing that particular file (python3 ankisyncd/sync_app.py, requires the ankisyncd module to be in the Python module search path) or the entire module (python3 -m ankisyncd). The control script is now called ankisyncctl.py and is only used for managing user accounts.

Other features

• ankisyncctl.py uses config-defined database paths instead of the hardcoded defaults.
• Config entries can be overridden by environment variables. See "ENVVAR configuration overrides" in the README file for details.
• An alternative GUI addon for changing the sync server has been made. It can be found in the addon directory and is confirmed to work with Anki up to 2.1.17 beta 4. The addon modifies the settings dialog and thus may break easily if newer Anki versions introduce changes to the form.