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The local file index and sync history are now stored in a SQLite database. After the update, Maestral will reindex your Dropbox to populate the new index. This may take a few minutes, depending on the number of files in your Dropbox.

This change enables several improvements to the command line interface and GUI: The command maestral activity now shows the progress of individual uploads or downloads. maestral history has been added to list recent sync events. In the GUI, the recent changes menu now has been replaced by a "Activity" window which shows all sync events of the past week.

This release also introduces clickable desktop notifications, performance improvements to indexing of local file changes, and bug fixes and smaller changes listed below.

Finally, this release introduces support for macOS 11 (Big Sur).

Added:

  • Added an option --external/-e to maestral log show to open the log in the platform's default program instead of showing it in the console.
  • Added a CLI command history to show all sync events of the past week.
  • Added a "Activity" window to show all sync events of the past week.
  • Desktop notifications are now clickable: for a single file change, clicking the notification will show the file in the platform's file manager. For a deletion, the Dropbox website is opened to provide options for restoring the file or folder.
  • Use entry points to discover GUI frontends. 3rd party GUIs can register a maestral_gui entry point to be launched with the maestral gui CLI command. If installed, maestral gui will default to the 1st party maestral-cocoa or maestral-qt GUIs on macOS and Linux, respectively.

Changed:

  • Transition to short-lived auth tokens for newly linked accounts.
  • Transition to OAuth scopes for app permissions.
  • Save all sync history and local index in SQLite database.
  • Reduce unnecessary path conversions during indexing of local changes.
  • Improved performance on case-sensitive file systems.
  • Sync remote changes in filename even if they are only a change in casing. Those changes where previously ignored.
  • Attempt to preserve local file permissions when syncing unless the file id has changed. Dropbox servers do store file permissions but don't make them available through the public API. We therefore cannot sync file permissions and instead choose not to overwrite locally set permissions on every download.
  • Changed return type of Maestral.get_activity from namedtuple to dict for better consistency throughout the API. Every uploading or downloading item will have 'size' and 'completed' entries to monitor the progress of syncing individual items.
  • The CLI command maestral activity now shows the progress of uploads and downloads for individual files.
  • Introduced type annotations throughout and fixed a few type-related bugs.
  • Added a field "Sync threads" to the output of the CLI command maestral status.
  • The output of maestral ls is now printed in a grid, similar to the ls command included with most platforms.
  • The macOS app bundle now uses Python 3.8, leading to some performance improvements when moving or copying file system trees.
  • Prepared the GUI for changes in macOS Big Sur: use native alerts and dialogs wherever possible and refactor loading of libraries.
  • Use an asyncio event loop instead of Pyro's event loop to run the daemon. This enables integration with the Cocoa run loop and callbacks when clicking notifications.

Fixed:

  • Fixes a bug where throttling of sync threads would raise an error when we cannot determine the CPU count.
  • Fixes a bug where sending SIGTERM to the daemon process would raise an error when we cannot determine its PID. Now, Stop.Failed is returned instead.
  • Fixes a bug which would result in incorrect systemd unit files for non-default config file names. Please disable and re-enable autostart with maestral autostart -Y|-N to replace old unit files.
  • Fixes a possible race condition when creating the cache directory.
  • Fixes error handling when a file is changed while uploading.

Removed:

  • Support for config names with spaces. Spaces could cause issues with autostart entries on some platforms.
  • The ability to run the daemon in a separate thread. The daemon must now always be run inits own process.

Dependencies:

  • Replaced jeepney dependency on Linux with dbus-next.
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