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Changelog

Version 2.2.0

New features

  • Created a changelog!
  • Logs now viewable and shareable from within the application (Status -> View Logs)
  • Debug logs are now toggleable from the logs viewer UI
  • Migrated preferences to androidx library
  • MQTT errors are now displayed more clearly on the connection status.
  • Locator intervals are now user-configurable, and differentiated between significant changes and move modes.
  • Clearing a contact sends a zero-length payload rather than a JSON message for type MessageClear, in line with the iOS app and booklet
  • Users can specify the MQTT client ID explicitly
  • Removed confusion around MQTT auth (no username vs anonymous). Now, not supplying a username = anonymous auth
  • Added French translations

Bug fixes

  • MQTT processor should be more stable at re-connecting when disconnected
  • Improved reliability of internal message queue / backoff mechanism when unable to send a message
  • Fixed some issues on the welcome screens on older (API<=24) devices
  • Fixed race conditions in usage of the MQTT client
  • Fixed input weirdness when trying to edit latlngs in the region UI
  • Fixed some bugs in the configuration import / export handling
  • Fixed a bug where MQTT tried to connect without a valid configuration
  • Fixed a bug preventing users from putting the mode into low power mode
  • Stale incoming locations are only discarded if the preference is set
  • All messages have the current time populated into the tst field, as opposed to the time of the last location fix
  • Better reliability in reading from mis-typed preferences.
  • Few general lint / stability fixes

Version 2.1.3

New features

  • dontReuseHttpClient config key to create a new HTTP client on every request. Can fix stuck queue on certain devives (see #656)
  • Removed locator interval and displacement UI settings because they were misunderstood causing too much confusion for many users
  • made locator accuracy configurable in signifficant mode with locatorPriority configuration key
  • Improve display of error conditions
  • Remote reportLocation command triggers new location fix (thanks to @grheard)
  • Added debug log toggle in preferences
  • Removed region place picker because API was retiered by Google

Bug fixes

  • wrong long press label of report button
  • crash on invalid http headers
  • http connection not closed correctly on errors
  • location request not setup again on locator parameter change
  • include debugLog configuration key in export and editor
  • some translations
  • Downgraded MQTT library to fix several issues
  • Back buttons and arrows in preferences
  • Monitoring mode not saved/restored correctly
  • Removed test location listener that could crash the background service

Version 2.1.2

New features

  • Debug logger that can export application logs to a HTML file. See our booklet for more details.

Bug fixes

  • Crash in VersionFragment when no suitable browser is installed
  • Wrong wtst unit in waypoint messages (#631)
  • Crash when setting illegal username in HTTP mode
  • Crash when setting invalid geofence parameter

Version 2.1.1

Bug fixes

  • waypoint transitions were sent in quiet mode
  • reportLocation command was ignored in MQTT mode (#627)
  • wrong data types for alt, vel attributes in location message (#629)
  • crashes in WelcomeActivity
  • crash during EncryptionProvider initialization
  • crash when receiving waypoint message without radius
  • Setup screen got stuck on restrictions page
  • Improved error reporting (#567)

Version 2.1.0

New features

  • Foreground/Background mode replaced by monitoring modes (quiet => No automatic location reports/passive location gathering, manual => Only automatic region location reports/passive location gathering, significant => automatic location reports/active location gathering based on Wifi/Cell location, move => frequent location reports/active location gathering based on GPS). Significant changes mode corresponds to the old behavior.
  • Locator displacement and interval only influence significant location monitoring mode
  • Monitoring modes displayed in notification when endpoint state is idle or connected
  • Prefilling new region with current location
  • Added estimated distance to contacts in details view
  • Moved background jobs to Android Work Manager. Reconnect/Ping jobs now have a minimum interval of 15 minutes.
  • Spanish translation. Thanks to @Kaysera.
  • Improved dependency handling and fixed several bugs

Bug fixes

  • Waypoint import not working probperly
  • Config import not displayed correctly
  • Crash on first launch
  • Locations not correctly requested
  • Removed copy mode
  • Removed GUI to configure unauthenticated connections. auth preferences key can still be set via configuration editor if unauthenticated connections are really required

Version 2.0.0

New features

  • Removed support for bluetooth beacons because that feature accounted for over 90% of all crashes
  • Removed support for shared waypoints. Waypoints are now always treated as shared
  • Removed support for our hosted public MQTT platform
  • Added ping functionality that will trigger a location report periodically
  • Added support for Opencage Geocoder as alternative to Google
  • Added custom useragent to HTTP mode to better identify the app in logs
  • Added altitude to extended data publishes
  • New algorithm for region detection that is assisted by location publishes
  • Added support for inregions element of location publishes

Bug fixes

  • Fixed encryption issues with HTTP mode
  • Rewrote backend service from the ground up to work more reliable on modern Android versions that prevent many actions when the app is in the background.