For those using it on Android, a reminder that the older app is not maintained anymore and you might want to replace it with Catfriend1/syncthing-android.
But also - maybe wait for the app v2.0 to be released to upgrade the desktop client at the same time; I don’t know if using v2.0 on the desktop would work with the v1.x app.
I’m not sure how fast the pacman repo updates, but I’m using that plus Syncthing-Fork from F-Droid. I don’t think they’ve dropped 2.0 in there, yet.
Looks like the Arch Syncthing package upstream URL is the official Syncthing and is running 2.0.1. I can now confirm that 1.x from Syncthing-Fork works fine with Syncthing 2.0. I just set it up this morning, oddly enough.
yeah, I decided to try it and it’s working for me too; at least for the usual sync operations
Oh wow, they already have a 2.0 prerelease build. That was fast!
I’m in no rush. 1.x has been doing its job without demanding any of my attention since I set it up a year or so ago. Setup was a bit complex, but it was definitely worth learning.
Can I move from the older app to the fork while keeping all my configuration?
I tried it, but it didn’t work for me, so I had to reintroduce the device and share the directories again. But you don’t have to transfer all the data again, it’ll just do a full scan and transfer the diff as usual.
Thanks for the info. I will try upgrading now. To save people a click, here are the instructions:
On Syncthing on the official app, go into the settings and create a backup. Confirm you can see that backup in your files. Now stop the official app entirely using the system app settings for Syncthing (force stop the app basically - we need to ensure it’s not running). Install Syncthing-Fork v1.29.7.1 Now start Syncthing-Fork. In the Syncthing-Fork settings, restore the backup you created earlier. Like magic, everything should be as it was in Syncthing official. Confirm everything looks good. Uninstall the official Syncthing app. Delete the syncthing configuration backup from backups/syncthing. Upgrade to the latest Syncthing-Fork version
I just tried. Old app exports a directory, new one wants a zip. Zipped the dir and offered to new one. New one complained that some expected file was missing. Gave up and set it up again with it’s new keys (phone only syncs one dir off my home server, not a big deal) and now it’s going great.
There are instructions on the repo on moving to the fork, you need to download a specific version to do it and then update.
SQLite continues to be the “Do Nothing. Win” of databases
It’s wild how it has the fastest read performance of any other sql backend, even postgres.
I remember using SQLite like 12 years ago as a backend for Minecraft mods, and even more recently as a backend for HomeAssistant and switching away to something else for performance…and now switching back. Kudos to them for all the work that went into that! Worst to first!
Its sheer flexibility and public domain license are definitely big factors
As much as I would like to agree with you, permissive licenses are killing open source software as a whole since corporations absolutely abuse the software, provide very little value back to the code in return, and often DEMAND the authors patch their vulnerabilities.
Open source props up the world and the least that corporations could do is throw 0.0001% of their revenue their way. But they can’t even be bothered to do that.
SQLite is one of the very few open source projects with a reasonable plan for monetisation.
- Do you want to use one of the proprietary extensions? Fork up a few thousand. No biggie.
- Do you operate in a regulated industry (aviation) and need access to the 100% coverage test suite along with a paper trail? Fork up ”Call us”.
- Is your company insisting that you only use licensed or supported software? Well, you can apparently pay them for a licence to their public domain software.
Basically, squeeze regulated industries, hard.
I’m all for open source, but at some point developers should stop acting surprised when people use their work at the edges of the licence terms (Looking at you Mongo, Redis and Hashicorp). As for developers running projects on their free time, maybe start setting boundaries? The only reason companies aren’t paying is because they know they can get away withholding money, because some sucker will step up and do it for free, ”for the greater good”. Stop letting them get it for free.
Looks like RedHat is kinda going in this direction (pay to get a paper trail saying a CVE-number is patched), and basically always have been squeezing regulated industry. Say what you want about that strategy, it’s at least financially viable long term. (Again, looking at you Hashicorp, Redis, Mongo, Minio and friends)
Masterpiece software.
Syncthing is great.
That reminds me, I should donate them some money. They’ve saved me untold amounts of money and headache from dealing with cloud services.
Ah there it is
https://syncthing.net/donations/
Doens’t look like Syncthing-Fork is on 2.0 yet. They have an RC but if you use it, you might want to be careful upgrading before they release.
I relied on Syncthing for a few years until my laptop became so powerful that a desktop was no longer needed (I do pro-audio work in Logic with lots of plugins; but I’m also just a nerd power-user). This has me thinking about getting back into using it to sync a much smaller amount of data, such as my Bash profile and custom functions, as well as some custom binaries that I keep in ~/bin. But I’ll wait until a few releases into the 2.x cycle before I install while others help find the rough edges.
Hooray for development of awesome tools. Hats off to all the devs involved.
- One of the biggest shifts is the move from the LevelDB database backend to SQLite
- The command-line interface … old single-dash long options removed, some options renamed, and others reorganized into subcommands.
No Solaris or Illumos support? That’s gonna piss off like 12 people
You had me scared there for a moment, but the Syncthing people are dependable and support hasn’t been dropped, it’s just the prebuilt binaries that no longer will be provided.
Are you one of the 12???
There are dozen of us
Easily one of the most integral and convenient pieces of software in my use. I’ve got six machines syncing up in various degrees: desktop, laptop, Android, ereader, media server, and laser controller. It along with Tailscale are among first things I install. I’m hoping version 2.0 is as stable as 1 has been. The only trouble I’ve ever had out of was when I was syncing something in my local cloud directory.
There doesn’t seem to be that many changes for the user, at least not for me. Hopefully the performance difference is noticeable.
