Changelog

All notable changes to Nextcloud Native are recorded here. News articles explain features in depth, while release notes summarize what people should know before installing a particular build.

The project remains in prerelease development. Versions stay below 1.0.0 until the full product sprint is complete.

# Unreleased

# [0.1.0-alpha.2]

# Fixed

• Release packaging now treats Android, Linux, Windows, and macOS independently and publishes when at least three platform artifacts are available.
• macOS packaging uses GitHub’s supported Intel runner and retains detailed jpackage diagnostics when packaging fails.

# [0.1.0-alpha.1]

# Added

• A customizable Home workspace that can show, hide, reorder, and resize available sections, with separate layouts for each account and device size.
• Persistent device-media backup states for files that are pending, uploading, backed up, changed, failed, or available only in the cloud.
• A preview of representative photos, videos, counts, and storage size before enabling backup for a detected Android media folder.
• A native Nextcloud destination picker for media backup and folder sync, including explicit confirmation before creating a missing destination.
• Native Cookbook recipe creation, editing, URL import, and recipe lists filtered by category or keyword through the adaptive app runtime.
• An optional face-outline view in recognized-person galleries so people can see which face was matched without changing server data.
• Project news inside the app and a resumable direct-APK update flow with progress, cancellation, retry, package verification, and Android’s install confirmation.
• A protected prerelease workflow for signed Android artifacts and native Linux, Windows, and macOS packages.
• Deterministic prerelease version and Android version-code validation.
• SHA-256 checksums and machine-readable Android update metadata.
• Isolated Android emulator tooling for repeatable portrait, landscape, and process-lifecycle testing with synthetic or technically read-only data.
• A maintained privacy, data-safety, permissions, accessibility, packaging, and upgrade checklist for prerelease approval.

# Changed

• Android and desktop builds now read one canonical prerelease version from gradle.properties.
• Media backup status refreshes cancel stale queries when newer transfer state arrives.
• The photo and video viewer uses the available canvas more effectively while keeping controls clear of the status bar in portrait and landscape.
• RAW and JPEG choices use their own scrollable row instead of crowding photo actions.
• Folder-sync direction labels now distinguish upload-only and download-only folders.
• Build validation avoids duplicate branch runs and reuses Gradle and Rust caches where safe.

# Fixed

• Suggested Nextcloud destinations that do not exist can recover to the nearest existing parent and offer to create the missing folders after confirmation.
• Cookbook actions no longer open empty forms when a verified contract refers to a separately defined schema.
• Cookbook categories and keywords now open their matching recipes instead of exposing the category or keyword record as the destination.
• Binary recipe images are no longer opened as JSON detail records.

# Security

• Android release signing uses a protected GitHub environment and a pinned public certificate fingerprint.
• Release publication rejects stable versions, 1.0.0 and higher versions, mismatched tags, unsigned Android artifacts, and unexpected signing keys.
• Direct APK updates verify the download checksum, package identity, version, and signing certificate before handing the package to Android.
• Permission to request package installation is limited to the direct-APK build; store builds do not request it.