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Changelog History
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Changelog History
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v1.6.1 Changes
March 24, 2020🆕 New features
- ➕ Added translations to Italian, Portugese and Turkish and updated German, Spanish, Dutch, French and Russian
- API now returns HTTP 404 on fetch.php if trying to open a non-existing share (#131)
🛠 Bugfixes
- 🛠 Fixed Redis authentication not working properly (#125)
- The text in the leftmost column on the main screen now properly wraps if it is too long, fixing layout issues in various locales including French and Dutch (#127, #132)
- 🚦 The GNSS location listener is now always kept alive if there is signal, preventing the device from falling back to network location if stationary for too long (#124)
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v1.6 Changes
December 28, 2019🆕 New features
- 🚚 Moved connection settings to a separate menu (#74)
- ➕ Added dark theme (#74)
- ➕ Added a button that allows showing, panning to and navigating to anyone on the map (#101, #102)
- 👍 HTTP and SOCKS proxy support (#75)
- 👍 LDAP authentication support
- 🔧 Connection timeout is now configurable (#75)
- App now asks for confirmation before stopping shares; this can be disabled in settings (#78)
- ⚡️ Minimum distance between location updates can now be configured to save data usage when not moving (#107)
- 💻 Tapping the logo or link in the app now opens this repository in a browser (#74)
- Clients using network-based rather than GNSS-based location will be colored yellow on the map to highlight that their location is inaccurate (#74)
🛠 Bugfixes
- App will now fall back to network location after a while if GNSS location service is lost
- Notification now displays status (#74)
- Group shares can no longer be joined without a nickname (#74)
- O and 0 can no longer appear in upper/mixed-case share IDs (#91)
- 🛠 Fixed various issues when opening the app after swiping it away in the carousel while a share is running (e.g. #108)
- 🛠 Fixed unpredictable behavior when choosing extremely long sharing durations (#100)
- The "Location sharing active" dialog is no longer displayed when resuming shares (#111)
- The "Create new sharing link" button no longer has the redundant sharing mode selector (#118)
- 🐳 Properly clean up after Apache in Docker (#92, #93)
- 👍 Xiaomi battery savings detection now works better (#104)
- "Get it on" badges for F-Droid and Google Play are now only downloaded when necessary (#114)
- 🔄 Changed various strings for better UX and consistency (#72, #95, #96, #99, #112, #117)
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v1.5.2 Changes
December 10, 2019🆕 New features
- ➕ Added localization for Catalan
- 0️⃣ Sharing links can now be generated by the backend in other formats than the default XXXX-XXXX format (#73)
- Leaflet is now served locally instead of through UNPKG's CDN (#67)
- The app now indicates if the backend server is unreachable (#85)
- The prompt that warns that location services are disabled now has a button that opens the device's location settings menu (#87)
- End-to-end encryption can now be disabled without having to erase the encryption password entirely (#71)
- ⚡️ The map now shows how long ago the last location update was received if the person sharing goes offline or loses GPS reception (#76)
- 🐳 The official Docker image is now also built for ARM-based architectures (for usage on e.g. Raspberry Pi) (#65)
🛠 Bugfixes
- Stopping the last active shared link now properly stops the entire sharing session instead of just unbinding the link (#82)
- 🔊 Sensitive information like passwords are no longer leaked in logs (#83)
- 🔀 The map no longer behaves unpredictably when the browser's current time is inaccurate/out of sync (#86)
- 🛠 Fixed an issue causing the map to constantly ask for the decryption password when a decryption error happened during update polling
- 🛠 Fixed a related issue causing the frontend to not accept the correct password when location updates contained missing data, such as speed and accuracy data
- 🛠 Fixed an issue that caused the UI to behave unpredictably and sometimes crash when resuming shares (#77, #80, #84)
- 🛠 Fixed minor issue with unencrypted shares
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v1.5.1 Changes
December 05, 2019🛠 Bugfixes
- Shares no longer stop working after 30 seconds in the background on Android 10 (#61)
- The Hauk notification now uses "copy" and "stop" icons instead of the launcher icon on Android 6
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v1.5 Changes
December 03, 2019🆕 New features
- ⚡️ Update localizations for German
- ⚡️ End-to-end encryption supported (requires backend update)
🛠 Bugfixes
- Server connection details are now encrypted at rest (#58)
- 🛠 Fixed frontend back- and foreground coloring in browsers using custom default colors
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v1.4 Changes
November 14, 2019🆕 New features
- ➕ Added localizations for Russian and Ukrainian and update for Polish
- ➕ Add support for user/password authentication (#54)
- Custom link IDs can now be requested from within the app (#56)
- ➕ Added broadcast receiver that enables starting a share without opening the "share via" UI (#56)
- 0️⃣ Advanced settings are now hidden by default in the app
- ➕ Added Google Play Store link on frontend index page
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v1.3.1 Changes
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v1.3 Changes
October 18, 2019🆕 New features
- ➕ Added localizations for Basque, German, Norwegian Bokmål and Norwegian Nynorsk
- 👌 Support for starting shares via Tasker (see wiki on GitHub for how-to) (#37)
- Huawei and OnePlus users with stock ROM are now warned on first app launch about possible battery savings issues (#34)
🛠 Bugfixes
- 🛠 Fixed an issue that caused some devices to never get a location fix (#42)
- 🛠 Fixed app not working at all on some devices (#45)
- App no longer crashes if you tap "Copy link" in the Hauk notification more than once
- Map no longer loads in the background if the share URL is invalid (#41)
- 👍 Frontend is more resilient against unsupported changes in HTML (#40)
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v1.2 Changes
October 06, 2019🆕 New features
- You can now create and individually share and control multiple different sharing links for the same session (#30)
- Group shares can now be left if you were adopted without having to stop your entire session
- Tapping the body of the Hauk notification now opens the app (#27)
- Redis can be used instead of Memcached (#13)
- The sample config file was renamed from config.php to config-sample.php (#39)
- 🔧 The install script now highlights the configuration file path (#36)
🛠 Bugfixes
- App can now only be used in portrait mode, in order to fix a bug causing the app to break if the device was rotated
- 🛠 Fixed the installation script not working in environments without bash (#36)
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v1.1.1 Changes
September 14, 2019🆕 New features
- You can now view your own location on the map (requires HTTPS) (#17)
- 👉 Users on the map can now be followed by clicking/tapping on them (#18)
- 👉 Users who haven't shared their location in a while are now marked as offline (#20)
- The map now warns you if your connection to the backend is lost (#20)
- There is now a more meaningful screen displayed when there is no GPS data yet on the map (#19)
- You can now select the unit of time (minutes, hours, days) when choosing a share duration (#29)
- Sessions can now be resumed if the app or device crashes (#28)
- 👉 User-installed root CAs are now supported, but strongly discouraged to use (#26)
- ➕ Added an easy to use installation script for the backend
🛠 Bugfixes
- When viewing the root page of Hauk, there is now an informative page rather than a "Location expired" page
- The Hauk logo on the map now opens the source repository in a new tab instead of redirecting away from the map
- The map no longer aggressively centers itself on a user (#18)
- The initial location fix can now use network-based location instead of GPS in cases where GPS connections are unavailable (e.g. indoors) (#11)
- 🛠 Fixed a bug that caused new shares to end prematurely if created after a previous share was stopped manually before its expiration
- 🐳 The Docker container now stops gracefully when shutdown (#32)