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. Pull requests add independent files under changes/unreleased/; the website renders them here until release preparation archives them and curates the immutable version section below.

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

# Unreleased

# Features

• [Website] The website now provides a filterable visual QA catalog backed by deterministic, privacy-safe captures of the real application UI (issue #224, PR #225).

# [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.
• Android release lint understands Kotlin 2.4 metadata and checks the complete release source.
• Android APK and App Bundle signatures are matched against the trusted release certificate.
• macOS packages use Apple-compatible version metadata.
• Release pages show platform availability only when a build is missing.

# 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.