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PSA syncthing-fork has changed owners (libretechni.ca)

submitted 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) by cm0002@libretechni.ca to c/opensource@programming.dev

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Overview here https://forum.syncthing.net/t/does-anyone-know-why-syncthing-fork-is-no-longer-available-on-github/25661/39

The new owner of the repo has a fresh github account and apparently has the signing keys from Catfriend1 too.

Time will tell if they are trustworthy, but for the extra paranoid it might make sense to pause updates for a while.

The new repo has two releases in it now. These releases are not signed with the original key as far as I can tell. Further, GitHub is silently redirecting to the new repo, even in Obtainium, meaning it's possible that if you had this previously installed via Obtainium and updated now, you may have unsigned apks installed that may or may not contain the changes in the repo.

This is a mess. I deleted the repo from Obtainium (luckily I don't auto install updates) and will wait to see what happens over the next few months. Might just save my notes in a network share instead of using syncthing from my phone. Idk, notes are all that I was using it for.

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[–] teolan@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Thanks for the heads up!

Thankfully I installed it through F-Droid, so I'm prettyvsafe withe regards to weird updates being pushed without knowing what's happening. Syncthing is so useful it's a shame it's not good on Android.

[–] Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Not good on Android?

I've used ST/ST-Fork for 10 years now, rarely have issues.

What's problematic for you?

[–] teolan@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

Well unannounced changes in maintainership and accounts closing unexpectedly could mean something malicious is going on. Doesn't appear to be the case here though

[–] Sibbo@sopuli.xyz 2 points 2 days ago (3 children)

What is syncthing-fork?

[–] Piatro@programming.dev 6 points 2 days ago

It's an Android client for syncthing. It is only one of the available android clients, not syncthing itself.

[–] JustJack23@slrpnk.net 1 points 2 days ago

A tool for synchronizing files between devices. https://syncthing.net/

[–] Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe 0 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It's a cross-platform file sync tool. Works on: Linux, Windows, Android, Mac, even iOS (via Möbius).

In fact, the devs of Möbius have financially supported Syncthing development for years. I wonder if they're the new owner?

Once setup it syncs automatically, in the background. I keep (at this point) terabytes of files in sync with it across a half dozen devices. It can be near-instant, automatic file transfer if it's configured to be.

[–] MrQuallzin@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

That's syncthing in general. Syncthing-fork is specifically the Android app