Syncthing

Major changes

• Database backend switched from LevelDB to SQLite. These is a migration on first launch which can be lengthy for larger setups. The new database is easier to understand and maintain and, hopefully, less buggy.
• Modernised command line options parsing. Old single-dash long options are no longer supported, e.g. -home must be given as --home. All serve options are now also accepted as environment variables.
• Rolling hash detection of moving data is no longer supported as this effectively never helped. Instead, scanning and syncing is faster and more efficient without it.

Debian packages

deb [signed-by=/etc/apt/keyrings/syncthing-archive-keyring.gpg] https://apt.syncthing.net/ syncthing v2

Docker image

ghcr.io/syncthing/syncthing:v2.0.0-beta.2

What’s Changed

• chore(lib): expose model methods to obtain progress by @pixelspark in https://github.com/syncthing/syncthing/pull/9886
• feat(gui): explanation to options enabled or disabled per folder type by @tomasz1986 in https://github.com/syncthing/syncthing/pull/9367
• chore: remove abandoned next-gen-gui experiment by @calmh in https://github.com/syncthing/syncthing/pull/10004
• chore: remove weak hashing which does not pull its weight by @calmh in https://github.com/syncthing/syncthing/pull/10005
• chore: switch database engine to sqlite (fixes #9954) by @calmh in https://github.com/syncthing/syncthing/pull/9965
• fix(gui): validate device ID in canonical form (fixes #7291) by @mathias4833 in https://github.com/syncthing/syncthing/pull/10006
• fix(config): remove discontinued primary STUN server (fixes #10008) by @marbens-arch in https://github.com/syncthing/syncthing/pull/10009
• fix(stun): better error handling (ref #10008) by @calmh in https://github.com/syncthing/syncthing/pull/10010
• chore(config): remove discontinued secondary STUN servers (fixes #10011) by @marbens-arch in https://github.com/syncthing/syncthing/pull/10012
• chore(fs): speed up case normalization by @bt90 in https://github.com/syncthing/syncthing/pull/10013
• chore: harmonise command line flags by @calmh in https://github.com/syncthing/syncthing/pull/10007

New Contributors

• @marbens-arch made their first contribution in https://github.com/syncthing/syncthing/pull/10009

Full Changelog: https://github.com/syncthing/syncthing/compare/v1.29.4…v2.0.0-beta.2