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.
• Deleted items are no longer kept forever in the database, instead they are forgotten after six months. If your use case require deletes to take effect after more than a six month delay, set the --db-delete-retention-interval command line option or corresponding environment variable to zero, or a longer time interval of your choosing.
• 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 shifted 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.5

What’s Changed

• build: replace underscore in Debian version by @bt90 in https://github.com/syncthing/syncthing/pull/10032
• chore(db): fix debug logging by @bt90 in https://github.com/syncthing/syncthing/pull/10033
• chore(db): buffer pulled files for smaller WAL by @calmh in https://github.com/syncthing/syncthing/pull/10036
• chore(model): add metric for total number of conflicts by @swenske in https://github.com/syncthing/syncthing/pull/10037
• fix(config): properly apply defaults when reading folder configuration by @pixelspark in https://github.com/syncthing/syncthing/pull/10034

New Contributors

• @swenske made their first contribution in https://github.com/syncthing/syncthing/pull/10037

Full Changelog: https://github.com/syncthing/syncthing/compare/v2.0.0-beta.4…v2.0.0-beta.5