cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/38929150
Overview here
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. 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 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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I had syncthing-fork installed via F-Droid.
Going to the source page from F-Droid auto redirects to the new app, however it treats it like i don’t have the app installed at all despite being installed on my device.
I hit ignore all updates just in case
Same for me…wierd.
Huh, exact same thing happened to me, how weird
Fine. Let me know know when syncthing-fork-fork is published.
I was just reading through the syncthing forum about this. https://forum.syncthing.net/t/does-anyone-know-why-syncthing-fork-is-no-longer-available-on-github/25661 Nearly everyone in that thread is suspicious about this. No notification from Catfriend. New dev has no history.
For now, I going back to what I did before Syncthing - a USB-C thumb drive and copy files manually.
Syncthing and Syncthing-Fork have been removed from my devices.
You could also use syncthing through termux
Thanks, thats helpful additional context
Glad to be of service
Thanks for the PSA, genuinely. Have paused updates for now for caution. Hopefully it’s nothing.
(If installed via play, open app in play store, hit three dots and untick “Enable auto updates”)
