[14-4.0] - 2024-01-24

  • Add experimental support for forcing "D2D" transfer backups
  • Pretend to be a device-to-device transfer to allow backing up many apps which prevent backup
  • Stop backing up excluded app APKs
  • Show size of app backups in Backup Status screen
  • Slight improvements to color scheme
  • Development: Improve CI testing setup

[14-3.3] - 2023-10-06

  • Android 14

[13-3.3] - 2023-01-11

  • Mark Nextcloud as "Not recommended"
  • Warn before turning off backups
  • Avoid corrupting old backups when turning off backups
  • Pre-grant ACCESS_MEDIA_LOCATION permission for Storage backups

[13-3.2] - 2022-12-29

  • Add expert option to save logs
  • Add more details about branching to README
  • Improvements for debug builds
  • Documentation improvements
  • Better error handling in some cases
  • Some Android 13 upgrades

[13-3.1] - 2022-09-01

  • Initial release for Android 13
  • Don't attempt to restore app that is used as a backup location (e.g. Nextcloud), because can cause restore to abort early
  • Upgrade several libraries

[12-3.0] - 2021-10-13

  • Initial release for Android 12
  • Use the same (faster and more secure) crypto that storage backups use, for app backup.
  • Avoid leaking installed app list through filenames by using salted names
  • Old backups can still be restored, but new backups will be made with this format
  • If you generated the recovery code / setup Seedvault before 11-1.2, you will be prompted to generate a new code.
  • Improve backup behavior in general

[11-2.3] - 2021-10-02

Fixed

  • Fix translations for the new BIP39 library
  • Switch all translations references to github.com/seedvault-app

[11-2.2] - 2021-09-29

User-facing changes

  • Don't backup on metered networks
  • Disable spell-checker on recovery code input
  • Disable Nextcloud restore when not installed and no store available
  • Ask for system authentication before storing a new recovery code
  • Prevent screenshots of recovery code
  • Add expert settings with an option for unlimited quota
  • Allow launching restore through a dialer code
  • Restrict exported components

Others

  • Improve .editorconfig setup
  • Move LocalContactsBackup to product partition
  • Link FAQ in Readme to make it more discoverable
  • Compares kotlin-bip39 library with bitcoinj library
  • Provide an overview over key derivations
  • document potential information leakage through the long-lived SQL caches
  • Add warning for third-party tools to README

[11-2.1] - 2021-07-06

Updated

  • Switch to a different BIP39 library due to licensing

Notes

  • Not tagged as a stable release

[11-2.0] - 2021-07-05

Added

  • Storage backup!

Notes

  • Not tagged as a stable release

[11-1.2] - 2021-07-05

Fixed

  • Fix local contacts backup on LineageOS.
  • Minor string fixes.
  • Make recovery code fit on smaller screens / larger densities
  • Sync app colors with system Settings theme for consistency

Updated

  • Translations update, both existing languages and new.
  • Switch all text references to github.com/seedvault-app

[11-1.1] - 2021-04-16

Fixed

  • Don't crash when storage app gets uninstalled

Added

  • Allow verifying and re-generating the 12 word recovery code
  • Prepare for storage backup
  • gradle: Use AOSP platform key for signing

[11-1.0] - 2021-04-16

Notes

  • Change versioning scheme to include Android version
  • 11-1.0 is the first release for Android 11
  • Incomplete changelog entry, lots of changes done

[1.0.0] - 2020-03-07

Added

  • APK backup and restore support with the option to toggle them off.
  • Note to auto-restore setting in case removable storage is used.
  • UX for showing which packages were restored and which failed.
  • Show heads-up notification when auto-restore fails due to removed storage.
  • Show list of apps and their backup status.
  • Support for excluding apps from backups.

Fixed

  • Device initialization and generation of new backup tokens.

[1.0.0-alpha1] - 2019-12-14

Added

  • Automatic daily backups that run in the background.
  • User friendly UI for creating and restoring backups.
  • Support to backing up to and restoring from removable storage.

Updated

  • Application can now be configured in the settings app.
  • BIP39 is now used for key generation.

Notes

  • This contains breaking changes, any backups made prior to this release can no longer be restored.
  • Application can no longer be built in the Android source tree. It must be built using Gradle and binaries can now be found here: https://github.com/seedvault-app/seedvault-prebuilt

[0.3.0] - 2019-03-14

Fixed

  • Transport encryption. Some of the application data was not included during encryption.

Notes

  • This contains breaking changes, any backups made prior to this release can no longer be restored.

[0.2.0] - 2019-03-01

Added

  • Support for encrypted backups with a 256-bit AES key generated from a password using PBKDF2.

[0.1.2] - 2019-02-11

Fixed

  • Downgrade SDK target version to 26 due to #15.

[0.1.1] - 2019-02-11

Added

  • Action bar options for selecting all packages during backup / restore.
  • Upgrade compile SDK version to 28.
  • Upgrade target SDK version to 28.

Fixed

  • Ignore com.android.providers.downloads.ui to resolve #14.