It's the little things

Improvements for all users:

• We use a monitoring system (hosted on our own infrastructure) to receive
  reports of errors happening when you use Cozy Desktop. This system requires a
  client to be setup in our app to send those reports to the server. We used an
  older version of that client which stopped working when we upgraded Electron
  in the previous version and that lead to app crashes whenever we tried to send
  a report.
  We've migrated to the latest version of that client so you shouldn't
  experience those crashes anymore and we'll even get a bit more of information
  in each report which might help us help you.
• We have detected that in some very specific situations, the app can enter a
  local loop of conflict renaming on one or more documents. Those loops would
  prevent your document to be synchronized with the remote Cozy or for it to be
  continuously renamed and, in the most extreme cases, lead to app crashes on
  start-up due to the size of the document (each conflict renaming would
  increase its size).
  One of those situations is the presence of more than one document in our
  database with the same unique filesystem identifier, resulting from the
  mis-interpretation of some filesystem events. We've taken some steps to
  prevent the presence of those 2 documents at the same time, not preventing
  possible future conflicts on the sole document left but preventing a conflict
  loop to start from there.
• For those of you who have already experienced extreme local conflict loops and
  can't get the app to start without crashing, we have re-evaluated our strategy
  to load all the existing documents during start-up so their size would not
  matter and the app keep working.
• We have decided to reassess how we compute the application state and how we
  communicate it, especially via the systray icon, so that you're more aware of
  its activities. This is notably true for the upload of large files during
  which the spinner would stop and the app would state it is up-to-date while
  the upload is actually not finished and shutting done the application would
  cancel it.

Improvements for Windows users:

• We brought back the systray icon contextual menu (i.e. the one showing up on
  right-clicks) mistakenly removed in a previous version, meaning you would have
  to open the app window and use the button in the Preferences tab to shut it
  down.
• The library used to package our binaries changed the format of the created
  Uninstall Windows registry subkey without cleaning up old keys when updating
  the application. This means that Windows users updating from a version prior
  to v3.16.0 to v3.16.0 will have 2 Cozy Drive applications listed in the
  Windows programs manager and uninstalling the old version will actually
  uninstall the most recent and leave them with a Cozy Drive version seemingly
  seemingly impossible to uninstall.
  We added some cleanup logic to Cozy Drive to take care of removing the old
  registry subkey automatically.

Improvements for GNU/Linux users:

• On Linux, every time you updated the application, you had to re-enable
  auto-launch if it was previously enabled because the auto-launch entry
  contained the application's version and would not match the new version.
  We've changed the entry's name to just Cozy-Desktop so all versions will
  match and the auto-launch will stay enabled after an update.

See also known issues.

Happy syncing!