Maestral v0.6.1

This release improves desktop notifications: Notifications will now only appear for remote file changes and you can chose between different notification levels (CLI only) and snooze notifications temporarily. It also reintroduces the maestral autostart command to start the sync daemon on login (requires systemd on Linux). This works independently of the GUI option "Start on login".

There have also been significant changes in package structure: the GUI has been split off into a separate package maestral-qt which will be installed with the gui extra pip3 install -U maestral[gui] or directly with pip3 install -U maestral-qt. A native Cocoa GUI (maestral-cocoa) for macOS is currently in testing and will likely be released with the next update.

Other changes include improved error handling, cleaned up config files and some tweaks to CLI commands. As always, there are several bug fixes. Thank you for all your feedback!

Added:

• New CLI command maestral autostart to start the daemon on login. This requires systemd on Linux. The "Start on login" option of the GUI remains independent and the GUI will attach to an existing daemon if it finds one, i.e., if it was started before the GUI.
• Added desktop notifications for errors: Serious errors such as revoked Dropbox access, deleted Dropbox folder, etc, were previously only shown in the GUI as an alert window or printed as warnings when invoking a CLI command.
• Support for different levels of desktop notifications (CLI only). You can now select between FILECHANGE, SYNCISSUE, ERROR and NONE with maestral notify LEVEL.
• Added an option to snooze notifications. In the CLI, use maestral notify snooze N to snooze notifications for N minutes. In the GUI, use the "Snooze Notifications" menu.
• Support using an existing directory when setting up Maestral through the CLI. This was previously only supported in the GUI. Files and folders in the existing directory will be merged with your Dropbox. This is useful when relinking an old account.
• The CLI command maestral restart now supports restarting Maestral into the current process instead of spawning a new process. This is enabled by passing the --foreground (-f) option.

Changed:

• Split off GUI into separate python packages (maestral-qt, maestral-cocoa).
• Notify only for remote changes and not for those which originated locally. This should significantly reduce the number of unwanted notifications.
• Renamed maestral notifications to maestral notify for brevity.
• Renamed the set-dir command to move-dir to emphasize that it moves the local Dropbox folder to a new location.
• Configurations are now tied to a Dropbox account:
  • New configurations are now created on-demand when calling maestral gui or maestral start with a new configuration name.
  • A configuration is automatically removed when unlinking a Dropbox account.
  • All configurations can be listed together with the account emails with maestral configs. This replaces maestral config list.
• For app bundles on macOS, you can now pass a config option --config-name to the bundle's executable ("Maestral.app/Contents/MacOS/main"). It will then use the specified configuration if it already exists or to create a new one.
• The GUI no longer restarts after completing the setup dialog.
• Removed sync and application state info from the config file. Sync and application states are now saved separately in '~/.local/share/maestral/CONFIG_NAME.state' on Linux and '~/Library/Application Support/maestral/CONFIG_NAME.state' on macOS.
• Use atomic save to prevent corruption of the sync index if Maestral crashes or is killed during a save.
• Moved the sync index to the same folder as the application state.
• Improved conflict detection and resolution when changing files which are currently being uploaded or downloaded.

Fixed:

• Fixes an issue where local changes while syncing was not running could be overwritten by remote changes instead of resulting in a conflicting copy.
• Fixes an issue where local file events could be ignored while a download is in progress.
• Fixes an issue where a new local file could be incorrectly deleted if it was created just after a remote item at the same path was deleted.
• Fixes an issue where maestral stop and maestral restart would not interrupt running sync jobs but instead wait for them to be completed. Now, Maestral will be force-quit if necessary and aborted jobs will be resumed when starting Maestral again.
• Correctly handle when a folder is replaced by a file and vice versa.
• Correctly handle additional error types: internal Dropbox server error, insufficient space on local drive, file name too long for local file system and out-of-memory error.
• Automatically resume upload in case of dropped packages instead of raising a sync issue.
• Set the log level for the systemd journal according to user settings instead of always using logging.DEBUG.
• Run checks for Dropbox folder location and link status when invoking maestral restart.
• Notify the user through the GUI when moving the Dropbox directory fails instead of silently keeping the old directory.
• Fixes an issue where the environment variable XDG_DATA_DIR would not be respected in Linux.

Removed:

• Removed "-a" option from maestral ls to show hidden entries that start with a period. Now, all entries are shown by default.
• Removed the maestral config command group. Configurations are now created and deleted on-demand and can be listed with maestral configs.