Relay releases

This is a relatively minor release with bug-fixes and stability improvements.

New features

• Manage your subscriptions from the main settings page

Fixes

• Resolved dataview race condition which resulted in stale data
• Don't show stale Relay server information after switching accounts (e.g. google -> microsoft)
• Help text popovers work again in Obsidian 1.9.x (regression)
• Don't show a "leave" button if you're the only member of a Relay Server

Full Changelog: https://github.com/No-Instructions/Relay/compare/0.5.8...0.5.9

This is a relatively minor release with bug-fixes and stability improvements. We're starting to improve access controls -- in this release owners of a Relay Server can manage membership roles on their Relay Server.

New features

• You can now assign Roles to members of a Relay Server

Fixes

• Clarify seat usage
• Memory leak in websocket cleanup

Full Changelog: https://github.com/No-Instructions/Relay/compare/0.5.7...0.5.8

This is a relatively minor release with bug-fixes and stability improvements. Users who are interested in Microsoft as a login provider can begin testing that as a login option.

New features

• Microsoft Login (behind a feature flag)

Fixes

• Handle cases where the differ can report equivalence when files are not exactly the same
• Fix fetch pollyfill on old Obsidian Installer versions
• Track document access token retry count

Full Changelog: https://github.com/No-Instructions/Relay/compare/0.5.6...0.5.7

This is a relatively minor release with some bug-fixes and stability improvements.

New features

• Add Relay Settings entry to folder right-click menu
• Add right-click menu entries to manually upload/download attachments
• Share keys are now treated as secrets in the UI (***** by default)

Fixes

• Fix syncing folder with periods in the name
• Correctly sync files that were modified while Obsidian was closed instead of pulling server copy
• Sync files on storage quota increase
• Remove deleted files from pending upload queue
• Fix stale attachment sync status pills
• Queue attachment download/sync

Full Changelog: https://github.com/No-Instructions/Relay/compare/0.5.5...0.5.6

This is a relatively minor release with some bug-fixes and stability improvements.

New features

• The Relay Server settings page now includes host information for users that are self-hosting their Relay Server

Fixes

• Login no longer opens in the webview
• Improvements to Share Key setting UI, especially on mobile
• Canvas stability improvements (note: canvas collaboration is behind a feature flag)
• "Accept All From Disk" option in the differ works again
• You will no longer see a blank settings page after upgrading the plugin
• File tag alignment in the navigation pane
• No longer fetching release information about releases that have been deleted

Minor bugfix

New features

• N/A

Fixes

• Fixed spurious NOT SYNCED tag in folder navigation caused by a race condition with default values

This release includes improvements around share-key management.

New features

• Enable/disable share keys
• Share keys are hidden by default
• Relay Server users list now contains user avatars
• Improve Shared Folder settings user experience when a user has no storage available.

Fixes

• N/A

Full Changelog: https://github.com/No-Instructions/Relay/compare/0.5.2...0.5.3

This release enables Canvas collaboration (behind a feature flag).

New features

• Canvas collaboration

Fixes

• N/A

Universal File Sync enables syncing images, videos, audio, pdfs, and more. This is a paid feature as it requires additional storage.

New Features

• Server-side feature flag control for feature rollout/rollback
• Attachment sync is now enabled

Fixes

• Folder pill icon now expands again to show the "Tracking changes" icon.

This release enables image/audio/video/pdf sync for paid customers (behind a feature flag).

New features

• Disk usage visualization with quota tracking and warning indicators

Fixes

• Fixed shared folder settings update race condition
• Improved file management with better upload status indicators
• Fixed SyncFile token caching

This release contains code for Universal File Sync. The feature is currently in beta testing with paid customers. I've you're a paid customer and you would like to try it, find us in Discord.

New features

• File Sync (behind a feature flag)

Fixes

N/A

Full changelog: https://github.com/No-Instructions/Relay/compare/0.4.9...0.4.10

This release contains bug-fixes and code refactor for upcoming features.

New features

• N/A

Fixes

• Empty folders are now synced

Full changelog: https://github.com/No-Instructions/Relay/compare/0.4.8...0.4.9

This release contains bug-fixes and some code refactor.

New features

• N/A

Fixes

• Fix memory leak during plugin tear down
• Ensure background sync process starts on load

Full changelog: https://github.com/No-Instructions/Relay/compare/0.4.7...0.4.8

This release contains bug-fixes and improvements to the plugin upgrade flow.

New features

• Improved notification banner (this allows us to notify users of upgrades, outages, planned down-time, etc)
• Improvements to upgrade flow
• Testing: optional automatic updates (behind a feature flag)

Fixes

• Fix: Reduce unnecessary network traffic at startup when polling for updates.

Full changelog: https://github.com/No-Instructions/Relay/compare/0.4.6...0.4.7

This release contains important bug-fixes and performance improvements.

New Features

N/A

Fixes

• Fix: Reduce unnecessary syncing on startup
• Fix: Don't show 0% progress indicator
• Fix: Don't crash on Android startup
• Fix: Force logout if authentication token is out of date

Full changelog: https://github.com/No-Instructions/Relay/compare/0.4.4...0.4.6

Note: This release supersedes a previous buggy release of 0.4.5. It is equivalent to 0.4.6.

This release introduces significant enhancements around the folder sharing experience. Relay now uploads entire folders when you share them, and downloads all notes when you add a Shared Folder to your vault.

Note: Because of this change, all users on your Relay Server should upgrade to >0.4.4. If you are collaborating with users on older versions, please encourage them to upgrade! You may need to reload Relay to receive their files since the old versions do not automatically upload the CRDT / file contents.

Synchronization enhancements:

• No more "blank notes" -- files are uploaded before they are added to the folder, and downloaded before we write anything to disk.
  • This should improve compatibility with other sync tools like google drive / icloud / Obsidian Sync.
• Added a download/synchronization queue in order to upload/download entire Shared Folders.
• Added an indicator for tracking download/sync progress.

On-prem collaboration server (experimental):

We've released the Relay Server Template for self-hosting a Relay Server.

Note that this does not enable full self-hosting of Relay. Our Auth Server is still needed for login, and to coordinate sharing and document access. However, if you self host your document server on a private network (e.g. with Tailscale) then you will have full control of your content (and we would be completely unable to access it, even if we wanted to).

Some setup and coordination with us is currently required to test self-hosting. If you are interested in self-hosting please join our Discord.

We're looking for help from the community to make self-hosting as smooth as possible. Thanks to @zachmueller for working AWS self-hosting.

User interface:

• Added a progress indicator to the folder icon that is visible when downloading/syncing a Shared Folder.
• Added a NOT SYNCED tag to file types that are not currently synced with Relay.
• Added a banner to the settings page for notifying you about service status/downtime, when you are on a bad/buggy version of Obsidian, or when there is an update to Relay available.
• Improved compatibility with the merge banner when using the BlueTopaz theme.
• Bypass the webviewer for auth login.
• Folder connection intent is saved in settings. If you disconnect a folder, it will stay disconnected when you restart Obsidian / Relay.
• Improve differ labels, and added Accept All options.
• Added a file menu for managing Shared Folders.

Commands:

• Added a Relay: Reload Relay command to quickly reload Relay.

Internal capabilities & debug improvements:

• We've improved the settings storage driver in order to manage many more settings that are required as part of rolling out Universal File Sync.
• Added a Relay: Enable Debugging command, which turns on comprehensive logging and adds several additional advanced commands.

Thank you

Thank you to our supporters and subscribers -- you made this release possible. (edited)

Full changelog: https://github.com/No-Instructions/Relay/compare/0.4.1...0.4.4

Fixes

• Fixed "cursor jumps" when typing at the same time in a collaborative session

Notes

• This update fixes an issue found in the 0.4.2 beta.
• Important: If you're testing folder synchronization, all users in your shared relay should be using beta version 0.4.3 or higher.

Features

• Automatic folder sync - Relay now uploads entire folders when you share them, and downloads all notes when you add a Shared Folder to your vault
• Progress indicator for folder synchronization
• NOT SYNCED tag for unsupported file types
• Status banner in settings for service notifications, compatibility warnings, and update alerts
• New "Reload Relay" command
• Self-hosted collaboration server (Experimental) - Control your content with a private server. Want to test this feature? Join our Discord.
• Enhanced differ tool with Accept All options
• File menu for managing Shared Folders
• Improved debug tools with the "Enable Debugging" command

Fixes

• No more "blank notes" - files are uploaded before they are added to the folder
• Improved compatibility with other sync tools like Google Drive, iCloud, and Obsidian Sync
• Better compatibility with BlueTopaz theme
• Folder connection intent is saved in settings

Notes

• Note: Superseded by 0.4.3 beta which includes an important cursor fix

Fixes

• Fix connect on startup
• Fixed a bug with subscription management
• Improved memory usage
• Fixed styling conflict with banner plugin

Full changelog: https://github.com/No-Instructions/Relay/compare/0.4.0...0.4.1

Features

• Mobile support - Relay is now available on iOS and Android
• Enhanced settings page with user avatars and integrated help documentation

Fixes

• Various UI improvements

Fixes Relay on Obsidian 1.7.5.

Features

• Streamlined shared folder creation - quickly create new folders by typing a name and pressing Enter

Fixes

• Fixed compatibility with Obsidian 1.7.5
• Fixed settings page synchronization issues related to an upstream bug
• Improved login stability - you'll now stay connected to Relay with regular use
• Fixed subscription button when using Brave as default browser

Full changelog: https://github.com/No-Instructions/Relay/compare/0.3.4...0.3.5

The recent updates include several new features and improvements. Key additions are:

Features

• A diff/merge interface for integrating changes made to the file on-disk
• A folder-wide connection toggle in the file-explorer right-click menu
• The Tracking Changes icon now lights up in your vault accent color when the CRDT-database and the file on-disk are in sync
• A Relay ribbon icon to take you right to the Relay setting page

Fixes

• Fixed a race condition that could cause blank notes when a note was missing a CRDT
• Untitled relays now have the placeholder text '(Untitled Relay)'
• Active connections are now prioritized by which files were opened recently
• Various error handling and performance improvements

Coming up

• Uploading files in the background when you add a folder to a relay
• Downloading files in the background when you add a shared folder to your vault
• A new link formatting option that uses the shortest possible link name, or else uses relative paths within shared folders

Full changelog: https://github.com/No-Instructions/Relay/compare/0.3.2...0.3.3