Point Release 8.3.8

SHA256

37a27c43016456bd6230b8341f51837874a44c87b606784e222a79fcf29c5b42

Changelog

Function

• Add: enableOnBackInvokedCallback to Manifest
• Add: Inject DB and WorkHandler using Koin
• Fix: Plugins
• Update: Move regex and sh files to the plugins
• Update: Get versionName, versionCode from manifest

UI & UX

• Add: Plugins page (in dev panel)
• Fix: Running jobs count
• Fix: Pref search in dev panel
• Update: Show seconds in schedule counter only when < 10min remaining time
• Update: Color the password icon when (in)active
• Update: Replace legacy Encryption & Error AlertDialogues with compose
• Update: Revamp all dialog buttons

(The packed) Point Release 8.3.7

SHA256

62b07de1605cc30e8f2e8774da987928b6554181719401041b5f3df7d97e6ea2

Changelog

Function

• Add: Zstd compression option
• Fix: Crash on after giving permissions
• Fix: Reduce many unneeded recompositions
• Fix: Showing restore-preferences in backup page
• Fix: App sheet and context menu actions respect user
• Fix: Profile handling for pm commands
• Fix: Work profile support
• Fix: StorageFile related crash
• Fix: StorageFile duplication if renaming to the same name
• Update: Split excludeCache to backupCache, restoreCache
• Update: Rebase SwitchChip on segmented buttons
• Update: Migrate most sheets to scaffold
• Update: Restore directories without owner

UI & UX

• Add: Respecting tags & notes when searching
• Add: Tags filter for schedules
• Add: Notes to backups
• Add: Button to search for uninstalled app in store
• Add: Original text to error for better reinterpretation
• Add: Share button to terminal text
• Add: Option for alternative page blocks layout
• Fix: Alternative navigation bar item
• Update: Backup items' layout info
• Update: OAndBackup-attribution icon
• Update: Revamp Batch actions bar
• Update: Revamp coloring of UI
• Update: Revamp dialog layouts

Release 8.3.6

SHA256

118ae83d5c5d63835b8c3188401aecda25584c159fa791aded54f2f0c3fa27dd

Changelog

Function

• Add: ForegroundServiceType for works (Required on A14)
• Fix: Crash on backup/restore
• Update: TargetSDK 34

UI

• Remove: Theme color options temporarily
• Update: Revamp theme colors

Release 8.3.5

SHA256

16c4fced248bba7db13899fe7a14327a03263cb23d315368928a31b2616aad1c

Changelog

Function

• Add: Enforce backups limit button to AppSheet
• Add: Allow restoring old apps (older than Android 6) on Android 14+
• Fix: KernelSU support
• Update: Move to one-activity structure
• Update: Revamp permissions management

UI

• Add: Animated switch of pages
• Add: Different dynamic and black themes
• Fix: Pages popup animation
• Fix: Crash on resume after launching from AppSheet
• Fix: Navigation bar item's ripple
• Fix: StatusBar visibility in custom dynamic themes
• Update: Revamp AppSheet's buttons
• Update: Make Prefs backgrounds a bit transparent
• Update: Improve colors contrast to background

UX

• Add: Opt-in dev-option to ignore locked backups in housekeeping
• Add: Warning about password on save/loadPreferences dev-tool
• Update: Revamp resume logic (relock on each resume)

Release 8.3.4

SHA256

36aaf44ac1347f54fb2fa8bdbe1e53335a847ac4f2bb850153c0fa8449c24ce7

Changelog

Function

• Fix: Running schedules when app is not open
• Fix: Missing stub for restorePackage in specials

UI

• Add: Animate navigation bar buttons
• Fix: NavBar overlap of sheets

UX

• Fix: Crash on restarting app with open AppSheet

Release 8.3.3 (with hotfix)

SHA256

fbb60554a77bec5d8ec7726c886679f6d082439a0208ee44fb6272d0d8453364

Changelog

Function

• Fix: Force stopping an app
• Fix: Deleting schedule
• Fix: Crash on context menu/Put
• Fix: AutoLog after schedule in case of empty filtered list
• Update: Abstract Main pages from Activity
• Update: Generate Kotlin code using Room

UI

• Update: Pre-load all pages
• Update: Improve animation of updated apps bar

UX

• Fix: Add workaround to NavBar overlap of sheets on specific Android versions

Release 8.3.2

SHA256

3aae1d07091b62bc4f8cc5d8cbf12f32d034469396ae9f69ee59f268fb7f0286

Changelog

Function

• Add: Experimental export/import preferences (in DevTools/tools/)
• Add: Singular backups restore (atomic restoration)
• Add: AppInfo+schedule database dumps to terminal
• Add: Selinux status to support log
• Add: Recreating activities on specific changes
• Add: Schedule id to all schedule tracing messages
• Fix: Refreshing package & backup on launch
• Fix: Cache excluded even if it's enabled
• Fix: File duplication with SAF (file! not directory), redesigned/hardened duplicate protection (to
  be tested more)
• Fix: Deleted file/directory sometimes not recognized as deleted (to be tested more)
• Fix: File stream not closed
• Fix: Missing uninstalled packages with backups after startup
• Fix: Using nsenter method of global mount namespace in some cases (credit @H1mJT)
• Fix: With backupDir not accessible, refresh did not work
• Fix: deleteDocument deletes a parent directory
• Fix: setLanguage to work multiple times
• Fix: Startup single backup scans
• Fix: Do not disable password preference, if encryption is disabled, as still necessary for restore
• Fix: Crash on "non-null is null"-exception
• Fix: Crash on adding tag
• Fix: Batch backing up updated apps
• Fix: Reset defaults of yaml prefs
• Update: /data/local/toybox is now prioritized over others
• Update: Integrate Intro into Splash & Main
• Update: Use nsenter to run commands in the global mount namespace
• Update: TargetSDK 33
• Update: Move basic functionality to BaseActivity
• Update: Generalize BatchAction dialog usage
• Update: Replace apk-/dataCheckedList usage with apk-/dataBackupCheckedList
• Update: Make prefs reactive
• Update: Simplify ShellCommands init
• Update: Make exclude asset files react on no_backup preferences
• Update: Debug prefs must default to user value
• Update: CompileSdk 34
• Remove: IntroActivity
• Remove: Premature refreshing
• Remove: Automatically added ACCESS NETWORK STATE permission
• Remove: Usage of AppSheet in tasks

UI

• Add: Version text for screenshots and other purposes (preference versionOpacity)
• Add: PostNotifications permission
• Add: BlockBorder to pages
• Add: Option to use alternative NavBar item layout
• Fix: Help sheet & Welcome page transparent backgrounds
• Fix: Scrollable message when long in Actions DialogUI
• Fix: Check all StateChips ripple
• Fix: Batch recycler not filling page
• Update: Set default colors & main icon according to variant
• Update: Revamp pages layout
• Update: Revamp Terminal page layout
• Update: Revamp BatchPrefs, Help & SortFilter sheets into composables
• Update: Revamp all layouts
• Update: Theme-based prefs corner size
• Update: Migrate sheets to composable only
• Update: Replace legacy dialogs with composables
• Update: Revamp all items using ListItem
• Update: Make TopBar transparent
• Update: Revamp search bar layout
• Update: Limit BusyBackground to interaction pages (excluding top and bottom bars)

UX

• Add: Singular backups restore layout
• Add: Get/Put selections from/to Schedule custom/block lists
• Add: Long press on title always opens DevTools
• Add: Option in root missing dialog to share a support log
• Add: Indicator of backup revisions set limit
• Add: Indicator if password is set (***) vs. unset (---)
• Add: Extended special filters
• Add: Option to include new user apps with the updated apps notification
• Fix: Close context menu if choosing "no"
• Fix: Batch backups not working when singular backups layout is enable
• Fix: Check all apk/data not working
• Fix: Asking for permissions for special backups without restart
• Fix: duplicate directory picker
• Fix: Ghost clicking settings when search is expanded
• Fix: Checking Special backups for apk batch backup
• Update: Get/Put replaces Load/Save in context menu
• Update: Keyboard actions in dialogs with editable text (focus, tab, return, done etc.)
• Update: Allow showing value and description of prefs
• Update: Move pref to show background laser to UserPrefs

Release 8.3.1

SHA256

1a79e548533978dda2bce3666bd483b4d23378eade3663b967540c13351e073e

Changelog

Function

• Add: busy to renameDamagedToERROR etc.
• Add: DevTools openBackupDir (works only with SAF capable file managers, so only Files/DocumentsUI)
• Add: Dev-Prefs: autoLogUnInstallBroadcast, toolbarOpacity, prettyJson
• Add: maxJobs to change the default (changing needs real kill + restart),
• Add: killThisApp (app is killed, alarms are kept, unlike force-close)
• Add: Stopping schedule service on finished
• Fix: renameDamagedToERROR missing some important damages
• Fix: hidden Lucky Patcher issue (please test, we don't use it)
• Fix: missing empty line after log header
• Fix: all backups running at once
• Fix: Phh su + inherited+enforcing, directly check if su has --mount-master (github issue #562)
• Update: Pretty print properties files
• Update: improves prevention of duplicate schedules handling (should no more trigger detection)
• Update: Scan depth first in findBackups (= add directory contents at front of queue)
• Update: Remove all xxx dir for xxx.properties before queueing directory content in findbackups
• Update: terminal button log/rel to extract lines that are related to NB from logcat
  • currently machiav3lli.backup + NeoBackup, also used in SUPPORT. Note, log/app is PID related,
    so only from the running NB, not from the one before, if it was restarted)
• Remove: finishWork -> simplification

UI

• Add: New app icon
• Add: busy handling + refresh (indicator) button to Logs tab
• Update: Revamp NavBar & SearchBar
• Update: Another option for busy background with grey fade
• Update: Allow BottomSheet to extend over StatusBar
• Update: Icon & theme colors
• Update: Cleaner splash icon
• Remove: Overriding background color in light theme

UX

• Add: Rotating refresh button (turn time and scale in devsettings/adv)
• Add: search field in DevTools/devsett, searches all settings, but only key names, not the label
• Add: support infos for mount master etc.
• Fix: renameDamagedToERROR + undoDamagedToERROR blocking the UI
• Fix: a delete/rename backup glitch
• Fix: progress notifications
• Fix: missing refresh of packages on start

Release 8.3.0

SHA256

1c9c05f55eb11137649f9d9ccd95e2f312cc0dc6b04c12624f8a9a3956e6d840

Changelog

Usability / UX

• Add: hideBackupLabels, menuButtonAlwaysVisible developer options
• Add: Confirmation to context menu "add to blocklist"
• Add: Context menu item "Deselect Not Visible"
• Add: Enable backup/restore in context menu
• Add: Button to run schedule in Schedule item
• Fix: Duplicate entries in LogPage
• Fix: Remove and dismiss AppSheet of uninstalled package with no backups
• Update: Revamp the backend for faster reading and loading of the apps' list
• Update: More informative log file format
• Update: Replace busy progress bar by a more background animation

UI

• Add: Context menu floating button
• Add: Info on who's the build is signed by in HelpSheet
• Add: Separate Black theme preference
• Fix: Grey out app icon when uninstalled
• Update: Improve background theming
• Update: Actions buttons layout
• Update: ScheduleSheet bottom layout

Function

• Add: Database accessor on OABX
• Add: An experimental flatStructure scheme (read more in developer notes document)
• Add: DevTools for advanced users (read more in developer notes document)
• Fix: Run only numCores threads in parallel on menu actions
• Fix: Duplicated schedules
• Fix: Blocking other parts until full scan is ready
• Fix: Thread safety for parallel processes
• Fix: Duplicate searching time for backups of packages that don't have backups
• Fix: Failing backup after cleaning up the backup list
• Update: Use parallel processing where appropriate
• Update: Speedy cached/prefetched icons
• Update: Organize dev options in groups

Release 8.2.5

SHA256

e26d00d87261d530b788e9014fabc04e06cb3bcb414f703bd110147200281d16

Changelog

Function

• Fix: Schedules ignoring specials in blocklists
• Fix: Running schedules twice
• Add: Fake schedules
• Add: More tracing prefs

UI

• Fix: Add space to info chips

Full Changelog: 8.2.4...8.2.5