cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/38929150
Overview here
The new owner of the repo has a fresh github account and apparently has the signing keys from Catfriend1 too.
Time will tell if they are trustworthy, but for the extra paranoid it might make sense to pause updates for a while.
The new repo has two releases in it now. GitHub is silently redirecting to the new repo, even in Obtainium, meaning it’s possible that if you had this previously installed via Obtainium and updated now, you may have apks installed that may or may not contain the changes in the repo.
This is a mess. I deleted the repo from Obtainium (luckily I don’t auto install updates) and will wait to see what happens over the next few months. Might just save my notes in a network share instead of using syncthing from my phone. Idk, notes are all that I was using it for.
FYI, I’ve been on 2.0 since a few weeks after it released and I literally noticed no difference at all. If no one told me about the update, I would have had no idea that it had applied; everything has been running identically to how it was before. I think it’s safe to take up.
Nice to know! Thanks!
It’s been a month, i wonder if we have established the trustworthiness of the new maintained or not
That is a bit of a different case; Syncthing-Fork 2.0 was still under Catfriend1. From what I remember reading of Reddit banter, the pass-on was legitimate but just awkwardly done, to sum it up.