obsidian-livesync/updates.md

0.24.31

10th July, 2025

Fixed

• The description of Enable Developers' Debug Tools. has been refined.
  • Now performance impact is more clearly stated.
• Automatic conflict checking and resolution has been improved.
  • It now works parallelly for each other file, instead of sequentially. It makes significantly faster on first synchronisation when with local files information.
• Resolving conflicts dialogue will not be shown for the multiple files at once.
  • It will be shown for each file, one by one.

0.24.30

9th July, 2025

New Feature

• New chunking algorithm V3: Fine deduplication has been added, and will be recommended after updates.
  • The Rabin-Karp algorithm is used for efficient chunking.
  • This will be the default in the new installations.
  • It is more robust and faster than the previous one.
  • We can change it in the Advanced pane of the settings.
• New language ko (Korean) has been added.
  • Thank you for your contribution, @ellixspace!
    • Any contributions are welcome, from any route. Please let me know if I seem to be unaware of this. It is often the case that I am not really aware of it.
• Chinese (Simplified) translation has been updated.
  • Thank you for your contribution, @52sanmao!

Fixed

• Numeric settings are now never lost the focus during value changing.
• Doctor now redacts more sensitive information on error reports.

Improved

• All translations have been rewritten into YAML format, to easier to manage and contribute.
  • We can write them with comments, newlines, and other YAML features.
• Doctor recommendations are now shown in a user-friendly notation.
  • We can now see the recommended as V3: Fine deduplication instead of v3-rabin-karp.

Refactored

• Never-ending ObsidianLiveSyncSettingTab.ts has finally been separated into each pane's file.
• Some commented-out code has been removed.

Acknowledgement

• Jun Murakami, Shun Ishiguro, and Yoshihiro Oyama. 2012. Implementation and Evaluation of a Cache Deduplication Mechanism with Content-Defined Chunking. In IPSJ SIG Technical Report, Vol.2012-ARC-202, No.4. Information Processing Society of Japan, 1-7.

0.24.29

20th June, 2025

Fixed

• Synchronisation with buckets now works correctly, regardless of whether a prefix is set or the bucket has been (re-) initialised (#664).
• An information message is now displayed again, during any automatic synchronisation is enabled (#662).

Tidied up

• Importing paths have been tidied up.

0.24.28

15th June, 2025

Fixed

• Batch Update is no longer available in LiveSync mode to avoid unexpected behaviour. (#653)
• Now compatible with Cloudflare R2 again for bucket synchronisation.
  • @edo-bari-ikutsu, thank you for your contribution!
• Prevention of broken behaviour due to database connection failures added (#649).

0.24.27

10th June, 2025

Improved

• We can use prefix for path for the Bucket synchronisation.
  • For example, if you set the vaultName/ as a prefix for the bucket in the root directory, all data will be transferred to the bucket under the vaultName/ directory.
• The "Use Request API to avoid inevitable CORS problem" option is now promoted to the normal setting, not a niche patch.

Fixed

• Now switching replicators applied immediately, without the need to restart Obsidian.

Tidied up

• Some dependencies have been updated to the latest version.

0.24.26

14th May, 2025

This update introduces an option to circumvent Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS) constraints for CouchDB requests, by leveraging Obsidian's native request API. The implementation of such a feature had previously been deferred due to significant security considerations.

CORS is a vital security mechanism, enabling servers like CouchDB -- which functions as a sophisticated REST API -- to control access from different origins, thereby ensuring secure communication across trust boundaries. I had long hesitated to offer a CORS circumvention method, as it deviates from security best practices; My preference was for users to configure CORS correctly on the server-side.

However, this policy has shifted due to specific reports of intractable CORS-related configuration issues, particularly within enterprise proxy environments where proxy servers can unpredictably alter or block communications. Given that a primary objective of the "Self-hosted LiveSync" plugin is to facilitate secure Obsidian usage within stringent corporate settings, addressing these 'unavoidable' user-reported problems became essential. Mostly raison d'être of this plugin.

Consequently, the option "Use Request API to avoid inevitable CORS problem" has been implemented. Users are strongly advised to enable this only when operating within a trusted environment. We can enable this option in the Patch pane.

However, just to whisper, this is tremendously fast.

New Features

• Automatic display-language changing according to the Obsidian language setting.
  • We will be asked on the migration or first startup.
  • Note: Please revert to the default language if you report any issues.
  • Not all messages are translated yet. We welcome your contribution!
• Now we can limit files to be synchronised even in the hidden files.
• "Use Request API to avoid inevitable CORS problem" has been implemented.
  • Less secure, please use it only if you are sure that you are in the trusted environment and be able to ignore the CORS. No Web viewer or similar tools are recommended. (To avoid the origin forged attack). If you are able to configure the server setting, always that is recommended.
• Show status icon instead of file warnings banner has been implemented.
  • If enabled, the ⛔ icon will be shown inside the status instead of the file warnings banner. No details will be shown.

Improved

• All regular expressions can be inverted by prefixing !! now.

Fixed

• No longer unexpected files will be gathered during hidden file sync.
• No longer broken \n and new-line characters during the bucket synchronisation.
• We can purge the remote bucket again if we using MinIO instead of AWS S3 or Cloudflare R2.
• Purging the remote bucket is now more reliable.
  • 100 files are purged at a time.
• Some wrong messages have been fixed.

Behaviour changed

• Entering into the deeper directories to gather the hidden files is now limited by / or \/ prefixed ignore filters. (It means that directories are scanned deeper than before).
  • However, inside the these directories, the files are still limited by the ignore filters.

Etcetera

• Some code has been tidied up.
• Trying less warning-suppressing and be more safer-coding.
• Dependent libraries have been updated to the latest version.
• Some build processes have been separated to pre and post processes.

Older notes are in updates_old.md.