Syncthing status update??

Some months ago I'v read that there where some issues over privacy on latest syncthing releases, what's the status as of today? alternative is needed or is safe to use?

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boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net · 5 pts · 148d (2 replies)

I am using researchxxl's fork now and it works fine, had 2 updates in the meanwhile

JoeKrogan@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 148d (1 reply)

https://github.com/researchxxl/syncthing-android/commits/main/

Catfriend seems to be still contributing to this fork

boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net · 2 pts · 147d

Interesting. So while the handover was pretty bad, I think this is the version to go with

slazer2au@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 148d (2 replies)

Syncthing itself is fine. The unofficial Syncthing for Android was the problem.

You can get around the problem by installing Termux and using the official Syncthing client.

boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net · 7 pts · 148d

Using termux full time for running network facing services is pretty insecure. Termux should not be relied on for sensitive things, EVERY process runs as the same user.

unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de · 4 pts · 148d

There is also the android version of syncthing-tray

https://martchus.github.io/doc/syncthingtray/docs/android.html
https://martchus.github.io/syncthingtray/#downloads-section
https://martchus.github.io/doc/syncthingtray/docs/screenshots.html#mobile-ui-on-android

That dev has been around for a long time so seems like a decent option even if not as polished as syncthing-fork was.

unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de · 1 pts · 148d
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