Dear Sivaraam, Thank you for the information.
I look forward to sharing feedback from my interaction with the new app. Long overdue, I must say. Best, Wilson On Mon, Nov 6, 2023 at 7:25 PM Kaartic Sivaraam <kaartic.sivar...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > Hope you have been well! We have just released v4.2 of the Commons > Android app to production. The update is now available on Play store [1] > and F-droid [2]. You could also build the app directly from our GitHub > repository [3]. > > An important thing we wanted to communicate. We've changed the Mapbox > API key used by the app in this release (v4.2.1) due to some unforeseen > circumstances. We also had to revoke the old API key that is being used > by the older version of the app (< v4.2.1). > > You might face issues with accessing maps in those versions of the app > such as the Nearby screen appearing blank etc. We request your to kindly > upgrade to v4.2.1 in order to continue using the features for which > rendering a map is necessary. Other features should work fine. We regret > the inconvenience that this may cause. Feel free to open an issue in our > issue tracker [4] for any assistance. We'll be glad to help. > > This release also includes the done by Ritika Pahwa during GSoC 2023. > This includes changes done to improve the reliability of the failed, > stuck uploads and changes to prevent location metadata loss for uploads > done via in the app. > > In case you've been facing issues with the uploads, do give the latest > version a try. It should be better than before. Feel free to reach out > to us with any feedback you may have. It would be very helpful. > > Other significant changes: > > - Dark mode colour improvements > > - Uploading via the in-app camera has been fixed and should work > normally. > > - Provide the ability to edit an image to losslessly rotate it while > uploading. > > - Category search now shows exact matches without any discrepancies > > - We've switched to using MapLibre instead of Mapbox and thereby > disabled telemetry sent to Mapbox. We're also actively exploring > alternatives to Mapbox so that we could completely move away from it. > Check out the related issue [5] for information regarding the same. > > - Fix some redundant crash issues > > Checkout our changelog [6] for a more detailed set of changes since the > last announcement. > > [[ References ]] > > [1]: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=fr.free.nrw.commons > [2]: https://f-droid.org/en/packages/fr.free.nrw.commons > [3]: > https://github.com/commons-app/apps-android-commons/releases/tag/v4.2.1 > [4]: https://github.com/commons-app/apps-android-commons/issues > [5]: https://github.com/commons-app/apps-android-commons/issues/5352 > [6]: > https://github.com/commons-app/apps-android-commons/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md > > > Best regards, > Sivaraam (User:Kaartic) > _______________________________________________ > Commons-l mailing list -- commons-l@lists.wikimedia.org > To unsubscribe send an email to commons-l-le...@lists.wikimedia.org >
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