F-Droid just pushed a Molly-UP update that appears to only add a deprecation warning, and that holds the version number below Molly-FOSS.
There are no instructions. The Install link points to the repo, which F-Droid just notes that I already have.
In the past I have completely lost Signal history twice, once from reinstalling Signal itself but it refusing to read the backup, and once from trying to upgrade from Signal to Molly but having a backup versioned in the wrong direction.
Is the safe process for replacing Molly-UP written down anywhere? I would strongly prefer keeping Unified Push, but I feel like I’ve been told to walk into a dark tunnel.
i surely didn’t explain well. to my knowledge there are three mollys. the standard one with google services blobs, the -foss that has no blobs and presumably has to use websockets, and the -up (-foss-up?) that can do unified push, though it doesn’t have to.
i forget whether foss and -up were in different repos to each other. but without my changing any repos, molly(-foss)-up updated itself to 7.23.1-1.up1-foss. this is behind the 7.26 of -foss. it displays a dialog that says it’s deprecated, and since it’s left backrevved, isn’t likely getting security updates. clicking install sends you into the hole i described at first.
i do believe this path is working and that my notifications are coming through my xmpp account, not websockets. but i haven’t traced it to prove it is so.
Upgrades happen a different times it seems, depending on the phone, :( Yes, I notice exactly the same… I’m trying to ditch signal any ways, perhaps the right time. But the instructions someone share seem the appropriate ones.
Thanks !