GitBolt 0.9.5

Usage statistics and crash reports, which show the maintainers which
features are used and what goes wrong, and a history that loads past
its first 256 commits.

Added

• Usage statistics and crash reports: official GitBolt builds
  (releases, and CI's builds of main) now send usage statistics, and
  summaries of crashes and errors, to the GitBolt maintainers' own
  servers. They are on by default, with no pop-up, and
  PRIVACY.md,
  linked from the About GitBolt dialog, the README and Settings, says
  exactly what is sent.
  • Usage statistics, under a random install ID and a device ID
    derived from it: each start (with the version, OS, CPU
    architecture, Qt version and system language), which menu and
    toolbar commands are used and how often, and how long repositories
    take to open and to show the first page of their history, with a
    rough count of that page's commits (0, 1-99, 100-255 or 256+).
  • Crash and error reports, without your install ID (each carries
    only a random report ID): which Git operation failed (such as
    fetch or push), that a commit failed, or the error code of a
    repository that would not open (such as not_found); and, after a
    crash, its kind (such as SIGSEGV) and its call stack, reduced to
    positions in GitBolt, Qt, libgit2 and the system's own libraries,
    with function names for those libraries only. Any other library
    shows as <other>.
  • Never sent: repository names or paths, branch, tag or remote
    names, remote URLs, commit messages or hashes, the names or
    contents of your files, email addresses and user names.
• Tools › Settings › General › Usage statistics, in official
  builds, turns them off: sending stops at once and anything still
  waiting is deleted. It also shows your install ID, with a Copy
  button, for deletion requests, and links to what is collected.
  DO_NOT_TRACK=1 or GITBOLT_TELEMETRY=0 turn them off too. Builds
  from source and forks contain no server addresses and send nothing,
  and GitBolt sends nothing when run by tests or in CI.

Changed

• Crash Detected: when a summary of the crash report will be sent,
  the dialog says so, and that it can be turned off in Settings. The
  report GitBolt saves now names the version that crashed instead of
  "unknown".
• Linux packages: the .deb now depends on OpenSSL 3 (libssl3t64,
  or libssl3 on older releases), which GitBolt needs to send usage
  statistics over HTTPS, and its AppStream content rating now declares
  that GitBolt sends usage statistics under a persistent install ID
  (OARS social-info: intense).
• README: the Project Status section is gone, and a Privacy and
  usage statistics section is new.

Fixed

• History: scrolling past a repository's first 256 commits added
  those same 256 again, so older commits never appeared. Each page now
  continues where the last one stopped.