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LibreNostr v0.3.2

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@Lwb89dev Lwb89dev released this 06 Sep 08:51
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v0.3.2
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Note translation is now fully on-device — no server, no configuration, nothing ever leaves your phone.

Changed

  • Note translation no longer uses a remote LibreTranslate server. The "Translate" action introduced in 0.3.0 now runs entirely on-device via Bergamot Translator (Mozilla's own production NMT engine — the same one built into Firefox) with real neural translation models, covering every EU official language plus Chinese, Japanese, and Maltese in both directions (Irish has no published model anywhere, so it isn't supported). Models are small (mostly 14-18MB per language pair) and download on demand, with an explicit confirmation showing the real size and an on-device/offline disclosure before anything is fetched — never bundled into the app itself. "Translate notes" is on by default now that there's no server address or API key to configure; the now-pointless server URL and API key fields have been removed from Settings > Content Display.
  • Raised the minimum supported Android version from 9.0 to Pie (API 28, Android 9) — the on-device translation engine's iconv usage requires it.
  • Release APKs are now built for arm64-v8a only (previously also armeabi-v7a and x86_64). A real 32-bit-only phone isn't a realistic target any more, and native x86_64 Android phones are effectively nonexistent today — the rare x86 devices (Chromebooks) already run arm64 apps through their own translation layer.

Fixed

  • Translating several notes in a scrolling session could grow the app's memory use without bound until it ran out of memory and crashed — language detection was loading its full offline model independently for every note instead of once, shared.
  • Scrolling a note out of view while it was translating (or downloading a language pack) silently abandoned the operation — the spinner just kept spinning forever, with no error and no result even if you scrolled back. Translation now runs independently of what's on screen, so it keeps going, and finishes, regardless.
  • Translation could take upwards of 15-20 seconds per note due to two compounding issues: the debug build of the native engine ran unoptimized, and the one-time language-detection setup was doing several times more work than it needed to. Both are fixed — a typical translation now takes about two seconds.

Verify the APK signature before installing:

apksigner verify --print-certs librenostr-0.3.2-arm64-v8a.apk
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