J-Pilot 2.1.0

[juddmon]

J-Pilot 2.1.0

Released 2026-08-02

J-Pilot is a Palm OS device desktop for Linux/Unix. This release brings live-updating color themes, a batch of crash and security fixes, broad build/portability work (OpenSSL 3, modern autotools, macOS), and a move to the current pilot-link.

Important

New requirement: pilot-link 0.15.0 or greater.
2.1.0 codes against the updated Contact blob API introduced in pilot-link 0.15.0, so older pilot-link (0.12.x–0.14.x) will no longer build or run correctly. Upgrade pilot-link before building or installing.

• Build needs libpisock-dev >= 0.15.0; runtime needs libpisock9 (>= 0.15.0).
• pilot-link is available from https://github.com/desrod/pilot-link
• Debian packages I built for Ubuntu 22.04, 24.04 and 26.04 are at https://packagecloud.io/judd/jpilot

✨ New & improved

• Modern CSS color themes that update live when you select them — no restart needed.
• Replaced the deprecated gdk_pixbuf XPM loader used for the contacts photo.

🐛 Bug fixes

• Fixed a crash when checking a to-do from the left-most checkbox column.
• Fixed a crash in the Calendar's embedded to-do pane when the to-do list is empty.
• Fixed a segfault in the Expense and KeyRing plugins.
• Fixed corrupted to-do CSV export when using the SQLite backend.
• Fixed a preferences memory bug by reactivating jp_pref_init() / jp_free_prefs() (Plugin crash caused by deactivated functions provided in libplugin.h #61).

🔒 Security & robustness hardening

• Fixed a format-string flaw in the HotSync log (a synced database name could be interpreted as a format string).
• Fixed an uninitialized-pointer read and a buffer over-read when printing addresses.
• Removed assorted dead / incorrect code surfaced during the audit.

🔧 Build, packaging & portability

• pilot-link 0.15.0 is now the minimum (Contact blob API); dependency bumped in configure, Debian control, and the RPM spec.
• Fixed the build against OpenSSL 3 in the KeyRing plugin.
• Fixed configure on modern autotools: replaced the removed AM_PATH_GTK_3_0 with PKG_CHECK_MODULES and cleaned up obsolete macros.
• macOS build support: pilot-link Blob_t API, glibtoolize fallback, and related fixes.
• The jpsqlite plugin is now optional and fails clearly when SQLite is missing.
• Added Debian packaging (debian/ directory, build-debian.sh) and Debian 12 build documentation.
• Fixed many compiler warnings under -Wall -O2; updated copyright dates to 2026.

📦 Installing

Debian/Ubuntu — install the packages for your distro (also on packagecloud):

sudo dpkg -i jpilot_2.1.0-1_amd64.deb jpilot-plugins_2.1.0-1_amd64.deb

From source (requires libpisock-dev >= 0.15.0, libgtk-3-dev, intltool, and — for KeyRing — libgcrypt or OpenSSL):

./autogen.sh
./configure
make
sudo make install

🙌 Contributors

Thanks to everyone who contributed to this release:
Judd Montgomery (juddmon), Ulf Zibis (CoSoCo), David A. Desrosiers (desrod), Jeff Hodson (HodsonTech), Elmar Klausmeier, Neil Sinclair, PapayaJackal, and ThaGuMath.

Full changelog: v2_0_2...v2_1_0

New Contributors (this is the first time I've created a release, so this goes way back). If I forgot anyone, let me know.

• @unforgettableid made their first contribution in Adding font.c to gettext translation list #12
• @nforro made their first contribution in Fix build with GCC 10 #16
• @dmalia1 made their first contribution in Gtk3build #18
• @keslerm made their first contribution in Fix broken types from latest pilot-link changes #49
• @Schievel1 made their first contribution in Fix configure.in for clang16 #50
• @eklausme made their first contribution in SQLite storage #55
• @PapayaJackal made their first contribution in Fix build on MacOS #59
• @CoSoCo made their first contribution in Modernized and enhanced build instructions #62
• @ThaGuMath made their first contribution in Add Debian 12 build documentation and configure.ac advisory #72
• @desrod made their first contribution in Fix to built on macOS, sync to pilot-link Blob_t API, fall back to glibtoolize #76
• @HodsonTech made their first contribution in configure.ac: replace removed AM_PATH_GTK_3_0 with PKG_CHECK_MODULES #80

Full Changelog: https://github.com/juddmon/jpilot/commits/v2_1_0

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