Пост📣 May'26 Updates

📣 May'26 Updates It's been a while since I posted the last update (which was in September last year). As some of you are aware, I've been very busy with a lot of things and could hardly allocate time to my open source projects. However, I always try to respond to the emails and the issues raised on the GitHub issue tracker. There's a good news though. My course work for PhD will be completed on the first week of June, which means I no longer have to worry about attending classes and exams, etc., only research. This also means that I can finally allocate some time to my open source projects too. If you're translating App Manager, you may know that the translations have been locked for a while. This is because I am currently reviewing over 200+ translation contributions made in the last few months by over 50 translators. Once I am finished merging all the translations, I shall unlock the translations. The release process involves a few more steps though. First, I need to go through all the changes made (which is over one thousand). Then, I will update the documentation as well as write the changelog. Finally, I will do a final check to see if I have addressed all the issues that I have added to the milestone, and also if there are any security disclosures to be made (unfortunately, I cannot pay anybody for reporting security vulnerabilities though). Then the release will be made. The earliest possible date, as I have mentioned in the Matrix group a few months ago, is June (quite possibly in the third week). I am not going to work on any major features until the end of the year. So, the focus this year will be on improving the existing features, especially the permission management (like I mentioned in a previous update). As I mentioned before, the next release (v4.1.x) will be the last release to support Android Lollipop (5.0 and 5.1). After that the versions will diverge, and Android Lollipop users will only receive yearly updates. Google has also signaled that they are dropping support for Android Marshmallow (6.0) from the core libraries. If they do this by this year, it may extend to 6.0 too.