News

New Release: Rsync for Tasker 0.18

• Updated bundled Dropbear binaries to 2026.90.
• Updated bundled rsync binary to 3.4.2.
• Updated dependencies.

For full details and to download this release, see the Rsync for Tasker page.

New Release: Rsync for Tasker 0.17

• Added filtering of harmless unsupported flags warning from process output under Android 6 & 7.
• Updated targetSdk to 36 (Android 16).
• Increased minSdk from 21 to 23 as the latest Jetpack libraries require this. Unfortunately this means that the app now only runs on Android 6.0 and above.
• Updated bundled Dropbear binaries to 2025.89.
• Updated dependencies.

For full details and to download this release, see the Rsync for Tasker page.

Archiving Radio Downloader

Radio Downloader was the first project I published on this site - I’m somewhat alarmed to discover that was well over 18 years ago!

I’ve a lot of fondness for Radio Downloader, which is probably why I’ve taken until now to decide to step away from it, despite not having had the enthusiasm to maintain it as well as I’d have liked in more recent years (or having released a new version in over five years).

I’ll leave the project pages and source repository online for the foreseeable future but I’ve marked them as archived to make the situation clear.

Apologies to anyone who is disappointed by this news but I hope you’ll understand.

New Release: Rsync for Tasker 0.16

• Fixed private key config crash on screen rotate.
• Enabled edge-to-edge mode for all activities.
• Documented variable that public key is written to.
• Updated bundled Dropbear binaries to 2025.88.
• Updated targetSdk to 35 (Android 15).
• Updated dependencies.

For full details and to download this release, see the Rsync for Tasker page.

New Release: Rsync for Tasker 0.15

• Stopped requiring a private key for the rsync action when src and dest are both local paths.
• Updated bundled rsync binary to 3.4.1.
• Updated dependencies.

For full details and to download this release, see the Rsync for Tasker page.

New Release: libbeebimage 1.1

The main reason for this release is to fix compilation under GCC 13 but it also:

• Fixes warnings reported by cppcheck.
• Bumps the minimum cmake version from 3.2 to 3.5 to fix a deprecation warning.

For full details and to download this release, see the libbeebimage page.

New Release: Rsync for Tasker 0.14

• Updated bundled Dropbear binaries to 2024.86.
• Increased minSdk from 19 to 21 as the latest Jetpack libraries and NDK r26 require this. Unfortunately this means that the app now only runs on Android 5.0 and above.
• Updated dependencies.

For full details and to download this release, see the Rsync for Tasker page.

Issue 67 added to 8BS Online Conversion

I’ve just added Issue 67 to the 8-Bit Software Magazine Online Conversion. This was an extra issue released in 2013 but I only recently became aware of it.

Since the rest of the issues were added I’ve made quite a few incremental improvements to the conversion, especially relating to the accuracy of the Mode 7 conversion and much better handling of archive content. I plan to continue making gradual improvements over time.

New Release: recycle.ko 0.2

• Correctly ignore files unlinked from an inner nested recycle directory instead of moving them to the outer recycle dir.

For full details and to download this release, see the recycle.ko page.

New Project: recycle.ko

I’ve written a new Linux kernel module inspired by the Samba vfs_recycle module but to work more generally with any local file system.

It is currently tested and working with Ubuntu 24.04 and a DKMS .deb package is available for Debian-based distros. For more information, check out the project page.