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However, on November 17, the developer decided not to change Syncthing to Pulse and is no longer working with ind.ie. In October 2014 it was announced by the original author that Syncthing was being rebranded as "Pulse". The initial public binary release (v0.2) was made on 30 December 2013.

new, extensible sync protocol (full rehashing of folder contents will happen on first restart).

Show limit locally changed files for receive only folders.

User/group ownership follows parent dir.

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Hotfix for release to fix a panic bug on Windows.

New parameter for adjusting database size.

It is an appealing tool for anybody wanting to take control of their data synchronization and replication needs."

But they have also done the work to make it all easy to set up and make use of - the place where a lot of free-software projects seem to fall down. The developers seem to have done the work to create a system that is capable, reliable, secure, and which performs reasonably well.

A reviewer in LWN writes "Syncthing leaves a favorable impression.

In episode 456 of SecurityNow!, host Steve Gibson praised Syncthing as a potential open-source replacement for BitTorrent Sync, and again referenced it in episodes 603, 698, 727, and in more detail in episodes 734 and 781.

Links to Docker images are also provided on the community contributions page, as well as links to supported configuration management solutions such as Puppet, Ansible and others. Syncthing must be configured via a web browser either locally or remotely (and supports access via proxy server), the REST and Events APIs or one of the community-contributed wrapper programs. Syncthing can be used without any connection to the project or community's servers: upgrades, opt-in usage data, discovery and relaying can all be disabled and/or configured independently, thus the mesh and its infrastructure can all be run in a closed system for privacy or confidentiality. Syncthing will automatically switch from relaying to direct device-to-device connections if it discovers that a direct connection has become available. Private relays can also be set up and configured, with or without public relays, if desired. The relaying performed is similar in nature to the TURN protocol, with the traffic TLS-encrypted end-to-end between devices (thus even the relay server cannot see the data, only the encrypted stream). The network of community-contributed relay servers allows devices that are both behind different IPv4 NAT firewalls to be able to communicate by relaying encrypted data via a third party. The project also provides the Syncthing Discovery Server program for hosting one's own discovery servers, which can be used alongside, or as a replacement of the public servers. Infrastructure ĭevice discovery is achieved via publicly-accessible discovery servers hosted by the project developers, local (LAN) discovery via broadcast messages, device history and static host name/addressing.

Moving and renaming of files and folders is handled efficiently, with Syncthing intelligently processing these operations rather than re-downloading data from scratch. Two different SHA256 hashing implementations are currently supported, the faster of which will be used dynamically after a brief benchmark on start-up. Syncthing offers send-only and receive-only folder types where updates from remote devices are not processed, various types of file versioning (trash can, simple or staggered versioning as well as handing versioning to an external program or script) and file/path ignore patterns.

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GUI Wrappers can use these files to present the user with a method of resolving conflicts without having to resort to manual file handling.Įfficient synching is achieved via compression of metadata or all transfer data, block re-use and lightweight scanning for changed files, once a full hash has been computed and saved.

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Ĭonflicts are handled with the older file being renamed with a "sync-conflict" suffix (along with time and date stamp), enabling the user to decide how to manage two or more files of the same name that have been changed between synching. All data, whether transferred directly between devices or via relays, is encrypted using TLS. Devices connecting to each other require explicit approval (unless using the Introducer feature) which increases the security of the mesh.

It supports IPv6 and, for those on IPv4 networks, NAT punching and relaying are offered.

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Syncthing is a BYO cloud model where the users provide the hardware that the software runs on.

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Syncthing is written in Go and implements its own, equally free Block Exchange Protocol.