Changelog for Permission Pilot

v2.0.0-rc0 - March 19, 2026

What’s Changed

Enhancements

General: Improve source string clarity for translators by @d4rken in #276
General: Migrate all screens from XML to Jetpack Compose by @d4rken in #277
Permissions: Redesign permission details with typed pills and help dialogs by @d4rken in #278
Compose: Add preview functions to all leaf content screens by @d4rken in #279
Overview: Redesign with hero stats card and categorized app list by @d4rken in #280
General: Add automated Play Store screenshot generation by @d4rken in #281
General: Switch to two-tone Material Design icons by @d4rken in #282
Settings: Implement index, support, and acknowledgements screens by @d4rken in #283
Permissions: Redesign list with grant ratio bars and unified tag pills by @d4rken in #284
General: Add icons for all permission rows by @d4rken in #285
Settings: Add theme customization with upgrade requirement by @d4rken in #292
Settings: Add contact support form and unify debug log recording by @d4rken in #297
Add upgrade screens with billing support by @d4rken in #301
Add permission change monitoring and notifications by @d4rken in #306
Polish permission watcher: background polling, filtering, and notifications by @d4rken in #307
Add permission gain tracking and refresh FAB to watcher by @d4rken in #310
Use Room TypeConverters for type-safe enum fields by @d4rken in #311
Add option to only notify when permissions are gained by @d4rken in #316
Show funny loading messages on all screens by @d4rken in #317
Improve search bar appearance with icon and clear button by @d4rken in #318
Permissions: Align filter and sort UI with apps list by @d4rken in #319
General: Add refresh button with progress indicator by @d4rken in #323
Watcher: Show distinct icon for removed apps by @d4rken in #325
Overview: Add grouped category sections and hide refresh button on scroll by @d4rken in #326
General: Add export feature for app and permission info by @d4rken in #327
Apps: Add manifest analysis with queries detection by @d4rken in #328
General: Polish UI text, declutter filters, and fix watcher notifications by @d4rken in #330
General: Enforce type-safe package names across the codebase by @d4rken in #332

Bug fixes

General: Fix crash when resolving app labels on multi-user devices by @d4rken in #286
General: Fix crash when checking special permissions on older devices by @d4rken in #287
General: Fix crash when loading permission labels from unavailable packages by @d4rken in #288
General: Remove unused ConstraintLayout dependency and update billing library by @d4rken in #289
Settings: Fix changelog link to point to website by @d4rken in #290

Other changes

General: Update Android Gradle Plugin to 9.0.1 by @d4rken in #274
Fix debug session manager bugs, add ViewModel nav scoping by @d4rken in #299
Migrate FlowPreference to DataStore with Moshi support by @d4rken in #293
Refactor: standardize state collection, remove waitForState/LiveData by @d4rken in #294
Migrate Moshi to kotlinx.serialization by @d4rken in #300
Update GitHub Actions to Node.js 24-compatible versions by @d4rken in #302
Remove upgrade nag popup by @d4rken in #303
Fix watcher worker policy and optimize snapshot diff by @d4rken in #304
Add themed icon support for Material You by @d4rken in #308
Add LEGACY_STORAGE permission detection via AppOps by @d4rken in #309
Show precise grant ratios and other-profile counts in permission details by @d4rken in #314
Apps: Detect and display device admin status by @d4rken in #313
Make overview category rows clickable to show filtered apps by @d4rken in #312
Fix opening app details for apps in secondary profiles by @d4rken in #315
Freemium watcher: let free users run watcher with gated features by @d4rken in #320
General: Refresh loading messages with new entries by @d4rken in #321
Settings: Add scan speed setting to General Settings by @d4rken in #324
General: Remove hasFragileUserData from manifest by @d4rken in #322
General: UI polishing for apps list, overview, and watcher settings by @d4rken in #329
General: Upgrade Gradle wrapper to 9.4.1 with SHA-256 verification by @d4rken in #331
General: Update translations from Crowdin by @d4rken in #333

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v1.8.3-rc0 - February 18, 2026

What’s Changed

Enhancements

General: Convert count-based strings to Android plurals by @d4rken in #271

Other changes

General: Update translations from Crowdin by @d4rken in #272
General: Update Ruby dependencies by @d4rken in #273

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v1.8.2-rc0 - February 16, 2026

What’s Changed

Other changes

General: Update translations from Crowdin by @d4rken in #270

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v1.8.1-rc0 - February 10, 2026

What’s Changed

Enhancements

Migrate to AGP 9, Gradle 9.2, and Kotlin 2.2 by @d4rken in #268

Other changes

General: Update translations from Crowdin by @d4rken in #269

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v1.8.0-rc0 - February 04, 2026

What’s Changed

Enhancements

Complete missing translations for 9 locales by @d4rken in #242
Add links and references to Crowdin by @d4rken in #244
Improve UI for more list space on Apps/Permissions pages by @d4rken in #259
Add user/system app filter to Permission Details screen by @d4rken in #260
Add filter functionality to App Details and Permission Details screens by @d4rken in #261
Move toolbar actions to overflow menus for cleaner UI by @d4rken in #262
Expand AppOps-based permission grant status detection by @d4rken in #265
Improve search field IME behavior by @d4rken in #266
Complete missing translations for 36 locales by @d4rken in #267

Bug fixes

Fix crash when accessing nullable string value by @d4rken in #235
Fix misleading error message for uninstalled apps with retained data by @d4rken in #243
Fix special permission grant status detection by @d4rken in #263
Fix permission intent shortcuts crashing on older Android versions by @d4rken in #264

Other changes

Update AGP to 8.13.2 and fix deprecation warnings by @d4rken in #239
Fix display cutout handling in landscape mode by @d4rken in #240
Fix NPE when viewing app details for secondary profile apps by @d4rken in #241
fix readme badges by @jermanuts in #245

New Contributors

@jermanuts made their first contribution in #245

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v1.7.5-rc0 - July 02, 2025

What’s Changed

Other changes

Google Play Maintenance by @d4rken in #234

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v1.7.4-rc1 - June 24, 2025

What’s Changed

Other changes

Update github actions and use pinning by @d4rken in #221
Tweaks for reproducible builds by @d4rken in #219
Improved Play Store changelogs and added a changelog page. by @d4rken in #227
feat(zh_TW): added zh_TW (cleanup) by @d4rken in #229
More translations by @d4rken in #230
Extra translations by @d4rken in #231
More translation work by @d4rken in #232

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v1.7.3-rc0 - March 25, 2025

What’s Changed

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Remove Twitter by @d4rken in #218
Update privacy policy link/design by @d4rken in #217

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v1.7.2-rc0 - December 10, 2024

What’s Changed

Other changes

Change CI java distribution by @d4rken in #211
Bump AGP by @d4rken in #212

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v1.7.1-rc0 - November 27, 2024

What’s Changed

Enhancements

Add missing icons to “CALL” permissions by @d4rken in #209
Improve overview texts by @d4rken in #210

Other changes

Enable reproducible builds by @d4rken in #208

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v1.7.0-rc0 - July 12, 2024

What’s Changed

Enhancements

Remove proprietary Google Play info block in FOSS builds by @d4rken in #202
Bump target API level to 34 and update dependencies by @d4rken in #204

Other changes

add chinese translation by @Nriver in #194

New Contributors

@Nriver made their first contribution in #194

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v1.6.11-rc0 - August 20, 2023

What’s Changed

Enhancements

Automatically reduce IPC parallelism if it causes crashes by @d4rken in #192

Bug fixes

Remove untrue claim about internet permissions. by @d4rken in #193

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v1.6.10-rc0 - August 19, 2023

What’s Changed

Other changes

Update strings.xml by @gallegonovato in #189
Maintenance update by @d4rken in #191

New Contributors

@gallegonovato made their first contribution in #189

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v1.6.9-rc0 - July 06, 2023

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v1.6.8-rc1 - July 05, 2023

What’s Changed

Enhancements

Add Spanish translation by @d4rken in #180

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v1.6.7-rc1 - March 19, 2023

What’s Changed

Enhancements

Improve IAP handling by @d4rken in #176

Other changes

Add onboarding screen by @d4rken in #177

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v1.1.6-rc0 - February 22, 2023

What’s Changed

Bug fixes

Move debug log related manifest declarations to the FOSS only build by @d4rken in #172
Fix stackoverflow on user device by @d4rken in #174

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v1.1.5-rc0 - January 14, 2023

No release notes available.

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v1.1.4-rc0 - January 11, 2023

What’s Changed

Other changes

Remove debuglog option Google Play builds. by @d4rken in #171

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v1.1.3-rc0 - January 06, 2023

What’s Changed

Enhancements

Remove superfluous debug options by @d4rken in #169

Bug fixes

Add prominent disclose to debug log recording. by @d4rken in #170

Other changes

Updated portuguese transalations by m_s_ by @d4rken in #156

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v1.1.2-rc0 - November 17, 2022

No release notes available.

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v1.1.1-rc0 - November 02, 2022

What’s Changed

Other changes

Greek language by @d4rken in #155

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v1.1.0-rc1 - November 01, 2022

What’s Changed

Bug fixes

Funnel ipc buffer data access by @d4rken in #151

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v1.0.2-RC0 - October 11, 2022

What’s Changed

Other changes

Czech translation by @novas78 in #149
Create strings.xml by @gaich in #150

New Contributors

@novas78 made their first contribution in #149
@gaich made their first contribution in #150

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v1.0.1-RC0 - August 23, 2022

No release notes available.

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v1.0.0-RC0 - August 23, 2022

No release notes available.

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v0.9.0-RC0 - August 22, 2022

What’s Changed

Enhancements

Open app button in details by @d4rken in #143
Basic overview card for device and app summary by @d4rken in #142

Other changes

UI Polishing 20220803 by @TheMysticS in #138

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v0.7.2-RC1 - August 02, 2022

What’s Changed

Other changes

Update APerm.kt by @TheMysticS in #134

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v0.7.1-RC1 - August 01, 2022

No release notes available.

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v0.7.1 - August 01, 2022

What’s Changed

Other changes

Fine Tuning permissions and descriptions. by @TheMysticS in #132

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v0.7.0 - July 31, 2022

No release notes available.

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v0.6.1 - July 31, 2022

What’s Changed

Enhancements

Restructure permissions & filter by @d4rken in #129

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v0.6.0 - July 30, 2022

What’s Changed

Enhancements

New Permissions with Icons added by @TheMysticS in #118
Permission grouping/categories by @d4rken in #114

Other changes

Update AppsFilterOptions.kt by @TheMysticS in #121

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v0.5.7 - July 28, 2022

What’s Changed

Other changes

Renamed some filters and details for App counts by @TheMysticS in #105
Reworded permission restrictions statement. by @TheMysticS in #107

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v0.5.6 - July 27, 2022

What’s Changed

Other changes

Update README.md by @TheMysticS in #104

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v0.5.5 - July 27, 2022

What’s Changed

Other changes

Utilize more AndroidX Core compatibility implementations by @TacoTheDank in #93
Add android.permission.FOREGROUND_SERVICE to known permissions. by @d4rken in #95
Add android.permission.REBOOT icon,label and description by @d4rken in #96

New Contributors

@TacoTheDank made their first contribution in #93
@d4rken made their first contribution in #95

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v0.5.3 - July 26, 2022

No release notes available.

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v0.5.2 - July 26, 2022

No release notes available.

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v0.5.1-gplay-init - July 26, 2022

No release notes available.

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v0.5.0 - July 26, 2022

No release notes available.

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