Repository still maintained?

[chrusu]

I really appreciate the work you have put in this project, and i understand that you are probably doing this in your free time, so first of all:

THANK YOU SO MUCH, Your work is amazing!

I was just wondering, as the last commit is from June 2024 if this repo is dead, or if it is still maintained?

I am just wondering if i should keep my hopes up.

Best regards, and thanks again.

[JoMerk]

Hello everyone, I would also like to thank you for the great work! I am now faced with the decision of whether to install the update to 3.16 (better contrast) or 3.17 (support for geometric shapes) soon!

I would especially miss the bookmarks.

It would be helpful to know the developers' next steps and whether there will be further development in the future.

Thanks again

[PepikVaio]

From what I've found out, development is ongoing. The last info was that it should be finished by early 2025, but that could actually be anything.

You can close as completed, there are too many such questions here.

[chrusu]

sorry if that was a double-post i looked at the issues and didn't find the answer and/or the same question (only version requests with no answer).

so i would still like to have a concrete answer of the developers, if they are still maintaining.

does anyone know of other rm hacks available? (i mean other than the lamy button hack, which i know of)

[PepikVaio]

There are lots of small projects, depends on what you need? But nothing that would replace these rm-Hacks. So either wait until the new version is ready or downgrade to an older version.

[chrusu]

i got used to the new functions remarkable added in the last releases, so downgrading is not really an option.

but thanks. i mostly miss a bookmarking-function/table-of-content function. best would be something like supernote, but that a big dream.

and disabling the close-icon on the top-right.

[Gaibhne]

Falling behind on updates is, unfortunately, the death knell for many open source and similar projects. @mb1986 is not paid for his work, so when lifes unavoidable hiccups come, developers have no real pressing incentive to keep working on projects that, as the dev of the last RM hacks project, ddvk, "fill them with dread at the thought of all the outstanding work". Projects like this, where other people can't really help by making PRs, are even more at risk for this. Since the last update is for 3.11, we can only either decide to stick with the outdated version or go to stock, and hope that another inventor comes and start their own successor, the same way this project started as a successor to ddvk's hacks.

Personally, I'll probably just stick to this one forever, since I don't really care about synching, and my most important feature wish, straight lines, has been implemented.

Thank you so much for all the hard work!

[Samdney]

Maybe stupid question, but why is the source code behind the patches not public. Is this a law reason? Haveing the source available would make things much easier.

[PepikVaio]

It has been mentioned in the past, look into closed issues somewhere.

[Samdney]

It has been mentioned in the past, look into closed issues somewhere.

Couldn't find anything related to my question.

[Yelteen]

It has been mentioned in the past, look into closed issues somewhere.

Couldn't find anything related to my question.

RM's Xochitl (the main and only app) is not open source (in difference to the underlying OS) and this basically patches this app, hence this repo only has binary patches. If this repo would share source, RM can file a takedown against this project as it would possibly publish closed source code from them. See #3 for further explanations, why the author does not publish it.

[daniwelter]

RM just released a bunch of new templates that can only be used if you have version 3.17 or above. I've used rm-hacks for so long (installed within a month of getting my RM), I can barely remember which features are native RM ones and which are hacks, but I'm going to need to take a serious look at what I actually use and whether I can live without it because RM have also released some pretty useful stuff in recent months.

Initially, rm-hacks releases came out every couple of months max but it's been 8 months since the last update. And yes, I completely understand that it's a spare time free project and I'm deeply grateful to @mb1986 for the effort they put into this, and I know there were some major challenges around fundamental changes RM made to their software that broke a lot of hacks. But still, we're now 6 releases behind.

[Samdney]

Just as additional information, Remarkable has started to give an official SDK for developing apps for their tablets.
https://developer.remarkable.com/documentation/sdk.