OrangeFox Recovery NEWS

The basic services have been restored, and your security remains our top priority. We have thoroughly validated every single OrangeFox release, ensuring that none of them has been tampered with in any way.

Upon searching our servers, we found nothing suspicious, and we have taken all necessary steps to ensure the integrity of the servers. We do not store any personal data, or any device or IP identifiers, ensuring that there is nothing to leak.

We have enhanced our security infrastructure and will continue to adhere to the latest security guidelines.

- OrangeFox Team

Recently, a backdoor in the xz package was reported (source: https://news.opensuse.org/2024/03/29/xz-backdoor/). Our OrangeFox infrastructure was utilizing the vulnerable version.

In order to safeguard the security of all our users, we have ultimately decided to shut down the infrastructure until we can ensure that there is no intrusion of any kind in our system. 🦊

As the infrastructure operator, I acknowledge the recent downtimes and apologize for any inconvenience caused. Please stay tuned to this message as it will be updated periodically.

Update - the downloads website and wiki are restored

We're on the lookout for enthusiastic individuals who are eager to join our project as maintainers. If you have a passion for any of the following areas, we'd love to hear from you:

ReactJS: If you're well-versed in ReactJS and enjoy working with it, we could use your expertise.
Android App Development: If you have experience in developing Android apps and want to contribute, we welcome your skills.
Public Relations (PR): If you're a people person with a knack for PR, we'd be thrilled to have you on board. As a PR maintainer, you'll play a crucial role in running our news updates and taking on the role of an admin in our Telegram chats, ensuring effective communication with our community.
Device Maintenance: Are you skilled in device maintenance, ensuring that our project runs smoothly on various devices? Your expertise is valuable to us.
Python Development: If you're a Python developer with a passion for coding, we're looking for you too! Your coding skills can be a significant asset to our project.

Please note that this post is active until removed, so if you're interested in any of these roles, don't hesitate to reach out to Yacha (@MrYacha) or to our Mail [email protected] with a brief bio indicating your area(s) of interest and your level of expertise. Your passion and knowledge can make a real difference in our project! 😗

The OrangeFox Team wish all our users a Happy New Year and a Prosperous 2024.

2023 has been a great year for OrangeFox Recovery, which saw downloads from our official servers now exceeding 14 million, and two devices each passing the 1M download mark.

We expect even greater successes for OrangeFox in 2024.

Channel photo updated

There have been malevolent and dangerous people who try to impersonate members of the OrangeFox team. They often send PMs to people, pretending to give them good advice. However, the "advice" usually given is to try to get people to run commands that will permanently brick their devices.

Please note that nobody in the OrangeFox team will send you a PM. If you receive a PM from anybody who pretends to be one of the OrangeFox team, you should delete the PM immediately. Most importantly, do NOT run any commands that the person suggests to you. If you do so, and you brick your device, do NOT come to the OrangeFox groups for help. We cannot help you.

You must be extremely suspicious about any advice that comes through a PM, or through somebody pretending to be a member of the OrangeFox team posting advice outside of the official OrangeFox groups. You have been warned!

For further information, see:
https://wiki.orangefox.tech/en/warning-impersonators

OrangeFox Recovery will be moving its infrastructure into maintenance mode in order to perform much needed upgrades. This is required to keep OrangeFox Recovery's infrastructure the most innovative and to provide the best user experience. The process may last up to two weeks. During this time, sites, the API, and other services may sometimes not be available. We apologize for any inconvenience that this may cause.

Please look at this message in @OrangeFoxNEWS (Telegram), as it will be updated during the process.

We are living in difficult times right now. 3 years ago, the COVID-19 pandemic erupted. The whole world has been reeling from its devastating impact. As we were about to catch up, a new deadly roadblock has appeared.

There is a very violent conflict currently going on between Ukraine and Russia. It already has taken a lot of innocent lives, spreading consternation and worry around the world. The OrangeFox team, having its core members and infrastructure in the country under assault, is also very concerned about the security of people.

Please, consider donating to your local charities that support Ukrainians, as we also pray for their safety and future lives. We encourage you to verify every piece of information about this conflict that you get, as is much disinformation and fake news spreading.

To the Ukrainians - please stay safe and take care!

As you people might have noticed, the development of OrangeFox's Android 11 sources is a bit slower than usual. The main reason for this being that none of the core Developers have a device to work on that utilizes GKI, Virtual A/B or any of the other Android11 specific features.

To tackle this, we have decided to open crowdfunding for a Xiaomi Poco F3. The device will go to one of the core developers to ensure that OrangeFox will support all the new features.
In addition to that, the device will be officially maintained.

Please consider making a contribution.
OrangeFox is fully open-source, free, doesn't have ads, and is still going on only because of Your support.

https://opencollective.com/orangefox

Year 2021 was really successful for us.
Launch of R11.1 version, new supported devices and under the hood successes.
But, 2021 has come to an end. We hope you had a really good time this year, and we wish you Happy 2022!

The wait's finally over. fox_11.0 sources are finally public!
We've also begun rolling out releases for some devices that shipped with Android 11.

Follow the Telegram channel (@OrangeFoxUpdates and/or @OrangeFoxBetaTracker) to check if we made a release for your device!

Also check the wiki for a step-by-step guide how to build the recovery: https://wiki.orangefox.tech/en/dev/building

Hey guys,
We finally are now on Twitter to keep you all updated about the latest news regarding OrangeFox recovery project and also to provide support to our users no matter what platform they like.

Furthermore, our building/development chats are getting migrated from Telegram to Discord.

Twitter page: https://twitter.com/OrangeFox_Rec
Discord server invite link: https://discord.gg/qbVMJdJbXF

We are pleased to announce OrangeFox Recovery R11.1 Stable

The changes introduced by R11.1 can be found at https://wiki.orangefox.tech/en/changelog

The R11.1 Stable updates will be rolled out individually for each device.
You can track new releases at https://t.me/OrangeFoxUpdates

You can download OrangeFox Recovery by visiting http://orangefox.download.

Today we have updated our bot (@ofoxr_bot). It was rewritten from scratch, and is now faster, better, and supports new features:
- From now admins can subscribe chats/channels to individual devices. This will also work in pm - type /subscriptionhelp in the bot's PM to get started.
- Partial localization support translations have been added on our crowdin page.

For our bot we created our own python library and updated our API. You can read about the changes in the development news channel

The day you've all been waiting for has arrived. OrangeFox Recovery R11.0 is released!

You can check updated devices in @OrangeFoxUpdates channel and download from https://orangefox.download.

Other devices will be updated after full beta testing. We ask you be patient and wait if your device isn't updated to R11.0 yet. Please don't ask for whether (or when) R11.0 will be released.

The sources for R11.0 are opened and buildable, check out @OrangeFoxBuilding

R11.0 for Xiaomi Redmi Note 7 (lavender) after moving the deadline, is finally released.

Download it here (https://orangefox.download/en/build/lavender/stable/R11.0). In that time (3 days) we have patched potentially critical issues.

Other timelines are not moved, and all should be as expected.

Also, we want to remind you that you should please NOT ask us about new updates. Updates will be released smoothly, after sustained beta-testing, and when we are sure that releases will be bugless.

OrangeFox Recovery R11.0 is near. R11.0 heralds a new era for OrangeFox Recovery. We started development in last year, and right now we are adding finishing touches. You can find the changelog here.

Very soon we will start updating our devices to the R11.0 version.

Release timeline:
11-12 July: Stable R11.0 release for lavender
18-19 July: Stable R11.0 release for devices that successfully passed beta testing
19-20 July: The OrangeFox Recovery R11.0 sources will be made public

We have a week's window after the lavender release to be sure that R11.0 is even more thoroughly tested. After that, other devices will come with stable releases.

If your device is not updated at this time, please don't ask us about it. Maintainers also have a life, and they will make their releases at their earliest convenience.

Kudos to the OrangeFox Recovery devs!

OrangeFox Recovery is increasing exponentially in popularity every day. With this growth comes higher expectations from users. We are responding by raising our own expectations for general OrangeFox stability on all devices.

From now a maintainer will be able to release a 'Stable' build only if his build is bugless, especially regarding features like MIUI OTA (on Xiaomi devices) and Decryption.

'Stable' builds (especially the initial release) need to be fully and properly tested before release. Any build that is not fully and properly tested will now be restricted to release in the 'Beta' branch only. Currently, these restrictions will be applied only to new devices.

We also encourage you to support this initiative and help us make OrangeFox Recovery more bugless than ever.

Read our wiki about how to make proper reports and send reports to @OrangeFoxChat

Now we have an OrangeFox OpenCollective page where you can help us by donating. Donating helps us to pay for domains and servers. All money will be spent only for OrangeFox Recovery.

https://opencollective.com/orangefox

Here are some important news items:
1. We have updated orangefox.download to support translations. The URLs of devices and builds have also been changed, so please update your saved URLs. Thanks!

2. The OrangeFox crowdin has been moved to https://orangefox.crowdin.com, with added support for translating orangefox.download. The old translations were saved.