Isn’t the frontend stuff open source? So even if they change something, others might make a fork?
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cron@feddit.de 1 year agoI’m not entirely sure if bitwarden will introduce some changes that break the compatibility with vaultwarden.
Kaavi@lemmy.world 1 year ago
cron@feddit.de 1 year ago
Most of the code is GPL3, but not everything. Source: license.txt
Chewy7324@discuss.tchncs.de 1 year ago
They probably won’t break compatibility with Vaultwarden on purpose since that’d also break their own server implementation. Bitwarden would have to ensure that all selfhosted servers are up to date before pushing a breaking auto update. This likely means enough time for vaultwarden to catch up.
Few things hurt a company providing critical software more than breaking users access without notice.
The passwords would still be accessible through the webui anyway.
cron@feddit.de 1 year ago
You’re right, changes that break compatibility are unlikely. But they can happen and happened in the past (e.g. #3082)
Chewy7324@discuss.tchncs.de 1 year ago
Thanks for the example! I had hoped Bitwarden wouldn’t break older servers so quickly. Luckily it seems like vaultwarden released a new working version 7 days before, the clients broke older servers. I’ll definitly check my new release notifications for vaultwarden right now.