Thor v1.97.3 Release Notes

Version 1.97.3 (1973) is a bug-fix update covering changes after the published
v1.97.2-dev-148 release through merged dev commit 31ada831.

Source comparison:
v1.97.2-dev-148...31ada831.

✨ Highlights

• ❄️ A working Quick Settings toggle: freeze eligible watchlist apps, then tap again to
  unfreeze. Live watchlist changes, clearer counts and terminal results keep the tile current.
• ⏸️ Preserve other apps’ pauses: Freeze and Unfreeze respect Digital Wellbeing and other
  suspension owners. Thor reports a remaining pause rather than trying to launch through it.
• 🔄 Keep recovery available: successfully applied freezes and suspensions stay tracked
  even when optional mode-conversion cleanup fails. Profile recovery distinguishes a verified
  external pause from a Thor restriction that still needs restoring.
• 💬 Correct Suspend confirmation: a successful Suspend action retains its own success
  message, including when another app also holds a pause.

What's Changed

❄️ Quick Settings Freeze and Unfreeze

PR #597
(d59d69e2, 51b335e1, cd382f6d):

• Resolve both directions from live watchlist and package state. Mixed watchlists unfreeze
  their frozen members first, preserving recovery after a partly successful freeze.
• Show the relevant next action, frozen/eligible counts, ongoing progress and completion
  results. Refresh candidates when Room membership or package/suspension broadcasts change.
• Keep enqueue handoff in the process-owned scope so closing the shade does not cancel
  accepted work. Repeated taps reconnect to queued or running work; canceled refreshes cannot
  publish stale snapshots after the listening lifecycle ends.
• Retain freeze safety filters while allowing unfreeze recovery, and provide the new tile
  text in all nine supported app locales.

Mahfuj (sigmahfuj) contributed the original unfreeze-count
change. His original commit
is preserved with its author and date as d59d69e2.

⏸️ Coexistence with Digital Wellbeing and other suspension owners

PR #599
(cc645878, 24eb4bc7):

• Freeze: disable/hide first, then remove only verified Thor suspension entries when
  changing modes. Keep independently owned pauses intact. A verified disable stays successful
  and tracked if ownership cleanup cannot complete.
• Suspend: add a separate verified Thor entry without first unsuspending the app. Attempt
  enable/unhide only after that entry is verified. Ordinary cleanup failures keep the applied
  suspension successful and tracked; cancellation still propagates.
• Unfreeze: enable/unhide first, then remove only verified Thor entries. Preserve unknown
  ownership and report remaining pauses in app feedback, durable task details and the tile.
  Launcher shortcuts avoid launching through a known remaining pause.
• Root uses typed, user-scoped ownership readback. Shell Shizuku marks its shared entry with a
  persistent per-package/user nonce in launcher extras; overwritten or unmarked shared entries
  are preserved rather than claimed by Thor.
• Android 9 Suspend is skipped. Android 10 cannot overlay an existing external suspension.
  Dhizuku Suspend is skipped because its shared device-owner API cannot verify an independent
  Thor entry; Unfreeze preserves and reports a confirmed suspension with unidentified ownership.
  Freeze remains available without silently changing the selected mode.
• Watchlist toggling distinguishes verified external-only pauses from Thor restrictions.
  Profile removal rechecks live ownership so verified external pauses do not trap a successfully
  restored app in its recovery dialog. Unknown or newly added Thor restrictions remain protected.

💬 Suspend success feedback

PR #600 (d4c7f7f2):

• Restrict restoration feedback to UnFreeze and UnSuspend. Suspend continues to
  show its successful suspension confirmation even when Digital Wellbeing or another owner
  also keeps the app paused.
• Cover all three actions with known, unidentified and no remaining owners in the regression test.

🔧 Project: dependencies, security and release artifacts

• Android dependencies — PR #583,
  PR #590 and
  PR #598
  (83769211, 7d271b9c, f676fbb0): update AGP to 9.6.0-alpha02, Gradle to 9.8.2,
  DataStore to 1.3.0, Material 3 to 1.5.0-beta02, serialization to 1.12.0 and
  Dhizuku to 2.7.0.
• Website security and dependencies — PR #587
  and PR #596 (fb319d89, de119981):
  update Sharp to 0.35.5, patching its bundled librsvg dependency
  (CVE-2026-96889 / GHSA-wq5f-xc86-pv6w). Refresh the Astro stack and transitive
  fast-uri 3.1.9 and Zod 4.6.7 dependency resolutions.
• Release and CI dependencies — PR #586
  and PR #588 (03b52a61, 73a20eae):
  update Fastlane to 2.241.2, Java setup and CodeQL actions.
• Release preparation: bump only versionCode to 1973, deriving 1.97.3; add the
  three curated notes and complete Fastlane copies for en-US, en-GB and hi-IN.
  Retire the v1.93.0 curated directory to retain 20 releases. Historical Fastlane changelogs
  remain. Shizu continues to follow its separate production-pinned synchronization procedure.

🧪 Validation scope

The 1973 release branch passed ./gradlew test lintFossDebug lintStoreRelease with
3,742 JVM tests per debug flavor, zero failures, errors or skips, and no lint errors,
MissingTranslation warnings or SyntheticAccessor findings. All 13 release-script suites
passed before and after retention pruning. Play notes use 466/500 characters; the assembled
Telegram caption uses 870/1024 UTF-16 units with the conservative wrapper. All three
Fastlane copies match the complete Play notes.

The PR-mode Shizu checker reports an existing changelog mismatch against production 1.97.1.
Its separate production-pinned synchronization follows the procedure in
the release-notes guide.

The rooted-device Quick Settings cycle and Digital Wellbeing coexistence checks remain pending.
JVM/Robolectric results do not establish Android/OEM behavior or verify the reported Instagram
issue. Compatibility and device checks are recorded in
the suspension follow-up.

🛠 Commits Log

Non-merge commits after v1.97.2-dev-148, in chronological order:

• 83769211 chore(deps): bump the maven group with 3 updates
• 7d271b9c chore(deps): bump the maven group across 1 directory with 7 updates
• 03b52a61 chore(deps): bump fastlane
• fb319d89 chore(deps): bump the web group across 1 directory with 5 updates
• 73a20eae chore(deps): bump the actions group across 1 directory with 2 updates
• de119981 fix(web): patch sharp librsvg vulnerability
• d59d69e2 Add unfreezeCount tracking to FreezerTileService
• 51b335e1 fix(freezer): harden Quick Settings toggle and feedback
• cd382f6d fix(freezer): refresh tile for live watchlist and package changes
• f676fbb0 chore(deps): bump the maven group with 4 updates
• cc645878 fix: preserve external suspensions during freeze and restore
• 24eb4bc7 fix: retain preserved suspensions and successful suspend tracking
• d4c7f7f2 fix: keep suspend success feedback separate from restoration