Cloudron 8.3 + Base image 5.0.0

[girish]

We are working actively on Cloudron 9 .

One of the major tasks is to update the base image to Ubuntu 24.04 . Since this is a pretty massive change of it's own, we will make an intermediate release Cloudron 8.3 . This release will only contain base image change. All of the apps will also get updated in the coming month or two to the new base image.

• Postgres will update from 14 to 16. All apps will automatically migrate.
• Mongodb will update from 6 to 7. All apps will automatically migrate.
• PHP will update to 8.3 . This change doesn't require downtime but apps that use plugins heavily might have incompatibilites (looking at you WP and Nextcloud).
• Node will update to 22 LTS
• There is now an alias in the base image cloudron_<db> to connect to database. So, you can cloudron exec and then cloudron_mysql to connect to mysql without dealing with those pesky env vars.
• There are many software updates which are ultimately unremarkable but necessary (like solr 9, ruby 3.2, python 3.12 etc)

I will update this post with the finalized base image 5.0.0 sha256 when it's tested across a large variety of apps. Final image is cloudron/base:5.0.0@sha256:04fd70dbd8ad6149c19de39e35718e024417c3e01dc9c6637eaf4a41ec4e596c .

To repeat: This release is just an intermediate step to Cloudron 9 . No other features are planned as part of 8.3.

[robi]

Preparing the field.. Love it!

[nichu42]

The update to 8.3 took a while, but everything is running smoothly. Advice from me: Start the update and go for a walk. Leave your smartphone at home.

[girish]

@nichu42 yes, it's a pretty big update! Lots of automatic database upgrades.

[DualOSWinWiz]

worked fine on selfhost ubuntu 24.04 on 3 separate instances

[lukas]

Update to base image 5.0.0 means what exactly?

[girish]

@lukas moved your post here. But it means that the app container images are being to updated to Ubuntu 24.04 (from previous Ubuntu 22.04). Functionality wise, it doesn't offer any difference but it upgrades PHP version to 8.3, node update, security fixes . It also updates the db clients since the database got upgraded in Cloudron 8.3 . The old Ubuntu 22.04 db client tools won't connect to newer database versions .