What's coming in 5.6
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Just one more sprint before 6.0. Mostly, it's mail related. Just trying to address some immediate needs in this release:
- Mail
- Make some of the existing settings configurable via the UI. Whitelist/blacklist, max message size, tls configuration etc.
- Make mail server name configurable. Instead of
my.domain.comas email server, you can setup the name asmail.domain.com, for example. - Autodiscover/Autoconfig support for email - https://git.cloudron.io/cloudron/box/-/issues/556 . I am not sure how easy/hard this is, but worth trying.
- Server side signature - If haraka allows this easily, we will add it.
Keep mail backups separate from box backups. This will make it easy to backup/restore emails separately.EDIT: decided it's a lot of work, postponed to some future release.
- Add a way to whitelist inbound ports. This will help apps like netdata, snmp monitors and other monitoring "agents".
- Add flag in manifest for reverse proxying to a port (for the OLS app).
Update MongoDB to 4.2- EDIT: this was not needed. The index length problem is solved by having smaller mongodb database names.- Hardware transcoding for emby/jellyfin (and in the future plex)
- Do not auto-update to pre-release version
- Allow configuring schedule of platform updates
Network usage graphs(See issue)- Optimize WP and Nextcloud installations
Anything small/obvious I left out?
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Any update on when we might could see network graphs per app?
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@girish said in What's coming in 5.6:
Add flag in manifest for reverse proxying to a port (for the OLS app)
OLS app?
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@Hillside502 Open Lite Speed - https://forum.cloudron.io/topic/2346/openlitespeed-wordpress (maybe it's not a well known acronym, I just made it up).
@doodlemania2 Added!
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@girish Definitely looking forward to the first two mail features in particular!
Is it possible to expand on the "Keep mail backups separate from box backups" part? Is the intention here to restore just mail alone instead of needing to restore the whole server to restore mail? If so - that'd be awesome! Haven't needed that yet but I can imagine a few scenarios where that may happen in the future and make recovery much easier.
Keep up the hard work! Great job you guys!
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@d19dotca Yes, the idea is to be able to independently backup and restore the mail stuff and also be able to set a location to it, just like any other app. Just like we have
app_andboxin backups, idea is now we will have amail_in the backups directory (currently, it is inbox/mail). -
A progress update on the release.
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VAAPI (hardware transcoding on linux) support work well now. I had posted an update here - https://forum.cloudron.io/topic/3035/transcoding-update
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Lots of activity on the email side:
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You can set the mail server location:
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Adjust the max message size:
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Adjust spam configuration:
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We have decided against separating the mail and box backups for this release. There's some complications to do this properly (the mailbox and domain information is currently in the box code, we have to move this to the mail container. it's quite a bit of work and we feel this feature is not important at this point to justify the surgery).
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Cloudron will not auto-update to pre-release version if you simply just checked for an update.
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Scheduler: if you have a bunch of WP apps (especially unmanaged WP), you will see a lot of networking churn in dmesg and docker logs output. We have seen in a couple of customers who have over 100 WP installations, docker gets into some strange deadlock (iptables locking). To circumvent this, the cron job scheduler has been re-designed now so as to not create a new container for every cron run and also shares the networking namespace of the app container. This change requires no changes to apps.
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Allow box auto update pattern to be configurable. The update schedule that in the Settings UI now applies to both the app and platform auto updates (previously, it only applied to app auto updates). This gives you more control on when the updates happen.
Phew, already changes are piling up, so will probably have to drop some of the planned features.
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Nice work on the Mail server side of things!
Being able to set mail server subdomains to the more commonly used
mail.will be a bonus.Thunderbird checks common subdomains as a second resort, although the extra DNS records for the standard autoconfig stuff would be better for more clients to autodetect.
I'm hoping that will help with email client auto-setups but anything you can do to also add the necessary records would be super handy:
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@doodlemania2 It turns out collecting network information for each container is quite complicated. It's easy to collect the stats at a point in time (like docker stats does) but to do it over a time period, requires us to periodically track the container/process. I put some notes here - https://git.cloudron.io/cloudron/box/-/issues/734 . I have to postpone that task since it's quite complicated. If someone has better technical knowledge on this, please do leave a note on gitlab.
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Thanks for the update good sir!
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For the email auto-configuration, for now I will just add docs on how to set this up manually. It's a bit complicated to automatically set all this up because outlooks requires SRV records (for which we have to write automation code for the DNS providers) and thunderbird/k9 requires setup of
.well-knownfiles. This has the same issue as mastodon where we can automate only the website is also on Cloudron. So, for now, I will put docs on how anyone can set this up manually.
