What's coming in 8.2

[girish]

Sorry for a small confusion: we have made a 8.1 available as unstable now to fix many of the regressions in 8.0. We could not make it a patch release of 8.0 because it also introduces some features like OIDC groups, Gandi PAT support, Hetzner Object Storage etc. Nothing major but we are still forced by semver to make a "feature" release and thus 8.1

[girish]

@girish said in What's coming in 8.2:

Add sqlite3 addon

This is implemented now (for 8.2). https://docs.cloudron.io/packaging/addons/#sqlite .

[firmansi]

Is there any update for the ETA of this version?

[girish]

@firmansi no ETA, we are implementing them one by one.

[girish]

@girish said in What's coming in 8.2:

Don't run du for small disks (see)

I have added a mechanism to skip running du . The code now looks for a /home/yellowtent/platformdata/diskusage/exclude file. This file can contain one filesystem (as listed in the first column of df output) per line. du for these filesystems is skipped.

[girish]

@girish said in What's coming in 8.2:

Mail attachment search

This is now implemented with Tika support in the mail server.

[girish]

@girish said in What's coming in 8.2:

Branding of OIDC button

Implemented in https://git.cloudron.io/platform/box/-/commit/872705d58d3146ec6b6a5ac5aed6adbe9e245ab9 . The Cloudron name is used as the OIDC provider name as well. The apps will be adjusted one by one to make use of this new environment variable CLOUDRON_OIDC_PROVIDER_NAME

[girish]

@girish said in What's coming in 8.2:

VM mode for apps?

We will re-evaluate this in some future release. For the moment, this is out of scope. It's too complicated to implement a VM like system that allow readwrite containers and further allow users to define backup directories, services, exposed ports etc. We will stick to pre-packaged apps for the moment.

[humptydumpty]

@girish how’s it going with multiple backup destinations? I’m really looking forward to this.

[firmansi]

@girish is there gonna be any feature to backup email separately

[girish]

@firmansi internally, email is already backed up separately. You will find mail.tar.gz in your backups, for example. Or are you thinking of something else?

[firmansi]

@girish well...i mean to back up differently (independent backup), currently, correct me if i am wrong, the backups involve the applications backup, so it turns out if i only want to backup email, i have to backup the app first then uninstall apps then back up cloudron along with the the email.

[girish]

@firmansi right.. there is no way to trigger a backup separately for just the mail right now. It's easy to add the button but implementing just restoring of mail server data also has to be implemented for completeness. But yeah, this is not there yet.

[humptydumpty]

@girish have you encountered any hiccups regarding the multiple backup destinations or is it coming along smoothly?

[girish]

@humptydumpty it's not implemented yet, so.. sorry, no update on that front.

[jdaviescoates]

@girish said in What's coming in 8.2:

@humptydumpty it's not implemented yet, so.. sorry, no update on that front.

FYI I'm really hoping that it won't just be multiple backup destinations, but also multiple backup formats, e.g. rsync to destination 1, tarball to destination 2

Perhaps it would also be good to be able to specifc type of back-up on a per-app basis. From the little I understand some apps suit rsync/ tarball better than others?

(although I have to admit I'm not at all clear on which apps suit which type - e.g. I used to think "lots of files -> rsync" but sometimes it seems "lots of files -> tarball (because it takes ages for it to check which files have actually changed)"

[nebulon]

8.2 will also get initial support to mount any device from the host into the container. This is mostly done for home automation apps, but may also be relevant for AI apps, which need access to special devices, exposed by the GPU, from the host.

[girish]

@girish said in What's coming in 8.2:

Remove the global lock for backups.

Finally, the global lock is gone. Practically, what this means is: Backups and Updates do not block app configuration anymore.

[marcusquinn]

@girish Amazing!

[girish]

@girish said in What's coming in 8.2:

App archival?

This is implemented now. In the Uninstall section, there is an option to archive.

In the Backups view, there is a listing of archives. You can unarchive them from there.

Archiving means:

• App gets uninstalled freeing up space on server
• App won't be in the main dashboard
• The latest backup of the app is kept "forever". Not affected by backup cleaning policies.
• Can be unarchived. If you delete the archive entry itself, the associated backup will eventually go away based on cleanup policy.