What's coming in 8.0

[krumel]

Hi,
I know developers rightfully hate nothing more than "are we there yet/when are you done" questions, but could you give a rough guess how far 8.0 is away currently?

We will need to move two servers and while we still got a bit of time a rough guess would enable us to decide if it's worth installing the current version or wait for 8.0 and do a clean Ubuntu 24.04 LTS(which would make a few other things easier for us). We are totally happy to wait (it's done when it's done), but I would hate to install two new installations and then 8.0 comes out 3 days later.

[nebulon]

Dark-mode for the filemanager has landed now for 8.0 also:

[JOduMonT]

Hopefully it will be easy to fix and it's only on my side; but ...
after an update, which seams to be done successfully

my apps runs but I have no Cloudron Dashboard
my.domain.tld is blank; even with Chrome and Safari (which I never use)

Server: Ubuntu 22.04LTS
Cloudron: 8.0
rebooted after update

[nebulon]

@JOduMonT is there anything in the log file at /home/yellowtent/platformdata/logs/box.log which might hint at an error? Otherwise, maybe you can send us a mail to support@cloudron.io and enable remote SSH for us to debug this directly?

[scooke]

@girish said in What's coming in 8.0:

We are working on the following for 8.0

Support servers without AVX again.

I have 2 servers running 7.7.2. Will I be able to upgrade from this straight to 8.0?

[nebulon]

Currently, we don't plan on creating a release which allows those Cloudrons to "jump" releases as this is hard and time-consuming to test for us.

But we will manually update those Cloudrons if you send a mail to support@cloudron.io and enable remote SSH support for us.

[AartJansen]

Isn't 7.7.2 the current live version? Are there more versions between this and 8.0 ?

[jdaviescoates]

@AartJansen said in What's coming in 8.0:

Isn't 7.7.2 the current live version? Are there more versions between this and 8.0 ?

Good point! Indeed it is!

Perhaps @scooke is actually running an older version but wrote 7.7.2 in error?

[scooke]

@jdaviescoates said in What's coming in 8.0:

Perhaps @scooke is actually running an older version but wrote 7.7.2 in error?

I indeed am running 7.7.2 on one, but 7.5.2 on another.

[eddowding]

I'm on a non-avx server -- will we receive a v8 update notification?

[scooke]

@eddowding This is my situation. I am at 7.5.2 on a non-av server, and the only upgrade notice I get is for 7.6.1, with the warning:

Update MongoDB to 5.0. Important: this release requires AVX support in CPU

Read @nebulon's comment a few above these ones. I think I will just reinstall, straight to 8, and skip the hassle of trying to upgrade.

[nebulon]

@eddowding there is no extra update notification for this. If you have a Cloudron without AVX please send a mail to support@cloudron.io with Cloudron details and remote SSH support enabled for us, so we can hotfix those. We expect only few Cloudrons on that path so a full release testing only for this didn't seem too useful for the moment.

[eddowding]

What's the best way for me to see when it's our of beta? Is there a changelog page?

[nebulon]

There is no hard cut point in time for releases. We usually stretch the rolling out over quite some time. Currently, all new installations are v8 already since a week, but we haven't started to roll it out for autoupdates yet. This is just being cautious on our end as it is not a security sensitive release. We do work on v8.1 with some minor fixes and improvements over v8.0 so unless you really need a feature already there you might as well wait for that. That being said so far the release has went quite well.

[girish]

w00t, I have fixed the long-standing issue of backups getting stuck (usually, it would says @0Mbps) . Fix is in 8.0.1 (not released).

[krumel]

So can new installations now be done on 24.04 LTS directly if they are already V8?

[joseph]

@krumel yes. new installations on noble will work.

[THI_Staff]

@girish said in What's coming in 8.0:

w00t, I have fixed the long-standing issue of backups getting stuck (usually, it would says @0Mbps) . Fix is in 8.0.1 (not released).

@girish Bingo! We might be affected by that very issue: backups getting stuck @0Mbps (in the middle of a managed WP version upgrade, all be it a minor upgrade)
Just logged this ticket
https://forum.cloudron.io/topic/12123/wordpress-app-container-stuck-on-updating-from-package-version-3-7-2-to-3-7-3

If the fix is to upgrade to Cloudron v8.0.1, I'll need to look at that because just like @eddowding we are currently running v7.7.2 (due to our, let's say, lack of human resources and time)

Thank you, guys! Great forum and community here, and not for the first time!

[umnz]

@krumel just confirming that Linode still has the Cloudron Ubuntu 22 LTS 1-click deployment and I opted to go for a manual 24.04 LTS install and followed the instructions to install and set up Cloudron v8. In my limited time using it, Cloudron is seemingly stable and working well.

[girish]

@THI_Staff yes, upgrading will mitigate the problem. The error still happens but atleast it fails immediately and does not get stuck anymore. A fix for the error is being worked (needs a fix in upstream node module).