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. Tentatively it 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!