<![CDATA[What's coming in 5.2]]>Here's what you can expect from 5.2. We are still working actively on a few more apps and the apps have more priority. Specifically @nebulon is working on Bitwarden and I am trying to get Jitsi/BBB.

  • Update base image - this should update many packages, the vim/bash history configuration etc.
  • Some user onboarding flow - don't have concrete plans here. But sometimes new users are confused by all the automation we do - like db, email, user management. Feels very magical, so we have to put in some videos/images to re-assure them/explain what's happening.
  • Add support for member-only mailing lists.
  • Support for external volumes for apps
  • Default to ECC certs from Let's Encrypt.
  • App firewall (protect login screens and login routes of apps)

Any more suggestions?

]]>https://forum.cloudron.io/topic/2359/what-s-coming-in-5-2RSS for NodeMon, 16 Mar 2026 20:36:30 GMTFri, 17 Apr 2020 17:53:36 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to What's coming in 5.2 on Thu, 28 May 2020 16:57:27 GMT]]>@necrevistonnezr Good catch. Looks like we got the uniqueness constraint in 5.1 itself wrong. Currently, it is (name, userid). It shoud be (name, appid, userid) or maybe even just (appid, userid). We cannot fix it for this release but maybe the next since we try to do db changes only in new releases.

]]>https://forum.cloudron.io/post/8917https://forum.cloudron.io/post/8917Thu, 28 May 2020 16:57:27 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to What's coming in 5.2 on Thu, 28 May 2020 07:29:02 GMT]]>@girish said in What's coming in 5.2:

An update on the rollout, we have found some regressions with 5.2.3:

  • If you enable/disable email, it will show an error popup in UI. This is a harmless error and can be ignored.
  • If you have a stopped app which uses redis, then backups fail (it's more nuanced, it fails if you stopped it after you updated to 5.2.0/5.2.1/5.2.2)
  • App disk graphs are not working.

We will fix the above for 5.2.4.

One small annoyance: If you give app passwords for different the same name, it throws an error that the ID is already in use. Example: I wanted to use the same device name (e.g. iPhone, iPad, PC) for the app password for mail, radicale, nextcloud etc.. After setting up the mail password calling it "iPhone", I couldn't name the app password for radicale "iPhone", too.

]]>https://forum.cloudron.io/post/8895https://forum.cloudron.io/post/8895Thu, 28 May 2020 07:29:02 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to What's coming in 5.2 on Wed, 27 May 2020 18:18:17 GMT]]>An update on the rollout, we have found some regressions with 5.2.3:

  • If you enable/disable email, it will show an error popup in UI. This is a harmless error and can be ignored.
  • If you have a stopped app which uses redis, then backups fail (it's more nuanced, it fails if you stopped it after you updated to 5.2.0/5.2.1/5.2.2)
  • App disk graphs are not working.

We will fix the above for 5.2.4.

]]>https://forum.cloudron.io/post/8885https://forum.cloudron.io/post/8885Wed, 27 May 2020 18:18:17 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to What's coming in 5.2 on Tue, 26 May 2020 22:40:01 GMT]]>@jdaviescoates Thank you, server-side e-mail full text search is high on my wish list, too. I have already ditched gmail in anticipation of the more great things to come. Cloudron rocks.

]]>https://forum.cloudron.io/post/8866https://forum.cloudron.io/post/8866Tue, 26 May 2020 22:40:01 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to What's coming in 5.2 on Tue, 26 May 2020 19:33:12 GMT]]>We are slowly rolling out 5.2 to a more wider audience week. The exact version as of right now is 5.2.3. Actual release announcement will follow in two days or so.

]]>https://forum.cloudron.io/post/8864https://forum.cloudron.io/post/8864Tue, 26 May 2020 19:33:12 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to What's coming in 5.2 on Sun, 24 May 2020 10:39:29 GMT]]>And once we've got Jitsi Meet and BigBlueButton being able to scale a single instance of Cloudron across multiple servers will become ever more important too.

]]>https://forum.cloudron.io/post/8791https://forum.cloudron.io/post/8791Sun, 24 May 2020 10:39:29 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to What's coming in 5.2 on Sun, 24 May 2020 10:37:04 GMT]]>Full text search for email really important and much needed too. Would make ditching Gmail a little more bearable given how limited all open source webmail clients are.

]]>https://forum.cloudron.io/post/8790https://forum.cloudron.io/post/8790Sun, 24 May 2020 10:37:04 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to What's coming in 5.2 on Fri, 22 May 2020 11:51:30 GMT]]>I'd still really like to be able to filter apps in the app store by LDAP support 🙂

]]>https://forum.cloudron.io/post/8718https://forum.cloudron.io/post/8718Fri, 22 May 2020 11:51:30 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to What's coming in 5.2 on Wed, 20 May 2020 16:02:40 GMT]]>@d19dotca Currently, that button actually doesn't remove backups. It just cleans up backup based on the backup policy (i.e it triggers the cleanup-backups cron job instantly). Maybe, I will keep it hidden for the coming release, because I can see it needs some explanation.

]]>https://forum.cloudron.io/post/8650https://forum.cloudron.io/post/8650Wed, 20 May 2020 16:02:40 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to What's coming in 5.2 on Tue, 19 May 2020 21:52:08 GMT]]>@girish One very minor thought. "Cleanup Backups" seems like a mouth-full. Maybe something like "Purge backups" or similar?

]]>https://forum.cloudron.io/post/8629https://forum.cloudron.io/post/8629Tue, 19 May 2020 21:52:08 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to What's coming in 5.2 on Tue, 19 May 2020 21:22:05 GMT]]>@girish Loving the graphs! Eager to get 5.2. 🙂

]]>https://forum.cloudron.io/post/8627https://forum.cloudron.io/post/8627Tue, 19 May 2020 21:22:05 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to What's coming in 5.2 on Sat, 16 May 2020 05:38:59 GMT]]>Some more updates.

  • Clicking the update button now will always give you an update, if it's available. No more required to ask us to whitelist an update.

  • Encrypted backups - there were security flaws with the current encryption. It's been fixed (more info when we do the actual release). thanks to @mehdi who has patiently worked with us through this.

  • App graphs! Currently, just RAM and Disk. CPU and Network will come later.
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  • System graphs
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  • Backup listing UI for the platform
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  • New backup retention policy (this is same as keep daily/weekly/monthly in borg/restic).
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  • Finally, there is a way import and export the backup configuration easily. You see this in the right of the backups. You get a config file that can then be put in another Cloudron instance for restore or import.

We hope to get this out next week. Just doing a lot testing now.

]]>https://forum.cloudron.io/post/8522https://forum.cloudron.io/post/8522Sat, 16 May 2020 05:38:59 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to What's coming in 5.2 on Wed, 06 May 2020 21:30:23 GMT]]>@avatar1024 We haven't contacted upstream devs. From what we have seen, most people who try to install the non-debian packages are basically stuck with incomplete docs. One has to just reverse engineer from the deb package source code. It's all open source, so it just takes time to decode.

]]>https://forum.cloudron.io/post/8172https://forum.cloudron.io/post/8172Wed, 06 May 2020 21:30:23 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to What's coming in 5.2 on Wed, 06 May 2020 19:41:58 GMT]]>@girish Sounds great, well done for the work and really glad to see the mailing list feature!

As for external storage, understandable choice for a first implementation. In a second time though, even if it only work for Nextcloud and Emby, that could still be a decent step forward too.

And for Jitsi, sounds like a right headache. Thanks for having tried hard for a while now. Did you get any support from upstream devs?

]]>https://forum.cloudron.io/post/8166https://forum.cloudron.io/post/8166Wed, 06 May 2020 19:41:58 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to What's coming in 5.2 on Tue, 05 May 2020 18:32:46 GMT]]>Volumes/External mounting - we did a couple of iterations of this and neither of them are satisfactory. The feature itself is quite easy to implement but what we found is that other than Emby and Nextcloud most apps don't support scanning random directories for content.

To go back to why people were trying external storage to start with had to do with Cloudron backups not having flexibility wrt backup policy and persistence. So, we are going to look into fixing that first instead (in this release).

]]>https://forum.cloudron.io/post/8101https://forum.cloudron.io/post/8101Tue, 05 May 2020 18:32:46 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to What's coming in 5.2 on Tue, 05 May 2020 18:25:37 GMT]]>Wanted to give some progress on the release here. Both @nebulon and I are taking a bit of break for Jitsi 🙂 We will revisit once we finish some more enjoyable tasks.

  • Update base image - this is done! Apps are slowly getting updated one by one.

  • Add support for member-only mailing lists - done!
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  • Default to ECC certs from Let's Encrypt - done!
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  • Redis status - Under services, you can now tune redis instance of each app
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App firewall will not make it this release since the changes are stacking up.

]]>https://forum.cloudron.io/post/8100https://forum.cloudron.io/post/8100Tue, 05 May 2020 18:25:37 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to What's coming in 5.2 on Fri, 01 May 2020 16:50:14 GMT]]>I think Jitsi and/or BigBlueButtom would be great!
I hope you don't loose the timing for it, because after somebody chooses a platform for its users is difficult to change. If it were ready now I'm sure Cloudron would have many more new users.

]]>https://forum.cloudron.io/post/7931https://forum.cloudron.io/post/7931Fri, 01 May 2020 16:50:14 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to What's coming in 5.2 on Fri, 01 May 2020 10:26:52 GMT]]>Exactly what @jimcavoli said. 🎉

]]>https://forum.cloudron.io/post/7928https://forum.cloudron.io/post/7928Fri, 01 May 2020 10:26:52 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to What's coming in 5.2 on Fri, 01 May 2020 03:25:22 GMT]]>Another +1 for group managers (I've mentioned this before of course 🙂 ). This would relieve a lot of my reservation on granting user manager to certain folks in some organizations!

]]>https://forum.cloudron.io/post/7919https://forum.cloudron.io/post/7919Fri, 01 May 2020 03:25:22 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to What's coming in 5.2 on Thu, 30 Apr 2020 17:00:26 GMT]]>@msbt Yes, I think so. A couple of people have requested a sort of "group manager"/"group admin" role. We can look into it for the next release. We are hoping to get 5.2 out next week or so.

]]>https://forum.cloudron.io/post/7900https://forum.cloudron.io/post/7900Thu, 30 Apr 2020 17:00:26 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to What's coming in 5.2 on Thu, 30 Apr 2020 13:08:05 GMT]]>Because I just gave a user the "User Manager" role (I thought this would enable a user to manage the users of a certain group): It would be awesome to lock that user-manager to a specific domain/group, so all other users won't be visible to that person.

Same goes for admin vs. group-admin (admin = global, group admin can only install/manage apps, email and users on the (primary-) groups he's added. This way you can let people manage their own users without interfering with other groups. Does that explanation make sense?

]]>https://forum.cloudron.io/post/7882https://forum.cloudron.io/post/7882Thu, 30 Apr 2020 13:08:05 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to What's coming in 5.2 on Mon, 20 Apr 2020 05:43:50 GMT]]>@doodlemania2 Yes, redis changes are coming in https://git.cloudron.io/cloudron/box/-/issues/671

]]>https://forum.cloudron.io/post/7572https://forum.cloudron.io/post/7572Mon, 20 Apr 2020 05:43:50 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to What's coming in 5.2 on Mon, 20 Apr 2020 01:23:38 GMT]]>On notifications, when Redis runs out of memory, we get just a GUID - that takes time to track down which app that is to increase memory. Any way to tie that back to the deployed app name or URL?

]]>https://forum.cloudron.io/post/7570https://forum.cloudron.io/post/7570Mon, 20 Apr 2020 01:23:38 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to What's coming in 5.2 on Sun, 19 Apr 2020 22:05:28 GMT]]>@girish said in What's coming in 5.2:

@mario @NCKNE so a single mailbox with aliases? Essentially just like the current alias but across domains.

That's indeed it, and @NCKNE is right - it's a business requirement.

]]>https://forum.cloudron.io/post/7565https://forum.cloudron.io/post/7565Sun, 19 Apr 2020 22:05:28 GMT