What's coming in 6.1

[girish]

Given holiday time and end of the year, not sure we are going to be all that productive We have a bunch of apps which are already good to go, so we will get those out first before 6.1.

6.1 is mostly implementing some low hanging fruit. Idea is to get it out end of this or first week of Jan, so not much is planned.

• Token based login for the dashboard. This will allow service providers to have a clickable link using which one can auto-login to the Cloudron dashboard.
• Add a way to secure the cloudron-setup with a token
• Remember app update notification status across restarts
• proxyAuth: add 2fa
• Include alias in mailbox search
• turn server: support REST API for auth credentials
• Add well-known support in Domains view. This is essentially trying to automate the matrix well-known setup. It seems many people struggle with the SSH instructions.
• Add netcup DNS provider
• Domain aliases

[doodlemania2]

@girish woohooo!!! TURN server API!!!

[girish]

@doodlemania2 Right, sorry we forgot that for 6.0

[doodlemania2]

@girish Been having too much fun with python anyways haha

[humptydumpty]

@girish said in What's coming in 6.1:

• Add well-known support in Domains view. This is essentially trying to automate the matrix well-known setup. It seems many people struggle with the SSH instructions.

Guilty as charged!

[girish]

An update on this. The following are already implemented:

• Token based login for the dashboard. This will allow service providers to have a clickable link using which one can auto-login to the Cloudron dashboard. (cc @MooCloud_Matt )
• cloudron-setup script now has a --generate-setup-token argument. With this the install/restore routes are protected with a token.
  proxyAuth apps now support 2FA
• App update notification status is also remembered across restarts.

In progress:

• Add well-known UI to domains view. The backend logic is already implemented.

[nebulon]

With 6.1 coming out soon, it would be great to be able to include more languages. Currently we already received a lot of work done in Dutch and Chinese and we will include those for sure. Shout out to @imc67 and fengchang for that effort.

You can check the current state of translation at https://translate.cloudron.io/projects/cloudron/dashboard/

Please raise your hand if you want to contribute to one of them, we need your language skills For furthering inclusion of people, not fluent in English, I think we should ship with any language being more than 50% translated. Looks like Italian and Vietnamese are on its way already.

[p44]

@nebulon said in What's coming in 6.1:

Please raise your hand if you want to contribute to one of them, we need your language skills

Does translation require login?

[nebulon]

@p44 Yes currently we have disabled anonymous translation or suggestion and public registration to prevent spam. However if you want to contribute just send us a mail to support@cloudron.io with your intended username and the language you want to help out.

[p44]

@nebulon That's why "Save" button was disabled. I'll send an email to support.

[Lonkle]

@girish said in What's coming in 6.1:

Include alias in mailbox search

Does this include domain aliases in an app setting's Location UI since I seem to remember these two features connecting in the Domain Alias thread?

[girish]

@lonk No, that task is just about searching for mailbox alias names when doing search in the mailbox UI.

[girish]

Looks like this release is mostly done.

@doodlemania2 Which app required turn server REST API support? That's the main task not implemented.

[jdaviescoates]

@girish Nextcloud High Performance Backend https://forum.cloudron.io/post/18253

[doodlemania2]

@girish It's been a bit since I peaked at it, but if I recall, there are three main components to the High Performance Backend and two of those components wanted a TURN API. Hopefully/maybe (hehe), I documented it.

[mehdi]

@girish quick question about :

proxyAuth: add 2fa

How's this gonna work with the basic-auth? Or is it just gonna be ignored for basic auth? (in this case, it does not really bring any additional security)

[girish]

@mehdi Currently, it is ignored. Do you think we should maybe disable password validation with basic auth and make it only work with app passwords?

[mehdi]

@girish said in What's coming in 6.1:

@mehdi Currently, it is ignored. Do you think we should maybe disable password validation with basic auth and make it only work with app passwords?

That's an interesting idea. Another possible way would be to only allow BasicAuth if explicitely asked for in the Manifest. It would need a minor change for the apps that need it, but it's totally acceptable IMO. (both options are not exclusive :))

[girish]

@mehdi I made an issue for this, so I can look into this for 6.2 - https://git.cloudron.io/cloudron/box/-/issues/765

[girish]

Quick update on this: release is mostly done, just going through the CI tests.

[jimcavoli]

@girish Just to double-check, the proxyAuth changes also include the path-exclusion logic, right?

[girish]

@jimcavoli Yes, proxyAuth exclusion is implemented. I only implemented a simple approach with a ! pattern for now (not an array).

[d19dotca]

Any ETA on 6.1, by any chance?

[girish]

@d19dotca Should be out today.

[p44]

@girish

[girish]

6.1 is out now. As always, we will roll out slowly since there are many changes. We are already aware of a small breakage that affected one server, so we will make a 6.1.1 soon till we find out any other issues. The breakage will manifest itself in the UI as "Waiting for platform to update" when installing an app or updating an app. If you hit this, let us know here, so we can know how common it is but most of the servers we control updated fine.

[marcusquinn]

@girish

[girish]

To minimize the risk, 6.1.1 is already out with the change.

[marcusquinn]

@girish All instances updated without a prob - but - no domain aliases?

[girish]

@marcusquinn It has to be enabled in the apps on case by case basis. I pushed out an update to surfer a few minutes back, if you want to see how the UI looks. EspoCRM update is coming up shortly. And WordPress afterwards.

[marcusquinn]

@girish Ahh, perfect. Yeah could do with soon as I kinda promised some people

[girish]

@marcusquinn Just fixing the tests, so should be out today (espocrm).

[marcusquinn]

@girish Just tested this for ya. Maybe a typo in there?

[girish]

@marcusquinn can you refresh the browser? Looks like missing translations

[d19dotca]

Forgive me if I missed it in the forums, but I just updated to 6.1.1 and noticed in System Info page that it no longer shows how much disk space each app is consuming. Is this expected behaviour? I sort of liked how I could point to individual apps disk space usage. Of course when you run a ton it becomes a long list but maybe the apps could be collapsable instead of just gone? lol. Just my two cents anyways if the move to hide them was intentional.

[girish]

@d19dotca that's not intentional, looks like a regression. It's not present in any of our Cloudrons either, so seems to be a general problem and not just specific to yours.

edit: looks like the change to show volume usage broke something

[nebulon]

@marcusquinn a refresh should fix this. Looks like for reliable updates without refresh we also have to version the language files to bust the browser cache on update.

[marcusquinn]

@nebulon I'm using WebCatalog (Electron) so it doesn't seem to do hard-refreshes. No worries, it's just cosmetic

[marcusquinn]

Spotted in another area:

This is using WebCatalog (Electron) so I can't promise it's not an issue with that if no-one else is seeing the same with regular browsers. It's not happened before, so just logging as it's a bit odd. Not a high priority though as it's not stopping me working.

[p44]

@marcusquinn Me too I'm using WebCatalog and I did a CMD+R (Mac) to refresh, and all is fixed. Are you using English language? Maybe problem can be related to translation files?

In fact, in "Language", I see this:

"Lang.nl" and "Lang.zh_Hans" seems to be strange.

[p44]

@marcusquinn This is my app bar:

But when I do "CMD+R" all is fixed:

[girish]

@p44 Which browser? Safari?

[nebulon]

This looks like the language files were simply not fetched...can you do a browser refresh with ctrl/cmd + shift + R ?

[p44]

@girish Webcatalog (Electron Browser) @nebulon using safari seems to be all right:

[girish]

Released 6.1.2 yesterday. Fixes the following:

• App disk usage was not shown in graphs
• Email autoconfig
• Fix SOGo login
• Filemanager - copy/cut/paste and drag n drop. The UI has changed a bit.

We will start rolling out 6.1 slowly now that regressions have been fixed.

[thetomester13]

@girish literally tried SOGo yesterday and wasn't able to login thinking it was weird... now I know! Will update and give it another whirl!