What's coming in 7.0 (was 6.4)

[girish]

Operator role is now implemented. An admin can set user(s)/group(s) as app operator:

The operator is then able to do app configuration and maintanence. They will see the gear icon on their dashboard:

Operator's app UI:

Note: An operator who is not an admin cannot uninstall an app, change it's location or clone it.

[fbartels]

@girish that's a very nice feature. I recently had to give a WordPress developer the admin role on our production Cloudron since he needed access to the logs/terminal/file browser. This will make this a lot easier for the future.

[girish]

@fbartels right, that's the exact use case this is for!

Also, there is a breaking change with this. SFTP access is now moved to operators and the flag we had previously to allow non-admins to access SFTP is now gone.

[girish]

Added an Event Log section in the apps view.

[girish]

• Added UpCloud object storage integration
  

[girish]

Some email related changes:

• Email data is now viewable via the File manager (a new icon on the top right in the Email view).

• Email data is stored separately from box data. A new mail.tar.gz (or mail directory in rsync mode) is created now at the top level. In theory, this makes it now possible to create backups, list backups and restore the Email data separately just like we have for apps. Maybe we will implement that in some future release as use cases arrive.

• Mailbox backup / restore - There is no special UI for this. But one can now "restore" a mailbox by just uploading old mailbox from a backup and uploading it into the new mailbox via the File manager UI. Mailboxes are in the "vmail" directory in the above screenshot.

[girish]

Custom cron commands can be added per-app:

Output of commands will nicely appear merged in the app's log output:

[hendrikvl]

@girish Great, that you added support for custom cron-commands. I currently have a "cloudron exec" running as cron-job outside of an app, just because I was missing exactly this feature

[girish]

There is now a "recovery" flag for the addon containers. It behaves similar to the app recovery mode. The addon container is put in read/write mode and will "sleep". One can then ssh and exec into the container to fix the database. It's fairly geeky but is needed when database becomes corrupt.

[girish]

recvmail addon is fixed now. we will have to fix the apps after the release.

Only the email features are left now. Should be done hopefully this week.

[d19dotca]

Any ETA for 6.4? Wanting to test the migration issue defect that was identified in https://forum.cloudron.io/topic/5683/data-argument-must-be-of-type-received-null-error-during-restore-process when it’s ready. Would it be this week perhaps?

[girish]

@d19dotca Don't have an ETA yet, but hoping to finish the features this week, then we can test next week. I replied in the other thread to follow up.

[jdaviescoates]

@girish said in What's coming in 6.4:

recvmail addon is fixed now. we will have to fix the apps after the release.

Does this mean you'll be able to fix apps like Discourse so they can receive posts by email? Think / hope so!

[girish]

@jdaviescoates yes. But for discourse, we also need pop support it seems.

[jdaviescoates]

@girish said in What's coming in 6.4:

But for discourse, we also need pop support it seems.

Unless you use the API instead:

https://forum.cloudron.io/post/37259

[girish]

Impersonate user feature:

You can click on the impersonate button (second button from left):

This will create a temporary password that you can use to login to apps or the dashboard. This will help admins to pre-setup things on behalf of the user. Importantly, this does not reset the user's existing password, this is an alternate password.

[girish]

There's a link in the profile page now to send password reset request:

[girish]

POP3 support is enabled on the server but it's disabled for all mailboxes by default. It has to enabled per mailbox.

[girish]

So, the status of the release is that mailbox forwarding is being worked on. Once that is done, we will cut a release.

[d19dotca]

Getting excited for 6.4 (especially since it fixes a bug that's currently keeping me locked in-place with my current hosting provider), and all the amazing improvements particularly around email!

Was just wondering if there was an ETA for us. I know I asked about 11 days ago, just really looking forward to it. haha.

Also a slightly selfish reason for asking... it'll save me from having to pay another month of hosting from my current host if I can migrate off before end of this month if that other defect is fixed which is supposed to be fixed with 6.4, not a ton of time left for me to plan it out since it has to be in the middle of the night (i.e. weekends only, 3 weekends left and I'm guessing this weekend will be too soon, so really only 2 weekends left for me to do this migration so I'm getting a bit antsy).