What's coming in 7.0 (was 6.4)
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This release looks wonderful!
@girish Yep a mailbox manager role would be great! And even better if a user can have several roles: e.g. user manager + mailbox manager
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To give an update here, we sidetracked a bit and decided to modernize our codebase. Specifically, we moved from callback based programming to more modern async/await. Much of that work here is done, so we will post updates on features as we implement them.
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@girish said in What's coming in 6.4:
Specifically, we moved from callback based programming to more modern async/await.
Great ! Honestly, that was long overdue ^^ I think it is a great time investment, as it will definitely speed up future developments significantly.
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A quick update on this. The "rewrite" is done and our CI tests pass, so we can now proceed to implement new features.
Some changes that are already done:
- For privacy, do not use Gravatar as default avatar option
- wellknown: respond to .wellknown/matrix/client
- Make new login email translatable
- Require cloudron.io email to be verified to open support tickets
- external ldap: If we detect a local user with the same username as found on LDAP/AD we map it
- add basic eventlog for apps in app view
- Enable sshfs/cifs/nfs in app import UI
- Require password for fallback email change
- Make password reset logic translatable
- Logout users without 2FA when mandatory 2fa is enabled
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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.
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@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.
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@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.
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Added an Event Log section in the apps view.
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- Added UpCloud object storage integration
- Added UpCloud object storage integration
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Some email related changes:
- Email data is now viewable via the File manager (a new icon on the top right in the Email view).
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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.
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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.
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Custom cron commands can be added per-app:
Output of commands will nicely appear merged in the app's log output:
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@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
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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.
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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.
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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?
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Dustin Dauncey
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@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.
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@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!
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@jdaviescoates yes. But for discourse, we also need pop support it seems.
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@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:
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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.
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There's a link in the profile page now to send password reset request:
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POP3 support is enabled on the server but it's disabled for all mailboxes by default. It has to enabled per mailbox.
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So, the status of the release is that mailbox forwarding is being worked on. Once that is done, we will cut a release.
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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).
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Dustin Dauncey
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@d19dotca we plan to release next week, for sure.
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Possibly final update: the manual tests went fine. We are just getting the e2e tests to pass and then we are good.
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@girish will this be out later today by any chance?
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Dustin Dauncey
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@d19dotca it is still in our end to end tests....
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@d19dotca I will contact you from support, I think we can fix up your instance so you are not blocked by this.
Main issue is DO DNS is really letting us down this week. It keeps failing sporadically causing our tests to fail.
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As a heads up, this release will get published as Cloudron 7.0 and not 6.4 . It's because we stop supporting Ubuntu 16 from this major version and also the format of backups have changed.
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@girish Take it easy no pressue or rush. We understnad things take time. Love all of your work. Keep up the Good Work please!
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It is a pity you can't hear the loud cheers and applause when you give us news like this.
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Great job guys! Super long changelog, happy to see many of the changes included there!
I'm going to upgrade likely tomorrow night.PS - Girish, the migration went well from you manually adding in the self-signed certs the other day. I really appreciate the awesome support and help with that! You guys rock!
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Why are we allowing POP3? It's an old, outdated, and insecure mail protocol.
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@murgero said in What's coming in 7.0 (was 6.4):
Why are we allowing POP3? It's an old, outdated, and insecure mail protocol.
For some reason it is still required for various things. e.g. Discourse reply-by-email features (as mad as that sounds), and I think perhaps sucking messages into Gmail too (which can help people to get started using Cloudron mail stuff before they are ready to fully transition away from where they've currently got everything)
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@murgero mostly for compatibility with apps and some services that we cannot control. Admittedly, I didn't want to enable it but it was trivial to enable it in dovecot.
It's also disabled by default for all mailboxes. We also only support POP3S (no plain POP3).
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@murgero said in What's coming in 7.0 (was 6.4):
Why are we allowing POP3? It's an old, outdated, and insecure mail protocol.
TBH all mail protocols are outdated and insecure if compared so secure messenger protocols. Email cannot be fixed or made secure (think encryption or shit like HTML emails)
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@necrevistonnezr said in What's coming in 7.0 (was 6.4):
all mail protocols are outdated and insecure if compared so secure messenger protocols
^this email was not designed as a secret medium. Unlike protocols such as matrix.
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@fbartels said in What's coming in 7.0 (was 6.4):
@necrevistonnezr said in What's coming in 7.0 (was 6.4):
all mail protocols are outdated and insecure if compared so secure messenger protocols
^this email was not designed as a secret medium. Unlike protocols such as matrix.
Exactly.
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Just curious @girish @nebulon ... I see 7.0.2 out but I still get the notice of this being pre-release and not production ready... is that still accurate or is that an outdated message?
This update is a pre-release and not considered stable yet. Please update at your own risk.--
Dustin Dauncey
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Thanks for the fantastic release!!
Brilliant new features: per event log, per cron, app manager role, email data file manager, and everything else...well done!!
Always visible grey squared gear icon is a bit less pretty than just the gear (as it used to be), no? Very minor point of course!
Also there was a talk on a mailbox manager role at some point (someone who could administrate the email side of thing), is this part of this release in the end or is there more work plan for this or for other role customisation in the next release?
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@avatar1024 said in What's coming in 7.0 (was 6.4):
Always visible grey scared gear icon is a bit less pretty than just the gear (as it used to be), no? Very minor point of course!
which one do you mean? We have reworked some code in the apps grid to support the app operator role, so maybe you hit some regression, as the gear icon I am thinking of, should not be always visible.
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@nebulon Apologies, I meant that on mouse hover an app, there is now a grey square button (with white gear) always visible, which then turns white (with blue gear) when actually hovering over it. Before it used to be that you see only the gear (without a square) when hovering over an app and you'd see the square when hovering over the gear.
Haha I've realised this is only a dark theme issue. I've just tried in another browser with a light theme and the issue is not here. So yes, probably a slight regression on the dark theme.
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@avatar1024 well spotted, thanks. This is indeed a regression. I have fixed this now for the next release.
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@d19dotca since we roll out slowly, it will show as 'unstable' for the others. at this point, 7.0 is still available only to new installations and those who check for an update manually. We will start a roll out only next week. In general, it is truly stable (as in, what we have staged might have small regressions) only once I make a forum announcement here and blog post that Cloudron 7 is available.
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@girish just curious but I might be missing something. How was custom app installation made easier?
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@atridad unfortunately, we didn't make any progress with that in this release.
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@girish my Cloudron instance was auto-upgraded to 7.0.3 last night. I have a lot of apps in Not Responding status, with a message on each :
Restarting - Waiting for Cloudron to initializeI have rebooted the server using the System Info link.
Not possible to cancel and retry tasks.
Is there are any advice about getting these started ?
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@girish panic over
They have all started now
Seemed to take a looong time after server reboot
Logs are difficult to interpret but seems like redis was struggling to get loaded.
All seems ok for now
Look forward to getting up to speed with 7.0 changes -
sorry if I am being blind or thick, but is there some kind of CHANGELOG for what's in 7.0 ~ 7.03
This thread is too long and too broad for my little brain
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@timconsidine the changes are all listed in https://git.cloudron.io/cloudron/box/-/blob/master/CHANGES#L2367 or they should also be shown in the notification about the update in your Cloudron dashboard.
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@nebulon cheers !
