Co-founder of Cloudron.io
First off, I hope all you guys are staying safe in these tough times! Our team is split in Santa Clara and Berlin and we are doing well!
5.1 will be a quick release. There are a bunch of security related fixes but the main feature is the integration of turn addon/service into the platform. This will help us get the video conference apps in asap since it's the need of the hour.
We are continuing to work on getting many more of the apps published, see the WIP tag. Thanks to the community for really helping us out here!
CHANGE IN PLANS: As mentioned in the 5.4 post, we decided to release some of the features listed here in an intermediary release. I have marked the features below as such.
UPDATE 2: There is now a 5.5
UPDATE 3: There is now a 5.6
6.0 will be a feature rich release:
/app/data (i.e one cannot view the files in the read-only parts of the file system. this is because of some technical reasons)
For the coming weeks, we are going to focus on getting some new apps packaged. The list is:
If we should prioritize something else, please let us know! But the above should keep us occupied this month.
What we initially planned as Cloudron 4.5 is now Cloudron 5. We decided to bump the major version since it got a lot of changes to justify the bump.
New installations will already get Cloudron 5. Existing installations will get an update in a week or two. We roll out updates conservatively as always, if you want it immediately, please just send a mail to support@cloudron.io and we will make it available.
I am preparing the blog post which will have the screenshots for the features.
Changes:
Add user roles - owner, admin, user manager and user
Show backup disk usage in graphs
Mail server event log and mailbox usage information
Spam auto-learning - the spam solution is now per mailbox. The mail server will now periodically auto learn spam and ham from the mailbox with no user intervention.
CPU resource allocation - We have implemented CPU Shared
Whitelabel the footer/404
App specific passwords
Import backups UI - this lets you easily move apps across Cloudrons
Display timestamps in browser timezone in the UI
linode: add object storage backend
Enhancements in the built-in LDAP to better support SOGo (more on this in a separate post).
There's a lot of other bug fixes as well. You can read through the commits for that
I have added a new category called Apps - https://forum.cloudron.io/category/9/apps . I am slowly adding all the apps we have into it as subcategories. It seems this might work better than tags (people are mistyping tags) and also provides a better direction/place for people to post.
Ideally, we keep the current Support category to Cloudron platform related issues. I am moving existing Apps related posts this new category.
Finally, we will start posting app updates in these new categories. Basically, https://cloudron.io/appstatus.html with a changelog. But since now apps are a separate category we can post it a bit more freely without being concerned about polluting the main support category.
Hi All,
Small change in plans for the Cloudron releases. Previously, we had announced that next release will be Cloudron 6. It turns out some of the features are in good shape already and we just want to get it out instead of waiting for everything to get done.
So, there will be a 5.4 release, hopefully later this week, with the following features:
@jdaviescoates For pricing, as mentioned, we just offer discounted pricing on a case by case basis. Given we are a small company ourselves, we don't want Cloudron pricing to be a blocker for another business relying on us. We have a dozen or so re-sellers and they are generally IT admins, sysadmins who host for co ops, non-profits and schools.
As for Cloudron the company itself, we are profitable and pay ourselves a salary, and I can say we are not going away anytime soon. We are completely bootstrapped and haven't tried to ever raise money nor do we plan to. Future wise, one thing we really want to happen it is to grow to a size where we can start supporting upstream opensource apps - either by contributing with people or funding them.
I recorded a quick video showing host the tests run. The browser on the left is my Firefox that just shows the Cloudron dashboard. The browser that appears on the right is Chrome and it is where the automated testing happens.
EDIT: OK, this is funny. @nebulon was wondering why I had some dark music in the video. I thought I had recorded a silent video and did not even know there was some background music Investigating, I found out that my youtube at some point has started auto-playing "3 HOURS Most EPIC POWERFUL BATTLE MUSIC"! and OBS was happily recording that. Since, I don't have a headset connected to this setup, I had no idea. Funnily, when I uploaded this video, it immediately told me there is a "copyright claim" and I thought "yeah, right". Now I know why.
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!
Default to ECC certs from Let's Encrypt - done!
Redis status - Under services, you can now tune redis instance of each app
App firewall will not make it this release since the changes are stacking up.
Can you go to Services -> Mail and restart the mail service? Does that help?
@jdaviescoates I think so. Surely possible with VNC, not sure about RDP. Can RDP connect to existing logged in user sessions?
@gml are you on 5.6.1? As for the updates, starting this release the box code won't auto update anymore and will respect the schedule under settings (it's a single setting for app and box updates)
Great stuff, persisting with it!
I have marked this app as stable now. Note that PHP 7.3 is nearing will end support in 6 Dec 2020. I am writing a migration guide on how to move from the PHP 7.3 app to this new 7.4 app.
@imc67 Noted 
I will get to this next week though since we are rolling out 5.6 this week. But I am very interested in getting that app to stable state asap.
To take a guess : The use case is that you run a OpenVPN client container which connects to some VPN service (not the existing app which is OpenVPN server). Then you make some or all apps use the same network as this openvpn container. This way all traffic goes via the VPN. Pretty cool, if this is what @Lonk had in mind
I think recently @p44 asked here how to hide TTRSS's querying IP. This is possibly an answer to that question.
I wonder if this should really be done at the server level instead of per-app. Maybe @Lonk can explain his use case further.
It seems there are some requests upstream for this already:
@atrilahiji If it keeps running out of memory, keep an eye on the gogs/gitea logs. It will tell you which bot is indexing your repos (you can tell from the user agent string).
Done. I also made a change now where that ghost file is automatically removed after you use it once to login. Just in case, people forget to remove it.