For the coming weeks, we are going to focus on getting some new apps packaged. The list is:

• OnlyOffice
• Bitwarden - @Felix and @iamthefij have done much of the heavy lifting, we just have to get it across the line.
• OpenVPN - We will add an admin interface that let's the admins configure some popular vpn settings.
• BigBlueButton or Jitsi (we will evaluate which works well for conferencing. We have used both and they both work well but BBB might win). If you have any thoughts here, please leave a comment.
• Development apps - basically provide a git push workflow for hosting custom nodejs/php apps (and make it work so that they can be mixed with various caches and databases).

If we should prioritize something else, please let us know! But the above should keep us occupied this month.

Hi all,
We released Cloudron 4 now. The blog has more details about the release.

Changes:

• SFTP access is built into the platform. As of this release, WordPress, Surfer and LAMP apps support SFTP access. You can get the SFTP credentials from the i button in the app grid. Note that the username for each app is different!
• App tags and labels - this lets you easily categorize and search app. The current UI is very basic, we hope to iterate on this. Feedback welcome.
• Scaleway Object Storage backend for backups
• Easier email import. There is some basic docs on how to use imapsync here
• Unmanaged WordPress app - this app allows you to edit WordPress code unlike the existing WordPress app. Since, we let you edit the code, we won't deal with updates either. You can to use the WPs built-in updater for that. Docs for this app are here. Currently, this app is marked as unstable. So, you have to enable the unstable flag in settings before you can install it/see it in your Cloudron.
• Immediate App Update notifications
• Backups created right before an app update are retained for upto 3 weeks. This lets admins roll back in case they notice some breakage late.
• Community/Unstable apps. There's been a lot of app packaging going on and we can't keep up with testing of all the apps. So, we will get them all listed in the coming weeks, so others can easily test them out.
• Upstream app version is now listed in the app info dialog
• Support for email relays that do not require authentication and self-signed certificates
• Cloudron updates can now be applied without taking a full backup. This was added for situations where there might a bug in the backup logic and an upcoming Cloudron update fixes the backup issue.
• Add a way to disable outbound mail for a domain. Email -> Outbound -> Select Disabled

Good question! So far, we haven't been overwhelmed with the app count. I think we can actually easily support far more. This is only because:

• The main packaging cost is the first initial version. If you see the source code of any app package, we hardly have to make changes for a new release. It's mostly bumping the version. I am hoping once we have a CI/CD app on Cloudron, we can automate this part.
• All our stable apps have tests. We don't test anything manually. The apps that don't have proper automated tests (like confluence), we have regretted publishing. But we keep them supported and test them manually since enough paying customers are using it. But that was a lesson for us to not add apps that don't have tests.
• Many of the new apps that we are publishing now was packaged by our community - @msbt , @iamthefij , @Felix, @thetomester13 , @jimcavoli , @murgero (there's also 2-3 more but I am unable to find their id) etc. So, we are just building on top of their hard work (thanks a lot again guys!).
• Finally, our goal is not to package all the apps possible. We just want the best 2-3 apps in each category. So, if there are 30 categories. This will only come to 90 apps or so.

All that said, if you see a drop in quality in support or general, please let us know and that will a hint for us to look into adding resources

Hi all,
We released Cloudron 4.4. See the blog for screenshots and more info.

• Show swap info in graphs
• User avatars are now customizable (click on the profile photo icon). This removes the use of gravatar for privacy reasons.
• import: add option to import app in-place
• import: add option to import app from arbitrary backup config
• Show download progress for rsync backups
• acme2: Implement post-as-get
• AWS Marketplace image
• Stopped apps are be auto-updated anymore (since they won't run migration scripts).
• eventlog: track support ticket creation and remote support status
• cloudflare: support API tokens
• Add search field in apps view (this only appears if you have many apps)
• Make app view tags and domain filter persistent across browser refresh
• Add timezone UI. We used to auto detect this but clearly it's imperfect, so we have decided to expose it. This allows you to precisely configure when backup and update tasks get scheduled.

Hi all,
Mastodon is now available in the app store. Most of the packaging work was done by @syn . Thanks a lot, @syn!

Code: https://git.cloudron.io/cloudron/mastodon-app
App store link: https://cloudron.io/store/org.joinmastodon.cloudronapp.html
Docs: https://cloudron.io/documentation/apps/mastodon/

https://yetiforce.com/en/

https://github.com/YetiForceCompany/YetiForceCRM

We are working on pushing out 2.2 early next week. The main feature planned is 2FA/TOTP support for the cloudron.io login and the dashboard.

Users will see a button in their profile section to setup 2FA. You can use Google Authenticator, FreeOTP or similar app to generate one time passwords.

To keep things simple this option will only enable 2FA for the dashboard login. App logins will not requires 2FA. From our initial investigation, many apps already support 2FA and making up some scheme like password+otp will have to carefully thought through from a UX perspective.

An update on this. We tried to push the update today with a plan to roll out later this week. We found some issues with the database migration which we are currently working on. Over all, it's unlikely this gets pushed out this week.

Now for some good news: we have updated all apps to use the latest base image 1.0.0 (which is based off ubuntu 18 and contains many security fixes).

Time for some progress updates!

There is now a system menu:

Inside which, there are services list. You can monitor and configure the services:

Backups can now be cancelled. Updates can also be cancelled. Yes, the layout is bit off here but it will be fixed before the release:

Also, we have reworked the email handling for apps a bit to support some use cases. Currently, apps are create a mailbox of their own and one cannot easily access these mailboxes (if someone replied to the email). We have fixed this so that apps can now be associated with any existing mailbox. By default, an address is auto-generated for the app. You can then change this to an existing mailbox which you can access using your credentials. It's also possible now to share the mailbox name across apps.

Give the holiday time, this release is mostly a bunch of various important fixes. No new major features as such. We are focusing on getting some apps (like a conference app and the bitwarden one).

Changes are:

• Show swap info in system graphs
• Make avatars customizable. Previously, we used to use gravatar. We decided it's best to not use that by default (given our privacy first policy).
• Import: Couple of important changes. With the CLI, you can now directly import a backup from an external location into your Cloudron without having to change your Cloudron's backup configuration. This way, if you have 2 cloudrons (one prod and one for testing), you can migrate the app from testing to prod with a single command (cloudron import) without having to rsync/scp backups etc. Another important change is that you can also extract a backup directly into the app's data directly and "resurrect" an app from there. This option is useful if you have a very large backup and you can use some external tool like rclone to download the backup (with resume support) and then import it into Cloudron.
• Lots of fixes to the repair UI. We had several issues with it being hard to fix apps in error state.
• acme2: Implement post-as-get. This is required for Let's Encrypt

This is now marked as stable.

We just had a 2 hour long teamspeak call with the app on Cloudron, works great! @nebulon will publish it to unstable tomorrow.

@derek Switching name servers usually takes around 2-4 hours depending on the provider. You can test this on the cloudron (and on your PC/Mac):

host -t NS example.com

If the above works on Cloudron, then it will start working. When a transfer is going on, it will give out ESERVFAIL.

Ooh, crashing the cloudron instance seems something we should fix. Do you have backtrace? It should be in /home/yellowtent/platformdata/logs/box.log.

I just setup a new instance and it appears fine here. Also, our chat runs the latest Rocket.Chat and it works fine as well.

What you are seeing seems to be some font issue. It looks like the page uses Robot Medium. Do you see the same issue on your mobile phone or another PC?

@d19dotca I think such suggestions are awesome! Makes the product better bit by bit. I have made a fix - https://git.cloudron.io/cloudron/box/commit/cda649884e966a620ebd34ebcdb2db35efc84467 . Should be in the next release.

@rubikscubeguy fathom hasn't seen any development for a while now - https://github.com/usefathom/fathom/commits/master (they are mostly cosmetic changes).

https://forum.cloudron.io/topic/1250/matrix-org-communication is a better thread

Now that we have this, we will be moving our existing mastodon account at social.tchns.de to a self-hosted install.

Hi all,
Mastodon is now available in the app store. Most of the packaging work was done by @syn . Thanks a lot, @syn!

Code: https://git.cloudron.io/cloudron/mastodon-app
App store link: https://cloudron.io/store/org.joinmastodon.cloudronapp.html
Docs: https://cloudron.io/documentation/apps/mastodon/