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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

UPDATE 4: 6.0

6.0 will be a feature rich release:

• Focal support
• Mailbox sharing - we tried IMAP based mailbox sharing but this doesn't work well for the apps we have. We will instead make it such that a single mailbox can have multiple owners.
• Optimize WP and Nextcloud installations. This is not directly related to box code but we want to speeden things up and optimize the configs since we have a large number of installs with these 2 apps. @MooCloud_Matt has given us a lot of ideas to work with here.
• Unified dashboard for multiple cloudron setups - This will provide a unified auth across cloudron setups plus a single dashboard to control multiple cloudrons. Details are still being worked on and I will post it once I have more info.
• Fix access control for service provider setups - There's a few small issues. Service providers wants admin flag per app, better control of SFTP user management and also to unify PHPMyAdmin across apps. We will see what we can do.
• Mail - Full text search via IMAP (solr integration)

Already released

• (5.4) Dark mode for dashboard
• (5.4) File manager UI to edit the files inside apps. For the initial version, one can only view and edit the files under /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)
• (5.5) Backup upload/download speed - Currently, backups can be quite slow but we have some ideas to speed it up
• (5.4) Allow admin to lock email and display name globally. This essentially makes the LDAP directory non-editable by normal users.
• (5.5) Allow backup and update time to be set. Currently, this is all hard coded and it's causing problems for people working in the night
• (5.6) Mail: Configurable mail server settings - whitelist/blacklist, max message size, tls configuration. In the next release after 6.0, we will make spam settings configurable.

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.

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.

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!

Features planned for 6.0:

• Ubuntu Focal 20.04 support
• Mailbox sharing - we tried IMAP based mailbox sharing but this doesn't work well for the apps we have. We will instead make it such that a single mailbox can have multiple owners.
• Optimize WP and Nextcloud installations. This is not directly related to box code but we want to speeden things up and optimize the configs since we have a large number of installs with these 2 apps. @MooCloud_Matt has given us a lot of ideas to work with here.
• Mail - Full text search via IMAP (solr integration)
• Volume management - this will allow mounting paths on the host into apps.
• i18n

We removed the unified dashboard for now. @nebulon and I think it will take a good 1-2 months to implement and test and we want to keep the releases going. We will start implementing unified dashboard in a branch.

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:

• Dark mode for dashboard
• File manager UI to edit the files inside apps. For the initial version, one can only view and edit the files under /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)
• Allow admin to lock email and display name globally. This essentially makes the LDAP directory non-editable by normal users.
• Mandatory 2FA - this is new feature that wasn't announced as part of 5.4! This will require users to setup 2FA before accessing the dashboard.
• We are moving nginx to latest upstream packages instead of ubuntu ones since they are lagging behind a lot.
• Backblaze b2 provider - also new

Some big news: We will be adding i18n support in Cloudron 6. This work is being sponsored by Medias-Cite and their Cloudron project OSINUM. Thanks @Benoit ! As part of the work, we will also package the Weblate app (for translations).

Another brief update:

• We added auth wall functionality that apps without any notion of login can use
• i18n is mostly done, just lots of testing before we let translators do their work. @nebulon can give some updates on how the language is selected etc.
• We added httpPaths functionality so that @MooCloud_Matt can work on his OLS app. Also, see https://forum.cloudron.io/topic/3755/apache-ols-and-nginx-custom-benchmarks/5
• Reworked a lot of the internal dns stuff, so that we can have apps as dns servers (ad blocker apps)
• solr fts search was merged today.

Looks like we are set for a release next week!

I have to take that back. I am not sure again anymore. It seems the users between projects are totally separate. I thought it was the same because I created them with the same username/password, so I thought there was some sort of shared user management going on, but there isn't. So, it's back to I think it's best not to support multi-tenancy.

I implemented the change itself - https://git.cloudron.io/cloudron/directus-app/-/commit/309a56c72021f82312fc66bb94101c6692ec0b96#691718f47a3089a202609bee65b689fdc9e57855 . But i won't make a new package.

@robi right. I initially thought it was something like WP multi-site and you can give it some table prefix per project, but it doesn't work like that. It really wants a separate database.

Agree with you that since it's a fairly new app, we can fix this. But I am not sure what the common case is. Given that their docs have put this straight up, I am inclined to fix it. It's a pretty minor fix.

Wanted to mention that this will be a breaking change. Meaning, I have to create a new app pretty much since there is no easy way to migrate from a single database to multiple database package at this point. Most likely, users have to do some mysql based migration.

Got a support ticket asking how to create multiple projects on Directus - https://docs.directus.io/guides/projects.html . Investigating this, I found that the Directus app will require access to separate databases for each project you want to create. The current Cloudron package only has access to a single database but the package can be modified to support multiple databases.

Is this something generally considered useful? If so, I can make the changes.

@d19dotca Could it be that the server needs TLS 1.0 or something ? We disable support for it since it has been long insecure but I do know that many mail servers still seem to hold on to it. https://forum.cloudron.io/post/9500 has a workaround. Can you tell me if it works after that ?

@flistertwo None of the ldap plugins have been updated in a while, so one has to develop a LDAP plugin to make things work with NodeBB. https://github.com/smartameer/nodebb-plugin-office-ldap hasn't been updated in 3 years and https://github.com/ianbogda/nodebb-plugin-sso-ldap has no updates in 6 years.

[1.0.4]

• Update Snipe-IT to 5.0.9
• Full changelog
• Added #8781 - asset count by status type in sidenav (#8806)
• Added a new UAC setting to valid User Accounts for Active Directory (#8775)
• Added img-responsive class to preview images for suppliers, etc

I had to work hard to find this setting. Found it finally under Plugins -> Mentions

[1.150.0]

• Update minio to 2020-11-19T23-48-16Z
• Full changelog

[1.2.4]

• Update Trilium to 0.45.5
• Full changelog