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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!

@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.

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This is a selfhosted calendly. https://github.com/FredericCasazza/easyappointments-ldap_user_provider has some LDAP integration code.

Some updates on volume management. There is now a volume view.

You add a host path as a volume and give it a name. This is most likely some EBS/external hard disk/Block Storage. There is also the file manager integration (the button next to the delete button).

You can then go to the app view and mount these volumes into the apps. There is a new Storage section.

There is a section overload in the app configure view We are looking to reducing the list of sections in the left pane. It's making things hard to find.

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.

Youtube Video

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.

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I am one of the co-founders. Before I started Cloudron, I used to be a C++ developer (contributed a lot to Qt, WebKit, Crosswalk, KDE). Back then, I used to self-host things but it wasn't a conscious choice, it was just what people did (for example, i used to self-host gitosis before github, mediawiki etc). I think the turning point was Google Reader shutdown which forced me to make a conscious choice. And now I am a web developer

OpenSlides is the all-in-one solution for running your plenary meetings and conferences. Show the current presentation on the main screen, while you show the agenda, motions, list of speakers on others. Working on elections and documents in parallel with all participants. Web-based and always up-to-date.

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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.

Back in the day, we had an "oauth proxy" for apps that didn't support any authentication to put up an auth wall. This was brought up https://forum.cloudron.io/topic/1451/alternative-to-oauth-proxy . We removed that proxy when we removed OAuth support altogether.

Recently, there is a bunch of apps that require an auth wall including:

• Prometheus server/alert manager
• Cloud torrent
• Transmission
• Apps like surfer
• Many of our internal apps

I have put in this "proxy auth" feature in Cloudron 6. Just have to add it to addons in the manifest like:

"addons": {
    "proxyAuth": {}
}

Just like the ldap addon, user can then select which users/groups can authenticate. If the manifest also has optionalSso, then user can choose to let the app have no auth wall altogether.

When using this feature, two routes are "reserved" - /login and /logout. Some benefits of having this on the platform side (as opposed in the app are):

• 2FA login
• Session management in the user's profile page. i.e can logout from apps etc
• Easier for us to maintain this feature. Currently, this feature has already been re-implemented in the apps using 3 different stacks - nginx/apache/node...

I took a lot of inspiration from https://github.com/andygock/auth-server and @mehdi's transmission code. So, big thanks to them!

Some more updates.

• Clicking the update button now will always give you an update, if it's available. No more required to ask us to whitelist an update.

• Encrypted backups - there were security flaws with the current encryption. It's been fixed (more info when we do the actual release). thanks to @mehdi who has patiently worked with us through this.

• App graphs! Currently, just RAM and Disk. CPU and Network will come later.
  

• System graphs
  

• Backup listing UI for the platform
  

• New backup retention policy (this is same as keep daily/weekly/monthly in borg/restic).
  

• Finally, there is a way import and export the backup configuration easily. You see this in the right of the backups. You get a config file that can then be put in another Cloudron instance for restore or import.

We hope to get this out next week. Just doing a lot testing now.