[Freedombox-discuss] Plinth 0.5 released

Marc Jones mjones at softwarefreedom.org
Tue Aug 4 20:23:59 UTC 2015


This is great! Thank you to everyone for their contributions.

I am camping this week, so sorry for the delayed excitement. Reading this email was the best thing to happen today since I found a campsite with a view of a glacier.

Marc
Software freedom Law Center

On Aug 1, 2015 10:36 AM, James Valleroy <jvalleroy at mailbox.org> wrote:
>
> Hello, 
>
> Plinth release 0.5 is now available. 
>
> Plinth is a web interface to administer the functions of FreedomBox. 
>
> Summary of changes since 0.4.5: 
>   - New app modules: 
>     - BitTorrent (Deluge) 
>     - Email Client (Roundcube) 
>     - Web Proxy (Privoxy) 
>   - Use libnm for Networks module 
>   - Add support for testing Django-dependent modules 
>   - Plinth can now setup ejabberd and jwchat 
>   - Setup firewall zones for network-manager connections 
>   - Manage LDAP users and groups with ldapscripts package 
>   - LDAP user authentication is now used for XMPP, ikiwiki, and SSH 
>   - Fixes to cherrypy autoreload and remove unneeded extra server. 
> Plinth now uses much less CPU. 
>   - Use django-stronghold for authentication handling 
>   - Bundle tests with applications; add Travis-CI status image to README 
>   - Move to using python3-augeas for Pagekite 
>   - Extend and use action utilities for enabling/disabling services and 
> Apache confs 
>   - Fixed timezone list issue 
>   - Bind a Network connection to an interface 
>   - Many small cleanups 
>
> Since there wasn't a release announcement for 0.4.5, here's a summary of 
> changes in that release (since 0.4.4): 
>   - New app modules: 
>     - BitTorrent (Transmission) 
>     - Dynamic DNS 
>     - Voice Chat (Mumble) 
>     - Wiki & Blog (ikiwiki) 
>   - New system modules: 
>     - Networks 
>     - Software Upgrades 
>   - Add unit tests with coverage report and Travis-CI integration 
>   - Add systemd service file for Plinth 
>   - Use augeas to configure Pagekite 
>   - Use domainname as ejabberd host 
>   - Bugfixes for ownCloud and packagekit 
>   - Fixes for user dropdown menu when javascript is disabled 
>   - Simpler look 
>
> The detailed lists of changes are attached. 
>
> Availability: 
>
>   Plinth's upstream URL is: https://github.com/freedombox/Plinth/ 
>
>   The Plinth packaging is being updated currently, and should be 
>   uploaded to Debian unstable soon. 
>
> Contributors to this release: 
>
>   - Bharath Chava 
>   - Bob Girard 
>   - Daniel Steglich 
>   - James Valleroy 
>   - Maximiliano Curia (maxyz) 
>   - Michael Pimmer (fonfon) 
>   - Sunil Mohan Adapa 
>
> Contributions welcome! 
>
>   You can contribute to Plinth/FreedomBox by coding, designing, 
>   documenting, testing etc. See: 
>   https://wiki.debian.org/FreedomBox/Contribute/ 
>
>   Also there are now a number of bugs tagged as "beginner" on the 
>   Plinth issue tracker. These bugs are good places for a new 
>   contributor to start. Please feel free to ask if you need any help or 
>   directions. 
>   https://github.com/freedombox/plinth/issues 
>
> -- 
> James
>
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