Cloudron 8.2 Released
We are happy to announce the release of Cloudron 8.2!
For those unaware, Cloudron is a platform that makes it easy to run web apps like WordPress, Nextcloud, GitLab on your server and keep them up-to-date and secure.
Cloudron 8.2 includes support for Sqlite addon, Mail attachment search, OIDC Provider Name Customization, Device Mounts, App Archive, Parallel Tasks, Email notifications, Quay fallback & many bug fixes.
Sqlite Addon
We are seeing more self-hosted applications support Sqlite. Sqlite databases have to be backed up carefully since a simple cp might copy a corrupt database when it's not in WAL mode.
We have added support for Sqlite addon. Like with other databases, Cloudron now takes portable backups of Sqlite databases listed in CloudronManifest.json.
OIDC Provider Name Customization
The Cloudron Name set in the Branding view is now automatically set as the OIDC Provider Name.
App packages can use the new CLOUDRON_OIDC_PROVIDER_NAME environment variable to customize the text of their login buttons. Here's Immich and Grafana making use of the OIDC Provider Name in their login buttons.
Device Mounts
Apps like OpenHAB, Home Assistant, Emby, Jellyfin have device integrations and require access to devices on the host. A list of host devices to be made available to the app can now be specified in the Devices section.
Parallel Tasks
Cloudron had a global lock (in code) preventing operations like backups, updates and app operations from proceeding in parallel. We have removed this global lock and replaced it with a more granular app level lock. A full backup or a Cloudron update can now run in parallel with app operations.
App Archive
The App Archive feature provides a way to uninstall an app and have the safety mechanism of easily restoring it later. When an app is archived, it is uninstalled from the server, but its latest backup is stored in the App Archive.
The App Archive is located in the Backups view.
Mail Attachment Search
Cloudron Mail will index mail attachments using Apache Tika when Full Text Search is enabled.
Email Notifications
In older Cloudron versions, we used to send email notifications by default to all admins. This was considered too spammy and was removed. We have brought email notifications back with the ability for each user to control what emails they want to receive.
Personal email notification preferences can be configured in the Notifications view:
Quay Fallback
DockerHub seems to use first 64 bits of IPv6 address for rate limiting. Unfortunately, this results in many Cloudrons hitting rate limits incorrectly. As a workaround, we have started pushing our app images to Quay.io under the username cloudron . When a pull from DockerHub fails, the code fallsback to pulling from Quay.io .
Other Notable Changes
- mail: Update Haraka to 3.0.5
- Update docker to 27.3.1
- Security: Samy Mahi reported a critical vulnerability which allows Cloudron admins to get SSH access. We thank Samy for making a responsible disclosure to us (README and REPORT).
- Slow disks can be excluded from periodic disk usage collection.
- postgres: add support for
vectorextension. - groups: add events to eventlog
- Hetzner: add Helsinki location for backups
- scheduler: create jobs with Cloudron Time Zone setting
- Gandi: add support for Personal Access Tokens
What's coming next
Head over to our forum to learn more about What's coming in our next release - 9.
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