Cloudron 8.3 released
We are happy to announce the release of Cloudron 8.3!
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 8.3 upgrades the base docker image and provides seamless upgrade of the databases.
New base image
Cloudron apps and addons use an Ubuntu 24.04 LTS based image. The new docker image ID is cloudron/base:5.0.0@sha256:04fd70dbd8ad6149c19de39e35718e024417c3e01dc9c6637eaf4a41ec4e596c. Please update the Dockerfile of your custom apps to use this as the base .
Database upgrades
A core part of Cloudron's self-hosting approach is that users shouldn't have to worry about database choices or database versions that are used by apps. The app packaging mechanism makes the appropriate choices based on the app's preferences.
This release contains many upgrades to the underlying databases and frameworks. The upgrade procedure is entirely transparent and hands-off.
- PostgreSQL is upgraded from v14 to v16
- MySQL is upgraded to v8.0.41
- MongoDB upgraded from v6 to v7
- Redis is upgraded to v7.4
- PHP 8.3 is now the minimum in all apps
- Default node version is 22.14.0 TLS
- Solr, used by mail server for FTS, is upgraded to v9
- Default python is 3.12
Database connection commands
You can now use cloudron_<db> to connect to the database from the Web Terminal. So, you can cloudron exec and then cloudron_mysql to connect to mysql without having to type out those pesky env vars.
What's coming next
Head over to our forum to learn more about What's coming in our next release - 9.
Install or update Cloudron
New to Cloudron? Get started for free by running with 3 simple commands on your server.
To update an existing installation, simply click on the 'Update now' button on your dashboard.