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
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James
Daniel Steglich: added a module and a action script to manage ez-ipupdate tool, which provides dynamic IP updates to a gnudip dynamic DNS Server daniel steglich: pep8 coding guidline adaption Daniel Steglich: pep8 coding guidline adaption Daniel Steglich: fixed permissions Daniel Steglich: some pylint related adjustments Daniel Steglich: fixed indentions Daniel Steglich: some args are optional, do not return errors Daniel Steglich: refactored naming from dynamicDNS to lowercase dynamicdns Daniel Steglich: fixed file permissions Daniel Steglich: fixed file permissions Daniel Steglich: fixed pep8 issue Daniel Steglich: added install command to action script Daniel Steglich: fixed reading uptime from system Daniel Steglich: fixed status update if nothing was done Daniel Steglich: Merge remote-tracking branch 'upstream/master' into dynamicdns Daniel Steglich: changed menu entry name to a more fancy string Daniel Steglich: use package framework for installing ez-ipupdate Daniel Steglich: Merge branch 'dynamicdns' of https://github.com/steglicd/Plinth into dynamicdns Daniel Steglich: removed obsolete install options because installation process is done by package framework now Daniel Steglich: do not load bootstrap template filters if not needed Daniel Steglich: fixed endention Daniel Steglich: pep8 guideline adaption Daniel Steglich: Merge branch 'dynamicdns' of https://github.com/steglicd/Plinth into dynamicdns Daniel Steglich: fixed pep8 errors reported by flake8 Daniel Steglich: do not report errors on first run Daniel Steglich: improved robustness of update script in case of connection trouble (wget may hang a long time if DNS fails or route is unavailable) Daniel Steglich: refactored configuration action to avoid multiple start/stop calls of the action script when the configuration changes Daniel Steglich: fixed indention Daniel Steglich: fixed an issue where first update after initial configuration will not work because the cronjob does not recognize the ip change Daniel Steglich: some helptext adjustments Daniel Steglich: use start-stop-daemon to avoid hanging web page if ez-ipupdate tool is blocking James Valleroy: Create POSIX user during firstboot. Closes #31. James Valleroy: Add option when adding a new user, to also create a POSIX user. James Valleroy: Delete posix user when deleting plinth user. James Valleroy: When updating a user's password, also update the POSIX user's password, when needed. James Valleroy: When enabling/disabling Django user, also enable/disable the corresponding POSIX user. James Valleroy: Show if user is also a POSIX user in edit user form. Sunil Mohan Adapa: Fix issue with styling of error messages with bootstrap3 Sunil Mohan Adapa: users: Add posix user messages to other user management forms Sunil Mohan Adapa: users: Handle errors better during POSIX user operations Sunil Mohan Adapa: users: Rename a POSIX user when Plinth user is renamed Sunil Mohan Adapa: users: Use deluser instead userdel for deleting POSIX users Sunil Mohan Adapa: Serve /usr/share/javscript on /javascript Sunil Mohan Adapa: Don't load Debian backup files as module configuration Bob Girard: Add detailed test coverage console report James Valleroy: Add upgrades module that can run unattended-upgrades. James Valleroy: Add form for enabling automatic upgrades. James Valleroy: fix typo James Valleroy: Use regexs to match more valid configs for unattended-upgrades. James Valleroy: Include { in Origins-Pattern regex pattern. fonfon: Minor improvement of auto-update check fonfon: More user-friendly output of an upgrade run Bob Girard: Add unit tests (#1) Sunil Mohan Adapa: Add to context processor and menu test cases fonfon: system configuration: make domain optional fonfon: Added 2015 to copyright note fonfon: Made owncloud submit button more straightforward fonfon: Display Plinth version in Documentation / About Sunil Mohan Adapa: copying: Reflow text Sunil Mohan Adapa: owncloud: Do Apache reload instead of restart Bob Girard: Eliminate renaming plinth.config file for tests Sunil Mohan Adapa: upgrades: Require CSRF token for starting upgrade process Sunil Mohan Adapa: upgrades: Minor styling fixes Sunil Mohan Adapa: upgrades: Handle upgrade interval other than 1 day properly Sunil Mohan Adapa: upgrades: Handle action errors using error codes Sunil Mohan Adapa: upgrades: Change menu item to 'Software Upgrades' Daniel Steglich: fixed typo within error message Daniel Steglich: made html templates more readable Daniel Steglich: reduce retry conuter to avoid UI blocking time Daniel Steglich: made code more readable Daniel Steglich: use different UI logo than XMPP fonfon: Merge pull request #86 from BobGirard/unit-tests-1 Daniel Steglich: do form validation within clean function of the ConfigureForm class and not when applying the changes fonfon: Merge pull request #105 from SunilMohanAdapa/owncloud-apache-reload Daniel Steglich: create config dir if not exist Daniel Steglich: cat on a empty string will block the script Daniel Steglich: removed second password field from configure form and validate the form completly within clean function of configure form Daniel Steglich: added a checkbox to make the password visible Daniel Steglich: first version of java script based dynamic provider selection Daniel Steglich: beautyfied and refactored code Daniel Steglich: added dynamic form fields and fixed support for users without javascript support Daniel Steglich: prepared update URL functionality (implemented new parameters) Daniel Steglich: consistent use of curly brackets Daniel Steglich: consistent use of dollar bracket to assign variables from system call Daniel Steglich: added comment lines Daniel Steglich: use global defined string variables Daniel Steglich: made the latest changes pep8 compatible Daniel Steglich: fixed javascript after field renaming Daniel Steglich: added concrete URL's for noip and selfhost.bz Daniel Steglich: changed syntax of variables Daniel Steglich: added function to replace vars from update URL Daniel Steglich: fixed variables Daniel Steglich: started adding help text variables Daniel Steglich: do not show single quotes arround the update URL Daniel Steglich: updated javascript disabled helper message Daniel Steglich: store successful update events to be displayed on status page Daniel Steglich: sorround update URL with double qoutes Daniel Steglich: changed success/failure storage after update is done via update URL Daniel Steglich: fixed indention Daniel Steglich: added comments Daniel Steglich: moved helper texts to variables Daniel Steglich: fixed form validation: at least dynamicdns_server or dynamicdns_update_url needs to be configured Daniel Steglich: fixed typo Daniel Steglich: fixed indention Daniel Steglich: covered empty server arguments and made parameter comparsion more easy Daniel Steglich: changed form manipulation from plain javascript to jquerry and removed javascript from python file Daniel Steglich: less than 80 characters per line Daniel Steglich: do not delete GnuDIP Server address if dropdown box changes and check/uncheck HTTP Basic auth according to update URL provider template Daniel Steglich: only do a update if DNS entry is outdated Daniel Steglich: improved ipurl check Daniel Steglich: improved check of current IP, registered at DNS server Daniel Steglich: added freedns provider Daniel Steglich: fixed dropdown box based deletion of unused params Daniel Steglich: configure the form according to last configured values when loading the formular Daniel Steglich: do not clear server and URL values when changing dropdown menu but check if one of them is filled when validate the form Daniel Steglich: need to remove unused parameters according to dropdown box selection Daniel Steglich: added some comments Daniel Steglich: added hint for free dns service Daniel Steglich: only show fields according to dropdown menu when entering form first tim (after enable checkbox was selected) Sunil Mohan Adapa: owncloud: Check for database configuration to treat as enabled Sunil Mohan Adapa: owncloud: Minor cleanup in action file Sunil Mohan Adapa: owncloud: Make setup more robust to repeatition Daniel Steglich: fixed indention Daniel Steglich: fixed typo Daniel Steglich: use ssl for freedns Daniel Steglich: improved helptext Daniel Steglich: do not change values of dropdown element, but change selection Daniel Steglich: only validate form fileds if the form is enabled at all Daniel Steglich: copyright notice added Daniel Steglich: fixed status return string of updateurl Daniel Steglich: improved form validation (only request domain/user/pass if gnudip is selected to allow empty params on update URL), and stripped single qoutes from empty values to avoid showing them when form is loaded Daniel Steglich: removed duplicate code and avoid deleting form field config on reload Daniel Steglich: improved helper text Daniel Steglich: moved reconfiguration of dropdown display directly to the onchange function of the dropdown box as the code is not used elsewhere Daniel Steglich: improved help texts Daniel Steglich: refactoring, made the code more readable, use consistent indentions, whitespaces and linebreaks next to brackets Daniel Steglich: removed dictionary because string values can be used in dropdown menu directly Daniel Steglich: fixed missing whitespace Daniel Steglich: made the bash script code shellcheck compatible, replaced obsolete statements Daniel Steglich: fixed some syntax errors after last changes Daniel Steglich: fixed missing bracket in awk command Daniel Steglich: updated help message Daniel Steglich: local vars are only possible inside of functions Daniel Steglich: built in string substitution of bash shell does not work with dash. avoid this incompatibility. Daniel Steglich: removed debug output Daniel Steglich: use global wget options in addition to specific wget options James Valleroy: Merge remote-tracking branch 'steglicd/dynamicdns' Sunil Mohan Adapa: firewall: Fix bootstrap 2->3 style for diabled items Sunil Mohan Adapa: mumble: Add new module for installing, enabling/disabling Sunil Mohan Adapa: package: Add ability to receive notification on install James Valleroy: Use domainname as ejabberd host. Only use hostname when domainname is blank. Sunil Mohan Adapa: xmpp: Add yaml as install dependency in setup.py Sunil Mohan Adapa: xmpp: List all configured vhosts during user registration Bob Girard: Enable integration of Plinth with Travis-CI Bob Girard: Skip tests for now requiring Django configuration Sunil Mohan Adapa: packages: refresh package list before install and handle errors Sunil Mohan Adapa: packages: handle speed updates during installation James Valleroy: Update dynamicdns views to use new required package list format. James Valleroy: Network connection list and delete James Valleroy: Enable and disable network connections James Valleroy: Add Ethernet or Wifi connection James Valleroy: Set auto or static IPv4 address. James Valleroy: Add form to edit network connections. James Valleroy: Separate network-manager logic from network module views. James Valleroy: Rename network module to networks. Move networkmanager helper functions into a new file. Add some network tests. James Valleroy: Add wifi scan page to networks module. James Valleroy: Connect to network selected from scan page. James Valleroy: Add wifi security settings. James Valleroy: Add firewall zone selection for networks. James Valleroy: Fix network tests, add form help and validator. James Valleroy: Add AP and adhoc wifi modes, and shared IPv4 addressing mode. James Valleroy: Add wifi mode to connect page also. James Valleroy: Update dependency list and pep8 fixes. Sunil Mohan Adapa: network: Use uuids for identifying connections Sunil Mohan Adapa: network: Untabify and minor refactoring Sunil Mohan Adapa: network: Cleanup, minor fixes and refactoring Sunil Mohan Adapa: network: Update tests to work with UUIDs and add a few more checks Sunil Mohan Adapa: network: Update travis configuration to install network-manager package Sunil Mohan Adapa: network: Disable networks module until python3-networkmanager is available Sunil Mohan Adapa: network: Add python3-dbus install dependency to travis config Sunil Mohan Adapa: network: Add python-networkmanager to setup.py and requirements.txt Sunil Mohan Adapa: network: Skip network tests when running as non-root Sunil Mohan Adapa: Add systemd service file Sunil Mohan Adapa: Fix issues with configuration/parameters loading James Valleroy: Add ikiwiki module with initial setup and option to enable site. James Valleroy: ikiwiki: Create and manage wikis/blogs. James Valleroy: ikiwiki: Add delete command for wikis and blogs. James Valleroy: ikiwiki: Create admin account for new wiki/blog. James Valleroy: PEP8 fixes Sunil Mohan Adapa: ikiwiki: Update UI messages and minor refactoring Sunil Mohan Adapa: ikiwiki: Don't error out when listing before setup Sunil Mohan Adapa: ikiwiki: Data in /var/lib & setup after install Sunil Mohan Adapa: Handle arguments to actions properly Sunil Mohan Adapa: transmission: New module for BitTorrent downloads Sunil Mohan Adapa: transmission: Run from behind Apache James Valleroy: transmission: minor comment updates Sunil Mohan Adapa: Don't use wells for placing all the content Sunil Mohan Adapa: Don't use inverted look for navigation bar Sunil Mohan Adapa: Implement a simpler navigation bar Sunil Mohan Adapa: Redirect to apps page always from index page James Valleroy: Add logout button that is only shown when javascript is disabled. James Valleroy: User dropdown menu links to user edit page when javascript is disabled. Fix indentation. Sunil Mohan Adapa: Use modernizr & CSS for user menu without JS James Valleroy: Release 0.4.5
fonfon: pagekite action: Use augeas pagekite lens fonfon: refactoring pagekite: configuration form works fonfon: pagekite is required to be installed via package now fonfon: Moved pagekit url creation to pagekite module fonfon: renamed variables for consistency fonfon: Removing a service limited to removing 1 service fonfon: make pagekite login-required; fonfon: removed old configobj pagekite action fonfon: updated tests fonfon: removed default frontend stuff from actions fonfon: cleaned up actions and configuration form fonfon: use util.service_is_running for tor also fonfon: Prevent adding existing or predefined services fonfon: minor layout cleanup fonfon: pagekite: restart service when config is changed fonfon: Updated unit- and doctests fonfon: Removed quote-checking functionality from pagekite fonfon: Use JSON as pagekite action-script arguments fonfon: Renamed default services to standard services fonfon: removed/skipped deprecated unit-test fonfon: More consistent renaming from default to standard services Sunil Mohan Adapa: networks: Use libnm instead of python-networkmanager Sunil Mohan Adapa: networks: Update dependencies list James Valleroy: Add BitTorrent module (deluge-web). Sunil Mohan Adapa: deluge: Rename from bittorrent to deluge Sunil Mohan Adapa: deluge: Make starting/stopping daemon safer Sunil Mohan Adapa: deluge: Minor fixes and styling Sunil Mohan Adapa: deluge: Auto start deluge-web using systemd James Valleroy: Merge remote-tracking branch 'fonfon/pagekite-augeas-new' James Valleroy: Merge remote-tracking branch 'sunil/network-manager-glib' James Valleroy: Update network tests, minor fixes to network.py. Return UUID when adding a connection. Have get_connection raise an exception instead of returning None. James Valleroy: Merge remote-tracking branch 'sunil/deluge-systemd' Sunil Mohan Adapa: network: Minor fix when getting connection and styling Bob Girard: Add support for testing Django-dependent modules Bob Girard: Add plinth/tests/data/__init__.py to fix ImportError Sunil Mohan Adapa: tests: Minor styling fixes and updates Sunil Mohan Adapa: travis: Add packagekitglib as necessary package James Valleroy: ikiwiki: Require some Recommends needed to compile wikis. James Valleroy: ikiwiki: Don't redefine built-in type. James Valleroy: xmpp: Preseed debconf values before ejabberd and jwchat packages are installed. James Valleroy: Fix missing import and pass before_install correctly. James Valleroy: xmpp: Enable jwchat apache conf after install. Sunil Mohan Adapa: xmpp: Remove special handling for empty arguments Sunil Mohan Adapa: xmpp: Minor fix to log message Sunil Mohan Adapa: actions: Add more action utilities Sunil Mohan Adapa: privoxy: New web proxy application Sunil Mohan Adapa: roundcube: New app for web based email client Maximiliano Curia: Use the cherrypy autoreload feature only in debug mode Maximiliano Curia: Remove unneeded extra server James Valleroy: users: Add option to create LDAP user. James Valleroy: xmpp: Add option to use LDAP for authentication. James Valleroy: Use ldapadd instead of slapadd. James Valleroy: users: Show if user is also an LDAP user. James Valleroy: users: Rename LDAP user. James Valleroy: users: Delete LDAP user. James Valleroy: users: Change LDAP user password. James Valleroy: xmpp: Merge actions into single file. James Valleroy: ldap: Switch to SASL authentication. Assume that root is able to modify user directory entries. James Valleroy: first_boot: Also create LDAP user for initial user. Sunil Mohan Adapa: ldap: Minor styling fixes Sunil Mohan Adapa: ldap: Store password hashes instead of plain text Bob Girard: Bundle tests with applications Bob Girard: Add Travis-CI status image to README James Valleroy: ikiwiki: Enable during setup. James Valleroy: ikiwiki: Install conf files during Plinth install. James Valleroy: ikiwiki: Use a2query to check if enabled. James Valleroy: deluge: Install apache conf file during Plinth install. James Valleroy: deluge: Run setup and enable after install. James Valleroy: deluge: Also disable the service when stopping. James Valleroy: deluge: enable/disable refactoring James Valleroy: deluge, ikiwiki: Notify when service is enabled/disabled. Sunil Mohan Adapa: deluge: Perform setup operations during enable Sunil Mohan Adapa: ikiwiki: Minor styling and fix Sunil Mohan Adapa: deluge: Further improvements to actions fonfon: use django-stronghold for authentication handling (instead of @login_required) fonfon: made first_boot state0 public Sunil Mohan Adapa: Don't require login for logout page & minor fixes Sunil Mohan Adapa: Add django-stronghold as dependency James Valleroy: ikiwiki: Fix indentation in setup automators. James Valleroy: ikiwiki: Enable HTTP auth using LDAP. James Valleroy: ikiwiki: Add required package for changing wiki settings. James Valleroy: Add new LDAP users to admin group. James Valleroy: ikiwiki: Authorize users from admin or wiki group. James Valleroy: Update LDAP admin group when renaming/deleting users. James Valleroy: Add posixAccount class for LDAP users. James Valleroy: Remove POSIX users. James Valleroy: Add actions for LDAP group management. James Valleroy: Add group management to user editing form. James Valleroy: Fix group deletion. James Valleroy: Don't print LDAP user passwords in log. James Valleroy: Switch LDAP groups from groupOfUniqueNames to groupOfNames, to work with libpam-ldapd. James Valleroy: Also add admin users to posixGroup for sudo privileges. James Valleroy: Fix group management issues. James Valleroy: Cleanup from switching group types. James Valleroy: Create initial django groups during first_boot. Sunil Mohan Adapa: users: Use checkboxes for groups during create Sunil Mohan Adapa: ikiwiki: Update the LDAP login prompt message Sunil Mohan Adapa: users: Improve Django group handling with LDAP Sunil Mohan Adapa: users: Remove unused code checking for LDAP user Sunil Mohan Adapa: pagekite: Move to using python3-augeas Sunil Mohan Adapa: Use only action utilities for service management Sunil Mohan Adapa: Don't use actions to check if service is running Sunil Mohan Adapa: Add utilites for Apache configuration management Sunil Mohan Adapa: deluge: Remove get-enabled from actions Sunil Mohan Adapa: ikiwiki: Remove get-enabled from actions Sunil Mohan Adapa: mumble: Remove get-enabled from actions Sunil Mohan Adapa: privoxy: Remove get-enabled from actions Sunil Mohan Adapa: roundcube: Remove get-enabled from actions Sunil Mohan Adapa: transmission: Remove get-enabled from actions Sunil Mohan Adapa: xmpp: Use webserver action utilties Bharath Chava: Issue 88: When no timezone is set, Plinth shows first one in list. Sunil Mohan Adapa: config: Hide time zone not-set option normally James Valleroy: Revert "Don't print LDAP user passwords in log." James Valleroy: Send LDAP user passwords to actions through stdin, not as arguments. James Valleroy: xmpp: Always use LDAP authentication. James Valleroy: xmpp: Remove account registration and in-band configuration. James Valleroy: xmpp: Update module layout to match other modules. Split forms and views into separate files. Add configuration form to enable/disable the service. James Valleroy: Bug fixes: Check if ejabberd is installed when running actions triggered by signals. Encode LDAP passwords as bytes. Sunil Mohan Adapa: users: Fix incorrect replacement of _() Sunil Mohan Adapa: users: Use ldapscripts for user management Sunil Mohan Adapa: Add augeas-tools and ldapscripts as dependency Sunil Mohan Adapa: ikiwiki: Update LDAP auth configuration James Valleroy: first_boot: Switch to new ldap action. James Valleroy: ldap: Actually read from stdin if available. I made a silly mistake while merging, sorry. Daniel Steglich: networks: Always bind connections to a device Sunil Mohan Adapa: networks: Improvements to interface binding Sunil Mohan Adapa: tor: Update menu item with generic name Sunil Mohan Adapa: owncloud: Update menu item with generic name Sunil Mohan Adapa: Reorder all app menu items alphabetically Sunil Mohan Adapa: tor: Move introduction from sidebard to main Sunil Mohan Adapa: owncloud: Move introduction from sidebar to main Sunil Mohan Adapa: help: Move additional info from sidebar to main Sunil Mohan Adapa: pagekite: Remove unused import Sunil Mohan Adapa: tor: Reimplement getting ports in Python Sunil Mohan Adapa: tor: Update styling for service/port table Sunil Mohan Adapa: package: Remove package module Sunil Mohan Adapa: tor: Implement enabling/disabling James Valleroy: Specify interfaces for network tests where needed. James Valleroy: Make separate network test for IPv4 manual address. James Valleroy: Also add IPv4 manual address test for wifi. James Valleroy: Merge remote-tracking branch 'sunil/polish' James Valleroy: Release 0.5
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