Bugfix Release

This release includes both bug fixes and enhancements:

• Implemented a persistent queue mechanism for subscribers to provide resilience against restarts and reduce memory pressure. This can utilize either on-file or NATS Jetstream.
• Documented the new Cells FUSE tool for recovering files from a flat storage snapshot.
• Fixed a potential internal proxy redirect loop.
• Completed the migration of the installer UX to MUI3.
• Generalized the "unknown content type" to binary/octet-stream (not just application/octet-stream).
• Optimized the Digest Mail to deduplicate activities that appear in multiple workspaces. Also added activity dates and author display name instead of login.
• Added greater control over timeouts when using long-running command line tools.
• Updated some module dependencies to enhance security.
• [Ent] Introduced appropriate warnings in configuration settings to prevent user errors that could lead to destructive misconfiguration (LDAP/AD modification, Template Path deletion behavior).

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Bugfix Release

A bugfix release for v4.

• Mailer "FROM" configuration was not properly interpreted
• Fix possible issues while hot-restarting a grpc service
• Add a --grpc_client_timeout for cells admin xxxx commands that take time.
• Add a new cells admin clean reset-jobs command to revert jobs to their factory default
• Fix small UX glitches when fully disabling metadata plugin (meta.user)
• Fix missing imports, breaking the Pydio8 => Cells migration
• [ED] Optimize sharding command
• [ED] Fix license status display glitch

Build & Packaging

• Properly release new cells-fuse tool
• [ED] Adapt AMI build to use AL2023 instead of AL2 base OS

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Bugfix Release

Cells 4.2.2 is a bugfix and improvement release.

• Fix possible crashes (appearing more frequently on CentOS7/EL7)
• Fix possible locks in scheduler
• Fix public links broken when "Search in Minisite" is enabled
• Fix URL redirection after login mechanism
• Improve datasource migration tool for massive files number
• Fix log formatting and print out current version at startup in the log (not just in the console)
• Improve WebDAV with Windows Explorer client
• UX Glitches in new Material3
• Print out software version in the logger at startup
• Improve MariaDB default settings in pre-packaged appliances
• [Enterprise] Improve Admin Delegation for Audit tabs - Fix pagination and display in Reports.
• [Experimental] New cells-fuse tool to read a flat datasource snapshot without Cells running (and recover files).

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Bugfix and Security Patch

This is a bugfixes and security patch for the v4.2 branch.

• Advisories reported by DeepCove Cybersecurity will be disclosed shortly.
• Fixed various glitches on the new UX: watch button outline in the share screen, reload button displayed in minisites, chat window participants better display.
• Fixed issues in the scheduler (too agressively pruning running jobs).
• [Ent] Fixed a scalability issue when creating a huge amount of different security policies.
• [Ent] Fixed a possible issue in the license count.

If you are voluntarily postponing the update to version 4.2, see version 4.1.4 to apply the security patches only.

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Security Patches for v4.1

This is a security patch for the v4.1 branch. If you are voluntarily postponing the update to version 4.2, please update to this version immediately (otherwise, see version 4.2.1).
Advisories reported by DeepCove will be disclosed shortly.

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New UX

In this latest Cells update, our team is bringing you an all-new Material Design-driven look and feel, advanced sharing features, powerful new Flows automations, a new Android app and even our first NLP-powered feature. Here’s what’s new in Cells 4.2:

Embracing Material You (a.k.a Material UI 3)

The Material You design system from Material.io is the latest evolution of Google’s Material Design initiative that has been moving app and web design away from the chaotic Wild West it once was and creating a kind of standard language for visual design. To take advantage of these improvements, our dev team took the opportunity to re-imagine Cells’ visual language. For version 4.2, we’ve:

• Implemented a “Dark Mode” Theme
• Reworked many of our UX components for improved readability and consistency
• Created a highly personalizable interface, letting users create the workspace they want
• Modernized our React JS codebase with new packing, updated dependencies, and removed any unnecessary legacy code

New Android App

To provide a unified look and feel, we’ve also updated our Android App to bring its design and useability in line with the desktop experience. Our developers rewrote the UI layer with Jetpack Compose and Material3 and included dynamic colours from Material You. The result is a better user experience and improved layouts for large screens. While we were in there, we also tweaked our file transfer protocols to use the AWS Android SDK, which allows huge uploads from the mobile app now.

Advanced Sharing Features

In Cells 4.2, the team has implemented some impactful new functionality around our core sharing capabilities to make the platform more powerful than ever.

The first new feature is Cell expiry dates. You can now configure individual Cells to have an expiration date like public links already have, allowing users to set the lifecycle of a Cell.

Users can now find the “My Shares” screen in the Advanced Search panel, allowing you to use the share status (public link, part of a Cell) as an additional search filter.

We’ve also enriched the Cells Flows actions library - providing the ability to automate Cells and Links creation. This allows Flows builders to:

• Create jobs that generate a public link for all files in a folder, collect these links in a CSV and publish it
• Use Flows to generate custom user lists based on your own criteria and dynamically create a Cell for them
• And generally allow you to create, delete and modify any existing Cells and links

Make More with Cells Flows

Along with the new share actions described above, we’ve implemented new pre-set actions to make Flows more flexible (trigger another Flow, trigger an error, clear a selection before, etc.) and give you the building blocks you need to create exactly the Flow you want.

First Steps for NLP

You may also have noticed that we’ve taken our first steps in the world of NLP applications with our smart assisted search function that suggests related search topics and helps users refine their search to find what they’re looking for more quickly.

This new feature is already available for the English language in Cells 4.1.2 and 4.2. We’re working on self-hosted NLP models and a long list of NLP-powered features to help you boost productivity and usability and ultimately elevate the document-sharing and collaboration experience.

And so Much More

With the UX revamp, we also took the opportunity to fine-tune, fix or implement features that you’ve been asking for and even straighten out a few things that were bugging us (e.g. remote sorting when pagination is enabled, persistent sorting options, address book improvements, and a long list of other mini-improvements) - all in the service of making Cells better and easier to use for admins and end users.

And lastly, the team took care of a punchlist of fixes and vulnerabilities reported by our independent security research partner. Advisories will be disclosed soon – upgrade is urgently recommended. Not ready to perform this important upgrade? We have you covered with Cells v4.1.3 which ships just the security fixes.

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Security Release

Cells v4.1.3 is a security release. Upgrade is highly recommended.
It is released at the same time as version 4.2 and contains only the security patches for those who do not yet wish to upgrade to version 4.2.
Vulnerabilities advisories will be published soon.

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Bugfix Release

This release fixes a display issue when reading Cells emails in Outlook clients.

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Bugfix Release

This mostly a bugfix release for v4

• Blocking issue when using Collabora Online editor (due to a caching issue in ACLs)
• Fix error handling when Redis is not reachable
• [Enterprise] Fix policies evaluations when using glob feature

[Beta] This version also contains some nice elements to improve the search:

• Quick access folder search: Quick Jump (j), Quick Copy (c) and Quick Move (v) feature
• Reworked and improved search engine auto-complete UX, including NLP support (english only) to detect and apply advanced filters automagically

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Cells v4.1

We are pleased to announce the release of version 4.1 of Pydio Cells / Cells Connect / Cells Enterprise. Since its release three months ago, Cells v4 has been widely adopted, upgrades from previous major versions were battle-tested, and we have been tirelessly working to address any issues that arose (hence this 8th bugfixes release since 4.0.0).

Upgrade From Cells v3 Now!

We are proud to say that version 4 is now stable and performing well, and we strongly encourage you to upgrade from version 3! If you are ready, make sure to read the instructions to avoid the common pitfalls of upgrading v3 to v4.

Cells v4 is a major leap forward for clustered deployments. It features a brand-new microservices engine for unparalleled performance, and a new dependency management making it much easier to delegate core services to cloud standards. Along with tons of bug fixes, new features, or improvements, here are some key features:

• Pydio Cells 4 is fully cloud-ready: its new simplified core works in single-node as well as complex multi-node configurations – all the way from Raspberry Pi to Kubernetes clusters. Learn More.
• [Ent] Automate everything with Cells Flows: new features, new components, new Flows ready-to-use templates, Cells Flows can help you with long-term maintenance, business process management, integration with your third-party systems, and many other subjects! Learn more.

v4.1.0 Last Bugfixes

• Fixed MongoDB handling of massive activities purge
• Added support for TLS and Authentication for ETCD registry
• Fix UX issue when searching on a "Rating" metadata field
• [Ent] Support advanced policies on metadata namespaces
• New Documentation pages about Recommended Architectures and Admin Delegation.

Resources

• Support: Forum
• Administration Guide : Quick Start
• Developer Docs: API, Knowledge Base
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