[ZendTo] Another new beta, plus summary of major new features

[Jules]

Massimo,

Why not run /opt/zendto/bin/upgrade immediately after you upgrade the 
package?
That should automate the job for you.

Cheers,
Jules.

On 18/05/2020 12:34, Massimo Forni wrote:
>
> Hi Jules,
>
> Since you are going to release a major release (yeah!) I would like to 
> suggest a new feature: implement a “local” preferences file where a 
> user can configure its customizations and whatever not specified is 
> handled by the preferences.php file with the default values.
>
> You may ask why, upgrades! Every time we upgrade, especially via 
> package manager, we must manually handle the customizations versus the 
> new “default” entries for new features.
>
> Having a local preferences means we can safely upgrade by replacing 
> the preferences.php file with the new one and just check what is new.
>
> I think via code this should be trivial as to first load 
> preferences.php and the preferences.local.php as to override 
> whatever/only the settings we wanted to.
>
> Thank you!
>
> Best regards
>
> *From:*ZendTo <zendto-bounces at zend.to> *On Behalf Of *Jules via ZendTo
> *Sent:* lunedì 18 maggio 2020 13:23
> *To:* ZendTo users list <zendto at zend.to>
> *Cc:* Jules <Jules at Zend.To>
> *Subject:* [ZendTo] Another new beta, plus summary of major new features
>
> Hi all!
>
> I have just released another new beta version 5.24-4.
> Check out the beta page for more information at:
>     zend.to/beta.php
>
> The major new features since the last production release (5.23) are these:
>
> * Support for "Single Sign-on" systems based on SAML, such as OAuth, 
> Shibboleth and many others. This includes support for Yubikeys.
> * Large files are broken into chunks as they are uploaded when 
> creating a new drop-off. This works around limits on request/file size 
> imposed by many network security appliances, and services such as 
> those provided by Cloudflare. So if you always found that huge uploads 
> never worked, try this out!
> * Users can now change the number of days before a new drop-off 
> expires. The admin settings provided the limits on the number they can 
> set, and the default value.
> * Drop-offs now expire *exactly* when they should, not the following 
> night.
> * Admin logins are now restricted to coming from your local IP 
> subnets, by default. Improves security.
> * If you *really* need it, you can now automatically generate a 
> nightly email containing details of all the new drop-offs created in 
> the previous 24 hours. You can restrict this to show only new 
> drop-offs by your own users. Beware of employee privacy and data 
> protection!
>
> Advanced notice: Due to the significance of the features listed above, 
> the next "production" release will be version 6.00.
>
> Please do download it and give it a try!
> I really need you folks to test this out for me.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Jules
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