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

Mon May 18 13:44:32 BST 2020

So during the dpkg upgrade I should just say NO (as to override my copy with the maintaner’s) and then use that script?
I always did that manually ☹

From: Jules <Jules at Zend.To>
Sent: lunedì 18 maggio 2020 13:48
To: Massimo Forni <Massimo.Forni at turboden.it>; ZendTo Users <zendto at zend.to>
Subject: Re: [ZendTo] Another new beta, plus summary of major new features

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

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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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