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

Mon May 18 14:28:10 BST 2020

Massimo,

Regardless of what you say with the dpkg upgrade, I find you tend to 
wind up with both copies anyway. It just changes which gets the "real" 
filename.

My "upgrade" command should be able to cope with both alternatives.

Doing it manually is a nightmare! :-)

Cheers,
Jules.

On 18/05/2020 13:44, Massimo Forni wrote:
>
> Soduring 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
>
>     *From:*ZendTo <zendto-bounces at zend.to>
>     <mailto: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> <mailto:zendto at zend.to>
>     *Cc:* Jules <Jules at Zend.To> <mailto: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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