We are pleased to announce a new stable release of the Snikket server
software! For an introduction to the new changes in this release, do check
out the release announcement blog post.
For a more complete list of changes, including upgrade instructions, read on
here.
This release has the version number stable.20240904
.
Upgrading
To upgrade your instance, follow the instructions in the upgrade guide.
If you are currently on beta release but want to switch to stable ones, simply
put :stable
instead of :beta
, or download the new docker-compose.yml
here, e.g. by
running:
curl -o docker-compose.yml https://snikket.org/service/resources/docker-compose.yml
If you have any problems or questions, don’t hesitate to ask in our community chat!
Changes
Web portal
- A bunch of improvements for invitations:
- Allow selecting the role when creating a new invitation link in the web
portal. Invited users will be directly assigned the chosen role when they
create their account, so you no longer have to adjust roles manually after
they accept the invitation.
- Support for adding a comment to invitations, e.g. so you can remember who
you created them for!
- There is now a ‘Share’ button next to invitation links if your web browser
supports this functionality.
- Show a hint on new/empty instances to help admins know how to add more users.
- Display active user counts to the admin in the instance metrics page.
Privacy
- Snikket will no longer send delivery errors to people you have blocked. This
can help prevent someone from knowing that you have blocked them.
- Remove the web server version header.
Server stuff
- Allow configuring the primary port used by the STUN/TURN server (whether you
are using the internal one or an external one). The default is still 3478.
- International Domain Names (IDN) should now be supported (self-hosted only at the moment).
- Announcements have been improved. You will now see the Snikket logo next to
messages you receive from the server (such as update notifications, or
announcements sent by the admin in the web portal).
- Retry certificate fetch/renewal on certain “safe” errors (such as
non-account-specific rate limits), and catch the failure if certificate
renewal crashes for any reason.
Translations
- Updated translations for:
- Chinese (Simplified)
- French
- Italian
- Polish
- Spanish
- Swedish
- Russian
Thanks to all our translators! If your language is missing or in need of
updates, and you think you could help, let us know!
Technical
- Feature flag for “Push 2.0” (currently for app developers only, do not
enable this on production servers!)
- Update our XMPP server, Prosody, bringing a bunch of improvements and fixes
- Fixed some bugs that improves compatibility with non-Snikket clients using
SASL2/FAST.
- Tweaks to security headers in web portal, as a security measure.
- Fix a bug loading the web portal when a user has an invalid profile picture.
- Fix a bug that sometimes caused the SQLite migration to be skipped, even when enabled.