If you are reading this, this is going to be our last patch release announcement. Our blog will only be used now for minor and major release announcements. :)
https://github.com/ether/etherpad-lite/releases/tag/1.8.9
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If you are reading this, this is going to be our last patch release announcement. Our blog will only be used now for minor and major release announcements. :)
https://github.com/ether/etherpad-lite/releases/tag/1.8.9
Etherpad 1.8.8 has been released.
https://github.com/ether/etherpad-lite/releases/tag/1.8.8
Important things to note:
Huge thanks to @rhansen for the majority of work in this release and to @nulli @Translatewiki @Hossein M for some awesome contributions. Special thanks to @redhog / Egil who’s code has survived untouched for over 9 years and has had it’s first update this week.
In 45 days Etherpad will be 10 years old and we’re just getting started.
Etherpad 1.8.7 is a recommended update for these reasons:
This release contains roughly 360 commits of mostly tidy up/fixes. We have very few bells and whistle features to announce this time around and for this reason we’re considering this as a patch release. Don’t be under the impression this is a small release with a small amount of effort, our team of elves have worked tirelessly to get this release out and we’re excited for the possibilities having a more stable code-base gives us to create new features to power Santa’s sleigh on his way to your chimney.
1.8.7 is the Etherpad you love, with greater security and reliability than any other release.
For more information see the change log.
Thanks for the love!
Not familiar with Etherpad? Etherpad is an online editor that focuses on putting people first and making the collaboration experience as much fun as possible.
1.8.6 includes an important security update so we recommend updating ASAP.
With 1.8.6 Etherpad now provides a method to copy pads that uses roughly 10% of the computational resources to copy a pad without any previous history. See: copyPadWithoutHistory
A postgres bug existed in 1.8.5 so if you are a postgres user we recommend updating to 1.8.6.
Various other changes are available in the small changelog. As always our focus is on ease of implementation, scale, stability and consistency throughout the editor. Sorry if you hope to get new bells and whistles with this release, things should be stable with 1.8.6 which means we can shift our focus to 1.9 which is scheduled to be our final release during 2020 and will have some major new changes we are pretty excited to announce.
Thanks for supporting Etherpad and being involved with the project <3
You probably know what Github sponsors is, if not, it’s a way you can support projects like Etherpad by donating a monthly amount. I don’t think waxing lyrical about the benefits of supporting Etherpad is useful but I think it’s worth mentioning we’re under Software Freedom Conservancy (501c3) and all funds raised go back into the project and we try to donate to dependency projects whenever we can.
In 1.8.3 Etherpad introduced a new feature called the “Theme variant generator”. To access it append #skinvariantsbuilder to your Pad URL IE http://video.etherpad.com/p/examplethemeshiznee#skinvariantsbuilder
Once you have it styled how you like then copy the Result to settings.json and restart Etherpad. After restart this style will be applied to pads and you don’t need to include the #skinvariantsbuilder.