Version 0.8
Our tenth release features a few major milestones we've been aiming for for a while: a smoother upgrade process, and a user invitation system.
Features
User Invites (T556)
Now it's even easier to run a private / invite-only community, with user invites. Admins have a new user_invites setting that can enable invite link generation for all users, admins only, or no users at all (the default). If enabled, users can create invite links to let others sign up for your WriteFreely instance, even if public registration is closed. Invite links can each be set to expire, or optionally have a maximum number of uses.
User-Facing Changes / Fixes
Admin-Facing Changes
- Fixed Docker build (#57)
- Support automated database migration with
writefreely --migrate(T509) - Support configuring resource directories (T560 / #63)
Upgrading from v0.7.x
Download the latest release for your operating system. Stop running your writefreely service, replace all files in your installation with the ones in the archive, and then start your writefreely service again.
Now make sure your database is backed up, and update it with writefreely --migrate.
No additional steps are needed to upgrade from v0.7.x. Follow the instructions in each previous #release if you're upgrading from an earlier version.
Developers
If you are running a custom build, note that there were style changes in this release. Run make ui to generate the latest stylesheets.
Contributors
Thanks to everyone who contributed to this release!