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2023-02-15

Changes in progress

The UBOS Project is going through some major changes. You will notice that the website is changing, the description of what UBOS is and what it is trying to do is changing, and that’s not all of it!

In the process we will also move from distributing UBOS code via Amazon S3 to Digital Ocean, and we will consolidate the code bases in the same account at Gitlab, rather than having them between Github and Gitlab.

Please pardon the construction and the temporarily broken links.
2022-04-24

A new UBOS family member: The UBOS Personal Data Mesh
The UBOS project has always been extremely ambitious. So far, we have had:
- UBOS Linux, the Linux distro that makes self-hosting easy;
- UBOSbox, a ready-to-use home server appliance distributed by Indie Computing as well as related cloud offerings;
but that’s only where it is starting to get interesting!

So far it’s only a technology preview, but check out the latest member of the UBOS family:
- UBOS Personal Data Mesh, a middleware software component that knows how to import data exported from major internet platforms (like Facebook) and make it available to app developers.
For more info, go to UBOS Mesh.
2020-11-18

Website update makes information easier to find
We are happy to release the updated UBOS website. Among other things:
- There is now a Glossary. If you were ever wondering what UBOS means when it says Site or AppConfigItem, you know where to go! Much of the documentation has been updated to link to the glossary.
- The user FAQ, howto and troubleshooting pages have been restructured and merged into a single place here, so solution to problems are easier to find.
- The Developer documentation has been restructured and is now easier to browse.
- There is breadcrumb navigation throughout the documentation.
- Some URLs have moved. Sorry about that.
- Most importantly for us, although maybe not for you, the reader, the entire ubos.net site is now generated by Hugo, instead of the previous combination of Hugo and Sphinx (and before that, Jekyll and Sphinx). Porting was a lot of work, but going forward, maintenance should be much simpler.
- The Github ubos-docs repo will be retired, because everything is now in the ubos-website repo.
2020-10-20

Nextcloud 20 is now available (October 2020)
A new UBOS update is available on all release channels and all platforms.

The highlights:
- The recently released Nextcloud 20 platform is now available.
- Mastodon has been upgraded on the yellow channel
As usual, the details are in the release notes.
2020-09-24

UBOS update available on all release channels (September 2020)
A new UBOS update is available on all release channels and all platforms.

Here are some of the highlights:
- UBOS can now run on ODROID “home cloud” devices such as ODROID-XU4 and ODROID-HC2.
- On a Raspberry Pi 4, UBOS can now boot directly from an external USB disk.
- The UBOS installer has become smarter, and more flexible.
- Hundreds of package updates.
As usual, the details are in the release notes.
2020-08-16

UBOS update available on all release channels (August 2020)
A new UBOS update is available on all release channels and all platforms.

Here are some of the highlights:
- The Raspberry Pi 4 is now supported.
- UBOS has become even smarter about dependency management: if an Accessory requires another, you don’t need to specify the second one any more when creating or updating a Site. This is a great time saver when running Apps such as Wordpress or Nextcloud where Accessories often depend on others.
- Improvement to the HTML generated for the UBOS Staff.
- More customization options are available for Nextcloud
- Speed improvements, bug fixes and lots of little things that make day-to-day work with UBOS even simpler. Like ubos-admin listsites --with <app>.
As usual, the details are in the release notes.
2020-08-04

UBOS apps update available (August 2020)

A new UBOS apps update is available on all release channels and all platforms.

This update contains new versions of Nextcloud, Matomo, Mediawiki, and WordPress. Webtrees, the web-based genealogy app, is now available on thegreen channel.

Nextcloud has gained a few more apps, including Collabora Online, and Forms, so you can self-host your surveys and questionnaires.

The details are in the release notes.
2020-06-03

UBOS apps update available (June 2020)

A new UBOS apps update is available on all release channels and all platforms.

This update contains new versions of Nextcloud, Matomo, phpBB, WordPress and more.

The documentation now describes common use cases for modifying deployed sites.

The details are in the release notes.
2020-03-09

Nextcloud Hub is here! and more in today’s UBOS apps update
A new UBOS apps update is available on all release channels and all platforms.

Nextcloud on UBOS is now the newly released Nextcloud Hub. Among its many new features:
- Collaborate on rich documents over the internet right from the browser, just as if it were Google Docs: documents, spreadsheets and presentation. Except, there’s no third party cloud overlord spying on you (x86 only).
- Full text search. Automatically indexes your documents, so you can quickly find what you are looking for.
Many other applications were upgraded as well, and the usual smattering of bug fixes and improvements.

The details are in the release notes.
2020-02-17

UBOS update available on all release channels

A new UBOS update is available on all release channels and all platforms.

The focus of this release was tracking upstream package upgrades. The biggest new feature is that UBOS now writes system logs to the UBOS Staff. This aids in troubleshooting systems that don’t have keyboards or monitors.

There is also an initial integration with the Storj decentralized storage network on the “yellow” release channel, and the usual bug fixes and documentation improvements.

As usual, the details are in the release notes.