Release notes: UBOS update 2024-11-07

Release overview

This release is mostly a bug fix release to meet the needs of FediTest, which uses UBOS Linux and UBOS Gears to automate the provisioning and unprovisioning of Apps such as Mastodon and WordPress with ActivityPub plugins for Fediverse interoperability testing purposes.

Major updated packages

This release upgrades some of the UBOS apps, their accessories, and some UBOS Gears components, notably:

• Mastodon;
• Matomo;
• Nextcloud;
• WordPress.

The WordPress plugin that adds support for the Mastodon API was added.

To upgrade

To be safe, first check the status of your Device:

• sudo ubos-admin status

and make sure everything is in working order. Then create a backup of all your sites, with a command such as:

• sudo ubos-admin backup --all --backuptodirectory ~

Then, update your device:

• sudo ubos-admin update -v

Depending on what apps you have installed and how much data they manage, and the speed of your disk and network, the upgrade can take a while.

Known issues

• Nextcloud reports issues with its integrity check. This is ugly but benign, see this issue.

Need help?

Find us in the Fediverse at @ubos@mastodon.social with an app such as Mastodon.