8 posts

18 February

Etherpad team blog - Live Document Collaboration from the Ethervillage http://blog.etherpad.org

15:47
Say yo to 1.8.9 - John McLear Etherpad team blog - Live Document Collaboration from the Ethervillage

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 -- Features

11:22
Oh hi, Etherpad 1.8.8 - John McLear Etherpad team blog - Live Document Collaboration from the Ethervillage

Etherpad 1.8.8 has been released. https://github.com/ether/etherpad-lite/releases/tag/1.8.8 Important things to note: Includes security patches. Various test/code quality improvements. Various reliability improvements.Various performance improvements. 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 (...) -- https://github.com/ether/etherpad-lite/releases/tag/1.8.8

19:33
Say hello to Etherpad 1.8.7 - John McLear Etherpad team blog - Live Document Collaboration from the Ethervillage

Etherpad 1.8.7 is a recommended update for these reasons: Various security patches.Various stability patches.Various performance improvements. 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

13:37
Etherpad 1.8.6 released - John McLear Etherpad team blog - Live Document Collaboration from the Ethervillage

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 (...) -- Features

21:27
Etherpad is on Github sponsors - John McLear Etherpad team blog - Live Document Collaboration from the Ethervillage

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. Etherpad’s Github Sponsors page. -- Features

11:41
Pad your way! Create your own theme with the new theme variant generator - John McLear Etherpad team blog - Live Document Collaboration from the Ethervillage

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. -- Features

13:04
Say hello to Etherpad 1.8.3 - John McLear Etherpad team blog - Live Document Collaboration from the Ethervillage

This release is huge, probably our biggest in 5 years. If you used to use Etherpad back in the day but it’s fallen off your radar then this might be the release that brings you back. If not, that’s cool, thanks for the love anyway :) This release includes 5 Critical Security Vulnerability resolutions which in itself is enough of a reason to update. 1.8.3 also includes our new modern interface by default. We’re really chuffed with it! The usual bug-fixes and optimizations are in but this release can basically be summarized as “Modern at the front, secure(r) at the back”. Unlike yo momma… (...) -- Features

16:17
Video chat with Etherpad - John McLear Etherpad team blog - Live Document Collaboration from the Ethervillage

Etherpad is a humble project and we’re really appreciative that you either use it or contribute. Thanks! It’s time for us to give back. This time we’re supporting the global efforts to stop the Corona Pandemic by giving people a real-time editing and video conferencing tool that’s completely free to use with no sign in. Video Chat by Etherpad to 26LLC for covering our hosting costs & to the WebRTC guys for making WebRTC work. to everyone, we hope Corona passes and normal service is resumed. Stay (...) -- Features