FreedomBox 20.8 has been released and uploaded to Debian unstable. Typically, it will migrate to testing in 2 days, and then can be uploaded to stable-backports.
Highlights of this release:
syncthing: Add service to freedombox-share group
users: When adding service to sharing group, only restart if already running
datetime: Ignore time synchronization service in containers and virtual machines
minidlna: Make app installable inside unprivileged container
web_server: Suppress warnings that static directories don’t exist
debian: Remove unused timer
static: Use SVG logo during first wizard welcome step
static: Reduce the size of the background noise image
setup.py: Don’t install/ship .po files
static: Don’t ship visual design file and unused images
all: Update links to repository and project page
coturn: Add app to manage Coturn TURN/STUN server
mediawiki: Partial fix for installing on testing
datetime: Disable diagnostics when no tests are available
data: Print hostname and IP addresses before console login
snapshot: Fix message when not available
snapshot: Fix title
mumble: Add Mumla to the list of clients
locale: Update translations for Spanish, Telugu, Russian, German, French, and Swedish
The following people contributed to the git repository for this release:
Were there any changes to how (wireless) networks work? Yesterday my home router automatically upgraded from 20.7 to 20.8, rebooted the OS and now my home WiFi doesn’t work anymore. I can connect to the WiFi network, but routing doesn’t work. For example, I can’t even ping from my laptop the FreedomBox router, even though the router assigned an IP address to the laptop.
Thank you, @fred1m! This did it, but it looks like a one-time solution. As soon as I restart the OS, the problem reappears. It would be great if there was a permanent solution.
COTURN ERRORS on Raspberry Pi3B+, Rasbian Buster, and Freedombox 20.8
FYI@sunil, I just updated to 20.8 and interested to try COTURN. However I get two error messages.
UPDATE REGARDING SECOND ERROR MESSAGE
So I have just got to reboot Freedombox to get rid of the COTURN install error, as mentioned already here: Building/configuring a TURN server - #38 by sunil (this didn’t come up when I searched!). Thanks
FIRST ERROR MESSAGE
The first when clicking on the: Learn more… link on the COTURN install page, I get taken to: MY-DOMAIN/plinth/help/manual/-/Coturn and shown the following 404 page not found error:
404
Requested page /plinth/help/manual/en/Coturn was not found.
If you believe this missing page should exist, please file a bug at the FreedomBox Service (Plinth) project issue tracker.
SECOND ERROR MESSAGE
And the second when clicking install to install COTURN I get the error message:
I have now added a wiki page for Coturn. Should appear in today’s release 20.9 (reaches users by end of the week). Manual page can read from wiki meanwhile…
Reboot is a workaround for this issue. This is also fixed in the upcoming release.