FreedomBox 20.9 released

FreedomBox 20.9 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.

Top Highlights:

  • performance: Add app for system monitoring
  • upgrades: Restart services and system when needed after upgrades
    • System restart will happen at 02:00 local time

Other Changes:

  • bind: Add service alias for bind9 -> named
  • firewall: Reload firewalld so it works with newly installed services
  • first_setup: Fix regression with logo not showing
  • locale: Update translations for Norwegian Bokmål, German, Swedish, Spanish, and Russian
  • mediawiki: Stop jobrunner during backup/restore
  • minidlna: Stop service during backup/restore
  • mumble: Stop service during backup/restore
  • package: Fix error log when checking if package manager is busy
  • performance: Launch the Cockpit graphs directly if possible
  • quassel: Fix stopping service during backup/restore
  • quassel: Use systemd sandboxing features
  • samba: Change description to Network File Storage
  • snapshot: Fix issues with restore and delete
  • snapshot: Set as essential module
  • storage: Auto-mount disks, notify of failing disks
  • tor: Fix stopping service during backup/restore

The following people contributed to the git repository for this release:

  • Artem
  • Fioddor Superconcentrado
  • fred1m
  • James Valleroy
  • Joseph Nuthalapati
  • Luis A. Arizmendi
  • Michael Breidenbach
  • Petter Reinholdtsen
  • Sunil Mohan Adapa
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