# FreedomBox 24.8 released

**URL:** https://discuss.freedombox.org/t/freedombox-24-8-released/3003
**Category:** Announcements
**Created:** [April 9, 2024, 1:35pm UTC](https://discuss.freedombox.org/t/freedombox-24-8-released/3003 "2024-04-09T13:35:20Z")
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### Author: ![jvalleroy](https://discuss.freedombox.org/user_avatar/discuss.freedombox.org/jvalleroy/32/331_2.png) [@jvalleroy](https://discuss.freedombox.org/u/jvalleroy)
#### Post date: [April 9, 2024, 1:35pm UTC](https://discuss.freedombox.org/t/freedombox-24-8-released/3003/1 "2024-04-09T13:35:20Z")

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FreedomBox 24.8 has been released and uploaded to Debian unstable. Typically, the freedombox package will migrate to testing in 2 days, and then can be uploaded to stable-backports.

Highlights:

- gitweb: Fix an issue when cloning existing repository
- ttrss: Improve backup and restore of the database
- ttrss: Include dbconfig configuration file in backup
- zoph: Include dbconfig configuration file in backup

Other Changes:

- action\_utils: Add generic utils for managing podman containers
- actions: Don’t repeat action traceback in stderr
- diagnostics: Don’t store list of app objects with results
- locale: Update translations for Albanian, Chinese (Simplified), Dutch, French, German, Norwegian Bokmål, Spanish, Turkish
- network: Skip bridge interfaces in connections list
- nextcloud: Add new app based on podman container
  - Note: The Nextcloud app is currently disabled (not available to install). It will be made available after there has been more testing and review.
  - Add backup/restore
  - Add option to configure the default phone region
  - Configure redis caching, create static PHP file

- ttrss: Ensure that database is removed after uninstall
- ttrss: tests: functional: Uninstall during backup/restore test
- upgrades: Re-enable unattended-upgrade during dist-upgrade
- zoph: Re-add a safety check when reading the setup state of the app

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

- Allan Nordhøy
- Benedek Nagy
- Besnik Bleta
- Burak Yavuz
- gallegonovato
- ikmaak
- James Valleroy
- Johannes Keyser
- John Doe
- Sunil Mohan Adapa
- Veiko Aasa
- 大王叫我来巡山

In addition, the following people contributed to the manual for this release:

- fioddor
- JosephSkerik
- lifeform
- SunilMohanAdapa

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### Author: ![Ged](https://discuss.freedombox.org/user_avatar/discuss.freedombox.org/ged/32/999_2.png) [@Ged](https://discuss.freedombox.org/u/Ged)
#### Post date: [April 10, 2024, 12:14pm UTC](https://discuss.freedombox.org/t/freedombox-24-8-released/3003/2 "2024-04-10T12:14:07Z")

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Seeing Nextcloud slowly making its way in looks great. Thanks for this and all others!
