This is a guest post from our contributor Ray Bellis, from Internet Systems Consortium, Inc. Ray took care of migrating Etherpad code to async/await. His work landed on #3540, and will be part of next Etherpad release (1.8). Etherpad is a popular collaborative real-time editing application. It is written to run within the …
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Etherpad 1.4 — RC1 available for testing
You can now test the first release candidate of the upcoming 1.4 release! The most apparent change should be stability. We have tried to take care of lots of bugs that caused frequent crashes and corrupt pads in the past. Still, a few new features have made it in, such as support for recording metrics. …
Releasing Etherpad 1.3
Ouch. As you have probably noticed, the last release had a painful bug in it — we had accidentally switched two lines, which lead to really bad performance on production instances. Of course we fixed this in the new release, which should now really solve most of your problems. Thus, it is called (and I …
1+2 =12 — release of v1.2.12
Hello dear etherfolks, turns out we haven’t kept our promise: Contrary to previous statements this is not v1.3, as you may have noticed. Development velocity has seen a slight drop in the past moths, as people have been busy with other stuff. Still you shouldn’t be sad, because waiting to be pulled as part of …
Introducing ep_push2delete
Sometimes, when you really care about disk space, or when your pad contents are extremely confidential or private, you might want to simply delete your whole pad, since people could still access your sensible content via the timeslider. And if there’s a need, there’s also a plugin. ep_push2delete allows you to press one simple button …
Releasing 1.2.9
Hey there, we have recently received the results of a security audit performed by Mozilla and have since sought to close the biggest gaping loopholes. The result of this effort is version 1.2.9 of Etherpad lite, which is probably the most secure version released so far. I’d also like to thank Sebastian Nerz for reporting …
Etherpad International Hackathon 2012
We are organizing a hackathon for February 24th, 25th, and 26th. The European meet will be held in Bradford, UK, with hosting care of Primary Technology and the Etherpad Foundation. Still looking for people who can host corresponding meetings in the US or elsewhere — please get in touch via the mailing list if you’re …
DNS Issues
Update: We have moved to a new DNS provider and also migrated doc.etherpad.org to a new hosting provider, which means that it will hopefully be more stable in the future. We are currently moving DNS from an old (unreliable) provider to a shiny new one that is super reliable. doc.etherpad.org and our email is currently …
Apt / debian package location now fixed
Apologies to everyone who tried to grab the 1.1 .deb package via apt. This is now fixed! Here is a picture of Egil schooling me, Mark and Joe as a sweetener.
Etherpad v1.1 released
EtherPad Foundation today released a new version of its free EtherPad web-based collaborative text editor. This is the second major release since the foundation took over active development of the code base, following the Google Open Source release. The new version includes many new features and improvements: Easy upgrade – Installation scripts checks your java …