Today we’re proud to announce Etherpad 1.4. Let’s be honest here, there are no killer features in this release however this release does contain LOTS of bug-fixes and security patches. All of the killer features exist as Plugins, once you upgrade Etherpad we suggest you check out the available plugins because some really great ones …
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SSL on beta.etherpad.org
We just implemented SSL / HTTPS by default for all connections to beta.etherpad.org Thanks to GlobalSign for the free cert. Thanks to Nginx for making it easy to implement. Thanks to Jesus for staying holy. Enjoy and remember beta.etherpad.org is a play-ground, don’t use it for any real science. 1.4 is due soon, feel free …
Etherpad can do that?!
Etherpad can be easily extended with plugins, our plugin framework allows for simple 2 click installation, if you haven’t had time to check it out yet then now is a great time as 2013 was a bumper year for Etherpad plugins. Here are some plugins that might tempt you into getting started.
Etherpad One Line Install
I read recently Etherpad is more difficult than other collaborative editors to install. Before today it took a whole 2 lines.. Today it’s one line for Debby/Ubuntu/Linux Mint heros.. Copy / Paste below to your CLI to install Etherpad: wget etherpad.org/downloads/etherpad-1.3.deb -O etherpad-1.3.deb && sudo dpkg -i etherpad-1.3.deb Hopefully we will have an apt package …
Getting started contributing
So you are new to Etherpad or contributing to Open source and you want to know how you can get started helping out the Etherpad foundation spread the goodness that is Etherpad. We’re always looking for new people to join our fellow Etherpadians, we have one motto of “Ask forgiveness not permission” so get started …
Important security update
TLDR; PadId was being broadcast to Read Only Clients. Vileda discovered an issue where in certain conditions the pad ID of a user was being broadcast to users on a Rad Only Pad. We fixed the issue within minutes of hearing about it (24 minutes to be precise). You will need to checkout develop to …
Box launches Box Notes Into Private Beta
Etherpad powered Box Notes are now available on the Box.com service. Check out now at Box.Com
New hosting for beta. and draw.
We have moved our hosting to Joyent’s SmartOS hosting facilities. This should hopefully speed things up and help us deal with the increase in traffic we have seen over the past few months. Thanks to Joyent for sponsoring the hosting :)
Etherdraw gets a new UI
I like it, show me the repo so I can tinker.
Alternative author text identification plugin
Check out ep_author_neat, a plugin that allows you to have the author information on the left hand side of the page where the line numbers are. Cool huh! :) Install it by hitting up your plugins page!