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Oh hi, Etherpad 1.8.8
Etherpad 1.8.8 has been released. https://github.com/ether/etherpad-lite/releases/tag/1.8.8 Important things to note: Includes security patches. Various test/code quality improvements. Various reliability improvements. Various performance improvements. Huge thanks to @rhansen for the majority of work in this release and to @nulli @Translatewiki @Hossein M for some awesome contributions. Special thanks to @redhog / Egil who’s code has survived …
Say hello to Etherpad 1.8.7
Etherpad 1.8.7 is a recommended update for these reasons: Various security patches. Various stability patches. Various performance improvements. This release contains roughly 360 commits of mostly tidy up/fixes. We have very few bells and whistle features to announce this time around and for this reason we’re considering this as a patch release. Don’t be under …
Etherpad 1.8.6 released
1.8.6 includes an important security update so we recommend updating ASAP. With 1.8.6 Etherpad now provides a method to copy pads that uses roughly 10% of the computational resources to copy a pad without any previous history. See: copyPadWithoutHistory A postgres bug existed in 1.8.5 so if you are a postgres user we recommend updating …
Etherpad is on Github sponsors
You probably know what Github sponsors is, if not, it’s a way you can support projects like Etherpad by donating a monthly amount. I don’t think waxing lyrical about the benefits of supporting Etherpad is useful but I think it’s worth mentioning we’re under Software Freedom Conservancy (501c3) and all funds raised go back into …
Pad your way! Create your own theme with the new theme variant generator
In 1.8.3 Etherpad introduced a new feature called the “Theme variant generator”. To access it append #skinvariantsbuilder to your Pad URL IE http://video.etherpad.com/p/examplethemeshiznee#skinvariantsbuilder Once you have it styled how you like then copy the Result to settings.json and restart Etherpad. After restart this style will be applied to pads and you don’t need to include …
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Say hello to Etherpad 1.8.3
This release is huge, probably our biggest in 5 years. If you used to use Etherpad back in the day but it’s fallen off your radar then this might be the release that brings you back. If not, that’s cool, thanks for the love anyway :) This release includes 5 Critical Security Vulnerability resolutions which …
Video chat with Etherpad
Etherpad is a humble project and we’re really appreciative that you either use it or contribute. Thanks! It’s time for us to give back. This time we’re supporting the global efforts to stop the Corona Pandemic by giving people a real-time editing and video conferencing tool that’s completely free to use with no sign in. …
Updating Etherpad for Modern JavaScript
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 …
Important critical Etherpad release – 1.6.4
TLDR; Site admins should Update ASAP to 1.6.4 due to several security enhancements. Today we released Etherpad 1.6.4. This release fixes several security vulnerabilities in recent versions: One is an arbitrary code execution vulnerability in version 1.6.3. Another is an arbitrary code execution vulnerability which is present in all versions from 1.5.0 on, but only …
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