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. …
Category Archives: Features
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 …
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 …
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.