THM-Health/PILOS v4.0.0-beta.1

PILOS 4.0.0-beta.1

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This first beta version of PILOS v4 includes numerous changes to the software architecture, database, deployment and UI.

Overview over the major changes:

• Reduced docker image size, seperate containers, reduced startup time and customisation options
• PILOS CLI for easier access to common cli commands
• New UI using Vue 3 and PrimeVue
• New room overview page
• New cleaner room view
• Many new config options for room types
• Reduced complexity of the room settings, new expert mode
• New server health and load algorithms
• Support for recording processing
• Support for horizontal scaling
• Improved online documentation
• Easy upgrade from PILOS v2 / v3

Please follow the Upgrade Guide if you update from v2/v3.
To Install this version check our Getting Started Guide

Added

• Short description for rooms (#373)
• Room favorites (#373)
• Show current room name in the page title (#649, #650)
• Show amount of users in a room (#681)
• Env option PHP_FPM_PM_MAX_CHILDREN, NGINX_WORKER_PROCESSES, NGINX_WORKER_CONNECTIONS and NGINX_WORKER_RLIMIT_NOFILE to customize nginx and php-fpm (#792)
• Breaking: Redis docker service as default caching and queuing driver (#617)
• Laravel Pulse for system monitoring (#617)
• Laravel Horizon for queue management (#617)
• PILOS CLI for common tasks (#617)
• Option to pre-build frontend assets for quicker startup (#617)
• Docker container healthcheck (#617)
• Documentation for scaling PILOS (#617)
• Transfer room ownership (#532, #686)
• Search for roles, server and serverpools (#883)
• Room type restrictions (max. participants, max. duration, require access code, allow record attendance) (#883)
• Limit results in user search (#883)
• Allow changing the default admin role (#883)
• Option to drain a server (#911)
• Show server connection status in server list (#911)
• End detached meetings after server failure (#911)
• Config options for server health BBB_SERVER_ONLINE_THRESHOLD and BBB_SERVER_OFFLINE_THRESHOLD (#911, #1076)
• Config option for server load calculation BBB_LOAD_MIN_USER_COUNT and BBB_LOAD_MIN_USER_INTERVAL (#956)
• Plugin to customize the server load calculation (#956)
• Save selected room tab in url to preserve selection on reload (#977)
• Default settings in the room type for the room settings and option to enforce these settings in the room type (#75, #695, #1059)
• Room type description (#75, #695, #1059)
• Sorting the room history list (#1004)
• Search and filter options to list of room members (#1005)
• Search and filter options to list of room files (#1006)
• Search and filter options to list of personalized room links (#1007)
• Recording management (#31, #896)
• Content-Security-Policy (#315,#1090)
• Custom create parameters in room type settings (#574)
• Setting to change the lifetime of toast messages (#1102)
• User search can find user by email (#1120)

Changed

• Refactor user interface for room search and home page (#372, #373)
• Refactor user interface room details (#681, #724)
• Breaking: Split container into separate containers for the application, cronjobs and queue workers (#617)
• PHP 8.3 docker base image using alpine (#704, #735, #792)
• Renamed artisan command users:create:admin to users:create:superuser (#883)
• Refactored frontend from Vue2 to Vue3, replacing BootstrapVue with PrimeVue (#883)
• Upgrade to Laravel 11 (#927)
• Refactor server health, making it more robust against temporary connection issues (#911)
• Calculation of server load uses the participants amount, during starting phase using a configurable min. amount (#956)
• Layout of room features tab view (#967)
• Breaking: Time periods for room token expiration (#968)
• Layout of the room history list (#1004)
• Layout of the room members list (#1005)
• Layout of the room files list (#1006)
• Layout of the personalized room links list (#1007)
• Bumped docker compose mariadb version to 11 (#1080)
• Breaking: Global application settings storage (#985, #989)
• Breaking: The learning dashboard is no longer disabled and the meeting layout is no longer always "custom". These settings can be set with create-api-parameters in the room type settings. (#574)
• Cypress tests for basic frontend features (#760, #1126)

Fixed

• Issue frontend recompiled on every restart due to a hashing issue (#792)
• Various postgres incompatibility issues (#1078, #1079)

Removed

• Documentation for running PILOS without docker (#617)
• Max. participants and max. duration from room settings (#883)
• Global attendance logging setting (#905)
• Environment variables for room history chart colors, room type colors and banner colors; replaced by using the theme colors (#1071)