Not a lot of things in this release, but the most important thing is the change in the way you update the database.
Before you needed to run update.php from the command line interface. Now it can be run from the web.
In fact I wanted to implement an easy way to get a new release, but it's not as easy as wordpress makes it look like. So we ended up in a weird situation, with the code to get and extract the latest zip archive is written, but not directly accessible because it's missing the last part : copying the extracted files over the old ones. (pull requests welcome ;) )
Of course this decision was driven by the fact that in the institute I work in, elabftw is run in a docker container, where you can't just ssh in it to update the database (well, you can but that's not the point). I think being able to run elabftw in a container is a good thing, so I try to change the code so it 'fits'.
Also in this release, there is a fix for using haproxy to handle ssl traffic to an http server. Not a lot of people will benefit from it, but it's here now. I want elabftw to be entreprise capable, and this kind of thing is often found in a complex network architecture, which is in turn often found in a modern research institute.
Finally, I added a little counter in the footer of the admin, so he can see if there is some users to validate.
As you might have noticed, the release schedule of elabftw is quite chaotic. And the length of the text accompanying the release is random (last release had two words...).
But that's the way I work. I publish a release, and not long after I start spotting bugs, so I need to make another release now that the recommended way to install is not git clone anymore but downloading the latest stable release, and the cycle goes on...
BTW, there is nothing stable in elabftw (yet), it needs to be considered as 'beta' software until it reaches version 1.0. It's stable in the way that it will not spontaneously explode, and globally works fine, but the code is getting improved all the time!
If you are still reading, cheers 😃
To conclude : thanks to everyone participating in this elabftw adventure. We're building the best ELN software together :D