Release Version 2.47

Release date: 10 March 2024.

Distribution

Source snapshots are attached to this announcement and the git tag filesender-2.47 contains the base that these snapshots were created from.

Installation

Documentation is available at https://docs.filesender.org/filesender/v2.0/install/

Major changes since 2.46

The database update script DOES NOT need to be run.
The templates directory HAS NOT changed.

Short summary:
All UUID generation has moved from version 7 back to using v4 UUIDs. The cron job will now delete empty directories from older transfers when daily buckets are in use.

Details:

Use uuidv7 for storage and uuidv4 for key-based identification #1810
use uuidv4 for all uuids again for now. update to filesystem daily buckets to work with uuidv4 #1812
daily buckets: cron job to delete old empty directories #1809

Configuration changes

New configuration directives which will mostly not have to change from their internal preset values. These are storage_filesystem_per_day_max_age_to_create_directory, storage_filesystem_per_day_min_days_to_clean_empty_directories, and storage_filesystem_per_day_max_days_to_clean_empty_directories

Support and Feedback

Please lodge new github issues for things that might improve the next release!
See Support and Mailinglists or create a Feature requests using Github issues.