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In this latest Cells update, our team is bringing you an all-new Material Design-driven look and feel, advanced sharing features, powerful new Flows automations, a new Android app and even our first NLP-powered feature. Here’s what’s new in Cells 4.2:

Embracing Material You (a.k.a Material UI 3)

The Material You design system from Material.io is the latest evolution of Google’s Material Design initiative that has been moving app and web design away from the chaotic Wild West it once was and creating a kind of standard language for visual design. To take advantage of these improvements, our dev team took the opportunity to re-imagine Cells’ visual language. For version 4.2, we’ve:

• Implemented a “Dark Mode” Theme
• Reworked many of our UX components for improved readability and consistency
• Created a highly personalizable interface, letting users create the workspace they want
• Modernized our React JS codebase with new packing, updated dependencies, and removed any unnecessary legacy code

New Android App

To provide a unified look and feel, we’ve also updated our Android App to bring its design and useability in line with the desktop experience. Our developers rewrote the UI layer with Jetpack Compose and Material3 and included dynamic colours from Material You. The result is a better user experience and improved layouts for large screens. While we were in there, we also tweaked our file transfer protocols to use the AWS Android SDK, which allows huge uploads from the mobile app now.

Advanced Sharing Features

In Cells 4.2, the team has implemented some impactful new functionality around our core sharing capabilities to make the platform more powerful than ever.

The first new feature is Cell expiry dates. You can now configure individual Cells to have an expiration date like public links already have, allowing users to set the lifecycle of a Cell.

Users can now find the “My Shares” screen in the Advanced Search panel, allowing you to use the share status (public link, part of a Cell) as an additional search filter.

We’ve also enriched the Cells Flows actions library - providing the ability to automate Cells and Links creation. This allows Flows builders to:

• Create jobs that generate a public link for all files in a folder, collect these links in a CSV and publish it
• Use Flows to generate custom user lists based on your own criteria and dynamically create a Cell for them
• And generally allow you to create, delete and modify any existing Cells and links

Make More with Cells Flows

Along with the new share actions described above, we’ve implemented new pre-set actions to make Flows more flexible (trigger another Flow, trigger an error, clear a selection before, etc.) and give you the building blocks you need to create exactly the Flow you want.

First Steps for NLP

You may also have noticed that we’ve taken our first steps in the world of NLP applications with our smart assisted search function that suggests related search topics and helps users refine their search to find what they’re looking for more quickly.

This new feature is already available for the English language in Cells 4.1.2 and 4.2. We’re working on self-hosted NLP models and a long list of NLP-powered features to help you boost productivity and usability and ultimately elevate the document-sharing and collaboration experience.

And so Much More

With the UX revamp, we also took the opportunity to fine-tune, fix or implement features that you’ve been asking for and even straighten out a few things that were bugging us (e.g. remote sorting when pagination is enabled, persistent sorting options, address book improvements, and a long list of other mini-improvements) - all in the service of making Cells better and easier to use for admins and end users.

And lastly, the team took care of a punchlist of fixes and vulnerabilities reported by our independent security research partner. Advisories will be disclosed soon – upgrade is urgently recommended. Not ready to perform this important upgrade? We have you covered with Cells v4.1.3 which ships just the security fixes.

Change log

You can find a summary of the change log here.

Cells v4.1.3 is a security release. Upgrade is highly recommended. It is released at the same time as version 4.2 and contains only the security patches for those who do not yet wish to upgrade to version 4.2. Vulnerabilities advisories will be published soon.

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This release fixes a display issue when reading Cells emails in Outlook clients.

Change log

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This mostly a bugfix release for v4

• Blocking issue when using Collabora Online editor (due to a caching issue in ACLs)
• Fix error handling when Redis is not reachable
• [Enterprise] Fix policies evaluations when using glob feature

[Beta] This version also contains some nice elements to improve the search:

• Quick access folder search: Quick Jump (j), Quick Copy (c) and Quick Move (v) feature
• Reworked and improved search engine auto-complete UX, including NLP support (english only) to detect and apply advanced filters automagically

Change log

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We are pleased to announce the release of version 4.1 of Pydio Cells / Cells Connect / Cells Enterprise. Since its release three months ago, Cells v4 has been widely adopted, upgrades from previous major versions were battle-tested, and we have been tirelessly working to address any issues that arose (hence this 8th bugfixes release since 4.0.0).

Upgrade From Cells v3 Now!

We are proud to say that version 4 is now stable and performing well, and we strongly encourage you to upgrade from version 3! If you are ready, make sure to read the instructions to avoid the common pitfalls of upgrading v3 to v4.

Cells v4 is a major leap forward for clustered deployments. It features a brand-new microservices engine for unparalleled performance, and a new dependency management making it much easier to delegate core services to cloud standards. Along with tons of bug fixes, new features, or improvements, here are some key features:

• Pydio Cells 4 is fully cloud-ready: its new simplified core works in single-node as well as complex multi-node configurations – all the way from Raspberry Pi to Kubernetes clusters. Learn More.
• [Ent] Automate everything with Cells Flows: new features, new components, new Flows ready-to-use templates, Cells Flows can help you with long-term maintenance, business process management, integration with your third-party systems, and many other subjects! Learn more.

v4.1.0 Last Bugfixes

• Fixed MongoDB handling of massive activities purge
• Added support for TLS and Authentication for ETCD registry
• Fix UX issue when searching on a "Rating" metadata field
• [Ent] Support advanced policies on metadata namespaces
• New Documentation pages about Recommended Architectures and Admin Delegation.

Resources

• Support: Forum
• Administration Guide : Quick Start
• Developer Docs: API, Knowledge Base
• Show your love: Star on Github, share on Twitter or follow us on LinkedIn!

Change log

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Yet another batch of fixes and improvements for v4: last stop before v4.1!

Cluster & Scalability

• Fixed many clustering side-effects (service start locking, grpc error status management)
• Fixed Mongo-specific issues or missing features (logs filtering, logs cursor, indexer truncate to size, etc)

UX

• Virtualize Image Gallery view to avoid overloading the server
• Abort XHR when leaving console dashboard
• Use websocket to keep users list in sync (under Console > People) - should also avoid conflicts when saving
• Upgrade forms "variant" where missing

Other

• Datasource fix "internal path" on custom Minio server
• Clean "orphan" tasks and taskslogs in scheduler
• buf mod update for protobuf libraries
• Expose "SSL" config in mailer (by opposition to StartTLS).

Change log

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Lots of bugfixes and improvements for v4.

Core

• Cluster : use a unique id for metrics, use a shared lock for starting all nodes at once, fixed ETCD lease issue
• Typo in users cache could degrade performances for concurrent requests
• CELLS_WEB_RATE_LIMIT environment applied on data APIs (s3). It was only applied on REST APIs before.
• Anonymous download feature was broken
• Workspace sometimes temporarily vanishing from left menu
• Fix documentation for Sites Configuration + Let's Encrypt
• Fix documentation for SQL migration possible issue
• Better handling of time desynchronization error to avoid client-side loop
• Re-enabled caddy logging : errors only by default, access+errors when Cells is in debug mode
• Rework Metrics, Grafana dashboard and missing services in metrics.

Datasources

• Structured datasources FS modification not detected
• S3 structured datasources regression (re-creation of .pydio instead of using s3 empty objects as introduced in v4
• S3 datasources cannot copy files bigger than 5GB from an other DS as it does not switch to Multipart
• S3 : issue when using an internal path inside the bucket
• Rehash operation shows a progress and can be cancelled for big files, also now triggered automatically after reindexation
• An error was displayed when remove an object service, and restarting a new datasource at the same location could show minio errors

Cells Sync Compat

• Added checks for compatibility between v4 server and Cells Sync latest build, as hashing mechanism (used for quick file comparison) have changed.

Cells Flows & Enterprise

• Auto-open parameters panel if mandatory ones are not set
• Purge Activities default Flow does not have the CompactDB flag
• Big update of the documentation, along with Smart Forms documentation
• Auto-apply search engine content indexation
• Custom CSS not persisting after closing branding tool
• Simplify SmartForm submission with WebHooks
• Full Documentation update

Change log

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New batch of improvements for v4 branch

Fixes & Improvements

• Deduplicate objects services if they share a same PeerAddress to avoid v3 => v4 migration issues
• Fix possible concurrent map read/write in configs
• Better retries on sql transaction deadlocks
• Email digest notification: show clickable links for documents
• Scheduler tasks and tasks logs are not properly cleared when using MongoDB
• Publish prometheus target discovery with a custom endpoint (protected with basic auth)
• Rewire bigCache metrics and add new metrics for system info
• [Ent] Fix Glob Path condition in Security Policies

[Ent] Cells Flows

• New debug mode displaying messages flowing directly in the graph
• Ability to wait for parallel actions to be done and merge their output into a new action
• New playground for live-testing Anko script
• New "Hook" mechanism to define custom API endpoints and custom UX buttons to trigger a Flow
• Better handling of job "mandatory" parameters
• Queue selectors in the throttled dispatchers (like actions), to avoid applying tons of selectors parallel

Change log

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As a result of active testing and community reports, we continue to correct issues and improve v4.

Important Bugfixes

• New files detection on structured datasource (local FS) was partially broken
• Fixed a possible concurrent map access during massive uploads
• Refix sync task cancellation for long datasource resync
• Appending query params to URL breaks public links

Minor improvements

• Exif rotation correct support for avatar pictures
• Make sure binaries are not indexed by search engine
• Improve share screen tabs display
• Scheduler: much better log display and debugging level
• Fixed Scp Put action (support for templates)

Feature

• Integrate Uppy.io to directly capture webcam/mic/screencast

Change log

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This weekly release fixes glitches on v4 branch and introduces a couple of new features.

Bugfixes

• Important issue with non-ascii characters breaking headers
• Issues with structured datasources and events
• Various ETCD glitches when services are stopped or leases are lost (cluster mode)

New

• Interface libraries updates: pdfjs (better support of signed pdf), soundmanager (add flac support)
• New parameter on flat datasources to automatically distribute files inside subfolder(s)
• New filter types for log levels.

Change log

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