Announcing EmbassyOS 0.2.10
Today we are happy to announce the release of EmbassyOS 0.2.10! This release contains new features, as well as multiple bug fixes and UX improvements. You can view the source code here.
LAN Support for Services
In January, a bug in Tor enabled an exploit of the network that caused intermittent outages of V3 addresses. Due to the Embassy’s deep integration with Tor, Embassy users found themselves unable to reach their services. This is an unacceptable state of affairs, as a personal server is only useful insofar as it can actually be used, duh.
Some Embassy owners quickly realized that, although they could not reach their services using Tor, they could reach their Embassy using its LAN Address (.local URL) while connected to the same LAN. As a result of this event, we decided to implement LAN support for services too!
The benefits of this new feature are twofold:
- If Tor comes under attack or is experiencing issues, you are not cut off from your services.
- LAN is significantly faster than Tor, which is a huge win for things like Burn After Reading or File Browser, where you are potentially uploading and downloading large files.
Actions
Actions are developer-defined scripts for users to run on-demand from the dashboard of a given service. For example, you can now reset your Mastodon or File Browser passwords right from the Embassy dashboard. This is important because, previously, if you lost these passwords, there was no simple way to reset them.
There are many uses for actions going forward. Basically, anything that could be run from the command line of a given service can be bundled up into an action.
Start Alerts
Services can now render specific messages before start. For example, Mastodon will warn that it takes several minutes to initially start up
OS Logs.
EmbassyOS Logs are now exposed in the UI for easier debugging.
