Mozilla Gateway v1.0.0 Release Notes
Release Date: 2020-12-02 // over 4 years ago-
Mozilla WebThings is now WebThings!
๐ Our home has moved from iot.mozilla.org to webthings.io.
Major changes
- ๐ Default profile directory has moved from
~/.mozilla-iot
to~/.webthings
. MOZIOT_HOME
environment variable is nowWEBTHINGS_HOME
.- 0๏ธโฃ Default tunneling service has switched from
mozilla-iot.org
towebthings.io
. - โก๏ธ Default update servers are now hosted on
api.webthings.io
. - On Raspbian, the system services are now named
webthings-gateway.*
, rather thanmozilla-iot-gateway.*
. - On Raspbian, the gateway now lives in
~/webthings/gateway
, rather than~/mozilla-iot/gateway
. - โ Add-ons can now be searched.
- ๐ Node 14 is now supported by the gateway and add-ons.
- ๐ณ Podman is now supported by the Docker image.
- ๐ Support for new capabilities:
- HumiditySensor
- BarometricPressureSensor
- AirQualitySensor
- SmokeSensor
- InstantaneousPowerFactorProperty
- The
gateway-addon
library for Node is now written in TypeScript. - ๐ Users can now enable installation of prerelease updates via the config file.
- ๐ M-JPEG video streams are now supported as an alternative to MPEG-DASH and HLS.
- ๐ New translations:
- Portuguese (Portugal)
- Ukrainian
- Finnish
- Danish
- Galician
Minor changes
- ๐ป The UI can now be reloaded when on an extension page, without being redirected back to the Things page.
- ๐ Built-in mDNS server has been removed in favor of the system server (e.g. Avahi or Bonjour).
- ๐ New udev rule for a CO2 monitor.
- SPI enabled on Raspbian.
- โ Add-on licenses are opened in a nice overlay.
- Rules can now be deleted from within the rule page.
- ๐ Lots of bug fixes.
- ๐ Default profile directory has moved from
Previous changes from v0.12.0
-
- โ Added 2FA login support.
- Resolved issues with removing devices.
- Minimum Node.js version is now 10.
- โ Add-ons now use WebSockets for IPC, rather than nanomsg.
- ๐ Commands API has been removed.
- ๐ ColorModeProperty is now supported for light bulbs which can set both RGB
color and white temperature.