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Monica v2.18.0 Release Notes

Release Date: 2019-05-23 // almost 5 years ago

  • 🚀 This release contains several new features

    • You can now crop contact photos on upload
    • Display age of death to relationship sidebar if the person is dead
    • There is a new name order, with the nickname in first position
    • 👍 The title for birthday reminder on decease people is better

    We also added two more langages: Chinese Traditional and Japanese.

    🍱 🌍Thanks so much to our contributors and translators for their work.

    🆕 New environment variable

    👮 This release also introduce a new environment variable: APP_FORCE_URL.
    It allows you to force using APP_URL as base url of your application.
    You should not need it, but it's useful to install Monica in a subdirectoy url, like https://my.domain/monica

    🆕 New command lines

    • 🔧 php artisan monica:test-email allows you to test your email sending configuration
    • php artisan monica:passport install encryption keys and Personal Access Client if needed

    🐳 Docker image

    🐳 Our docker image has slightly changed.
    Sources files are now back in /var/www/monica directory.
    🚚 If you used to have a mounted volume in that directory, you should remove it, and keep only the mounted volume for storage.
    📚 See more examples in the dedicated documentation.

    ⬆️ Upgrade notes

    ⬆️ ⚠️ Please make sure you backup your database before upgrading.

    This version requires to run migrations.
    ⚡️ Please use the embedded command php artisan monica:update, it will run all needed commands to bring you to the next version.

    ✳️ Added

    • Display age of death to relationship sidebar if the person is dead (#4021 - thanks to @paulrodriguez)
    • Crop contact photos on upload (#3942 - thanks to @jeremies)
    • ➕ Add new name orders <nickname> (<First name> <Last name>) & <nickname> (<Last name> <First name>) (#3933 - thanks to @vwvw and @maantje)
    • ➕ Add console command to test email delivery (#3212 - thanks to @mechanarchy)
    • ➕ Add Traditional Chinese langage (#3978 - thanks to @asbiin)
    • ➕ Add Japanese langage (#3819 - thanks to @asbiin)
    • 🔄 Change title of birthday reminder for deceased people (#3720 - thanks to @jeremies)

    ✴️ Changed

    • 🔄 Change docker image sync (#4010 - thanks to @asbiin)
    • Stores amount as integer-ish values, and fix debts and gifts amount forms (#3906 - thanks to @asbiin)
    • 👉 Use current text from search bar to create a new person (#3817 - thanks to @jeremies)
    • Always allow to add a new person from search bar (#3817 - thanks to @jeremies)
    • 👉 Use queue to send email verification (#3985 - thanks to @asbiin)
    • 👌 Improve autocomplete fields on signup and login forms (#3832 - thanks to @asbiin)
    • ➕ Add cache for S3 storage, and use new standard variables (#3821 - thanks to @asbiin)
    • ✂ Remove authentication with login+password for carddav (#3830 - thanks to @asbiin)
    • ➕ Add new command monica:passport to generate encryption if needed (#3816 - thanks to @asbiin)
    • 👌 Improve nginx config docker examples (#3800 - thanks to @asbiin)
    • ✂ Remove u2f support (replaced with WebAuthn) (#3756 - thanks to @asbiin)
    • Serialize photo content in VCard photo value (#3765 - thanks to @asbiin)

    🍱 ⚛ Fixed

    • 🛠 Fix life event categories and types are not translated when adding new life event (#4033 - thanks to @jeremies)
    • 🛠 Fix subdirectory config url (#4020 - thanks to @asbiin)
    • 🛠 Fix google2fa column size (#3975 - thanks to @asbiin)
    • 🛠 Fix errors display for api (#3949 - thanks to @asbiin)
    • 🛠 Fix currency in double (#3899 - thanks to @asbiin)
    • 🛠 Fix route cache (#3882 - thanks to @asbiin)
    • 🛠 Fix mail config setting (#3878 - thanks to @asbiin)
    • 🛠 Fix AuthenticateWithTokenOnBasicAuth (#3861 - thanks to @asbiin)
    • 🛠 Fix authentication with token on basic auth (#3830 - thanks to @asbiin)
    • 🛠 Fix editing multiple notes at the same time only edits one note (#3779 - thanks to @jeremies)
    • 🛠 Fix countries in fake contact seeder (#3815 - thanks to @jeremies)
    • 🛠 Fix docker rsync exclude rules (#3806 - thanks to @asbiin)
    • 🛠 Fix docker cron (legacy) on apache variant (#3807 - thanks to @asbiin)
    • 🛠 Fix login route already set by Laravel now (#3802 - thanks to @asbiin)
    • 🛠 Fix setMe contact controller (#3792 - thanks to @asbiin)
    • 🛠 Fix carddav sync-collection reporting wrong syncToken (#3734 - thanks to @asbiin)