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Paperless v2.0.0 Release Notes

Release Date: 2018-06-17 // almost 6 years ago

  • 🚀 This is a big release as we’ve changed a core-functionality of Paperless: we no longer encrypt files with GPG by default.

    👍 The reasons for this are many, but it boils down to that the encryption wasn’t really all that useful, as files on-disk were still accessible so long as you had the key, and the key was most typically stored in the config file. In other words, your files are only as safe as the paperless user is. In addition to that, the contents of the documents were never encrypted, so important numbers etc. were always accessible simply by querying the database. Still, it was better than nothing, but the consensus from users appears to be that it was more an annoyance than anything else, so this feature is now turned off unless you explicitly set a passphrase in your config file.

    Migrating from 1.x

    Encryption isn’t gone, it’s just off for new users. So long as you have PAPERLESS_PASSPHRASE set in your config or your environment, Paperless should continue to operate as it always has. If however, you want to drop encryption too, you only need to do two things:

    1. Run ./manage.py migrate && ./manage.py change_storage_type gpg unencrypted. This will go through your entire database and Decrypt All The Things. 🚚 2. Remove PAPERLESS_PASSPHRASE from your paperless.conf file, or simply stop declaring it in your environment.

    Special thanks to @erikarvstedt, @matthewmoto, and @mcronce who did the bulk of the work on this big change.