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Sharry v1.0.0 Release Notes

Release Date: 2019-12-25 // over 4 years ago

  • So…, I finally found some time to work on sharry again. The result is a complete overhaul, almost everything has been rewritten. Why a rewrite? I used this project back then to start learning new technologies, like fs2/cats and Elm. So if you had a look at the code, now you know :). It is now much more modular and cleaner and there have been changes in used libraries, as well. This all together resulted in a re-design and rewrite.

    The application still works as before, the ideas remain. Some features have been added, and others dropped. The most notable changes are:

    • ✅ More authentication options have been added: http basic and (experimantal) OAuth support. I only tested OAuth login via Github and Google. Any feedback here is highly appreciated.
    • 🆕 New users can signup, either allow it for all, none, or use invitation keys
    • 💻 The UI has a new design, it hopefully feels more natural to use. Also, the strange behaviour related to login sessions is now fixed.
    • 📚 The REST api has been properly specified using OpenApi v3. This results in nice (generated) documentation.
    • More alternatives for uploading files: You can now simply run a curl command to upload files.
    • The webclient now relies on the tus protocol for reliably uploading files. Uploads should be faster now.
    • Re-publish using the same id as before
    • Fully edit your shared files
    • 📚 Separate documentation. Documentation is at a different place and not build into the application artifact.
    • 🚚 The command line client is removed. It was too buggy, and maintaining it is too expensive for me (and I'm not using it…).
    • 🏗 The build is now a lot less complex.
    • 📦 Sharry is distributed now as a deb package and a zip file. It is not an executable jar file anymore.

    📚 Feedback, as always, is very welcome. Check the new documentation and try it out. When upgrading, see the migration guide in the documentation, there are semi-manual steps necessary.