Revision as of 01:17, 27 February 2011

Release Notes

Based on Fedora 14
Greyhole now defaults to using MySQL as a back-end, with a 10x performance improvement in file event handling
Anonymous/Guest access to shares
Easy to add webapp aliases - makes it much easier to host apps on the web from your own HDA
Greyhole 0.9: substantial improvements and fixes to Greyhole from version 0.7
Updates to: Japanese, Romanian, Spanish, Russian, and many other translations
App installer now has a fall-back mirror for app downloads. This will improve app installs substantially
Databases from apps are automatically backed up after app uninstall, keeping track of the latest backup
Added support for localized share names, user's names, etc. (bugs 746 749)
Also updated scriptaculous and prototype (JavaScript libraries)
Simplify shares, by only showing tags while in advance settings is on, since they did not evolve to full use
Improve recognition of PIDs in server (bug 758)
Sync Greyhole configuration with the shares configuration when shares are deleted (bug 610)
Protect against reinstalls and Greyhole DB setup (bug 762)
Fix to make Greyhole handle millions of files in the spool directory. It could lead to hitting memory limits (bug 769)
Double check that shares added to the pool are actual mountpoints (bug 611)
Initial support for right-to-left-languages, stating with Hebrew support (need work on the themes, see bug 773)
Improved DNS and DHCP settings, so that they are way more customizable for power users (714)

I installed the Amahi 6 beta. Do i need to reinstall: Good news, no need to reinstall!
What architectures are supported: 32bit and 64bit x86 architectures (ARM is not yet supported in Amahi 6)
Can I upgrade from Amahi 5: yes, with caution and patience. See previous section. You don't have to! Your Amahi 5 server will continue running for years if you let it!

Disk-wizard
Greyhole related fixes
- Handling non-linux based partitions better 543
- Making it easier to move shares out of the Greyhole pool and "unwind" the files 510. Greyhole document on how to remove share from the pool
Apps, Apps, Apps!

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 * Double check that shares added to the pool are actual mountpoints (bug [http://bugs.amahi.org/issues/show/611 611])
 * Initial support for right-to-left-languages, stating with Hebrew support (need work on the themes, see bug [http://bugs.amahi.org/issues/show/773 773])
+* Improved DNS and DHCP settings, so that they are way more customizable for power users ([http://bugs.amahi.org/issues/show/714 714])
 = Updating from Amahi 5 to Amahi6 =