Amahi 6.0

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)

Updating from Amahi 5 on Fedora 12 to Amahi6 on Fedora 14

• First, check the general recommendations in the Upgrade your Distro page
• Then do the F12 to F14 update including Amahi

To Do

• Disk-wizard
• Greyhole related fixes
  • http://bugs.amahi.org/issues/show/543
  • http://bugs.amahi.org/issues/show/510
• Apps, Apps, Apps!