LinkAce

Changes:

• Users can now enable two factor authentication.
• System logs can now be viewed from within the app.
• Link detail pages with status changes are now correctly loaded
• Status changes are now properly displayed.
• There is a new CLI command to purge history entries for links.
• Timeout for link checks was increased to 10 sec.
• Dark mode loading was significantly improved.
• Small UI corrections, including the mobile navigation.
• Internal code improvements and simplificartions.
• Missing driver for AWS S3 backups was added.

Please notice the changes in the Docker Compose files. Logs are now stored in Docker volumes.

Also, LinkAce now has a dedicated community: community.linkace.org

Changes:

• Large update of the "internals":
  • Upgrade to Laravel 8 and new packages, including the new factories (PHP 7.3 is now required!)
  • Icons are now handled by the server, not the browser (#158)
  • Usage of new internal templating systems (components)
• Search queries are now escaped properly (#163)
• More options for sorting lists if items (#162)
• Tags are now accessible in the guest view (#160)
• The guest access now has dedicated system settings for dark mode, sharing services,... (#161)
• Fixes issues with the importer (#169)
• Fixes several documentation issues in the README
• Update of translations

Changes:

• LinkAce now includes translations for German and Chinese (Simplified)
• Large update of the source files for the LinkAce setup via Docker (#149)
• Resolves the "Column not found" SQL error on guest views (#151)
• Output of certain error messages was reduced for security reasons (#152)
• Notifications for app backups can now be disabled properly (#155)
• Fixes the import of tags to prevent duplicate tag issues
• Fixes a broken update check for Docker images
• Fixes wrong templates for guest pages
• Minor interface fixes

Changes:

• Fixed issues with restoring and clearing trash items (#142)
• Changed tag and list handling when creating / updating links. Please consult the API documentation. (#145)
• Extend tests for tag creation
• Dependency updates

Changes:

• LinkAce will suggest tags from meta keywords if a site has some (#136)
• Update checks have been restructured
• The mobile navigation was rebuilt to give LinkAce a more app-like feeling on mobile devices with a small screen.
• A lot of minor UI fixes and improvements, mainly to make the UI more consistent.
• Dependencies were updated, a new fork of Selectize is now being used to resolve security vulnerabilities.

A database migration is not needed.

Changes:

• The new LinkAce API is now available! Read more in the API documentation.
• Minor UI fixes.
• Updates for all dependencies.

Changes:

• Improves pagination on mobile devices(#131)
• Improve forms on mobile devices (#131)
• Links are now versioned and the history is displayed on the details view (#126)
• Fixes layout and input issues for password reset form (#134)
• Fixes an issue with duplicate checks for new links
• A lot more tests were added to ensure LinkAce works correctly
• Some vulnerable dependencies were updated

Changes:

• LinkAce is now licensed under GPL V3, instead of MIT.
• You can now export your links to a CSV file. (#30)
• After saving a new link, the app will automatically search for similar links which might be a duplicate. (#112)
• Exmple docker-compose.yml file for production was optimized.
• You can use the new update-docker.sh script to make the update process easier. (#128)
• Nginx was upgraded to version 1.18, as well as some internal dependencies.

Changes:

• Users can now set lists and tags private by default (#113)
• Imports now run via fetch/Ajax to prevent timeouts (#120)
• Backups by the Internet Archive can now be turned off for all links or just private ones (#117)
• xDebug and PCov are now installed in the development Dockerfile
• Code quality optimization and some new tests were added

Changes

• Complete refactoring of the link meta helper:
  • The link meta helper now has a timeout of 5s (#121)
  • The link meta helper can handle non-UTF-8 websites now, the encoding is converted to UTF-8 where possible (#122)
• Very long titles and URLs do not destroy the layout anymore (#123)
• Fixed the bookmarklet 5 second countdown
• Fixed logo in the readme

Thanks

• I would like to thank @newpdv for his contributions to the project by submitting a lot of issues, sharing ideas and sponsoring me. 🥳

Changes

• Implements the new LinkAce logo and IBM Plex Sans as the brand font
• Lists and tags can now be removed from links (#99)
• Adds a new simple list view, available in the user settings (#108)
• Fixes issues with adding links with
  • special ports like 192.168.0.123:12345 (#115)
  • self signed certificates and other response errors (#116)
• Fixes the broken quick add form on the dash board (#118)
• Updates all dependencies
• Minor internal code optimizations
• Adds a security policy and sponsoring information to the repo

Changes:

• Fixes an issue with the update check not working correctly
• Security updates for various dependencies

Changes:

• Fixes an issue with authentication (#101)
• Updates both PHP and frontend packages
• Adds additional tests for authentication

Changes:

• Automated checks for links can now be disabled to prevent ongoing "broken" links (#93)
• New user setting: open links in new tabs (#97)
• Adds an update check based on Github releases to the system settings page (#96)
• Entries can now be deleted from the edit screens
• Overhauled dark theme and many UI corrections and improvements
• Update to Laravel 7, minimum required PHP version is now 7.2.5
• Moved from Guzzle to the Laravel-own HTTP helper, improved the testing

Changes

• Fixes an issue with the bookmarklet (#90)
• Adds new CLI command for password resets
• Internal code updates for many parts of the app, including new tests.

Changes:

• Adds a search filter for broken links (#63)
• Adds missing SETUP_COMPLETED=true variable to Docker .env file (#88)
• Adds additional check for present data in database before running migrations in the setup (#88)
• Fixes issues with the cron URL generation in the system settings (#89)
• Fixes possible migration issues for a version from 2019
• Minor layout and styling updates, including the dashboard and the footer

Upgrade:

Follow the dedicated upgrade guide in the LinkAce docs.

Changes:

• LinkAce now has a dedicated setup that helps with installing it via Docker or as a regular PHP app. Please check the documentation. (#72)
• Upgraded the app to PHP 7.4 (#82)
• Upgrade of all dependencies
• Fixes an issue where tags couldn't be deleted (#84)
• Implemented a PHP linter with PHP CS
• Moved frm Travis to Github Actions for any tests
• Major code cleanup with minor logic changes

Upgrade:

• from version < 0.0.25: follow the upgrade instructions for v0.0.25.
• from 0.0.25: add SETUP_COMPLETED=true to your .env file.

Changes:

• Fixed issues with the bookmarklet caused by references to the deprecated category model
• Fixed the search to properly handle list search
• Improved the placeholder texts for various inputs
• Small style improvements for tag inputs
• Updated dependencies for PHP and the frontend stuff (base is now Node 12 LTS)
• Minor code restructuring to improve further working "under the hood"

Upgrade:

• from 0.0.25: no migration required.
• from version < 0.0.25: follow the upgrade instructions for v0.0.25.

Changes:

• Lists can now be deleted and restored properly, solves #76 and #78
• Solved issues with pagination styling in dark mode (#77)
• Minor language changes for the link notification email
• Fixed an issue with the password reset form
• Updated view for all lists

Upgrade:

• from 0.0.25: no migration required.
• from version < 0.0.25: follow the upgrade instructions for v0.0.25.

Changes:

• categories are lists now. Read more about them in the wiki. Categories will be migrated to lists and links will automatically be assigned to them.
• Various optimizations for the dark theme.

Upgrade:

• You have to run php artisan migrate to properly change the database scheme and migrate all categories and links.