Upgrade to Debian Bookworm
The VM now runs Debian 12. It’s pending a reboot though.
Removal of unused software
We saved about 15% of disk space on the system disk.
New Discourse plugins
- Data Explorer allows to run SQL queries against the Discourse database. It can be used by @staff. Notably, it’s used to display existing configured emails for categories and groups.
- Staff Alias allows to use @well-being user for @staff, @moderators and members of the @well-being.team to avoid personal exposure when dealing with headstrong people.
- Discourse ActivityPub plugin now includes support for public feeds and replies.
New email system
Since our previous email providers is changing its plans, we have setup a new email system based on postalserver.io and Discourse mail-receiver.
more info about new email setup
Email @activitypub.eu
now tend to be replaced with @socialhub.activitypub.eu
but both should work (with some known exceptions that will be fixed if someone complains. Some older email have been removed (e.g., those for old event categories and related groups – but the forum access remains for them.)
In a shell, everything should be transparent for you, except when you reply to an old conversation via email where exceptions may occur: in this case, try to use the forum once and reply to the newly assigned email address.
All email supports SPF, DKIM and DMARC.
Please report any weirdness you may encounter!