Staff Diary: v2.0 Cycle

SychO

For the past couple of weeks I have been working on updating the Flarum CLI and adapting it to the ongoing Flarum 2.0 changes. I have also supercharged it with some pretty neat additions that should further improve the extension dev's experience (flarum/cli41)

New commands

flarum-cli make model [className] [PATH] [-n|--no-interaction]
flarum-cli make notification [className] [PATH] [-n|--no-interaction]
flarum-cli make post-type [className] [PATH] [-n|--no-interaction]
flarum-cli make locale [key] [value] [PATH] [-n|--no-interaction]
flarum-cli make backend api-resource [PATH] [-n|--no-interaction]
flarum-cli make backend filter [className] [PATH] [-n|--no-interaction]
flarum-cli make backend notification-blueprint [className] [PATH] [-n|--no-interaction]
flarum-cli make backend notification-driver [className] [PATH] [-n|--no-interaction]
flarum-cli make backend post-type [className] [PATH] [-n|--no-interaction]
flarum-cli make backend mail-driver [className] [PATH] [-n|--no-interaction]
flarum-cli make frontend forum-page [className] [routeName] [routePath] [PATH] [-n|--no-interaction]
flarum-cli make frontend gambit [PATH] [-n|--no-interaction]
flarum-cli make frontend notification [className] [PATH] [-n|--no-interaction]
flarum-cli make frontend post-type [className] [PATH] [-n|--no-interaction]

Screenshot from 2024-03-29 14-19-59

MikeJones

SychO Awesome, keep up the great work!

luceos

Last night we migrated to a new server for flarum.org, docs.flarum.org and discuss.flarum.org. This change was necessary as digital ocean had not been sponsoring our hosting and their costs kept going up. We have now moved to a server hosted with Hetzner.

Due to this migration, discuss felt slow last night, this should have been settled now. Also emails for notifications might not have been processed, my apologies for any inconvenience. Should you have signed up please use the password forgotten functionality.

In the past few weeks I have processed the yearly finances for the Foundation, so that the bookkeeper can create the legally required yearly statement. With that being passed on to a third party, I could focus on some of the other matters like the federation extension, the new website, migrating some of our own websites and the Italian verified community to other servers.

Edit: update, the demos have now also migrated to the new server. This completes the migration from digital ocean to Hetzner.

SychO

Hello 👋,

Here's a quick update on what we've been working on recently.

We've been focusing on maintenance-related features. In addition to the existing high maintenance mode, Flarum 2.0 will ship with two new maintenance modes:

Low maintenance mode: Allows admins to put the forum under maintenance while retaining admin access (you can see some screenshots here).
Safe mode: This mode combines low maintenance with not booting any extensions. This will help recovering from extension breaking issues (you can see some screenshots here).

We're also working on adding a new feature called Extension Bisect, which will help diagnose which extension is causing a specific observable issue (you can see some screenshots here).

Mikenthuzi

tolgaaaltas Thanks for advice, i've been using that one, but format changed automatically:
when switching new lines, you have to press enter 2 more times, so the format you see is what you entered, no offense, but annoying. And when you quoted something, you have to enter extra 2 times so the quotes will not combined as one automatically.
After uploaded images, sometimes, it show a link and image, sometime just the image (using fof upload).
Xenforo editor makes me feel stable and steady, you get what you entered lol

tolgaaaltas

luceos Apologies if it's been shared before, how percentage complete is Flarum 2.0? It is not possible to understand the process with Github Milestones. We're almost halfway through this year, and I'm curious not because I'm impatient, but because I want to see what great work the team has accomplished.

luceos

tolgaaaltas Hi Tolga, in all honesty this is very hard to say. Great progress has already been made for 2.0, mostly because of the zealous effort that @SychO (Sami) has single-handedly put into it. Our original prognoses was to have nightly versions available somewhere at the end of this year. I still believe we are making sufficient progress to be able to reach that goal.

Many of the open items have already been tackled or seen massive progress, like:

the json api backend rewrite
upgrade to laravel 10
improved ui/ux experience
javascript code splitting
theme design customizations
the extension manager
email unsubscribe
maintenance mode
support for backend search drivers

Several of the massive rewrites that Sami has worked on are still pending review or edits. Once those are merged, I hope to update our nightly demo website to point to the 2.0 version as soon as possible.

tolgaaaltas

luceos Thank you for your detailed response. The entire community can't wait to see the team's hard work.

Flarfan79

luceos Will multisite be part of the upgrade?

GoodTimes

luceos upgrade to laravel 10

But why 10? Laravel 11 is already released.

meihuak

at the end of this year

😭

CyberGene

So, is it realistic to say that stable versions of 2.0 can be expected mid-2025?

luceos

CyberGene expectations are hard to manage, that's why we try to underpromise and overdeliver. We are currently too far off to give any indication of when 2.0 will be released, I hope 2025 will be the year though 🙏

luceos

serdo see luceos

Zeokat

Ubuntu server 24.04 LTS (Noble Numbat) has been released with good news because the PHP package was updated to version 8.3.6 which now meets the minimum PHP version 8.2 required by Flarum 🥳

Official info: https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/noble-numbat-release-notes/39890#php-65

luceos

Flarfan79 no. Though making flarum multi site compatible is possible, that's how freeflarum operates too; one codebase multiple communities. But as part of Flarum commercial we will likely publish a multi tenancy extension commissioned by a client within the next few months.

Flarfan79

luceos luceos Oh that's great. Is that something that will allow multilanguage sites with separate forums for different languages?

JFOC

luceos is this published yet?

luceos

Flarfan79 probably not.

luceos

GoodTimes because 10 was the latest version when we planned and executed on the upgrade. It is very likely we will do another upgrade before releasing 2.0. Laravel 11 is very new, March 12th in fact.

Derbosik

It'd be very neat to implement meta tags like og:title, og:description, og:image, og:url (visible when sending the link to someone on discord for example). Each site would have its specific og:description.

Example documentation

treyb

Derbosik I use justoverclock/og-meta-tag and am very happy with the results.

Derbosik

treyb But that one isn't site specific, like a forum post would have a different description and title. A profile would have the profile image instead of the forum image and so on.

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