Introduction

«Wait a minute! Wasn’t 5.4 released not long ago?» you might be thinking. And you are right. eLabFTW 5.5 follows closely the release of 5.4, as we have modified our release process to allow faster iterations and longer support for older releases. But this change also makes it difficult to continue release 5.4, so we decided to quickly jump to 5.5 which uses the new build process.

The technical details of how we changed the release process are discussed here: A note about changes in repository organization.

The quick version is that we improved our internal organization and processes, and that you should expect a shorter release cycle now, so features and bugfixes reach users more quickly. Please bear with us while we fix small glitches in the release process.

Full changelog for 5.5.0 is available on the release page.

Important note

Use directly 5.5.3!

Changes

Branding

It is now possible to customize the logos: the one present in the top left of every page and the one present on the login page.

Go to the “Organization branding” section of the Sysconfig panel (first tab) and upload SVG files to change the logos.

Maintenance mode

We added a maintenance mode, which can be activated by setting MAINTENANCE_MODE=true in the container environment. It will block any interaction with the software and display this page instead:

Misc

This release also contains a few minor bugfixes and improvements.

Update eLabFTW

Update like usual: see documentation.

If you’re looking for a more complete changelog, see the release page.

Tip: use AUTO_DB_UPDATE=true as an ENV variable to automatically run the db:update script upon container start!

Conclusion

Thanks to everyone who contributed directly or not to this release. Reporting issues on the bug tracker or in the chat is very valuable! Make sure to report any bug you might find, even the most minor one, it’s always appreciated!

To report a bug, select “Submit feedback” from the top right help menu:

The adventure continues!

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