v0.6 "Panoply"

Core Updates

• Complete redesign and restructuring of application's visual interface; including new tables, menus and widgets, and redesign of First Run wizard
• Applications transitioned to "App Store", organized by categories and showing logos/screenshots where applicable
• Supervisor services framework integrated into core: Operate and control Supervisor services from the Services pane, just like for regular system services
• App installs/uninstalls/verifications are now smoother and executed more efficiently
• App installs and uninstalls will now install/uninstall all required dependency apps as necessary
• Help subsystem: display a custom help page for each plugin/framework currently being used (actual contents coming soon)
• Filesystems
  • Filesystems, both regular and encrypted, are now generated much faster
  • Allow user customization of default filesystem encryption methods
• File Manager
  • Redesign and addition of new options in toolbar
  • Added "Go" menu to quickly jump between important HD locations ("Points of Interest")
  • Allow opening of text files in Notepad by clicking the file name
• Certificates
  • Improved speed for certificate generation and assignment
  • Display additional info about certificates and keys, including SHA1 and MD5 fingerprints
  • Certificates are now created with group access rights for the system ssl-cert user, allowing apps to access them properly
• Websites
  • Allow one-click updates for websites that don't know how to update themselves
  • Databases now created in the backend rather than from plugin code itself
  • Websites that support multiple database types now offer the choice to the user as to which to use on install
  • Set file upload limits from within the app
• Databases
  • Allow upload SQL file to database and download SQL file as backup
  • Updates to SQL execution display
• Additional First Run options and system information for Cubieboard2 and Cubietruck
• Create option on bug report page for automatically sending in bug reports to Genesis developers
• Most system information calls in Statistics, Services, Task Manager and Filesystems moved from shell calls to Python psutil
• Moved to Core: Notepad, Packages, Scheduled Tasks, Supervisor, Task Manager, Terminal
• Removed Logs plugin in favour of revamped Notepad plugin
• Updates to frameworks that Genesis uses regularly, including Bootstrap 3, jQuery, pyte and CodeMirror
• Added Font Awesome as a possible choice for in-app icons
• Some sections now allow the "Enter" button to advance rather than requiring a click to "OK" or "Next" etc.
• Many alert messages have been clarified, both in appearance and language used

App Updates

• Added File Sync app: based on Syncthing, an open-source replacement for BitTorrent Sync
• Added Mumble Server and Etherpad apps (thanks @heinzK1X!)
• Added Gitweb app
• Calendar/Contacts: Improved initial setup and operation, thanks in large part to Supervisor core integration
• MariaDB & SQLite3: Functional updates to how database queries are executed and displayed
• Mailserver: Database backend moved to SQLite3, resulting in significant performance improvements
• Transmission: allow editing of all configuration file options
• Basic Website: improve database selection, creation and install process
• All webapps updated to latest versions
• Removed Execute app in favour of Terminal
• Removed Advanced Users app and migrated some features into core Users pane

Bugfixes

• Logouts now function properly
• Filesystems can now be properly and consistently mounted/unmounted
• Improvements to synchronous status message system, fixing disappearing alert messages after a few seconds
• All services, regardless of running state, now properly show in the Services pane
• Buttons and other elements behind generated tooltips are no longer blocked from access once the tooltips disappear
• Scrolling to top now works properly in additional browsers
• Packages plugin now properly posts its status information to messages instead of saying nothing
• All website types can now be properly removed without giving list index errors