Grouprise 5.3.0

Release date: 2022-12-24

Administration

• new setting data_path: the directory containing all locally stored data can be specified explicitly now

• configuration directories are now processed recursively (previously: only files in the first level were processed)

• direct file access (below /stadt/media/) is now handled by Django redirects in order to enforce proper permission and ownership handling

Contact form (captcha)

Contact forms can be used by anonymous visitors. These were protected by a simple math puzzle before. Since these math puzzles proved to be rather ineffective recently, we switched to trivial questions now.

Matrix Chat

• administration: the following scopes need to be added to /etc/matrix-synapse/conf.d/grouprise-matrix-authentication.yaml (the file is automatically generated for a deb-based deployment):

  • email

  • profile