Introduction eLabFTW 5.1 has been released! This new version brings many new features, enhancements and a few bugfixes. This blog post highlights some of these changes, but the complete list of changes is available on the release page. Important change A breaking change has been introduced in APIv2: /team_tags has moved to teams/{id}/tags. If you have scripts using /team_tags, replace it with teams/current/tags to maintain the same behaviour. Video A video has been produced, summarizing some of the features:

Have you heard about security.txt? It’s a proposed standard where websites can point to their security policy, list security contacts, publish their GPG key, and other important information useful for anyone (but mostly security researchers), in a text file placed at a known location (or should I say a “well-known” location 🤪). The website: https://securitytxt.org/ The RFC: RFC9116 You can see ours here: https://www.deltablot.com/.well-known/security.txt It is similar to robots.txt, humans.

Why we sometimes drop features? It is quite rare, but sometimes things available in one version of eLabFTW are no longer available in the next version. There could be several reasons for this: the feature is no longer open source: this is what happened with the image editing tools of the text editor the feature depends on a library or service that is no longer active/maintained the feature has been superseded by a superior implementation What I wish to discuss in this post is the last point: redundancy and its associated maintenance cost.

Introduction The 5.0.0 release is a major release. You can tell because before it was 4.x.y now it’s 5.x.y. But what does it mean exactly? The major version number has been bumped because there is a breaking change: complete drop of APIv1. And that’s it, that is the only big thing that changes, and hopefully it won’t impact many users, as everyone is now using APIv2, right? right? Now, let’s talk about the other changes present in this release.

Introduction This is a relatively small release, but it contains a major change that impacts many aspects of the application: a rework of the status and categories. You can see the complete changelog on the release page. This blog post is more about going into details for some of the changes. How to update (for Sysadmins) Update like usual: see documentation. New features Users features Rework of Status and Categories This work was sponsored by Vrije Universiteit Brussel, a big thanks to them!

Introduction This release contains at least a dozen bugfixes and many new features and improvements, all users should update. You can see the complete changelog on the release page. This blog post is more about going into details for some of the changes. How to update (for Sysadmins) Update like usual: see documentation. New features Users features Improvements for extra fields Extra fields can now have units (for input of type “number”).

Introduction This release comes quickly after 4.6.1, and thus contains only a few bugfixes and new features. Normally the bugfixes would go in 4.6.2 and new features in 4.7.0, but this time it’s a bundle with both. So what’s new in this version? You can see the complete changelog on the release page. This blog post is more about going into details for some of the changes. How to update Update like usual: see documentation.

Introduction This release features a major user interface redesign. We worked a lot on improving how the app looks and feel, and we hope you’ll like it. So what’s new in this version? You can see the complete changelog on the release page. This blog post is more about going into details for some of the changes. How to update Update like usual: see documentation. New features General changes Interface redesign The first thing that you’ll notice is the improved interface.

Introduction This release comes quite fast after the release of 4.4. The goal being to bring new features and bugfixes to end users faster. So what’s new in this version? You can see the complete changelog on the release page. This blog post is more about going into details for some of the changes. How to update Update like usual: see documentation. New features Users features Major feature: improved permissions system The permissions system has been overhauled.

So what’s new in this version? You can see the complete changelog on the release page. This blog post is more about going into details for some of the changes. How to update Update like usual: see documentation. New features User features Reaction drawing Previously the chemical structure editor would only allow one molecule, now you can have several. Reactions can be saved as .chemjson files and re-imported in the editor.