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Mastodon account
by Adrian Kennard 11 May '23

11 May '23

Given the current state of twitter, and the fact we have very rarely used twitter, we have set up a new mastodon fediverse account for FireBrick stuff, hosted by A&A. We won't be using the twitter account any more. We have taken the opportunity to add some automation as well. You can read posts without any sort of account :- FireBrick chat, queries, etc. https://social.aa.net.uk/@firebrick Also, two bot accounts that you can follow for releases as they happen. FireBrick beta/release notices (all variants) https://social.aa.net.uk/@fbrelease FireBrick alpha notices (all variants) https://social.aa.net.uk/@fbalpha I hope you are all aware of mastodon / fediverse, but if not, it is part of a distributed chat / micro-blogging system much like twitter in some ways, with no adverts or algorithm pushing "engaging" posts. A good start is https://joinmastodon.org - though Mastodon is basically just one system in a wider "fediverse". It is fast becoming a popular alternative to twitter. There are lots of apps to access an account once you have one, not just the mastodon app. Any questions, please let us know.

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1.61.010 Ogust
by David Honour 16 Nov '22

16 Nov '22

Hi, The beta V1.61.010 Ogust hast been promoted to a release. As usual the release notes will give you the full details of what has changed. But one thing you might immediately notice is that in addition to the usual selection of bug fixes and improvements the UI has seen some quality of life improvements this time around including the much requested line numbers in the XML editor. As always let us know if you come across any issues, and thanks to our alpha and beta testers. David

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1.59.000 Macleod
by Adrian Kennard 20 Apr '22

20 Apr '22

1.59.000 Macleod is now a release. Please let us know if you have any issues. -- Adrian

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1.59.000 Macleod beta
by Adrian Kennard 13 Apr '22

13 Apr '22

We have released 1.59.000 Macleod beta today. See release note for details - we expect to make it a release next week. Any issues please let us know.

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Release 1.58.111 Landy
by Adrian Kennard 05 Jan '22

05 Jan '22

We have promoted the beta 1.58.111 Landy to a full release. FireBricks will update as usual. Do let us know if any issues. -- Adrian

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1.58.111 Landy
by Adrian Kennard 21 Dec '21

21 Dec '21

Thank you all for your patience. It does look like the only problem we had with 1.58.100 was this issue when loading from the previous alpha, but that has been fixed now. The new TLS changes to make for faster https, especially with Firefox, seem to be working well, and were what was missing in 1.58.000, but a couple of issues with MQTT client have also been addressed. See release notes for more details. 1.58.111 Landy beta is released, and we plan to make it a full release after the new year. Customers are welcome to try beta releases before being made a full release, and do bear in mind there is a feature now to only auto-install a release if it is more than a specified number of days old - thus allowing for unexpected issues like this to be resolved before you upgrade. Have a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year all. -- Adrian

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There is always something, isn't there
by Adrian Kennard 20 Dec '21

20 Dec '21

We have found another issue, not so much with the beta itself, as it was working fine in our tests, but when upgrading between s/w versions with that beta. This is a bit if an edge case, but could mean a brick refusing to upgrade because it crashes. The problem was only present because of the issue of an alpha then the beta, so not something we would have been able to catch before, sadly. We're doing a few more tests and should have a new beta shortly. As this is likely to be a very rare issue and depend on the sequence of s/w updates, etc, we have not removed this beta, but the new one will supersede it and become a full release after the new year. I appreciate this is frustrating for all. Please bear with us. We are doing a few more tests based on this beta now as well to see if anything else like this is present. -- Adrian

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1.58.100 Landy Beta
by Adrian Kennard 20 Dec '21

20 Dec '21

1.58.100 Landy beta has been released, please do let us have any feedback. If no issues we will make this a full release in the new year. -- Adrian

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Next beta
by Adrian Kennard 19 Dec '21

19 Dec '21

As advised, we hope to have a new beta very soon, probably today or tomorrow. I'll email again once it is released. We won't be making the beta in to a full release until after New Year as I know a lot of people, including A&A, have a change freeze. One of the things we have been keen to get in to this is a small change to the way TLS works for https on the control pages - as customers have reported, on some recent browsers (notably firefox) that is very slow. This change covers a new way to "resume" the TLS session as the browser loads the next page/image/etc. We have an alpha today, 1.58.010 Landy+, which includes this. To feel free to try this and let us know any issues. We have also managed to sort several small issues raised by those testing the current beta - as always, thank you all for your feedback. Merry Christmas, and a Happy New Year from the FireBrick team. -- Adrian

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Beta release
by Adrian Kennard 15 Dec '21

15 Dec '21

We do have beta 1.58.000 Landy, however, we are expecting to release another beta in the next day or so. Basically, we have identified a couple things we would like to include in this release, and which are relatively simple to include. This includes the recently reported "slowness" in https when using Firefox, which is down to using a new/different way to re-use existing TLS sessions. As such we expect a new beta, 1.58.100 Landy, shortly, which will subsequently be made in to a release. Sorry for the delay. -- Adrian

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