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August changelog: what's new in Sandstorm

By Asheesh Laroia - 13 Sep 2016

August’s most visible change is that when new users join a Sandstorm server, some apps are installed automatically. By default, and on Oasis, users can jump into Davros, Etherpad, Rocket.Chat, and Wekan, and they can create collections using the Collections app. The server administrator can choose which apps come preinstalled for their users. We hope this helps people quickly become productive with Sandstorm!

We made some underlying technical changes this month, too. The most significant is that we migrated to Meteor 1.4, which allowed us to switch to the most recent long-term supported version of nodejs, node 4. This required some substantial upheaval behind the scenes. It also enabled a change we’ve wanted to make for a long time: users of our sandcats.io free HTTPS service now use ciphers supporting perfect forward secrecy. If you test your own sandcats-enabled server on the Qualys SSL Labs server test, you’ll see that your grade has improved from an A- to an A!

Sandstorm servers have automatic updates enabled by default, so to get these updates, you don’t have to do anything. Sandstorm checks for updates and smoothly switches to the latest code every 24 hours.

Here’s the full August changelog!

v0.179 (2016-08-26)

v0.178 (2016-08-20)

v0.177 (2016-08-15) [bugfixes]

v0.176 (2016-08-13) [bugfixes]

v0.175 (2016-08-13)

v0.174 (2016-08-05)