After each Eterpad restart, the clients will request a new version of the
static assets, even if they are not modified. This is the price we pay for
knowing that no stale files are going to be served ever again. We could also
have used a salted hash of the Etherpad version, but we chose the simpler way.
For the rationale behind using a random string at each restart, see #3958.
ACHTUNG: this may prevent caching HTTP proxies to work.
Closes#3955.
Starting with Etherpad 1.8.3 we decided to use Colibris as default skin for new
installs. Without this change, when starting with no settings.json file,
Etherpad would (wrongly) use "no-skin".
This change should have been part of 70bc71c0c3.
This is a departure from previous versions, which did not limit import/export
requests. Now such requests are ALWAYS rate limited. The default is 10 requests
per IP each 90 seconds, and also applies to old instances upgraded to 1.8.3.
Administrators can tune the parameters via settings.importExportRateLimiting.
From Etherpad 1.8.3 onwards, the maximum allowed size for a single imported
file will always be bounded.
The maximum allowed size can be configured via importMaxFileSize.
The old loadSettings.js was a way of customizing settings upon load, because
the Settings module did not offer this functionality. But it did not work well,
since all the default settings were not loaded.
Let's get rid of loadSettings.js for the bulk of the tests (the "backend"
specs). For the "container" specs, we'll keep it in place until/if we rewrite
Settings.js making it less brittle.
The change that implemented #3648 (7c099fef5e) was incorrect, and resulted
in disabling every user at startup.
The problem was twofold:
1. _.filter() on an object returns an array of the object's enumerable values
and strips out the keys, see: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11697702/how-to-use-underscore-js-filter-with-an-object
To filter an object, the function that needs to be used is _.pick();
2. The logic condition on userProperties.password was plain wrong (it should
have been an AND instead of an OR).
This change corrects 1) and 2), and writes more specific logs when something
goes wrong.
Closes#3661.
Currently the version is exposed in a 'Server' http headers.
This commit allows to parameterize it in the settings. By defaults it is
not exposed.
Fixes#3423
All the configuration values can be read from environment variables using the
syntax "${ENV_VAR_NAME}".
This is useful, for example, when running in a Docker container.
EXAMPLE:
"port": "${PORT}"
"minify": "${MINIFY}"
"skinName": "${SKIN_NAME}"
Would read the configuration values for those items from the environment
variables PORT, MINIFY and SKIN_NAME.
REMARKS:
Please note that a variable substitution always needs to be quoted.
"port": 9001, <-- Literal values. When not using substitution,
"minify": false only strings must be quoted: booleans and
"skin": "colibris" numbers must not.
"port": ${PORT} <-- ERROR: this is not valid json
"minify": ${MINIFY}
"skin": ${SKIN_NAME}
"port": "${PORT}" <-- CORRECT: if you want to use a variable
"minify": "${MINIFY}" substitution, put quotes around its name,
"skin": "${SKIN_NAME}" even if the required value is a number or a
boolean.
Etherpad will take care of rewriting it to
the proper type if necessary.
Resolves#3543
Before this commit, when passed a malformed credentials.json the application
crashed with a stack dump. Now we catch the error and fail in a controlled way
(like already done for settings.json).
Example of exception we no longer throw:
MALFORMEDJSON
^
SyntaxError: Unexpected token M in JSON at position 0
at JSON.parse (<anonymous>)
at Object.reloadSettings (<BASEDIR>/src/node/utils/Settings.js:390:24)
at Object.<anonymous> (<BASEDIR>/src/node/utils/Settings.js:543:9)
at Module._compile (module.js:635:30)
at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:646:10)
at Module.load (module.js:554:32)
at tryModuleLoad (module.js:497:12)
at Function.Module._load (module.js:489:3)
at Module.require (module.js:579:17)
at require (internal/module.js:11:18)
It's just synctactic sugar, but it is always better than executing string
concatenations in one's mind.
Do not do this with files in src/static, because we want to keep IE 11
compatibility.
skinName must be a single string (no directory separators in it) pointing to an
existing directory under /src/static/skins.
In case these conditions are not met, its value is rewritten to "no-skin".
Also, the value of skinName if sent to the client via clientVars for allowing
its use it in the browser.
This should look to consistent locations when looking for relative paths,
without depending on current working directory.
For absolute paths, nothing changes.
This is the location that is choosen by default when Etherpad starts with no
settings.json file.
It was different than the one contained into setting.json.template.
* Add scroll when it edits a line out of viewport
By default, when there is an edition of a line, which is out of the
viewport, Etherpad scrolls the minimum necessary to make this line
visible. This makes that the line stays either on the top or the bottom
of the viewport. With this commit, we add a setting to make possible to
scroll to a position x% pixels from the viewport. Besides of that, we
add a setting to make an animation of this scroll.
If nothing is changed on settings.json the Etherpad default behavior is
kept
On some erros that display a modal with "Force reconnect" button, allow
Etherpad to automatically reload pad after a few seconds. Amount of
seconds is defined on settings.json.
Still need to create tests for this feature, and implement i18n.
