New update available

openmediavault 5.5.11

  • Update locales.
  • Do not allow to create NFS shares using shared folders with blanks in their relative path. SaltStack can’t handle such bind mounts (https://github.com/saltstack/salt/issues/54508).
  • Issue #815: Disable quota if no quotas are configured for a device.

New update available

openmediavault 5.5.10

  • Update locales.
  • Fix bugs in date/time page. The field ‘Time servers’ was not marked as required when ‘Use NTP server’ was enabled. The field ‘Allowed clients’ was marked as required when ‘Use NTP server’ was disabled.
  • Fix bug in omv-firstaid when setting a static IPv6 address.
  • Added the environment variables ‘OMV_AVAHIDAEMON_ALLOW_INTERFACES’, ‘OMV_AVAHIDAEMON_ALLOW_POINT_TO_POINT’ and ‘OMV_AVAHIDAEMON_ENABLE_REFLECTOR’ to customize the Avahi/Zeroconf configuration for VPN.
  • File systems will not be mounted with the ‘noexec’ option anymore. Existing mount point configurations are not migrated.
  • Issue #800: Quotas are not configured after creating a file system.
  • Issue #810: Added the ‘OMV_CHRONY_SERVER_POOL_DIRECTIVE’ environment variable to configure the NTP server directive in chrony.conf. Default is ‘server’.

New updates available

openmediavault 5.5.9

  • Update locales.
  • Issue #784: Use UDEV over /sys to get model and vendor information.
  • Issue #789: Read-only users or groups are not used in proftpd config.

openmediavault-snmp 5.0.2

  • Update locales.
  • Fix bug in snmpd.conf when using SNMP v3.

PAM feature request for PHP8

Today i created a feature request for PHP8 because i fear that the new upcoming major release will not support PAM anymore. With PHP7 this is already a pain because the PAM PECL extension needs to be patched to get it working. I fear this workaround will become a dead end for PHP8. This will be a major issue because OMV is requiring this feature. And i don’t think OMV is the only one that wants to use PAM for authentication. IMO this is an essential requirement for a programming language that is used in professional applications.

Hopefully this issue will become a broader attention due this blog post and feature request to increase the possibility to fully integrate PAM support in PHP8. If you want to support that please feel free to add a comment to the feature request.

OMV6 – First dashboard impressions

Adding custom dashboard widgets will be as easy as possible. Simply drop a JSON file to a specific directory and run a CLI command.

Examples:

{
	"id": "e2ed9a54-df38-11ea-8976-7786e66d5f43",
	"type": "rrd",
	"title": "CPU usage",
	"rrd": {
		"name": "cpu-0-hour.png"
	}
}
{
	"id": "1dc0ac9a-df14-11ea-8342-6fcac5f2e571",
	"title": "File Systems",
	"type": "datatable",
	"datatable": {
		"columns": [
			{
				"name": "Device",
				"prop": "devicefile",
				"flexGrow": 1,
				"sortable": true
			},
			{
				"name": "Label",
				"prop": "label",
				"flexGrow": 1,
				"sortable": true,
				"hidden": true
			},
			{
				"name": "Total",
				"prop": "size",
				"flexGrow": 1,
				"sortable": true,
				"cellTemplateName": "template",
				"cellTemplateConfig": "{{ size | tobytes | binaryunit | notavailable(\"-\") }}"
			},
			{
				"name": "Available",
				"prop": "available",
				"flexGrow": 1,
				"sortable": true,
				"cellTemplateName": "template",
				"cellTemplateConfig": "{{ available | tobytes | binaryunit | notavailable(\"-\") }}"
			},
			{
				"name": "Used",
				"prop": "used",
				"flexGrow": 1,
				"sortable": true,
				"cellTemplateName": "template",
				"cellTemplateConfig": "{{ used | tobytes | binaryunit | notavailable(\"-\") }}"
			}
		],
		"store": {
			"proxy": {
				"service": "FileSystemMgmt",
				"get": {
					"method": "enumerateFilesystems"
				}
			}
		},
		"sorters": [
			{
				"dir": "asc",
				"prop": "devicefile"
			}
		]
	}
}