FreedomBox 25.16 has been released and uploaded to Debian unstable. Typically, the freedombox package will migrate to testing in 2 days, and then can be uploaded to stable-backports. Highlights of this release: dynamicdns: Use only IPv4 for GnuDIP protocol janus: Allow app to be installed from Debian unstable jsxc: Fix missing dependencies Other changes: janus: Relax content security policy for the video room janus: Update the video room code from latest upstream jsxc: Update content secur...

FreedomBox 25.14 has been released and uploaded to Debian unstable. Typically, the freedombox package will migrate to testing in 2 days, and then can be uploaded to stable-backports. Changes in this release: Enable private tmp and join namespaces for the two daemons locale: Update translations for French, Japanese The following people contributed to the git repository for this release: Coucouf Jun Nogata Sunil Mohan Adapa

FreedomBox 25.13.1 has been released and uploaded to Debian unstable. Typically, the freedombox package will migrate to testing in 2 days, and then can be uploaded to stable-backports. Changes in this release: locale: Update translations for Albanian, German The following people contributed to the git repository for this release: Besnik Bleta Paul Lettich

FreedomBox 25.12 has been released and uploaded to Debian unstable. Typically, the freedombox package will migrate to testing in 2 days, and then can be uploaded to stable-backports. Highlights of this release: views: Add a menu entry and view for showing logs of an app zoph: Fix cases when CLI user is set to “autodetect” Other Changes: api: Fix showing icons for custom shortcuts app: Add ability to retrieve logs from all systemd units of an app bepasty: tests: Fix functional test failure ...

FreedomBox 25.11 has been released and uploaded to Debian unstable. Typically, the freedombox package will migrate to testing in 2 days, and then can be uploaded to stable-backports. Highlights of this release: email: Fix Thunderbird auto configuration failure matrixsynapse, upgrades: Install select packages from unstable Other Changes: action_utils: Implement a utility to run a command as different user actions, backup: Implement raw output for privileged daemon actions, backups: Fix test...

FreedomBox 25.10 has been released and uploaded to Debian unstable. It is expected that trixie-backports will be opened for uploads in the next couple of weeks. Highlights of this release: email: Add full text search capability homeassistant: Add the most popular app for home automation Other changes: *: Update copyright year action_utils: Add support for device mappings in podman containers action_utils: Allow checking result for service operations actions: Add method to handle privilege...

FreedomBox 25.9.3 has been released and uploaded to Debian unstable. After manual approval, it will migrate to testing. Changes in this release: config: Allow overriding target path in dropin config component email: Add support for Dovecot 2.4 email: Start servers during re-setup if they are not running locale: Update translations for Albanian, Bulgarian, Catalan, Estonian, Tamil sogo: Fix typo in configuration for sieve server Please note the following limitation that was observed for Post...

FreedomBox 25.9.2 has been released and uploaded to Debian unstable. After manual approval, it will migrate to testing. Changes in this release: debian: Set the branch for trixie debian: Update debconf Portuguese translation locale: Add new translation for Estonian locale: Update translations for Dutch, German, Hungarian performance: Handle install for trixie The following people contributed to the git repository for this release: Américo Monteiro András Szűcs ikmaak James Valleroy Priit ...

FreedomBox 25.9 has been released and uploaded to Debian unstable. It will take at least 10 days to migrate to testing, and then can be uploaded to stable-backports. Changes in this release: locale: Add translation for Catalan locale: Update translations for French, Hindi, Telugu minetest: Create the configuration directory if necessary for Trixie minetest: Work with new luanti binary in Trixie The following people contributed to the git repository for this release: Bekkam B S M G Babi Jo...

FreedomBox 25.8 has been released and uploaded to Debian unstable. Typically, the freedombox package will migrate to testing in 2 days, and then can be uploaded to stable-backports. Highlights of this release: users: Fix unable to delete user zoph: Don’t fail while uninstalling Other Changes: bind: Keep configuration during distribution upgrades container: Fix waiting until plinth setup is finished when running tests distupgrade: Use new configuration file instead of halting upgrade locale...

FreedomBox 25.7 has been released and uploaded to Debian unstable. Typically, the freedombox package will migrate to testing in 2 days, and then can be uploaded to stable-backports. Highlight of this release: calibre: Remove existing data directory before a restore operation kiwix: Remove existing data directory before a restore operation mediawiki: Run database upgrade after package upgrade power: Disable sleep and hibernate on the system upgrades: Revamp distribution upgrade UI Other Chang...

FreedomBox 25.6 has been released and uploaded to Debian unstable. Typically, the freedombox package will migrate to testing in 2 days, and then can be uploaded to stable-backports. Highlight of this release: names: Store domains in kvstore instead of /etc/hosts Other Changes: container: Allow taking snapshots of VMs container: Don’t remove qcow2 image when terminating VM doc: Fetch latest manual locale: Update translations for German operation: Drop type annotations on enum members setup:...

FreedomBox is a Debian blend that makes it easier to run your own server. Approximately every two years, there is a new stable release of Debian. This year’s release will be called Debian 13 "trixie". This post will provide an overview of changes between FreedomBox 23.6 (the version that shipped in Debian 12 "bookworm") and 25.5 (the latest release). _Note_ : Debian 13 "trixie" is not yet released, so things may still change, be added or removed, before the official release. ## General * A number of translations were updated, including Albanian, Arabic, Belarusian, Bulgarian, Chinese (Simplified Han script), Chinese (Traditional Han script), Czech, Dutch, French, German, Hindi, Japanese, Norwegian Bokmål, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Telugu, Turkish, and Ukrainian. * Fix cases where a package or service is used by multiple apps, so that disabling or uninstalling one app does not affect the other app. * When uninstalling an app, purge the packages, to remove all data and configuration. * For configuration files that need to be placed into folders owned by other packages, we now install these files under /usr/share/freedombox/etc/, and create a symbolic link to the other package’s configuration folder. This prevents the files being lost when other packages are purged. * Add an action to re-run the setup process for an app. This can fix many of the possible issues that occur. * Various improvements related to the "force upgrade" feature, which handles upgrading packages with conffile prompts. * Fix install/uninstall issues for apps that use MySQL database (WordPress, Zoph). * Improve handling of file uploads (Backups, Feather Wiki, Kiwix). * Switch to Bootstrap 5 front-end framework. * Removed I2P app, since the i2p package was removed from Debian. * Various user interface changes, including: * Add tags for apps, replacing short descriptions. When a tag is clicked, search and filter for one or multiple tags. * Organize the System page into sections. * Add breadcrumbs for page hierarchy navigation. * Add next steps page after initial FreedomBox setup. ### Diagnostics * Add diagnostic checks to detect common errors. * Add diagnostics daily run, with notifications about failures. * Add Repair action for failed diagnostics, and option for automatic repairs. ### Name Services * Move hostname and domain name configuration to Names page. * Support multiple static and/or dynamic domains. * Use systemd-resolved for DNS resolution. * Add options for setting global DNS-over-TLS and DNSSEC preferences. ### Networks * Add more options for IPv6 configuration method. * Overhaul Wi-Fi networks scan page. ### Privacy * Add option to disable fallback DNS servers. * Add option to set the lookup URL to get the public IP address of the FreedomBox. ### Users and Groups * Delete or move home folder when user is deleted or renamed. * When a user is inactivated, also inactivate the user in LDAP. ## Deluge * This BitTorrent client app should be available once again in Debian 13 "trixie". ## Ejabberd * Turn on Message Archive Management setting by default, to help various XMPP clients use it. ## Feather Wiki * Add new app for note taking. * This app lives in a single HTML file, which is downloaded from the FreedomBox website. ## GitWeb * Disable snapshot feature, due to high resource use. * Various fixes for repository operations. ## GNOME * Add new app to provide a graphical desktop environment. * Requires a monitor, keyboard, and mouse to be physically connected to the FreedomBox. * Not suitable for low-end hardware. ## ikiwiki * Disable discussion pages by default for new wiki/blog, to avoid spam. ## Kiwix * Add new app for offline reader of Wikipedia and other sites. ## Matrix Synapse * Add an option for token-based registration verification, so that users signing up for new accounts will need to provide a token during account registration. ## MediaWiki * Allow setting the site language code. * Increase PHP maximum execution time to 100 seconds. ## MiniDLNA * Add media directory selection form. ## Miniflux * Add new app for reading news from RSS/ATOM feeds. ## Nextcloud * Add new app for file sync and collaboration. * Uses a Docker container maintained by the Nextcloud community. The container is downloaded from FreedomBox container registry. ## OpenVPN * Renew server/client certificates, and set expiry to 10 years. ## Postfix/Dovecot * Fix DKIM signing. * Show DNS entries for all domains. ## Shadowsocks Server * Add new app for censorship resistance, separate from Shadowsocks Client app. ## SOGo * Add new app for groupware (webmail, calendar, tasks, and contacts). * Works with Postfix/Dovecot email server app. ## TiddlyWiki * Add new app for note taking. * This app lives in a single HTML file, which is downloaded from the FreedomBox website. ## Tor Proxy * Add new app for Tor SOCKS proxy, separate from Tor app. ## Transmission * Allow remote user interfaces to connect. # Conclusion Over the past two years, FreedomBox has been increasing the number of features and applications available to its users. We have also focused on improving the reliability of the system, detecting unexpected situations, and providing means to return to a known good state. With these improvements, FreedomBox has become a good solution for people with limited time or energy to set up and start running a personal server, at home or in the cloud. Looking forward, we would like to focus on making more powerful hardware available with FreedomBox pre-installed and ready to be used. This hardware would also support larger storage devices, making it suitable as a NAS or media server. We are also very interested in exploring new features such as atomic updates, which will further enhance the reliability of the system.

FreedomBox 25.5 has been released and uploaded to Debian unstable. Typically, the freedombox package will migrate to testing in 2 days, and then can be uploaded to stable-backports. Highlights: ui: tags: Add tag search/filter for system page Other changes: action_utils: Ensure that package are unheld if dist upgrade fails locale: Update translations for Ukrainian setup: Fix issue with pending app update and force upgrade sogo: Fix a typo in tags ui: Minor change with renaming a variable ui...

FreedomBox 25.4 has been released and uploaded to Debian unstable. Typically, the freedombox package will migrate to testing in 2 days, and then can be uploaded to stable-backports. Highlights: dynamicdns: Implement adding multiple domains names: Allow adding multiple static domain names Other Changes: container: Fix spelling of ‘destroy’ dynamicdns: Add/remove domains when app is enabled/disabled dynamicdns: Handle addition of duplicate domains dynamicdns: List domains that have not had ...

FreedomBox 25.3 has been released and uploaded to Debian unstable. Uploads to stable-backports are currently on hold, due to an issue found in FreedomBox 25.2. A fix for the issue is in progress [1]. Changes in this release: debian: Switch from dnsutils to bind9-dnsutils locale: Update translations for Albanian, Bulgarian, Chinese (Simplified Han script), Chinese (Traditional Han script), Czech, Dutch, German, Turkish The following people contributed to the git repository for this release: ...

FreedomBox 25.2 has been released and uploaded to Debian unstable. Typically, the freedombox package will migrate to testing in 2 days, and then can be uploaded to stable-backports. Highlights: gnome: Add app to provide a graphical desktop environment sogo: Add a new app for SOGo groupware Other Changes: action_utils: Implement methods to get/set the systemd boot target apache: Enable expires module by default d/control: Fix incorrect comment format d/copyright: Fix copyright entry for GN...

FreedomBox 25.1 has been released and uploaded to Debian unstable. Typically, the freedombox package will migrate to testing in 2 days, and then can be uploaded to stable-backports. Highlights: email: Show DNS entries for all domains instead of just primary privacy: Add option in UI to set lookup URL for public IPs Other Changes: app: Add tags to menu and frontpage components app: Allow apps to instantiate without Django initialization app: Stop showing short description on installation p...

FreedomBox 24.26 has been released and uploaded to Debian unstable. Typically, the freedombox package will migrate to testing in 2 days, and then can be uploaded to stable-backports. Highlights: apps: Replace short description with tags in apps list ui: Show breadcrumbs on deeper pages ui: Handle and show most page load errors as alerts Other Changes: actions: Allow privileged methods to be decorated again backups: Fix issue clicking on schedule buttons with Bootstrap 5 backups: Fix issue...

FreedomBox is a personal server running a free software operating system, with free applications designed to create and preserve personal privacy.