FreedomBox 22.22 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.

Note: Submitting list of used apps anonymously is enabled on FreedomBox, and one may visit the new privacy app to disable it.

Highlights:

• privacy: Add new system app for popularity-contest
• matrix: Add fail2ban jail

Other Changes:

• *: Use privileged decorator for actions
• action_utils: Drop support for non-systemd environments
• action_utils: Drop unused progress requests from apt-get
• actions: Allow actions to be called by other users
• actions: Allow nested and top-level actions
• actions: Drop unused superuser_run and related methods
• actions: Implement getting raw output from the process
• actions: Use separate IPC for communicating results
• apache: Fix logs still going into /var/log files
• bind: Drop enabling DNSSEC (deprecated) as it is always enabled
• config: Drop ability to set hostname on systems without systemd
• config: Drop legacy migration of Apache homepage settings
• fail2ban: Make fail2ban log to journald
• firewall: Drop showing running status
• locale: Update translations for Albanian, Czech, Norwegian Bokmål, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian
• minidlna: Use the exposed URL for diagnostic test
• openvpn: Drop RSA to ECC migration code and two-step setup
• privacy: Set vendor as FreedomBox for dpkg and popularity-contest
• searx: Show status of public access irrespective of enabled state
• templates: Update HTML meta tags for better description and app-name
• tests: Add fixture to help in testing privileged actions
• wordpress: Update fail2ban filter

The following people contributed to the git repository for this release:

• Besnik Bleta
• James Valleroy
• Jiří Podhorecký
• Michael Breidenbach
• nbenedek
• Nikita Epifanov
• Petter Reinholdtsen
• Sunil Mohan Adapa
• Tymofii Lytvynenko