Dear piler users,
it's been quite a while since the last announcement. I've just release
version 1.4.1 release of piler.
The tl;dr version of the changes:
- Replaced sphinx with manticore 5.0.2, see
https://www.mailpiler.org/wiki/current:manticore
- Replaced obsoleted libchart library with chart.js
- Added real-time index support
- Added oauth2 support to imapfetch.py
- Added support for pilerexport to spread files among several
directories. See the -D option
- Introduced new piler.conf variable: tls_min_version
- Introduced the archive_address feature, see etc/example.conf for the
details
- Introduced the raw: search label
- Added Italian translation. Credits: Stefano Gatto
- timestamp signing sorts by 'id' column
- timestamp hash value defaults to sha256
- Added support for php 8.1
- Fixed handling long email addresses
See the download links at https://www.mailpiler.org/wiki/download
Be sure to read the RELEASE_NOTES file as well, and I suggest to execute
the util/db-upgrade.sql
script to update the database schema.
Some more details about the recent changes.
* Sphinx search has been replaced with Manticore search
I'm not happy with sphinx 3 anymore. It seems that it's development has
been stalled.
The latest release of 3.4.1 (~1.5 years old) seems to have some issues,
and not much
progress for the issues mentioned on the sphinx forum. So from now on
the preferred
search engine is manticore search. Note that sphinx 3 is still
supported, but for any
new piler deployments I recommend manticore. Unfortunately the binary
index data are
not compatible, so if you decided to drop sphinx and start using
manticore, you need
to reindex all emails.
* Real time index support
https://www.mailpiler.org/wiki/current:manticore describes how to turn
it on.
* Oauth2 support for imapgetch.py
1.4.1 ships an auxiliary utility (get-token.py) allowing you to get an
auth token
from o365 that can be used for imapfetch.py to download emails from an
o365 mailbox.
* php 8.1 support
Since we have ubuntu 22.04, and other distros shipping php 8.1, piler
1.4.1 has
support for it. php 7.4+ is still supported
* archive_address parameter in piler.conf
It's a mitigation for archives that can be accessed from anywhere. It
forces
piler to continue the smtp transaction only if the rcpt to envelope
address
matches the email address in the archive_address parameter.
* Fixed handling long email addresses
Both sphinx and manticore has a limit for tokens (read: words) in the
search query.
Some of you have a few pretty long email addresses, more than 40
characters.
Piler creates an additional token for such long addresses, adds it to
the body
to index. Then the gui replaces the long address with the transformed
(it's a
simple md5 hash value) value in the background.
If you have any questions, let me know, and I'll do my best to answer
them.
Janos
