Seafile Pro 6.2 is ready!

daniel.pan · December 12, 2017, 5:42am

There are three major new features:

1. The login page is redesigned, adding a background image.

2. A statistics module is added. Now you can find report charts for daily active users, daily file operations, and used space

This feature is turned off by default, you need to turn on it by adding the following config to seafevents.conf.

[STATISTICS]
## must be "true" to enable statistics
enabled = true

3. “Admin” permmision when sharing a library to another user/group

Other changes include:

Add the ability of tagging a snapshot of a library (Use ENABLE_REPO_SNAPSHOT_LABEL = True to turn the feature on)
Add a field Reference ID to support changing users primary ID in Shibboleth or LDAP
[Admin] Add an option to enable users to share a library to any groups in the system.
Use WSGI as the default mode for deploying Seahub.
Use multi-threads in search indexing
Support adding a custom user search function (https://github.com/haiwen/seafile-docs/commit/115f5d85cdab7dc272da81bcc8e8c9b91d85506e)
Clean the list of languages
Improved performance of loading library list
[improve] Improve performance of file history page.
[improve] Show two file history records at least.
Support OAuth.
Support Swift v1 protocol.
Enable publish library update events to message queue (like Redis)
Other small UI improvements

Enjoy the new version!

To use the WSGI mode, two steps are needed:

Change the config file of Nginx/Apache.
Restart Seahub with ./seahub.sh start instead of ./seahub.sh start-fastcgi

The configuration of Nginx is as following:

location / {
         proxy_pass         http://127.0.0.1:8000;
         proxy_set_header   Host $host;
         proxy_set_header   X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
         proxy_set_header   X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
         proxy_set_header   X-Forwarded-Host $server_name;
         proxy_read_timeout  1200s;

         # used for view/edit office file via Office Online Server
         client_max_body_size 0;

         access_log      /var/log/nginx/seahub.access.log;
         error_log       /var/log/nginx/seahub.error.log;
    }

The configuration of Apache is as following:

    # seahub
    SetEnvIf Authorization "(.*)" HTTP_AUTHORIZATION=$1
    ProxyPass / http://127.0.0.1:8000/
    ProxyPassReverse / http://127.0.0.1:8000/

The auto-start script for your Linux system need also be changed.

Xaver_Muster · December 12, 2017, 4:31pm

Just upgraded my test server from 6.0.8 to 6.2.2. Everything seems to be running fine, so far. The new statistics module works. Looks good.

Evgeny · December 13, 2017, 7:23am

Hi,
I found new roles for Admin:

Default Admin
System Admin
Daily Admin
Audit Admin.
Where I can find any description for these admin roles and is it possible to customize it?

Whats about Swift v3.0 API support?

lian · December 13, 2017, 8:35am

Seafile has four build-in admin roles:

default_admin, has all permissions.
system_admin, can only view system info and config system.
daily_admin, can only view system info, view statistic, manage library/user/group, view user log.
audit_admin, can only view system info and admin log.

All administrators will have default_admin role with all permissions by default.

If you set an administrator to some other admin role, the administrator will only have the permissions you configured to True.

Seafile supports eight permissions for now, its configuration is very like common user role, you can custom it by adding the following settings to seahub_settings.py.

ENABLED_ADMIN_ROLE_PERMISSIONS = {
    'system_admin': { 
        'can_view_system_info': True,
        'can_config_system': True,
    },
    'daily_admin': { 
        'can_view_system_info': True,
        'can_view_statistic': True,
        'can_manage_library': True,
        'can_manage_user': True,
        'can_manage_group': True,
        'can_view_user_log': True,
    },
    'audit_admin': { 
        'can_view_system_info': True,
        'can_view_admin_log': True,
    },
    'custom_admin': { 
        'can_view_system_info': True,
        'can_config_system': True,
        'can_view_statistic': True,
        'can_manage_library': True,
        'can_manage_user': True,
        'can_manage_group': True,
        'can_view_user_log': True,
        'can_view_admin_log': True,
    },
}

Evgeny · December 13, 2017, 9:05am

Hi, lian
Thank you for fast and detailed answer!

marcusm · December 13, 2017, 9:28am

Perfect, thank you.

BayerSe · December 13, 2017, 10:26am

Hi,

after the update from 6.1.3 to 6.2.2 I’m seeing this in the ccnet.log file:

[12/13/17 11:23:54] ../common/session.c(409): Accepted a local client
[12/13/17 11:23:54] ../common/ccnet-db.c(460): Error prepare statement SELECT e.id, e.email, is_staff, is_active, ctime, passwd, reference_id, role  FROM EmailUser e LEFT JOIN UserRole ON e.email = UserRole.email  WHERE e.email=?: mysql_stmt_prepare failed: Unknown column 'reference_id' in 'field list'.

Any advice?

lian · December 13, 2017, 10:29am

Have you run the upgrade script ?

BayerSe · December 13, 2017, 10:41am

Good hint! I did a minor upgrade - running the correct upgrade script solved my issues. Thanks!

Subseven · December 13, 2017, 4:14pm

Hi, after upgrading from 6.1 at 6.2 seafevents don’t start.
My controller.log is fluding with this message:

[12/13/17 17:10:29] seafile-controller.c(574): pid file /home/seafile/seafile/pids/seafevents.pid does not exist
[12/13/17 17:10:29] seafile-controller.c(599): seafevents need restart…
[12/13/17 17:10:29] seafile-controller.c(87): spawn_process: /usr/bin/python2.7 -m seafevents.main --config-file /home/seafile/seafile/conf/seafevents.conf --logfile /home/seafile/seafile/logs/seafevents.log -P /home/seafile/seafile/pids/seafevents.pid
[12/13/17 17:10:29] seafile-controller.c(102): spawned /usr/bin/python2.7, pid 22789

and my seafevents.log wth this:

[2017-12-13 17:12:19,798] [INFO] audit is enabled
[2017-12-13 17:12:19,798] [INFO] Seafile does not use mysql db, disable statistics.
[2017-12-13 17:12:19,799] [ERROR] Error loading seafevents config. Detial: ‘AppConfig’ object has no attribute ‘db_url’
[2017-12-13 17:12:19,799] [INFO] remove pidfile /home/seafile/seafile/pids/seafevents.pid

every 10 senconds.

The Office-Preview don’t work anymore.

daniel.pan · December 14, 2017, 8:01am

Sorry, we didn’t have time to support Swift v3.0 API yet. It will be delayed to version 6.3.

zming · December 14, 2017, 10:36am

@Subseven can you try mysql database?

Subseven · December 14, 2017, 1:39pm

How to change?
In seafevents.conf my database section is:

[DATABASE]
type = sqlite3
path = /home/seafile/seafile/pro-data/seafevents.db

zming · December 15, 2017, 2:10am

[DATABASE]
#type = sqlite3
#path = /home/seafile/seafile/pro-data/seafevents.db
type = mysql
host = 127.0.0.1
username = root
password = [db password]
name=seafevent_db

gauburtin · December 15, 2017, 10:16am

Hi,

After upgrade from 6.2.1 to 6.2.2,

I get a 502 bad gateway after login with shibboleth.

Apache log is ;

[Fri Dec 15 11:06:40.361992 2017] [proxy:error] [pid 17815] (32)Broken pipe: [client 194.254.171.56:52991] AH01084: pass request body failed to 127.0.0.1:8000 (127.0.0.1), referer: https://idp.domain/idp/profile/SAML2/Redirect/SSO?execution=e2s1
[Fri Dec 15 11:06:40.362042 2017] [proxy_http:error] [pid 17815] [client 194.254.171.56:52991] AH01097: pass request body failed to 127.0.0.1:8000 (127.0.0.1) from 194.254.171.56 (), referer: https://idp.domain/idp/profile/SAML2/Redirect/SSO?execution=e2s1

If i restart Apache, shib login is sucessful

Regards

CertifiedG · December 15, 2017, 11:47am

Same here.

@daniel.pan, as this wasn´t mentioned in the change log could you check on that please? I suppose it´s simply a bug.
Currently only MySQL would work. Postgres never did so far from what I can tell which should be also fixed sooner or later as the other services do support it.

daniel.pan · December 15, 2017, 12:44pm

The Pro edition is designed to be work with MySQL only.

Evgeny · December 18, 2017, 7:53am

Thank you. I will looking for 6.3 release.

CertifiedG · December 23, 2017, 1:55pm

Thanks for clarification but then I wonder why I got a different answer in March this year by email: ‘Our latest version support PostgreSQL too. We only don’t provide upgrade and setup scripts for PostgreSQL.’
The topic was also about Pro, not CE back then.

One of my threads six months ago was also about the Pro version which was worked on and fixed.

hkunz · December 30, 2017, 12:26am

I upgraded from pro 6.1.8 to pro 6.2.4. I am using a seafile cluster (two applications servers, one background node) in combination with a real-time backup.

the upgrade worked almost perfectly. the only issue I see is, that the real-time backup server cannot load the repo-list anymore:

http-tx-mgr.c(514): libcurl failed to GET https://[primary server]/seafhttp/server-sync/repo-list: Problem with the SSL CA cert (path? access rights?).

My systems are running debian and I am aware of this:
https://manual.seafile.com/deploy_pro/real_time_backup.html

specifically the part on bundling the ca-certificates.

did something change here? before the upgrade, the real-time backup was running fine (with the same server certificates).

or could this be caused by the switching from fastcgi to WSGI? (although as far as I understand this affects only the seahub service).

any hints aprreciated.

Best,
Hp