v7

Release date: 2025-10-13

Fixed Bugs

• Fix disappearing rooms after last session of the day

Maintenance Work

• Add description about how to create a Mastodon Access Token
• Update dependencies

Full Changelog: v6...v7

v6

Release date: 2025-07-01

Maintenance Work

• UI: Smaller font size for the social media posts
• Loading social media media posts from different plugins in parallel
• Many dependency updates

Breaking Changes

• Rewrite Java Forum Stuttgart Plugin for new API with new configuration options

New Contributors

• @madmas made their first contribution in #381

Full Changelog: v5...v6

v5

Release date: 2025-03-21

New Features

• Add support for BlueSky with hashtags and profile mentions
• Add support for Mastodon profile mentions
• Add support for Devoxx events (including Voxxed Days)
• Configure UI language via environment variable
• Dynamically generate social headline based on enabled plugins
• Hashtags are now handled independent of the social media plugins
• Show the logo of the social media network in the social media post
• Keep existing posts to avoid empty screens on errors
• Add configuration option to adjust event times (not just the dates)

Fixed Bugs

• Fix internationalization / localization issues

Maintenance Work

• Add SBOM (Software Bill of Materials) generation
• Automatic generation of README for DockerHub
• Add latest tag to Docker release builds
• Add a lot of new automated tests
• Add more checks for common errors during the build process
• Fixed dozens of coding issues
• Changed default Mastodon instance from mastodon.social to ijug.social
• UI: Smaller font size for the social media posts

Breaking Changes

• Image configuration is now applied for all social media plugins
• Replaced placeholders in URL templates with variable names
• Prefix all environment variables with APUS
• To enable/disable demo mode, use APUS_DEMO with true or false
• Remove EVENT_DEMO_ROOM_COUNT and SOCIAL_DEMO_POST_COUNT
• The FILTER_* environment variables have been renamed to APUS_SOCIAL_FILTER_*
• The timezone has to be specified in the APUS_TIMEZONE environment variable (instead of just TZ)
• The admin password has to be specified in the APUS_PASSWORD environment variable (instead of ADMIN_PASSWORD)
• The envirenment variable APUS_MASTODON_POST_LIMIT was renamed to APUS_MASTODON_LIMIT

New Contributors

• @ky0n made their first contribution in #258
• @uzoltan made their first contribution in #317
• @tobias-kuendig made their first contribution in #321
• @sparsick made their first contribution in #331

Full Changelog: v4...v5

Version 4

Release date: 2024-10-28

New Features

• Add configuration option to adjust event dates
• Add configuration option to hide closed event rooms
• Display optional image below the event agenda
• Add support for configuring multiple hashtags
• Add support for speaker pictures (overrides track icon)
• Add social demo plugin for demo and testing purposes
• Release docker images for ARM processors

Fixed Bugs

• Fix agenda column width calculation
• Fix session view with very long titles
• Fix hide empty room setting

Maintenance Work

• Upgrade dependencies
• Fix linter warnings
• Add test coverage monitoring

New Contributors

• @leem53 made their first contribution in #225
• @RomeoIndiaJulietUniform made their first contribution in #236

Full Changelog: v3...v4

Version 3

Release date: 2024-09-15

New Features

• Support full-screen social media post view without conference agenda
• Adjusting number of agenda columns automatically as needed
• Overwrite automatically generated social media headline

Fixed Bugs

• Fixed UI quirks

Maintenance Work

• Update all dependencies
• Fixed a bunch of linter warnings

Full Changelog: v2...v3

Version 2

Release date: 2024-08-12

New Features

• Add support for event agenda hosted on Sessionize.com (BaselOne, Java Forum Nord, etc.)
• Add support for Java Forum Stuttgart
• New demo event plugin to show fake data for demos and testing
• The update frequency of the event agenda is now configurable
• Add support for session tracks with default icons and custom SVG images
• Theming: all colors are now configurable
• Create hashed passwords for admin access on the command line
• New config option to show/hide event room legend
• Time limit for next session is now configurable

Fixed Bugs

• Fixed possible XSS attack with modified Mastodon posts
• Fixed incorrect calculation of minutes remaining

Maintenance Work

• All icons are now system independent
• Sessions without a language will not display a language flag
• Better use of available space for social media posts
• Refactored plugin interface to use streams instead of lists

New Contributors

• @adpe made their first contribution in #110
• @reinhapa made their first contribution in #111
• @eins78 made their first contribution in #125
• @StefanMallia made their first contribution in #131
• @1tchy made their first contribution in #134
• @haladamateusz made their first contribution in #152

Full Changelog: v1...v2

Version 1

Release date: 2024-04-10

Features

• Display agenda of DOAG events (JavaLand, CyberLand, CloudLand, etc.)
• Display posts of Mastodon containing a configurable hashtag
• Display images from Mastodon posts (configurable)
• Filter sensitive Mastodon posts
• Filter Mastodon replies
• Filter Mastodon posts by words
• Hide single Mastodon posts
• Block Mastodon profiles
• English and German translation
• Dynamic updates of Agenda and Mastodon posts