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A note from the filebrowser project

Hi everyone

sadly, the Filebrowser project hasn't seed a lot of activity in the recent past - but that's changed:

After a quiet spell, the proejct has rolled out some new releases in the past days.

Fixes / improvements include

• new / enhanced translations (including, but not limited to Vietnamese, Korean, Portuguese, Polish, ...)
• updated dependencies
• improved docker image volumes and more secure permissions
• an important security enhancement: Thanks to bo0tzz PR #3675, filebrowser now uses a randomized default password for new installations, replacing the previous hardcoded default. This is a significant security improvement, as it helps prevent unauthorized access when users forget to change the default credentials and accidentially expose their instance to a larger audience (or even the whole internet).

See all the latest changes on our GitHub releases page.

We killed the bot

We also killed the github bot, that got a lot of people quite mad (including myself), when it auto-closed issues too quickly and without changes.

The bot is gone and the project is alive again.

What's next

For the time being, we have put the project in maintenance mode. This means that we concentrate on bug fixing before implementing new features. Now that the bot is gone, we hope that people (re-)start contributing by posting issues on the bug tracker or ideas for new features on the discussions page.

A new hope

The project is actively looking for new maintainers and contributions. Open source software is a collective effort and we welcome your help, whether you’re a seasoned dev, a documentation wizard, a translator, or just passionate about helping.