News

• Previously announced changes were applied on 1st July 2024
• How to migrate to the By Complexity subscription

service updates

Due to discounting PayPal on buymeacoffee side , any new payments (both recurring, like new maintenance subscriptions, and one time, like setup or support) will be processed through stripe and payoneer.

from BMC FAQ (link above):

Will my membership renewals be affected? First off, please note that this applies only to creators who have active members (monthly recurring payments via PayPal). Membership payment renewals won’t be affected as per our knowledge. However, we recommend suggesting your members to resubscribe whenever you’re ready.

so, no need to worry for existing subscribers.

I don’t like the situation and forced changes to payment processing (we already had issues with recurring payments with stripe+payoneer before), but that’s the only way we have.

Due to unexpected and urgency of the situation, we don’t have any other info to share. There are some concerns regarding fees, but we will review them soon and if stripe+payoneer fees are higher than paypal, prices may be increased to cover that (we do NOT increasing them, just need some time to review the terms we were forced to accept), fun fact: your $5 payment is $4 for us (and $1 is a fee)

If you have any questions - ask them in #discussion:etke.cc so other customers may read them, too (keep in mind, that we don’t have answers right now and have almost the same info that you have).

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servers update in progress

• IRC (heisenbridge) 1.7.0 -> 1.7.1
• Mailer (exim) 4.94.2-r0-5 -> 4.95-r0
• Telegram 0.10.1 -> 0.10.2
• Synapse 1.47.1 -> 1.48.0

#discussion:etke.cc

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servers update in progress

new versions:

• Element 1.9.4 -> 1.9.5
• Exim 4.94.2-r0-4 -> 4.94.2-r0-5
• IRC (heisenbridge) 1.6.0 -> 1.7.0
• Synapse 1.46.0 -> 1.47.1
• Matrix Corporal 2.1.4 -> 2.2.1

configuration changes

all servers:

• log level set to warning for all actual bridges to prevent sensitive messages leaks in logs and decrease disk utilization

servers with #miounne:etke.cc and matrix-registration:

• notification about the used token has been enabled. Keep in mind that it’s an experimental feature (fully covered by tests, but still), so in case of any problems post them to the #miounne:etke.cc room and/or directly to the https://etke.cc/miounne issues

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only for NEW customers:

• identity server not installed by default
• exim mailer not installed by default
• synapse (matrix homeserver) will be used to send emails in case of SMTP-relay

Both identity server (ma1sd) and mailer (exim) are battle-tested and work well, but nobody needs them. In 99% of cases, you want email verification and notifications, that’s it. Of course, for specific cases, like phone number verification we will install identity server and related services and of course, we continue to support them on existing installations. Just keep in mind that the latest identity server release was on April 16, and it’s not ready for Matrix 1.1 spec release. So we will not set up ma1sd and exim (used by ma1sd only in most cases) by default. We will continue to support them and install them on request.

These changes are NOT applied to existing customers and will be used for new homeservers only. But if you want to apply them on your server (eg: to free some compute power) - send me a PM.

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<@neb_rssbot=40aine=3aetke.cc:matrix.org> matrix.org: Synapse 1.47.0 released ( https://matrix.org/blog/2021/11/17/synapse-1-47-0-released )

Due to late release and planned security fix release on the next Tuesday, no off cycle deployment will be done.

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servers update in progress

• Matrix Corporal 2.1.2 -> 2.1.4
• IRC (heisenbridge) 1.5.0 -> 1.6.0
• Facebook bridge 0.3.1 -> 0.3.2
• Nginx 1.21.3 -> 1.21.4
• #miounne:etke.cc 2.1.0 -> 2.2.0

#discussion:etke.cc

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servers update in progress

• Element 1.9.3 -> 1.9.4
• IRC (heisenbridge) 1.4.1 -> 1.5.0

#discussion:etke.cc

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servers update in progress

new versions:

• IRC (appservice) 0.31.0 -> 0.32.1
• IRC (heisenbridge) 1.3.0 -> 1.4.1
• Hydrogen 0.2.7 -> 0.2.19
• Grafana 8.1.4 -> 8.2.2
• #miounne:etke.cc 2.0.0 -> 2.1.0
• Prometheus 2.29.2 -> 2.30.3
• Synapse 1.45.1 -> 1.46.0

configuration changes:

• removed custom element web themes

following changes applying only to federated matrix servers without explicit value(-s) set before (eg: for legal purposes) to increase users privacy a bit. If you don’t want any of the following changes - send me a PM

• redactions retention explicitly set to 5 minutes
• users IP log retention explicitly set to 5 minutes

#discussion:etke.cc

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servers update in progress

• Element 1.9.2 -> 1.9.3
• IRC (heisenbridge) 1.2.1 -> 1.3.0
• #miounne:etke.cc 1.0.2 -> 2.0.0
• Synapse 1.45.0 -> 1.45.1

service updates

• removed panelbear analytics from website - it’s privacy-friendly, but we decided that no log policy is more valuable than knowledge about how many visitors are on etke.cc

#discussion:etke.cc

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<@neb_rssbot=40aine=3aetke.cc:matrix.org> matrix.org: Synapse 1.45.1 released ( https://matrix.org/blog/2021/10/20/synapse-1-45-1-released )

Note: that release contains the only revert of MAU calculations. As no one of etke.cc subscribers use that thing, there will be no off cycle update today

All subscribers’ servers were updated yesterday with 1.45.0 release

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servers updates in progress

• Element 1.9.0 -> 1.9.2
• Synapse 1.44.0 -> 1.45.0

#discussion:etke.cc

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