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Messages
Dec 11 2025
3:54PM
svn commit 4762

In messages, you can tag a user by entering userid . The old syntax using _USER= is still working.

M bod.tlcc
M web/util.hcc
Dec 7 2025
7:12PM
svn commit 4758

bo-websocket reports the connection list. For each connection, it reports the pid, the pending test status and the session ID. There is now a command to kill all pending sessions: sessions which are not responding to test requests.

Documentation in English of the quoted reply functionality and the new syntax to produce lists (numbered and unordered).

M bo-mon.tlcc
M bo-websocket-control.tlcc
Dec 6 2025
12:40AM
svn commit 4757

When restarting blackhole components (blackhole, conproxy or horizon), you must do it using the bolixo-production command:
bolixo-production restart blackhole conproxy horizon

This makes sure the special rules for Bolixo components are reinstalled.

M bolixo-production.sh
Nov 26 2025
5:13PM
svn commit 4753

Bolixo now supports 'quoted replies'. This is an old concept, very useful, but lost for some reason. When replying to a message, you use the "quoted reply" in the context menu. The message is copied into the form, inserting a > in front of each line/paragraph. You remove the stuff you don't want and keep what is relevant. You place your reply just under. Any reader will immediately understand the context of your message.

The preview of the message correctly handles long paragraphs (quoted reply). The
Nov 21 2025
5:10PM
svn commit 4751

bolixo-production configure /etc/bolixo/admins.conf in install-sequence
bo-manager and bo-mon works differently for a server not part of the bolixo.org domain. The mails sent are coming from the server hostname instead of bolixo.org

M bo-manager.tlcc
M bo-mon.tlcc
M bolixo-production.sh
Nov 20 2025
2:45PM
svn commit 4748

Bolixoapi: Add deleteemail (does the opposite of recordemail)
Added bofs bolixoapi deleteemail

M bo-mon.tlcc
M bod.tlcc
M bofs.tlcc
M bolixod.tlcc
M proto/bolixoapi.proto
Nov 19 2025
5:16PM
svn commit 4747

bolixod uses a timeout when requesting the system public key of a server. Automated tests were added for this.
webapi may be configured to sleep to trigger the timeout on systempubkey requests.

M bo-manager.tlcc
M bolixod.tlcc
M scripts/access.sh
Nov 18 2025
4:19PM
svn commit 4745

Start of the bolixo API (directory server) documentation, in the technical document.

M proto/bolixoapi.proto
A proto/bolixoapi.proto.doc
M proto/bolixod_client.proto
M web/Makefile
M web/techdoc.hcc
2:50PM
svn commit 4744

bolixod only commits in the nodes table once it has received the public key of a server. Before, it could end up with an incomplete record following a failed registernode request.
test.sh has now registernode and deletenode to perform tests on the directory server.

M bofs.tlcc
M bolixod.tlcc
Nov 16 2025
8:09AM
svn commit 4739

In prepromode, bo-manager fills the /etc/hosts of some LXC0 containers using /etc/preprodhosts. The entries describe bolixo servers
used for testing, which are not on the internet (and not in any DNS). The list used to be hardcoded in bo-manager.
bolixo-production now uses systemctl to start the service during the install-sequence configuration step.

M bo-manager.tlcc
Nov 14 2025
11:04PM
svn commit 4736

Bolixo is now compatible with systemd
bolixo-production install-sequence accepts 3 options
-y: enter == yes
-n: enter == no
-Y: batch mode, yes to all

M Makefile
M bolixo-production.sh
3:29PM
svn commit 4735

bolixo-production:
/root/bolixo.conf was created on the fly. Now a message is printed when it is done.
/root/bolixo.conf now is automatically configured for preproduction more if the main IP starts with 192.168.122


M bolixo-production.sh
M test.sh
Nov 13 2025
3:14PM
svn commit 4733

bo-manager sets permissions for file /etc/bolixo/vidconf.secrret correctly.
bolixo-production install-sequence adds the following things:
-Configure/install coturn (for video conferences)
-Disable some enabled by default services: mariadb, exim, httpd. They can't run on the hosts while Bolixo is running.

M bo-manager.tlcc
M bolixo-production.sh
Nov 12 2025
7:50AM
svn commit 4731

bolixo-production config now produces /etc/bolixo/vidconf.secret (to interact with the coturn server).
bolixo-production install-sequence fixes for systemctl

M bo-manager.tlcc
M bolixo-production.sh
Nov 11 2025
4:55PM
svn commit 4729

Make the following bolixo-production commands completely automated. No need to kill anything in another window as before.
Also, the commands may be executed even while Bolixo is running
make-http-log
make-exim-log
make-mysql-log


M bolixo-production.sh
Oct 29 2025
3:02PM
svn commit 4725

A package repository has been created for Fedora Linux. The repository now contains fc40 and fc42 packages. Two new Bolixo packages have been created to help install the repository definition used by dnf: bolixo-repostable and bolixo-repotest. bolixo-repostable contains stable package while the other contains a Bolixo version with new features, sometime incomplete.

M Makefile
M bolixo.spec
Mar 24 2021
4:36PM
svn commit 4210

The photo gallery document is now done. It allows you to create presentation of images and photos taken from a Bolixo project or the web. You can add a caption for each image. The photo gallery is multi-user. There is a chat at the bottom of the screen to communicate with other people connected to the document.

M doc_photos.tlcc
M scripts/access.sh
M scripts/photos-help.sh
Jan 22 2021
11:43PM
svn commit 4131

Some enhancements to the whiteboard.

When you delete a text bullet, the bullets below with the same X coordinate are raised. So it behaves like a word processor.

When you duplicate a text bullet (using enter), it creates a new one below, without text. This is a change. Previously, the text was also duplicated. It was not useful. Also, bullets below with the same X coordinates are moved down.

When moving an item, we wait 200 milliseconds after the item was selected to per
Jan 16 2021
3:34PM
svn commit 4126

Autocomplete has been added to the forms in the talks section. It suggests the user iD of your contacts.

M bolixo-production.sh
M web/document.hcc
M web/document_fr.hcc
M web/index.hcc
Oct 31 2020
4:42PM
svn commit 4097

On mobile, there is a new 3 bar menu that appears on the left in the talk and projects section, when presenting the center or right tab. It is an alternative to the right swipe. It shows the tab to the left. While it is not done exactly like Google material design, it works the same. You click on the left 3 bar menu and you are presented with a list. You click on one item and you are presented with this item.

M index.hcc