This Week in Self-Hosted (10 November 2023)

In the News

Open-Source ♥ Home Assistant

Home Assistant took second place (behind Microsoft's VS Code) among the top open-source projects by contributors in 2023 published in GitHub's 2023 Octoverse report this week. This isn't surprising given Home Assistant was also the front runner for favorite user software in our 2023 annual self-host user survey – but exciting nonetheless for a project so many in the self-hosted and open-source communities actively engage with.

Octoverse: The state of open source and rise of AI in 2023

In this year’s Octoverse report, we study how open source activity around AI, the cloud, and Git are changing the developer experience.

The GitHub BlogKyle Daigle, GitHub Staff

Software Updates

• Actual Budget v23.11.0 | Budgeting: Various enhancements to mobile budgeting (editable budget cells, rename names), web sync keyboard shortcuts, desktop app stability improvements
• Cosmos v0.12.0 | Server Management: Added real-time system metrics monitoring, metrics dashboard, customizable alerts system, events manager, notification system, and marketplace UI
• Home Assistant | Home Automation: Removal of MyQ integration
• Honey v2.2.1 | Dashboard: Progressive web app support, hide scrollbar in Firefox
• Immich v1.85.0 | Photos: Global activity for shared albums, shuffle option for slideshows
• Librum | eBooks: Added support for self-hosting (Docker image to follow)
• LinkStack v4.4.0 | Personal Landing Page: Improved users table functionality and performance (sorting, search, pagination, responsiveness)
• Linkwarden v2.0.0 | Bookmarks: New archivable format for readability, full text search, rename/remove tags, recent links in dashboard, collection enhancements
• Narrowlink v0.2.0 | Remote Access: Direct P2P connectivity via QUIC, experimental TUN interface, individual domain certs, simplified access control
• PostgreSQL | Database: PostgreSQL 16.1, 15.5, 14.10, 13.13, 12.17, and 11.22 Released!
• Vaultwarden v1.30.0 | Passwords: Passkey support (requires updated browser extension), web vault update to 2023.10.0, crash fixes
• WordPress v6.4 (Shirley) | Content Management: New default theme (Twenty Twenty-Four), new editor enhancements, refreshed command palette design and new functionality, lightbox functionality, block hooks

New Software

• DweebUI: Web interface for Docker
• OpenWrt Status: Dashboard for OpenWrt routers
• Podsumer: Privacy-focused podcatcher
• Wallos: Personal subscription tracker

Community Content

Tailscale October Newsletter

👉 We’d love to hear your thoughts on Tailscale. Filling out thisfeedback form helps us build a better product for you and other users. October Recap

TailscaleTailscale

Content Spotlight: Keila

Meet Keila, the self-hosted newsletter alternative to popular hosted services like Mailchimp and ConvertKit. Keila allows users to create and send newsletters, manage contact lists, create custom campaigns, and capture user signups via forms. For larger audiences, the software also supports popular bulk SMTP mail senders like Mailgun, Sendgrid, AWS SES, and Postmark (along with custom user-specified SMTP configurations).

Keila can be installed via Docker and requires an accompanying PostgreSQL database for data storage.

Links: Website, GitHub, Documentation

What We're Watching

• Docker to Kubernetes Data Migration Made Easy! | Jim's Garage
• Self-Hosting ActivePieces to Automate Your Life Online | DB Tech
• Is THIS your next NAS? (Zima Blade Review) | Hardware Haven

Upcoming Events

Orchestrating data and optimizing workflows with Nextcloud Tables - Nextcloud

Tailor Your Data, Tune Your Workflows, Take Your Freedom with Nextcloud Tables. Sign up for our webinar about Nextcloud Tables.

NextcloudAuthor Fabrice Mous

Unraid Cyber Weekend Sale + Giveaway

Unraid’s annual Cyber Weekend Sale is on November 23-27 where you’ll save on Unraid licenses, upgrades , and paid support sessions and enter to win a LincStation N1 NAS !

Unraid

Command Line Corner: !$

The characters !$ can be used as a shortcut to reuse or repeat the argument used in the most recent command. For instance, they can be used to easily navigate to a folder path that was recently created or modified.

/$ mkdir /this/week/in/self/hosted
/$ cd !$
    cd /this/week/in/self/hosted
/this/week/in/self/hosted$ 

Home Automation

Conbee III Released with Zigbee and Thread

Dresden Elektronik has officially released the Conbee III Zigbee Coordinator with upcoming Thread and Matter support, succeeding the popular Conbee II stick.

SmartHomeSceneSHS News

Privacy Corner

Five Best Practices for Password Management | Bitwarden Blog

Password managers make security easier. Check out these five ways to get the most out of them.

Bitwarden

Digital Sovereignty for Governments with Nextcloud Enterprise - Nextcloud

Governments, agencies and public services have the immense responsibility to protect citizen’s data. With the tremendous amount of choices for online collaboration tools hosted by dozens of different vendors, it is hard to keep an overview of where that data is. At the same time, strict policies for…

NextcloudMikaela Schneider

Other News in Tech

Arm Acquires Minority Stake in Raspberry Pi

Arm wants a slice of Pi

Tom's HardwareLes Pounder

Google argues iMessage should be regulated by the EU’s Digital Markets Act

The EU will decide by February if iMessage needs to open up.

Ars TechnicaRon Amadeo

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