Amahi Linux Home Server

This release includes a major improvement to the
user and share management interfaces in the Amahi
HDA setup pages. In addition, some fixes were made
for Samba shares server configuration and for
platform stability in the absence of or with
failures in external networking.

A fix is included to correct an upstream dependency issue that was introduced by Fedora updates. rubygem-hoe requires a version of rubygem-rake that does not exist on the updates (yet).

This release adds "Fixed IPs" and "Fixed Aliases"
to the networking
tab, much-improved views of these tables, fixes
for a security issue
with new user creation clashing with
existing/privileged users, more
informational messages for empty Web apps, table
editing fields for
hosts/aliases, shares, users, and Web apps,
improvements to check for
proper names that are legal on the Linux platform,
fixes to an artifact
that would "nest" tables within tables for
users/shares/Web apps, making
them progressively smaller, and a fix for a typo
which put Fahrenheit
conversion off by nine degrees.

Included are improvements to the platform to allow login with full names ("Joe User"), which are typically the default in Mac OS X and Windows clients, in addition to allowing login with standard Linux usernames. The shares management tab has been customized to detect the OS of the browser and display URLs that will take the user directly to the share independently of the OS (Mac or Windows).

User-visible features include a share manager to
manage Samba shares, a user manager, AmahiTunes
(iTunes/Rythmbox streaming server), and a "Web
Apps" manager to manage applications such as
Wordpress, Mediawiki, PHPMyAdmin, Munin, URD,
Ampache, Gallery, Jinzora, etc. Under-the-hood
improvements include enhancements to better
support Ubuntu, reliability fixes to the VPN, and
many more.