Cerebrate Release Notes - v1.26 (2024-11-28)

We are glad to announce the release of Cerebrate v1.26, which introduces new features, key improvements, and a host of fixes aimed at enhancing functionality and security. Here’s a breakdown of what’s new:

🚀 New Features

• Bookmark Security Enhancements:
  Administrators can now tighten bookmark creation rules by restricting base URLs to a predefined list via server settings, ensuring greater control and security.

🔧 Improvements & Changes

• AuthKey Management:
  • More elegant solutions for adding authentication keys.
  • Improved permission handling for group admins, allowing them to manage API keys for their groups.
  • Streamlined user dropdown for adding AuthKeys to focus on relevant users only.

🛠️ Fixes

This release resolves numerous issues to improve system stability, usability, and security:

Security Fixes:

• Tightened role assignment permissions to prevent privilege escalation by low-privilege administrators.
• Improved ACL handling for group admin permissions, preventing unauthorized user assignments to external organizations.
• Bookmark error handling enhancements, ensuring failures are explicitly reported and resolved.

Bug Fixes:

• Fixed installation issues caused by non-boolean debug mode.
• Correctly set the perm_community_admin value to resolve community admin role issues.
• Improved debug level settings to ensure numeric values fall within valid ranges.
• Addressed typos in configurations, descriptions, and controllers for smoother operation.
• Resolved internal server errors in user settings view when accessed without a user ID.
• Fixed cryptic error messages related to role deletions with attached users.

Usability Enhancements:

• Enhanced error handling for Ajax contexts, ensuring clear feedback during save failures.
• Resolved edge cases for PGP key status checks.
• Set proxy settings diagnostics severity to info for improved clarity.

📝 Miscellaneous Updates

• Streamlined and cleaned up the ACL component by removing duplicate checks.

We encourage all users to update to v1.26 to benefit from these enhancements and fixes.

Huge shoutout to @Wachizungu for his incredible contributions and attention to detail! 😎

As always, thank you for your continued support and contributions to the Cerebrate project!

For a detailed list of changes, visit the Cerebrate GitHub repository.