Announcing Friend OS Hydrogen

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Announcing Friend OS Hydrogen

Hydrogen is the new LTS version of Friend, and the first version that applies our new naming scheme – picking names from the periodic table. Hydrogen will see updates for the next two years – released as patches to this branch.
Friend Core updates

• New networking engine – ultra fast and reliable HTTP connections and more reliable socket connections with less packet errors. This has sped up all networking in Friend. Additionally, server-to-server connections now all use SSL.
• Even faster websockets – real-time, persistent Friend server connections. We updated to the latest Libwebsockets version, which in concert with our rewritten network engine has seen great improvements in speed and reliability.
• Support for 2+GB uploads – start migrating large archives to Friend drives.

Friend Chat improvements

• Follow speaker mode now allows for a larger amount of participants in peer-to-peer video conferences.
• Mobile support has been improved.
• Support for iOS have been introduced.
• Many bug fixes!

For further details check out github:FriendChat and github:Presence
Friend Workspace

• We have refactored the file manager and added a gallery mode for large thumbnails.
• We added icon labels for virtual desktops.
• Further improved Workspace notifications with a fixed height, to avoid layout problems on some screens.
• Removed popup-windows on mobile and instead implemented mobile widgets.
• Faster start-up times for launching applications.
• Improved caching of frequently used assets and javascript code blocks.
• Improved mobile apps for iOS and Android.

Collaboration

• Introduced new Shared drive that allows users to share any file with any workgroup or user.
• Now supporting public files (publish on web) for both Home drives as well as Workgroup drives.

Misc improvements

• Improved Admin app for managing Friend user accounts, workgroups and templates.
• My account got support for unicode characters for avatars.
• Security improvements.
• Stability improvements.
• And lots more!

Friend OS Hydrogen got changes to many of its bundled apps, like Notes, Friend Jukebox, My account, Friend Create, Friend Shell.
Please check the release page here.



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