Releases: dappros/ethora
v23.06 - Kupala Namaskar ☀️
On this solstice day ☀️, we feel it is a great time to prepare another release of Ethora engine.
Coincidentally, today our repo has reached 100 stars ⭐. Yay and thank you all for your support!
Another important update is that Ethora has made it through a rigorous selection into a final cohort of AWS B2B SaaS Accelerator.
This means our backend infrastructure will get better through the training and support we receive from AWS experts, at the same time we are preparing to make our server more easily available for B2B customers through a self-install AWS Marketplace option.
That said, we remain devoted to the open-source Linux stack - so remain assured our server-side infrastructure will remain 'cloud agnostic' i.e. can be hosted on any standard Linux-based server.
By default, of course, our users enjoy our Ethora (aka Dappros Platform) Cloud infrastructure and its generous Free Tier, so the above is only relevant for you if your project specific or regulatory environment requires self hosting. We fully support both Cloud and self-hosted options so this is an important highlight of the current release.
Another super important update is the App Builder UI!
App Builder now allows you to:
- Easily customize your App appearance which is applied to your Web application immediately
- Automatically generate the React Native build for your iOS and Android mobile app!
The code generated is already customized with your app name, logo, colours and other specifics.
This drastically reduces the time it takes for you to build your first MVP and demo or ship it to your friends, family, investors, customers and users.
You can do the above without having to dive into code now, however getting your hands dirty and customizing or extending the engine with your own features is by all means encouraged.
The name of the today's release is inspired by:
(1) Kupala Night 🌿 , a tradition in Ukraine and many other countries where the longest day and Sun are celebrated. Read more about Kupala Night here,
and of course the
(2) International Yoga Day ☯️. The yogis worldwide celebrate the solstice day too and some of them manage to achieve the fit of 108 Sun salutations. Sun salutation (surya namaskar) is a fantastic yoga practice available for everyone. You can do it on daily basis and it is very beneficial for your health, mind and spirit. Read more about Surya Namaskara here.
There are many other changes and improvements to the Ethora engine mainly focused around stability and UX improvements. We have added some important features and extensions such as you can now easily add a ChatGPT bot, a translation bot and other things into your projects. Our chat and push notifications infrastructure by DeepX RTC has been further improved. Some of the changes are listed below.
As always, please do contact us on Discord or via website contact form (links in the main readme file) in case you require any assistance with Ethora engine. We would love you to use it for the benefit of your community.
Peace, Love and all the best!
Ethora, DP & DX team.
What's Changed
- Feature/waveform by @dendidibe in #45
- fix for ios building by @dendidibe in #46
- Eto 83 by @4RGUS in #49
- Feature/chat operations by @4RGUS in #50
- Feature/chat operations by @dendidibe in #58
- Updated Readme, release notes and license by @4RGUS in #103
- 22.07 by @4RGUS in #122
- 22.07 by @4RGUS in #136
- merged changes from newArchitecture, resolved issue of other user des… by @4RGUS in #137
- Experimental navbar feature merge by @4RGUS in #242
Full Changelog: v22.07...v23.060
Contributors
Assets 2
22.07 - Chervona Kalyna
Release name: Chervona Kalyna
Changes/improvements
Note: the main improvement of this major release is the code architecture.
It has come time to refactor our code, get rid of spaghetti and improve the performance.
In addition, improve the structure and readability to make it easier for 3rd party developers to build their own projects on top of Ethora engine.
We are happy to say the goal has been achieved and there is a drastic improvement in the performance of the application.
Some of the changes rolled out in this release:
- Switched to Typescript across the code
- Switched to MobX and functional components
- Multiple code architecture improvements, better organized Helpers, async logic etc
- Lots of improvements around media and Items. You can now play audio and video Items directly from user profiles.
- Introduced "Hut, Hut" Bot that allows to store and release NFT items in Rooms/Spaces.
- Fixed numerous bugs and issues (caching, XMPP, Push Notifications subscriptions etc)
- More intuitive menu
- Lots of other improvements (see release notes document in the repo root folder)
Starting from this release, we are going to assign a unique name to each major release.
This one is called "Chervona Kalyna" (Red Viburnum) 🩸 and we devote it to the fearless defenders of Ukraine 💛💙 who are now fighting to protect its independence and freedom.
Read more about Chervona Kalyna .
Stay tuned for future updates, some really exciting features are still coming soon in follow-up updates to this major release.
These things are already being tested in beta version:
- NFMT smart contract format for Items
- Audio & Video calls
- Server architecture improvements allowing to better connect Users and assets across Applications
21.11 - Ethora going public
ETHORA GOING PUBLIC!
(see organized release notes in https://github.com/dappros/ethora/blob/main/release-notes.md)
What's Changed
- Implemented the config to all the screens by @4RGUS in #1
- Resolved realm issue and upgraded rn version back to 0.64.2 by @4RGUS in #2
- Features sync by @4RGUS in #3
- Features sync to dev by @4RGUS in #4
- ability to enable and disable NFT feature by @4RGUS in #5
- Features sync by @4RGUS in #24
- Dev by @phwizard in #25
- ETO-71 by @4RGUS in #30
- Media messages open in modals by @dendidibe in #29
- Dev by @4RGUS in #31
New Contributors
Full Changelog: https://github.com/dappros/ethora/commits/v21.11
