The frontend's catalogue was read straight out of lang/{locale}.json, so
it held exactly the strings this repository owns. That was true for as
long as this repository owned every screen — but the companion packages
own several: Branding, Custom Assets, the whole v1 import. Their strings
have been rendering in English in all sixteen languages, in silence,
because a package catalogue registered through loadJsonTranslationsFrom()
never got as far as the browser.
Asked of the framework's own loader now, which is where that registration
already lands. Same answer as before for this installation — no package
registers a path today, and the merged result is byte-identical to the
file — and the right answer the moment one does.
Precedence comes free and is the useful way round: the loader merges the
application's own catalogue last, so an installation can override a
package's wording without editing the package. There is a test for that,
because it is the kind of ordering that gets reversed by accident.
One thing the test needed and is worth knowing: SetLocale honours an
account's chosen language only while that language is enabled for the
installation, and the Settings cache outlives RefreshDatabase. A test that
sets users.locale and assumes it takes effect gets English and a very
confusing failure.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Two things on the About screen were written when there was only one
edition. "Website" pointed at projectsend.org for everybody, and the
donation link was offered to hosted customers who are already paying for
this — on the same screen that thanks them for choosing it.
projectsend.org is the way in for the software you run yourself and
projectsend.cloud is the way in for the hosted service, so `links.website`
now resolves to whichever one the reader is actually using. That reaches
further than About by design: the "Powered by ProjectSend" line at the
foot of every outgoing email and on every client-facing page is where a
recipient meets this product for the first time, and sending a hosted
customer's recipients to self-hosting instructions is the wrong door.
The donation link is *omitted* rather than hidden by the page, so a
surface added later cannot ask a paying customer for money by forgetting
to check. Its TypeScript type is optional now, which makes the compiler
enforce the same thing.
Also fixed on the way past: the settings footer hardcoded the text
"projectsend.org" next to that link, so on the hosted service it named a
site it did not link to. It reads the host off the resolved URL now.
Verified in a browser against both editions, not only in tests. Cloud:
projectsend.cloud, no donation link, on both screens. Community:
projectsend.org and Open Collective, exactly as before.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Updating a server install cost nine artisan invocations plus a PHP-FPM
reload, written out in three places that had already drifted apart. One
of those steps is silently fatal to skip: with opcache.validate_timestamps
off — what production guides recommend and what our own image ships — the
database moves to the new version while every visitor keeps being served
the old code, and artisan reports the new version throughout.
`sudo ./update.sh` is now the whole procedure. It asks whether to check
GitHub, asks whether to download the release and verifies the checksum
published beside it, and asks whether there is a backup — offering to dump
the database when the answer is no. Then it takes the site down, replaces
the files, runs the update, reloads PHP-FPM, restarts the worker and
brings the site back. The application still has no self-updater: nothing
is fetched or applied unless somebody runs this and answers yes.
Underneath it is `php artisan projectsend:update`, which is everything an
update does that needs no root — and now the only definition of it. Both
container entrypoints call it instead of carrying their own copy of the
sequence, so the two paths cannot drift again.
Three findings worth keeping in the record, all from rehearsing rather
than reasoning:
- queue:restart has to come last. It writes its signal into the cache,
so clearing the cache afterwards deletes it and the worker runs old
code forever.
- optimize:clear is not safe to recommend. It runs cache:clear, which
on Redis is FLUSHDB — harmless on the default two-database layout,
but on a single-database Redis it takes the sessions and the queue
with it. The compiled caches are cleared individually instead.
- update.sh overwrites itself mid-run, because the zip contains it and
bash reads its own script lazily by byte offset. It re-execs from a
temporary copy before touching anything.
And when the reload is skipped anyway, the application now says so:
projectsend:update records the version it applied, and any staff page
compares that with what the running process actually compiled. The same
check catches the mirror image — new files in place, update never run.
Rehearsed end to end against real installs: a container upgrade (69 to 73
migrations, key and data intact, healthy), a scripted update on a real
nginx + php-fpm install with OPcache pinned (web process moved 2.1.0 to
2.1.1), the skipped-reload case (banner appears naming both versions, and
clears on reload), the refusals (downgrade, non-release zip, truncated
zip, URL passed to --zip, non-root), a database taken down mid-update
(site comes back out of maintenance mode by itself), and a real download
of the published 2.0.0 zip with its checksum verified.
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Client file sharing, rebuilt from the ground up: a private area per
client, resumable uploads, folders, groups and categories, sharing with
expiry dates and download limits, comments, file versions, an activity
log, a REST API, and sixteen languages.
This repository begins here. ProjectSend 2 was developed privately, and
that development history is not published — the previous generation
remains available, with its own history, at projectsend/legacy.
Free software under the GNU General Public License v2, or (at your
option) any later version.
ignacionelson