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Logo and watermark belonged in the private package for one reason: that is where they were written. Nothing about them needs a hosted platform, and an installation wanting its own mark on the pages it serves is the ordinary case rather than the exotic one. They are core's now, and every installation has them. Hiding "Powered by ProjectSend" did not come. That is what a hosted customer pays for, and its gate is not a capability key but the absence of the code: cloud-modules keeps the listener, so an installation without that package holds the column and has nothing able to read it. Flipping an edition variable buys nothing, which was true before and stays true. Core renders the switch where Capability::AttributionHide is held and has no route that can save it -- there is a test asserting exactly that, which fails the day white-labelling quietly becomes free. The migrations move with their original filenames on purpose. A Cloud tenant already ran them under those names, so Laravel skips them there and the table and its data are untouched; a fresh install or a community one runs them from here for the first time. What got better on the way rather than merely moving: The watermark listeners take core's real RenderingImage and ResolvingImageRendering instead of duck-typed `object` payloads, and the tests construct the genuine events rather than anonymous stand-ins that imitated their shape. The package had to do it that way -- it builds with no host present -- so three PHPStan ignore entries existed to describe what the type system could not see. They are gone. ModuleBoundaryTest asserted "branding is cloud-only, and the suite runs as community", which was never what it was testing. It now reads the capability off the route and subtracts it, so the invariant holds for whichever module is installed. The 43 branding strings arrived in all sixteen locales from the package's own catalogues rather than being retranslated, and the package's are pruned to the one string it still uses. A hosted plan without branding subtracts branding.customize and attribution.hide from the instance's environment. The row is never deleted by that: a downgrade is usually an expired card rather than a decision, and wiping somebody's artwork over a billing event is a loss they would find weeks later with no way to know what it used to be. Hiding reverses; deleting does not.
ProjectSend
Share files with your clients, from your own server.
ProjectSend is a self-hosted application for getting files to the people you work with. You upload what you want to send, choose exactly who can see it, and each client signs in to their own private page to download it.
No public link passed around by email, no third-party service holding your clients' documents, no per-seat pricing. It runs on your server, and the files stay there.
What it does
For the people you send to
- A private area per client, showing only what has been shared with them
- Sign in with an email address, with optional two-factor authentication
- Search, filter and sort their files; download one, several as a zip, or a whole folder
- Optional comments on a file, so questions live next to the thing they are about
- Email notifications when something new arrives, in their own language
For you
- Resumable uploads that survive a dropped connection, so large files actually arrive
- Organise with folders, categories and client groups
- Share with one client, a whole group, or publicly — and set an expiry date or a download limit
- Thumbnails and previews for images and documents
- Storage quotas per client, and custom fields for the details you need to keep on them
- A full activity log and download history: who got what, and when
For the installation
- Roles and permissions for your own team, so an uploader is not an administrator
- Sign-in the way you already work: LDAP, social sign-in, or plain email and password
- Themes for the client-facing pages and for outgoing email
- 16 languages
- A REST API with scoped tokens and generated OpenAPI docs
- Privacy controls, including GDPR-grade account erasure with a grace period
- Local disk, S3-compatible storage, or Google Cloud Storage
Screenshots
The dashboard — what is in the installation, and what has been happening in it.
Your library — folders, categories, and who each file is shared with.
What your client sees — only their files, nothing else.
Getting started
With Docker — the quickest path, and the one we recommend. Nothing to build: the published image ships with its dependencies and its frontend already compiled.
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/projectsend/projectsend/main/docker/production/compose.example.yaml
# edit the passwords and APP_URL in it, then:
docker compose -f compose.example.yaml up -d
Open APP_URL and the first thing you see is a setup screen that creates your administrator
account — or uncomment ADMIN_EMAIL and ADMIN_PASSWORD in the file first, with a password of
your own, and it is created for you.
Before you put real files in it, read DOCKER.md — where your database and uploads actually live, how to move them onto paths you chose, and how to back them up so an upgrade can't take them with it.
Without Docker — for servers where it isn't an option, install from a release zip.
INSTALL.md covers requirements, .env, nginx, the background worker and cron,
updating and troubleshooting. You do not need Composer or npm on the server; the zip ships ready to
run.
Already running it? UPDATE.md is how you move to a new version — one command on Docker, one script on your own server, and what to check afterwards either way.
Want to work on ProjectSend itself? Cloning the repository gets you a development copy, not an installation: the dependencies and the compiled frontend are deliberately not in git, so a clone needs Composer and npm before it runs. CONTRIBUTING.md has the sequence, and it is short.
Coming from ProjectSend Legacy?
The previous generation of ProjectSend lives on at projectsend/legacy. This is a rebuild rather than an upgrade, so moving across is an import rather than an update — install fresh, then bring your old site into it with the migration tool: accounts, clients, groups, categories, folders, files and history.
It never writes to your old install, and any run can be undone with a single command. MIGRATING-FROM-V1.md explains what comes across, the two routes (same machine, or a portable export from a server you can't reach), and the one change your clients will notice: they sign in with their email address now, using the same password.
Contributing
Bug reports, translations and pull requests are all welcome — see CONTRIBUTING.md for how to set up a development copy, what the checks are, and the contributor agreement.
Found a security issue? Please report it privately through GitHub's security advisories rather than opening a public issue.
License
Free software under the GNU General Public License v2, or (at your option) any later version — see LICENSE. Use it, study it, change it, share it.
Commercial licenses are available for organizations that cannot work under copyleft terms; LICENSING.md explains both options. Contributions require signing a CLA, for reasons set out in CONTRIBUTING.md.