This adds a convenient way to review the upgrade notes for all Zulip
releases that one is upgrading across.
I thought about moving all the upgrade notes to a common section, but
in some cases the language is clearly explaining changes in the
release that are not duplicated elsewhere, and I think it reads better
having them inline alongisde related changes.
• Specify disabled rather than enabled protocols, so as not to disable
TLS 1.3.
• Provide an explicit cipher suite list (Mozilla intermediate config
version 5.4).
• Respect the browser’s preferred cipher suite ordering over the
server’s.
• Use FFDHE2048 Diffie-Hellman parameters.
• Disable SSL session tickets.
(SSL stapling is also recommended but SSLStaplingCache cannot be
configured inside a <VirtualHost> block.)
Signed-off-by: Anders Kaseorg <anders@zulip.com>
This implementation overrides some of PSA's internal backend
functions to handle `state` value with redis as the standard
way doesn't work because of apple sending required details
in the form of POST request.
Includes a mixin test class that'll be useful for testing
Native auth flow.
Thanks to Mateusz Mandera for the idea of using redis and
other important work on this.
Documentation rewritten by tabbott.
Co-authored-by: Mateusz Mandera <mateusz.mandera@zulip.com>
Now that we have production support for Ubuntu Focal, we update the
documentation to state our support for it.
(We also drop deprecated Xenial and Stretch from supported platforms).
We're migrating to using the cleaner zulip.com domain, which involves
changing all of our links from ReadTheDocs and other places to point
to the cleaner URL.
This reimplements our Zoom video call integration to use an OAuth
application. In addition to providing a cleaner setup experience,
especially on zulipchat.com where the server administrators can have
done the app registration already, it also fixes the limitation of the
previous integration that it could only have one call active at a time
when set up with typical Zoom API keys.
Fixes#11672.
Co-authored-by: Marco Burstein <marco@marco.how>
Co-authored-by: Tim Abbott <tabbott@zulipchat.com>
Signed-off-by: Anders Kaseorg <andersk@mit.edu>
This section at the top was clearly written before the documentation
at the bottom existed, and hasn't been updated to point to the
now-existent docs below.
Add the link, rather than directing to #production-help.
Also make sure our documentation for upgrading is reasonable for
Stretch => Buster.
Our reasoning for deprecating support for these releases is as follows:
* Ubuntu 16.04 Xenial reached desktop EOL last year; and will reach
EOL on the server in about a year.
* Debian Stretch will each EOL in 2020 (the precise date is unclear in
Debian's documentation, but based on past precedent it's in the next
few months, perhaps July 2020).
https://wiki.debian.org/DebianReleases#Production_Releases
* Both Ubuntu 16.04 and Debian Stretch use Python 3.5 as the system
Python, which will reach EOL in September 2020 (and we're already
seeing various third-party dependencies that we use drop support for
them).
* While there is LTS support for these older releases, it's not clear it's
going to be worth the added engineering effort for us to maintain EOL
releases of the base OSes that we support.
* We (now) have clear upgrade instructions for moving to Debian Buster
and Ubuntu 18.04.
I found the solution by simply trying out EMAIL_USE_SSL and it
worked. I had problems with sending emails (did not work at all, there
wasn't even a connection going on - I checked with tcpdump. Then I
found this: To use port 465, you need to call
smtplib.SMTP_SSL(). Currently, it looks like Django only uses
smtplib.SMTP() (source: https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/9575).
Fixes#14350.
This has for a while been our only active Google Groups mailing list,
and given that folks will guess security@ as our security contact, we
might as well just standardize on that.
Also tweak some ambiguous text; it wouldn't be appropriate for us to
issue a CVE for e.g. an operational issue only affecting us.
This addresses confusion we had with some organizations where they
were surprised that with only LDAP enabled, the "invite more users"
feature was available.
Fixes#11685.
This legacy cross-realm bot hasn't been used in several years, as far
as I know. If we wanted to re-introduce it, I'd want to implement it
as an embedded bot using those common APIs, rather than the totally
custom hacky code used for it that involves unnecessary queue workers
and similar details.
Fixes#13533.
Zulip has had a small use of WebSockets (specifically, for the code
path of sending messages, via the webapp only) since ~2013. We
originally added this use of WebSockets in the hope that the latency
benefits of doing so would allow us to avoid implementing a markdown
local echo; they were not. Further, HTTP/2 may have eliminated the
latency difference we hoped to exploit by using WebSockets in any
case.
While we’d originally imagined using WebSockets for other endpoints,
there was never a good justification for moving more components to the
WebSockets system.
This WebSockets code path had a lot of downsides/complexity,
including:
* The messy hack involving constructing an emulated request object to
hook into doing Django requests.
* The `message_senders` queue processor system, which increases RAM
needs and must be provisioned independently from the rest of the
server).
* A duplicate check_send_receive_time Nagios test specific to
WebSockets.
* The requirement for users to have their firewalls/NATs allow
WebSocket connections, and a setting to disable them for networks
where WebSockets don’t work.
* Dependencies on the SockJS family of libraries, which has at times
been poorly maintained, and periodically throws random JavaScript
exceptions in our production environments without a deep enough
traceback to effectively investigate.
* A total of about 1600 lines of our code related to the feature.
* Increased load on the Tornado system, especially around a Zulip
server restart, and especially for large installations like
zulipchat.com, resulting in extra delay before messages can be sent
again.
As detailed in
https://github.com/zulip/zulip/pull/12862#issuecomment-536152397, it
appears that removing WebSockets moderately increases the time it
takes for the `send_message` API query to return from the server, but
does not significantly change the time between when a message is sent
and when it is received by clients. We don’t understand the reason
for that change (suggesting the possibility of a measurement error),
and even if it is a real change, we consider that potential small
latency regression to be acceptable.
If we later want WebSockets, we’ll likely want to just use Django
Channels.
Signed-off-by: Anders Kaseorg <anders@zulipchat.com>
This moves the mandatory configuration for options A/B/C into a single
bulleted list for each option, rather than split across two steps; I
think the result is significantly more readable.
It also fixes a bug where we suggested setting
AUTH_LDAP_REVERSE_EMAIL_SEARCH = AUTH_LDAP_USER_SEARCH in some cases,
whereas in fact it will never work because the parameters are
`%(email)s`, not `%(user)s`.
Also, now that one needs to set AUTH_LDAP_REVERSE_EMAIL_SEARCH, it
seems worth adding values for that to the Active Directory
instructions. Thanks to @alfonsrv for the suggestion.
This simplifies the RDS installation process to avoid awkwardly
requiring running the installer twice, and also is significantly more
robust in handling issues around rerunning the installer.
Finally, the answer for whether dictionaries are missing is available
to Django for future use in warnings/etc. around full-text search not
being great with this configuration, should they be required.
Tim Abbott
Anders Kaseorg
qnxor
Alex Vandiver
Dinesh
Anders Kaseorg
Mateusz Mandera
Mateusz Mandera
Alex Vandiver
Steve Howell
Tim Abbott
Vishnu Ks
thoemie
Stefan Weil
Rike-Benjamin Schuppner
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