This release focused on getting all the features needed for a complete email provider and merging in the work done by Rails Girls Summer of Code.
- Support for invite codes: admins can require that new users present an invite code. If required, the invite code cannot be bypassed and is incorporated in the Secure Remote Password negotiation. (thanks ankonym, ayajaff).
- Support for customer account billing, including subscriptions. (thanks claucece, EvyW).
- Ability to remove, disable, and re-enable users. (thanks EvyW).
- Many localization fixes.
- Many bug fixes.
Support for localization has been turned on and much improved. Since you
probably don't want to enable all the available languages, make sure to set
default_locale and available_locales in your configuration file.
When deploying via the LEAP platform, these are controlled via
default_locale and languages in provider.json.
CouchDB is not designed to handle ephemeral data, like sessions, because
documents are never really deleted (a tombstone document is always kept to
record the deletion). To overcome this limitation, we now rotate the
sessions and tokens databases monthly. The new database names are
tokens_XXX and sessions_XXX where XXX is a counter since the epoch that
increments every month (not a calendar month, but a month's worth of seconds).
Additionally, nagios checks and leap test run now will create and destroy
test users in the tmp_users database, which will get periodically deleted
and recreated.