CHANGELOG

• +Alpine Linux 3.21
• +OpenBSD 7.1
• +Rocky Linux 9
• +Updated every other image
• Backup should now be enabled by default on all images except:
  • Guix
  • OpenBSD

• Well, sort of.
• Some assembly required: our VM images don't have all of the required bits and bobs installed by default.
• For information on how to set up backups, see: backup instructions
• While you should see a list of avaliable snapshots on the capsul detail page, restoring to a snapshot is still a manual effort on our part. Technically we create a new clone of the capsul from the existing snapshot. Contact support if you need to restore to a snapshot.

• Finally updated our NixOS image! Thanks to symys for help with this!

• We had some issues with web form spam bots hurting our email server's reputation by sending login requests to people who did not ask for them.
• The Capsul login/registration page will now attempt to calculate a small Proof of Work using the scrypt hash function.
  • This is 100% optional, not required to log in.
  • This uses WebWorkers and WebAssembly, so it will only work if your browser has those features turned on.
  • This uses the 💥PoW! Bot Deterrent library.
• If you disabled JavaScript on your browser or otherwise submit the form without the PoW:
  • If you've logged in before, it will let you pass.
  • If you're creating a new account, the system will ask you to send us an email. Once we recieve an email from the address you were trying to log in from, you will be allowed to proceed.

• If your email server rejects emails from us for some reason, you should see an error message when trying to log in.

This was instigated by Stripe, they cut off our payments because the Cyberia Computer Club's Minnesota Nonprofit status had lapsed after everyone who was doing the work of maintaining it faded away.

Jes and I (Forest) have been the ones maintaining Capsul for many years now. In 2023, Cyberia Congress officially released Capsul to be owned by us instead of being owned by the club:

https://wiki.cyberia.club/hypha/congress_and_the_board/minutes/2023-07-30#Capsul_Conversation

In order to get stripe payments working again, we are going to "fail forward" on this and create a new legal entity that will be responsible for operating Capsul: Break Software LLC

• Baikal (our old server) could no longer handle the load, was constantly crashing
• Rathouse (our NEW server) was already racked up and ready to go
• We wanted to wait until we could get Virtual Machine disk snapshots working on the new system before we migrated... but real life had other plans for us
• We no longer have automatic backups. Sorry. We are working on it.
• On the bright side, the new server is faster, has much more reliable disks, and they are configured in a way that should give you better performance.
• Capsul was fully down for about a day and a half.

• You can now create a capsul even if your account doesn't have the funds required to keep it running for a month
• Short term capsuls will be deleted without warning as soon as your account reaches $0
• As always, you will recieve multiple warning emails as your account runs out of funds before any long term capsuls will be deleted

• NEW! Rocky Linux 8 image is avaliable to launch

• This updated QEMU to the point where the virtio-blk storage driver supports trim/discard operations, which should save us disk space while improving capsul storage performance

• Finally installed our last NVME drive with help from a flexible ADT-link PCI-e adapter and a cursed 3d-printed bracket
  • Full redundancy achieved on our disks! Now disks can fail without impacting currently running capsuls
• Replaced SSDs that were wearing out
  • Disk redundancy was tested & validated by ripping a disk out while the server is running