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BookStack episodes

  • A Decade of BookStack

    BookStack is a decade old! In this video I talk about this milestone, go through project finances & stats, before then answering some questions from the community.

    ► BookStack Blogpost: https://www.bookstackapp.com/blog/decade-of-bookstack

    ► Things proud of in BookStack: https://www.bookstackapp.com/blog/things-proud-of-in-bookstack/
    ► Donations video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hILUhL_l_bU
    ► Project FAQ: https://www.bookstackapp.com/about/project-faq/#how-are-features--additions-decided-upon
    ► HortusFox: https://www.hortusfox.com/

    00:00 Intro & celebration

    01:17 Project finances
    04:54 Project stats
    07:04 Q&A: Inspiration/origins
    11:05 Q&A: Naming & hierarchy
    17:55 Q&A: Idea to publish time
    19:35 Q&A: Deciding on features
    22:32 Q&A: Tech stack choice
    27:33 Q&A: Collab features
    29:24 Q&A: Mental health
    34:13 Outro

    #opensource #selfhosted #documentation #wiki #bookstack #foss

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  • BookStack May 2025 Release Overview | v25.05

    Today we have the May 2025 release of BookStack, so we go over the latest additions and changes in this video. The headline features of this release are focused on new comment abilities but we have some other goodies packaged in also!

    ► Update Blogpost: https://www.bookstackapp.com/blog/bookstack-release-v25-05/

    ► Follow BookStack: https://www.bookstackapp.com/links/
    ► Follow me: https://danb.me/links

    0:00 Intro & content comments

    3:09 Comment archiving
    5:01 AVIF image support
    6:10 OIDC user avatar fetching
    7:02 API: System info endpoint
    7:24 New WYSIWYG editor progress
    8:12 Translation updates
    8:24 Next steps & outro

    #opensource #selfhosted #documentation #wiki #bookstack #foss

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  • Using BookStack as a Linux File System

    In this video I talk through a little go-based app I created which allows you to mount a BookStack instance as a FUSE file-system on Linux. This allows exploring your books, chapters and pages like it's a regular file-system, with various formats for page content.

    ► Codeberg Project Link: https://codeberg.org/bookstack/filesystem

    ► BookStack links: https://www.bookstackapp.com/links/
    ► My links: https://danb.me/links/

    0:00 Intro

    0:49 Demo of basic use
    2:16 PDF pages & further use
    3:49 Project info
    4:38 Outro

    #linux #fuse #bookstack #opensource

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  • BookStack February 2025 Release Overview | v25.02

    Here we go over the latest changes in BookStack v25.02! This aimed to be a maintenance release with the primary goal of upgrading our core framework, but it grew a little to include some goodies like automatic sorting, theme system additions, and editor improvements.

    ► Update Blogpost: https://www.bookstackapp.com/blog/bookstack-release-v25-02/

    ► Follow BookStack: https://www.bookstackapp.com/links/
    ► Follow me: https://danb.me/links

    0:00 Intro & update considerations

    1:06 Automatic sorting
    4:54 Search index improvements
    6:19 New WYSIWYG editor changes
    6:51 Theme system public folder
    7:51 Framework upgrade
    8:15 Translation updates
    8:27 Next steps & outro

    #opensource #selfhosted #documentation #wiki #bookstack #foss

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  • BookStack December 2024 Release Overview | v24.12

    For this Christmas time holiday period we have BookStack v24.12 which includes the gift of a new import & export format, while improving upon the new editor introduced in the last release. In this video I go through the changes and additions for this new release.

    ► Update Blogpost: https://www.bookstackapp.com/blog/bookstack-release-v24-12/

    ► BookStack Discord: https://discord.gg/ztkBqR2
    ► BookStack Peertube: https://foss.video/c/bookstack/videos
    ► Follow BookStack on Mastodon: https://fosstodon.org/@bookstack
    ► Follow me: https://danb.me/links

    0:00 Intro & update considerations

    0:27 New ZIP import/export format
    6:14 New WYSIWYG editor improvements
    7:25 REST API updates
    8:10 LDAP: multiple name attributes
    8:46 Translation updates
    8:56 Next steps
    10:38 Outro

    #opensource #selfhosted #documentation #wiki #bookstack #foss

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  • Upgrading a BookStack Install From Ubuntu 22.04 to 24.04

    I take you through the process of updating a Ubuntu 22.04 system, containing a BookStack install that's been set-up via our install script, to Ubuntu 24.04.

    In the video I run some commands to update PHP packages. Here are those commands for copy-paste:

    sudo apt update
    sudo apt install php8.3 php8.3-fpm php8.3-curl php8.3-mbstring php8.3-ldap php8.3-xml php8.3-zip php8.3-gd php8.3-mysql
    sudo a2dismod php8.1
    sudo a2enmod rewrite proxy_fcgi setenvif
    sudo a2enconf php8.3-fpm
    sudo systemctl enable php8.3-fpm.service
    sudo systemctl start php8.3-fpm.service
    sudo systemctl restart apache2.service

    ► Ubuntu Upgrade Guide: https://ubuntu.com/server/docs/how-to-upgrade-your-release

    ► BookStack backup & restore docs: https://www.bookstackapp.com/docs/admin/backup-restore/
    ► BookStack update docs: https://www.bookstackapp.com/docs/admin/updates/
    ► BookStack Discord: https://discord.gg/ztkBqR2
    ► BookStack Peertube: https://foss.video/c/bookstack/videos
    ► Follow BookStack on Mastodon: https://fosstodon.org/@bookstack
    ► Follow me: https://danb.me/links

    0:00 Intro, advisories & environment

    1:31 Steps overview & order
    2:06 System level backup
    3:11 App level backup
    6:34 Stopping BookStack & updating existing system
    7:41 Ubuntu upgrade
    11:19 Checking the upgrade
    12:23 Fixing PHP
    16:11 Updating composer
    16:53 Updating BookStack
    18:04 Another backup
    18:27 Outro

    #opensource #selfhosted #documentation #wiki #bookstack #foss

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  • BookStack October 2024 Release Overview | v24.10

    This October release is here bringing the first alpha-state inclusion of the new WYSIWYG editor, which has been the main development focus, but that doesn’t stop a few other goodies being included for this release too! In this video I go through the biggest changes for BookStack v24.10.

    ► Update Blogpost: https://www.bookstackapp.com/blog/bookstack-release-v24-10/

    ► BookStack Discord: https://discord.gg/ztkBqR2
    ► BookStack Peertube: https://foss.video/c/bookstack/videos
    ► Follow BookStack on Mastodon: https://fosstodon.org/@bookstack
    ► Follow me: https://danb.me/links

    0:00 Intro

    0:20 New WYSIWYG editor
    3:53 Search negation
    5:27 R & SAS code support
    5:42 Browser OpenSearch
    6:44 PDF export timeout
    7:11 Improved error handling
    8:12 Welsh & translation updates
    8:46 Next steps & outro

    #opensource #selfhosted #documentation #wiki #bookstack #foss

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  • Installing BookStack on Ubuntu Server 24.04 with HTTPS

    In this video we install BookStack on a fresh Ubuntu server 24.04 VPS instance, created on Linode/Akamai Cloud, then add HTTPS support on our instance using Certbot.

    ► BookStack Website: https://www.bookstackapp.com/

    ► BookStack Install Docs: https://www.bookstackapp.com/docs/admin/installation/
    ► Certbot Website: https://certbot.eff.org/
    ► BookStack Discord: https://discord.gg/ztkBqR2
    ► Follow BookStack on Mastodon: https://fosstodon.org/@bookstack
    ► Follow me: https://danb.me/links

    0:00 Intro & environment

    1:24 Initial installation
    4:47 First access & actions
    5:46 Testing & configuring email
    6:58 Adding HTTPS with certbot
    10:43 Updating BookStack URL
    13:24 Further considerations
    14:20 Support, feedback & outro

    #ubuntu #install #opensource #selfhosted #documentation #wiki #bookstack #foss

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  • Tea Break: 9 Years of BookStack, Finances, New Editor & Figures

    For this birthday of BookStack I go over the current project finances, provide a progress update on new editor work, and dive into the project finances.

    ► 9 Years of BookStack Blogpost: https://www.bookstackapp.com/blog/9-years-of-bookstack/

    ► Tech over tea Podcast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhCcvzT3IaE
    ► BookStack Discord: https://discord.gg/ztkBqR2
    ► BookStack Peertube: https://foss.video/c/bookstack/videos
    ► Follow BookStack on Mastodon: https://fosstodon.org/@bookstack
    ► Follow me on Mastodon: https://fosstodon.org/@danb

    0:00 Intro

    0:14 Project finances
    3:30 New editor development
    9:30 On tech over tea
    9:53 Project figures
    11:12 Outro

    #opensource #selfhosted #documentation #wiki #bookstack #foss

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  • BookStack May 2024 Release Overview | v24.05

    I take you through the latest changes for the BookStack March 2024 release. This is primarily a back-end maintenance release so there's not a massive amount to visually go over but hopefully you find something of interested in this latest update.

    ► Update Blogpost: https://www.bookstackapp.com/blog/bookstack-release-v24-05/

    ► BookStack Discord: https://discord.gg/ztkBqR2
    ► BookStack Peertube: https://foss.video/c/bookstack/videos
    ► Follow BookStack on Mastodon: https://fosstodon.org/@bookstack
    ► Follow me on Mastodon: https://fosstodon.org/@danb

    0:00 Intro

    0:24 Framework Upgrade & PHP Requirement Change
    1:25 PDF Export Command
    3:16 Page links style change
    3:57 OIDC Userinfo
    5:04 Audit Log API Endpoint
    5:42 Signup Honeypot
    6:03 LDAP CA Option and Filter Change
    6:52 Licenses Page
    7:27 Thanks to translators
    7:37 Next Steps
    10:29 Outro

    #opensource #selfhosted #documentation #wiki #bookstack #foss

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Official updates & guides from the BookStack project. There's also a dev-snippets channel here for more casual one-off scenario-based walk-throughs. You can also find us at: Homepage, Our Other…