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Goodbye server-manager!

Offline ReetP

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Goodbye server-manager!
« on: November 26, 2025, 11:54:38 AM »
Goodbye old friend.

Finally, after nearly 30 years of fantastic service, we are now retiring the old server-manager:

https://bugs.koozali.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13333
https://bugs.koozali.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13300

The libraries it relied on are very old and unmaintained and we need a more modern system.

This has been replaced by smanager - a perl mojolicious based system. It has a modern supported backend. A huge shout out to Michel and Brian who have built it. It has been a massive piece of work.

It should look quite familiar to you!

One new thing is it can have themes, and there has been work on a more responsive theme as well.

The team are in the process of migrating contribs to the new system. Do please help test. You do NOT have to be a coder to help - just be a normal user, run a test VM, try and break it, and report issues.

Or help verify fixes. Just ask us and we will try and give you some guidance - better still come and talk to us on our Rocket.Chat

...
1. Read the Manual
2. Read the Wiki
3. Don't ask for support on Unsupported versions of software
4. I have a job, wife, and kids and do this in my spare time. If you want something fixed, please help.

Bugs are easier than you think: http://wiki.contribs.org/Bugzilla_Help

If you love SME and don't want to lose it, join in: http://wiki.contribs.org/Koozali_Foundation