openDesk 1.0 is here!
Today, the Centre for Digital Sovereignty (ZenDiS), together with its partners, officially presented openDesk version 1.0 at the Smart Country Convention (15–17 October 2024, in Berlin).
NewsopenDesk 1.3: One, two, and three!
openDesk 1.3 marks the start of our monthly release cycle, introducing new features for Office and Projects, improvements to deployment, and extended support for external secrets and Kubernetes.
Applications
Several applications in openDesk 1.3 include new features. Below is an overview of the most important updates.
IAM & Portal
openDesk 1.3 now includes Nubus version 1.8.0.
Office
openDesk 1.3 includes Collabora Online version 24.04.13.1.
This version brings performance improvements when working with DOCX and XLSX files, along with fixes related to the sidebar, search & replace, filtering, and more.
Projects
openDesk 1.3 includes OpenProject version 15.5.
This version introduces several improvements for handling work packages:
It’s now possible to specifically filter for child work packages.
The progress of child packages (% completed) is now reflected in the overarching progress of parent packages.
Enterprise users gain access to a new column that displays directly associated child work packages.
Deployment
openDesk 1.3 introduces multiple improvements for deployment and operations.
Keycloak Realm Settings
The keycloak realm settings can now be configured directly during deployment. This allows flexible adjustments to Single Sign-On validity (default: 16 hours).
Configuration is done in functional.yaml.gotmpl.
Annotations
All applications now support Kubernetes annotations.
Kubernetes annotations are key-value pairs attached to objects such as pods, services, or deployments to store additional, non-standardised metadata. Their main purpose is to provide information to tools and users without directly affecting cluster behaviour.
Annotations are maintained centrally in the annotations.yaml.gotpml file.
External Secrets
Other applications, including Open-Xchange, now support external secrets in openDesk 1.3. Support will continue to expand in future releases.
Documentation
Numerous minor corrections were made. A new note was added regarding usage with Ingress Nginx >= 1.12.0.
The use of enterprise artefacts is now described in more detail.
Upgrades
openDesk SaaS installations are automatically updated according to the SLA.
Self-hosted installations should refer to the notes on upgrades and migrations.
Changelog
Our full changelog is available on openCode.