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We publish the occasional post about LiberaForms in general.

New software releases are also posted here, so we'll be referencing this site as a source of upgrade information.

Thanks for visiting.

Free Form software for all!

 

Version 4.1.0

Linking to PDFs hosted on some proprietary cloud server hurts, especially when you've made the effort to use Free form software.

Suffer no longer! This release comes with an option to upload PDFs to the media library, and makes it easy to link to them from the markdown editor.

Also includes a new form option that makes a best-effort to stop a form from being answered twice on the same browser.

Thank you @wander, @AimeeMaroux, and @neil. ♥

Enjoy!

Version 4.0.1

This release contains a number of security and bug fixes. Users of all versions are encouraged to upgrade.

Special thanks to @wander for your analysis, proposals, and candor. ♥

Also includes some minor UI tweaks.

Enjoy!

Oh, and Long text form fields now automagically grow longer when viewed on cellphones.

We've moved to Codeberg!

Very much looking forward to becoming part of the vibrant community there.

Visit us at https://codeberg.org/LiberaForms

To sync with the new repo, go to the directory you installed LiberaForms and update the git config.

git remote set-url origin https://codeberg.org/LiberaForms/server.git

Thank you to the GitLab team for having us.

Goodbye Gitorious

Version 4.0.0

After some pondering, procrastinating, planning, and development, LiberaForms now comes with End-to-end encryption built in. Yeah!

This means that form answers are only known by the participating parties. No leaks!

Everything E2EE happens on the client and to achieve that LiberaForms imports OpenPGP.js, a library that fits our needs very well indeed.

As expected, private keys never leave the client and users must take responsibility for the safe keeping their key.

Because the server cannot read a form's encrypted answers, some form features are disabled, like sending confirmation via emails. But a part from that, E2EE integration is seamless. :)

Encryption is enabled on a form to form basis. SysAdmins set the E2EE_MODE to make E2EE either optional, required, or disabled.

Enjoy!

Version 3.7.1

Just a quick release before we launch v4.

This release comes with two notable bug fixes:

  • Form edition Cancel button now actually cancels the edition correctly
  • CSV and JSON answer exports correctly handle fields with duplicate names

4.0.0 Release candidate 1

We are publishing this release candidate in the hope you may evaluate it before the definitive release.

LiberaForms 4 will come with end-to-end encryption built in using OpenPGP.js. :D

Before releasing we would like to test our implementation of OpenPGP.js in general and especially test using different browsers (Safari, Edge, etc).

If you would like to help, we kindly invite you to create an account at dev.liberaforms.org and use the new E2EE features, starting with your PGP key pair.

Please consider sending us encrypted feedback if you do decide to.

Thanks for the help!

Version 3.7.0

The translations continue!

There is something special about seeing Free software cross the borders between peoples. This release of LiberaForms comes translated to Русский!

LiberaForms now speaks Castellano, Català, Čeština, Deutsche, English, Euskara, Français, Galego, தமிழ, and Русский.

Thank you to all the translators, and to @gfbdrgng (aka @iuvi) for your time. ♥

Enjoy!

Version 3.6.0

The translations continue!

It is real pleasure to release this version of LiberaForms translated to both Čeština and தமிழ்.

LiberaForms now speaks Castellano, Català, Čeština, Deutsche, English, Euskara, Français, Galego, தமிழ (Tamil).

Thank you to all the translators, and to both @trendspotter and @TamilNeram for your time. ♥

Enjoy!

Version 3.5.0

We are pleased to announce that LiberaForms fala galego!

Also importantly, the GDPR wizard has been translated to Čeština too :)

And not least, this release comes with improved form sharing and bug fixes.

E2EE progress

It's been two months since we first announced an E2EE preview available at dev.liberaforms.org

We've made good progress since then:

  • Step-by-step personal key creation
  • Adds an E2EE demo
  • Easy 'Delete all' and 'Restore' keys options
  • The UI prompts for key restoration when required
  • Key resoration handles passphrase
  • Key's are stored in the browser's localStorage and sessionStorage correctly
  • Simplifies form key creation
  • Adds option to copy the form's private key
  • Finishes unifying editor and reader form sharing code
  • Sharing E2EE forms UI gracefully handles different form user E2EE states

User documentation has somewhat fallen behind. Some work has been done but needs love and care.

Known bug. Form user E2EE status is incorrect when the personal keys have be purposefully overwritten.

Feel free to try it out at dev.liberaforms.org and give us some feedback! :)