Next-20250926

This is a bugfix and feature release:

• Fix old issue with only showing Server Admin app for actual admins (#40)
• Expanded sftp access to also cover read-only and write-only sharelinks (#284)
• Various obsolete python2 leftover cleanups (#301)
• Update quicktips with entries about Apps and site Status page (#304)
• Add common local disk file systems to migstat and prevent output on success (#305)
• Retire obsolete inline image preview support (#306)
• Fix theoretical PAM/NSS string handling overflow issues (#307, #308, #309, #310, #311, #312, #313)
• Polish DeIC storage helpers (#216, #314)
• Silence migimportdoi and migindexdoi in cronjobs unless actually in use ( #315)
• Integrate QR code on sharelink invite page to ease direct visual sharing (#316, #317)
• Limit GDP log noise from configured known security scanners (#319)
• Port old paramiko scan noise silencer to modern platforms and versions (#320)
• New janitor service to do recurring background cleanup and automate trivial operator tasks (#322)
• Remove recursive directory loops from obsolete legacy symlinks (#323)
• Increased unit test coverage (#324, #326, #327)
• More migration of scripts and code to mig/lib/, bin/ and sbin/ (#329)
• Fix failures from utf-8 interpretation of path strings in chkXroot logging (#331)
• Fix a corner-case in make_hash helper (#333)
• Remove all cleverness from unit test filesystem cleanup for consistency (#334)
• Reduce noise from harmless issues in monitoring of sftp/webdavs/ftps logs (#278, #337)
• Filtering of peers email and email during external user sign up (#321, #325 , #339)

Additional details are available in the complete changelog since last release for further elaboration in the real release.

Note: since v1.25.0 we only release the Next branch which is suitable for all modern deployments using python3. We leave the legacy-python2 branch around but it will neither receive further support nor releases.