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Open source software to manage connected IoT devices at scale
https://balena.io/open
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What's new in version 4.x? #265

Open matiasAS opened 1 week ago

matiasAS commented 1 week ago

Hello, This issue is not to report any bugs. I have created it as a means of contact to know what is new in features in version 4.x vs 3.x For example, if I compare the readme files where all the detail is supposed to be, both readmes are practically the same. I know that, for example, the make command is now used to start and stop the containers or update to update everything, which I find very good, but I still don't know the specifications. Will delta updates be available? Will images of the operating system be downloadable? What do I gain by going from 3.x to 4.x?

I take advantage of giving feedback on proposed functionalities that I think would be very useful if they were present: webhook or displaying the status of the devices in real time (the is_online attribute), it could be for example in an mqtt broker where the credentials are configured from the Environment Variables.

Greetings Matias @ab77

ab77 commented 1 week ago

Hello, there is a changelog, which you can parse with open source tools to generate a digest of changes.

matiasAS commented 1 week ago

Hello, there is a changelog, which you can parse with open source tools to generate a digest of changes.

Excuse me, but are you telling me that I have to deduce what's new by looking at the code? @ab77

matiasAS commented 1 week ago

@ab77 What I mean is that to understand what is new, according to those changelogs, you have to understand how openbalena works internally, there are the changes at the code level, what I want to know is at a general level, of functionalities

matiasAS commented 5 days ago

Will the delta update or the VPN connection to the devices be implemented? Something that is not in 3.x? @ab77