ArchiveBox v0.8.5-rc release notes

[!WARNING] This is a BETA pre-release that improves upon the previous v0.8.4-rc ALPHA pre-release. The next stable release will be v0.9.0. The v0.8.x-rc series of releases are for collecting feedback while we make big architectural improvements to support a new public plugin marketplace + ecosystem (powered by pluggy + huey + pydantic). We want brave early adopters to help us test it! (if that’s not you, wait for v0.9!)

Also I just got a new job recently and I’m about to have a kid so no promises on stable release schedule anytime soon, sorry!

⬇️ BETA Instructions: 1. backup your collection 2. install the :dev branch with docker/pip (expand for details)

🗜️ Always make a full backup before installing new BETA releases!
Remember, this is an unstable sneak-preview in the middle of a rewrite, so it MAY DAMAGE DATA.

gzip -k ./data/index.sqlite3         # do this at least 🙏
zip -r data.bak.zip data             # OR even better: backup the entire data dir

📦 Then get the latest nightly build from Docker Hub or Pip:

docker pull archivebox/archivebox:0.8.5rc51
# OR
pip install 'git+https://github.com/ArchiveBox/ArchiveBox@v0.8.5rc51'

↗️ Then run archivebox init to upgrade your collection: This take several hours to migrate existing data from v0.7.x on a slower HDDs (up to ~1min/1000 URLs).

archivebox install         # make sure all package and runtime dependencies are installed & available
archivebox init            # run data migrations (slow, theoretically safe to Ctrl+C and resume, but try not to)
archivebox version         # check that everything updated properly and dependencies are installed
archivebox status          # see a health report on the collection index & snapshot directories

💬 Let us know if you find bugs or have suggestions by opening a new issue! In particular we want to hear:

was the upgrade/migration process smooth?
can you find any areas of the UI/CLI that are slow?
how do you like the new plugin system? (see archivebox/plugins_extractor/*) Would you contribute a new plugin?

Highlights

Screenshot 2024-10-03 at 4 34 08 AM ArchiveBox shell Screenshot 2024-10-03 at 4 33 52 AM ArchiveBox help

What’s Changed

📦 Deprated apt and brew install methods in favor of pip + new archivebox install cmd
🌈 Much improved archivebox help, archivebox version, and archivebox shell CLI interfaces
⚡️ Massive speedups to binary detection and loading at startup time
✍️ New Machine, NetworkInterface, and InstalledBinary models keep an audit log of host environment changes and health
Many other bugfixes, speedups, and internal architecture improvements
Move novnc web-ui to 8081 by @agowa in https://github.com/ArchiveBox/ArchiveBox/pull/1522
Add OpenContainer Image Format Annotations as Labels to Docker Image by @mpgirro in https://github.com/ArchiveBox/ArchiveBox/pull/1525

New Contributors

@agowa made their first contribution in https://github.com/ArchiveBox/ArchiveBox/pull/1522
@mpgirro made their first contribution in https://github.com/ArchiveBox/ArchiveBox/pull/1525

Full Changelog: https://github.com/ArchiveBox/ArchiveBox/compare/v0.8.4-rc…v0.8.5-rc