Today, we're excited to announce the release of Linkwarden 2.12! đ„ł This update brings significant improvements and new features to enhance your experience.
For those who are new to Linkwarden, itâs basically a tool for saving and organizing webpages, articles, and documents all in one place. Itâs great for bookmarking stuff to read later, and you can also share your resources, create public collections, and collaborate with your team. Linkwarden is available as a Cloud subscription or you can self-host it on your own server.
This release brings a range of updates to make your bookmarking and archiving experience even smoother. Letâs take a look:
Whatâs new:
đ«§ Drag and Drop Support
One of our most requested features is finally here! You can now drag and drop Links onto Collections and Tags. This makes it much easier to organize your bookmarks and keep everything tidy.
đ€ Upload from SingleFile
SingleFile is an awesome browser extension that allows you to save complete webpages as a single HTML file on your device. As of Linkwarden 2.12, you can upload your saved links directly from the SingleFile browser extension into Linkwarden. This allows you to easily save articles which are behind paywalls or require authentication directly from your browser.
To use this feature, simply install the SingleFile extension, and then follow the documentation.
đ Progressed Translations
Weâve made significant progress in our translations, with many languages now fully supported. If youâre interested in helping out with translations, check out our Crowdin page.
â And more...
There are also a bunch of smaller improvements and fixes in this release to keep everything running smoothly.
Full Changelog: https://github.com/linkwarden/linkwarden/compare/v2.11.8...v2.12.0
Want to skip the technical setup?
If youâd rather skip server setup and maintenance, our Cloud Plan takes care of everything for you. Itâs a great way to access all of Linkwardenâs featuresâplus future updatesâwithout the technical overhead.
We hope you enjoy these new enhancements, and as always, we'd like to express our sincere thanks to all of our supporters and contributors. Your feedback and contributions have been invaluable in shaping Linkwarden into what it is today. đ
36 Comments
CocaineShrimp@sh.itjust.works · 22 pts · 359d
Linkwarden user here. Can confirm - it's a great tool to dump links for later. I've setup an iOS shortcut that lets me share links directly to linkwarden. Super handy
daniel31x13@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 359d
Great to hear! Just wait till you hear about the upcoming official mobile app!
RedBauble@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 359d
For however needs it, LinkGuardian on Android (izzyondroid for fdroid) offers the same thing!
Lem453@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 358d
I've been using this which works great.
https://f-droid.org/packages/com.sbv.linkdroid/
Works with my single sign on setup as well which was critical. Creates a nice share target on android so any share button gives the option of sending the link to linkwarden
RedBauble@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 357d
You know what, I like it more than LinkGuardian. Great suggestion!
Kuro@feddit.org · 4 pts · 359d
Nice, how are you hosting it?
victorz@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 358d
Freaking quality post, OP! Lots of information about what's new, barely even have to visit the link to know what's going on here. Love to see it.
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daniel31x13@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 358d
Thanks! :)
glizzyguzzler@piefed.blahaj.zone · 11 pts · 359d
This is a fantastic tool, but Iâd love to confidently expose the API to the internet for the shortcut. To do that you need read-only and running as a user; I saw that thatâs not a thing that works from the issues.
Any thoughts on getting those security features working? Cause the app itself is so smooth Iâd let my parents use it and be confident they wouldnât need to be herded constantly.
daniel31x13@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 359d
So you want to disable registration? It's possible.
glizzyguzzler@piefed.blahaj.zone · 10 pts · 359d
No what I said isn't about user registration; it's about adding these to the
docker-compose.yml:to prevent running as root and making the file system read-only. The API needs to be exposed without a VPN or other proxy login since my parents' can't handle that, so if I was able to implement these recommended security steps I'd feel like I could open up the container to the internet at large without too much risk.
Per this issue https://github.com/linkwarden/linkwarden/issues/799 it seems like there's a lot of steps to take to get these settings to work.
It would be also ideal if I didn't have to give the container (but not a deal-breaker):
as the issue also states is required for the headless chrome scraper browser.
I am using it internally now and it's really good, but to open it up for my parents (which I think they'd dig) I'd definitely want these security settings on without major issues. Linkwarden is an internet-facing application so these recommended security practicies are in its wheel-house, feature-wise, as well.
Hope that helps clear up my comment!
daniel31x13@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 359d
Oh I see, thanks for letting me know! Yes that's actually requested and we'll be getting to it sometime.
glizzyguzzler@piefed.blahaj.zone · 5 pts · 359d
Great to hear! Itâs seriously slick and âjust worksâ. With those security features up you can tout them on the cloud offering too :)
somethingsomethingidk@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 359d
So I have mine running in a podman quadlet. It runs as root in the container but it is unpriviledged. Mine has NET_ADMIN and SYS_MODULE but I honestly can't remember why... SYS_ADMIN seems extreme though
Edit: I'm dumb, and the linkwarden container has no capabilities set. I set them for the tailscale container which definitely needs it.
glizzyguzzler@piefed.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 359d
Care to share your quartet? Iâm just getting into the quads with trixie out - and I havenât gotten this working yetâŠ
The permissions do seem intense; if youâre getting by without maybe those arenât quite needed!
somethingsomethingidk@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 358d
Sure thing, I'll edit this reply when I get back to my computer. Just note that I also have a tailscale and nginx container in the pod which are not necessary.
You'll see my nginx config which reverse proxies to the port the service is running on. On public servers I have another nginx running with SSL that proxies to the port I map the pod's port 80 to.
I usually run my pods as an unpriviledged user with
loginctl enable-lingerwhich starts the enabledsystemctl --userservices on boot.All that being said I haven't publically exposed linkwarden yet, mainly because it's the second most resource intensive service I run and I have all my public stuff on a shitty vps.
Edit: My opsec is so bad hahaha
Edit2: I just realized the caps I gave were to the tailscale container, not the linkwarden container. Linkwarden can run with no caps :)
I added the tailscale stuff back
files:
linkwarden-pod.kube:
linkwarden-pod.yml:
I also have a little helper script you might like
copy.sh:
glizzyguzzler@piefed.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 358d
Thanks! Thisâll def help me get tooled up for podman :)
starkzarn@infosec.pub · 1 pts · 358d
Just curious why you chose a kube quadlet instead of the typical podman container quadlets?
somethingsomethingidk@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 358d
I think it's cool that I can take that config and drop it into kubernetes and it usually just works. I don't have a cluster anymore, but if I decide to use one in the future, the overhead will be negligible
Lem453@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 358d
How would you add new links if its read only?
glizzyguzzler@piefed.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 358d
As always you store data you want to keep in the volumes section.
With read-only you prevent new binaries from being added in the image space. You can add ânoexecâ to your volumes/tmpfs preventing binaries to the areas that are writable. Then ideally you are using an image with minimal surface area (e.g., only sh and the exact binaries needed to make it go) and itâs very secure! Itâs still plenty secure without a minimal image.
Lem453@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 358d
Couldn't the attacker just drop a dangerous binary into the data volume then?
glizzyguzzler@piefed.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 357d
Not if you annotate your data volume with said ânoexecâ which prevents execution from anything in the data volume. It looks like this, you can slam it on any volume you like - no volumes should have executables in them anyways.
Also Iâm pretty sure ânoexecâ is the default, so thatâs by default protected. But I canât confirm that from a quick search so not 100% on that.
â/mnt/data:/container/place/it/wants:rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,Zâ
ârwâ means read/write. You can change it to âroâ for read-only if the volume shouldnât write to it (maybe a config file).
Z is for selinux that means âonly one program can read/write tho thisâ. You can change it to âzâ lowercase in case more than one needs to read/write. Only case Iâve found for little z is crowdsec needing to watch Caddyâs log for blocking.
So overall, the idea is that your volume mounts canât be used to execute arbitrary binaries AND the image file system is frozen so that arbitrary binaries cannot be loaded into the image (which is by default all executable, a requirement to run anything in it). So if someone was able to hack into an internet-facing container, they wonât be able to load up whatever they want. Theyâll be limited to whatâs built into the image (which ideally are secure and limited in scope).
Lem453@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 357d
This is great. Thanks!
recklessengagement@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 358d
Sweet! Single-file looks like a decent workaround for those links that get locked behind captcha when they're being saved. Always frustrates me when I go to review a link and it turns out it only saved a cloudflare redirect lol
daniel31x13@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 358d
Glad you like it!
altphoto@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 357d
Linkwarden kicks butt! I use it all the time now.
CommanderShepard@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 357d
I'd love to move to it, but I cannot find any easy way to export from Readeck and import to Linkwarden. At least a list of pages.
kureta@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 357d
I was using it, switched to hoarder, then readeck. Now I'm thinking about moving back to linkwarden, so this is bad news for me.
PieMePlenty@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 357d
I do host an instance of it but rarely use it. I'd love to see more in depth archival features like deep link archiving and archiving resources behind authorization. My use case is more archiving than bookmarking.
kureta@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 357d
Then, I think you should be using Archive Box. Maybe you already do.
PieMePlenty@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 356d
I actually don't! I'll check it out if it fits my needs. Thanks!
oyzmo@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 354d
Love it đ
other_cat@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 356d
Nice. Started using it just a couple weeks ago. I tested a big chunk of them and while Linkwarden isn't perfect, it does everything better than everything else I tried.
Do we self-hosters need to do anything special? I remember looking at some docs about upgrading versions, but I don't know how to tell which version I have.
Saltarello@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 356d
As a general rule when installing anything with Docker Compose, rather than using "latest" I prefer to specify a version as it makes it easier to roll back should i find issues with an update.