Password-less Authentication

The traditional username/password based authentication system has been replaced with a password-less auth system.

Other changes:

• Remove domain verification end-point used by Caddy for the multi-site configuration.

AWS S3 Compatible Storage Support

If one wants to host the user uploaded files on a storage bucket like AWS S3 or DigitalOcean Spaces instead of local disk space, she needs to set certains environment variables in the .env file of the installation and restart it.

Read more about the configuration here.

Multi-tenancy

One can now host multiple schools using a single CourseLit installation. To enable multi-tenancy, export MULTITENANT=true in the current shell before running the installer script.

User Profiles

Users now have their own public profiles which they can edit.

Rich Text Editing and UI Enhancements

The following enhancements are introduced in this release

1. Rich Text Editor

• Hyperlinks creation
• Syntax highlighting
• Small toolbar
• Overflow fixes
• Using light theme for Twitter embeds

2. UI Enhancements

• Full width app bar
• Article header

Common Widgets

This release introduces more widgets to the platform which are listed below.

1. Featured Courses
2. About
3. Branding
4. Footer menu

In addition to this, some layout changes are also introduced.

WEBP Support

Read this official blog post for all details.

Caddy web server as a reverse proxy

This release replaces the HAProxy based reverse proxy server with the Caddy v2 based reverse proxy server. Additionally, this release comes with much improved and lighter Ansible installation script.

Improved Ansible Installation Script

The install script has been re-written to be less intrusive.

Installation Script Bug Fixes

v6.1.1

Fixed a conditional