[mythtv] 0.28 Release Schedule

[Stuart Morgan]

On Wednesday 06 Jan 2016 21:53:27 Stuart Auchterlonie wrote:
> On 06/01/16 21:45, Richard Shaw wrote:
> > Fantastic!
> > 
> > I know I've seen a few emails about the changes, but could you summarize
> > the main disruptive changes with 0.28?
> > 
> > Will mythweb be obsolete?
> 
> no, because the web based setup is not complete.

Actually, it depends what you use mythweb for.

There was very limited 'setup' functionality in mythweb anyway so the absence 
of the web based setup doesn't have much day to day impact.

For day to day usage, the WebFrontend provides most of the day to day features 
- scheduling, recording management and that sort of stuff. It's lacking some 
features which were present in mythweb, but it also offers other features which 
weren't there in mythweb too. Since it works out of the box with no need to 
install a webserver, php or perform additional configuration above what is 
required to setup mythbackend it's convenient and may be sufficient replacement 
for mythweb for many users.

That said, I would caution against exposing it directly to the internet for 
now, while a number of security related features have been built in (HTTP 
digest authentication, TLS encryption etc) it hasn't yet been hardened to the 
extent we'd like. I wouldn't say it's less secure than mythweb in that respect 
as mythweb was written years ago and really shouldn't be placed directly on 
net facing connection either. Access via LAN or VPN would be recommended at 
least for now.

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Stuart Morgan
MythTV