Thanks for sharing Peter! :)

We're currently still busy working on v17.0. Once we have Core and TKLDev released as stable v17.0, then LAMP should be fairly close behind. Once that's done, then work can start on Invoice Ninja v5.

And unfortunately, it seems that you can't just upgrade. You need to migrate. I was going to suggest that you try installing v5 alongside and do the migration. However, it looks like Invoice Ninja v5 requires PHP 7.4. You'll need (the as yet unreleased) TurnKey v17.x to get that by default (although you could install PHP from third party).

Having said that, I note that they published "Minor fixes" for v4; v4.5.48 - 5 days ago. So whilst it may not be getting new features, it does appear that they are still providing some degree of maintenance.

Regardless, hopefully we can push it out in the coming months...

I'm not sure, but my guess is that you need to manually download the update and copy it over the existing files. Don't do that without a backup though; just in case... Actually, yep looks like I'm right.

Bugger about the app though. Until you have v5 you may need to just use the web UI. I'm sure that sucks, but unfortunately I can't go any faster than I already am...

Some quick pointers:

By default the user is "root", but the webserver user needs ownership of the /var/www/invoiceninja files. Do that like this:

chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/invoiceninja

The docs not using composer and artisan, again, these need to be run as the www-data user. You can do that with the included 'runuser' command (or 'su') or you can install 'sudo' and use that instead.

runser (or su - the format is exactly the same):

runuser - www-data -s /bin/bash
COMMAND
ANOTHER_COMMAND
exit

Or sudo:

apt update && apt install sudo -y
sudo -u www-data COMMAND
sudo -u www-data ANOTHER_COMMAND

Thanks for your kind words George.

Unfortunately, I don't have a firm ETA (and if I gave you one it'd likely be wrong). I am still bogged down with the v17.0 Core and TKLDev release ATM. I'm hoping that it will be released really soon, but I can't give a firm timeframe (within the next week or 2 fingers crossed).

Once we have that done, then hopefully Invoice Ninja won't be too far behind, but history suggests possibly as soon as a few weeks after. Having said that, we have done lots of the other LAMP appliances already (just have to wait to do final testing once we have Core, TKLDev and LAMP apps done) but Invoice Ninja isn't one of those. So we'll have to see...

TL;DR ASAP! :)

The timing for Ninja Invoice v5 wasn't great. When we were ready to do the integration, v5 wasn't quite (it was "stable" but didn't support an included PDF generator). I wasn't happy publishing our appliance whilst it relied on a third party service for generating PDFs. From what I gather, that has since been resolved, but unfortunately we don't currently have the spare cycles to prioritise a Ninja5 update ATM. :(

We will get to it, but it will have to wait until we get to it. We've finally completed Core v17.0 (I'm yet to actually announce it, but it's on the mirror - only about 3 months behind schedule). So when we get to the Ninja Invoice appliance, it will be Ninja5!

If anyone is interested in assisting us to push out a v17.0 Ninja Invoice v5 appliance, please let us know! :)

I'm not particularly familiar with Ansible, so I'm not sure how useful it might be. But if you have it handy (or posted somewhere already) please do share. I t certainly won't do any harm!

As for setup screens. Assuming that you are referring to a setup screen displayed within the browser, the way around those is to use curl to interact with the service. We use that approach quite a bit. Lots of webapps (PHP based ones in particular) seem to require an interactive process via the browser as the final step. They can sometime take a bit of fiddling to get right, especially when they are running javascript. But at the end of the day, it's all TCP packets...

Unfortunately, I have been hijacked by a raft of other issues (mostly related to our infrastructure) that have drawn my attention away from the updated v17.x appliance release.

However, I can tell you that the work on Invoice Ninja v5 appliance has started. FYI, I anticipate that the updated app will be 'turnkey-invoice-ninja-17.1-bullseye-amd64'. In an effort to be transparent, even once the buildcode is updated, then it will fall to me to do code review, build it and do final release testing. So updating the buildcode will only be the first part of the process. I am hoping to be able to circle back to to the release within the next week or 2. I intend to release all updated appliances that are ready at that point. If the Invoice Ninja v5 update is complete, passes code review, builds successfully and passes final release testing by then, it will be included in the next batch of updated appliances. If it fails any of those steps, it will be pushed back until the next batch.

I'll try to ensure that I let you know once we've updated the build code. If you have the time and energy, you can then build and test an ISO locally. Hopefully it won't take too long to get to that point.

Hi Jeremy,

I pulled down the new ISO yesterday ... must have just landed when I did my weekly check ... anyhow will deploy it on Proxmox over the next few days ... will let you know the outcome 

Regards

George V

Just noticed this cross post - see thread here.