[Files Plugin] Upcoming changes in Files plugin version 4
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In the upcoming master release and in the next major release (version 4), account security will be updated and the following changes will be introduced:
Changes
- Files plugin requires sodium and distributions that ship php <7.2 out of the box are no longer build.
- A new config option
FILES_ACCOUNTSTORE_V1_SECRET_KEY
is introduced. Default: empty. link to config - The Files plugin will not work when this option is empty.
Old configs:
FILES_PASSWORD_KEY
andFILES_PASSWORD_IV
will still work for older accounts if configured, but note if the old options are removed, we cannot decrypt older accounts. Therefor make sure you’ve made a backup of those keys.Version 3 packages will still be available and get occasional updates, for now.