Changelog

Changelog

Release history for Aquarius Bot Manager. Downloads are on the Releases page; the version is also shown in the dashboard header and via abm --version.

v3.2.1 — latest

• Fix: the 👥 Share button was only in the classic header — it's now also in the sidebar nav and quick-action menu, so it shows in the full (sidebar) layout too. Still owner-only.

v3.2.0

• Shareable-link guest access (tiered). Hand someone a single URL that lets them operate only the bots you choose, at a capability tier — View (read-only) / Operate (+ start/stop/restart + console commands) / Config (+ edit settings). No guest accounts, no password handout. Open the 👥 Share panel (owner header) to create a link (pick bots — including bots on remote boxes — a capability, and an expiry), copy it once (only its hash is stored), and share it. Manage or revoke links anytime; Revoke all kills every active link instantly.
  • Security: the grant is re-checked on every request, so expiry/revoke/scope-edits take effect immediately — even for a guest who's already in. Out-of-scope bots return 404 (indistinguishable from missing); guests can never list/switch boxes, see node credentials, or touch fleet/owner settings (delete, rename, deploy, proxies, system are owner-only). Redemption is rate-limited; the link travels over whatever transport the manager is exposed on, so use an HTTPS access mode before sharing externally. Recent guest activity is shown in the Share panel.
  • The control surface honors the same tiers (a View guest sees a read-only ⚙ Live configuration and no command runner). manager.py-only — the proxy bots are untouched.

v3.1.0

• Live configuration editing in the Control Surface. Each module now has a ⚙ Live configuration panel that reads the bot's real config and writes single fields back to the running bot instantly (toggles, numbers, text), persisted to its config — no restart. Powered by new bot-side endpoints GET /control/config (the live tree with all secrets redacted — auth/proxy/discord/db passwords + tokens are never exposed) and POST /control/config {path,value} (sets one field by dot-path; secret paths are refused). The friendly mockup subcards stay as a read-only overview above it. Requires a bot on AquariusProxy 5.7.0+ with server.viewer.control=true.

v3.0.0

• Live Control Surface (Mission Control). Each bot gets a front-facing cockpit at /control?inst=<name> (open it from the viewer drawer's Control → ⛶ Open full control surface) — every module, the world map, vitals, and a command palette on one page. It's served by the manager and relayed over the same authenticated, loopback-only tunnel as the live viewer, so nothing the bot serves is exposed.
  • Live: module status dots + enable toggles, per-module action buttons, vitals (health / food / position / dimension / speed from the ~20 Hz SSE feed), a command runner, and an interactive Live Map — a real bot-centred map tile with an entity overlay where you click to set an Elytra destination (fly trip <dim> <x> <z>).
  • Three appearances, switchable from the top bar and remembered: Mission Control (v1, default), Aurora Glass (v2), Console Pro (v3) — all share the same live data and the same Live Map.
  • Per-module settings subcards are read-only previews for now (honest in-UI banner); live config editing arrives in v3.1 with the /control/config API. Pearl-pins-on-the-map and the trade-list editor follow after.
  • New full guide with screenshots and a 48-module reference (warnings & caveats per module): Control Surface.
  • Requires the bot's server.viewer.enabled and server.viewer.control to be true (with control:false it's a read-only viewer).

v2.0 – v2.2 — live viewer & first-person POV

• Per-bot live viewer — a 2D world map that follows the bot (map / pan / overlays) plus an offline first-person POV rendered with raw WebGL (ambient occlusion + fog + selectable 32/48/64 render range; no textures by design). Streamed at ~20 Hz over SSE with per-bot viewer-port auto-detection.
• Control tab (cockpit precursor) in the per-bot drawer — vitals, inventory/armor with real MC item icons, module toggles, and an ElytraPilot flight panel. v3.0.0 promotes this to the full standalone Control Surface.

v1.7.0

• Automation: pick the target bot from a dropdown. The "Target bot" field on the Automation page is now a dropdown of every bot on the selected box — running or not — plus an All bots option, instead of a free-text name. It tracks the Box selector: choosing a connected box lists that box's bots, and All boxes collapses to just All bots. No more typos in bot names.
• 10 selectable fonts. A new Font picker in Settings → Appearance swaps the whole UI's display + monospace pairing: Aquarius (default · Sora / Space Mono), System (no web fetch), Inter, Roboto, Rounded (Nunito / Fira Code), Grotesk (Space Grotesk / IBM Plex Mono), Terminal (all-mono), Geometric (Poppins / Source Code Pro), Classic (Work Sans / Ubuntu Mono), and Editorial (Libre Franklin / Spline Sans Mono). The choice previews live, persists in settings.theme.font, lazy-loads its Google Font, and is also settable via abm settings --font <name>.

v1.6.0

• Automation — scheduled actions + an on-crash watchdog. A new Automation page (stored in settings.schedules) runs jobs on the controller every ~30 s:
  • Time schedules — cron (0 4 * * *), every:30m / every:2h, or daily:HH:MM.
  • On-crash watchdog — auto-restart a crashed bot up to N times with a cooldown, then back off.
  • Actions — restart / start / stop / send a console command (e.g. fly resupplyspares), against one bot or all.
  • Cross-box — target this box, a specific connected box, or all boxes (runs over the controller's node tunnels).
  • Discord notifications — an optional webhook pinged when a job runs/fails or the watchdog restarts a bot.
  • Add / enable / disable / delete jobs and Run now from the UI; jobs ride along with config backup/restore.

v1.5.1

• Fixed: a connected box could show "offline" in the Fleet view while it was actually reachable. After a manager restart (e.g. abm selfupdate), the previous SSH tunnel was orphaned but kept holding the loopback port, so the new managed tunnel couldn't bind — the supervisor then reported the box as down and couldn't self-heal if the orphan later died. The tunnel supervisor now reaps any stale/orphaned tunnel on the port before spawning, so boxes reconnect cleanly after every restart (and zombie ssh children are reaped).
• The command-center search bar now works — press ⌘K (Ctrl-K) anywhere to open a command palette that searches bots on this box and on every connected box, then jumps to a bot's telemetry/console or any page.

v1.5.0

• Selectable sidebar navigation — choose a layout in Settings → Appearance: the classic header (off), a compact icon rail, a full labeled sidebar with pinned live CPU / memory / disk vitals, or a command center with a search palette, a live crash alert and a live bot roster — each left- or right-oriented. Defaults to the full sidebar on the left; switch back to the classic header anytime (nothing is removed).
• Fleet page — a full-page multi-box overview: per-box health gauges and bot counts (offline boxes included), fleet totals, and a table of the bots on this box. Promotes the Boxes status view to a first-class page.
• Activity & alerts page — a live snapshot across the box: crashes, resource-threshold breaches, and proxy-console issues, with at-a-glance counts. (A persistent historical event log is coming next.)
• Telemetry page — per-bot detail: live status / CPU / memory / process tiles, a live CPU chart, and an embedded console tail, with a bot switcher. Open it by clicking a bot in the Fleet table or the command-center roster.
• Automation page (preview) — the planned layout for scheduled actions and auto-recovery is visible as a preview; the scheduler backend lands in a later release.
• Console log fix — each instance's live console is now its own scroll area, so a long log no longer clips the top/bottom or pushes the command bar off-screen, and the command bar stays pinned. Scrolling up pauses auto-follow (so you can read back) and a "jump to latest" pill returns you to the live tail.

v1.4.0

• Multi-VPS controller — one manager can drive your other boxes. Each other box runs the same manager in lightweight node mode (ABM_ACCESS=node, bound to 127.0.0.1), reached over a self-healing controller-managed SSH tunnel — nodes are never exposed publicly. See Multi-VPS Controller.
  • 🖥 Boxes panel: connect a box by pasting user@host, list/remove boxes, and a live Fleet view (reachable, bots running, host load/mem) with fleet-wide Start / Restart / Stop all and Update all nodes.
  • In-page box switcher — a sticky top bar reverse-proxies any connected box's full native dashboard into the same browser tab (console, config, files, everything); no extra tunnel or tab.
  • DigitalOcean — save a token, then connect existing droplets or provision a new 1GB node-mode droplet (auto-uploads the controller's SSH key + cloud-init install), and Destroy DO-backed boxes.
  • All-boxes launcher under 🔗 Connect — one script that tunnels into every box on distinct local ports (direct-access fallback).
  • CLI: abm node list|add|remove|test.
• "Update available" indicator — the 🔄 self-update button now shows a badge when the box is behind its upstream (a quiet git fetch, no pull).
• Config backup & restore — download a portable bundle of a box's configs (instances + node registry) and restore it later (a timestamped pre-restore snapshot is saved first). Settings → System.
• Theming — six new presets (obsidian, forest, rose, ocean, gold, sand), a custom background image with a dim slider, a density control (comfortable / compact / spacious), and one-click accent colour swatches.

v1.3.0

• Proxy health & auto-fix — scans each running bot's console for proxy errors (dead / Webshare-removed IPs) and shows which bots are broken (with the matching console line as evidence). One click re-imports fresh IPs from Webshare and reassigns them to the broken bots, then restarts. Fix scope: errored only, selected, or all; assignment: random, round-robin, or same. Detection patterns are tunable in the config (settings.proxy_health.patterns). New Errored quick-select in the bulk panel; new CLI abm proxyhealth, plus --mode random and --targets errored on abm proxybulk / abm webshare.
• Self-update / auto-update — update the manager in place with abm selfupdate (git pull + restart, no reinstall) or the 🔄 Update manager button in Settings → System. Enable abm autoupdate on (or the "Auto-update daily" toggle) to install a systemd timer that keeps it current automatically.
• Safe restarts — the systemd units now set KillMode=process, so restarting the manager (including abm selfupdate) only stops the manager process and never tears down the running bot tmux sessions, even when bots share the service's cgroup.

v1.2.0

• Webshare proxy import — one-click import of a whole Webshare proxy subscription, supporting both auth models (per-proxy user/pass and IP-authorized). See Proxies.
• Per-bot proxy credentials — the proxy editor now carries host / port / username / password per bot, not just host:port.
• Reconnect-friendly UX — bots and the dashboard survive your browser closing or your PC rebooting; a Connect panel hands you a one-click reconnect shortcut.
• Experimental Fleet (DigitalOcean) controller (fleet.py / abmfleet) — a multi-droplet layer for the one-bot-per-server model: provision droplets via the DigitalOcean API and manage their agents from one controller. Experimental, opt-in, separate from the single-host base manager.
• Full wiki documentation + UI screenshots.

v1.1.0

• Browser-first onboarding — create your login in the browser on first run via an in-app setup wizard; the installer is smarter about access modes (SSH tunnel vs. exposed HTTPS) and prints the exact next step.

v1.0.0 — first release

• Rebranded from ZenithProxy Manager to Aquarius Bot Manager (CLI zp → abm, env ZP_* → ABM_* with legacy fallback, tmux prefix zp_ → abm_, systemd units, /opt/aquarius-bot-manager). Manages AquariusProxy and ZenithProxy (and custom forks).
• VPS control plane (built in five phases):
  • Monitoring — host gauge strip (CPU / memory / disk) + per-bot CPU% and RAM, with alert thresholds.
  • Enforced resource limits — per-bot memory/CPU caps via systemd user scopes (cgroups).
  • Jailed file manager — browse/edit configs within an allowlist of roots.
  • One-click deployer — stand up a new AquariusProxy / ZenithProxy / custom-fork bot from the official launcher, which self-bootstraps Java and the jar.
  • Fresh-VPS installer + cloud-init.yaml for first-boot provisioning.
• CLI (abm) + pure-stdlib web UI: lifecycle (start/stop/restart/logs, one or all), live console with editable command presets, structured config editor with raw-JSON fallback, bulk / round-robin proxy assignment, and a login/session auth layer.
• Pure Python standard library + tmux — no pip, no Docker, no database.