Introduce a shared vm-core loader and refactor the Ubuntu 26.04 VM script to use reusable helper functions. misc/vm-core.func: add COMMUNITY_SCRIPTS_URL default and load_api_functions to dynamically source API helpers, then call load_api_functions from load_functions. vm/ubuntu2604-vm.sh: switch to sourcing the shared vm-core via COMMUNITY_SCRIPTS_URL, replace many inline UI and utility functions with generic vm_* helpers (vm_confirm_new_vm, vm_prompt_*, vm_select_storage, vm_define_disk_references, set_description, etc.), modernize quoting and pushd usage, simplify disk import/resizing logic, and set START_VM default to yes. Also update repository URLs to ProxmoxVED and adjust some behavior (machine type handling, storage/disk references). Overall this centralizes common functionality, reduces duplication, and prepares scripts to use the shared core utilities.
Introduce interactive whiptail-based helpers and robust error handling for VM creation.
- Add error_handler() to report failures (calls post_update_to_api if available), print contextual error info, and call cleanup_vmid.
- Ensure TEMP_DIR is removed in cleanup().
- Replace brittle pve_check with version parsing that supports Proxmox VE 8.0–8.9 and 9.0–9.1 (exits with code 105 on unsupported versions).
- Add ssh_check() to warn users running the script over SSH.
- Add sanitize_vm_hostname() and a suite of vm_* helper functions to prompt and validate interactive settings via whiptail: vm_confirm_new_vm, vm_choose_settings_mode, vm_prompt_vmid, vm_prompt_machine_type, vm_apply_machine_type, vm_prompt_disk_size, vm_prompt_disk_cache, vm_prompt_hostname, vm_prompt_cpu_model, vm_prompt_cpu_cores, vm_prompt_ram, vm_prompt_bridge, vm_prompt_mac, vm_prompt_vlan, vm_prompt_mtu, vm_prompt_start_vm.
- Add storage helpers: vm_select_storage, vm_apply_storage_layout, vm_define_disk_references to detect storage pools, set formats/extensions and prepare disk refs.
- Use APP/NSAPP for description title by introducing local description_title in set_description().
These changes centralize validation and interactive flow, improve UX, and harden error reporting and cleanup.
Modernize and simplify VM installer and lobehub installation flows.
Key changes:
- install/lobehub-install.sh: consolidated apt invocation, replaced manual ParadeDB .deb download with fetch_and_deploy_gh_release helper, added postgresql pg_search preload configuration and restart, moved pnpm installation into setup_nodejs via NODE_MODULE, and adjusted build env handling.
- vm/almalinux-10-vm.sh: major refactor to source shared functions from COMMUNITY_SCRIPTS_URL, add load_functions, centralize cloud-init handling (configure_cloudinit_ssh_keys / setup_cloud_init), replace many custom UI/helper functions with standardized helpers and exit_script, update traps and error handling, simplify prompts/defaults, use $STD for apt operations, and streamline image customization and VM creation flow.
- Added vm/headers/almalinux-10-vm containing the VM header art and title.
These changes centralize common logic, improve cloud-init integration, reduce duplicated code, and make maintenance easier.
- drop redundant curl of default.yml (file is part of release tarball)
- stop creating /opt/authentik-data dirs in install (mounted later as separate volume)
- enable services without --now in install (started after data volume is attached)
Introduce GitLab release helpers and use them to conditionally update Storyteller.
- misc/tools.func: add get_latest_gitlab_release and check_for_gl_release functions (GitLab API calls, token support, pinning, error handling, requires jq).
- ct/storyteller.sh: wrap update sequence with check_for_gl_release so rebuild/deploy only runs when a new GitLab release is detected; update author metadata.
- install/storyteller-install.sh: remove python3 from apt dependencies and drop NODE_OPTIONS export; minor whitespace cleanup.
These changes prevent unnecessary rebuilds by detecting upstream GitLab releases and improve robustness of release detection and error reporting.
