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Hello Froxies, today we're releasing Froxlor 0.9.13 - again we received a lot of feedback from all of you which helps us make Froxlor better and better every time. Also, we are looking forward to our first FroxCon which will be in mid-october. See more in this thread These changes found their way in 0.9.13: * Fix monthly Awstats generation (bug #240) * Improve behavior of security-questions (bug #332) * Added checkbox to prevent creation of index.html in home directory (bug #369) * Added checkbox to prevent creation of unneeded statistics directories (bug #370) * Control amount of autoresponders per customer (bug #377) * Restrict sender address to logged-in SMTP user in postfix (bug #379) * Removed display of RegEx within the password-complexity error-message (bug #392) * Correction of domain-list view (bug #394) * Fixed SQL-query in customer management (bug #397) * Fixed autoresponder when automatically answered mails being received (bug #399) * Fixed postfix-dovecot configuration-templates for Ubuntu Lucid (bug #401) * Added support for CGI APS-packages (bug #404) * Fixed usage of usernames instead of uid/gid when fcgid is not enabled (bug #407) * Fixed up irritating texts on the panel (bug #408) * [Gentoo Ebuild] Added php.ini creation for own vhost (bug #411) * Fixed deletion of files when a domain gets deleted (bug #415) Download Froxlor 0.9.13 Visit www.froxlor.org or join our irc-channel #froxlor on irc.freenode.org Debian packages are in process of being built and will be available later today as usual. Thank you, your Froxlor Team

Hello Froxies, this year, we'll start our 1st official FroxCon *Update* You can now sign-up for the FroxCon at http://froxcon.froxlor.org/. It would be nice if you do so we can prepare properly. When? 16th October, 2010 Where? St. Ingbert, Germany What's this about? meet and greet with the Froxlor-Devs contribute and work with us on the upcoming Froxlor-1.0 discuss problems and new features have a lot of fun Program FroxCon 2010 - Program and check out the new website: FroxCon 2010 How much does it cost? 10,- EUR per person, to cover the expenses.

We work for free, support for free on the forum, our irc channel and via e-mail. Of course we can put a link/logo/etc. on our sponsors page for you.

For installation/management i think "froxlor-help.net" is a better contact (which does that professionally) but on the other hand, that would not help Froxlor itself I hope you can understand that we - the Froxlor dev team - have not enough time to handle server management for others

What kind of service would that be?

about 20 EUR per months

Hello Froxies, today, http://www.froxlor-help.net/ launched their services: Commercial support and help for installation and configuration of Froxlor and needed services. This service is brought to you by the external service-provider NuTime. For more information visit http://www.froxlor-help.net/ or contact the webmaster at mk@froxlor-help.net (also, feedback or suggestions are always welcome).

A directly update is possible, all newer Froxlor versions include updates of previous versions. You can always update to the latest version, no matter what version is currently used.

Right now, we only have donate-button on our website (http://froxlor.org/sponsors.html), but for regular payments I'd have to check out what paypal can do Also, nice idea with the forum+ads and forum-without-ads (if paid)...

We don't have any amount in mind we have to reach - every bit helps. i like your idea of this "monthly payment"...

1) we do have that (NuTime UG, see imprint) 2) and 3) are only possible if there's one who does this as a fulltime job 4) nice idea so far

You mean like some kind of paypal-"subscription"?

Hello Froxies, You all may know or can imagine, that when managing a open source project it sometimes comes to the point where you have to think about money. We don't want you to think that we want to ask for money here - we would never do that. We just like to hear some ideas how you think we could manage this. There are quite a few things we have to pay at this moment such as domains, developer meetings and the new support-hotline we want to set up for you, which also costs us a few bucks per month (more info about that will be published when we've finished the setup). So we thought about what to do and came up with three possible solutions: 1. place some ads in the forums (which we don't like very much, but could help a lot) 2. start a fund-raising (which will then be once, no monthly payments) 3. find sponsors (which is not as easy as it may sound as we cannot provide contribution receipts) What would be your favorite? Do you have any other ideas? Any help is appreciated and welcome. Thanks in advance, the Froxlor team

Hello Froxies, today we're releasing Froxlor 0.9.12 which comes with a lot of bugfixes and improvements (thanks to the community) such as 'FCGID Vhost Container for the Panel itself' and some more e-mail notification templates for customization. These changes found their way in 0.9.12: * Allow files to be set as 40x & 500 error-handler (bug #267) * Added possibility to use FCGID also for the Froxlor-panel itself (bug #305) * Improved/Reviewed autoresponder-source (bug #308) * Fixed various file-permission-commands in the configuration-area (bug #309, #310) * Added pure-ftpd to Gentoo, fixed configuration for debian-based systems (bug #311) * Added possibility to use Perl/CGI for Apache+SuExec users (bug #319) * Fixed editing of mysql-databases in customer-panel (bug #325) * Added possibility to add a subdomain of another domain as "full"-domain in admin-interface (bug #329) * Fixed issues when saving settings with attribute "dir" (bug #331) * Set default path for FTP-accounts to customerroot (bug #338) * Fixed usage of chattr under FreeBSD, it is named chflgs there (bug #339) * Added possibility to customize the description of a directory-protection via htpasswd (bug #345) * Added e-mail notification template for 'forgot password' (bug #354) * Remove fcgi-starter if domain has been deleted (bug #367) * Added '{COMPANY}' template variable for all e-mail templates (bug #376) Download Froxlor 0.9.12 Visit www.froxlor.org or join our irc-channel #froxlor on irc.freenode.org Debian packages are in process of being built and will be available later today as usual. A little heads up for users on Debian Squeeze (Lenny users can safely ignore this): the upcoming Package (read: 0.9.13) will contain major changes, in particular: * move most of the package content to /usr/share * implement debconf for storing options which are needed on upgrading (for example, user:group when using FCGI, currently, we just rely on www-data being used, which is not optimal.) * Config Templates for squeeze (finally!) this changes will prepare the package for upstream inclusion see, this ITP however, please note that this may or may not happen in squeeze+1 depending on the state of 1.0 when squeeze is released, you might just end up seeing 1.0 there This will *not* hit lenny as the upgrading between versions on lenny should be painless and we don't want to introduce major changes, we understand that not pushing the debconf change to lenny might be suboptimal for people that want to use FCGID for the froxlor vhost and apologize for the inconvenience Thank you, your Froxlor Team

You have to regenerate the configs after that, just click "Admin-Menu -> Rebuild Config Files -> Yes" and wait for the cron

Admin-Menu -> Settings -> System-Settings -> "Access Froxlor directly via the hostname" (yes or no) where "yes" means, Froxlor will be reachable via 'http://your-main-host.name' and "no" means, Froxlor will be reachable via 'http://your-main-host.name/froxlor'

Dear Froxies, as you might have noticed, there has not been very much activity since the last release. This does not mean that we do not have the energy anymore, it's more based on a lot of stuff we have to talk about for Froxlor-1.0 and of course the soccer world championship ;-) Nevertheless, we are currently refactoring the nameserver-integration of Froxlor 0.9. It will take a while until this is finished though. We also updated our APS integration to the new APS 1.2 - standard, now most packages are working again. New features / Bugfixes and more: * implemented APS-1.2 standard (bug #232) * fixed DNS mail A record is not created when using external MX servers (bug #242) * added possiblility for customer to get its e-mail account data deleted from the filesystem when removing an account from the panel (bug #245) * fixed duplicate config variable in lighttpd.conf (bug #254) * fixed incorrect form field in autoresponder form (bug #256) * corrected chown'ing of awstats-directory (bug #258) * fixed incorrect (additional) directory-creation in webserver-cron (bug #259) * fixed sed expressions in the configuration manual (bug #263) Download Froxlor 0.9.9 Visit www.froxlor.org or join our irc-channel #froxlor on irc.freenode.org Debian packages are in process of being built and will be available later today as usual. Thank you, your Froxlor Team

No, "download.html" is correct

Dear Froxies, and again, a lot of bugs were reported to our bugtracker (thanks to all the reporters) making our latest release even better, Froxlor 0.9.5. New in this version is the interactive updater, which will ask you for optional database-updates. * DNS - add post entry (bug #82) * Show domain IP in user panel (bug #95) * fixed problem with deleting domains (bug #101) * fixed problem when uninstalling APS package (bug #110) * fixed small bug in autoresponder (bug #115) * fixed FTP User Paths can't be changed after account is created (bug #116) * added Postfix: mx access (bug #119) * Re-enable setting for Awstats cgi-bin path as this differes in a lot of distributions (bug #120) * fixed All non-existent subdomains point to Froxlor (bug #123) * Awstats configuration not created on FreeBSD (bug #125) * fixed sort order in domain-overview (bug #126) * fixed error in the ftpd configuration description FreeBSD (bug #132) * fixed Call-time pass-by-reference has been deprecated (bug #134) * fixed file permission for froxlor_bind.conf (bug #135) * fixed check if exec commands are properly escaped (bug #136) * fixed awstats: broken links to statistics in user panel (bug #137) * Webalizer does not work in freebsd (bug #140) * Bind Cronjob tries to unlink directories (bug #147) * Show customer last-login (bug #158) * Highlight locked customers (on login failure) (bug #159) Download Froxlor 0.9.5 Visit www.froxlor.org or join our irc-channel #froxlor on irc.freenode.org Debian packages are in process of being built and will be available later today as usual. Thank you, Your Froxlor Team

Dear Froxies, Today a bit later than usual, but nevertheless, we give you a late easter - present: Froxlor 0.9.4. We managed to get webalizer optional finally, this way you don't need two log analyzers running anymore, if you want to use AWstats. Please note: since we rewrote a large part of the AWstats integration, there may be a few new bugs. If you need the traffic - calculation, it's best to stay on webalizer until this part is stable. we appreciate any feedback on this topic! Froxlor got a new translation as well: Polish. With this release, we fixed the following issues, thank the reporters for reporting them: * Make Webalizer optional (bug #57) * AWstats config files do not get created correctly (bug #58) * allow setting of minimal password length (bug #59) * refactored DomainKey feature (bug #63, #94) * added missing HTML decoding in Ticket-system for field 'subject' (bug #67) * default customer-index.html file is now also placed in subdirectories if new (sub-)domain is created (bug #68) * fixed creation of webserver-configurations if vhosts-setting is a folder instead of a file (bug #70) * it is now possible to define an e-mail sender-name in the panel (bug #76) * fixed install requirement-check of php-extensions (bug #78) * Polish translation of Froxlor has been added (bug #85) * FCGID configurations are now also assigned to child-domains instead of the default configuration (bug #107) * fixed wrong e-mail validation in APS-system (bug #112) Download Froxlor 0.9.4 Visit www.froxlor.org or join our irc-channel #froxlor on irc.freenode.org Debian packages are in process of being built and will be available later today as usual. Thank you, Your Froxlor Team

Dear Froxies, since the first release of Froxlor, we counted 119 downloads for the initial version, 218 downloads for our 0.9.1 release and the 0.9.2(.1) releases accumulated 243 downloads at all. For such a young project these are quite impressive numbers. To celebrate this, we are announcing a minor bugfix release to Froxlor today, which fixes the following issues: * Froxlor is now PHP-5.3 ready (removed deprecated functions and updated phpMailer-class, bug #35) * FreeBSD is now more or less supported, thanks to hedo (bug #37) * fixed issue with cronjob when using awstats and awstats was not installed on the system (bug #45) * removed cronjob-warnings because of non-existing logfiles after adding a customer (bug #46) * fixed major issue with the ticket-system (syntax-error in sql-query, bug #47) * added command to create the "deactivated users"-folder (if set) in configuration (bug #50) * fixed issue when changing docroot for a domain in admin_domains (bug #51) * table-field 'dbserver' is not added to 'panel_databases' in update from syscp-1.4.2.1 (stable) (bug #54) * fixed security issue in function safe_exec (bug #56) * added custom version string for specific packaging and more (feature #60) Download Froxlor 0.9.3 Visit www.froxlor.org or join our irc-channel #froxlor on irc.freenode.org Debian packages are in process of being built and will be available later today as usual. Starting with this release we are proud to announce our debian repository. To use it, add this to your /etc/apt/sources.list: deb http://debian.froxlor.org lenny main deb-src http://debian.froxlor.org lenny main Squeeze is supported as well, users still on Etch can use APT Pinning to get the Lenny package. If you want to get rid of the GPG Warning issued after an apt-get update run this to trust our key: gpg --keyserver gpg-keyserver.de --recv-keys 4F9E9BBC gpg --export 4F9E9BBC|apt-key add - In case you're on Gentoo, look here for using an overlay. Of course we are steadily working on the rewrite 1.0 and are making great progress here. The first modules are taking form and a user already began to write a module for managing gameservers, although the module-API is not 100% stable yet, kudos to Scarya, who also decided to join the developer team and to help coding for Froxlor-1.0. Thank you, Your Froxlor Team

Dear Community, due to a tiny problem in the updater-script users might - under certain conditions - run into a PHP Fatal Error which can cause an unfinished database-update. Froxlor-users who didn't have any problems with updating do not have to update to 0.9.2.1. Also the version in Froxlor stays as 0.9.2 with this bugfix-release. Details: When updating from Froxlor 0.9 or higher to the current 0.9.2 release, it might happen, in case your system.lastguid in the database is not correct, that checkLastGuid() is called, which usually is a cronjob function and therefore uses the cronjob-logger object instead of the panel-logger. When trying to access the logger object an error will occur saying: Call to a member function logAction() on a non-object (bug #44) Download Froxlor 0.9.2.1 Visit www.froxlor.org or join our irc-channel #froxlor on irc.freenode.org Thank you and sorry for the inconvenience, Your Froxlor Team

Hello Frank, you can press the "Watch Forum" button when you are on the Announcement-Forums; there you can select an email-notification.

It's been 15 days since the release of Froxlor-0.9 and there are many things going on by now. For example, the german IT-company Filoo GmbH sponsored us a vServer for testing purposes, wrote some tutorials in their F.A.Q. and plans to offer Froxlor as their default control panel to its customers. Today, we're announcing a minor bugfix release to Froxlor, which fixes the following issues: * removed a lot of undefined variables * removed unneeded require() in APS-module, fixes (bug #6) * corrected design in Ticket-module * fixed sql-query (missing field) in Ticket-module * fixed "only variables should be passed by reference" warning in Traffic-module * fixed configuration templates for Postfix on Debian Etch and Debian Lenny (bug #8) * fixed broken Umlaut in customers name (bug #9) * fixed wrong header-image-name in installation (bug #12) Download Froxlor 0.9.1 Visit www.froxlor.org or join our irc-channel #froxlor on irc.freenode.org In our SVN we are currently building a new base layer for Froxlor, complete with Unittests and phpdoc - documentation. Code documentation will also be written in our wiki. Thank you, Your Froxlor Team

We think a good maintained control panel is essential for reliable webhosters. You might be one of them so you know best. It all started up with the well known system control panel "SysCP". Many of us were working on SysCP for a long and nice time until the team began to be at variance with the head of SysCP and his ideas about the future of SysCP. EleRas decided to quit working on SysCP in march 2009, soon followed by d00p, atari and radiation. We decided it was time to build a new panel with a better community-aspect and a good release-cycle. Due to time-issues Froxlor went to sleep until January 19th, 2010. Soon the team was back together and within two days the decision to fork SysCP was made (we couldn't stand to let the users use this buggy tool any longer); built up the infrastructure and fixed an enourmous amount of bugs mentioned in the SysCP bugtracker. After this release, we will re-work the source, give it a new core and develop a more flexible architecture which will make it easier to maintain and stabilize future releases. Behind the scenes a more democratic approach will be used. There is not a single person who decides where to go and what to do - it's the team. At least three team-members are needed to approve (bigger) decisions. Without any more words, we now proudly present: Froxlor 0.9 Froxlor-0.9 is fully compatible with SysCP. Upgrading possible with only one click ;-) The following SysCP-1.4.2.1 bugs have been fixed in Froxlor 0.9 (bug-numbers refer to the SysCP-bugtracker) #1013 lighttpd - every customer should have his own php.ini #1051 include_shell issue in lighttpd 1.4.20 #1080 host of third level gets overridden by second-level when wwwserveralias is not set on lighttpd #1095 lighttpd - redirection - "/" slash is added to end of url #1113 realtime functionality broken #1122 Field members of table ftp_groups not updated correctly when customer deletes ftp user #1148 Show info for inactive modifications #1149 Create a Configuration-Option for SPF Records in Zonefiles #1154 Wrong configuration set with AWstats an fcgi #1159 serveral errors for lighttpd #1176 libnss-mysql and conflicting usernames/groups #1181 lighttpd cronjob config for subdomains is empty #1185 Autoreponder - send mails via sendmail to set correct Return-Path header #1201 Virtualusers conflict with local users when using libnss-mysql #1203 Add check for PHP version and required PHP modules in install script #1209 APS crashs when installing magento #1210 Add start- and endtime to autoresponder #1213 APS class_apsinstaller.php on line 510 - error installing different apps #1215 php.ini: open_basedir error #1217 SysCP Realtime Support #1221 syscp xinet.d - no need to edit /etc/services #1223 Postfix proposed SQL-query in mysql-virtual_alias_maps.cf: use TRIM() #1228 Domain deletion fails #1233 Display errors when amount of FTP or Mail Traffic is larger than HTTP traffic #1236 the cron doesnt delete user directories #1239 awstats configs get cluttered up after domain deletion #1246 wrong variable assigned in /templates/admin/customers/customers_add.tpl #1247 tab order problems at email forward mask #1249 SysCP SVN(!) settings loader doesn't load some settings #1250 Apache redirect to Umlautdomains does not work #1253 admin_customers.php line 803 / 804 contain the same #1254 Installation no next button #1255 Wrong path to usage statistics under domain settings #1263 Cosmettic Change #1266 Lighttpd has a internal limit of regex-hits which limits max amount of domain-aliases #1267 Domain-Aliases also create a HOST-entry #1268 SysCP Funktion: aktualisierung in Real-Time #1269 AWStats RewriteRule is wrong #1270 xinet reltime update mistake #1271 cant install the package magento #1272 Default Config for libnss incomplete (debian/lenny) #1273 APS-Installer #1275 Setting up Traffic limit is limited to 999 GB #1276 Bind Zones Not Updated on Nameserver Change #1277 Apache Redirect => permanent 301 #1279 incorrect usage of escapeshellcmd #1281 Wrong open_basedir directive #1282 Identical dovecot homedirs #1283 SysCP creating broken lighttpd config files Beside these bugs, we decided to drop the billing-module completely in Froxlor due to many bugs and unmaintainable code. If you are one of the very few users of that module - sorry This first release should be seen as an intermediate step between SysCP and the upcoming Froxlor 1.0 release. SysCP's design was kept in 0.9 for an easier changeover. Download Froxlor 0.9 Visit www.froxlor.org or join our irc-channel #froxlor on irc.freenode.org Thank you, Your Froxlor Team