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Dear Froxlor Community, today we are releasing our next major stable release 0.9.33 which includes a bunch of improvements and some interesting new features. Starting with this version, froxlor allows to move customers from one admin to another (including all resources like domains etc.). Due to the wish of some community members, we included a domain-import. It can be found in the admin-domain overview, more information can be found at http://redmine.froxlor.org/projects/froxlor/wiki/DomainBulkActionDoc. Also we added possibilities to define password-complexity rather then specifying a regular-expression - this makes suggested passwords in the panel match the complexity. The account passwords for admins and customers are now also hashed with the algorithm you've set in the settings. The passwords are being updated automatically when the user logs in successfully - you do not have to do anything. The default hash has been changed from MD5 to SHA256 - updaters need to set the setting manually as we do not overwrite user-settings. Additionally, an admin can now specify a custom-newsfeed for his customers which is being displayed instead of the froxlor-newsfeed. Our database-integrity-check now checks for correct UTF-8 in our tables and logs issues found and what has been fixed if necessary, this makes its actions more transparent and replicable to the admin. It is now possible to add custom notes to admin / customer profiles. Optionally this custom note can be displayed on the users dashboard. For users that really want to use sockets instead of 127.0.0.1/localhost for the database-connection can now set the "host" value in lib/userdata.inc.php to a socket-file. We have included new configuration templates for Ubuntu 14.04 and RHEL / CentOS 7. Important: the directory permissions for (new) customers changed to be more secure (0755 -> 0750), if you use FCGID or php-fpm you have to update your libnss-mysql config for this to work, you can see changes in the config-templates at http://config.froxlor.org (chose your distribution and your current version and click "show differences"). Note: Many people seem to be having issues with php-fpm / libnss / user-group permissions - nscd can be a party-killer sometimes, try to clear its cache using nscd --invalidate=group Changes in 0.9.33: + #1289: use password-hash from froxlor-settings for admin/customer accounts + #1335: added possibility to use a socket-file for the database-connection + #1408: added custom newsfeed on customer-dashboard + #1410: added possibility to move customer between admins + #1414: added configuration templates for Ubuntu 14.04 LTS + #1452: added domain import (CSV file), infos at http://redmine.froxlor.org/projects/froxlor/wiki/DomainBulkActionDoc + #1471: added custom-notes field in admin and customer profiles ~ #1426: fixed utf-8 encoding problem (use db-integrity check) ~ #1427: fixed the way php was included in nginx-vhosts ~ #1430: fixed various nginx-vhost problems ~ #1437: fixed cron-problem in FreeBSD ~ #1440: fixed ip-validation in some special cases ~ #1446: fixed nginx auto-index problem ~ #1447: fixed libnss-configs for customer-docroot chmod 750 ~ #1455: fixed directory-protection with apache-2.4 ~ #1458: fixed incorrect security check on mail-directories where various special-characters are allowed ~ #1459: fixed deprecated postfix configuration templates in debian ~ #1465: fixed dovecot-transport configuration in ubuntu ~ #1466: fixed design-issues when no add-link is present in overviews ~ #1468: fixed installer when mysql strict-mode is used ~ #1483: fixed possible orphaned lock-file from cronjob Changes in 0.9.33.1: ~ #1489: fixed mysql-connection problem when using a private-network IP ~ #1498: fixed nginx vhost merging in case of variables in vhost, e.g. ${variable} ~ #1500: fixed global PEAR path for php-fpmYou can see all changes in our bugtracker at http://redmine.froxlor.org/versions/64 and http://redmine.froxlor.org/versions/65 (also changes in 0.9.33-rc1, changes in 0.9.33-rc2) Download: 0.9.33.1 Note: Gentoo-ebuild and Debian packages are now available. Visit http://www.froxlor.org or join our IRC channel #froxlor on irc.freenode.net. Thank you, d00p

Dear Froxlor Community, today we are releasing our next major stable release 0.9.32 - as previously announced, the features APS, Autoresponder and Backup are no longer part of froxlor due to maintainability and/or bad coding. We decided that APS and Backup might be available in future versions again after a lot of rewriting. With the help of our error-reporting which was introduced in the last stable release, we were able to find a bunch of minor bugs - thanks again to the admins who reported. In addition to that froxlor is now able to gather mail-traffic for the most common mailserver-logs and we outsourced the cronmanagement to the systems cron-daemon. If you update from earlier versions you do not have to change anything cron-related. Its going to update itself. The bind-module now also creates a dns-entry for the froxlor-hostname itself. We now include a database-integrity checker which the admin can run from within the panel to check the froxlor-database for correctness. Changes in 0.9.32: + #69: calculate/show mail-traffic + #433: redirect to last URL after session-timeout + #1090: bind doesn't create entry for system setting "system_hostname" + #1321: log faulty login-attempts + #1340: add 'description' to ftp-users + #1342: add option to automatically run database-updates instead of dying with "version mismatch" in cronjob + #1378: added database validation in the admin menu to check for its integrity ~ #858: runtime of cronjobs ~ #1377: fixed FS-quota on FreeBSD ~ #1389: fixed minor sql-query variable-issues ~ #1392: fixed setting default-theme if != Sparkle when adding new customers - APS (completely) - Autoresponder (completely) - Backup (completely) You can see all changes in our bugtracker at http://redmine.froxlor.org/versions/53 (also changes in 0.9.32-rc1, changes in 0.9.32-rc2) Download: 0.9.32 Update: Gentoo-ebuild and Debian packages (Squeeze and Wheezy) are now available. Visit http://www.froxlor.org or join our IRC channel #froxlor on irc.freenode.net. Thank you, d00p

Dear Froxlor Community, we are proud to release our next major stable release 0.9.31 including a completely rewritten database-backend based on PDO, a new admin/customer dashboard and some long-awaited features such as: new template variables for the customer-welcome email and logical operators for the search-field when searching for numeric values. With this release the old PHP-MySQL extension was replaced with PDO-MySQL. Due to this move all queries have been touched and converted to prepared statements, preventing SQL-injections in the future. Please be sure that you have the php-pdo extension installed on your system before you update. Froxlor will not work (unable to connect to the database) without it. In addition to that we have implemented an (optional) error-reporting which will email us any occuring SQL errors. You will see a preview of what exactly is being sent before anything leaves your system. This is disabled by default for admins, reseller and customer of course. Please be aware of data-privacy when reporting SQL-errors which may include sensitive customer data. You can enable error-reporting as admin in Settings -> Security settings. We now include a newsfeed-widget on the new dashboard for admins, which allows to receive the latest news about froxlor via RSS. Of course you can disable this if not needed. We recommend to use it so you don't miss any important announcements. Important: This will be the last release to include APS, Autoresponder and Backup. These modules are rarely used and the maintainability is poor. APS: While it is a very useful feature, we cannot support it any longer since it does not keep in line with the rest of froxlor's codebase. Also it is not compatible with newer APS standards any longer (>1.1). Autoresponder: We think we should not try to re-invent the wheel and leave e-mail specific works to programs that know how to do it right. In this case for example sieve. We will include sieve-configuration-template for the next major release 0.9.32. If we will also have a sieve-script-editor is not yet decided. Backup: The backup-feature is not integrated well into froxlor and we think that creating a backup schould be the job of specialized backup-software, not a server managing panel. You can find a list of available backup-software here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_backup_software Changes in 0.9.31: + Completely redesigned dashboard in Sparkle-theme + #432: added new template-variables for the 'customer welcome email' template: SERVER_HOSTNAME, SERVER_IP, SERVER_PORT and DOMAINNAME + #722: added logical operators (<, > and =) which can be used when searching for numeric values, e.g. Webspace: ">100", "<2048" or "=1234" + #729: Usage of an activation code instead of password reset + #1051: Enable usage of php-slowlog for FPM users + #1287: Switch database implementation to PDO ~ #701: split tickets in pages on overview and correct sorting ~ #1295: make vhost-query of webserver-crons mariadb-compatible ~ #1314: when using DKIM and no MX server is given, also add a dkim-TXT entry for the 'mail' a-record ~ #1323: fix hardcoded sendmail_path config option in PHP-FPM pool configYou can see all changes in our bugtracker at http://redmine.froxlor.org/versions/48 (also changes in 0.9.31-rc1, changes in 0.9.31-rc2) Download: 0.9.31.2 19.12.2013 Update: Gentoo-ebuild and Debian packages (Squeeze and Wheezy) are now available. Due to a tiny bug in the installer, which did not add a new php-configuration correctly, we had to publish a bugfix-release (0.9.31.1). Changes see here 27.12.2013 Update 2: bugfix release 0.9.31.2 due to wrong usage of a recently changed function which resulted in wrong default path-values in textfields. Changes see here Visit http://www.froxlor.org or join our IRC channel #froxlor on irc.freenode.net. Thank you, d00p

Dear Froxlor Community, we are proud to release our next major stable release 0.9.30 including the long awaited dual-/multi-stack feature (multiple IP's per domain). Besides Dual-/Multistack-support, this release introduces a brand-new theme called "Sparkle", which was created by our newest group-member BNoize. Please be aware: when updating from 0.9.28 - be sure to check the webserver-configuration "Webserver customer-ssl certificates-directory" as this directory (default /etc/ssl/froxlor-custom/) will be truncated regulary by the cronjob. Also, the build-in logrotate feature has been removed and a logrotate-config-template was added instead. This works more reliable. Changes in 0.9.30: + #365 SSL certificates should be settable per domain + #581 Allow multiple IPs (IPv4/IPv6) to be used on one domain + #1007 Userpanel: Show size of mail accounts + #1270 Show phpinfo() in the admin-panel ~ #201 fix SSL-redirect on non-standard SSL-ip/ports ~ #1147, #1194 Improve wildcard/www-alias domain-settings for admins and customers - #1271 remove build-in logrotate feature - provide logrotate-config-template instead All changes are listed in our bugtracker, see http://redmine.froxlor.org/versions/42 Download: froxlor-0.9.30 Update: Gentoo-ebuild and Debian packages (Squeeze and Wheezy) are now available. Visit http://www.froxlor.org or join our IRC channel #froxlor on irc.freenode.net. Thank you, d00p

Dear Froxlor-Community, just a short note about the upcoming version. You might have noticed that there were a lot of bigger changes since the release of 0.9.29 and that we were initially planning on releasing version 0.9.29.1 not too far from 0.9.29 because of the multi-stack-ip feature. The multi-stack feature is implemented in the current git-version and heavily tested (mostly with success so far, but still, testers are very welcome). Also Froxlor will introduce a new clean and simple theme, the installation process has been rewritten completely, a lot of enhancements regarding ssl and fpm have been merged, etc. Because of these extensive improvements and additions we decided to drop 0.9.29.1 and make it 0.9.30 right away. Of course, 0.9.30 will become 0.9.31 then. Join our IRC channel #froxlor on irc.freenode.net if you want to participate. Thank you, d00p

Dear Froxlor Community, you all have been waiting a long time for this and finally here it is. The first stable release of Froxlor to support Debian Wheezy (7). Besides Wheezy-support, this release brings you quite some improvements as for example php-fpm per-domain php.ini support and customer-defined per-domain ssl-certificactes (if ssl ip/port exist) and much more. For all changes regarding the 0.9.29-release see also http://forum.froxlor.org/index.php/topic/12236-release-candidate-0929-rc1 (0.9-29-rc1). Please be aware: after updating from 0.9.28 you should check the webserver-configuration "Webserver customer-ssl certificates-directory" as the defined directory (default /etc/apache2/ssl/) will be truncated by the cronjob. There are many installations using that folder - you might lose certificates, unrecoverable. Changes in 0.9.29: + customers are now able to define ssl-certificates on a per-domain basis when SSL is enabled + Debian Wheezy support (configuration templates) ~ some minor fixes. All other changes, see http://forum.froxlor.org/index.php/topic/12236-release-candidate-0929-rc1 Important information: support for dovecot-1 on Gentoo has been dropped in 0.9.29 as Gentoo's tree does not include it anymore. support for Ubuntu Hardy has been removed in 0.9.29 as it is unsupported since april 2013. Download: 0.9.29 Update: Gentoo-ebuild and Debian packages (Squeeze and Wheezy) are now available. Note: syscp sanity checks have been removed from the Wheezy package, you are on your own with removing syscp and moving your config which is what the package was doing / advised you to do. the sid package has been removed for now, if there is need for it again we can reintroduce it, but for now, its gone also we don't want to see "+2 upgrades" (eg. lenny -> wheezy) which was part of the reason of the change since we just expect you won't do such a thing... you won't, right? Visit http://www.froxlor.org or join our IRC channel #froxlor on irc.freenode.net. Thank you, d00p

Dear Froxlor Community, sorry for the long delay. There are several reasons for this, most of them regarding Debian Wheezy of course and the fact that I've been on my honeymoon. Again, there are a lot of changes in the upcoming version 0.9.29, so please take a look at our bugtracker (http://redmine.froxlor.org/versions/38) and report any issues left for the final release. The next step will be the integration of the dualstack feature and some more work on per-domain ssl certificates. Also, DomainKey does currently only work with dkim-filter, not with opendkim. Please report bugs/errors in the bugtracker (http://redmine.froxlor.org) as usual. Changes in 0.9.29-rc1: + customers are now able to define ssl-certificates on a per-domain basis when SSL is enabled + Debian Wheezy support (configuration templates) + #587 when using php-fpm, you can now also specify php-configurations on a per-domain basis, note: not all listed configs can be used in fpm and are therefore ignored + #100 allow usage of AXFR records in bind + #744 added possiblity to hide subdomains in the PHP-configurations overview + #1175 added possibility for admins to allow/disallow changing the theme ~ #640 non-latin IDN domains are now correctly validated ~ #1197 fixed phpMyAdmin URL validation, entering an IP-address is now possible Important information: support for dovecot-1 on Gentoo will be dropped in 0.9.29 as Gentoo's tree does not include it anymore. support for Ubuntu Hardy will be removed in 0.9.29 as it is unsupported since april 2013. Download: 0.9.29-rc1 Note: As this is a release candidate, there will be no Debian packages and no new Gentoo ebuild for this. Visit http://www.froxlor.org or join our IRC channel #froxlor on irc.freenode.net. Thank you, d00p

Dear Froxlor Community, the release candidate of version 0.9.28 has been released a month ago and thanks to a bunch of community users for testing and reporting, a lot of bugfixes found their way into this release and we are proud to announce a new stable release of Froxlor: 0.9.28 The upcoming release-candidates, followed by a stable release, of version 0.9.29 will include improved SSL-support and IPv4/IPv6 dual-stack support as announced earlier. Also you might have noticed that we started to work on our new version tree 0.99 which will be API based. It's under heavy development and still in its beginnings. As we probably will not be finished with 0.99 after 0.9.29 is released, depending on bug-reports or similar, there will of course be another maintenaince release of 0.9.x if necessary. As announced in the release-candidate thread, support for php's safe_mode, mod_log_sql and Debian Lenny has been removed in this release. Also, Ubuntu Hardy completely and dovecot-1 on Gentoo have been marked as deprecated as they will be removed in 0.9.29. Please report bugs/errors in the bugtracker (http://redmine.froxlor.org) as usual. Changes in 0.9.28: + #536 Use complete domain name as default path for DocumentRoot + #1150 added possibility to add random prefixes to a customers database-name ~ #668 fixed FreeBSD 8.2: Bind 9 is missing from list of Daemons ~ #758 fixed bug in "Amount of APS installations" counter ~ #916 fixed webserver-specific default vHost settings don't work in ligHTTPd ~ #1023 fixed Redirect with SSL Enabled Domain ~ #1058 fixed bug in "Amount of autoresponders" counter ~ #1085 fixed incorrect configuration command for awstats under Gentoo ~ #1127 fixed falsely used e-mail sender name ~ #1134 updated default parameter list of sendmail-program in php.ini-template ~ #1136 fixed falsely added specialsettings to a ssl-redirect ~ #1160 fixed usage of empty value for CertificateChainFile (it's allowed) ~ #1172 cleaned up language files ~ #1173 fixed redirect to "ip:port" ~ #1180 fixed clean-up if fcgid/php-fpm configurations Important information: The configurations for postfix on FreeBSD have been updated. Please check using http://config.froxlor.org/. Update: Due to a syntax-error in the updater we had to re-release as version 0.9.28.1 - for all who got stupid errors on updating, we are sorry :/ Download: froxlor 0.9.28.1 Note: Debian packages and the Gentoo ebuild will follow shortly. Visit http://www.froxlor.org or join our IRC channel #froxlor on irc.freenode.net. Thank you, d00p