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Version 1.647

Released: 2023-02-21

Apple-specific configuration profile for E-Mail Accounts evolution new

Added new action in the E-mail Accounts table to download an Apple-specific configuration profile for each account. Installation of such profile would allow user to easily setup email account on their iPhone, iPad or Mac device.

Email configuration for Apple devices

Fatal Error Handling on Evolution start-up evolution new

Evolution will track application start-up sequence and if an error is encountered it will show a meaningful message about the cause of the failure. Updated page gives more context to user and allows to copy stack-trace and additional error metadata for reports.

New error reporting replaces the old and usually misleading Ooooops! message.

Admin level maintenance task display evolution improved

Improve how tasks are shown in the admin level maintenance page by displaying how many and what tasks were completed. In addition, the check all button now outputs details for all tasks completed.

Relative files compress in FileManager evolution improved

FileManager compressed files relatively to the home root, leading to deeply nested structure inside archive. Updated behavior is to compress files relatively to the currently opened folder in FileManager.

Option to change user home directory in cPanel import tool evolution improved

Tool for importing cPanel accounts now have an option to import users to a non standard home directory.

This option is only available if non empty home_override_list option is set in directadmin.conf.

Evolution Menu Customization

Customize Menu page was using outdated menu structure for customizations, preventing further possible improvements in data formats and functionality. Page is completely revamped to work on current menu structure and unlock further improvements to the customizations.

Evolution Menu Customization

Updated styling of different menu updates badges across the Evolution layouts to make them look the same and follow the same logic.

Menu search function has increased matching threshold to lower the amount of returned results and hide the results that are not related to the search term.

This leads to more accurate search results.

Webalizer table improvements evolution improved

Webalizer table was improved by changing width of domain and subdomain columns to fit contents nicely inside.

Allow access to SSL Certificates user level page when SSL is disabled for domain evolution improved

The SSL Certificates page is now accessible even when SSL for a particular domain has been disabled. Because of this, user can now once again re-enable SSL for that domain if needed.

Resource limits for user account info evolution improved

Reseller's My Users page's Account Info tab now displays resource limits.

New API endpoints in Login Keys evolution improved

Improved Login Keys and Urls create, modify, list pages and processess to be more efficient and clear to the users.

Unified master login bar in refreshed layout evolution improved

Master login sidebar in refreshed layout was not consistent with other layouts. All other layouts used to have black top bar.

This update unifies all layouts by replacing master login sidebar in refreshed layout with the same top-bar as used in other layouts.

CloudLinux software versions in main versions.txt custombuild improved

With this release DirectAdmin stores CloudLinux software versions in the main versions.txt file. Previous versions used to have separate file for CloudLinux software.

Main versions.txt file is extended with the following entries:

  • mod_hostinglimits 1.0-39
  • mod_lsapi 1.1-64
  • mod_proctitle 0.1-7
  • cl-php-litespeed 7.9

This allows CloudLinux software versions to be customized the same way as all other CustomBuild managed software. Via GUI or manually with custom_versions.txt file.

CloudLinux specific patches are now bundled with CustomBuild and stored in /usr/local/directadmin/custombuild/patches/cloudlinux.

CustomBuild version updates custombuild improved

  • Apache updated from 2.4.55 to 2.4.56
  • MariaDB 10.3 from 10.3.37 to 10.3.38
  • MariaDB 10.4 from 10.4.27 to 10.4.28
  • MariaDB 10.5 from 10.5.18 to 10.5.19
  • MariaDB 10.6 from 10.6.11 to 10.6.12
  • MariaDB galera from 26.4.8 to 26.4.13
  • PHP 8.0 from 8.0.27 to 8.0.28
  • PHP 8.1 from 8.1.14 to 8.1.17
  • PHP 8.2 from 8.2.1 to 8.2.4
  • PHPMyAdmin from 5.2.0 to 5.2.1
  • litespeed from 6.0.12 to 6.1
  • xapian-core from 1.4.21 to 1.4.22
  • imapsync from 2.200 to 2.229
  • apr from 1.7.0 to 1.7.2
  • apr-utils from 1.6.1 to 1.6.3
  • composer from 2.5.1 to 2.5.3
  • igbinary PHP extension from 3.2.12 to 3.2.13
  • redis to 7.0.9
  • imagemagick to 7.1.0-62
  • Nginx uint to 1.29.1

Better outage tolerance in licensing subsystem improved

Main DirectAdmin service is updated to better tolerate network issues when accessing licensing servers. Short network outages should not trigger DA licensing errors.

Notifications for DirectAdmin auto-updates improved

When DirectAdmin is auto-updated, system message gets send to all admins. This functionality is extended to be customizable based on a couple of new directadmin.conf fields:

  • notify_on_autoupdate (default 1) - controls whether system message gets sent on DirectAdmin auto-update to a newer version's release.
  • notify_on_autopatch (default 0) - controls whether system message gets sent on DirectAdmin auto-update to the same version's hotfix release.

New document root location for sub-domains improved

For all new sub-domains a default document root (location served by web-server) have changed from /home/{user}/domains/{domain}/public_html/{sub} to /home/{user}/domains/{subdomain}/public_html.

For example if user has example.com domain, and creates sub.example.com sub-domain. Document root for sub-domain will be domains/sub.example.com/public_html instead of domains/example.com/public_html/sub.

Auto-detect disabled IPv6 in DA installer improved

Previous DA versions assumed IPv6 is always available and would always set ipv6=1 in the config unconditionally.

Starting this version DA installer will try to detect if OS has a working IPv6 stack. When it is not available IPv6 will not be enabled in directadmin.conf.

Fix menu search in refreshed layout evolution fixed

If upon menu search user has been changing user mode, search results were not updated properly and user could have seen reseller entries on user level, etc.

It is fixed it by making a search dependent on user menu entries.

Previously main search bar would close automatically if user clicked any of the filter options. The issue was fixed by properly managing click outside main search bar events.

Fix In-Progress table in Admin Backup/Transfer evolution fixed

Every 30 secods selected rows in in-progress backups table were unselected, due to data reload. Issue is fixed by properly restoring selection after the request.

Fix E-Mail filters table evolution fixed

Email filters page now loads the create new filter row correctly. Previously it would only appear after changing language or viewport.

Show all vacation accounts evolution fixed

When creating vacation message, generated API request would always pass the globally set items per page value as parameter. Because of this, not all mailboxes would end up being displayed.

Updated behaviour is to load all mailboxes.

System info widget in dashboard evolution fixed

System info widget was broken and was showing incorrect or none information at all. Now it is updated with new API endpoints and new visualisation for memory usage.

Fixed "Icons Grid" layout spacing evolution fixed

First category in "Icons Grid" menu was taking up whole available space. The styling in menu were improved to have consistent spacing between categories.

Widgets area in "Icons Grid" Dashboard has been cutting off content if it has higher than viewport. The spacing was improved to prevent such behaviour.

Fixed text overflow inside "Refreshed" layout stats evolution fixed

Under narrow viewport, the text in statistics blocks has been going outside ot it's limits. Now it is fixed with hiding less significant data under narrow viewports.

Conversion of UTF-8 names in mail directories in cPanel import fixed

Importing cPanel user accounts having mail directories with UTF-8 symbols used to leave directories non-functional in DirectAdmin. This was caused because cPanel and DirectAdmin uses different mail directory encoding configuration.

cPanel Import tools is upgraded to automatically convert all UTF-8 names during account import. Conversion preserves original directory names.

Log rotation for modsecurity with nginx fixed

Logfiles used by nginx modsecuryt were not being rotated due to modsecurity issueopen in new window.

This version updates logrotate rules for nginx modsecurity files to take care of truncating the file by logrotate using copytruncate directive.

Evolution refreshed layout menu used to have special more where side menu is being replaced by a hovering menu grid page. This option is removed.

Refreshed grid menu

This functionality is replaced by a new grid mode in the main dashboard.

Refreshed grid menu in dashboard

Table density option evolution removed

Removed configuration option for tables density.

Auto-remove legacy CustomBuild plugin removed custombuild

Starting this version DA installer will detect and automatically remove old CustomBuild plugin in favor of native CustomBuild integration.

Native CustomBuild integration is available only on Evolution skin.

Deprecated mod_php, suphp and mod_ruid2 PHP modes removed custombuild

With this release running PHP in mod_php, suphp or mod_ruid2 mores are no longer supported.

If one of the deprecated mores are enabled CustomBuild will refuse to perform any software reconfiguration action.

We recommend switching to more modern PHP modes:

/usr/local/directadmin/custombuild/build set php1_mode php-fpm
/usr/local/directadmin/custombuild/build set php1_mode fastcgi
/usr/local/directadmin/custombuild/build set php1_mode lsphp

CustomBuild option cloudlinux_beta removedcustombuild

Support for using beta CloudLinux versions by setting cloudlinux_beta flag in CustomBuild options.conf file is removed.

CustomBuild will always use non-beta CloudLinux software versions.

Deprecated Security Questions feature removed

Security Questions feature is being deprecated starting this release. We recommend everyone to migrate to TOTP based Two-Factor authentication.

It will not be possible to enable security questions for accounts that were not using security questions before.

Editing Security Questions settings or adding new questions is no longer supported.

Users that have security questions enabled can continue using them or disable.

Removed option allow_subdomain_docroot_override from directadmin.conf removed

Option allow_subdomain_docroot_override is removed, changing subdomain document root will be always allowed.

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