0.2.8

Released on September 06, 2024

🚀 New features​

• New api endpoints for retrieving server usage: /api/usage, /api/usage/stats, /api/usage/cpu, /api/usage/memory, /api/usage/disk.
• New api endpoint for retrieving system information: /api/system.
• New api endpoint for retrieving users with dedicated IP addresses: /api/ips.
• New api endpoints for retrieving docker information: /api/docker/info and /api/docker/context.
• New command hitechcloudcli api-list displays available api endpoints with usage examples.
• 18 new sub-commands for managing mailserver using hitechcloudcli email-server
• 13 new sub-commands for managing dns using hitechcloudcli domains-dns
• Option to change nameservers for a single dns zone or accross all zones on the server with hitechcloudcli domains-update_ns.
• hitechcloudcli php-ini
• New option in HiTechAdmin > Settings > API displays a list of all available api endpoints with usage examples.
• Display custom message per user by creating /etc/hitechcloud/hitechcloud/core/users/USERNAME/custom_message.html file.
• Option to install custom SSL certificate.

🐛 Bug fixes​

• Fixed bug with invalid serial number format in bind9 zone files for domains.
• Fixed bug with free Let's Encrypt SSL replacing custom SSL if configured.
• Fixed bug #97 DELETE modal not functioning properly on admin user delete.
• Fixed bug with " automatically applied to all TXT records that breaks DKIM validity.
• Fixed a bug where domains couldn't be deleted from HiTechCloud > Domains if the associated website was removed within the last 5 minutes. Deleting a website now immediately invalidates the cache.
• Fixed bug -c: line 1: unexpected EOF while looking for matching '' when installing a new php version.
• Fixed broken css on Flarum from autoinstaller because of setting http:// in Flarum configuration.
• Fixed bug with Flarum autoinstaller not using provided admin username and always setting 'admin' instead.
• Fixed bug with Mautic autoinstaller not using provided admin username and always setting 'admin' instead.
• Fixed bug with the update_check script and added alternative server for updates.
• Fixed bug within dockerfile for hitechcloud/nginx-mariadb:latest image that caused failed build step.
• Fixed bug with limiting port speed on AlmaLinux, due to the tc command missing.
• Fixed bug with hitechcloudcli ssl-hostname refusing to generate ssl if admin service is failed.
• Fixed bug with hitechcloudcli php-ioncube command not extracting files.
• Fixed bug with Sentinel service displaying false-positive for domains that use Cloudflare proxy on AlmaLinux when dig (bind-utils package) is not installed.
• Fixed bug with install script and error The command could not be located because '/usr/local/bin' is not included in the PATH environment variable. on Ubuntu22.
• Fixed bug with install script and error tput: No value for $TERM and no -T specified on Ubuntu22.
• Fixed bug deleting SSL certificate using hitechcloudcli ssl-domain -d <domain>.

💅 Polish​

• 'HiTechAdmin > Services Status' now detects and displays ports in use by services.
• Domain Access reports are now separated in domains_visitors module and can easily be disabled by administrator.
• Administrators can now specify the PHP extensions to be installed automatically when a user installs a PHP version by editing the /etc/hitechcloud/php/extensions.txt file.
• Administrators can now specify the PHP.INI values to be automatically set when a user installs a PHP version by editing the /etc/hitechcloud/php/ini.txt file.
• hitechcloudcli ssl-domain will now first try to generate certificate with DNS-01 verification, if that fails, HTTP-01 will be used.
• Wildcard subdomain SSL are now generated automatically if domain is pointed with nameservers to the HiTechCloud server.
• Update script will now create a log file of each update attempt and write a notification in HiTechAdmin dashboard.
• Added timeouts to all external curl and wget calls from hitechcloudcli scripts.
• hitechcloudcli ssl-domain command now accepts optional flag --dry-run to perform a test run against the Let's Encrypt staging server, obtaining test (invalid) certificates but not saving them to disk.
• Improved hitechcloudcli files-fix_permissions script will now add permissions for groups as well and run commands in parallel to speed-up the process.
• DNS record comments to clarify the purpose of DNS records within Zone Editor - supports comments from zones that have been exported from Cloudflare.
• bash is replaced with sh in all hitechcloudcli scripts, so we have support for alpine containers.
• bc command is repalced with awk in sentinel scripts, so we have support for RHEL distributions that do not have bc pre-installed.
• The admin user impersonating HiTechCloud users now has a distinct indicator bar and lacks a logout option, as ending the user session would also log the admin out of the panel.
• All of our hosted services are migrated from .co to .com domain.
• hitechcloudcli ssl-domain command now accepts optional flag --debug to output verbose inforamtion.
• Disk Usage widget on HiTechAdmin > Dashboard now displays types.
• hitechcloudcli admin new and hitechcloudcli admin password will now do validations for username/password fields: must contain only letters and numbers, and be between 5 and 20 characters.
• Adding applications is disabled from HiTechCloud > PM2 interface until a domain is added.
• 2FA is now an optional module that is enabled by default.
• All hitechcloudcli scripts now use same file for a list of servers for ip checks: /usr/local/admin/core/scripts/ip_servers.sh.