Changelog
All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.
[1.2.0] - 2020-06-29 - Major Release (Feature / Quality Update)
Features
- Added support for Ubuntu Server 20.04 LTS.
- Added File Manager functionality (Filegator).
- Extended built-in firewall to support allowing or blocking traffic using IP lists.
- Improved Apache2 performance by switching to mpm_event instead mod_prefork by default for new installations.
- Added support for configuring individual TTL per DNS record. Thanks to @jaapmarcus!
- Updated translations for Polish (thanks to @RejectPL!), Dutch, French, German, and Italian (WIP).
- Added the ability to set the default PHP command line version per-user.
- Added geolocation support to awstats to improve traffic reports.
- Enabled Roundcube plugins newmail_notifier and zipdownload by default.
- Added HELO support for multiple domains and IPs.
- Added the ability to manage SSH keys from CLI and web interface.
- Added a manual migration script for apache2 mpm_event for existing installations/upgrades (
$HESTIA/install/upgrade/manual/migrate_mpm_event.sh).
- Added BATS system for testing the functionality of Bash scripts (WIP).
- NOTE: Debian 8 is no longer supported as it has reached EOL status.
Bugfixes
- Prevent ability to change the password of a non-Hestia user account. Thanks to Alexandre Zanni!
- Adjust Let's Encrypt validation check for IDN domains, thanks to @zanami!
- Set backup download location on FTP/SFTP restore, thanks to @Daniyal-Javani!
- Stop trying to renew Let's Encrypt certificates after multiple consecutive failed attempts. Thanks to @dpeca!
- Fixed an issue with auto-logout when used behind Cloudflare proxy and reworked 2FA authentication part. Thanks to @rmj-s!
- Fixed an issue where changing an email account password would fail if similar account names were present.
- Fixed an issue where e-mail quota was not preserved when (un)suspending or rebuilding a mail account.
- Fixed an issue where SSH configuration was not saved currently when edited from the Web interface.
- Fixed an issue where DNS IP did not use NAT/Public IP when available after changing web domain IP.
- Fixed permission issues that were presented when restoring a user backup.
- Use Sury.org repository for Apache2 packages.
- Improved compatibility with Roundcube and PHP 7.4.
- Restrict the ability to edit crontab service via Web UI.
- Check whether Nginx, Apache2 and MariaDB are selected for installation prior to adding third party repositories.
- Restrict public access to Apache2 server-status page.
- Remove duplicated set-cookie line in default fpm config.
- Ignore empty lines when listing firewall rules.
- Improved top-level navigation in the Control Panel web interface (Server tab has been moved next to the Notification icon).
- Corrected various minor user interface and theme issues.
- Cleanup temporary files when uploading custom SSL certificate from Web interface.
- Cleanup temporary files when adding/renewing Let's Encrypt SSL certificate.
- Cleanup temporary files after running v-list-sys-services.
- Don't calculate /home folder size in v-list-sys-info.
- Adjust v-list-sys-services to honor the changed fail2ban service name.
- Rework busy port validation in v-change-sys-port.
- Implement a validation function to verify the correct version in hestia.conf prior to installation.
- Introduced a delay when an incorrect username, password, or 2FA code has been entered repeatedly.
- Improved "Forgot password" function prevent brute force attacks.
- Fixed an issue where the backup update counter was not updated properly when v-delete-user-backup was executed.
- Fixed an issue with public_(s)html file ownership.
- Fixed an issue with phpPgAdmin access.
[1.1.1] - 2020-03-24 - Hotfix
Features
- No new features introduced with v1.1.1, this is strictly a security/bug fix release.
Bugfixes
- Fixed phpMyAdmin blowfish and tmp directory issues.
- Added additional verification of host domain in password reset. Thanks to @FalzoMAD and @mmetince!
- Fixed issue with rc.local not executing properly.
- Rework of Let's Encrypt routine to use progressive delay between validation retries.
- Fixed syntax issue in v-list-sys-db-status which prevented main functions from loading.
- Removed /home size reporting when running v-list-sys-info due to performance issues.
- Updated installer to use Ubuntu key server for Hestia APT repository.
- Fixed duplicate demo mode check in v-change-user-password.
[1.1.0] - 2020-03-11 - Major Release (Feature / Quality Update)
Features
- Added support for custom user interface themes.
- Introduced official Dark and Flat themes.
- Added read-only/demo mode - DEMO_MODE must be set to yes in hestia.conf to enable.
- Added php-imagick module to installer and upgrade scripts.
- Added recidive filter function to fail2ban.
- Improved and refactored Multi-PHP functionality.
- Multi-PHP will be enabled by default on new installations.
- Allow admin user to add/remove PHP versions from Web UI (Server -> Configure -> Web Server).
- Extended v-extract-fs-archive to allow archive testing and extracting only specific paths (for tar)
- Allow renaming of existing packages from console (v-rename-package).
- Added PHP 7.4 to Multi-PHP.
- Addded official support for Debian 10 (Buster).
Bugfixes
- Added a detection of web root for add .well-known ACME challenge.
- Reworked Let's Encrypt ACME staging to use Hestia code standards.
- Fixed issues with incorrect font rendering on Windows and Linux.
- Fixed issues with Let's Encrypt - use Nginx for Let's Encrypt ACME request if present.
- Reworked v-add-sys-ip, removed deprecated CentOS/Red Hat code and reworked conditions.
- Enabled HSTS and force SSL on v-add-letsencrypt-host.
- Removed hardcoded mail in HELO data (cosmetic fix).
- Fixed SFTP server validation check - thanks @dbannik.
- Implemented security warning message when creating web domains with the default admin account.
- Fixed wrong quotes used for default keys folder location in v-generate-api-key backend script.
- Fixed permissions to allow access for FTP users created in web domains under admin account.
- Check if user home directory exists before setting permissions on SFTP fail2ban jail.
- Fixed several reported security issues, thanks to Andrea Cardaci (https://cardaci.xyz/)
- Security fix: Command line arguments arguments were glob expanded when written to log file.
- Ensure that SFTP accounts remain configured in sshd when removing web domains/
- Improved security by ensuring that file operations in user home folder will be executed as the real user.
- Added a confirmation dialog when deleting user logs.
- Fixed an issue where the SFTP fail2ban jail was not working correctly for user accounts which were restored from backup archives.
- Enhanced input validation in backend command line scripts.
- Improved page load performance by optimizing how the notifications list is loaded (in some cases, improvement measured from 1sec to under 100ms).
- Improved page load performance when loading IP ban rules in the Control Panel.
- Updated panel framework to use jQuery to 3.4.1.
- Fixed an issue with SFTP fail2ban jail due to missing user.
- Fixed an issue where remote backup hostname would reject an IP address without reverse DNS (PTR record). (#569)
- Create default writable folders in user home directory (#580).
- Added gnupg/gnupg2 check to prevent issues with pubkey installation.
- Fixed DNS nameserver validation when adding new packages.
- Implemented additional debug information for Let's Encrypt validation - thanks @shakaran.
- Disabled alerts for successful cronjob backups.
- Fixed an issue with suspending resources when logged in as a normal (non admin) user.
- Fixed an issue with unsuspending a user, PHP-FPM website pool configuration was being deleted.
- Fixed potential upgrade issue when using v-update-sys-hestia-git.
- Fixed corruption of global user stats when rebuilding a mail domain.
- Fixed formatting of backup exclusions textbox.
- Fixed MultiPHP upgrade script to update all web templates.
- Fixed report issue link in installer scripts.
- Fixed database user authentification on backup restore.
- Added robots.txt for Roundcube webmail to prevent search bot crawling.
- Re-Enable force ssl function on let's encrypt certification renew.
- Added official PostgreSQL repository so system stays up-to-date with latest available upstream packages.
- Hardening MySQL configuration, prevent local infile.
- Fixed lograte bug and cleans up the messed up nginx/apache2 log permissions.
- Fixed IfModule mpm_itk.c for apache2 templates.
- Added mpm_itk for Debian 10 (non Multi-PHP installations only.)
- Hardening nginx configuration, dropped support for TLSv1.1.
- Fixed excluding folders named "logs" from restore backup, thanks to @davidgolsen.
- Fixed typo in delete psql database part, thanks to @joshbmarshall.
- Split long txt records to 255 chunks to prevent bind issues, thanks to @setiseta.
- Fixed missing restart routine for vsftp on v-add-letsencrypt-host.
- Show amount of disk space consumed by /home when running v-list-sys-info.
- Remove broken /webmail alias from previous versions.
- Webmail IP address is now inherited from web domain when using multiple IPs.
- Exim now uses the web domain IP if it exists.
- Fix incorrect MX record for DNS domains using the Office 365 template.
[1.0.6] - 2019-09-24 - Hotfix
Bugfixes
- Add support for HTTP/2 Let's Encrypt Server.
[1.0.5] - 2019-08-06 - Hotfix
Bugfixes
- Fix several security issues, thanks to Andrea Cardaci (https://cardaci.xyz/)
- Rework Let's Encrypt ACME staging to use hestia conform standard.
- Fix if condition, use nginx for Let's Encrypt ACME request if present.
1.0.4 - 2019-07-09 - Hotfix
Bugfixes
- Delayed start of services to prevent restart limit.
1.0.3 - 2019-07-09 - Hotfix
Bugfixes
- Fixed Let's Encrypt Mail SSL permission issue.
1.0.1 - 2019-06-25
Features
- Improved support for Let's Encrypt certificate generation.
- v-add-letsencrypt-host: Added Let's Encrypt support for Control Panel's own SSL.
- Enabled use of per-domain SSL certificates for inbound and outbound mail services.
- Consolidated template structure, removing over 50% duplicate code.
- Re-organised file system structure for domain configuration files.
- Added the ability to change release branches through the user interface and the command line.
- v-sys-update-hestia-git: Added the ability to update using Git from the command line.
- Implemented support for SFTP chroot jails.
- A newly redesigned user interface which features:
- A softer color palette which better matches the Hestia Control Panel logo colors.
- A consolidated overview of domains and other information.
- Improved navigation paths to make things easier to find.
- Improved compatibility when viewing the Control Panel interface from a mobile device.
- Improved handling of mail domain DNS zone values.
- Enabled OCSP stapling on SSL-enabled web domains.
- v-change-web-domain-hsts: Enabled support for HTTP Strict Transport Security (HSTS) on SSL.
- Improved logging and console output during new installations and upgrades.
Bugfixes
- Fixed issues with HTTP-to-HTTPS redirecton.
- Fixed an issue where another website would load if browsing to a non-SSL enabled domaing using HTTPS.
Features
Bugfixes
Features
- Implemented force SSL function for web domains.
Bugfixes