Directadmin 1.43.0 - Release Candidate 1

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Hello,

DirectAdmin 1.43.0 release candidate 1 is now ready for testing.
There are many new features and fixes in this release.
To test out these changes, install the pre-release binaries.

The full list of changes can be found here:
directadmin.com/versions.php?version=1.430000


  1. Ability to encode subject to UTF-8 for emails generated by DA
  2. Ability to de-select E-Mail Data in Admin Backup/Transfer
  3. Support for ionice
  4. CMD_API_DIRECTADMIN_CONF to view directadmin.conf values.
  5. Fully disable ExecCGI if "cgi" is disabled
  6. Correctly reset open_basedir on restores
  7. New iptables script which blocks all non-exim outbound traffic on port 25. (only for those who've setup the block_ip.sh script)

Plus many more features and bug fixes.

Note that CustomBuild 2.0 is ready for very early Alpha testing for anyone who feels adventurous.
You must download these pre-release binaries to try it out.
However, as it's in Alpha testing, it's likely that things may be broken.
Please do not email DirectAdmin Support with issues with CustomBuild 2.0.
Please post them to the CustomBuild 2.0 forum
Our focus will be on getting 1.43.0 out, with the above features/fixes.

John
 
Hello,

Don't worry, DNSSec is on the list for future implementation.
The items in the current release were queued to be implemented for some time.

John
 
Hello,
I saw that he will be able to custom settings PHP-FPM directly on the interface DirectAdmin, it is still planned for a future release ?
 
Php customizations will likely be part of the interface, at a minimum, the open_basedir option.
The php-fpm.conf template already has a few |CUSTOM1|, |CUSTOM2| tokens (similar to the virtual_host2*.conf files), so adding an interface to them wouldn't be too difficult.

In terms of where CB 2.0 is at, we're happy with FastCGI for php (everything appears to be working correctly).
Php-fpm still has a few other issues which are not resolved.
Nginx is farther down the list with regards to polishing up, but the early reports are positive.

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A feature that was just added (let's call it 1.43.0 RC2) is the ability to have Linked IPs:
http://www.directadmin.com/features.php?id=1377

This is handy if you're on a LAN, or want to add an IPv6 IP anywhere an IPv4 was added.
The functionality on it is done (ready for use), but needs a few minor polish items, like skin languages, and full rewrites for existing User, etc..

Ability to have exclusive dataskq calls:
http://www.directadmin.com/features.php?id=1431
was written for custombuild, but can be used by anyone, if they're trying to get a priority task run, without any other overhead.

Ability to prevent comments in user httpd.conf files (to make loads quicker):
http://www.directadmin.com/features.php?id=1430

We're all probably aware of the apr-util issue where we need to use $apr1$ passwords instead of MD5 $1$ passwords:
http://www.directadmin.com/features.php?id=1429

Template caching is exciting (for me anyway), which will be a huge optimization for any repeated reads (it's only used on select, static files, for now):
http://www.directadmin.com/features.php?id=1428

If you want to use SHA-512 encryption for passwords (almost everywhere), you can use $6$ instead of $1$:
http://www.directadmin.com/features.php?id=1412

named.db template support embedded script. You can now do pretty much anything you can think of:
http://directadmin.com/features.php?id=1396

Want more email headers in your welcome emails? Done:
http://directadmin.com/features.php?id=1408

Large file downloads in the file manager (8 gig+)
http://directadmin.com/features.php?id=1402

When changing a User setting, don't assume the other setting should be applied to the domain (eg: php is disabled for a domain, leave it that way if not changed for the User)
http://directadmin.com/features.php?id=1405

Some of these were already in RC1, but just not mentioned in this thread.

John
 
It's not bad.
It would be very interesting interface as already *le*k, even a simple textarea would be perfect !
Because through the templates can be simple, but the day you avertirez a change in your original template, it will also apply our custom templates.
This forces a day before your updates of templates, which can be annoying for someone like me who manages multiple servers DirectAdmin.
There is also another point which could enlarge the performance of DirectAdmin is the customization of "DocumentRoot" for subdomains, or also for Domains !
I watch for months, but it is always pushing :( : http://www.directadmin.com/features.php?id=1007
 
There is also another point which could enlarge the performance of DirectAdmin is the customization of "DocumentRoot" for subdomains, or also for Domains !
I watch for months, but it is always pushing :( : http://www.directadmin.com/features.php?id=1007
Totally agree! Especially when are more and more symfony/symfony2 application and other which have public web directory under public_html/web, not in public_html. Now it`s force to use htaccess hack and others. Ability to make this from DA will be great!
 
If you like to create sub-domains such as CPanel is so much better to make
Users to create sub-domains are the root problem.
That must be done through the admin and changes a lot of thought to this issue that is hard to please!
next few years should be doing something about it
The User able to manage their sub-domains
In the current difficult and in some situations can be frustrating
 
What is the version number in the pre-release binary?
I installed the pre-release binary and the version number is still 1.421, only the compile en updated date changed.
Is this right?
Thanks
 
This is looking very nice! I'm testing it with nginx and it's working fine so far (custombuild 2).
The performance boost is incredible. I'm able to run a busy forum that normally needs atleast 2GB on a small vps with just 512MB ram. Insane :)
 
Hello,

I've just uploaded RC2 to fix up a few minor issues before the release.

The new items:

Restore check to ensure Reseller exists:
http://www.directadmin.com/features.php?id=1434

Exim.pl version 12 with the ability to block sends at the auth level if the limit is hit (and without triggering the brute force monitor)
http://www.directadmin.com/features.php?id=1436
This requires the latest pre-release binaries with the updated brute_filter.list

Exim.pl version 11 (which is in version 12) to track message ID's at the exim level, so as to not count retries as extra sends:
http://www.directadmin.com/features.php?id=1432 (just update straight to VERSION=12 if you're going to try it)


On a side note we had a disk failure of CentOS 4, which also serves installs on CentOS 3, Fedora 3, and Fedora 9.
The newer hardware didn't work with 4.0, so we change it to 4.8.
This shouldn't be an issue (they're still compiled as static binaries), but if anyone has one of these OS's and can test out the binaries, that would be appreciated.


Aside from that, we're still on track for a Sunday release of 1.43.0!

John
 
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