i-MSCP 1.5.0 RELEASED
Dear community,
WARNING – Before updating your i-MSCP installation, don’t forget to read the errata file WARNING
We are pleased to announce the immediate availability of i-MSCP version 1.5.0 that is a new stable version.
This new version addresses the following issues:
BACKEND
- Added: Flag allowing to ignore mount operation failures (iMSCP::Mount)
 - Deprecated: iMSCP::Database::mysql::doQuery() method — Will be removed in a later version
 - Deprecated: iMSCP::Database::mysql::endTransaction() method — Will be removed in a later version
 - Deprecated: iMSCP::Database::mysql::startTransaction() method — Will be removed in a later version
 - Fixed: Can’t use an undefined value as a HASH reference (iMSCP::EventManager)
 - Fixed: Couldn’t remove IP address: Unknown action requested for server IP (Modules::ServerIP)
 - Fixed: Permissions on files are always preverved when copying directory recursively
 - Fixed: Sets the SQL `group_concat_max_len’ variable on a per session basis
 - Fixed: Sets the SQL modes on a per session basis to `NO_AUTO_CREATE_USER’ (backward compatibility with plugins)
 - Removed: `FETCH_MODE’ option from iMSCP::Database::mysql
 
CONFIG
- Removed: `.htgroup’ and `.htpasswd’ files from the skeleton directory; These files are now created only when needed
 
DISTRIBUTIONS
- Added: Support for Percona DB 5.7 — Debian 9/Stretch (amd64 architecture only)
 - Added: ca-certificates package in list of pre-required packages
 - Fixed: Install openssl and libssl-dev packages from Debian/Ubuntu repositories, not from Ond?ej SurĂ½ repository
 
FRONTEND
- Added: Button to force refresh of service statuses as they are now cached for 20 minutes
 - Added: iMSCP_Database::inTransaction() method
 - Added: Routing for languages without territory information: eg. `de’ will be routed to `de_DE’ (autodetection)
 - Added: Setting that allows administrator to protect/unprotect default mail accounts against both edition and deletion
 - Added: Translaltion resources for Zend validators
 - Cosmetics: Make use of the mathematical infinity symbol (?) in place of the `Unlimited’ translation string
 - Deprecated: iMSCP_Database::getRawInstance() method — will be removed in a later release
 - Deprecated: Usage of customer ID field — will be removed in a later release
 - Enhancement: Make use of application cache for caching of configuration data (lifetime: indefinitely till change)
 - Enhancement: Make use of application cache for caching of rootkit logs (lifetime: 24 hours)
 - Enhancement: Make use of application cache for caching of service statuses (lifetime: 20 minutes)
 - Enhancement: Make use of Zend APC cache backend; fallback to Zend File backend if APC extension isn’t available
 - Enhancement: Make customers able to delete their subdomains without first having to delete FTP and mail accounts
 - Enhancement: Make customers able to edit mail autoresponder message even if the autoresponder is not activated yet
 - Enhancement: Make customers able to select more than one catch-all address in catch-all addresses drop-down list
 - Enhancement: Make customers able to show/hide default mail accounts
 - Enhancement: Protect default mail accounts against change and deletion (default)
 - Enhancement: Show a warning at the administrator UI level when the DEBUG mode is enabled
 - Enhancement: Show Catch-all accounts in client mail accounts overview interface
 - Fixed: Action links for FTP accounts must be hidden when they have a status other than ‘ok’
 - Fixed: All SQL queries must be compatible with the `ONLY_FULL_GROUP_BY’ SQL mode
 - Fixed: A user must not be able to clear his email address
 - Fixed: Cannot edit mailbox quota due to integer type casting (i386 arch)
 - Fixed: Cannot set value bigger than 2GB for mailbox quota due to integer type casting (i386 arch)
 - Fixed: Couldn’t generate self-signed SSL certificate (string passed as serial number while integer is expected)
 - Fixed: Customers must stay able to login when their password or their main domain are being modified
 - Fixed: Erroneous ftp_group.members field (Subsequent FTP accounts members are never added)
 - Fixed: Missing creation of default `webmaster’ mail account for subdomains
 - Fixed: PHP ini entries that belong to subdomains of an alias being removed are not removed
 - Fixed: Sets the SQL `group_concat_max_len’ variable on a per session basis
 - Fixed: Sets the SQL modes on a per session basis to ‘NO_AUTO_CREATE_USER’ (backward compatibility with plugins)
 - Fixed: Several integer type casting issues
 - Fixed: When an user personal email is being modified, the user identity must be updated as well (session)
 - Fixed: Wrong default mail accounts accounting (missing hostmaster email, wrong SQL queries…)
 - Removed: Administrator database update interface; Database update are executed by installer
 - Removed: Cached versions of navigation files; Make use of application cache instead
 - Removed: iMSCP_Initializer class (replaced by iMSCPApplication class)
 - Removed: Information about total items/limits assigned – People don’t understand their meaning (statistics)
 - Removed: Output compression, including related parameters — Compression is done at Nginx Web server level
 - Review: abuse, hostmaster and postmaster default mail accounts are now forwarded to customer email
 - Review: Catchall mail accounts are now counted in mail accounts limit
 - Review: Default mail accounts are not longer counted for the mail accounts limit (default)
 - Review: Default mail accounts are now hidden in the client mail accounts overview interface (default)
 - Review: Hide PHP E_STRICT, E_NOTICE, ~E_USER_NOTICE, E_DEPRECATED and E_USER_DEPRECATED on production
 - Review: Hide the i-MSCP update interface when Git version is in use (admin UI level)
 - Review: Make use of short syntax for arrays
 - Review: Extend Zend_Registry class instead of reinventing the wheel
 - Review: Show an explicite warning when the legacy and unsecure telnet server is running (service statuses)
 - Review: Skip the intermediate edit page when mail autoresponder is being enabled and that the message is already set
 - Rewritten: Add administrator interface (admin level)
 - Rewritten: Edit user and personal data interfaces (all UI levels)
 - Rewritten: Password update interface (all UI levels)
 - Security: Input for personal user data not filtered nor validated (all UI levels)
 
INSTALLER
- Fixed: Don’t remove unused PHP variants configuration directories; PHP packages install INI files for all variants
 - Fixed: Hide notice about user/group changes (Courier)
 - Fixed: Missing LOGROTATE(8) configuration file for RSYSLOGD(8) (Debian 9/Stretch; Ubuntu 16.04/Xenial)
 - Fixed: Removal of obsolete files must be done before saving the persistent data, else some files won’t be deleted
 - Review: Raise GNU Wget timeout for slow DNS resolvers (Debian apdater)
 - Securiry: Permissions hardening – Files and folders are now copied with UMASK(2) 027 instead of 022
 
PACKAGES
- Fixed: Can’t locate Package/FileManager/Net2FTP/Net2FTP.pm when upgrading from some older versions (Package::FileManager)
 
SCRIPTS
- Removed: Explicite unlocking of locked files — Files are automatically unlocked
 
SERVERS
- Changed: Mount courier-authdaemon rundir on var/run/courier/authdaemon instead of private/authdaemon (Postfix/Cyrus-SASL)
 - Changed: The `postfix’ user is now added in the `mail’ group instead of the `daemon’ group (Postfix/Cyrus-SASL)
 - Changed: The ownership for the /var/run/courier/authdaemon directory is now `daemon:mail’ (courier-authdaemon)
 - Fixed: `.htgroup’ and `.htpasswd’ files are reseted when the main domain is being changed (Httpd servers)
 - Fixed: Couldn’t generate /etc/courier/dhparams.pem file: Unknown security parameter string: 2048 (Courier)
 - Fixed: SASL authentication failure: cannot connect to courier-authdaemon: No such file or directory (Postfix/Cyrus-SASL)
 - Fixed: Several warnings raised by POSTFIX(1) when files located inside its directories are not owned by the `postfix’ user (Postfix)
 - Fixed: Unwanted leading character in server alias names – Alternative URLs feature (Httpd servers)
 - Removed: sql_mode parameter from the mysql/imscp.cnf configuration file; it is now set on a per session basis) (SQL servers)
 - Review: Disallow recursive directory listing (ProFTPD)
 
SERVICES
- Fixed: MOUNT(2) operation failures are ignored (imscp_mountall)
 - Review: Rotate log files on a daily basis instead of a weekly basis for faster processing (Mail service log files)
 
TRANSLATIONS
- Review: Make use of fuzzy entries in machine object files
 
VENDOR
- Updated: Zend Framework libraries to version 1.12.20
 
YOUTRACK
- IP-0749 Protected areas under a mount point of a domain alias or subdomain that is being deleted are not removed
 - IP-1729 Couldn’t generate self-signed SSL certificates with OpenSSL 1.1.x
 - IP-1730 Couldn’t delete support tickets that are closed
 - IP-1733 Default mail accounts in client mail accounts overview should be hidden by default
 - IP-1737 Circular feature – A circular must not be send twice to the same email address
 
Legend
- New features or minor changes/bugfixes
 - Changes that can affect 3rd-party components (plugins, listener files…)
 - Major changes or important bugfixes
 
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