cPanel are making the new version, 11.48 available from the 2nd February 2015. This update will gradually roll out to servers across the course of a week. This provides a number of features, many of which are backend improvements but some that will directly benefit users such as:

New features

 

AutoConfig for iOS

In cPanel & WHM version 11.48, we have added support for iOS devices (iPhone, iPad, and iPhone) to AutoConfig.

Note: You may see an unsigned certificate warning on your iOS device when you use this option. It is safe to accept the configuration file.

 

Added support for Mail SNI integration 

For systems that support SNI, you can now enable SNI for a domain during SSL installation. You can also enable or disable SNI for domains that have SSL certificates already installed.

 

Increased default size and maximum size for mail quotas

We have increased the default email quota – which is available in cPanel's Email Accounts interface (Home >> Mail >> Email Accounts) – to 1,024 MB. The maximum value is 2,048 MB for 32-bit systems and 4 TB for 64-bit systems.



OWASP Rules for ModSecurity™

In cPanel & WHM version 11.48, we now distribute the OWASP ModSecurity Core Rule Set (CRS). The OWASP ModSecurity CRS is a set of rules for use with the ModSecurity Apache module to help protect your web server from malicious traffic. Through the guidance of OWASP, cPanel now distributes a curated set of these rules. You can install and manage these rules with the WHM ModSecurity applications. For more information about the OWASP ModSecurity CRS, that includes installation pre-requisites and instructions, read our OWASP ModSecurity CRS documentation.

 

System improvements

 

Apache SpamAssassin now filters forwarded mail

In cPanel & WHM version 11.48, we have added two options to the Exim Configuration Manager interface (Home >> Service Configuration >> Exim Configuration Manager).

  • Do not forward email to external recipients if it matches or exceeds the Apache SpamAssassin™ internal spam_score setting.

  • Do not forward email to external recipients based on the defined Apache SpamAssassin™ score.

These two options allow you to prevent spam from being forwarded to external recipients.

 

cPHulk improvements

 

cPHulk will not consider a user at an IP address who uses the same username and password combination repeatedly to be a brute force attacker. This often happens when a user has not yet updated their email password on a handheld device.

 

Notification centralization

 

Notification settings alert via email

In cPanel & WHM version 11.48, the system has the ability to notify a user when their cPanel notification settings are disabled or their contact addresses change.

Note:If the user has modified their IP address, the IP address in the notification email may not be accurate.

Login notification

In cPanel & WHM version 11.48, users may request a notification when someone authenticates to any service that uses cPanel & WHM's authentication scheme. The system will also notify users when the notification settings change.

In order to prevent unnecessary messages, the system will halt notifications for 24 hours after a successful login for a specific service, user, and IP address combination.

Note: ProFTP does not currently use the cPanel & WHM authentication scheme.

Finally, we have improved the appearance of cPanel notification emails in the Contact Information & Preferences interface (Home >> Preferences >> Contact Information & Preferences).

 

Paper Lantern

The Paper Lantern theme is still in development in cPanel & WHM version 11.48. Eventually, Paper Lantern will become the default theme for cPanel.  

Customize Paper Lantern interface improvements

In cPanel & WHM version 11.48, you can view the favicon and logo that you previously uploaded in WHM's Customize Paper Lantern interface (Home >> cPanel >> Customize Paper Lantern). You can also delete and upload new items in this interface.

Webmail interface improvements

In cPanel & WHM version 11.48, we restyled the Webmail interface to match the Paper Lantern theme. For more information, read our Webmail documentation.

Retro Style for Paper Lantern

Paper Lantern now ships with the Retro style. To change your interface to the Retro style, navigate to cPanel's Change Style interface (Home >> User Settings >> Change Style).

 

Authentication improvements

In cPanel & WHM version 11.48, passwords and passphrases throughout cPanel and WHM may now contain spaces. Also, the system rejects any leading and trailing spaces in passphrases during GPG key creation.

Finally, GPG keys that you create without passphrases through the Gpg::genkey() function in cPanel API 1 now process correctly.

Note: The cPanel interface requires that GPG keys contain passphrases.

Improved Mail Delivery Reports (eximstats) performance

In cPanel & WHM version 11.48, we have improved the performance and speed of WHM's Mail Delivery Reports interface (Home >> Email >> Mail Delivery Reports).

Updated bandwidth notification emails

We have updated the email notification that the system sends when a user reaches a bandwidth limit threshold. These emails now include predictive warnings that indicate when the user will exceed the account's bandwidth limits.

  • cpsrvd
  • crond
  • mysql
  • named
  • queueprocd
  • sshd

 

Dovecot compression

In cPanel & WHM version 11.48, Dovecot now uses the COMPRESS extension to IMAP to make IMAP connections more efficient. For more information about IMAP compression, read IETF's IMAP COMPRESS extension article.

 

Deprecated and removed items

Removed VPS support

In cPanel & WHM version 11.48, we removed support for the User Mode Linux, FreeVPS, and ServeXchange Virtual Private Server environments.

Logaholic removals

The integrated Logaholic application is no longer available in cPanel & WHM. During the upgrade to cPanel & WHM version 11.48, the system automatically removes the integrated Logaholic application from the server. This removal will not affect any Logaholic user data.



Sunday, February 1, 2015





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