1.1.10 aka (1.2-alpha2)

Note this is an alpha release? and must not be used in production.

How to install

You can download our brand new installer  here

Highlights

• New monitor module: cpu, load, disk space, thermal, memory
• New asterisk (VoIP) module: users are created with extensions, voicemail, conference rooms, external calls. Check some documentation? on how to use it.
• New IDS module (Snort)
• Support for multi user conference rooms in Jabber
• Support for the main dynamic DNS providers
• Support for User/group auth in web proxy
• Support for anti-virus in web proxy
• Support for categorized URL list such us:  urlblacklist or  shallalist
• Support for cache exceptions and cache size
• Support for anti-virus in Samba
• Support for audit log in Samba
• Samba PDC enhancements: drive letter, password policies
• New UserCorner, a web interface where users created in eBox will be able to change their password
• Switch from courier to dovecot
• New installer with curses interface to select eBox packages or eBox profile (gateway, security, comms, infrastructure, office) to install. It also includes a l7filter capable kernel, and the necessary modules for Asterisk.
• Reduced memory footprint and increased performance of the UI

Stay tunned because alpha3 will be out with even more features in just a few weeks!

Known issues

• Backup/restore might fail #1373
• Events module does not work properly #1378 #1379 #1380
• Log purge fails #1381
• Upgrades from 1.0 to 1.2 will probably fail, so you should expect a fresh reinstall

Detailed change log

libebox

• UI improvement: submit Ajax forms by pressing return
• Fixing bogus div and missing items to make eBox Web UI more w3c complaint
• Added generic JS graph class using flotr with mouse tracking and legend
• Added remote services link button
• Added support for additionalParameters to EBox.TabMenu JS prototype
• Added configKeysFromFile to EBox::Config
• Bugfix: make boolean setter honour editable attribute
• Change tableBody to fetch each row instead of all rows at the same time
• Place pager on the bottom-right corner of the table
• Bugfix: hide trailing text when there's a change on a union select

ebox

• Added 'parentModule' to model class to avoid recursive problems
• Added Float type
• Apache module allows to add configuration includes from other modules
• Display remote services button if subscribed
• Event daemon may received events through a named pipe
• Bugfix. SysInfo? revokes its config correctly
• Added storer property to types in order to store the data in somewhere different from GConf
• Added protected property 'volatile' to the models to indicate that they store nothing in GConf but in somewhere different
• System Menu item element 'RAID' is always visible even when RAID is not installed
• Files in deleted rows are deleted when the changes are saved
• Fixed some bug whens backing and restore files
• Components can be subModels of the HasMany? type
• Added EBox::Types::Text::WriteOnce? type
• Do not use rows(), use row to force iteration over the rows and increase performance and reduce memory use.
• Do not suggest_sync after read operations in gconf
• Increase MaxRequestsPerChild? to 200 in eBox's apache
• Make apache spawn only one child process
• Log module is backed up and restored normally because the old problem is not longer here
• Backup is more gentle with no backup files in backup directory, now it does not delete them
• HasMany? can retrieve again the model and row after the weak refence is garbage-collected. (Added to solve a bug in the doenload bundle dialog)
• EBox::Types::DomainName? no longer accepts IP addresses as domain names
• Bugfix: modules that fail at configuration stage no longer appear as enabled
• Add parameter to EBox::Types::Select to disable options cache

ca

• Generate CRL at CA startup and correct CRL names
• Allow * character in common names
• Updating in certificate authority DB is now working to show expired certificates in the list and call observer when this event happens
• Country code, state and locality fields for CA certificate are now displayed and fill optionally by user

dhcp

• Use the new ids() and row() API
• Bugfix: Set "authoritative" statement to DHCP configuration

dns

• Use new row() and ids() API

egroupware

• Bugfix: setting permissions template on a group casued an error
• Bugfix: restart postgresql in a safer way during the enable process

firewall

• Added required output rules to connect remote services when the eBox is subscribed
• Use the new ids() and row() API
• Added support to redirects to introduce the origin destination address. So far, only local address could be used.
• Bugfix: fix regression that didn't allow to use virtual interfaces on redirections
• Allow outgoing connections from eBox by default

jabber

• Use new MVC API
• Make changes to support jabberd2 + muc

mailfilter

• Use the new row() and ids() API
• bugfix: if the module is disabled the filter now appears as disabled as it should be
• Now antivirus service has its own eBox module
• Fixed migration script that broke in new versions
• Bug fix: when adding/removing vdomains we assure that amavis is notified of the changes

monitor

• Bugfix: Monitor graph updates don't glitch anymore
• Bugfix: Set a fixed hostname in order not to let collectd daemon to search for hostname on its own

network

• Added traceroute on network diagnosis
• Use new rows() and ids() API
• Bugfix: ebox-netcfg-import uses model API to import default gateway

ntp

• Bugfix: timezone wasn't set or import properly

objects

• Use new rows() and ids() API

openvpn

• Show status for non-internal VPN daemons in dashboard
• Using EBox::Types::Text::WriteOnce? instead of EBox::Types::OpenVPN::WriteOnceText?
• Use the new rows() and ids() API

samba

• Use the new row() and ids() API
• Windows user's profiles are backed up only in extended backups
• Enable quota support again

services

• Use the new row() and ids() API

squid

• Added filter profiles
• Added group polices
• Added time period option to policies
• Added per-object group policies
• Added antivirus support
• Added dansguardian's custom logrotate file

trafficshaping

• Use the new row() and ids() API

usersandgroups

• Added bind v2 compability needed by squid auth, slapd conf regenerated and daemon restarted in postinst to commit possibles changes in configuration
• Added group model
• Use the new ids() and row() API to optimize the management of hundreds of users
• Allow dashes in user and group names

webserver

• Create /var/run/apache2 in upstart script