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2021

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Version 10.28 (November 03, 2021)

Last Modified Date (November 27, 2021)

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Windows

Feature: VCenter support with HC panel. New!
Feature: Panel login history information in Admin > Configuration section. New!
Feature: Email notification on fail login attempt for CP accounts.
Enhanced: New options (Start/Suspend/Reboot/Shutdown/Turn Off) added against the orders of virtual machines in WHMCS.
Enhanced: Option to preview bulk mailbox history and download its report.
Enhanced: MySQL DB backup and restore mechanism optimized for both Windows & Linux OS.
Enhanced: SRV record GUI simplified in Advanced Zone Editor.
Update: WordPress 5.8.1 available in Click & Install Apps.
Enhanced: DNS records adding and removing fine from the Parent DNS for adding/removing of subdomains.
Enhanced: In WHMCS Terminate button only terminates the VM associated with the particular order in WHMCS.
Enhanced: Change ESXi Node option available with VMs created on VMWare ( Option available with VCenter only).
Enhanced: Advanced Zone editor available from website’s dashboard.
Fixed: Where Audit logs handling has been improved for APIs.
Fixed: Where error related to licensing has been resolved for CSP O365.
Fixed: Where Service Plans were not removing from HC panel even though all the consumed resources were already deleted.
Fixed: Where primary DNS zone related to the subdomain was not creating via HC panel.
Fixed: Where New Email alias was not adding/deleting if mailbox contained X500 or X400 format email aliases.
Fixed: Where in O365 without CSP module, Email Addresses of a Mail Contact were not showing on its Dashboard.
Fixed: Where in HC Active Directory Management module, the “Pager” field was missing from General Profile of an Active Directory user.
Fixed: Where in HC Active Directory Management module, Users in SubOU were not being fetched while adding groups.
Fixed: Where HC was not properly showing records in Advanced Zone editor if SRV record contained more than one IP address.
Fixed: Where SharePoint Web Applications were not assigning at reseller level in HC panel.
Fixed: Where under specific scenario “Exchange Message Trace report” was throwing error.
Fixed: Where Response Groups were not being edited using HC panel.
Fixed: Where Skype Online is now renamed to Teams for “O365 with CSP” module.
Fixed: Where manually added subsite users were not properly syncing in HC panel.
Fixed: Where Password Complexity enabled in HC was not reflecting in forgot password emails.
Fixed: Where manually added SharePoint Users were not being edited properly.
Fixed: Where upon deleting SharePoint Site, its hostname binding was not removing from IIS.
Fixed: Where in MSDNS long TXT records having length greater than 255 characters were not adding properly.
Fixed: Where Domain A record was not adding properly using Advanced Zone editor 

Linux

Update: WordPress 5.8.1 available in Click & Install Apps.
Enhanced: MySQL DB Backup/Restore operations optimized\

 

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Version 10.27 (August 12, 2021)
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Windows

Feature: Exchange message tracking for tracing email records of senders and recipients included in HC panel under Enterprise Reports section.New!
Feauter: DNSSec support added for DNS Servers on Windows.New!
Enhanced: MSDNS backend implementation is improved.
Enhanced: CAA records are now supported with MSDNS.
Enhanced: GUI for SRV DNS record improved in Advanced DNS Zone editor.
Enhanced: Load balancing mechanism for Virtual Machine creations on several Hyper-V nodes improved.
Enhanced: Hyper-V VM Root path can now be selected on a mapped Network Drive.
Enhanced: If resources on Hyper-V node are consumed or that Hyper-V node is down in HC panel then HC attempts to create VM on the second available Hyper-V node in HC cluster.
Enhanced: SharePoint sites are not permanently deleted and are sent to Recyle Bin from where they can be restored.
Enhanced: While adding new customer, O365 subscriptions were not displaying in alphabetical order.
Enhanced: On new registered Domain Names, LetsEncrypt is automatically installed upon website creation in HC panel.
Enhanced: Where quota check was not implementing on mailboxes created using Bulk Create option.
Fixed: Where under a specific scenario, O365 subscriptions were not properly synchronizing into HC panel.
Fixed: Where SRV records were not adding fine via zone editor.
Fixed: Where Zone Editor was appending additional domain name while adding A record.
Fixed: Where DNS zone modification through DNS editor in HC Panel was deleting the sub domain from MSDNS.
Fixed: Where in Accepted/Rejected sender on Exchange Distribution Lists, same user was adding twice but was not throwing an error,
Fixed: Where Upon editing an existing SP user which was manually added in SharePoint server, HC was throwing Server error.

Linux

Enhanced: Where on new registered Domain Names, LetsEncrypt is automatically installed upon website creation in HC panel.
Enhanced: Where CAA records are now supported with Bind.

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Version 10.26 Patch Installer (May 20, 2021)
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Windows

Feature: Support for .Net Core which you can enable on websites created in IIS via HC panel.New!
Enhanced: General Profile fields related to Exchange Mailbox can be made Read-only via HC panel.
Enhanced: Mailbox Database custom field available for WHMCS products related to Exchange module.
Enhanced: Inheritance of SpamExperts settings under child users now configurable by host.
Enhanced: VM can be moved from one node to another in Hyper-V Failover Cluster.
Enhanced: A new informative report for VMs can be found under reports section.
Enhanced: HC Hyper-V Components optimized.
Fixed: Where email aliases were showing twice for mailboxes created using HC O365 without CSP module
Fixed: Where deleted mailboxes were not removed from accepted senders of mailbox created in HC O365 without CSP module
Fixed: Where Email addresses for mail contacts were not showing for contacts created via HC O365 without CSP module
Fixed: Where Resource mailboxes were not creating using O365 without CSP module of HC
Fixed: Where upon specifying a new Primary SMTP address of mailbox was throwing an error for mailboxes created using HC O365 without CSP module
Fixed: Where accepted and rejected senders were not adding to mailbox created using O365 without CSP module of HC
Fixed: Where user’s usage location was not updating while updating user’s license details in HC O365 without CSP module
Fixed: Where Verification of Credentials for an O365 customer was not completing in HC O365 without CSP module
Fixed: Where Password of Windows VM was not set properly if in the OSTemplate, the default administrator user was renamed to some other name
Fixed: Where Bulk Skype Users creation button was showing as disabled at client's level in HC panel
Fixed: Where OTP emails were not generating for Client’s Staff members while logging into HC panel
Fixed: Where Provisioning Sub-Admin/Server Sub-Admin did not have the option to change password from their GUI
Fixed: Where terminate button was not removing the exchange mailbox for WHMCS Mailbox Only product
Fixed: Where for HC Panel User accounts created via WHMCS, the Account Setup email contained password in encrypted format
Fixed: Where login to HC button on WHMCS 8 interface was not working.
Fixed: Where Broadcast Subnetmask was assigning to Linux VMs but not to Windows VMs
Fixed: Where VM’s Virtual Hard Disk’s Path was set as null in HC after importing the VM under client.

Linux

Fixed: Where Certificate details were not displayed for Linux websites while installing Let's Encrypt certificate.
Fixed: Where PHP-FPM service was crashing after Linux website removal from HC panel.

 

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Version 10.26 (April 19, 2021)
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Microsoft latest security patch released on 13th of April has major modification in implementations w.r.t remote PS due to which not only Hosting Controller application but also all other applications’ vendors that solely rely on remote PowerShell for Exchange  (2013,2016 or 2019) are impacted. As per the internet survey this has impacted thousands of live servers across the internet and all vendors are suffering due to it.
 
Till now we do not know whether Microsoft will provide any hotfix for this issue or not but Hosting Controller understands the business requirements of its customers and feels the dire need for a rapid solution for its customers so their businesses should not be impacted due to the latest Cumulative Update of Exchange. Therefore, our development team has taken necessary  and rapid action. We have released a build that includes fix only for this particular case. The build can be downloaded and updated on your servers by following the instructions as mentioned in the kb article given below :
http://portal.hostingcontroller.com/kb/a168/how-to-modify-hosting-controller-with-latest-build.aspx

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Version 10.25 (March 08, 2021)
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Windows

Security: Microsoft On-Premises Exchange Servers security patch validation with Hosting Controller Panel.
Enhanced: Single HC cluster license support for multiple hypervisors.
Feature: Let's Encrypt support for Windows Operating System. New!
Feature: Microsoft 365 individual Tenant management in multi-tenancy using HC Panel. New!
Enhanced: Role Permissions restrictions available for Active Directory modules.
Fixed: Where License(SSUP) related issue was resolved.
Fixed: Where Transfer Website was throwing error in a special scenario. DL email address is incorrectly formed by HC, a special scenario
Fixed: Where in a special scenario Exchange Distribution List’s email address was improperly formed.
Fixed: Where in HC Active Directory module, Sub-OU Manager were not able to create AD Users.
Fixed: Where Exchange Distribution List has been improvement in code.
Modified: Where Bandwidth usage label was showing MBs instead of GBs.
Modified: Now by default higher consumption for disk & bandwidth usage will display on top
Fixed: Where some textual change is made on VM‘s Dashboard Thumbnail state. 
Fixed: Where CSR generated for websites did not contain www.domain.com
Fixed: Where bandwidth default filter should was not set for higher consumption records.
Fixed: Where CentOS8 servers were not adding properly in HC panel.
Fixed: Where S4B user using existing user option is giving permission error. 
Fixed: Where Active Policies added via HC panel were not showing in HC panel’s GUI.
Fixed: Where Default ActiveSync Policy was setting as default properly in Exchange from HC but was not showing as Default in HC GUI. 
Fixed: Where Exchange Transport Rule was not adding with specific sequence.
Fixed: Where Billing Profile caption was missing from Customer’s interface in HC panel.
Fixed: Where Cancel PST request is no more working in HC10.
Fixed: Where DontSetPasswordToNeverExpire flag was not working for Bulk Mailboxes.
Fixed: Where Mailboxes Sync was not working in a special scenario.
Fixed: Where VMs having failed state, stuck state in Hyper-V were not removing from HC panel.
 
Linux:
Enhanced: Let's Encrypt SSL certificate deletion upon deletion of a website.
Enhanced: Existing SSL certificate installation option available.
Fixed: Where domain alias for http were not updating for site where SSL was installed.
Fixed: Where HC10 services were not automatically starting on machine reboot.
Fixed: Where SSL certificate with private key file can be installed on a website.
Fixed: Where SSL was uninstalling properly from Apache but error message was thrown in HC panel.

 

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Version 10.24 (January 19, 2021)
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Windows

Enhanced: Organization SubAdmin role has been improved and can be assigned to child OUs.
Enhanced: Two factor authentication can be enforced for panel users. 
Fixed: Where Hyper-V VM status was shown as unknown in HC10 panel if VM was moved from one Hyper-V node to another.
Fixed: Where SharePoint User deletion was not working with SharePoint 2013 version.
Fixed: Where OU was showing multiple times if Enterprise Services like Exchange, SharePoint, etc. were enabled on the same OU.
Fixed: Where changing MX record priority was removing the record from DNS zone.
Fixed: Where Journal Rule was not creating on the organization if the Mailbox Database Selection mode was set as automatic under Exchange Server configuration page in HC panel.
Fixed: Where S4B’s Provider Icon was not showing properly while assigning an OU to Organization Sub-admin.
Fixed: Where more elaborated help is added on the Create Organization page of the Active Directory Management module.
Fixed: Where AD User/Group deletion was failing.
Fixed: Where UPNSuffix for Exchange Organization was not shown in the AD Management module for the same Exchange Organization.
Fixed: Where Bulk DL creation was not throwing any error on feasibility report even if there were white space(s) in any email address.
Fixed: Where HC Exchange module sync operation was not properly pulling mailboxes.
Fixed: Where OU level security has been improved.
Fixed: Where Disk Usage Report for SmarterMail was not working.
Fixed: Where DNS zone’s Data was not shown in DNS Zone editor.
Fixed: Where under specific scenario SharePoint Organization was listed twice in HC panel.
Fixed: Where TriggerSync service was removing the disabled mailbox from the HC panel.
Fixed: Where Exchange Transport Rules were not creating if the condition was specified as “The recipient address includes any of these words”.

Linux
Fixed: Where PHP-FPM was not enabling on websites that were created in Apache.
Fixed: Where Custom php.ini settings were not saved properly.