Roadmap

April 18th 2024

Improvement - Fortress

• GP-CLI created for Code Freeze feature
• Easy enable/disable added to the GridPane UI

Fixed - Cron jobs

• Setting cron jobs with GP-CLI doesn't accept integers that end with “0”

April 17th 2024

Fixed - Cloning

• PHP worker setting defaulting to Dynamic setting regardless of source site settings when cloning on Nginx

April 16th 2024

Improvement - Database Imports

• Tokens created to allow database imports to run longer than 2 hours

Fixed - Fortress Integration

• Fortress fails to install in a specific instance without giving failure error

April 15th 2024

Security Update/Improvement - PHP

• Updated PHP 8.1 and 8.2

April 11th 2024

Update/Improvement - OpenLiteSpeed

• OpenLiteSpeed updated to 1.7.19

Fixed - PHP

• disable_functions cloning incorrectly

April 9th 2024

Update - Relay

• Relay scripts added/updated updated

Fixed - GP-CLI

• Fixed -all-sites flag failing for all remaining sites after the first site

April 4th 2024

Fixed - Teams

• Admin team members have no access to Git features

March 28th 2024

Improvement/Fixed - Nginx

• Ensure Nginx starts/restarts even if one of the prestart processes fail

April 15th 2024

Security Update/Improvement - PHP

• Updated PHP 8.1 and 8.
  

March 22nd 2024

Improvement - PHPMA

• Moved PHPMA to its own sockfiles and ownership

Fixed - Monit

• Monit giving 503 error on OLS servers

March 19th 2024

Update/Improvement - App Guard

Guard to reserve `gridpane-phpma-*` as a system user and ensure users cannot manually create it

March 17th 2024

Fixed - Stack

• Ensure FPM pool.d confs are generated with 640 permissions
• Ensure all existing pool.d confs have 640 permissions

March 4th 2024

Fixed - SendGrid Integration

• SendGrid toggle becomes disabled and greyed out once a SendGrid integration has been activated

March 1st 2024

Fixed - Object Caching

• Prevent the possibility for object cache drop-in to become corrupt on the destination site after cloning

Fixed - Failover

• Guard against existing domains on failover destination server failing

February 28th 2024

Improvement - Notifications

• Adjustments to notification frequency for 70-75% system load average and memory usage

Improvement - GP-CLI

• Added “gp site site.url -dbcreds” command directly into “conf write db-pass” command

Fixed - Multitenancy

• Guards needed for WPFail2Ban, SMTP, and Caching integrations and required plugins

February 23rd 2024

Improvement - GP-Cron

• Added new functionality for randomising GP-cron trigger time and additional -fuzziness flag for custom configuration
• Added custom sleep functionality for customizing per second trigger time for cron jobs with -sec-delay flag for custom configuration
• Added logging for debug

Improvement - Ubuntu 20.04

• Added updated functionality developed for 22.04 into the 20.04 stack

Fixed - GP-Cron

• CPU spikes caused by GP-Cron triggering at the same time for lots of websites on a server

February 21st 2024

Update - Billing

• Altered invoice table display

January 18th 2024

Fixed - OpenLiteSpeed

• Separate listeners for IPv6 support

January 10th 2024

Fixed = Backups

• Staff team member accounts showing an endless spinner when going to restore a backup

November 30th 2023

Fixed = nG Firewall

• nG Firewall tab greyed out if 6G WAF enabled

New - Uptime Monitoring

• Uptime monitoring is now available for Developer Plus account holders
• Toggle turn monitoring on and off is available within the site customizer

New/Improvement - Fortress

• New Fortress UI integration now live:
  - Enable/Disable Fortress
  - 14 commands available to run
  - View Fortress Audit Log
  - Fortress GP-CLI Log

Improvement - PeakFreq

• When a card is updated or a top payment is made, payment retry should be triggered instantly, and server turned back on if payment or credit is present

Improvement - Vulnerability Scanner

• Updated and improved 360 integration

Fixed - Teams

• Teams section unavailable on Panel plan

November 10th 2023

Improvement/Fixed - Vulnerability Scanning

• Added webhook to update timestamp directly from server scan, fixing vulnerability timestamp notice

November 8th 2023

Improvement - Maldet

• Add Ubuntu 22.04 paths for nG logs to maldet ignore list

Fixed - PHP

• Add PHP 8.2 to user chroot on Ubuntu 22.04

November 7th 2023

Fixed - PHP

• www.conf breaking on PHP switch

November 3rd 2023

Update - PHP

• System-wide check for any servers missing PHP versions
• Ioncube loader update for PHP 8.2

Update/Fixed - Slack Notifications

• PHP 8.2 added
• Missing PHP 8.0 added

Fixed - PeakFreq

• PeakFreq servers creating multiple support tickets for the same issue

November 2nd 2023

New - API

• GET /server - include os_version in payload

November 1st 2023

New - Ubuntu 22.04

• The Ubuntu 22.04 stack is now out of beta and available for all API providers and custom servers

New - PHP

• PHP 8.2 released on Ubuntu 22.04 and 20.04

New - API

• Add 22.04 to POST /server
• GET Site PHPMA Link

Fixed - PHP/Monit

• PHP 8.2 failed to install on some servers, resulting in Monit warning notifications

October 31st 2023

Improvement - Website Build Form

• Add server provider logo to the "select server" dropdown in the website build form on the Sites page

Fixed - Server Stats

• Stats only become available once a site is added to server

Fixed - PeakFreq

• Make PeakFreq server build guard dynamic and ensure it updates without needing a page refresh
• Core accounts without credit card on file getting errors - guard created

October 30th 2023

New - PeakFreq

• PeakFreq now available to all GridPane account holders
• New Credit Balance section within account settings
• PeakFreq billing now available inside Settings > Credit Balance
• Manual One Time Balance Payment section
• Automated Balance Maintenance option
  - Automatic minimum payment of $1 (to avoid invoicing issues)
• View past invoices
• View current credit balance
• View expected monthly usage
• Invoice amount due guards
• PeakFreq instructions/messaging on Servers page

Improvement - MySQL

• MariaDB updated to version 10.5 on Ubuntu 18.04 servers

October 27th 2023

Update - Domain Swaps

• Cloning is always the safer option. This update advises to clone websites instead of domain swapping to mirror our official recommendation

Fixed - Vulnerability Scanning

• Webhook to update timestamp directly from server scan to prevent confusing notice

Fixed - Notifications

• Notification popups appearing multiple times

October 26th 2023

Improvement + Fix - MySQL

• WP CLI 2.9.0 update broke SQL sockets on Ubuntu 22. Fix has been implemented and future proofed to prevent this issue again

October 23rd 2023

Fixed - Redis

• Redis 7 binds to IPv6 loopback instead of IPv4 by default

October 20th 2023

Improvement - Include Check

• Removed empty lines (if they exist due to user error) at the beginning of wp-config.php, user-configs.php include, and secure-debug.php include

October 18th 2023

New/Improvement - Vulnerability Scanner

• Exclude three vulnerabilities from scanner across all servers
• Created whitelisting functionality for vulnerabilities for all sites on a server
• Created per site whitelisting functionality

View the details here in the knowledge base.

October 12th 2023

Security Patch - Nginx

• Vulnerability fix for HTTP2 on GridPane Nginx servers (OLS is not vulnerable)

Fixed - Fortress

• Fortress smoke screen test generates invalid username on multisite

October 9th 2023

Update/Improvement - Redis

• New servers are now provisioned with Redis 7
• Update Redis repo for server builds

Improvement/Fixed - MariaDB

• Repo version set for each stack

October 6th 2023

Improvement - Monit

• Improved Nginx syntax checks

Fixed - Monit

• Monit MySQL config fix

Fixed - Configs

• Server config backup changes to utilise less disk space

Fixed - MariaDB

• Removed MariaDB 10.5 workers from Ubuntu 22.04 servers

22nd September 2023

Fixed - Redis

• Redis Spare servers depleted in first 10 tries

13th September 2023

Improvement - Staging

• Better error visibilty on staging push database dumps

12th September 2023

Fixed - Backups

• Backup site before deletion is missing the -local-single-site flag

5th September 2023

Fixed - Teams

• Sites not visible on drop down when adding client team member

1st September 2023

New - Vulnerability scanning

• Tokens now available to exclude sites or full servers from scanning

Improvement/Fixed - PeakFreq

• Billing anomalies on specific accounts

31st August 2023

Improvement - PeakFreq

• PeakFreq billing: Invoicing data section has been updated
• Server usage reporting updated

30th August 2023

Improvement/Fix - MySQL

• Updated database table export format for latest mydumper update

Fixed - Monit

• Only update monit if the monit threshold is less than the allowed RAM

29th August 2023

Improvement - Redis

The Ubuntu 20.04 stack has been updated so that:

• Websites now use their own Redis database, instead of each sharing a singular database
• Redis now uses Unix sockets

Improvement - Multitenancy Git

• Improvements to overall deployment structure
• Updated deploy scripts to include site level predeploy.sh and postdeploy.sh
• Added new ENV variable will allow the pre/post deploy server scripts to include conditional logic that executes code that should only be run on a new code deploy
• gpgit commands for enabling and disabling maintenance mode on sites during deployments + custom maintenance.php file for during maintenance mode
• Agency only tokens

Fixed - Monit

24th August 2023

Improvement/Fixes - PeakFreq

• Billing updates and UI fixes

Fixed - PeakFreq

• Core accounts: No access to backup functionality on site build form, server and site customizers

14th August 2023

Fixed - OpenLiteSpeed

• Adjust 7G URI ruelset order when Fortress active to ensure ruleset works correctly

Fixed - Monit

• MySQL Monit Memory not adjusting after scaling server up

7th August 2023

Fixed - OpenLiteSpeed

• 7g-gridpane.php settings file not copying across during cloning
• 7g-gridpane.php not updating during staging push

7th August 2023

Improvement - Fortress Integration

• Integration with new Vaults & Pillars features: Adaptations made to cloning, staging, and Fortress removal scripts

3rd August 2023

Update - System Users

• Remove password from user details callback as no longer needed

2nd August 2023

Improvement - OpenLiteSpeed

• LSPHP handler updated

1st August 2023

Update - Application

• The GridPane dashboard has been updated to Laravel 9

Update - Fortress Integration

• Update to wipe log, recycle secret, force update for latest plugin release

New - PeakFreq

• PeakFreq is now available for select accounts
• PeakFreq servers all run Ubuntu 22.04

New - Ubuntu 22.04

• The Ubuntu 22.04 stacks are now out of beta for Vultr provisioned servers (other API-integrated providers will have their full production release soon, followed by custom servers after that)

Improvement - 22.04 Sudo Users

• Passwords accepted, but restriction still in place for password SSH login

25th July 2023

Update - OpenLiteSpeed

• Update default memory value for PHP 8.0

20th July 2023

Updated/Improved - OpenLiteSpeed

• OLS updated to 1.7.17
• Global allow/deny list created for OLS 7G

Improved - Additional Security Measures

• Use 444 on Nginx stack instead of deny to reduce overhead

Fixed - Fortress

• Worker calling gpfort directly being tripped by gpfort pipefails

Fixed - Git

• Git enable command updated to be idempotent

19th July 2023

Update - WP Fail2Ban

• Plugin force updated where possible on all sites running PHP 7.4 and above

Improved - Git

• GP_GIT variables made to be available to site system users

Improved - WP Debug

• When turning secure debug on/off track if query monitor was pre-installed - only remove when toggling off if we installed

Improved - WP-CLI Usage

• WP-CLI usage by our platform has been improved to ensure we can attempt to successfully run commands even when WP-CLI would other fail due to user websites codebase errors

Improved/Fixed - Backblaze B2 Backups

• Check for bucket existence and name limitations when first using Backblaze on a new server

Improved/Fixed - Fortress

• Nginx servers only: Move Fortress 7G whitelist to its own whitelist configuration “fortress-whitelists-7g-context.conf”

Improved/Fixed - Git

• Replace site_url variable with SITE_URL

4th July 2023

New - 22.04 Stack: MySQL

• Use Unix socket for MySQL connections
• Resource-based memory configuration - defaults max usage to approximately 45%
• Automatic resource configuration on scaling

New - 22.04 Stack: Nginx

• Redis-Cache object caching configured for Unix Sockets, autoconfigured
• Redis-Cache object caching using separate database per site, auto-configured, and compatible with Object Cache Pro
• Redis-Page caching using unix sockets
• Automatically configure the Nginx-helper plugin settings when enabling either version of Nginx caching

New - 22.04 Stack: OpenLiteSpeed

• LiteSpeed Redis Object caching uses separate databases per site, and the plugin is autoconfigured

New - 22.04 Stack: Backblaze B2

• B2 CLI and /tmp lock issues resolved, and B2 backups are fully functional

New - 22.04 Stack: System Users

• Autocleaning of unused system users on site deletes

New - 22.04 Stack: GP-Cron

• GP-Cron and server cron enabled by default for all sites on build, multisite compatible, with a daily cron log on rotate

New - 22.04 Stack: Cloning and Backup Restores

• Database dump/import tool updated using streams to speed up clones and restores (this also fixes issues with hangs on massive databases)

New - Fortress Integration

• Use Fortress login links for SSO (if available) on all sites running Fortress

23rd June 2023

Improved - GPFort

• Dynamic checking and healing of missing secrets
• Dynamic checking that there are no secrets in wp-config

Update - GPFort

• “Migrate all” GPFort CLI has now been retired

13th June 2023

Fixed - GPFort

• Pre-smoke and post-smoke install improvements
• Improved WP-CLI check for MyISAM tables guard and improved output
• GPFort CLI preserves WP-CLI stdout so it's usable for users

Fixed - Vulnerability Scanning

• Scan not running when Maldet is also enabled on a server

9th June 2023

New - Ubuntu 22.04 Beta

• Nginx 22.04 Stack
• OpenLiteSpeed 22.04 Stack
• System user SSH access and GP-CLI
• Improved chroot shell
• /tmp directory lockdown and new GP-CLI

5th June 2023

Improvement - Vulnerability monitoring

• Added green check mark after manual vulnerability repeat check is ran and no vulnerabilities are detected

Fixed - Vulnerability monitoring

• UI Bug: Status update requires page refresh after manual vulnerability repeat check is ran
• UI Bug: Repeat check doesn't update vulnerability status when a vulnerability is fixed

17th May 2023

New - Multitenancy

• Multitenancy now available for Developer Plus plans

New/Improved - Vulnerability Scanning

• Vulnerability scanning rolled out for Developer Plus plans
• New vulnerability section inside website customizer detailing vulnerabilities
• Repeat scan button inside website customizer
• Separation between 360 and Developer Plus servers

New/Improved - Git

• Git moved from private beta to public beta, available to all Developer, Developer Plus, and Agency plans

Improved - Server Provisioning

• Automatically block ARM servers from running provisioning scripts

Improved/Fixed - 360 Support

• Vulnerability Scanning daily scan not automatically running
• Management of scanning now handled by automatically created server token
• Scanning improvements for 360 server

Fixed - Multitenancy

• Website customizer Git tab guard for multitenancy servers not active

Fixed - Staging

• 500 “Oops something went wrong” error when enabling staging on stagings page

Fixed - Slack

• Maldet notifications not being sent

Fixed - Teams

• Some team member privileges restricted, showing account as Core plan user

Update - Core Plan

• DigitalOcean servers no longer available on Core plan - plan restricted to Vultr only

4th May 2023

Fixed - Fortress Integration

• Swap Fortress to use /etc/fortress to fix permission issues from our ACLs

1st May 2023

Improvement - Fortress Integration

• Guard to warn during Fotress installation if LiteSpeed object cache enabled
• Worker to enable Fortress update daily
• Ensure processes handle crons and logrotates for Fortress

Fixed - Fortress Integration

• Permissions for Fortress log ownership

26th April 2023

New - Fortress Integration

• Install, Uninstall, Migrate GP-CLI for Fortress plugin
• Cron and logrotate autoconfigured
• Workers created to enable Fortress updates
• Scripts to integrate Fortress into cloning, staging, backups

Improvement - PHP

• Added PHP 8.1 to gp stack PHP configure CLI

Improvement - Scripts

• PHPMyAdmin redundancy created incase their main repo is down during server builds

Improvement/Fix - OpenLiteSpeed

• httpd.conf regenerate set to ignore -export

Fixed - OpenLiteSpeed

• Set Redis port and cache type before enabling object cache

Fixed - Multitenancy

• Domain Swap in multitenancy servers does not remove the bind mounts of original site from fstab

19th April 2023

Security - 2FA

• Block console access to 2FA reset codes

New - Fortress Integration

• Fortress activation status stored inside application

14th April 2023

Improvement/Fix - Domain Swap

• Rename the -main-{site.url}-context.conf file to new domain

12th April 2023

Improvement - Server Provisioning

• New guards and exits for PHP and PHPMA during server builds

Fixed - Git

• Git deployment fails with eternal spinner

Update - Multitenancy

• Info box added to “Immutable Git” settings page no longer in use

5th April 2023

Fixed - Elasticsearch integration

• Conf for Elasticsearch referencing out-of-date monitor

4th April 2023

Fixed - Scripts

• Guard added to prevent echo -n command adding n to env. files

3rd April 2023

Fixed - Enterprise Instances (not my.gridpane.com)

• Callback for server OS not working causing UI issues

29th March 2023

Update - Ubuntu 18.04

• Ubuntu 18.04 option is no longer available for new server builds in UI

28th March 2023

Improvement - SSL

• Guard to remove duplicate keywords in SSL config

Improvement - Cloning

• Server clone notification now includes specific server information

Fixed - Cloning

• Error notification in app when server connection issues corrections

27th March 2023

Fixed - OpenLiteSpeed

• HTTP Authentication not getting enabled in OLS servers

24th March 2023

New - OpenLiteSpeed

• GeoIP added to OpenLiteSpeed

Fixed - UpCloud

• Unable to delete disconnected servers

23rd March 2023

Fixed - Vultr

• Server status incorrect when server is destroyed directly at Vultr
• Force delete not working

22nd March 2023

Improvement - Git

• Slack notifications added

20th March 2023

Continued - Fail2Ban

• Roll out of WPFail2Ban plugin update to 5.0 (ongoing)

17th March 2023

Fixed - Vultr API

• Core plan: Server provisioning at Vultr showing all servers unavailable
• Adding sites to Vultr servers on Core plan giving “Error: This server has too little RAM to build more sites on your current plan.”
• Plans selector showing before region select

16th March 2023

Improvement - Dashboard

• GridPane dashboard upgraded to Laravel 8

Improvement - Vultr

• Moved from API V1 to API V2

Fixed - Vultr

• V1 API servers can’t be interacted with through API V2

Fixed - System Users

• Console errors when adding new user that’s not attached to a site

14th March 2023

New - Auditd

• Token created to that will prevent auditd being automatically removed

Fixed - Backups

• Purge Backups Range From selector has an empty option
• Backup Export/Restore from Export dir discrepancy

Fixed - Git

• Git Integration Manager -> Connected MT Servers Section -> sites modal not displaying server sites

Fixed - DNSME Integration

• Console errors when deleting DNS records

Fixed - Staging

• Console js errors when selecting Staging Push Type on Push Live To Staging/ Push Staging to live modals

Fixed - Server provisioning

• Console errors at the adding SSH keys to server stage when server is provisioning

Fixed - WP Ultimo integration

• Failed notification appears alongside with a success notification after Wp ultimo was successfully enabled/disabled via toggle

10th March 2023

Updated/Fixed - MySQL

• Guards and scripts updates added for deprecated Percona / MariaDB parameters
• GP-CLI stack MySQL commands updated

9th March 2023

Fixed - Staging

• Some accounts unable to clone staging sites

7th March 2023

Fixed - Staging

• Active/Inactive staging site toggle state mismatch

6th March 2023

Fixed - Fail2Ban

• Toggling the Fail2Ban security measure to ON failing, but UI reporting success

1st March 2023

Fixed - Cloneover

• Cloneover unavailable if account plan site limit is reached

Fixed - DNS API Integrations

• Fixed callback error

Fixed - Quick Fix Tools

• Start task button not working

128th February 2023

Update - Fail2Ban

• Filter update
• Began roll out of WPFail2Ban plugin update to 5.0 (ongoing)

Updated/Fixed - SSL

• ACME.sh issuing ECC certs by default and causing oscp stapling to fail

21st February 2023

Updated - ClamAV

• Implemented patch for critical RCE vulnerability discovered in ClamAV

17th February 2023

Fixed - Cloning/Failover

• Cloning fails if disk space on the destination server is above 1TB

16th February 2023

Fixed - Failover

• Fixed potential for timeout when checking database size via WP-CLI

7th February 2023

Fixed - Site provisioning

• Site provision with DNS API credentials and Primary SSL options selected results in failure to add local backup settings

4th February 2023

Fixed - Vultr Server Provisioning

• Scripts updated to take into account Vultr delays

25th January 2023

New - OpenLiteSpeed

• PHP 8.1 is now available in the UI on OLS Ubuntu 20.04 servers
  - Added to default site build settings
  - Added to site build form
  - Added to customizer PHP tab

New/Improved - Site Build Options and Defaults

• Added option for full configuration of local backups on site creation
• Added option for full configuration of remote backups, including more than one provider (caveat: Backblaze B2 is limited to one API key for entire server)
• PHP 8.0 is now the default site build option unless a preferred option has already been set
• If chosen server stack in the site build form doesn’t support set PHP preference option then it will now default to PHP 8.0
• PHP 8.1 is now available as an option

New/Improved - Single Site Cloning

All single-site clones now have added configuration options:

1. Include the Staging
2. Configure the System User
   1. Use origin system user
   2. Autocreate a new system user
   3. Create a custom system user
   4. Select an existing user on the destination server
3. Set Local and Remote Backup Options
   1. Disabled
   2. Match the origin site local and/or remote backup settings
   3. Full granular configuration

New/Improved - Server Build Script Guard

• Guard added to prevent 22.04 server builds (until 22.04 stacks released)

Improved - GridPane Application

• Our dashboard has received updates that will improve overall performance

Improved - Default Server Setting

• Default build setting when creating new servers is now Ubuntu 20.04

Fixed - Staging

• Site system user change wasn't dynamically updating the row in the active sites card until page was refreshed.

Fixed - API

• Endpoint used for cloning: Sites would fail to build if user provided wasn't unique

Fixed - Server Build Form

• After server build form submitted, the form would not reset back to default

19th January 2023

Fixed - SSO

• SSO bug prevented login from working

17th January 2023

Update - Scripts

• Rate limiting added to worker scripts

11th January 2023

Update - Scripts

• Update gpuser ssh key commands to use base64 to handle additional formats

3rd January 2023

Update - UpCloud API Integration

• UpCloud have updated their API along with their plans pricing and currency change (now Euros instead of USD)

Fixed - Server Modal

• Typo in server provision modal

Fixed - Logs

• App errors out on logs when non-standard encoding present

22nd December 2022

Fixed - Custom Servers

• Microsoft Azure/AD SSH generated keys fail to be added as root key

Fixed - Teams

• Team Admin not able to save setting on Default WP Build Settings

13th December 2022

Fixed - Monit

• Monit not accessible when server status turns orange or red

Fixed - Custom Server Status

• Servers page: Custom servers status showing orange, when only states should be green or red

9th December 2022

Fixed - Teams

• Team members unable to add some integrations due to missing button

Fixed - Developer PLUS Upgrade

• Account bugs due to Stripe conflicts

7th December 2022

Fixed - Cloning

• Redis object caching not being cloned over

29th November 2022

Fixed - Single Sign On (SSO)

• SSO login package is missing newly provisioned servers, preventing SSO from working

Fixed - Panel plan

• Unable to provision new servers bug

21st November 2022

Fixed - Cloning

• Cloning from Nginx to OLS with Modsec causing error

17th November 2022

Fixed - Disable Website

• Suspended sites could still be logged into via wp-login.php

16th November 2022

New - User-configs.php

• Server-level user-configs.php includes for new websites

Improvement - Monitoring

• Improvements to our internal server monitoring systems

Improvement - CLI PHP Version

• Updated servers CLI PHP version from PHP 7.4 to PHP 8.0

Improvement - Git Beta

• Export the latest release directory as a variable

Improvement/Fixed - Backups V2

• Auto-create /restores directory inside /var/www/site.url/
  (Previously, it needed to be manually created)

11th November 2022

Fixed - OpenLiteSpeed

• Implemented emergency patch for OpenLiteSpeed
  Details: https://unit42.paloaltonetwork...

Improvement - MySQL

• Percona and MariaDB updated across all servers

Improvement/Fixed - App

• Massive improvements to Servers page loading time

Fixed - MySQL

• MySQL Percona failed syntax check if installed version is 8.0.15-6

Fixed - Backups V2

• Dropbox: Password failure user issues for backups v2

8th November 2022

Update - Cloning

• Tools: Server clone labels updated for better clarity

Improvement - OpenLiteSpeed

• Installed PHP 8.1 on 20.04 OLS stack
• Added GridPane HTTP headers to OLS websites
• Customizing PHP CLI brought to parity with Nginx

Improvement - SendGrid Integration

• Added debug to our must-use SMTP plugin - output is sent to WP_DEBUG log

Fixed - OpenLiteSpeed

• Guard added to stop gp monit nginx command running on OLS servers

Fixed - API

• Server builds: Failing to build due to missing OS version requirement

1st November 2022

Improvement - UpCloud

• Our API integration now separates out different UpCloud plans based on their type and naming convention

31st October 2022

Fixed - UpCloud

• Fix implemented for our API integrations compatibility with UpClouds new API changes

20th October 2022

Improvement/Fixed - Dashboard

• Speed fixes/improvements across all dashboard pages. This difference is noticeable on accounts with many servers and/or websites.

Fixed - Git

• Git Server Deployments List: List could contain deploys from previous repo attachments, but won't redeploy due to repo change.

Fixed - Billing Tickets

• Panel accounts unable to submit billing tickets from inside account dashboard - send button inactive.

Fixed - Servers

• Guard to prevent servers having duplcate name at same server provider when provisioning via API

Fixed - System Users

• Console errors when deleting newly created user, and UI also requires page refresh

Fixed - UpdateSafely

• Console error on Updates page

Fixed - PHPMyAdmin

• PHPMA links broken on new server builds

19th October 2022

New/Improvement - OpenLiteSpeed

• Logs: New scripts and GP-CLI available for managing log rotation and retention on OLS servers. Documentation: https://gridpane.com/kb/how-to-configure-openlitespeed-ols-log-retention/
• OLS and Nginx log formats brought to parity
• Nginx default log rotate set to 30 days

Update - UpdateSafely

• UpdateSafely disabled for Git configured sites

Improvement - UpdateSafely

• UpdateSafely will run WordPress core database updates when needed
• UpdateSafely will run WooCommerce database updates when needed

Fixed - Backups V2

• Backup purging not working for B2 and Wasabi when running manual purge range within site customizer

Fixed - OpenLiteSpeed

• OLS_PHP_CHILDREN_DIVIDE not getting rounded off
• OLS default site catches non-existing multisite subdomain

13th October 2022

Fixed - wp-config.php / WP_DEBUG

• WordPress silently introduced a change to wp-config.php for a WP_DEBUG check that we had already solved for, but due to the duplicate check caused brand-new site builds/clones to fail.

12th October 2022

Fixed - Backups V2

• Some Backup restores led to `htdocs/duplicacy` directory which causes backups preference failures

10th October 2022

Fixed - UpdateSafely

• Patch added, fixing timeout error
• Testing issue on OLS due to browser caching enabled on OLS canary sites
• URIs limit being ignored if URI’s only not set

6th October 2022

Improvement/Fixed - Various UI Settings

• Removed beta tab from website customizer as it’s no longer necessary (and confusing)
• Removed WSOD tab from settings page
• Settings > Integrations tab: Links to backups documentation clearer
• Spelling corrections

Fixed - 360 Support Settings

• Preemptive Support > UI not populating 360 server/site list

Fixed - Git BETA

• Git repo name validation error not stating the reason for the error

Fixed - UpdateSafely BETA

• UpdateSafely failing on target URIs if end-of-line backslash missing from the list inside the UI
• Removed redundant legacy token and references

5th October 2022

Fixed - OpenLiteSpeed

• PHP 8 on Ubuntu 18.04 needs fallback guard for check_lsphp_intl

Fixed - Backups V2

• Improved exhaustive and exclusive handling to clean up unreferenced chunks and prevent excessive disk space usage

3rd October 2022

Improvement - Git BETA

• GitHub and Bitbucket automatically hit the repo webhook no matter what branch is being worked on. GridPane application now parses the JSON for the branch to work out what connected sites/servers to deploy.

Fixed - Site Deletion

• Removed the checkbox to backup site on delete for sites on servers still running V1 backups

30th September 2022

Fixed - Teams

• Additional team members beyond plan allowance not invoicing correctly

29th September 2022

Improvement - Site Build Form

• Option to enable and deploy from Git on site build

Improvement - Git BETA

• Git moved into Open Beta
• Self-hosted repo options added to UI
• GridPane webhooks updated so only one webhook is needed per repo, instead of per branch
• Team member guards to ensure correct Git integrations are seen when viewing own account or team account

Improvement - Clone Server and Failover

• Allows including staging/backups

Fixed - Git BETA

• Console errors
• Push to deploy guard is always active immediately after connecting site from Git integration manager
• GridPane webhook validation fails if commit contains only digits
• Webhook Deployments - UI does not update with new deployment row until page refresh
• Git Integration URL can be edited when servers are connected
• Connected MT Servers: Search by server hostname doesn't work for Git servers connection
• Pagination is missing on the Connected Multitenancy Servers section

Fixed - Staging/Canary Sites

• Console errors on adding or deleting site with staging and canary

Fixed - UpdateSafely

• Timestamp reporting incorrect in UI

28th September 2022

Fixed - UpdateSafely

• Targeted URLs return error when fetched by backstop

27th September 2022

Fixed - wp-config.php

• Guard to prevent duplicate commenting of wp-config.php feature constants - concatenation, gp cron, wp-fail2ban, wp-ultimo

Fixed - Nginoil

• Nginx error due to duplicate listen options

20th September 2022

Fixed - Cloning

• Added additional time to cloning script for site provision before resuming execution

15th September 2022

Fixed - DNS Made Easy

• DNSME was purchased by DigiCert and began asserting their brand name with all new sites. This caused SSL provisioning and renewal failures.

8th September 2022

Fixed - OpenLiteSpeed: SSLs

• OpenLiteSpeed keeping the older cache for OSCP response

6th September 2022

Fixed - Dashboard

• Site list in Sites page breaks under certain [rare] conditions

30th August 2022

Fixed - Redis

• Redis status check fails if language isn't English

Fixed - Backups V2

• Duplicacy sometimes failing to install during server provision

25th August 2022

Fixed - API

• Switch PHP command being fired by API request not including memory unit in script

19th August 2022

Improvement - Scripts

• Updated site build commands to accept backups
• Update site build commands to accept git integrations
• Made scripts resilient to WordPress.org downtime
• Guard added to prevent the installation of PHP 8.1 Monit configs on servers with Nginx 1.15.8

Improvement - Cloning

• Update Cloning commands to allow for the configuration of Backups

Improvement - Redis Object Caching

• Scripts updated to use original Redis Object Cache plugin by Till Kruss (GridPane fork has been retired)
• Token update of all server sites to redis-cache from Till Kruss

Fixed - Cloning

• When cloning sites with addon domains, the loop through domains can fail if there are functions that also read from the stdin

Fixed - SSL

• Acme SSL renewal check worker fails to update Le_ReloadCmd if the original base64 reload command was "service nginx force-reload" instead of "service nginx reload"

Fixed - Clone over

• Clone over fails if DB_HOST_SLAVE directive in wp-config.php

Fixed - UpdateSafely

• UpdateSafely only checking the home URL in the targeted URL list
• Canary site build notification suggesting users to login unnecessarily

Fixed - WP Debug

Guard updated to check if Query Monitor plugin active, not just if it’s installed

7th August 2022

Fixed - Server provisioning

• Provisioning failing at multiple providers - fallback failing

15th August 2022

Fixed - Multitenancy

• Multitenancy webhooks giving 405 error

10th August 2022

Improvement - Git

• Git Integration Manager now contains connected servers and deployment history for both Git and Multitenancy

Fixed - API

• Oauth API not accepting correct PHP versions specific to the server type for update site PHP

Fixed - Git

• MT Server deploy - UI not responding to failed repo checks.

9th August 2022

Fixed - Scripts

• Missing Monit/PHPMA URLs

Fixed - Snapshot Failover™

• Failsync cronjob skips a primary site if the site's domain contains “staging” in its name

4th August 2022

Improvement - Git

• Restore Backups from Exports to Git sites

Improvement/Fixed - Git

• Updated 'Update Repository' buttons and modal title to the 'Update Branch'

Fixed - Multitenancy

• Update repository buttons are not reactive between UI elements in different sections
• Buttons are not returning to their original state after server Git connection deploy finished
• Updating repo+branch causes connected Multitenancy servers section visibility issue

Fixed - Git

• Staging modal not updating reactively for new Git options
• Git page servers column squashing Delete and Configure button
• Git Integration Manager > Servers Tab > Connected branches allowing deletion of a connected bra

28th July 2022

Fixed - SSL

• AutoSSL fails to provision SSL if Sendgrid option is chosen during site provision

27th July 2022

New/Improved - Multitenancy - Major Update

• Multitenancy has been brought inline with all existing Git scripts
• Multitenancy blueprints removed from application, replaced with server Multitenancy Git tab inside server customizer
• Multitenancy uses same Full Git Repository as standard Gridane Full Git Integration
• Guards for cloning and staging to ensure all sites on server are treated as Git sites

Improved - Git

• Git & Staging: Choice of database, uploads directory, or both when using clonever and the destination site is configured for Git
• Git & Cloneover: Choice of database, uploads directory, or both when using clonever and the destination site is configured for Git
• Git & Cloning: If destination is Git configured - accept extra flag and only clone uploads directory and database
• Git & Backups: Updated to work if Git status of a website changes, e.g. if a Git site is converted into a regular site and vice versa.
• Git & Backups: Additional backup tags added for Git Full, Git Hybrid, and Git Server (multitenancy) site backups
• Git & Backups: Export / Import functions configured to work with all Git configured sites
• Git & Backups: Import from alternative sources configured to work with Git sites
• Hybrid & Staging: Detect if site is Git Hybrid and redeploy hybrid repo on destination after staging push to ensure repo and site are synced
• Hybrid & Cloneover: Detect if site is Git Hybrid and redeploy hybrid repo on destination after cloneover to ensure repo and site are synced

Improvement - OpenLiteSpeed

• Allow guest vary to work for partial caching with LS Cache by default

Fixed - GridPane API

• Change PHP version expecting Nginx and not working correctly for OLS servers

Fixed - Git

• File permissions changed when switching site system user (uploads folder still changes correctly)
• Hybrid deployments creating duplicate directories
• After Git integration activated on a site the backups tab options require page refresh to display correctly
• Server customizer Git tab and Git Integration Manager not updating reactively if Git integration is removed
• Git server logs not refreshing reactively on re-opening

Fixed - UpdateSafely

• OLS Servers: PHPMA URL rewrite incorrect

Fixed - 7G WAF

• Whitelisting bots on OpenLiteSpeed can still result in 404

18th July 2022

Fixed - Snapshot Failover™

• Sites not recreated during the next sync when manually deleted from the failover server

7th July 2022

New/Improvement - Git

• Error log for Git has been added to the server customizer logs tab
• Guards for features that require plugins added if immutable site (full Git repo)
• Backups - Restore only database and uploads if immutable site (full Git repo)

Fixed - Teams

• Notifications incorrect
• Notifications counter is not decrementing properly
• Notifications are not getting marked as read

Fixed - OpenLiteSpeed

• Page and object caching toggles bug - When enabling/disabling app gives immediate success message

30th June 2022

Fixed - Backups

• Restore only the database if the website is immutable

Fixed - OpenLiteSpeed

• OLS "root" routing not forced at vhost/htaccess level

28th June 2022

New/Improvement - Git

• Add internal syncs at end of deploy
• Allow for Private Repositories to work with SSH keys

Fixed - UpdateSafely

• Minor bug causes an error and exits the process

23rd June 2022

Improvement - Server Creation

• Database selection labels updated to prevent confusion and misleading comparisons

Fixed - Git (Invite only Beta)

• Hybrid Deploy Type can show incorrect deploy type briefly
• Immutable Server Site Guard added

16th June 2022

New - Git (Invite only Beta)

• Full Repository Deployments
• Hybrid Repository Deployments

New/Improvement - PHP8

• PHP8is now available via UI for 18.04 servers (choose it when creating new sites and/or switch to it inside the Customizer > PHP tab)

Improvement - Staging

• OpenLiteSpeed clickjacking GP-CLI updated to work with staging pushes

Fixed - Staging

• X-Robots-Tag not present on OLS staging sites

Fixed - SSH

• "You are not the key owner" notification when attempting to delete own SSH keys

Fixed - V2 Backups

• Guard added to prevent adding a second Backblaze API key to a site on a server where another site is already using a different Backblaze API key. This is due to the Backblaze API requiring that the bucket names be Globally unique.

2nd June 2022

New - Cloneover

• Infinite staging flag: -infinite-staging
• Cloneover only database files flag: -only-db-clone
• Cloneover only database files flag: -only-files-clone

Improvement - Script Updates

• Update, Worker, and Monitor functions refactored
• Significant performance improvements for Worker scripts on OLS
• Backups Scripts updated for Client Portal callbacks

Fixed - Cloning

• SSL renewal configuration web server restart command incorrect on destination site

Fixed - Adding SSH Keys

• Add key commands updated to handle whitespace in the key comments

27th May 2022

Improvement - OpenLiteSpeed

• We've added a new include called blocks.conf to OLS. Custom configurations added here will be added to your website's vhconf once regenerated.

Improvement/Fix - OpenLiteSpeed Ubuntu 18.04

• PHP8: Updating a website to PHP 8 automatically installs it if it’s not currently installed on the server.

25th May 2022

Fixed - PHPMyAdmin

• PHPMA new release broke SSO

24th May 2022

Fixed - System Users

• SSH keys added to system users when a website is cloned from one server to another not reflected in the application

Fixed - Teams

• 404 Error when an Admin tries to access Configure Team in the settings

22nd May 2022

New - Client Portal BETA

• The Client Portal is now in open beta and available to all Developer account holders (first 10 sites included).
  Sign up at https://panelpress.io/

12th May 2022

Fixed - Site Builds

• Spaces not guarded against in WP user passwords

Fixed - Failover

• Server hostname or IP change corrupts failover cronjob

11th May 2022

Improvement - Scripts

• Improved efficiency on worker script

Improvement - Block upgrade.php Security Measure

• Updated to compare HTTP referer to host and only return 404 if the request doesn't come from the application server.

Improvement/Fix - ModSecurity

• If ModSec fails to download for any reason during the server provision, enabling it on a site will download and install the missing files.

Fixed - User Enumeration Security Measure

• Worker released to ensure all sites are running the latest version

Fixed - Notifications

• Maldet and SSL Renewal Issue Slack Notifications contain linefeeds n

Fixed - SSO

• SSO is failing with “missing package” error on OLS servers

10th May 2022

Fixed - OpenLiteSpeed

• Redirect domains just redirects to homepage, instead of redirecting to domain.com/something

9th May 2022

Fixed - API

• Site deletions not running in screen

7th May 2022

Improvement - OpenLiteSpeed

• fswatch: The default --event Updated using inotify causing restarts when a file is opened by an editor even if it is not updated/altered according to stat
• www route duplication: No redirect at server level or double redirect if site accessed via www

Fixed - Domain Swaps/Cloning

• Server must have website space + additional 10% space available to proceed

6th May 2022

Improvement - API

• Efficiency/performance improvements

Fixed/Improvement - Cloning

• Guard added to catch failed add-site builds and exit with notification

Fixed - Caching

• Nginx cache TTL not updating when ModSec active

Fixed - WP_DEBUG

• Staging: WP_DEBUG causing fatal error when making a staging push - Guard added to prevent staging push from taking place if active
• Cloning: WP_DEBUG causing fatal error on destination sites - Guard added to prevent cloning if active

Fixed - UpdateSafely BETA

• Unable to active UpdateSafely on Ubuntu 20.04 servers

5th May 2022

Fixed - Domain Swaps

• Swap Domain function - not updating relevant ENV domain IDs correctly

Fixed - Cloning

• Server Cloning: Skip site and continue if a site errors out during the clone attempt

Fixed - PHP

• Running PHP commands via CLI results in [false positive] errors in output even though no errors occur

4th May 2022

Fixed - Core Plan

• Upgrade Subscription error notice providing incorrect information (to contact support) when no credit card details have been added to account
• Core plan users unable to upgrade to Panel when they are also a team member in another account

3rd May 2022

Fixed - SSL

• API SSL Renewals Failing: acme.sh now using ZeroSSL as the default CA instead of Let’s Encrypt

21st April 2022

Improvement/Fixed - Fail2Ban Security Measure

• WPFail2Ban activation restricted to sites with PHP 7.4 or above now that it’s no longer compatible with earlier versions of PHP

Fixed - WordPress User Creation

• Guard to prevent spaces in WP User password fields fixed

Fixed - Core plan

• Small number of users still on “Free” plan, not “Core” plan
• Bug when updating User Contact information
• DNS API integrations inputs active in website build form

Fixed - Teams

• Session expired error when logging in as a client or staff when in a team

Fixed - Account Update

• Application does not immediately expire all existing session cookies when updating password from within the application or from the reset password function

Fixed - PHP

• Unable to update to PHP 8.1 inside application

18th April 2022

Improvement/Fixed - SSO

• --skip-plugins --skip-themes flags added to SSO WP-CLI command

Fixed - PHP

• Switching PHP versions failing to update sockfile on very rare occasions

13th April 2022

Fixed - Core Plan

• All free users switched from Free to Core plan

Fixed - Custom Servers

• Unable to select Ubuntu 20.04 OS version (and also Nginx HTTP/3 which is only available on 20.04)

12th April 2022

Updated - Plan

• Removed teams section from dropdown for users who aren’t a part of a team.

Fixed - Developer Plan

• Legacy developer account unable to use domain swap

8th April 2022

Fixed - Core Plan

• Core users unable to upgrade to Panel/Developer inside application

7th April 2022

Improvement - Server customizer

• Display OS in customizer header

Fixed - Teams

• Staging sites not showing for team members with Client role
• Create ticket option available for Client role team members

Fixed - Failover

• Server hostname or IP change corrupts failover cronjob

Fixed - API

• API error for server detail with server ID

Fixed - Custom servers

• Custom 20.04 servers not showing correct PHP options
• Custom server provisioning modal showing Ubuntu 18.04 instead of 20.04.

Fixed - Core Plan UI Fixes

• Tooltips not displaying inside Domains Tab in website customizer unless additional alias/redirect domain is present
• Removed create ticket from settings dropdown

6th April 2022

Fixed - Custom Servers

• Send vps_server.os back on server builds

Fixed - Backups V2

• Auto restore application token if missing from site env
• Restores failing if database check takes too long

4th April 2022

Fixed - OpenLiteSpeed

• Newly created alias domain vhosts generated with some numbers appended to them

Fixed - PHP

• Updating PHP failing in rare circumstances with previous app check

Fixed - Ubuntu 20.04 Nginx

• 20.04 Nginx servers showing 18.04 PHP options (8.1 missing, 7.1/2 both showing)

3rd April 2022

Fixed - OpenLiteSpeed

• Newly created alias domain vhosts generated with some numbers appended to them

2nd April 2022

Fixed - Teams

• Core restrictions for staging/updates checkboxes still active when creating new sites if working in team
• Quick Fixes showing errors when in team

Fixed - Servers

• Ubuntu 20.04 Nginx servers not building correctly

1st April 2022

New - GridPane Core Plan

• New 100% free GridPane plan released

New - Ubuntu 20.04

• Nginx 1.21.6, Ubuntu 20.04 stack released
• Nginx 1.21.7 HTTP3 Beta, Ubuntu 20.04 stack released
• OpenLiteSpeed Ubuntu 20.04 stack released

New - PHP

• PHP 8.1 released on Nginx Ubuntu 20.04 servers
• PHP 8.0 released on OpenLiteSpeed Ubuntu 20.04 servers

Improvement/Fix - Notifications

• Notifications constrained so build-ups of thousands of unread notifications don’t slow down application for users who let notifications build-up

Fixed - Teams

• Core team members' restrictions carried over while working in team

Fixed - PHP

• PHP INI commands not running in screen
• Nginx: PHP-FPM commands not running in screen
• OpenLiteSpeed: PHP LSAPI commands not running in screen

Fixed - Vultr Servers

• Undefined index: memory error when building sites on Vultr servers in Core plan

Fixed - Tools

• Quick fix tools returning errors

31st March 2022

Minor Change - Servers page

• Provider positioning updated

30th March 2022

Fixed - Cloning

• Clone to a different server failing - origin server not able to connect to destination

29th March 2022

Fixed - Backups V2

• Hourly worker deleting database prematurely if restore takes a significantly long time

23rd March 2022

Improvements - OLS Scripts

• Fallbacks for all envs
• Updates to env reading functions
• fswatch has been reworked and fswatch watching file(s) interval can now be changed
• Addon/Redirect vhconf's now checks for running sock instead of checking in site's .env to prevent syntax errors
• Main httpd server conf file now uses php7.4 as default
• Specific gp ols get sub commands now have 2 fallback mechanisms in place

Fixed - Caching

• GridPane Nginx Cache Purger plugin not being installed automatically when FastCGI caching enabled

9th March 2022

Fixed - Cloning

• Server to server clone triggers SSL provision instead of copying the available SSL certificate from origin server

Fixed - Ultimo Integration

• Have wp-ultimo CLI pull in application token to ensure activation via CLI is successful

2nd March 2022

Fixed - OpenLiteSpeed

• Ensure lsphp{ver}-intl is installed on all servers

1st March 2022

Improvement - Domain Swaps

• Domain swap lock guard updated to stop add/delete of domains during swap

Fixed - OpenLiteSpeed

• Site vhconf vhssl path not correctly rewritten after swapping DNS API integration and renewing SSL certificates
• Adding a redirect domain causing an OLS syntax error

24th February 2022

Backups V1 End of Life

• Backups V1 removed from UI

New/Improvement - Nginoil

• Toggle added to Nginx tab inside server customizer

Fixed/Improvement - Domains tab

• Force delete option added for domains that get stuck in pending state

Fixed - OpenLiteSpeed

• Nginx tab showing in server customizer on OLS servers

Fixed - App

• Add new site validation guards not working when using DNS FULL
• Display issue on staging to live push checklist modal on certain screen widths

22nd February 2022

Fixed - App

• Deleting custom failover server from application returning error

18th February 2022

New - GridPane Nginoil

• Optional feature to automatically attempt to fix Nginx syntax errors
• Updates to existing gp nginx -t and gp ngx reload commands
  KB: https://gridpane.com/kb/nginoil-automatically-fix-nginx-syntax-errors/

New - GridPane API

• Support for PHP 8.0 In OAuth API

Improvement - Notifications/Disk Space

• Add a guard so files aren't copied over if free space falls to a certain point, and send notification instead

Improvement - GridPane 360

• Add-on Calculator view updated for better UX

Improvement - Nginx

• Worker to fix files not symlinks in /etc/nginx/sites-enabled

Fix/Improvement - DNS API Setting

• Update DNS Creds / Sync DNS Creds inside Domains tab
• Changing DNS API credentials in the Settings not updating all sites
• Renew SSL - send extra flags for dns or not

Fixed - Creating new sites

• Added guard to prevent spaces in WP User password fields

Fixed - Backups V2

• Enabling local backup to ALL sites fails if a canary site is active

16th February 2022

Fixed - Client Portal

• SSO URL not relaying back to Portal

11th February 2022

Fixed - Backups V2

• Wasabi backups not displaying in restore tab

10th February 2022

Fixed - SendGrid

• SendGrid failing to activate on newly provisioned servers

9th February 2022

Fixed - Backups V2

• Daily backups being pruned as Duplicacy units work in days, not hours
  (Knowledge Base also updated: https://gridpane.com/kb/v2-backups-configuration-purging-exports/)
• Fetching alternative sources issues with dots and hyphens

Fixed - OpenLiteSpeed

• GPOLS generating vhosts for temporary sites during transfers, causing OLS syntax errors when temporary sites are cleaned up

Fixed - Site Deletions

• Site deletions sometimes leaving databases behind

4th February 2022

Fixed - Lightsail

• Lightsail Servers failing to provision in Mumbai region

1st February 2022

Fixed - Maldet

• Scan Log being detected as False Positives despite potential infection

Fixed - Nginx

• Worker created to fix files that should be symlinks in /etc/nginx/sites-enabled

31st January 2022

Fixed - UpCloud

• 500 Error when refreshing UpCloud servers on Servers page

28th January 2022

Fixed - SSO

• SSO package aaemnnosttv/wp-cli-login-command cannot be updated due to an issue with composer.json
• gplogin.sh missing from new servers

Fixed - OpenLiteSpeed (OLS)

• OLS conf checking incorrect regex

27th January 2022

New - Domain Swaps

• Choice of search and replace database rewrite tool now available

New - Domain Routing

• Choice of search and replace database rewrite tool now available

New - Staging

• Choice of search and replace database rewrite tool now available

New - SSL Certificates

• Choice of search and replace database rewrite tool now available

New - Cloning

• Choice of search and replace database rewrite tool now available

Fixed - Backups

• Duplicate rows in backups table causing issues displaying available backups correctly inside website customizer
• Tooltip when hovering over remote backups stating available for beta test users

Fixed - Domain Swaps

• Tooltip wording not clear that canary websites need to be deactivated before swap can take place

Fixed - Server Customizer

• Server customizer backups settings not dynamic
• Server customizer mysql slow query log toggle not dynamic

26th January 2022

Fixed - Failover

• Delete failover token from source if the site is deleted from failover

Fixed - Scripts

• WP 5.9 added “define( 'WP_DEBUG', false );” causing WP-CLI commands to display a PHP warning

25th January 2022

Fixed - AWS Lightsail

• Server provisioning gets stuck after core files are downloaded but not extracted as unzip isn't installed on new AWS servers

24th January 2022

Improvement - Database Rewrites

• Rewrites fallback to WP CLI and target a specific tables where there’s an issue that myloader can’t handle

Fixed - Backups

• Fix for servers where backup-prune-job is missing from cron.d
• Fix for sites where prune schedule missing from site.url.env

Fixed - Cloning

• Delete the original system user only if the system user does not own other sites

20th January 2022

Fixed - OpenLiteSpeed

• 404 errors on SEOPress Sitemaps

18th January 2022

Fixed - OpenLiteSpeed

• HTML cache-control headers caching pages in browser
• TLS 1.1 is turned ON on an OLS servers

Fixed - Elasticsearch GP-CLI

• gp stack elasticsearch -set-heap-size $integer_memory not updating the allocated memory

13th January 2022

Improvement - App

• Servers page no longer loads /servers/{provider}/load-data for all providers if user has no API key
• Refresh API provider cached plans more frequently to check for plan availability

Fixed - App

• SSH Keys tab inside settings loading forever if account is missing team designation
• Updating server name/IP not sending GP-CLI to update /root/server.ip
• Console errors when opening website customizer
• Servers page loads /servers/{provider}/load-data for all providers even if user has no API key
• Provision a Server (Custom VPS) the icon out of the frame

Fixed - Backups V2

• Purging failing to run if unable to gather the necessary data for the purge
• Purging not running in a screen

10th January 2022

New - API

• GET /server/aws-lightsail/plans
• GET /server/upcloud/plans
• POST /server/aws-lightsail
• POST /server/upcloud

Fixed/Improvement - Failover

• Delete failover token from source if the site is deleted from failover
• New GP-CLI command for deleting site on failover

Fixed - API

• POST Domain - missing required dns_management returns incorrect error

Fixed - App

• Add validation check of the server name against the use of hash (#)

Fixed - Staging/Security Tab

• Additional Measures toggles not showing the correct status in UI during Pushes (if the page is not refreshed)

Fixed - UpdateSafely

• Typo in UpdateSafely tab in server customizer

Fixed - SSO

• SSO is failing due to outdated wp login plugin

6th January 2022

Fixed - 7G

• On/Off toggle unresponsive inside security tab in UI

5th January 2022

Fixed - Routing

• Switching route from www to root the DOMAIN_CURRENT_SITE is updated to www.somedomain.com instead of somedomain.com

4th January 2022

Fixed - Backups V2

• “-remote” not being appended for remote restores, but being passed as flag

Fixed - Daily Scripts

• Unable to heal certbot renewal configs if missing data

22nd December 2021

New - Servers API - build/delete

• GET /servers/digitalocean/plans
• GET /servers/vultr/plans
• GET /servers/linode/plans
• POST /servers/digitalocean
• POST /servers/vultr
• POST /servers/linode
• POST /servers/custom
• DELETE /servers/{server.id}
• Docs updated:
  https://documenter.getpostman.com/view/13664964/TVssjU7Z

Fixed/Improvement - Backups Restore Update

• Overwrite only
• Delete all files before restore
• Purge backups based on tags

Improvement - OpenLitespeed

• Expires by type site/server configurable
• gpols env CLI
• gpols mime CLI
• Custom logrotate to compensate for inbuilt limitations

Improvement - Teams SSH Keys update

• Only team owner keys can be added to servers
• Admin can only manage team owner keys when in team
• Staff can add only when in team
• Removing keys from settings automatically removes them from servers

Improvement - App

• Link to support portal in settings dropdown on all accounts

Improvement - Maldet

• Exclude firewall logs to prevent false positives

Fixed/Improvement - DNS and SSL

• Notifications to help prevent SSL renewal failures when swapping DNS integrations on redirect domains
• SSL renewals work when swapping DNS integrations with active SSL on primary and alias domains
• Force renew unavailable on redirect domains after swapping between DNS integration types

Fixed - API

• Domain API error messages

13th December 2021

Fixed - Disable Username Enumeration Security Measure

• 404 on author selection on edit post

9th December 2021

Improvement - V2 Backups

• Update Server Backups - modal for option to enable site local backups
• GP-CLI for enabling V2 backups AND local backups on all sites on a server
• Improved GP-CLI for V2 backups
  Learn more here: https://gridpane.com/kb/transitioning-from-v1-backups-to-v2-backups/

Improvement - API

• POST /site/site-update webhook needs to be able to update prune schedules
• PUT /backups/server/{vps_servers.id}
• GET /server
• GET /server/{vps_servers.id}
• 
  

Fixed - V2 Backups

• Backups tag - remote backup now button malforms when input fails validation

Fixed - Teams

• Admin and Staff are not showing the "FastCGI Page Caching Only" when creating a new site
• Admin can't invite Team Members and can't upgrade his subscription

3rd December 2021

New - API Integrations

• Dev user accounts upgraded to 20 integrations

New - Backups V2 Tagging

• Tag manual backups
• Filter restores by tags
• Restore tab UI update

New - Backups V2 API

• GET /backups/refresh/{site.id}
• GET /backups/original/{site.id}
• GET /backups/alternative-source/{site.id}
• GET /backups/alternative/{site.id}
• GET /backups/integrations
• GET /backups/integrations/{site.id}
• GET /backups/schedules
• GET /backups/schedules/site/{site.id}
• GET /backups/schedules/server/{server.id}
• GET /backups/prune-schedule/{site.id}
• POST /backups/integrations/{site.id}
• POST /backups/{site.id}
• POST /backups/refresh-alternative/{site.id}
• POST /backups/restore/{site.id}
• PUT /backups/automatic/{site.id}
• PUT /backups/schedule/site/{site.id}
• PUT /backups/purge/{site.id}
• PUT /backups/purge-range/{site.id}
• PUT /backups/prune-schedule/{site.id}
• DEL /backups/integrations/{site.id}

2nd December 2021

Fixed - Logs

• Server logs unavailable from UI

1st December 2021

Fixed - Logs

• Plugin unicode output in utf8 files breaking log from displaying correctly within UI

25th November 2021

Improvement - Notifications

• Updated messaging

Improvement - V2 Backups

• App callback to update UI when backup schedule is updated via GP-CLI

18th November 2021

Fixed - Cloning

• Guard to validate for usernames that begin with an integer

11th November 2021

New - Cloning

• Clone one website over another existing site

New - V2 Backups

• Backblaze B2 now available to Pro plans
• New Wasabi Regions available (US Central 1 and AP NorthEast)

Improvement - Cloning

• Choose DNS management during cloning to new URL
• Choose SMTP integration when cloning to new URL
• Choose Optional DB rewrites when cloning to new URL

Improvement - Teams

• Server API key name now visible in server customizer for Staff members

Improvement - API

• GET Integrations
• POST / PUT Site
  - Set DNS Integration and Type
  - Set SMTP
• POST / PUT Domain
  - Set DNS Integration and Type
• PUT Site
  - Enable WP Debug
  - Add WP Users
  - Run WP-CLI commands
• POST system-user
  - Add system-user with SSH key
• PUT system-user
  - Update system user Password
  - Update system user SSH Key

Fixed - V2 Backups

• Backups schedule selector placeholder text updated for clarity
• Restore from original source potential for incorrect database row returning incorrect data

9th November 2021

Improvement - Domain Swaps

• Database rewrites are now optional

Fixed - SSL

• Potential for SSL toggle to stick if account has multiple CF API integrations AND the domain is managed by the non MAIN integration

3rd November 2021

Improvement - OpenLiteSpeed

• Updated to OLS 1.7.14

Improvement - Backups V2

• Tagging moved into beta only while the feature is developed
• Manual backups log is now available in the site logs tab

Improvement - 7G WAF

• WAF rule set updated to 1.4 (with slight modifications)

Improvement - CSP GP-CLI

• Feature Policy added (commented out by default)

Improvement/Fix - Application

• Loading times dramatically improved for sites with large numbers of sites

1st November 2021

New - Backups V2

• Full release out of beta
• V2 is now the default backup system for new servers

New - OpenLiteSpeed

• Full release out of beta

New - PHP

• PHP 8 now available on Nginx servers

Fixed - Server Builds

• Guard to ensure Apache is fully removed from servers during build process

28th October 2021

Improvement - API

• Secure WP Debug - Sites Endpoint - enable/disable feature

Improvement/Fixed - V2 Backups

• Dynamic scheduling update to update UI automatically
• Page refresh required to show backups if left at default showing hourly, midnight

26th October 2021

Improvement - API

• Updated POST /site/site-status webhook
• Backups API - Run get-available-backups

Improvement - V2 Backups

• Server sync for release out of beta

Fixed - Domain Swaps > V2 Backups

• Duplicate rows leading application showing incorrect database info

25th October 2021

Fixed - V2 Backups

• Unable to add Backblaze to sites as a remote provider after Backblaze API update

Fixed - Content Security Policy GP-CLI

• Actions that regenerate Nginx configs default to CSP being disabled

21st October 2021

Improvement - API

• SSO Endpoint - /api/sso-login
• V2 backups schedule endpoint

Improvement/Fixed - V2 Backups

• Scheduling update - move existing schedules to updated schedules (also a fix for missing schedules)

14th October 2021

Fixed - V1 Backups

• ASCII fix

12th October 2021

Fixed - V2 Backups

• Available local backups missing from UI
• Inconsistencies in UI for available remote backups

11th October 2021

Fixed - V1 Backups

• Backup restores unavailable from within the UI

Fixed - Slack

• Maldet scan results not sending via Slack

Fixed - OpenLiteSpeed (BETA)

• "This is not a WordPress site" error when generating vhost for wildcard alias domain

Fixed - UpdateSafely (BETA)

• Process failing to run if any database tables require SUPER permissions due to a plugin.

Fixed - UpdateSafely (BETA) / OpenLiteSpeed (BETA)

• UpdateSafely™ breaks canary vhconf for SSL enabled OLS sites

Fixed - SSO

• URL parameter wrapped in quotations causing script causing

Fixed - Failover

• Always displayed as "Pending" inside app even after a successful sync

8th October 2021

Fixed - SSL

• Acme SSL renewals - Nginx errors on reload

7th October 2021

Fixed - V2 Backups

• Not enough space error output corrected to “Unexpected response” when backups fail due to a non-integer
• Logging added if non-integers returned
• Looping guard with 5-second intervals to retry backups in these circumstances

5th October 2021

Fixed - Staging/Cloning/Domain Swaps

• Search and replace too strict, replacing unintended URLs

4th October 2021

Fixed - Dashboard

• 500 errors on a small number of accounts

2nd October 2021

Fixed - Server Builds

• Vultr, UpCloud, and Lightsail new API Servers failing to build

30th September 2021

New - GridPane 360

• Ability to add servers (functionality exists but sign-up not yet live for clients)
• Gridpane header detection for Cloudflare
• Guard for preemptive servers to check deleted sites
• Icons to indicate 360 supported servers and sites
• 360 specific notifications and warnings
• Grace period
• Patchstack integration
• Uptime monitoring integrations
• Automatic 360 ticket creation
• Stripe integration

New - Additional Slack Notifications

• Nginx
• MySQL
• OpenLitespeed
• Redis
• Fail2Ban
• PHP 7.1
• PHP 7.2
• PHP 7.3
• PHP 7.4
• Filesystem/Disk
• System Load Average
• System Memory Usage
• System CPU Usage
• Swap Memory Usage
• Ramdisk Usage
• SSL Renewals
• Automated Backups

Fixed - Site Creation

• New website builds failing if staging site selected during creation

27th September 2021

New - 360

• Server-side scripts for onboarding and monitoring

Fixed - 360

• Support notifications created for non-360 servers

Fixed - Backups

• "Backup already exists" notifications appearing in application unnecessarily

23rd September 2021

Fixed - V2 Backups

• Hourly scripts taking too long to cycle through sites with many backups

15th September 2021

Fixed - V2 Backups

• Hourly scripts taking too long to cycle through sites with many backups

13th September 2021

Fixed - Cloning

• Cloning Nginx to OLS rewriting permalinks to /%category%/%postname%/

30th August 2021

New - GP-CLI

• CloneOver feature
• Additional cloning options to set DNS API provider and/or clone with no database rewrites
• Domain swapping with no database rewrites

26th August 2021

Improvement - OpenLiteSpeed BETA

• Clickjacking protection toggle now available in UI

25th August 2021

Fixed - Caching

• Redis object cache getting disabled or disconnected during failover cloning

17th August 2021

Fixed - Multi API

• Issue adding 2nd API key after upgrading from Pro to Developer

• Unable to delete AWS S3, Backblaze B2, Dropbox, or Wasabi API credentials from the application if their status within a website is pending

10th August 2021

Fixed - Dev Legacy Plan

• PHP settings missing inside UI for specific accounts

3rd August 2021

Improvement - OpenLiteSpeed BETA

• Clickjacking protection GP-CLI added for OLS servers

Fixed - OpenLiteSpeed BETA

• UpdateSafely running Nginx commands and failing

31st July Scripts

Improvement - OpenLiteSpeed BETA

• QUIC Cloud IPs whitelisted
• Automatic OLS reload when .htaccess changes are made

Fixed - OpenLiteSpeed BETA

• Syntax check false alarms - updated docroot and script handler in case of routed domain in OLS config
• "gpols httpd" regeneration not removing vhost includes if the site doesn't exist
• ModSecurity causing 403 error when saving LiteSpeed Cache settings due to bug in OpenLiteSpeed itself

28th July 2021

Fixed - Multi API

• Limitation of one key per provider still in place after account upgrade from Pro to Developer

22nd July 2021

Improvement - Cloning

• Servers run website size checks before allowing the clone to proceed, ensuring adequate disk space is available beforehand

Fixed - Backups V1

• Alert being triggered by the nightly cronjob for dailyworker due to backup logs being out of sync

Fixed - Nginx Configuration Test Scripts

• Nginx conf check failure false positives due to ulimit parameter not being high enough on servers with many sites

Fixed - V2 Backup BETA

• Backup export notifications firing too early, before the export has finished
• Backup logging including all database tables which can be cumbersome on very large websites

Fixed - Additional Security WordPress Hardening Measures

• Enabling block user enumeration beta hardening measure also blocks comments when nor users who are not logged in

15th July 2021

Improvement - Backups V2 Beta

• Batch Purge and Pruning added to the UI
• Add SFTP export functionality and tab to the UI
• Add SFTP export restore functionality to the UI
• Set backup concurrency added to the server customizer in the UI
• Set backup prune time added to the server customizer in the UI
• Adjust local backup threshold verbiage updated

Fixed - Routing

• Notifications not running inside app

13th July 2021

Improvement - Backups V2 Beta

• Set prune time scripts
• Set concurrent backups scripts

12th July 2021

Fixed - Staging

• No Error Message or Notifications in App if Pre-Push Checks Fail

9th July 2021

Improvement - DNS API

• Refactored DNS checking for domains with DNS API credentials

Improvement - Search and replace

• Database rewrites refactored for a 10-20x speed improvement throughout all search and replace operations
  https://gridpane.com/kb/gridpane-database-rewrites-and-workflow/

5th July 2021

Fixed - Backups V1

• Scripts looking for incorrect time stamp on 2 week backup

Fixed - Backups V1 and V2 Beta

• Env file is being parsed as binary if NULL characters in backups.env

2nd July 2021

Fixed - Backups V2 Beta

• Backups v2 fails due to incorrect zero disk space

1st July 2021

Improvement - SSL

• New SSL commands are now in the UI: -
  - Primary domain on -no-dry-run
  - Primary domain on/off -no-db-rewrites
  - Alias domain on -no-dry-run
  - Redirect domain on -no-dry-run

Fixed - Cloudflare API Settings

• Changing DNS creds in the Settings not updating all sites

Fixed - Cloning

• Domain check and notice inside the UI when domain names already exist on the destination server

30th June 2021

Improvement - SSL

• SSL provisioned callback before rewrites and adjust rewrites. This new sequence means that the site is available either by http/https (depending on which way) as soon as nginx reload and the wp_options are set to the right value.

23rd June 2021

Fixed - PHP 7.1

• Disable stack_trace_depth from php slowlogs for 7.1 as it’s not available on 7.1.

21st June 2021

Improvement - API

• Server Key added to allow partial API access for users servers

18th June 2021

Fixed - DNS API

• If an additional set of credentials are added, the site will change back to the first set, causing SSLs and DNS record changes to fail

17th June 2021

Fixed - OpenLiteSpeed BETA

• Server log file size monitoring and rotations

Fixed - Staging

• Staging sites building without matching DNS integration

16th June 2021

Fixed - Cloning

• Search and replace not always taking place
• If search and replace fails, matching SSL, PHP settings, user etc also fails

Fixed - App

• Application making unnecessary API token update calls

15th June 2021

Improvement - Staging

• If MySQL hits a permissions error during a staging push (typically due to SUPER permissions) the database import will rerun as root (so it no longer needs to be configured manually)

Improvement - SSL

• New GPCLI for running an SSL provision with no database rewrites
• New GPCLI for running an SSL provision with no dry run

Improvement - API

• Scripts to use server_key for all the server communications with the webhooks API

Improvement - Rate Limiting

• WP Zone Limit whitelisting now includes $http_referer variable

Fixed - UpdateSafely BETA

• Updatesafely failing if a site has 301 redirect domain

Fixed - Cloning

• SSL toggle on cloned site not showing as ON inside UI if using the webroot method

Fixed - Cloning and Backup Restores

• Locks now in place to ensure clones/restores cannot be fired a second time by a user while an existing process is still taking place. This ensures that processes cannot run on top of each other.

Fixed - Redis

• “apt install php-redis” no longer installs Redis module to all PHP versions

Fixed - Nginx Config Generation

• No fallback if original static and compression conf from site build are missing

Fixed - SSL

• If acme.sh is missing on new servers there is now a fallback to install via Git if wget fails

Fixed - Staging

• wp-options Site URL and Home for staging not updating after a push from live to staging
• Disk space checks and guards in place to ensure a push cannot accidentally fill up a servers disk space
• Excluded tables from partial database push still pushed

Fixed - GPCLI

• Slow log GPCLI not setting slow log location

Fixed - Backups V2 BETA

• MyDumper updated to prevent backup errors

14th June 2021

Fixed - SSL

• DNS API SSL provision is failing after acme.sh updated to use ZeroSSL as the default CA while we use LetsEncrypt

11th June 2021

Fixed - Cloning

• Sockfile missing in destination site after cloning to different servers

2nd June 2021

Fixed - SSL

• Let's Encrypt Updated their API causing webroot SSL provisioning to fail

25th May 2021

Fixed - Site builds

• Site build failing when default admin password contains symbols/spaces

24th May 2021

Fixed - Staging

• Staging to Live failing if primary keys match in destination and source table

17th May 2021

Fixed - Maldet

• Scans have errors at the end of the output - “command not found”.

14th May 2021

Fixed - Teams

• Notifications carrying across accounts

13th May 2021

Fixed - Cloudflare API

• Cloning to new site.url adding new URL and DNS records to the Cloudflare Account of the source site

Fixed - Staging

• DNS API Integration displaying as active instead of inactive in domains tab

Fixed - Agency Instances

• Kiosk Admin Users missing GridPane FreshDesk support widget + tickets

12th May 2021

Fixed - System Users

• Creating a new system user from the "Change site owner" option limits the length to 16 characters

11th May 2021

Fixed - Account Timezone

• App had issue updating specific to CEST timezone

10th May 2021

Fixed - Backups V1

• SFTP Export not working

6th May 2021

Fixed - Logs

• Error pulling info from logs in very rare circumstances

Fixed - SSO

• Failing, resulting in 500 Errors

3rd May 2021

Improvement - Caching

• Activating page caching will reinstall the Nginx Helper plugin if missing from the website

Fixed - Backups V2 BETA

• Error "Something went wrong" when fetching all sources.

Fixed - SSL

• Provisioning SSL on Staging Site without API Integration returning the error "DNS integration not found. Enabling SSL is unavailable."

Fixed - Snapshot Failover

• Unavailable for new Developer accounts

Improvement - Site Builds

• Default permalinks on new sites are set to “Post name” instead of “Plain”
• Removed “hello dolly” plugin from default site builds

Improvement - Domains Tab

• Refactor to try to reduce load from checks on servers with hundreds of existing aliases

Improvement - OpenLiteSpeed BETA

• Added Brotli GP-CLI

Improvement - Nginx Mime Types

• Added AVIF image file type

Fixed - Domains

• Worker to rebuild additional-domains.env - if domains missing

Fixed - Failover

• Replace failsync-pause with lock token

Fixed - OpenLiteSpeed BETA

• Cloudflare Real IPs updated

28th April 2021

Fixed - Multi API

• Edit button not available inside the Integratons API's Backup Providers Tab
• Can't delete Dropbox API key

27th April 2021

Fixed - Site Building/Cloning

• Issue with default smtp in form and payload in some cases

Fixed - Beta Access

• Permissions for beta incorrect on certain accounts

Fixed - Security Tab

• All toggles greyed out and unresponsive

Fixed - Staging

• Missing PHP, caching, security tabs

26th April 2021

New - Multi API

• Developer and Agency accounts can now add more than 1 API key per provider
  https://gridpane.com/kb/adding-multiple-api-keys-to-your-account/

Improved - GridPane App

• All instances updated to Ubuntu 20.04 (this is the GP application only, not server builds)

Fixed - Agency Instances

• Tickets for Kiosk users

22nd April 2021

New - Nginx Configs

• WP Zone Rate Limit whitelisting
  
• PHP-FPM sockfile variable storage
  
• Additional Security Measures – includes before
  

Fixed - Nginx Configs

• Cloudflare Real IPs updated

New - GP CLI

• CLI to manage and store monit configurations and notification setting
  

New - Monit

• Run Ramdisk Monitoring and healing

New - API

• Full bundle management
  

Improvement - Cloudflare Integration

• Detect local token and enable CF full integration on cloned sites

Improvement - Server Creation

• Warning notice that 1GB RAM is below our recommended minimum (which is 2GB RAM) when creating new servers

Improvement - UI

• Failover section on Tools page updated and improved
• Failover indicator added to Servers page
• Buttons feedback inside caching tab in website customizer improved
• Links to V2 Backup articles added to server customizer
• Modal to confirm multisite activation (notice that it can’t be undone before activation)

Improvement - GP CLI

• Scripts for Nginx tab in site customizer
  
• GP Cron updated and sync settings added

Improvement - Security Measures

• Include added to some additional security measures includes

Improvement - Routing

• Scripts for none, root, www updated with wp-config
• Cloudflare APO doesn’t allow server based www routing, these updates adjust for this.

Improvement - Monit

• Scripts updated to prevent false positives during configuration checks

Improvement - Agency Instances

• Reconfigure servers to agency instances after migration

Improvement - API

• Error feedback improved
• 401 returned for all user authentication issues on all endpoints
• Bundle support added

New/Improvement/Fixed - Backups

• Scripts updated for pre-domain swap backups, cloning backups, and staging backups to support external databases if no v2 backups or no mydumper

New/Fixed - Notifications

• Notification timezone can now be set directly inside account to prevent incorrect timestamps on notifications
• Server datetime in notifications

Fixed - Monit

• OpenLiteSpeed BETA - remove mysql.cnf checks from mariab stacks - command only available for percona

Fixed - Server Updates

• gpupdate refactor – faster, systemd timer based
• gpworkers refactor – faster, lower resource

Fixed - Agency Instances

• Adapt guards for gridpanevps to use those specified in agency instances
• Missing Freshdesk support widget
• Logs tabs disabled for client users

Fixed - UpdateSafely

• Fix for www routing

Fixed - Teams

• Client pricing incorrect in UI

Fixed - SSO

• Activation/deactivation opens wp-admin for the site

Fixed - 7G

• 7G firewall rule fixes for OpenLiteSpeed

Fixed - API

• 401 Error handling

20th April 2021

Fixed - DNSME API

• DNS Made Easy updated their nameservers. Scripts have been adjusted to ensure our API connection works correctly with the update.

14th April 2021

Fixed - Teams

• Client permission settings

30th March 2021

Fixed - Teams

• Staff team member can't activate plugins in the bundles tab

23rd March 2021

Improvement - WP Ultimo

• Update Ultimo to use application token

19th March 2021

Fixed - Redis

• Disabling persistence not wiping old dump.rdb files after restart

Fixed - System Users

• System user named cac - Error: "Unable to update cac, it is a system build user!"

18th March 2021

Fixed - Teams

• New team member signs up redirected and unable to complete sign up

17th March 2021

Improvement - Sign Up

• Moved from application into primary website

16th March 2021

Improvement - OpenLiteSpeed BETA

• ModSecurity added to Security Tab

Fixed - UpdateSafely

• Run commands in screens

Fixed - UI Fixes

• Settings: Backup API credentials screen looks broken when long API keys added
• Domains tab: DNS record layout issue with when adding long records

Fixed - Cloning

• Server clone gives error when staging sites exist, incorrectly reporting that they belong to the “gridpane” user

12th March 2021

Fixed - Agency Instances

• DigitalOcean servers not provisioning

10th March 2021

Fixed - Agency Plan

• Agency plan users missing staging full push options

• Staff team member site builds failing. Site building default creds now only stop staff/admins from building if the owner default settings are wrong

9th March 2021

Improvement - UpdateSafely™

• Testing smaller on smaller servers available on request

Fixed - UpdateSafely™

• UpdateSafely™ report generation

Fixed - Server Updates

• Security reboot notification remains after reboot

Fixed - GP CLI

• “xargs: argument line too long” error when a site is extremely large and has a very large cache

Fixed - Support

• Ticket submission errors when submitting within application

4th March 2021

Improvement - Support

• Ticket submission refactors

Improvement - Server Selection

• Show specific plan information in dropdown menus when creating API servers at DigitalOcean, Linode, and Vultr

1st March 2021

Fixed - UpdateSafely™

• Toggle fails to activate UpdateSafely™ on the server

26th February 2021

Fixed - UpdateSafely™

• Visual comparison links unavailable after completion

Fixed - Servers

• SSH keys adding to servers, but intermittently

25th February 2021

Improvement - API - Caching

• Enable/disable page caching via API
• Enable/disable object caching via API
• Manage cache TTL via API
• Clear caches via API

Improvement - Caching

• Nginx page caching TTL GP-CLI

Improvement - Nginx Configs

• Added Fastly Real IPs
• Added $request_time to logging
• OPTIONS added as an allowed default method
• Requests not addressed to a specific virtual host - returns a 444 and closes the connection with no response.(This prevents bot abuse and conserves server resources)

Fixed - OpenLiteSpeed

• Cloning a site with 6G active from an Nginx server to an OLS server leaves security tab unresponsive

Fixed - V1 Backups

• In rare cases, database folders were not being removed. Guard added.

Fixed - Logs

• Logs in website customizer returning error: "Something went wrong when getting logs!"

Fixed - Teams

• Team members unable to launch site customizer

24th February 2021

Improvement - V2 Backups

• V2 backups now work with websites that use remote databases

Fixed - OpenLiteSpeed

• Unsuspend feature not working

Fixed - Slack notifications

• Maldet Alerts not pushing to slack

Fixed - Backups V1 and V2

• On visiting the Sites page, navigating to a website's backup tab inside the customizer returned no information on the very first try.

Fixed - Agency Instances

• Gitlab and Github SSO now configured on agency instances

Fixed - Servers

• Custom VPS is not provisioning

22nd February 2021

New/Improvement - Caching

• Caching tab now available for Nginx servers inside site customizer
• Added the ability to manage the Page Cache TTL to the App UI and API alongside enable/disable page caching
• Added the ability to enable/disable redis object caching to the UI
• Added the ability to clear all site caches, site page cache, site object cache to the UI and API

New/Improvement - Server Timezone and Updates

• Settings for managing server timezones and automatic Updates now available inside the UI server customizer
• Default settings for newly created servers available inside the Settings page

Fixed - V2 Backups

• Restore from alternative sources not possible when remote backups were detached from the original site

5th February 2021

Fixed - System Users

• Older sites on the gridpane system user preventing site cloning from working. A guard and notification is now in place.
• Sites can only move away from the gridpane user when switching users. Sites cannot be moved to the gridpane user.
• Sites with older system users that have underscores causing cloning to fail. Guards and notifications when cloning system users with an underscore.

Fixed - Agency Instances

• Profile and security options within settings page for users own account

Fixed - UI

• Loading spinners broken throughout application

4th February 2021

Improvement - Suspended Sites

• Return 503 response for websites that are suspended
• Allow cloning to proceed on websites that are suspended

Improvement - Server Timezones

• Adjust Server Timezone GP-CLI
• Adjust Security Update Time GP-CLI

28th January 2021

Fixed - OpenLiteSpeed

• Wildcard Vhost wrong SSL path if cloning over to OLS from an Nginx server

18th January 2021

New/Improvement - OpenLiteSpeed

• Hardening options now available inside Security Tab
• Added security tab to OLS website customizer

Fixed - Default Site Build Settings

• 7G WAF missing from WAF dropdown

Fixed - Site Builds

• When trying to build a site, but it has an existing username with now invalid characters, the API errors out and states that the password is under 12 characters.
• When trying to build a site, but it has an existing password of under 12 characters set in the WordPress settings menu the API errors out and states that the password is under 12 characters.

14th January 2021

Improvement - V2 Backups

• Added popup warning advising to take backup prior to doing a restore

New/Improvement - Site Build Form

• Add new users while creating new website:
  - Default WP Admin only
  - Default WP Admin and extra users
  - Other WP Users only

13th January 2021

Improvement - Staging

• Adjusted Database:Memory ratio threshold to allow for increased tolerances on smaller servers when pushing staging

Fixed - Cloning

• Guard in place to prevent cloning when system user contains an underscore
• Backup V2 remnant directories causing all-server cloning to fail, skip added

Fixed - V2 Backups

• Backups proceed even if MyDumper has failed

12th January 2021

Improvement - Failover

• Define GRIDPANE_FAILOVER true inside wp-config.php

Improvement - Server Status

• Confusing messaging updated - Orange dot now says “Active” instead of “Disconnected”

Fixed - SSL

• When disabling SSLs or enabling a chain of domain SSL's during the Auto-SSL process, the toggles sometimes behaved unpredictably

Fixed - Backups V2

• Site cloning and UI dropdowns: On servers where backups v2 were enabled, if a site had remote backups attached and backups available, and then was cloned, when the clone finished the source sites backups were "available" in the cloned site, and the alternative source backups check glitched.

12th January 2021

• Enable/Disable Nginx Page Caching
• Enable/Disable HTTP Authorization
• Enable/Disable Site Suspension (Agency/Enterprise only)

https://documenter.getpostman.com/view/13664964/TVssjU7Z

11th January 2021

Improvement - Failover

• Define GRIDPANE_FAILOVER true inside wp-config.php

Improvement - Server Updates

• Change unattended-upgrades reboot to 2.30AM to avoid main workers

Improvement - PHP CLI

• Upgrade all servers to PHP 7.3 for CLI version

Improvement/Fix - Cloning/Migration/Failover

• Prevent Cloning/Migration/Failover if the site is using the “GridPane” user
• In-app notification for GridPane user guard

6th January 2021

Fixed - Backups V2

• Remote backups not functioning correctly in staging are

Fixed - Domain Addons

• Add guard to prevent adding “ / “ to the end add-on domain names

Fixed - Teams

• Unable to invite a user that already exists to the team using the admin role

30th December 2020

New - Multisite

• Multisite cloning and failover now fully operational

Improvement - Subscriptions

• Display legacy Developer and Pro plan pricing in Settings > Subscriptions

Improvement - Failover

• Guard to ensure failover only works with nginx <-> nginx and openlitespeed <-> openlitespeed

Improvement - Failover, Cloning, Staging, SSL

• Replaced WP-CLI Search Replace with Interconnectit Search Replace for significantly improved automatic search and replace functionality

Improvement - Staging, Cloning, Migrations, Failovers, Backups

• Replaced MySQLDump and import with MyDumper/MyLoader
• Parallelised MySQL Dumps - much faster, lower load, reduced locking

Improvement - Monit, Backups, Staging

• Replaced du with diskus and set ionice for idle on all background checks

Improvement - Same Domain Cloning & Failover Cloning

• Clones all general customizer settings
• Clones all security customizer settings
• Clones all PHP settings
• Failover Syncs all settings changes and adds new domains

Improvement - Staging & Migrate/Clone to New Domain

• Clones all general customizer settings
• Clones all security customizer settings
• Clones all PHP settings
• Staging to Live pushes require extra confirmation as they now thoroughly match state.

Improvement - Staging

• New modal for comparing settings between live and

Improvement - ModSecurity WAF

• Updated to the latest OWASP ruleset which includes WordPress specific rules
  NOTE: Sites with ModSec already enabled, toggle on and off to update. All new servers and sites to get new rules by default.

Improvement - Site builds

• Don't enable Redis Object Caching by default.
• Installs and activates plugin, but doesn't enable it. This will be a toggle soon.

Fixed - System Users

• UI not providing feedback when system users fail to create
• Increased password length from 32 characters to 65

Fixed - Slack Notifications

• Maldet notifications not sending

Fixed - UI Notifications

• Livechat in bottom left covering up the close button for notifications
• Typo in 6G notification

GridPane API Update

Build sites with WP Users JSON array

• If you add a user as primary_administrator, it will be set to SSO admin and replace the wp default admin that is provided in settings. Accepts up to 5 Users, if more are provided then it filters based on role hierarchy. The first feature to come to API before UI, UI will follow.

Site Cloning

• Clone site with same domain to another server
• Clone site with new domain to another server
• Clone site with new domain to the same server
• Clone all sites from one server to another server

Site WAF

• Configure site WAF - disable and enable 6G/7G/ModSec

Documentation

• https://documenter.getpostman.com/view/13664964/TVssjU7Z

17th December 2020

Improvement - Settings

• Combine Oauth and GridPane API settings Page