Roadmap

December 5th 2024

Improvement - Teams

• Role guards added

November 29th 2024

Fixed - Monit/PHPMA

• DNS records not being added for SSL provisioning

November 27th 2024

Improvement - Multitenancy

• Added automatic pruning of Git releases

November 22nd 2024

Improvement - 360 Support

• Reporting improvements

Improvement - Vulnerability Scanning

• Whitelisted Core vulnerability that has no fix or planned fix to prevent noise

November 19th 2024

Fixed - OpenLiteSpeed

• Some sites on OLS servers are missing LSOC prefix

November 14th 2024

Fixed - Website Build Form

• Websites not building with correct SSL settings when challenge SSL selected

November 6th 2024

Fixed - Site customizer

• Cloudflare 524 errors retrieving Fortress and Relay+OCP available licenses

Fixed - Object caching

• Object cache sync returning false inactive

Fixed - Monit/PHPMA SSLs

• SSL Provision/Renewal failures due to DNSME DNS record resolutions being too slow

November 1st 2024

Fixed - Site customizer

• Requests running twice when opening Fortress website customizer tab
• Cloudflare 524 errors when opening Fortress and object caching tabs

Fixed - Email change

• Possible to send multiple email change requests

October 30th 2024

Fixed - GP-Cron

• Requires full path to WP-CLI (/usr/local/bin/wp) instead of Just 'wp'

October 29th 2024

Fixed - Teams

• Adding Git repo and client team role
• Client role access control

Fixed - API integrations

• Allowances fix

Security - Teams

• API enhancements

October 23rd 2024

New/Improvement - SSH keys

• Option to push an SSH Key to all servers now available

Security - Teams

• API enhancements

Fixed - Teams

• Team member invitations failing to send

Fixed/Improvement - Support Form

• Sanitization enhancements
• Added Cloudflare turnstile

Fixed - Site Builds

• 524 timeout errors when building sites with DNS Integration Enabled

Security - Bundles

• API enhancement

October 17th 2024

Fixed - Caching

• gp fix cache site.url not clearing cache for redis full page cache
• Full Page Redis cache sets redis_pass to redis_page instead of redis_fetch_page

Fixed - Notifications

• ACME Renewal Failure has "ing" added to the domain

Update - SSHD config

• Diffie-Hellman ephemeral (DHE) Key Exchange (KEX) algorithm removed

October 16th 2024

Security - DNS Integration

• Sanitization fix

Update - Password resets

• Users redirected to login page after password successfully updated

October 7th 2024

Fixed - 403 errors

• 403 error when deleting site and server and adding ssh key under specific conditions

September 30th 2024

Fixed - API Integrations

• 403 Forbidden Error on Cloudflare token integration

September 27th 2024

Fixed - Core Plan

• 403 Forbidden Error on Vultr Token Creation

Fixed - API Integrations

• Users can add more API integrations than their plan limit under specific conditions

Security - OTP

• OTP security enhancement

Security - API

• API authorization enhancement

September 18th 2024

Fixed - Core Plan

• Users able to add custom server under specific circumstance

Security - API

• API authorization enhancement

September 18th 2024

Improvement - OTP

• OTP security enhancement

August 29th 2024

Improvement - OTP

• Added OTP to staging

August 28th 2024

Update/Improvement - Fortress

• Updated the commands list inside the Security > Fortress tab in the website customizer

August 27th 2024

Improvement - OTP

• Added OTP to additional features
• Additional OTP security enhancement

August 26th 2024

Fixed - Fortress

• API responds with "The site id field is required." on gpfort site.url -update

August 23rd 2024

Improvement - Account

• Email verification is now a requirement when updating account email address

Fixed - Git

• jo utility incorrectly parsing commit string value as number

August 15th 2024

Improvement - OTP

• Improved OTP Security

New - OTP

• OTP settings that are active by default can now be disabled via toggle. (This was a added due to a feature request, but it is not recommended)

Fixed - Password resets

• Email enumeration possible due to error message language

August 13th 2024

Fixed - Caching

• New Stack /etc/hosts loopback on sites build doesn't include www and staging

August 8th 2024

Fixed - 360

• Previously cancelled subscriptions grace period prevents servers from being able to re-sign up server to 360

August 7th 2024

Fixed - 360

• Multisite server guard not preventing adding additional websites to server once enrolled in 360

August 1st 2024

New - Agency Plan

• Agency clients now have their own custom plan inside the GridPane application

Improvement/Fixed - Sessions

• Prevent 419 errors in rare cases due to browser caching

July 22nd 2024

Fixed - Cloning

• Cloning not copying Fortress settings correctly

Fixed - Multitenancy

• Deploy failures where /root/gridenv/git.env is not found

July 1st 2024

Fixed - Server deletion

• In very rare circumstances, servers can’t be deleted from the dashboard

June 28th 2024

New - SSH Keys

• Add SSH keys to all servers in one go

Security Update/Improvement - 2FA/OTP Enhancements

• System user password available again, but protected by OTP

Update - OTP

• Default OTP time changed from 15 minutes to 120 minutes

June 26th 2024

Security Update/Improvement - 2FA/OTP Enhancements

OTP added to the following feature settings:

• Deleting a server
• OTP aeleting a website
• Editing a server name and/or IP address
• Opening Monit
• Opening PHPMyAdmin
• Opening the website build log
• Site logs
• Modifying system users

June 5th 2024

Security Update - Sites Page

• Improved security for sensitive site data

June 2nd 2024

Fixed - Multitenancy

• False 500 error when attaching a Git repository to a Multitenancy server

Fixed - PeakFreq

• Upcoming invoices not displaying within subscription settings

May 29th 2024

Fixed - Custom servers

• Error preventing custom servers from provisioning
• Custom servers not shown in servers filter

May 27th 2024

Fixed - Security Settings

• Authy still showing in 2FA options even though it is no longer be supported

May 24th 2024

Security Update - Settings

• 2FA session duration time limit now customizable within account Settings > Security

May 23rd 2024

Security Update - Settings

• 2FA no longer needed every single time settings pages accessed
• 2FA session duration default time set to 15 minutes

Fixed - 2FA

• Fixed copy pasting bug (pasting added all code into first OTP box)

May 22nd 2024

Security Update - Settings

• Enforce 2FA to access settings page
• Integrations API masking

May 14th 2024

Update/Fixed - Fortress

• Remove existing cache:clear from Fortress scripts

May 9th 2024

Improvement - Backups

• Make hourly workers to wait for at least 2 more hours before deleting the restore token

May 8th 2024

New - PHP

• PHP 8.3 added to Ubuntu 22.04 and 20.04 servers

Improvement - Vulnerability Scanning

• Added vulnerability ID to email alerts

April 24th 2024

Fixed - Cloneover/Failover

• Sync site settings not working correctly during cloning/failover sync

April 23rd 2024

Improvement - Fortress & Relay

• Sync commands added to scripts

Improvement - Cron jobs

• Added fuzzy setting
• Improved efficiency of daily cron jobs

Fixed - Server Provisioning

• Not all default SSH keys are added to a newly provisioned server

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