Hello SysCP-community,

today we are releasing the next version of SysCP. EleRas and I attended 24c3 over the last four days and we got quite productive, so here's the result:

This release features many bugfixes and new features. The biggest features we're introducing are: mod_fcgid, mod_log_sql, the support of dovecot, building real zonefiles, ips/ports with own vhost containers, reorganized and enhanced settings, wizard-style configuration, and much more. You can find the complete overview on http://www.syscp.org/milestone/1.2.17. At this place I also want to hint to our blog (http://blog.syscp.org) where we noted everything we did the last days.

Due to changes in the style the cronscript works you have to take care when updating: There isn't one big cronscript anymore. Instead you have to call scripts/cron_tasks.php and scripts/cron_traffic.php whenever you want to process tasks or calculate the traffic. This enables you to configure your system in a more flexible manner, e.g, you could calculate the traffic more than once a day if you want. Please change your /etc/cron.d/syscp accordingly. The complete file can be found in your panel, just click on "Configuration".

You'll find the packages at http://files.syscp.org. Direct link to the tarball is: http://files.syscp.org/releases/tgz/syscp-1.2.17.tar.gz. Debian users will get it with their next apt-get upgrade.

I also want to hint to our new snapshot service, which provides you with checkouts of the svn trunk. You'll find them at http://snapshot.syscp.org. Use the debian repository like the stable one, upgrading from stable to testing is just as simple as replacing the line in your sources.list with http://debian.snapshot.syscp.org/.

We wish you a happy new year,
Flo and the SysCP-team