Upcoming releases
Last updated: 17th March 2025
Under development
The following features have been assigned development time and are currently under development. A release date is not available. Additional minor releases including bug fixes and/or smaller features may occur. Features are subject to change and may be released over multiple releases.
- File manager improved handling of non-utf8 encoded filenames.
- Extend the ‘create website’ endpoint to allow an application to be installed at point of website creation.
- Default to the primary domain when adding a new email address.
- Ability to download an archive backup of a website and import it to another cluster.
- This simplifies the process of winning a customer from another hosting provider who uses Enhance.
- The backup/restore will retain mailbox, FTP and database passwords.
- Ability to browse backups of hard deleted websites, to remove the data, download the backup or restore to a new website.
Approved
The following features are yet to be assigned development time. An estimated release date is not available. Features are subject to change.
Known bugs and logic/UI improvements are not listed. Each release will include a number of bug fixes and/or logic/UI improvements.
Request new features via our community forum.
Service architecture
- Support for other Linux distributions.
- Ability to run Enhance (with some features restricted) on containerised platforms such as LXC or Virtuozzo.
- Ability to view versions of apt/deb packages installed on the system and to selectively update packages.
- Ability to nominate separate IP on each server for internal data transfer.
- Ipv6 only servers
- Proxy on server migration. When a website is moved between servers, the old server will proxy requests to the new server until the DNS is updated.
- New packages for Nginx and Apache to enable additional modules.
- Enable passthrough of “real” user IP from known Cloudflare IPs across all web server kinds.
- Support for custom SSH ports.
- Support for ARM architecture.
- Framework for compilation/installation of custom PHP modules.
- Task queue system for website operations (for example installation of WordPress) which will improve performance on servers with a large website count.
Website features
- Node.js.
- Python.
- .NET Core.
- Additional auto installers:
- Joomla
- Moodle
- Magento (including deployment of Elasticsearch)
- New redirect manager and IP block/allow manager.
- This will write directly to the web server config to ensure consistency across all web server kinds.
- Ability to create WordPress templates/recipes which can be deployed by yourself or your customers.
- File manager “trash can” functionality.
- WordPress lockdown/anti-malware features, protect your WordPress installations from vulnerable core/plugins/themes.
- Website performance analysis.
- Ability to password protect websites.
- Graphing of CPU, Memory and IO usage per website. Display sites with highest usage on dashboard.
- PHP extensions:
- List default and allow/disable additional extensions.
- Improved PHP logs.
- phpMyAdmin per web server to improve performance for geographically diverse clusters. SSO from the control panel is maintained.
- Global WordPress manager V1.
- Enable/disable search engine indexing.
Server management features
- Server diagnostics:
- Identify Connectivity issues
- Customisations made in OpenLiteSpeed admin panel will persist when updates are made to the website/vhost through the Enhance panel. This mirrors the existing functionality for commercial Litespeed.
- Groupware functionality.
- Extend dedicated customers product view:
- List servers
- Basic server stats
- Basic server management tools
- Ability to unistall the “Backup” role from a server.
Email features
- Email piping.
- Email queue management interface.
- Catchall email.
- Automatic detection of mail routing via DNS.
- Virus scanning.
- Learning of HAM/SPAM.
- Ability to configure mail filtering rules (sieve).
- Additional webmail features
- Configure mail filtering rules.
- Configure out-of-office.
- Change outgoing mail IP via UI.
- Roundcube contacts transferred during role migration.
- Ability for mailbox users to change their own password through Roundcube interface.
DNS features
- Allow AXFR from trusted IPs.
- Integration with 3rd party DNS providers.
- Import DNS zones from bind format zone files.
- Import existing zones from Cloudflare before sync.
Commercial
- Ability to retain original control panel credentials for cPanel imports.
- Ability to override specific package resources + selections on a per-subscription basis.
- Ability to retain original directory structure for cPanel imports.
- Improvements to WHMCS module.
- Default holding page for blank websites.
- Framework for integration of external applications (website builders, malware protection, software installers, etc) into the Enhance UI.
Security
- Firewall management interface.
- Brute force protection for non-Enhance services.
Importers
- Import from DirectAdmin.
- Import from Cyperpanel.
- Import from CWP.
- Import from Cloudways / Runcloud.
Backups
- Exclude websites from backup.
- Exclude directories from backup.
- Incremental backups using other storage kinds (FTP/SSH).