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.
- Support for legacy PHP 5.2 - 5.5.
- Fix for missing TTY in customer SSH environment.
- When adding a new email address default to the primary domain.
- 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.
- Hebrew and Bulgarian language packs.
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.
- 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.
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.
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).