NEW Enhance Roadmap

Aliysa_Enhance

Vendoz We only have plans for more frequent updates 🙂

Thomas_W

bluelinq-computers nice and a impressive list!

Btw. I just reallized that my new Backup server runs under LXC, what is under approved development 🤣
This works great

Steamon

Roadmap looks good most features look nice to have. I am personally waiting for the groupware features and that users with agenda and contacts can be migrated over before the end of the year from mailcow.

Maybe I can suggest creating a beta channel for large features we can test this on our test clusters?

Overall the Enhance system already works very good for me as Wordpress websites are so fast for me now compared to directadmin same server specs.

Can only become better from here I can say and have enough patience for that as it already works good for my use cases.

Aliysa_Enhance

Steamon

Steamon Maybe I can suggest creating a beta channel for large features we can test this on our test clusters?

We see the value in BETA testing for larger releases and it's still under consideration.

franco

I don't know why you didn't prioritize the option for users to change their email passwords via webmail.

This is truly unbelievable.

Having this option is practically mandatory. After all, not having it violates the user's data protection law.

A third party will always know the user's password.

Thomas_W

franco have a look here: https://github.com/SS88UK/enhance_password

The problem is from @ss88us solved already. It workes with V11 and V12 of Enhance.

gmakhs

To be honest i see this as a step backwards, and less transparent, but the worst i see in it is : Before we could organize business plans along with the update schedule of enhance - new features added even when features could be delayed by a month or so, all Enhance had to do is to calculate the deadlines better and to be realistic about deadlines and delays etc, now we are in the Dark, not being able to plan for the future along with the fact that enhance is lacking essential features for some of us, and the uncertainly this road map bring is a bad step backwards and it doesn't solve the MAIN issue with v12 which was bad communication and lack of transparency , this is my opinion

franco

Thomas_W This is already on their roadmap. They just haven't made it a priority.

I'd rather wait for an official update than do some workarounds and have to revert it in the future if necessary.

This is a basic feature, I don't know why they haven't included it until now.

cPFence

Using a quarterly roadmap or removing dates altogether is definitely the best approach. As long as the Enhance team continues to actively develop and roll out frequent updates, most users will be happy. Quality and stability matter more than rushing to meet deadlines. Looking forward to seeing improvements in logs soon!

tecreasey

I am not yet running Enhance (nothing to do with the platform, more my own situation), and i watch the community and development of Enhance with excitement. I hope soon to move to enhance and in the meantime, watch on to see all the future updates that are planned.

Zoinkies

Just lock this and pin it, no point in everyone arguing.

xyzulu

I do wish Enhance would make a commitment regarding bug fixes/regressions. Since 11.04 (August 2024) there have been a number of bugs and small changes Enhance have said would be addressed. v12 introduced some more.. and yet we still don't have fixes. Right now, since the dates are removed from the roadmap we have no idea when a bug will be fixed.. ie this month, or next year. Let's be clear, 30 point releases since v12 have not been bug fixes for much else apart from v12 upgrader and backup issues. I always assumed bugs for, say v12.0 would be fixed before v12.1 was released.. at least before there was an expectation on the timeframe.. now.. who knows.

The reason for this roadmap change is clearly explained, there is no point arguing, but it does feel like some of the active Enhance customers are not really being considered much in all this. Since this was their opportunity to talk about beta release channels, private testing, quarterly releases etc, they have obviously rejected those kinds of suggestions with a "no comment".

If it hadn't been for the old Enhance roadmap we would never have considered moving to Enhance since it required significant work. Our previous "panel" had a roadmap much like this new one and planning for future released/features etc became impossible. Enhance was different. As a product we are very happy with Enhance still, it has the potential to do very well in the future, but I am not quite sure if they are striking the right balance between developer and users (you could also say community).

I have a lot more I could share.. but perhaps that is enough for now 😉

SystemFreaks

xyzulu We are exactly on the same page, not sure how to proceed from now on :/

dilroopgill

xyzulu the old roadmap and seeing the updates was why i came here, i like feeling like im seeing activel development and can participate in it, now its like the corporate walls up, gotta get my fix elsewhere lol

8Dweb

To further add, UI bugs are still a problem. Also in UI
#1 - Need to be able to keep settings on how many sites/etc display - this makes coming back from a customer site a royal pain.
#2 - Some word on logs in the interface really needs to be addressed. This was promised and seemingly now "missing" from planned updates from 2023 until now. Sorry, but customers - particularly resellers must have visible logs in the Enhance interface. It is ridiculous that a customer must contact my team for every stupid thing that may not show up in the php error_log.
#3 - Any plans to get the "setup Enhance" off my login in screen?
#4 - round cube plugins (please don't link me to the one mentioned as third party, we are aware of that one) - we need basic plugins for round cube or else at this stage customers will simply give up, and find one more reason to move to another hosting platform.

I feel similar to @xyzulu

I have a number of other concerns that have now arisen as our customer base was hoping or some near-term resolution when v. 12 release. The long delay on that has frustrated several of our customers and now I have told them, simply do not expect any resolution to these matters in the near future.

I am not happy with the new roadmap, period. my 8D is now 8(

cPFence

8Dweb

Yeah, logs are a must-have on the new roadmap, along with the already announced one-page theme to help retain clients who sadly prefer the outdated cPanel-style layout.

Number 1 and 3 are definitely annoying, but manageable for now. I assumed v12 was the reason these smaller UI issues hadn’t been tackled yet, but now that it’s out, hopefully, they’ll get fixed soon.

manu

While I appreciate the new way. It would be great to have feature request voting similar to many providers. Also many things that were in roadmap earlier too were missed and forgotten about. Like Nginx customization, No clue about the single dashboard design promised in v12. Even basic bugs are forgotten

There should be an effective way to track bugs and features as that will be more powerful.

Kosta

Vendoz even with dates it’s always delayed so who cares anymore. ( I stopped stressing myself anymore about it )
Just keep believing and carry on…
I don’t understand the following on the upcoming release… “ When adding a new email address default to the primary domain.”….

mbe81

Kosta Currently when you create a new email address and the website contains some aliases, the domains are sorted alphabetically. So, by default you will create the email address ending at the first listed domain instead of the primary domain which is most often the desired choice.

Abdeen

I was expecting from the previous roadmap to see some features in Q2 2025, now with this roadmap I'm expecting them by the end of 2026 if not later..

My honest opinion is that the previous roadmap added more commitment and transparency.

While Enhance is a solid product in terms of the future of hosting, it still lacks essential features most of them are addressed in the roadmap but when? No one can have a real expectation now.

I hope Enhance can have a faster development in the upcoming releases to heal the broken trust from the v12's journey at least.

wenani

Well, I appreciate the effort enhance has on this product, but maybe it would be nice to focus on features that end users use on daily basis before focusing on features that me as a hosting provider use. I would prefer my customer to be comfortable at the expense of a little more work on me rather than making me comfortable then I end up loosing a client because of a feature.

That said, things like:

Change email password via roundcube
Calendar on roundcube
Add other app installers and support other apps like Node and Python
Proxy on website migration to a different server
Be able to backup the control panel
A cPanel like UI

For me, this are very critical. Having a feature like support for other OS distribution etc, I don't see how it is going to help me win a client, when what clients use on daily basis in not there. This being a new panel, it is a bit difficult to convince cPanel diehard clients that this panel is the best, when after onboarding them someone asks how they can change the email password and they can only do it via control panel, which is a difficult task for organizations with many email users. No calendar etc. If something went wrong today and my ECP server is nuked, it will be a disaster for me and my clients as well since everything revolves around the ECP.

My thoughts are, at least do a release for what our client use daily, then the rest can follow. That is in addition to fixing existing bugs.

dilroopgill

wenani 100% this, clients are lowkey better off selfhosting (just so many options outside of WordPress) and grabbing one of the foss panels, good thing they don't know about them lol. Would really like to see some fediverse hosting support, don't expect it to be niche for long and would like to sell hosting services for stuff like peertube through enhance, or mastodon instances, etc.

franco

wenani

That's right.

That's the basics.

It's unbelievable that they prioritize "The ability to download a file backup from a website and import it into another cluster" while the end customer doesn't even have the ability to change their own webmail password.

Kosta

#Please complete all backups related features on the roadmap while working now with backups so never to go back and keep getting complaints!

#then focus on AXFR
Proxy on migration
IPv6 only
Internal network manager

#then focus on email features and nodejs features

#Then focus more on security features to make it easier and more convenient for end users such as pci DSS, ftp secure connections

#then do all the work for app installers and custom freamworks for other apps such as antivirus apps

And so on, the way currently going on the roadmap we never gonna have completely featured abilities into the platform and Enhance team keep going backwards to do more to things that needs to be completed long time ago…

Please finish all related features on backups side before proceeding to other things so never to go back and wait for complaints/ feature requests.

Def doesn’t needs cPanel like UI!

Thanks

gmakhs

Kosta My problem is that the Cpanel like UI was suppose to be READY and tested like 3 months ago as they told us :/
And suddenly it didn't make it to release 😃

i have mentioned bugs that are not even listed on the road map and i have no idea if they are forgotten or being worked on and i don't know how many features or fixes have been advertised as coming shortly from 2023!

MediaServe

Kosta "Def doesn’t needs cPanel like UI!"

I second that! OMG cPanel is so ugly and ridiculously priced. So over that hideous beast.