Version 12.1.0 released

gmakhs

@Aliysa_Enhance @Adam it will be nice to see a reply to xyzulu comment, he its right, and i myself wondering when all the UI and other quality of bugs are getting fixed, and to remind for some of them its been over a year

Aliysa_Enhance

gmakhs The plan remains the same, we will be pushing releases with a combination of both features and bug fixes / UI & UX improvements.

The backup bug fix in the latest release caused high support load so was prioritised over others. The 'Under development' section on the roadmap highlights only features. Following recent discussions, we have decided against maintaining a public bug list because:

Reports do not easily translate into the issue users are facing and bugs may go unreported as a user could easily associate the behaviour they are seeing with a logged bug.

I don't want to feed into the narrative of us (being forum users) vs them ("big players") because truthfully I don't think its helpful but what I will say is, as a small business entering a mature market with dominant market leaders our focus is on winning and retaining users. And, we understand to do this we need to build a product people want to use, which has feature parity, 0 bugs, flawless UX and excellent support (this is no easy task and arguably hasn't been achieved by anyone yet).

SolidNetwork

8Dweb Nice to hear!

Do you also happen to have cPFence running?

8Dweb

SolidNetwork Yes, we currently utilize cpfence on our cluster servers. We used cpguard for the first year, and then switched to cpfence. Their tool suits our needs better at this time. It also helps de-duplicate and centralize a lot of WP hardening.

NetPeople

8Dweb i would be very interrested to see how you have set up ansible, would you care to share

8Dweb

NetPeople Sure, no secret in it. One thing, I did post this quite a while ago on the forum and it wrecked the formatting. I will upload our ansible script and a sample host.ini file to git and post here when I get into the office this afternoon.

Vendoz

xyzulu I agree with you, but i think they deserve a bit of the benefit of the doubt.

Until March 12th they did v12 bugfixes (0.30 releases), and now on March 24th they did the first "new release". I think we have to wait at least until the end of April to judge their words and their sincerity, since they have repeatedly specified that the big bottleneck was v12. Now that it is out and we are finally at the point releases, let's see if the updates will actually be more frequent and more useful (with bug fixes too). It's only been 12 days and I agree with you that this update is rather sterile, but it's only been 12 days and I think this was probably already planned.
Let's give them 1 or 2 months and see if things will actually go smoother, otherwise than your words will be correct.

NetPeople

8Dweb Thanks !

Andrea

8Dweb

Ansible Example to Update Enhance Servers on Ubuntu 24.04:
https://github.com/8dcloud/Enhance_Scripts/tree/main/ansible_example

We have used this since May of 2024 without issues. If you do not want servers to be rebooted, a small change to the script as it stands will be necessary.

bluelinq-computers

8Dweb Thanks for posting this! I have a very similar playbook that I use to update the cluster.

Do you have any other playbooks that can help with Enhance system administration?

xyzulu

8Dweb Thanks for sharing.. this is useful. However, I am a firm believer in not using root. I have a Ansible config way to use a sudo user instead. I'll share it when I get time (possibly.. though I am not even sure where/how to share stuff like this now.. it just gets lost here or becomes useless since you can't edit your post).

Ansible is not just neat for doing updates, but you can run scripts simultaneously across multiple server or even manual commands. While it looks complicated, it's not really. It is only installed one one server and then all interactions with the servers takes place via ssh.

DracoBlue

xyzulu I agree, many bugs still haven't been fixed, and yet new features are already being introduced—features that the biggest players need.

hwcltjn

xyzulu
I agree with you, and I posted this back in November of 2024:

[...] I first trialled Enhance in Nov 2022 and have been holding off deploying it properly in production ever since whilst wating for:

Duplicating the control panel

Easily backing up the control panel

Adjustable spam filters/rules (at the very least adding an RBL to rspamd without editing the container)

Functioning forwarders (which I believe has now been implemented)

Better firewall rules and management

The ability to set a default TTL

Brute force protections for most services

Proper mail rate limiting

Enhance is great, and I love where it's going – but in almost 2 years I think only 2 of the above have been fully implemented?

[...]

So it looks like in 2.5 years a total of 3 (please do correct me if I'm wrong) of the features on my list made it into Enhance so far?

JohnB

hwcltjn number 6 would take like an hour to add. But big players don't need it so it's not important.

If our feedback don't matter that's fine...remove feature requests. Don't pretend like our voices get heard lol. Enhance team can't even consistently reply here. If they spent a week getting a few things fixed and added, the product would be better but quarterly profits are more important I guess.

PR cookie cutter response incoming about how proud of the community enhance is and how our opinion matters

xyzulu

hwcltjn
1 and 2, since v12 it's possible to migrate your control panel. I've written a script to backup your control panel to a remote location here: https://gist.github.com/xyzulu/e04868d28baea53d7097098aac967098

Personally we do not run any email via Enhance.

JohnB PR cookie cutter response incoming about how proud of the community enhance is and how our opinion matters

I don't think we'll even get that. I hope I'm wrong.

JohnB

xyzulu Honestly I'd rather no response than a PR response that insults my intelligence.

gmakhs

JohnB This is what they do on the last questions asked, they selectively answer 🙂 lets see how things progress next month

rdbf

gmakhs lets see how things progress next month

Case in point:

8Dweb

xyzulu I get that to some degree, however the ansible control server can easily be firewall and never allowed to see the lite of day.

As with anything, feel free to disagree on method. I have found that for pure updates, root access via only ssh key works well. No doubt I will be flogged and yelled at by the community.. 😉

xyzulu

8Dweb nah.. you're fine. Each to their own.
Here is the way I've done it: https://github.com/xyzulu/enhance-related-commands/wiki/Ansible

Kosta

rdbf “eventually it will disappear”

slimx

DracoBlue WordPress plugin installation API can now accept a URL for installation of plugins not registered with WordPress.org.

How do we manage this?
Is there documentation on that?
Does this mean i can put one of my custom plugins in and make it auto-install on a package?

adil

slimx How do we manage this?

Only with the API :
https://apidocs.enhance.com/#/wordpress/installWordpressPlugin

Aliysa_Enhance

slimx There's no documentation - in the API call, instead of sending the plugin name you will need to send the URL.

slimx Does this mean i can put one of my custom plugins in and make it auto-install on a package?

Not yet, but I believe there is an open feature request for this.