ClientExec 2.6.x Released

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Posted by Alberto, 01-11-2006, 08:50 PM
We are proud to announce the release of Clientexec 2.6, the most recent Stable version of Clientexec. If you currently have an active support & upgrade plan with Clientexec, are a Reseller or lease Clientexec, you may login to our Members Center to download the most recent version.

Our members center is located at http://www.clientexec.com/members . Please read the install.txt file for installation instructions. ALWAYS, back up your database prior to any sort of upgrade. If your support has expired, please contact sales[@]clientexec.com to extend your support.

I have attached the Changelog below:

2.6.0

* Announcements: New module that replaces system messages, offering the following features:

Edition of messages through a WYSIWYG rich text editor.

Ability to create messages as drafts, to be published later.

Besides text and images, user can embed sound, movies and flash

Message publication and e-mailings to different kind of recipients: all users, selected users, users by server or packages

Publication of public messages, accessible trough RSS (/rssAnnouncements.php) or HTML (/publicAnnouncements.php, which is based on the template publicAnnoucements.tpl)

* Signup:

Now based on templates

Added phone verification service with MaxMind

Added captcha image to avoid signup floods

Allow admins to order packages how they would like to display them in signup.

Removed setup charge in checkout if its value is equal to 0

Removed Domain Registration Extra setting, which wasnt doing anything

updated cwhois library to version 1.79 (19/09/05):

Updated .jp for new whois server

Updated .co.za

Added .gov support

Added .pt .com.pt .nome.pt support

Added .ve .co.ve .com.ve .net.ve .web.ve .nom.ve .firm.ve .store.ve

.rec.ve .info.ve .org.ve

Added .ug, .co.ug .or.ug .ac.ug .sc.ug .go.ug .ne.ug .org.ug .mil.ug

Added .uz

* Dashboard:

Ability to toggle graph legend

Added checkboxes to trigger server plugin and domain registration upon packages activation (task #6)

Replaced old System Messages feature by new Announcements. The systemmsg field of the database table users will remain during versions 2.6.x in case users want to retrieve old system messages. In version 2.7.0 this field and corresponding data will be removed.

* Clients:

Added field for domain name registration length when manually adding a package

Added toggle all checkbox and delete button to all client list screens

In the profile screen, added checkboxes to trigger server plugin and domain registration upon packages activation

Added add package link in the clients menu

* Billing:

Added invoice number to PDF filename

E-mail receipts now have attached the PDF invoice with a paid stamp image (task #18)

The billing cycle (monthly, quarterly, etc) that appears in the invoice entry detail is now translated

* Support:

Added setting to notify of high priority tickets

Ability to disable support module and redirect users elsewhere

Removed checkboxes column in tickets lists for customers, because they were useless

Added view closed tickets and submit support ticket links under the support menu

* Reports:

Added ability to export client and invoices data to csv files (task #14)

Added report to search support tickets, with a search box in the right panel

Added ability to make each report public, and thus give access to other staff members (not customers)

Show friendly message if GD extension is not present, instead of blank page

Central logging features and enhanced security.
USERS MUST MAKE THIS CHANGES TO THEIR CUSTOM PLUGIN REPORTS THAT CONTAIN GRAPHS FOR THEM TO CONTINUE WORKING:

jpgraph include lines:
change from include(../../classes/jpgraph/src/jpgraph.php) to require_once classes/jpgraph/src/jpgraph.php;
(do this for all jpgraph libraries to, like jpgraph_bar.php)

image tags URLs:
change from, for example, < img src='plugins/reports/annual_income-income.php?viewimage=1'/>
to < img src=\"index.php?fuse=".cREPORT."&report=".urlencode('Annual Income')."& viewimage=1\" />

* Plugins:

Added support for Plesk

CPanel: Full support for remote server provisioning: no need to have installed both CPanel and CE in the same server anymore.

CPanel: Added reseller support

Registrars: added extra attributes fields in add package screen and signup for TLDs that need them (.us, .uk, .org.uk, .ca and others)

Protx: Now works with register_globals off

* Templates:

Style sheets will be sent gzipped to the browser (needs zlib compiled in PHP)

Cleanup of Raleigh and Sunshine style sheets

* Others:

Upgrades: after the code is upgraded, login will be disabled until the admin upgrades the database as well by running install.php

New logging framework that can be abilitated from config.php. Five logging levels:
- 0: No logging
- 1: Security attacks attempts, errors and important messages (recommended level)
- 2: + Request URIs and URI redirections
- 3: + POST and COOKIE values
- 4. + SQL queries
- 5: Maximum verbosity: plugin events, curl requests,
some function calls with their parameters, etc. (use this when sending logs to support)

Eliminated popup confirmations: success/failure messages will be shown in the following screen instead

Fixed File does not exist: javascript/overlib.js

Fixed File does not exist: htdocs/favicon.ico

Added Setting and system message to temporary disable login for customers

Ability to use multiple browser windows without problems

Tables will remember number of records to show per page (same setting used for every table) (request #23)

As of this version only the Ioncube loaders for Linux and Windows will be included (were removing the FreeBSD ones). For other platforms please download them from Ioncubes site.

* Bugs fixed:

bug # 1: Paypal subscriptions werent working with prorating and not including the following payment

bug: When a customer signed up with an online credit card method and the Forward to gateway setting was set to No, the administrator wasnt being notified of the new signup

bug: System halted when the symbol $ was used in the database password

bug: Wasnt showing paypal subscriptions checkbox in signup when only paying for domain name registrations

bug: System halted when using PHP5 compiled with enable-soap

bug #187: Language entry missing(_BILLING_DOMSWITCHNOTREC)

bug #190: welcome e-mail was blank when resent

bug #213: When returning from a successfull paypal subscription transaction, wasnt showing thank you page

bug: didnt allow $ characters in database password

bug #209: next due not updating when using paypal subscriptions

bug: was showing error when trying to delete recurring fees not related to packages

bug: View All clients link in the viewing closed tickets table was redirecting to the overview table

bug: in the Generate Invoices popup the progress % was erroneous

bug: when a user was switched to paypal subscriptions, when he tried to pay an old invoice from before the switching, a subscription was generated for each one of those invoices

bug: when a user cancelled a paypal subscription for a package, the following invoices for that package werent being generated

bug: some reports graphs were not showing under IIS

bug: maxmind fraud report was shown twice in notification e-mails