Open Server Panel 6.0.0

[OSPanel]

What's New

• Task Scheduler
• Domain Name Converter
• Automatic Update Checker
• Modules NVM 1.1.12, RabbitMQ 3.13.1, Nginx-1.26.0 (OpenSSL 3.3.0) and Nginx-1.22.1 (OpenSSL 1.1.1w)
• Erlang/OTP Add-on (required for RabbitMQ)
• Dart Sass Compiler 1.75.0
• Command-line Helper Utilities: bat, brotli, dust, fd, gzip, sass (dart), sd, xh
• Ability to select Nginx and Node.js versions from the tray menu
• Ability to launch a project from the tray menu (e.g., Node.js applications)
• Ability to use any add-on with the environment module
• FastCGI versions of PHP modules
• New design for example domain pages available after program installation
• Automatic detection of the HOSTS file encoding
• New format for working with the osp log ... command (using regular expressions)
• Ability to edit default domain settings
• Ability to set individual environment variables for each project
• Automatic email opening (disabled by default)
• php_zstd extension for PHP 8.2 and 8.3
• Automatic highlighting when displaying logs in the console
• Privilege and UAC status check for PostgreSQL
• [services] section in module config for checking the status of Windows services
• addons command for listing available add-ons
• node command for managing Node.js versions
• status command for displaying the overall status of all systems
• php_engine, nginx_engine, and node_engine options for specifying project engines
• use_win_terminal and need_use_win_terminal options for Windows Terminal users
• environment (projects) and used_addons_environment (modules) options for environment variable passing
• projects_search_depth and projects_search_path options (see documentation)
• project_url option for setting the project URL
• Menu options: need_start_command, show_icons, and show_hr_after_*
• Icons in the program menu (Font Awesome Free Solid & Font Awesome Free Regular sets available)
• PowerShell launch check with error message output
• Modules, add-ons, and projects can now extend language constants and menu items
• Improved informational listing of modules and domains in the console

Changes

• Beta status removed (web interface to be added later)
• Adding projects to the program is now done according to a new principle (see documentation)
• The concept of passive modules is deprecated (moved to add-ons)
• The ControlPanel module and the domains.ini configuration file are deprecated
• Perl moved to add-ons and is no longer a module
• Perl and additional data sets separated into individual installer menu items
• The mod_perl module is disabled by default in the Apache config
• PHP 7.1 module removed (unstable operation)
• Some PHP extensions removed: ioncube, sandbox, svn (unstable operation)
• It is no longer possible to add modules of the same type to the console environment (PHP+PHP, MySQL+MySQL, etc.)
• HOME environment variable is now shared by default for all modules
• By default, all log content is now displayed when viewing logs in the console
• Changed logic and format of the log viewing command in the console
• Deprecated options (program and menu): hosts_file_encoding and need_state
• Deprecated options (domains): auto_configure, cgi_dir, engine, log_format, project_use_sys_env, and ssl_auto_cert
• project_add_modules option renamed to environment
• project_add_commands option renamed to start_command with a change in purpose
• group_projects_by_tld option renamed to show_projects_in_groups
• project_home_dir option renamed to project_dir
• allowed_env_vars option renamed to allowed_system_env_vars
• Changed format and logic of the program tray menu configuration
• Improved Apache module config
• HTTP/2 protocol enabled by default in Apache and Nginx (except Nginx-1.22.1)
• Apache proxy_module activated by default
• When working in the console, osp reset init is no longer required before osp use ... and osp project ...
• Modules, add-ons, and auxiliary software updated to current versions
• Major changes and additions to the program documentation

Fixes

• PHP workflow could terminate with an error after 10,000 requests to the web server
• The program could hang when restarting a module
• Domain entries were not removed from the HOSTS file when a module was disabled
• Domain entries with assigned IPs were not removed and accumulated when a module was restarted
• The program could hang when closing with an active HTTP session to the API
• The program could hang if there were modules incompatible with the current Windows version
• Module environment settings were not re-read when the module was restarted
• Menu item height was too small in Windows 11
• The procedure for creating the program menu was incorrect
• The project_add_commands option was processed incorrectly, and the command might not execute
• MySQL and MariaDB modules did not start with third-party my.cnf files on the system disk
• Logs could be output in an unreadable encoding if the log file size exceeded 32 KB

Important!

• Do not install over the old version!
• Use the osp sysprep and osp cacert init commands if you skipped these steps during installation!
• Read the updated user manual on GitHub!