eBox 1.0 ready to download

Posted on March 26, 2009
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Hi fellow eBox users!

Your favorite development team proudly announces the availability of eBox 1.0.

After years of development we have finished implementing the following feature set, which we have deemed good enough to deserve the 1.0 badge:

Networking
- Firewall and routing
  - Network Configuration
    - DHCP server
    - NTP server
  - Filtering
  - NAT/Port redirections
  - Multi-gateway support and traffic load balancing
  - Traffic shaping (l7 filter support)
  - Traffic rate monitoring
- Web proxy
  - Cache
  - Content filtering
- Instant Messaging server (Jabber)
- Domain Name Server
- E-mail server
  - Spam and antivirus filter for mail
  - Support for greylisting
  - Transparent POP3 proxy filter
- OpenVPN support
- Certification Authority
- Event notification via jabber, mail and RSS
- Web server

Workgroup
- Windows user, file sharing
- PDC support
- Printing server
- eGroupware: calendar sharing, address book, webmail…

Reporting
- Summarized reports
- Full reports

New dashboard to centralize service information
Full and configuration backup

Software updates

Disk usage information
RAID status

You can install the new packages using our stable repository. Note that the new packages are only available for Ubuntu Hardy at the moment. Packages for Intrepid and Jaunty are underway.

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/ebox/ppa/ubuntu hardy main

The 1.0 milestone, besides being a great achievement by itself, does not imply a slowdown in our development process, quite to the contrary, it provides a solid foundation for further and faster eBox development. The immediate eBox future is full of interesting new features that we are craving to see working in your production eBoxes. You can have a look at our roadmap to get an idea about what’s coming next in eBox. Some of the highlights are:

Asterisk integration
Hooks to allow service customization by the local administrator
User corner for user-oriented features (i.e., password changing, …)
Captive portal

Changelog

ebox

Bugfix: fix SQL statement to fetch last rows to consolidate

Bugfix: consolidate logs using the last date and not starting from scratch

Backport fix for EBox::Types::Union::isEqualTo

Bugfix: DomainName type make comparisons case insensitive
according to RFC 1035

EBox::Module::writeConfFile and EBox::Service escape file’s path
Bugfix. Configure logrotate to actually rotate eBox logs
Fixed bug in ForcePurge logs model
Fixed bug in DataTable: ModelManager was called with tableName instead of context Name
Fixing an `img` tag closed now properly and adding alternative text to match W3C validation in head title
Backup pages now includes the size of the archive
Fixed bug in ForcePurge logs model
Now the modules can have more than one tableInfo for logging information
Improve model debugging
Improve restart debugging
Backups and bug reports can be made from the command line
Bugfix: `isEqualTo` is working now for `Boolean` types
Add support for reporting
Refresh logs automatically
Reverse log order
Remove temp file after it is downloaded with FromTempDir controller

Set SSLv3 extensions correctly to user certificates
Bugfix: Expire days cannot be zero anymore

firewall

Bugfix: Add redirect migration script to Makefile.am
Add support for reporting
Add rules to allow DHCP requests from interfaces configured via DHCP
Improve redirects

mail

Backport from trunk: Added aliases for whole domains
Bugfix: alias are deleted when user account is deleted
Bugfix: when already exists the maildir, create a new account is
not allowed
Bugfix: Postgrey daemon is disabled by default
Bugfix: MDSize attribute should not be restored in systems with MDSize feature disabled
Bugfix in logs: mail relayed to external smarthost is now logged, external smarthost relay denied action also logged, relay field now only logs relay data and no unrelated data
Summary changed to reflect the changes in mailfilter module
Added greylist support
Added authentication for external smarthost
Added TLS support for external smarthost
Add support for reporting

mailfilter

Bugfix: validation of General model now works properly
Added POP transparent proxy
SMTP filter separated from main module
Interface overhaul to reflect changes in SMTP filter and addition of POP proxy

openVPN

Fix status reporting on dashboard
Daemon names are restricted to alphanumerics and ‘-’. ‘_’, ‘.’ characters
Bugfix: servers and clients cannot get any longer the same interface number
Added log rotation using logrotate

samba

Bugfix: restore machine accounts properly
Bugfix: set force directory mode and force create mode to 0660 in shares
Bugfix: `printers` method returns an empty list when `ebox-printers` package is not installed
Add per-user disk quota

software

Add depends on dpkg-dev to parse debian changelog entries
Add missing backslash to display update form correctly
Restart apache once and not for every package when upgrading or installing

squid

Add support for reporting

trafficshaping

Detect if there’s an l7 capable kernel using modinfo xt_layer7
Add traffic shaping rules to POSTROUTING

usersandgroups

Add “allow bind_v2″ to slapd.conf
Increase maximum password length
Make and restore backup more robust: removed slapd.conf parameters in both slapadd and slapcat, so we can use the module with sldap with configuration stored in the directory itself. Ignore missing users in a group

libebox

Bugfix: Use ‘window’ as variable instead of ‘Window’ since it is more portable
Bugfix: Remove bogus mason tags
Remove bogus div end tag
Fix items list for titles with single quotes
Add new table view without actions
Add javascript library to generate report charts
Fixing redirect URL coming from proxy
Added Chinese from Taiwan and Galician translations

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