Changelog

What's new in Reqad

Reqad is under active development. Here are recent highlights - currently at v1.0.44.

August 2026

  • Full-text mail search - Dovecot 2.4 flatcurve (Xapian) indexing, so webmail searches whole messages instantly with no extra service to run.
  • Browser terminal now ships prebuilt as its own package, with self-hosted JetBrains Mono for a sharper console.
  • WordPress scan and Dovecot migration fixes.

July 2026

  • Account-level file manager in the Accounts list — browse, upload, download, edit, chmod and delete files for any account.
  • Breadcrumb navigation with symlink awareness; size, octal permissions and modification time shown per entry.
  • Bulk operations: create, rename, move, chmod (owner/group/other grid), delete files or whole folders.
  • Built-in CodeMirror editor for text files under 100 KB — PHP, JS, CSS, HTML, Python, shell and SQL.
  • Compress selections to .zip / .tar.gz; extract uploaded archives into a target folder. All operations run as the account's own user and are jailed to the account's home.
  • Domain aliases - a new per-account Advanced settings page where extra domains (including wildcards) share the main document root, with optional DNS records created for you.
  • Alias and wildcard SSL - aliases and mail. hostnames are folded into the Let's Encrypt certificate automatically; wildcard domains are issued over DNS-01 and renew unattended.
  • Advanced config editor - edit an account's nginx/Apache vhost and PHP-FPM pool in the browser; every save is test-validated before it is applied, reverted if it fails, and kept in a 5-deep version history.
  • Backups split into Website, Email and Databases bundles, with the DNS zone exported and re-applied on restore; restores now run in the background with live status.
  • Plugin system - add-ons drop into the panel and register their own page and menu entry. First one out: a WireGuard VPN peer manager.
  • Per-user browser terminal - pick which account to open a shell for, no longer root-only.
  • One-command installer for EL8 and EL9 with a terminal UI for web server, PHP version, mail stack, SSH port and timezone - or fully unattended with options.
Reqad v1.40 - File Manager
Reqad v1.40 - File Manager

June 2026

  • Upgraded to Dovecot 2.4 and Roundcube 1.7.x.
  • Dedicated, isolated PHP-FPM master for the panel itself - private php.ini, hardened and independent of hosted sites.
  • PHP settings: recommended disable_functions, OPcache and APCu tuning from the UI.
  • Section access control: disabled features now return a clean 403 instead of partially loading.

May 2026

  • WordPress scanning across subfolders, with a path column and prepared statements.
  • Apache template: per-account PHP version switching via hybrid PHP-FPM pools.
  • cPanel transfer wizard: multi-step migration of domains, PHP version and databases.
  • Accounts & email: search and re-pagination; faster dashboard caching.

April 2026

  • One-click self-update from the dashboard with live output, surviving PHP-FPM restarts.
  • Autoresponders: create/edit/delete with date ranges; DKIM-signed replies.
  • Roundcube and phpMyAdmin auto-update scripts that preserve config and plugins.
  • Per-account PHP-FPM hardening: open_basedir, disable_functions, isolated tmp/logs.

March 2026

  • SSH access key management - add, delete and auto-convert SSH2 keys.
  • PHP Modules tab: install/uninstall modules per version with live progress.
  • Telemetry & update banner: know when a new version is available.
  • Cron jobs: add/edit/delete for global and per-user schedules.
  • Change database user passwords from the panel.

Late 2025

  • exim & dovecot SNI for wildcard and multi-domain mail certificates.
  • Per-account home size in GB/MB; PHP version detection and drop-downs.
  • Full account backups; phpMyAdmin, Roundcube, monit and PowerDNS installers.
  • DNS providers: Cloudflare, cPanel and PowerDNS.

Jan, 2024

  • Version 1.0 for EL8 released.

2022

  • Switched to the Tabler.io web UI (CentOS 7) - the dashboard Reqad still uses today.
Reqad 2022 - Tabler.io dashboard (CentOS 7)
Reqad 2022 - Tabler.io dashboard (CentOS 7)

2019

  • First version - 0.x, for CentOS 6 and 7, using the PatternFly web UI.
Reqad 2019 - Server Status (PatternFly UI)
Reqad 2019 - Server Status (PatternFly UI)
Reqad 2019 - Manage Server (PatternFly UI)
Reqad 2019 - Manage Server (PatternFly UI)
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