Yesterday was the very first Contributors conference, I would like to thank everyone who attended, and invite everyone who couldn’t make it this time around to join next time.

We will hold a conference once a month from here on, 1-2 hours earlier than the one we held yesterday night.

In nearly 3 hours we gone through most aspects which I will summarize here.

Sub version update 1.1.1:

Will be released on Sunday 25^th September 2016

It will include:

• Bandwidth fix
• Several button fixes
• User / Mail page layout fixes
• Exchange calendar and contact permissions fix for mailboxes in a different language then English.

Major version release: 1.2.0:

Release Date: 31^st January 2017

This will break the 3 month cycle due to holidays in December, and will give us additional time to properly test it for issues.

It will include:

• Further design improvements (all forms to bootstrap based, etc).
• Online automatic update, Installer update, and PowerShell update “unified” so there’s 1 way for all to update automatically.
• Online Alert section that informs of:
  • SolidCP Update available
  • SolidCP Server not responding / wrong password / offline
  • Maybe some more items along the line.
• Password honey pot field to prevent incoming brute force attacks
• Lets Encrypt support
• Overusage report modernized
• Hyper-v VMM module
• SpamExperts module
• Sharepoint path based collections
• DNS Made easy
• Coldfusion DSN support
• Filemanager improvements (allow apply to all or apply to single file)

Long term vision:

• Add billing functionalities (back) into the panel (with api’s to integrate with existing billing systems)
• Microsoft CSP qualifications:
  • Azure Active directory integration
  • Office 365 integration
  • Billing compliance
• CMS Frontend
• KVM / VMWare / XEN support

If your available please let me know if you want/can pick up some of the tasks for v1.2.0, we can use all the help we can get.

Thank you all for your time and effort to make SolidCP better.