Ubersmith has been working hard away on the next version of DE that was announced in February. We know you guys have been waiting patiently, so here’s an update from the trenches! The good news is that 1.6 is now feature complete, and we’ve been building release candidates for testing.

We’ve also decided to sneak in some additional features to more fully round out this latest version. In addition to the features announced previously, we are pleased to be able to announce the following enhancements to the Device Manager.

1) Improved Server Metrics
Now, summary information is presented along with the device view, and additional metrics such as Disk I/O activity is tracked and graphed.

2) Monitor alarm snoozing.
Doing maintenance on a customers infrastructure? A particular server? Want to put it into ‘maintenance mode’ for a few hours to that alarms don’t go off while service is interrupted? Go ahead and snooze the monitor during your maintenance activities.

3) Syslog integration
Many of our DE customers utilize syslog extensively. The 1.6 version of Ubersmith comes with a basic syslog module that will allow you to integrate Ubersmith with an external syslog server (such as php-syslog-ng).

4) General SQL speedups
With each release, Ubersmith is being used by larger and larger organizations. We’ve made some improvements and optimizations that help Ubersmith run faster for people with thousands of devices.

The bad news is that with these additional features and final testing, we’re going to be pushing our public release date back by two weeks. While we realize that this is frustrating since we haven’t put out a new release in a while, we hope the wait will be worth it, and we’re confident that it’s the right decision. We want to make sure that the latest and greatest from Ubersmith will still be as stable and bug free as our customers have come to expect.

Ubersmith DE 1.6 will now be publicly available to new customers on June 16th.

We will be contacting existing Ubersmith DE customers to coordinate upgrades starting June 12 2008. Further, starting June 2nd, private previews will be available to existing DE clients who want to get a sneak peak of what’s coming down the pipeline.

For any additional questions on new features, bug fixes, or to schedule your preview of the new feature set, please dont hesitate to contact us at 877-438-8237, or shoot us an email at support@ubersmith.com.

Ubersmith hereby and forthwith announces the upcoming release of Ubersmith DE v1.6. This release is currently scheduled for mid-May and will include the following improvements and features.

Bug Fixes and Tweaks

Client Manager

• When generating a manual invoice, if automatic credit card charging has been disabled, the interface will no longer offer it as an option.
• The quantity of a service will be listed in the services list in a client’s account page allowing for more accurate views of products with multiple quantities.
• Improved error handling when adding SSL certs.

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At long last the newest stable version of Ubersmith Lite and Pro has been released. v5.3.0 stable can be downloaded now at http://downloads.ubersmith.com. To update your existing instance extract the new files over your current install and follow the instructions for the update process.

If you are not a current user and would like to check out the new release, you can sign up for a two week free trial of Ubersmith Pro here and Ubersmith Lite here.

While this is a stable release, there may still be small bugs present. Please let us know any issues you run into by emailing support@ubersmith.com.

As always, we thank you for your support of our little program. We know it has been a long wait in between releases but we hope that you will find that it was worth it.

This is the official announcement of our long in development update for Ubersmith Lite and Pro users. We are pleased to be able to reveal that a public release for v5.3.0 is currently scheduled for October 15th.

Features/Updates to be added will include but are not limited to:
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Features

• Support Manager Database Overhaul
• PDF Invoice Overhaul
  - Remove Dependencies on External Applications
  - Allow Emailing of PDF Invoices
  - Improved Invoice Formatting
• Server Performance Metrics Monitoring
• New Report: Sent Invoices

Enhancements

• Improved support for eNom ’specialty TLDs’
• Automated domain renewals
• Weather Goose ‘WXGOOS 2′ Support
• Improved Default Monitor Settings
• Add Support for CyberSource Gateway
• ‘Download as CSV’ for Some Reports
• Add ability to flag metadata fields as ‘required’
• Sort child services under their parent on invoices
• Add support for pre-billing quarterly, semi-annual and annual services 1 month in advance
• Add ability to charge credit card on invoice due date
• De-associate any devices and return IP address space when a client is deactivated
• Send ‘payment received’ notification to client when a payment is made via scheduled/retried charge
• Support CDGCommerce QuantumGateway for credit card processing

Bugfixes

• Properly handle cPanel 11 XML-API
• Correct PayPal payment handling issue
• Prevent clients from attempting to pay an invoice twice via the ‘quick pay’ link in invoice notifications
• Correct issue where invoice detailed items showed incorrect date range
• Fix graphing issues when switch labels contain spaces
• Correctly log deletion of client comments
• Correctly determine $PATH when running under php-cgi
• Expand information stored when logging device edit/deletion

Here’s a breakdown of what our busy developers have been working on lately.

• CPanel 11 Support Finished. Mike was finally able to wrap up the update to Ubersmith to add support for Cpanel 11’s api changes. I’m not certain yet if this will be released as a patch to the current release or will just be included in our next update. We will of course post it here when available.
• Added Support for the CyberSource Credit Card Gateway
• Added a Driver to Ubersmith DE for the Weather Goose II Environmental Unit
• Added Support for the Celsius and Kelvin Temperature Scales in Ubersmith DE. If anyone is worried their datacenters are reaching absolute zero, you’ll be glad we added this feature.

And my personal favorite….

• This week we’ve made giant steps forward for Built in Invoice PDF Generation. I, like many of you, i’m sure, will be glad to kiss our old busted htmldoc generated pdf invoices good bye. Dan has had his nose to the grindstone making Ubersmith able to render its own pdf formatted invoices. If they let me, I will try and get an example one posted here so you can see what they’re going to look like.

That’s just some of the exciting stuff we’ve been working on lately. There’ll be plenty more to talk about later. Thanks for reading.

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With move-in day slowly approaching, things are really coming together at our new office!

I thought I would post something that I’m going to try and make a regular feature. I wanted to give everyone a list of the stuff that our hard working developers have been putting together this week.

• Improving the ‘charge delay.’ We’ve been making it smarter to work better with the variable number of days in different months. We’ve expanded the option to allow you to set it to charge immediately, on its due date or after the usual number of days specified.
• Further progress on our expanded domain name integration. We’re improving our domain name management features considerably. This week in particular we were working on improving the invoice code so that it can pre-bill for upcoming domain renewals. The end goal is to have the system be able to automatically renew or not renew domains based on whether payment was received in time or not.

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Hello ProtX users!

As you are probably aware, ProtX is changing the way they handle Pre-Authorization transactions. As such, we are releasing an updated gateway module to allow you to continue using ProtX after the first of August. We were made aware of this change almost immediately as it was announced by some of our very own users, giving us the time to prepare and test a new ProtX module.

Please see the following forum post for an updated ProtX module:

http://forums.ubersmith.com/showthread.php?t=754

Users running the hosted Ubersmith product have already been upgraded to the new module.

Regards,

Ubersmith Support