The news of AlternC-based hosting services
Release of AlternC 0.9.9
(Antoine Beaupré, 10/15/2008)
This version contains major improvements management of domains, translations and greater support of Apache2.
Release of AlternC 0.9.6.1
(Antoine Beaupré, 01/12/2007)
Soon after the hasty release of the 0.9.6 release, 0.9.6.1 was released today to address critical security problems with the 0.9.6 release.
See the errata for known problems
Consult the download page to get a
hold on the latest release.
Release of AlternC 0.9.4
(Antoine Beaupré, 03/30/2006)
This AlternC release aims at integrating the patches made by Globenet that cleanup basic functionalities of the domain update code and installation system.
From this version on, AlternC will not overwrite your configuration files on upgrades provided that you edit the files in /etc/alternc/templates.
This release also marks the beginning of the use of Trac for our bugtracking and project organisation and well as Subversion for code management. For a complete list of changes, please see the milestone . Here is the list of corrected bugs..
Consult the download page to get a hold on the latest release.
Release of AlternC 0.9.3.1
(Antoine Beaupré, 01/19/2006)
Another long-awaited AlternC release, the version 0.9.3.1 packages fixes for security and packaging problems discovered shortly after the release of 0.9.3. This will be the last release supporting Debian/woody and the first one to offer support for architectures other than i386 (amd64 uploaded, powerpc on the way).
For a complete list of changes, head for the changelog and the 0.9.3.1 roadmap.
Consult the download page to get a hold on the latest release.
This release was made possible with the sponsorship of Koumbit.
Security problems on 0.9.3
(Antoine Beaupré, 12/10/2005)
Some security problems affecting the most recent AlternC version (0.9.3) have been discovered.
See the bugtracker for technical details.
AlternC 0.9.3 release !
(Benjamin, 04/02/2005)
The long awaited AlternC's version 0.9.3 is out !
This version contains major improvements in the install system, and in the debian packaging in general. Many bug where fixed (see the bugtrack) and AlternC 0.9.3 is now really easy to install and maintain.
The packaging repository has also been completely changed : it is now a fully compliant debian repository. Packages are gpg signed and available in the download page.
AlternC at the free software meeting in Amiens, France
(Benjamin, 03/20/2005)
AlternC was presented during the 3rd free software meeting at Amiens, organised by the EPPLUG on March, 18-19, 2005.
A conference was made during which we presented the AlternC project and its community-build developpement. The public was interested (administrations, professionals, end-users.)
Those meetings are interesting to meet users of AlternC and talk with them of the future developpements and features of the project.
More on the wiki ...
The Demo server is back up and running
(Benjamin, 03/06/2005)
The demo server of AlternC is back !
We just set up a virtual linux server on dev, our developpement server, with a brand new AlternC installed in it.
Don't hesitate to test it, as this demo is cleaned daily.
The demo can be accessed at the following address : http://demo.alternc.org/
March, 5th, 2005 : AlternC's Coding Day
(Benjamin, 03/05/2005)
Thanks a lot to the people who came this saturday, 5th, in the cold and wet Paris weather, for the first AlternC's Coding Day. The day was quite productive, at least for the ideas that came, and for the developments too.
The API Documentation can now be built by Dowygen, and the CVS development is now split between the Woody stuff and the main sarge branch. Major bugs were corrected, also some of them are still here. As a result, the 0.9.3 will hopefully be ready during the next weeks.
AlternC's team at Linux Solutions Meeting (Paris)
(Benjamin, 02/05/2005)
The development team of AlternC was at Linux Solutions'meeting 2005 in Paris.
This meeting allowed us to meet many people from dev and user mailing lists. We talked about how we can improve the project and add new features.
A conference by Benjamin and Chantal has taken place during the meeting (on wednesday afternoon). Many people went there, thanks to the small annoucment papers we distributed during the meeting.
We were glad to see you all, and we will certainly be there next year.
Last but not least: some pictures and documents (french only) about this meeting.
AlternC-cacti : graphics for your AlternC's server
(Benjamin Sonntag, 12/17/2004)
A new package, called alternc-cacti is now available. It allows you to create pretty graphs that represent your server load for each service (apache, mysql, postfix, cpu load, memory used...) Thanks to Cacti software.
This module is available in the Download page and a french installation documentation is already available ! ...
AlternC-awstats module : beta version
(Benjamin Sonntag, 09/09/2004)
A new package has just come from the CVS : AlternC-Awstats.
It is still beta, but I'm using it on my personnal production server...
This module allows any user to create statistical reports of his website using Awstats engine.
This engine is far more accurate and lovelier than the old Webalizer stuff.
Just click on the "download" link to find it.
New package in development : fetchmail-builder
(Benjamin Sonntag, 01/18/2004)
A new debian package is in the development process : The Fetchmail-builder.
This package was created for Squirrelmail 1.4, it allows any webmail user to configure external POP accounts that fetchmail will fetch and send to the user's mailbox. This plugin gives a graphical, internationalized web interface.
You can access this soft only in the CVS for now, a debian package will be built soon.
New packages : clamav and amavis from Debian sarge
(Benjamin Sonntag, 12/03/2003)
We just backported some packages from Debian sarge (testing version) too woody, so that you can use a mail sanitizer (amavis) and an antivirus program (clamav) in your server.
It allows postfix to filter incoming mail for errors or viruses.
New package : AlternC-admintools
(Jérome Moinet, 11/20/2003)
As we need more reporting and statistics for each account, a new Debian package has been built, and can be downloaded from here :
AlternC-admintools.
This package can generate (in a terminal session) some statistics : the number of hits / Kb per domain or AlternC account, and other stats too (ftp, mysql ...)
once installed, type
man alternc-admintools
AlternC-Mailman module
(Benjamin Sonntag, 08/12/2003)
The AlternC-Mailman module is now available at the Download page. It add mailman-driven mailing-lists managment to AlternC.
Pre-release of AlternC, version 1.0
(Benjamin Sonntag, 06/15/2003)
The long awaited version 1.0 of AlternC will come very soon. A pre-release is available for download, as binary i386 and source debian packages.
Many bugs has been fixed, the install procedure has been greatly improved. So the official 1.0 will come soon !
Please help us : install and test this version. however, it is not recommended for production purpose yet.
See you soon at AlternC !
News : Wiki, userlist, branching
(Benjamin Sonntag, 05/05/2003)
Many news at alternc.org :
- A wiki is now available, where you can find many stuff : the faq, the user list, the todo list ...)
- The mailing lists has changed due to the development branching, let's go to The list page for more information
- AlternC is now divided in 2 development branches : the main trunk, whose aim is to create the 1.0 release of AlternC, and the development branch for the version 1.1.
- A wrokgroup dedicated to translation has been created thanks to Bruno Marmier.
New web site
(Benjamin Sonntag, 03/12/2003)
The web site of AlternC has a new design and new features. A more clean download page, and a cleaner APT archive.
A mailing list for users of AlternC has been created (see 'join us')
Finally, some new debian packages has been created : mailman 2.1-5 for woody, alternc-mailman and alternc-procmailbuilder.
AlternC conference at the ZeligRC2 event in Paris
(Chantal Bernard-Putz, 12/01/2002)
From december 9th to december 15th : 'Information want to be free' is the thema of this third european meeting organised by Samizdat.net and Globenet.
There is a presentation of the AlternC project on Wednesday, 11th at 6PM. Benjamin & Jérome, the main AlternC developers, will be there during the week-end too. If you want to talk with us, let's meet there...
Zelig RC2
Stable 1.0 is near !
(Benjamin Sonntag, 11/24/2002)
Release 1.0 will come soon since there is few bug left in the bugtrack. This version will have some major fixes like ldap index (yes, we forget this...), a new nsswitch/pop3 implementation, some corrections in the virtual desktop, and many new features in the super-administrator panel.
Important bug in the ldap configuration !
(Benjamin Sonntag, 09/12/2002)
An important bug has been found in 0.9-13 ldap configuration. There is no index at all in ldbm database configuration ! Since ldap heavily relies on index for performance, indexes must be properly defined. an update script is available on the download page.
Another bug has been corrected, but need an important change to the courier pop/imap and nsswitch configuration. Another script will be available too.
