The login screen is without doubt one of the updated WHM interface features inside the new 11.34 release of the cPanel & WHM hosting control panel software

After previewing its iteration, cPanel & WHM 11.34, back on the cPanel Conference in October, hosting control panel developer cPanel announced this week that the most recent version had hit its “release” tier, delivering a collection of recent functions and a redesigned WHM interface to hosting providers running cPanel.

Wednesday, cPanel held a webinar to share a few of the new release’s new features with users, and to illustrate the hot interface it has developed for the WebHost Manager side of the control panel – the administrator interface.

cPanel’s Scrum Product Development Method

Before we glance on the features, it’s worth noting that the 11.34 release is the primary update to cPanel & WHM to return out of the company’s recently-implemented scrum agile product development process.

While cPanel previously had a giant pool of developers who worked style of independently on different projects that will ultimately be worked into the software, the scrum method divides that pool of developers into smaller teams, and assigns specific features to every of these teams.

cPanel says the whole effect of the changes is that new features can find their way into the product faster, because the teams are better ready to focus their energies, and the company’s overall development resources, on priority projects.

New Hosting Control Panel Features in cPanel & WHM 11.34

During Wednesday’s webinar, cPanel concerned about highlighting a number of specific changes within the re-creation of its hosting control panel software.

cPanel says it has made several updates to its Web Disk function, which enables users to govern files at the server via a shared drive on a working laptop or computer or mobile device. The changes include support for quite a number operating systems, including Windows Vista, 7 and eight, Android, iOS and OSX Lion and Mountain Lion.

It also announced new functions for its email archiving tool, which enables administrators to establish policies to have incoming and outgoing emails from a server compressed and archived daily (and stored as portion of the regular cPanel backup). The update adds client configuration support for MacOS Mail.app, PostBox, Thunderbird, KDE KMail, several Outlook versions, in addition to Outlook Express and Windows Live Mail.

The final key feature for hosting providers addressed within the webinar was an update to cPanel’s Exim mail transfer agent. In the course of the Exim configuration feature, admins can now scan outgoing emails for spam and malware, and reject those emails before they leave the server.

Inside the brand new WebHost Manager Interface in cPanel & WHM 11.34

One of the massive thrusts of the presentation was a tour of a few of the keys to the recent user interface within the WebHost Manager component to the control panel software.

Along with an update to the login screen, one of many major changes is a redesign to the major navigation, offering bigger, clickable buttons to enable a better time using the interface via a splash screen on something like a tablet or cell phone.

One of the opposite navigational changes cPanel highlighted was the inclusion of a “breadcrumbs” style trail, making it easier for users to determine exactly what sub-menu of a sub-menu they’re currently viewing, and to quickly back-track through those folders.

The new UI also includes some key changes to the left-hand navigation menu, including better integration with the hunt function, in addition to the facility to apply the keyboard to navigate the menu.

cPanel shared some more specifics in regards to the new WebHost Manager user interface in a podcast posted at the company’s website.

A New cPanel & WHM Release Schedule

One of the last points touched on within the presentation was slightly a transformation to the company’s software release schedule. CEO Nick Koston said at the call that the corporate had moved to a 3-times-a-year schedule for brand new releases, that means the subsequent release of cPanel & WHM (11.36) will be out inside the early a part of 2013.

The full release notes for cPanel & WHM 11.34 are available in on the company’s website.