Today we updated the Multicraft Control Panel to version 1.8.0. This required a little bit of downtime. We tried to make the interruption to your service as short as possible and apologise for any inconvenience this may have caused. The list of changes are as follows.

  • Implemented Craftbukkit plugin browser based on the BukGet API
  • Implemented server move between daemons
  • Implemented global tasks
  • Added support for multiple user database servers
  • Added possibility to allow symlinks instead of directories
  • Added configurable daemon connection limit
  • Added setting to skip integrity checks
  • Added separate API log file
  • Added API call to fetch live resource usage
  • Added more detailed logging for front end actions
  • Added DATA and TIME variables for some commands
  • Added per server setting for user MySQL database
  • Added possibility to remove any plugin JAR files through the plugins menu entry
  • Improved handling of missing files in FTP server
  • Improved server base directory name generator
  • Improved crashed server handling
  • Improved handling of exceptions when compiling user provided regular expressions
  • Improved support for certain VPS file systems
  • Fixed file display for very large files
  • Fixed rare crash issue under Windows
  • Fixed sending large amounts of data to the server
  • Fixed resource usage display for systems restricting proc access
  • Fixed escaping of command arguments
  • Fixed encoding issue in FTP server
  • Add current user info to log lines
  • Fixed rare FTP server file descriptor leak
  • Avoid overriding admin entered JAR name when saving as a user
  • Disabled ping timeout by default
  • Updated default .conf files with more flexible parsing

Lots of updates that probably wont mean much to you, but there is plenty that will help us improve the services we provide. However there is one addition that is very handy for any server owner.

"Implemented Craftbukkit plugin browser based on the BukGet API / Added possibility to remove any plugin JAR files through the plugins menu entry"

You will now be able to download and install any Bukkit server-mod plugin that is hosted on bukkit.org using just the Multicraft Control Panel. No need to download files to your computer and then upload them via FTP. To Install a plugin using BukGet:

  1. On the left hand menu click Files and then BukGet Plugins. You will be taken to the BukGet Plugin List
  2. Find your desired plugin by browsing, selecting a category, or using the search boxes at the top of each column
  3. Click on the plugin name. You will be taken to the plugin page containing information scraped from Bukkit.org. Note that there is also a link to the Bukkit page for this plugin here.
  4. Click on the Install button

To Remove or Disable a plugin:

  1. On the left hand menu click Files and then BukGet Plugins. You will be taken to the BukGet Plugin List
  2. On the left hand menu Click Currently Installed, this will list your installed plugins
  3. Click on the name of the plugin you wish to Remove or Disable. You will be taken to that plugin's page
  4. Click on the Remove or Disable button

There are a few things to be aware of when using this new tool:

  • It only lets you install the latest version that is on Bukkit.org, this version may not be compatible with the server JAR that you are currently using.
  • The old list of plugins we provide is still available, this has been renamed to 'Local Plugins'. These lists show plugins that are meant for the server JAR you are currently using.
  • You should always click on the Bukkit.org link to make sure that the version of the plugin is compatible with your current Server JAR
  • The very latest version of a plugin may not be hosted on Bukkit.org. This is often the case when Bukkit gets updated and a plugin breaks. The plugin author will create a development build but will only upload to Bukkit once it has been tested
  • The BukGet repository updates every 3 hours. So new and updated plugins on Bukkit may take up to 3 hours to appear on BukGet

 

Again, remember that there is always the Local Plugin list. This is a list of plugins that we maintain and should be compatible with the server JAR that you are currently using. If you are having problems with any of the plugins in this list then make sure that you are running the latest version that we have added. If the entry in the Local Plugin list has the 'Update' option next to it then the version you have installed is different to the one in the list. Click Update to replace the installed file with this new one. If you are still having problems with a plugin from the Local Plugin list, then send us a support ticket. There may be a more stable version of that plugin available and we can update the list with it.



Friday, January 11, 2013

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