Changelog

All notable changes to SecureCheap are documented here.

v1.4.0 — January 2025

New features

• Telegram notifications — Get alerts delivered to any Telegram chat, group, or channel via Bot API
• GitHub integration — Connect repositories for dependency CVE scanning and secret detection
• API Reference v1 — Full REST API is now documented and publicly accessible
• Alert grouping — Multiple alerts from the same server are now bundled into a single notification

Improvements

• Dashboard load time reduced by 38% through query optimization
• Monitor list now supports bulk operations (pause, resume, delete)
• Uptime report PDF now includes per-monitor SLA tables
• WordPress scanner now detects xmlrpc.php exposure and directory listing issues

Bug fixes

• Fixed: Discord notifications sometimes failed silently on large payloads
• Fixed: SSL grade occasionally showed stale data after certificate renewal
• Fixed: Maintenance window overlap was not handled correctly

v1.3.0 — December 2024

New features

• Discord notifications — Rich embeds delivered to any Discord channel via webhook
• Cost optimization dashboard — New dedicated view for savings recommendations across all cloud providers
• Hetzner Cloud integration — Connect Hetzner accounts for server and cost data
• Security score breakdown — Detailed per-category scoring (SSL, headers, ports, CVEs)

Improvements

• Alert email template redesigned with clearer incident summary
• Monitor response time now shown as a sparkline in the list view
• cPanel integration now auto-creates uptime monitors for discovered domains
• Search now supports fuzzy matching across monitor names and URLs

Bug fixes

• Fixed: Status page showed incorrect uptime percentage when a monitor was paused
• Fixed: Team invite emails were not delivered when the invited user's email provider had strict DMARC
• Fixed: API rate limit headers were missing on some responses

v1.2.0 — November 2024

New features

• Status pages — Create public or private status pages that update automatically from your monitors
• Custom domains for status pages — Point your own domain (e.g. status.yourcompany.com) to SecureCheap
• WordPress hardening audit — Expanded WP checks including wp-config.php access, admin URL, login attempts limiter
• DigitalOcean integration — Droplets, Managed Databases, App Platform, and Spaces cost data

Improvements

• Monitoring agent v1.3.0 released — 40% lower CPU usage, faster metric collection
• SSL expiry alerts now configurable (7, 14, 30, 60 days before expiry)
• Multi-factor authentication (TOTP) now required for all team admin actions

Breaking changes

• Agent v1.2.x and below will stop reporting after February 1, 2025 — please upgrade to v1.3.0+

v1.1.0 — October 2024

New features

• Slack notifications — Deliver alerts to any Slack channel via incoming webhooks
• Cloudflare integration — Sync zones, DNS records, SSL certificates, and WAF rules
• Team collaboration — Invite team members with role-based access (Owner, Admin, Developer, Viewer)
• Audit log — Complete history of all team and system actions

Improvements

• Dashboard overview redesigned with global infrastructure health score
• Monitor checks now run from 3 locations simultaneously (Frankfurt, New York, Singapore)
• Uptime percentage now calculated per-location to identify regional issues
• API key management moved to Settings → API Keys with expiry support

Bug fixes

• Fixed: Monitors with keyword checks sometimes reported false positives after redirects
• Fixed: Disk metric used wrong filesystem on servers with LVM

v1.0.0 — September 2024

Initial release 🎉

Core platform launch with:

• Server monitoring (CPU, RAM, disk, network, processes)
• HTTP uptime monitoring (status, response time, SSL grade)
• Security scanner (port scan, CVE matching, DNS checks)
• WordPress vulnerability scanning (plugin/theme CVEs, malware detection)
• Email notifications
• cPanel / WHM integration
• Basic cost reporting
• REST API v1 (beta)