The Road Ahead

As part of the recent WebMail upgrade, we also upgraded the available PHP to 8.3.1.2. As per PHP's announcement, this is a security release.

As 7.x is no longer supported - with either improvements or security fixes - we will shortly be removing it from general availability. If you are still running an application that may limited to 7.x, please ensure it updated.

ImageMagick 3.7 now available

Additionally, the ImageMagick v3.7 extension is now available for PHP v8.3. This extension is not enabled by default. If you require it, enable it either through the Hosting Control Panel or by submitting a support ticket.

We've upgraded our Webmail to the latest stable version of Roundcube, 1.6.9. This update includes the fixes for recently discovered security vulnerabilities (1.6.8) as well general fixes and updates from the developer.

Many longstanding applications have roots in now surpassed technologies, practices and programming languages. Work on Camino and its' various dependencies started over fifteen years ago and was written in the language we were most familar with, Visual Basic.NET (VB).

A lot has changed since the first working builds of Camino, and VB is now effectively a dead language. Microsoft has ceased development and there will no additional features will be added to it. It will remain support for at least until 2029, but anything written in it will be unable to leverage new tools and functionality within the .NET architecture.

Consequently, we have engaged in a long-term program of converting and rebuilding our applications and libraries to C#. This was not something that could be done overnight and has had to be done alongside the normal day-to-day upgrades, updates and application release schedule.

With the 19th July 2024 release of Camino (version 2.5.3555), it and all Calzada Media dependent libraries are now written in C#. In the coming weeks, we will be rolling out this version to active Camino customers.

This isn't the end of development for Camino. We've got a significant number of planned upgrades and new features we are planning to roll out in the coming months.

After a little while away, the TaxiOffice demo website is now back up and running. The demo is running the latest version of TaxiOffice that incorporates a number of reliability, performance and stability improvements.

Try out the demo today

In October, Microsoft announced changes to UK pricing that will take take effect from 1st January 2017. The reasons given for the price increase is to harmonise UK pricing with the euro level pricing in the EU/EFTA region and the reduced value of the pound against the dollar in recent months.

From 1st January 2017, the prices for all Microsoft Cloud Services including Office 365. Azure, Dynamics 365 etc. will increase by 22%. However, because many of these services are price-protected for the term of 12-month subscription, the price change will only occur at renewal. For example, if you took out a new Office 365 subscription in September 2016, the price you pay will remain the same until September 2017, after which the price for the subscription will increase in line with current levels.

Similarly, Hosted Exchange prices will also increase, but by a smaller amount. From 1st January 2017, Hosted Exchange prices will increase by 12%.

These price increases will impact all suppliers of Microsoft cloud services in the UK including those purchase directly from Microsoft.