The Road Ahead

We wish everyone a Happy and Prosperous 2025!

We will be operating limited opening hours during the Christmas and New Year holiday period.

Dates denoted with an asterisk (*) may be when we will be undertaking annual maintenance and upgrade tasks. Please check this blog and our Twitter/X feed for possible period of service impairment.

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.