Service Enhancements
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August 30th, 2024

Service Enhancements

Service Enhancements August 2024

Welcome to the Service Announcement for August 2024.

Do you have an application you'd like us to offer? Do you have ideas on how we can enhance our service? Share your thoughts at feedback.ultra.cc. We value your suggestions and votes on what you'd like to see on Ultra.cc.

🎉 Back-to-School Sale on BOLT Plans - Coupon Code 20BOLT4EVR

For a limited time, while stocks last, we are offering a service-lifetime discount of 20% on new orders for our NVMe (Bolt) plans: Tomcat (950GB), Raptor (1.9TB), Valkyrie (2.8TB) and Blackbird (3.8TB), in The Netherlands only. If you want the fastest torrent performance or are an avid Newsgroup (Usenet) user, these plans are for you! Hurry though, as we can only offer this fantastic discount for a short period, and it is usually very popular. Just place a new order and enter the Coupon/Discount code 20BOLT4EVR.

Terms:

  • New orders only. Not valid for upgrades. Not valid for existing orders.

  • Tomcat, Raptor, Valkyrie and Blackbird plans in The Netherlands only.

  • 20% discount off our standard price for the lifetime of the order.

  • Discounts cannot be stacked, except with the 5% semi-annual and 10% annual discount.

  • Existing and new clients can use the discount on multiple eligible orders.

  • Not transferable to any other plan.

  • While stocks last. For a limited time.

⚠️ Ongoing issue with FTP on server LW900

Clients on server LW900 (those with the url https://{username}.lw900.usbx.me ONLY) may experience errors when connecting via FTPS. We are still seeking a long-term solution to the problem. In the meantime, please switch to SFTP on port 22, or change the connection details from lw900.usbx.me to lw900-direct.usbx.me (you will receive a certificate warning, but it’s OK to accept). Please note that SFTP and FTPS are equally secure.

⚠️ Jellyfin 10.9.x Upgrade Issues

Many clients have reported issues and database corruption when upgrading Jellyfin from 10.8.x to 10.9.x. Until the Jellyfin developers resolve these issues, we have frozen Jellyfin in the User Control Panel (UCP) - https://cp.ultra.cc to 10.8.13. Performing an upgrade from the UCP will only upgrade older versions to 10.8.13.

We appreciate some clients are prepared to risk upgrading, and therefore we have enabled this from SSH using this command app-jellyfin upgrade -v latest. We recommend you backup your Jellyfin databases first. You can find them here: ~/.apps/jellyfin/data/data.

🍿 Plex upgrades

Some Plex upgrades perform database transformations. If you have an extensive Plex library, you may have to wait up to an hour after upgrading before your Plex instance restarts. Please be patient and don’t restart or upgrade/repair for at least 1 hour after your initial upgrade.

✅ Stable/Launched Features

* UCP = User Control Panel - https://cp.ultra.cc

  • UCP: Added "Need More?" option under disk usage to advise clients on how to get more storage (upgrade plan).

  • UCP: Added tooltips to Manage Webserver, Disk Usage & Traffic Usage to provide user-friendly guidance.

  • UCP: WebDAV Access Point is now displayed in the Connect tab.

  • NZBGet is no longer marked as DEPRECATED as the project has a new maintainer. Feel free to upgrade via the UCP.

  • qBittorrent 4.6.3 is now out of beta, but the default installation option remains 4.3.9.

  • Homarr app is out of beta.

  • A new command added to return the version of each application installed. Use app-appname version, for example, app-qbittorrent version.

  • New Doc: Crontab Explainer for setting-up scheduled tasks.

  • New Doc: Unofficial Scripts Hub to make scripts more findable.

  • Unofficial scripts moved to a new repository. Please use the guide above for any future installs.

  • Removal of C++ Unofficial install script until next Debian upgrade.

  • The Autoscan script has been fixed.

  • The Notifiarr script now installs the latest version.

  • The FileBot script now installs the latest version.

🧪 Beta Features

All clients are welcome to test these new features, but we do not offer formal support. Only install if you are prepared to accept some errors and instability. Unofficial support is available only in #discussion. Beta features may be removed without notice if serious issues are identified.

  • New monitoring application Uptime Kuma. Install via SSH with app-uptimekuma install --password {a new password}

  • UCP: The WireGuard config files can now be labeled to help remind clients which config is used where.

  • ruTorrent now added to the UCP as the beta install option.

🎯 Planned Features

  • Upgrade all servers to Debian 12.

We hope that you find this update helpful.

Thank you for remaining a loyal client.

Team Ultra.cc