v5.85.00

Stable Release

May 22, 2026

Bug fixes, enhancements, and feature update

New Features

• Added new log monitoring module ( LFD ) to detect the brute-force attacks.

  Our LFD module is lightweight, efficient, and replaces the heavy Fail2ban system

Improvements

• Improved the proxy filtering WAF rules set backend binaries
• Temporary IP block now has better integration with the proxy filtering WAF rules set
• Added an option to ignore IP/Country in cPGuard API

Bug Fixes

• Fixed the core dump error with the whitelist binary
• General agent and app portal bug fixes

v5.84.01

Minor Update

May 8, 2026

Bug Fixes

• WAF bot attacks log read bug fix

v5.84.00

Stable Release

May 7, 2026

New Features

• Enabled firewall captcha verification feature for Webuzo control panel
• Enabled firewall captcha verification feature for Enhance control panel
• Added user and process path level whitelist for proactive process monitoring module
• Added user level whitelist for cron monitoring module

Improvements

• Temporary IP block is now applicable for WAF proxy filtering rule as well
• Nginx WAF integration updates for Webuzo control panel to retain the configuration updates

Bug Fixes

• Fixed the user panel bug for full scan for users with additional home directory paths
• General bug fixes in agent and app portal

v5.83.00

Major Feature Release

April 27, 2026

Firewall enhancements, bug fixes

New Features

• Latest firewall using iptables/ipset tools set with added features and DoS control measures
• Grey list with captcha based unlock option ( initially available for cPanel and DirectAdmin )
• IP and country ignore option in the firewall...no need for complete whitelist to avoid blocking

Improvements

• Option to choose nftables or iptables based firewall on demand
• Added OSM notification
• Updated wp-cli PHP path for DirectAdmin servers

Bug Fixes

• General bug fixes in agent and app portal

v5.82.01

Major Feature Release

February 26, 2026

Introducing outgoing spam monitor for cPanel, DA, and Webuzo...other feature updates and bug fixes included

New Features

• Added outgoing spam monitor for cPanel, DirectAdmin, and Webuzo

  This feature helps to quickly check the major outgoing email source and find the spam origin

• Added option to temporarily whitelist an IP address
• Added option to send test email for custom email templates
• Introducing Captcha V2 to avoid captcha loop for certain clients

Improvements

• Improved cron monitor job logic
• Better WAF integration with Webuzo so that no need to manually enable ModSec
• App portal updates to track suspicious process job details

Bug Fixes

• WAF whitelist input validation bug fix
• Other general bug fixes and updates in agent and the app portal

v5.81.01

Stable Release

January 22, 2026

Stable Release – Version 5.81.01

This stable release includes all features, improvements, and bug fixes that were previously introduced in the pre-release v5.80.07 (Release Candidate).

No additional changes have been added in this version.

v5.80.07

Release Candidate

January 20, 2026

New Features

• Added Admin panel SSO login switch and API for cPanel, DA, and Webuzo control panels

  For details, please refer https://opsshield.com/help/cpguard/single-sign-on-sso-in-cpguard-admin-plugin/

• Manual scan list and result table view from CLI

Improvements

• Cron monitor email enhancement
• cPGuard software update changes
• GeoIP database update
• Process monitoring update

Bug Fixes

• Fixed bugs related to Interworx API changes
• Fixed bug in panel profile detection for runcloud

You can update cPGuard to the latest pre release version from your server's command line using: cpgcli update --start pre

v5.80.00

Minor Update

January 5, 2026

Bug Fixes

• Revert data folder permission change
• Set proper permissions for data folder during update

v5.79.00

Stability Update

January 3, 2026

Improvements

• Cleanup update script

Bug Fixes

• Bot attacks client API domain fix