FaxUp v1.6.0 - New UI & Bug Fixes

This update of FaxUp marks the first update since three years ago. This release brings some very much needed quality-of-life additions and fixes one major bug that has haunted FaxUp for the past years.

Table of Contents

Additions

• New pinging methods have been added and existing ones refined to allow more accurate pings to websites, servers, and IP/ports. Changes to the "IP / Domain / URL" service field.

  • Addresses starting with http or https now treat the path for a website and seek a non-server related response (200,400,etc). Ant 500 HTTP code will cause a fail. This method uses the fetch API. If the URL call fails an attempt.

  • Net socket is now used for all port related pings with a 15second timeout.

  • Bare domains (no URL or PORT) use Fetch API to start and seek a valid (non 500) HTTP code. Otherwise, FaxUp now falls back to ICMP IP pinging based on any DNS records.

  • Bare IP addresses with no port use a ICMP based ping method with a ten second timeout.

• A new daily clean up to clean the database from old entries that are older than 90 days. This was a major issue that caused older installations of FaxUp to crash or timeout when loading due to the database table being so large.

  • Additionally, this clean up takes place after around 10 seconds of FaxUp being booted.

• The User Interface (UI) has been completely remade to bring FaxUp into 2026 and modern web-design.

• Daily history calculations have been refined to allow a more accurate percentage to be shown.

• Added new indexes for table lookups for the main page to load.

• Added a toggle for an auto refresh of the main status page for end-users.

Fixes

• Updated many database endpoints to ensure a secure insertion.

• Old database entries are now deleted through the daily clean up allowing a smaller faster database to operate.

Changes

• Updated from Node.js v20.5.1 to v24.15.0 to align with Weblutions products. See Weblutions Product Node Version List for more information.

• Updated all dependency pages to new and up-to-date versions.

  • @sendgrid/mail ^8.1.4 → ^8.1.6

  • axios ^1.8.4 → ^1.20.0

  • bcrypt ^5.1.1 → ^6.0.0

  • discord.js ^14.18.0 → ^14.27.0

  • ejs ^3.1.10 → ^7.0.1

  • express ^4.21.2 → ^5.3.0

  • express-session ^1.18.1 → ^1.19.0

  • form-data ^4.0.2 → ^4.0.6

  • multer ^1.4.4 → ^2.4.0

  • mysql2 ^3.14.0 → ^3.24.5

  • ping ^0.4.4 → ^1.0.0

  • twilio ^5.5.1 → ^6.2.0

• The file structure has been updated to be in-line with Weblutions products.
  

Removals

• Removed a high amount of CSS that was not needed, or unused.

Notes

[1] Updating Node.js

Make sure Node.js version 24.15.0 is used and installed onto the operating system. If unsure on steps to install the new node version see the Using Node Version Manager guide.

[2] Updating FaxUp Files

When updating to this version of FaxUp from a previous version, be sure to delete the src folder and replace at least the below listed items to ensure all required files are updated.

/src
/installme.sql
/package.json
/index.js

The /public folder contains themes, logos, and the background for FaxUp. If custom files are used, do not replace this folder.

After uploading files and ensuring the correct Node.js version, use npm install to download and install the latest packages which were updated.

[3] Image Gallery of New User Interface (UI)

See below images of some portions of the new FaxUp UI.

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