[wpkg-users] Found: WPKG express NG web interface with php7 support

[Daniel Högele - adelphi]

A while ago there was a discussion about the future of the "WPKG express" web interface including its fork "WPKG express NG" and its lack of php7 support.
As no one was able to fix the php7 compatibility problems my company was already in the process of evaluating some competitors of WPKG. Luckily we found (more or less accidentally) the GitHub project of Andrey Klimov who developed a new fork of "WPKG express" with a modern interface, lots of new features and php7 compatibility called "WPKG express 2". The documentation is very limited but the migration from "WPKG express NG" to "WPKG Express 2" was not that difficult (needed some XML syntax changes before import of profiles.xml and packages.xml).

New features are:
-	New modern interface with dashboard, filter functions and status bars
-	Reporting of package status for each host
-	Parsing WPKG log files with sending report to administrators E-mail;
-	Maintaining archive version of the package with the ability to switch to previous versions
-	Recycle Bin with the ability to recover deleted data of package, profile or host
-	User authentication by username and password and LDAP security group membership
-	Wizard to create config.xml
-	Templates for package, profile and host creation
-	Create hosts based on computers from LDAP
-	Copy / Clone function for packages, profiles and hosts
-	Preview XML configuration files for WPKG with validating XML schema
-	Relationship graph for package, profile, and host
-	Relationship graph for host by name

Many thanks to Andrey for supporting the great WPKG project by providing a stunning new web interface!!!

Best
Daniel