---
title: "hMailServer 6.1.0: the Web Control Deck and a light/dark Administrator"
url: https://www.hmailserver.co.uk/topic/28210/hmailserver-6.1.0-the-web-control-deck-and-a-light-dark-administrator
author: "Progressiverobot"
published: 2026-06-12T22:25:16.000Z
updated: 2026-06-12T22:25:16.000Z
category: "Announcements & releases"
tags: ["release","control-panel","api","windows"]
site: hMailServer Community Forum
---

# hMailServer 6.1.0: the Web Control Deck and a light/dark Administrator

6.1.0 is a user interface release. It adds the Web Control Deck, a web admin UI served directly by the built-in REST API listener, and rebuilds the desktop Administrator around a full light/dark theme engine. The server core is unchanged from 6.0.0 build 4 apart from the new web-page endpoint.

**Web Control Deck**

Enable `RestApiPort` in hMailServer.INI and browse to the server. No extra components are required. It carries a live dashboard with animated counters and session stats, domain and account management, retry and delete on the delivery queue, and publish-ready DANE TLSA records. Light and dark themes with a toggle. Sign-in uses the administrator credential.

**Administrator (desktop)**

- Deep-space dark and clean light palettes applied across every pane and dialog, including dark window title bars, native dark scrollbars and themed menus
- Theme toggle in the View menu. It follows the Windows app-mode preference by default, and the choice is persisted
- Ctrl+K command palette, fuzzy-searching every settings page and jumping straight to it
- Modernised dashboard with glow accents, eased value animations and hover-highlight stat cards

**Installer**

Modern wizard branding, and it ships the WebAdmin payload.

The release was validated by the full regression suite: 898/898 tests passing, zero failures, against a MariaDB backend with live SpamAssassin and ClamAV and TLS 1.2/1.3 end to end.

[Full release notes, checksums and signatures](https://www.progressiverobot.com/hmailserver-downloads/)