The following component was updated:
[+]Plesk is now available in the following additional languages: Norwegian, Swedish, Finnish, and Ukrainian. In Plesk for Linux, you need to activate them in Tools & Settings > Languages.
The following issues were resolved:
[-] (Windows only) Administrators were unable to use SmarterMail version earlier than 10.5 as a mail server. (PPPM-1521)
[-] (Linux only) Users could not see subscription backups if their usernames coincided with their domain names. (PPPM-1445)
[-] (Linux only) Subscriptions could not be migrated if the username of the customer who owned the subscription coincided with the domain name. (PPPM-1218)
Plesk Service Team is pleased to introduce the Plesk PVC Containers Upgrade Tool.
Plesk PVC Containers Upgrade Tool is the utility that allows you to determine whether it would be possible and safe to upgrade containers with Plesk for Linux. The utility performs the upgrade in accordance with the Service Team best practices.
The following components were updated:
[+]phpMyAdmin was updated to version 4.1.11.
[+]MailEnable was updated to version 8.04.
[+]Plesk now supports more languages. Danish, Greek, Turkish, and Portuguese languages were added.
The following issues were resolved:
[-] Plesk failed to send mail to mailing lists with email addresses specified using a domain alias name.
[-] Customer & Business Manager users were unable to log in to Plesk after Plesk was upgraded to 11.5.
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Besides these groundbreaking features you can also play with mobile-ready UI for Power User and Customer views, latest version of Web Presence Builder with great new website designs among other features, granular restoration of backup files, and many other improvements. Your feedback can make all the difference, so let your voice be heard!
The following component was updated:
[+](Windows) SmarterMail 12 version is now supported.
[*]Security improvements.
The following issues were resolved:
[-] Opening list of backups was too slow in case of using NFS backup repository. (PPPM-855)
[-] Web statistics was not calculated properly with nginx as proxy because records in access_log.processed are not in chronological order (PPPM-1174)
[-] Microsoft SQL Server database users were unable login to the copied database if original database has been removed. (PPPM-1447)
[-] “Use native MS SQL backup functionality for local database servers” option does not work for SQL Server databases if non-standard SQL Server port is used. (PPPM-1451)
The following issues were resolved:
[-] Users could not add a CNAME record of a subdomain to the DNS zone of the main domain. ( PPPM-1009)
[-] IIS sites remained inactive after completion of server backup with the option “Suspend domains until backup task is completed”. (PPPM-718, PPPM-46)
[-] Users could not create a subscription for a domain name that coincided with the Plesk server’s host name. (PPPM-1462)
What’s Changed
[+] Migration from Helm to Parallels Plesk Automation is now supported.
[*] The stability of the migration tool was improved. In case of network connection problems, operations are repeated several times.
[*] Error reporting in the migration tool was improved.
[*] Now Parallels Plesk Automation performs the proper translation of IP addresses during migration.
[*] Now instructions on attaching service nodes running Windows 2012 R2 are available in the Deployment Guide.
[*] The Integration Guide was updated with information about how to use the API for creating subscriptions with multiple webspaces.
[*] The Integration Guide was updated with information about how to manage DNS zones by means of the API.
[-] Updating of Parallels Plesk Automation could be blocked if users were logged in to it. The following error occurred: “[Errno 2] No such file or directory: ‘/var/cache/ppa/uc_cache/tmpGJ_m8x'”.
[-] Instead of a PHP handler’s php.ini file, the system default php.ini file was used to generate a domain-level php.ini file. As a result, sometimes custom PHP for a domain did not work.
[-] After upgrading from Parallels Plesk Automation 11.1 to 11.5, web statistics stopped working on Apache nodes.
[-] Installation of Parallels Plesk Automation failed if the SELinux configuration file /selinux/enforce was empty or the SELinux utility failed to execute the command ‘/usr/sbin/setenforce’, ‘0’.
[-] Disabled DNS zones could become enabled after syncing settings between the Administration Panel with the Hosting Panel.
[-] The link to user documentation in the Administration Panel led to a wrong page.
[-] Users who used an email address as a username could not use the backup and restoration tools.
[-] Upgrade of Parallels Plesk Automation could fail if YUM was not installed or configured, or if repositories were not accessible.
[-] Upgrade of Parallels Plesk Automation could fail if the management node could not connect to service nodes.
[-] When customers changed or added DNS records by means of the API or the console utility /usr/local/psa/bin/dns, the domain zones were filled with duplicated entries.
[-] Administrators could not add more than 256 IP addresses. The following error occurred: “Internal error: Incorrect format of RTM_GETADDR request response.”
[-] Users could not change the IP addresses of the management node by means of the ppa.ip_address utility. The following error occurred: “APS resource for ‘/aps/2/application/dns-record-mx/f81a9762-6149-42fa-8689-4ac20fff61b1’ with id ‘4555’ hasn’t been deleted. Error code: 500.”
[-] Users could not view the web server access logs for add-on domains on Apache-based hosting.
[-] After suspending and unsuspending domains hosted on IIS, users could no longer manage files in File Manager. The following error occurred: “Internal error: Unable to logon user (<host name>sub6_83s): (1331) Logon failure: account currently disabled.
[-] Users could not transfer subscriptions that used Microsoft SQL Server databases to Parallels Plesk Automation.
[-] IIS-based subscriptions could not be completely removed. Some configuration files remained in the file system after removal.
[-] Administrators could not add service nodes when the root login on the nodes was disabled, and sudo was enabled for another user.
[-] Administrators could not log in to a customer’s Hosting Panel from Parallels Business Automation Standard. The following error occurred: “Error: Logged user has no access to the subscription”.
[-] IIS-based sites using MySQL were working very slowly.
[-] Users could not create a webspace on an already existing domain.
[-] The migration tool failed to update itself.
[-] Users could not migrate subscriptions from Plesk 11.5 to Parallels Plesk Automation 11.5. The following error occurred: “Line 177 error: Element ‘cron’, attribute ‘encoding’: The attribute ‘encoding’ is not allowed.”
[-] Users could not migrate subscriptions from Plesk for Linux to Parallels Plesk Automation, if the default Linux Shared Hosting service template was used. The following error occurred: “Mail content transfer from Qmail/Postfix to SmarterMail mail service is not supported. Assign this subscription to a service template which offers Postfix mail service.”
[-] Users could not migrate Microsoft SQL Server databases. The following error occurred: “Subscription is assigned to PPA service template <template name> that has no Microsoft SQL database service. Assign this subscription to a service template which offers Microsoft SQL database service.”
[-] Users could not migrate from Plesk for Windows to Parallels Plesk Automation. The following error occurred: [ERROR] check-infrastructure| Failed to check disk space requirements. Exception message: (u’Failed to detect Plesk virtual hosts directory, reg query output is incorrect: %s’, u’
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control Session Manager\Environment plesk_vhosts REG_EXPAND_SZ D:\vhosts ‘)
[-] Migration from H-Sphere could fail even if there was a single subscription with issues.
[-] During migration from Expand, users failed to run the ppa-transfer check.
The following issues were resolved:
[-] nginx-serve-static property in API request is not accepted with error “Setting nginx-serve-static does not supported” if nginx server is stopped (PPPM-807)
[-] Mail messages do not have DomainKeys signature after running mchk utility (PPPM-1014)
[-] User cannot restore MSSQL databases after upgrade from older Plesk version if he had Windows x64 and MSSQL server x86 (PPPM-1188)
[-] (Customer & Business Manager) Upgrade from 11.0.9 to 11.5.30 failed with error message “1054 Unknown column ‘allow_multiply'”. (PPPM-1220)
Parallels Presence Builder 11.5.12
[+] Support for Internet Explorer 11. Presence Builder now fully supports Internet Explorer 11.
[*] Website layout on mobile site versions was improved. Now site menu is shown after clicking an icon.
[-] When users added hyperlinks containing a question mark, Presence Builder added unnecessary characters to such links.
[-] In some cases, users of mobile devices could not switch between a mobile and a regular site version.
[-] In some cases, comments left by users in a blog were duplicated in different posts.
[-] Flash files uploaded via Text and Video module could not be played in Internet Explorer 10 and earlier.
[-] The Search module showed an incorrect hint if Presence Builder’s interface was shown in a language other than English.
The following issues were resolved:
[-] (Windows) The installation of Plesk Migration and Transfer Agent 11.5 by using plesk-migration-agent.exe failed because an expired certificate was used to sign binary files.
[-] The date of the last update was not displayed for Plesk in Power User Mode.
[-] (Windows) Scheduled tasks of subscriptions hung after start. (PPPM-1349)
[-] (Windows) Parallels Customer & Business manager could not be installed on Windows with the Japanese display language. (PPPM-1373)
[-] Resellers received the error “Permission denied” when attempting to perform DNS, mail and database operations via API-RPC. (PPPM-973)
[-] Installation of Plesk updates through Parallels Installer failed on Debian 7.1 and later. (PPPM-1392)
[+] Support for Microsoft Windows 2012. Now Windows-based service nodes can be deployed on Microsoft Windows 2012.
[+] Support for Microsoft SQL Server 2012. Now users can deploy database servers with Microsoft SQL Server 2012 by means of a newly added service node role.
[+] Mail service on branded domains. Now users can set up mail accounts and use other mail services under their branded domains.
[*] The diagnostics of Parallels Plesk Automation installation issues on Parallels Virtuozzo Containers were improved.
[-] Users could not install PPA if a node’s host name did not resolve to the “communication IP address” specified in the first installation step.
[-] PPA installation and upgrade failed if the installer was executed from an SSH session with a locale other than en-US.
[-] Users could not upgrade to PPA 11.5 on CentOS 5. They encountered the following error: “[ERROR]: Failed to download file: http://autoinstall.plesk.com//PPA_11.5.0/Plesk/Autoinstaller_latest/CentOS-5-x86_64: [Errno 14] HTTP Error 400: Bad Request.”
[-] Users failed to upgrade to PPA 11.5 if a PPA mirror repository was reconfigured and a wrong IP address was used.
[-] Users on CentOS 5 could not upgrade to PPA 11.5 if there were 4 GB of RAM on the server.
[-] Users on CentOS 6 failed to upgrade to PPA 11.5 because of stalled task “Service state changed”.
[-] Users failed to upgrade BIND on service nodes with CentOS 6 and RHEL 6.
[-] Upgrade from PPA 11.1 to 11.5 failed if the system host name of a service nodes was set to localhost.localdomain.
[-] The upgrade utility did not check if there was enough free disk space before starting an upgrade.
[-] Administrators failed to add Linux-based service nodes if logging in under the user root was disabled, and sudo login was enabled for another user.
[-] Users could not add PostgreSQL service nodes if the database server administrator’s password contained special characters.
[-] Users could not add Windows-based service nodes with Adobe ColdFusion.
[-] Users could not properly deactivate resource records in the DNS zones of their domains. After switching off those domains, the previously deactivated records became active again.
[-] Users could not set up branded domains.
[-] Users could not properly rebrand the Panel logo.
[-] Branded domains were suspended because of disk space overuse. This happened because the logs of branded domains were not rotated.
[-] WHMCS could not provision subscriptions for domain names containing hyphens.
[-] On removal of customer accounts from WHMCS, an error message was recorded in log files.
[-] Users could not remove a customer account from WHMCS if the customer’s subscription was not provisioned to PPA and the order was flagged as fraudulent.
[-] Additional Apache directives specified by users (in Hosting Panel > Websites tab > Web Server Settings) were not applied.
[-] Users were unable to receive notifications related to scheduled tasks from crontab.
[-] After renaming the main FTP account user, users were unable to edit files in File Manager if there was an additional FTP account.
[-] Users could not open the Presence Builder editor from the Hosting Panel.
[-] Users could see two Mail tabs in the Hosting Panel.
[-] Users could not schedule tasks in the Hosting Panel.
[-] NAT IP address was shown in the Hosting Panel.
[-] After changing resource limits or settings in a service template, users could not apply the changes to existing subscriptions.
[-] After restarting a management node, the node’s IP address was removed from the network interface.
The following component was updated:
[+](Windows) IceWarp Merak Mail server 11.0 x32 and x64-bit version is now supported.
The following issues were resolved:
[-] (Unix) “Access to the Control Panel” permission for mail accounts is not migrated from older Plesk version (PPPM-1337)
[-] (Windows) Error “c_accounts_policies_pass_upperalpha not found” occurs at switching to IceWarp Merak below version 10.3.0
[-] Unable to create subscription if mail server is not installed because of error “Discard mode not supported”
The following issues were resolved:
[-] PHPMyAdmin did not show a remote database if the database name contained capital letters and underscore symbols. (PPPM-895)
[-] Migration failed if the migrated objects were already present on the destination server. (PPPM-919)
[-] When users created a subscription based on a service plane that had the option “Redirect to external mail server with IP address” switched on, Panel issued the error “Unable to create DSMail: Email address is invalid”.(PPPM-1069)
[-] (Linux) If more than 255 IP addresses were added to Panel, the script mailsrv_conf_init failed with the error “Incorrect format of RTM_GETADDR request response”. (PPPM-1274)
[-] (Windows) The training function for SpamAssassin attempted to use mail of suspended domains. (PPPM-1122)
[-] (Windows) The training function for SpamAssassin failed if a wrong IMAP connection string was specified. (PPPM-1122)
[-] (Linux) Instead of a PHP handler’s php.ini file, the system default php.ini file was used to generate a domain-level php.ini file. As a result, sometimes custom PHP for a domain did not work. (PPPM-893)
[-] (Linux) To avoid heap-based buffer overflow in the mod_fcgid module (CVE-2013-4365), the mod_fcgid module shipped with Panel was updated to version 2.3.9. (PPPM-1314)
The Plesk Service team is pleased to announce that Plesk 11.5 has entered into the Stable state. Thanks to all who helped us in identifying Plesk bugs and drawbacks.
The following issues were resolved:
[-] (Linux) Upgrading Parallels Plesk Panel to 11.5 failed if the Panel administrator’s password contained the backslash sign (“\”). (PPPM-1084)
[-] (Linux) The bootstrapper script could not connect to the apsc database after a failure on upgrade. (PPPM-1118)
[-] (Linux) The bootstrapper script (bootstrapper.sh repair) did not upgrade the apsc database. (PPPM-1134)
[-] (Linux) The bootstrapper script (bootstrapper.sh repair) failed if the package pp-sitebuilder was installed but there was no Sitebuilder database or user. (PPPM-909)
[-] (Linux) After upgrading from Panel 10.x to 11.x, the location of the cgi-bin directory could be incorrect (not in the webspace or www-root directory). (PPPM-810)
[-] (Linux) It was impossible to configure Panel installed on openSuSE 12.3 x64.
[-] (Linux) Panel upgrade failed if the same database user was assigned to multiple databases. (PPPM-1144)
[-] (Linux) Panel 11.5 could not restore vhost.conf and cron tasks from backup files of previous Panel versions.
[-] (Linux) PHPMyAdmin failed to export databases with the error “502 Bad Gateway: stderr: zend_mm_heap corrupted”. (PPPM-865)
[-] (Linux) The crontab secure shell settings were set to default ones after Panel upgrading. (PPPM-1163)
[-] (Linux) The absence of core.version lead to failed upgrade. (PPPM-934)
[-] (Windows) Web hosting reconfiguration for a large number of sites during a Panel upgrade could cause an upgrade failure. (PPPM-1150)
[-] (Windows) The Help window popped up while typing ‘p’ in Internet Explorer 11. (PPPM-1152)
[-] (Windows) Messages about missing “.pyc” files appeared in Parallels Installer console. (PPPM-1145)
The following features were added:
[+] (Windows) BIND DNS server was updated to version 9.9.4-P1, CVE-2013-6230 vulnerability is closed.
[+] (Windows) Horde webmail was updated to version 5.1.5, CVE-2013-6275 vulnerability is closed.
The following issues were resolved:
[-] The piped logging feature did not write access_logs for add-on domains and subdomains.
[-] Plesk could not register PHP handlers because of wrong directives in php.ini or if running php -v returned exit code 1. (PPPM-808, PPPM-885)
[-] Chained SSL certificates no longer worked with nginx after upgrade.
[-] During upgrade to Plesk 11.5, the directories of add-on domains were incorrectly relocated in the new structure of virtual hosts.
On Linux:
plesk bin pleskrestore --restore .... -asyncOn Windows:
"%plesk_dir%inpleskrestore.exe" --restore .... -async-async Restore a backup asynchronously. Works with “–restore” only. This will return the task ID to stdout.
Use –get-restore-task-status to check the task status:
On Linux:
plesk bin pleskrestore --get-restore-task-status <task-id><br><br><task-status task-id="9516"><br><mixed status=""><br><restore status=""><br><conflict-resolve task-id="2147483640"><br><finished status="success"><br><execution-result status="success"/><br></finished><br></conflict-resolve><br><deploy task-id="9570"><br><working><br><deploy total-domains="1" total-accounts="0" completed-domains="0" completed-accounts="0"><br><current-object type="domain"><![CDATA[<br>domain.com]]></current-object><br></deploy><br></working><br></deploy><br></restore><br></mixed><br></task-status>pleskrestore –get-restore-task-status exit codes:
Code Description
200 Restore in progress
201 Restore is failed (any task has error status)
202 Restore is finished with warnings (any task has warnings status)
203 Restore is finished with infos
204 Restore is successfully finished
[+] Roundcube webmail was updated to version 0.9.5.
The following issues were resolved:
[-] Domain backups did not work if web server configuration files contained German umlaut characters. (PPPM-867)
[-] Users were unable to log in to Plesk because of issues with the apskeyhandler.exe process.
[-] Administrators received duplicate subscription expiration notices. (PPPM-1002)
[-] Server restart could take about 10-20 minutes due to recreation of web server configuration files for all sites. (PPPM-896)
The following functionalities were improved:
The following issue was resolved:
[-] File manager could not open files for viewing if these files contained umlauts or symbols encoded in CP1251. (PPPM-942)
The following feature has been added:
[+] Backup signing. Panel signs backup files when they are downloaded or exported to external FTP repositories. The signature lets administrators distinguish trustworthy backups in the list of backups available for restoration. Learn more at http://kb.parallels.com/118188.
The following bug has been fixed:
[-] Panel did not display images in text widgets on websites that were reverted from a snapshot made on another domain. (142049, PPPM-992)
The following feature has been added:
[+] Backup signing. Panel signs backup files when they are downloaded or exported to external FTP repositories. The signature lets administrators distinguish trustworthy backups in the list of backups available for restoration. Learn more at http://kb.parallels.com/118188.
The following features have been added:
The following issues have been fixed:
[-] Panel did not apply automatic updates to the Migration & Transfer Manager in some cases.
[-] Administrators could not change the ASP.NET version on a subscription by means of the ‘subscription’ command-line utility. (PPPM-974)
[-] Administrators could not create subscriptions by means of the ‘subscription’ command-line utility if the webmail software was not installed on the server. (142956)
[-] The Postfix mail queue contained messages with the value “Not Found” in the “From” field. (PPPM-968)
The following issues have been fixed:
[-] During migration from Plesk 9.5.4, the content of subdomain virtual hosts was not restored if the destination server had no DNS server installed. (PPPM-918)
[-] Panel displayed update notifications with incorrect layout. (PUI-4)
[-] (Linux) Panel users saw an error when they clicked the Refresh Usage Stats link. (143012)
[-] (Windows) Panel did not send email notifications with warnings about subscription expiration.(PPPM-12)
[-] (Linux) Panel did not suspend subscriptions on their expiration dates.(PPPM-946)
The following features have been added:
The following issues have been fixed:
[-] Security improvements.
Important: Regular updates of Parallels Plesk Panel and third-party components guarantee that your server stays secure against malicious attacks
[-] (Linux only) Panel sent notifications about installed updates even if the updates were not installed. (142630)
[-] (Linux only) Panel used wrong IP address of Point-to-Point network interface. (141410, 143114)
[-] Horde stored mail attachments on the file system for 6 months instead of attaching them to emails. Horde feature “Link attachments” was switched off. (143316)
[-] (Windows only) Panel showed warnings while backing up domains with Punycode. (142611)
[-] (Linux only) Panel did not send the “Subscription expiration warning” notifications. (142823)
[-] (Linux only) Panel hung while backing up a domain had a lot of files without the reading permission for the domain owner’s system user. (142456)
[-] (Windows only) Panel did not back up server settings if the Panel database was stored in MSSQL (142694)
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