Ike.ninja

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.

The first beta of the 3.8 is now available, and the next dates to watch out for are code freeze on December 5th and a final release on December 12th.

3.8 brings together several of the features as plugins projects and while this isn’t our first rodeo, expect this to be more beta than usual. The headline things to test out in this release are:

• The new admin design, especially the responsive aspect of it. Try it out on different devices and browsers, see how it goes, especially the more complex pages like widgets or seldom-looked-at-places like Press This. Color schemes, which you can change on your profile, have also been spruced up.
• The dashboard homepage has been refreshed, poke and prod it.
• Choosing themes under Appearance is completely different, try to break it however possible.
• There’s a new default theme, Twenty Fourteen.
• Over 250 issues closed already.

Given how many things in the admin have changed it’s extra super duper important to test as many plugins and themes with admin pages against the new stuff. Also if you’re a developer consider how you can make your admin interface fit the MP6 aesthetic better.

As always, if you think you’ve found a bug, you can post to the Alpha/Beta area in the support forums. Or, if you’re comfortable writing a reproducible bug report, file one on the WordPress Trac. There, you can also find a list of known bugs and everything we’ve fixed so far.

Alphabet soup of
Plugins as features galore
The future is here

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