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The following issues have been fixed:
[-] (Linux only) Customers could receive the “Mail Not Delivered” messages even if their email was delivered successfully. (119925)
[-] (Linux only) The virus definitions of Parallels Premium Antivirus by Dr. Web were not updated if the default trial license key was used. (139833)
[-] (Linux only) After Panel was upgraded from version 11.0, PHP scripts could no longer be processed by nginx if SELinux was turned on. The following error was recorded in /var/log/php-fpm/error.log: “php-fpm.sock failed (13: Permission denied)”. (140941) [-] (Linux only) In some cases, Panel did not validate DNS record conflicts if CNAME records were manually modified. The DNS server failed to start. (141147)
[-] (Linux only) The RoundCube webmail was not working due to various errors (PHP errors, memory exhaustion, and so on) if certain classes or functions such as ini_get were disabled in the server-wide php.ini file. (141201)
[-] (Linux only) After upgrading Plesk from version 9.5, customers could no longer back up domains that had subdomains. The following error occurred: “Cannot savedir: Permission denied”. (141214)
[-] (Linux only) The subscription command-line utility could not change the PHP handler for websites. (141238)
[-] (Linux only) Subscriptions could not be synchronized with a service plan if the plan was created using command-line utilities and access to shell was not allowed or was set to chroot. (141254)
[-] (Linux only) The allow and deny access directives of Apache .htaccess worked incorrectly if a reverse proxy in nginx was enabled. (141265)
[-] (Linux only) If Panel was installed without updates, and updates were installed afterwards, email messages could not be sent. The following error occurred: “Warning: the Postfix sendmail command must be installed without set-uid root file permissions”. (141283)
[-] (Linux only) Administrators were unable to turn off the nginx reverse proxy. The following error occurred: “Service /etc/init.d/nginx failed to stop”. (141297)
[-] (Linux only) Customers could not disable DomainKeys email signing on domains after it had been enabled. (141316)
[-] The help page of the dns command-line utility was not localized. (141368)
[-] The help page of the server_dns command-line utility contained errors. (141374)
[-] Backing up to external FTP repositories did not work properly. (141100 and 141338)
[-] Updating of reseller service plans via API-RPC could result in the following error: “PHP Fatal error: Call to undefined method”. (141439)
[-] After upgrading from Plesk 9 it was impossible to remove email accounts with mail forwarding. The following error occurred: “PHP Fatal error: Call to undefined method”. (141453)
[-] Customers could use webmail on their domains even if the domains were suspended. (84187)
[-] (Linux only) Qmail did not accept email messages sent to mailing lists on domain aliases. The following error occurred: “550 sorry, no mailbox here by that name. (#5.7.17)”. (107619)
[-] (Linux only) Panel failed to migrate the Mailman data and settings if the default locale of the source server was German. (133147)
[-] Panel failed to migrate mail relay settings from Plesk 9.x with the error “Unable to set relaying type”. (140277)
[-] (Linux only) Panel failed to migrate databases that use latin-1 character set. In the migrated databases, non-ASCII characters were replaced with question marks. (141027)
[-] Panel did not pass database user passwords to event handlers. (141261)
[-] (Linux only) When administrators executed the statistics utility for a single domain, Panel removed FTP log records for other domains. (141378)
[-] Email notifications about resource overuse that were sent on behalf of the administrator contained wrong sender email addresses. (141380)
[-] Administrators had to complete the post-install configuration of Panel before they could use the server_dns command-line utility. (141502)
[-] Security improvements. (141537)
[-] (Linux only) Kaspersky Antivirus could not be switched on via the API-RPC. (141491)
[-] (Linux only) Message submission did not work after installing updates on Panel 11.5.30. (141740)
[-] (Windows only) Domains could not be migrated from Plesk 9 if mail accounts on source servers had a password containing a quotation mark (“) (141054)
[-] (Windows only) AWStats statistics processed log files very slowly because of excessive DNS lookups. (137500)
[-] (Windows only) IP addresses that were no longer used could not be removed from the server IP pool. The following error occurred: “The IP address x.x.x.x is already used for hosting”. (141139)
[-] (Windows only) Panel did not include some DNS records from the server-wide DNS template into DNS zones of newly created domains. (132577)
[-] (Windows only) Users were unable to log in to Control Panel from Customer & Business Manager by clicking Business Operations > Subscriptions > <subscription name> > Log In. They encountered the following error: “Internal error: SQLSTATE[42S22]: Column not found: 1054 Unknown column ‘externalId’ in ‘where clause’.” (141454)
[-] (Windows only) Users were unable to import database backups through phpMyAdmin. (141524)
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The following new feature has been implemented:
[+] Migration from H-Sphere. New tools were added for providers willing to migrate from H-Sphere for UNIX to PPA.
[*] The functionality of the check_service_node utility was extended.
[*] PPA documentation was updated. Now it explains how to configure mail submission, hard disk quota, and includes other changes.
The following bugs have been fixed:
[-] During migration from Plesk to PPA, mail account settings were not restored for accounts that had large mailbox sizes.
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The following new functionality has been added:
[+] (Windows only) BIND has been updated to version 9.9.2-P2
[+] Behaviour of Event Handlers is changed. Since this microupdate Plesk will expose plain passwords for event handlers independent on security mode.
The following bug has been fixed:
[-] Plesk could not be updated on Centos 6 if package perl-Digest-SHA is installed (134272)
[-] PHP settings can’t be set via API-RPC (124552
[-] Impossible to delete DNS record via API-RPC in case of 400 domains on the server
[-] (Windows only) Temporary statistics files are not deleting from C:Recycler (128399)
(Mar 30) Matthew Horsfall of Dyn, Inc. discovered that BIND, a DNS server, is prone to a denial of service vulnerability. A remote attacker could use this flaw to send a specially-crafted DNS query to named that, when processed, would cause named to use an excessive amount of memory, or [More…]
The following new features have been implemented:
[+] Moving of services between Apache and MySQL service nodes (126520)
[+] DNS template management. Administrators can customize the structure of the DNS template (126593)
[+] Spam filter settings management. Administrators can manage the settings of SpamAssassin spam filter (126593)
[+] Application settings management. Administrators can manage the settings of applications (126593)
[+] When tasks, such as creating user accounts, may take much time to complete, administrators are now informed about it and are advised to check with Task Manager (126614)
[+] Administrators can now remove additional license keys through License Manager (106929)
The following bugs have been fixed:
[-] Administrators could not remove customer accounts. The following error occurred: “Internal error: HTTP request to SSO server failed” (126308)
[-] PPA could not automatically upgrade license keys for Plesk for Windows (128324)
[-] Auto-reply messages could not be shown by mail clients due to incorrectly specified MIME type (128144)
[-] Corrupted firewall rules prevented administrators from attaching service nodes to the management node (128333)
[-] PPA did not properly terminate user sessions after users logged out of Panel (128069)
[-] On attempting to connect SmarterMail nodes, administrators encountered the following error: “Unknown hosting object type: ‘subscription_apsmail’:” (127802)
[-] Statistics collection scripts could not properly determine the usage of mailboxes on SmarterMail nodes (128173)
[-] Administrators could not allocate dedicated IP addresses for web hosting inside Parallels Virtuozzo Containers (126452)
[-] A daily maintenance task was started twice a day (128204)
[-] Apache could not pick up custom configurations from the vhost.conf files (128216)
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The following bug has been fixed:
[-] Invalid master DNS server record with IP address of Plesk server migrate from Plesk version less than 10.2
[-] Messages “Timeout occurred during mysql query” and “MySQL server has gone away” from MySQL server are marked as critical migration errors.
[-] Simultaneously update the configuration of domains leads to errors in the generation of configuration files of webserver
[-] Using nginx breaks getting the static content on domain’s webmail virtual host if default domain for IP address is enabled
(Oct 26) It was discovered that Exim, a mail transport agent, is not properly handling the decoding of DNS records for DKIM. Specifically, crafted records can yield to a heap-based buffer overflow. An attacker can exploit this flaw to execute arbitrary code. [More…]
(Oct 20) It was discovered that BIND, a DNS server, hangs while constructing the additional section of a DNS reply, when certain combinations of resource records are present. This vulnerability affects both recursive and authoritative servers. [More…]
(Sep 12) It was discovered that BIND, a DNS server, does not handle DNS records properly which approach size limits inherent to the DNS protocol. An attacker could use crafted DNS records to crash the BIND server process, leading to a denial of service. [More…]
(Jul 30) Einar Lonn discovered that under certain conditions bind9, a DNS server, may use cached data before initialization. As a result, an attacker can trigger and assertion failure on servers under high query load that do DNSSEC validation. [More…]
(Jul 19) Marek Vavruša and Lubos Slovak discovered that NSD, an authoritative domain name server, is not properly handling non-standard DNS packets. his can result in a NULL pointer dereference and crash the handling process. A remote attacker can abuse this flaw to perform denial of [More…]
[-] Plesk Mobile Manager can’t connect to Plesk with Authorization error
[-] Errors in Russian localization of Web presence builder
[-] After switch to subdomains parent DNS zone mode update of DNS zone of domain having as subdomain as domain alias will fail.
[-] Errors "The file you are trying to upload is not a valid backup file" at restoring backup
[-] If Plesk initialized with ‘-admin_info_not_required true’, then it is impossible to update admin’s info from control panel
[-] Migration.result isn’t downloaded at first attempt via HTTPS transport
[-] Wrong owners for files and directories in /etc/sw/keys/ after installation
Added ability to select the DNS zone mode for the subdomains. Now subdomains can have its own DNS zone or use DNS zone of parent domain.
Following bugs have been fixed:
(Linux only) psa-pc-remote process overloads the CPU
(Linux only) Changes in DrWeb configuration which define operation with errors during scanning messages
Added ability to select the DNS zone mode for the subdomains. Now subdomains can have its own DNS zone or use DNS zone of parent domain.
Following bugs have been fixed:
(Linux only) psa-pc-remote process overloads the CPU
(Linux only) Changes in DrWeb configuration which define operation with errors during scanning messages
Following items have been improved:
[*] "Russian", "Dutch", "Japanese", "Chinese (China)", "Chinese (Taiwan)" locales have been updated.
[*] (Windows only) Has been improved diagnosis of backup/migrate errors when file ICSharpCode.SharpZipLib.dll is absent.
[*] (Windows only) Has been improved diagnosis of backup/migrate errors when file mscorwks.dll is absent.
Following bugs have been fixed:
[-] (Linux only) Added support of authorization method CRAM-MD5 for Courier-IMAP. Added possibility to disable PLAIN authorization method with command /usr/local/psa/admin/bin/pci_compliance_resolver –enable courier
[-] (Linux only) AWstats hangs during statistics calculation in daily maintenance script when you have more than 500 domains.
[-] /var/www/vhosts/skeleton.dom/conf/ directory has been ignored during new domains creation.
[-] (Windows only) Creation of domains and subdomains has been blocked if total amounts of domains and subdomains exceeds limit of Plesk license key.
[-] Glue records are not created in domain’s DNS zone for subdomain’s zone NS.
[-] Infinite redirection loop when you attempts to browse suspended subscription.
[-] (Windows only) DNS zones for new domains have not been created after upgrade to Parallels Plesk Panel 10.4.4.
[-] (Linux only) psa-pc-remote process overloads the CPU
[-] (Linux only) Sending emails from Apple mail clients (Mac/iPhone) doesn’t work for Qmail MTA.
[-] Serial number in the SOA record for the domain is not changed on subdomain creation.
[-] (Linux only) statistics_collector hangs forever trying to write "someuser: cannot find domain for user" to a pipe.
[-] (Linux only) Weekly maintenance script failed with exception from quotacheck_wrapper.sh
Following items have been improved:
[*] "Russian", "Dutch", "Japanese", "Chinese (China)", "Chinese (Taiwan)" locales have been updated.
[*] (Windows only) Has been improved diagnosis of backup/migrate errors when file ICSharpCode.SharpZipLib.dll is absent.
[*] (Windows only) Has been improved diagnosis of backup/migrate errors when file mscorwks.dll is absent.
Following bugs have been fixed:
[-] (Linux only) Added support of authorization method CRAM-MD5 for Courier-IMAP. Added possibility to disable PLAIN authorization method with command /usr/local/psa/admin/bin/pci_compliance_resolver –enable courier
[-] (Linux only) AWstats hangs during statistics calculation in daily maintenance script when you have more than 500 domains.
[-] /var/www/vhosts/skeleton.dom/conf/ directory has been ignored during new domains creation.
[-] (Windows only) Creation of domains and subdomains has been blocked if total amounts of domains and subdomains exceeds limit of Plesk license key.
[-] Glue records are not created in domain’s DNS zone for subdomain’s zone NS.
[-] Infinite redirection loop when you attempts to browse suspended subscription.
[-] (Windows only) DNS zones for new domains have not been created after upgrade to Parallels Plesk Panel 10.4.4.
[-] (Linux only) psa-pc-remote process overloads the CPU
[-] (Linux only) Sending emails from Apple mail clients (Mac/iPhone) doesn’t work for Qmail MTA.
[-] Serial number in the SOA record for the domain is not changed on subdomain creation.
[-] (Linux only) statistics_collector hangs forever trying to write "someuser: cannot find domain for user" to a pipe.
[-] (Linux only) Weekly maintenance script failed with exception from quotacheck_wrapper.sh
[-] (Linux) Unable to delete domain without DNS zone recorded in Plesk Panel database
[-] Virtual host directory is not getting removed during hosting type switch onto Standard Forwarding
[-] (Windows only) The backup of ASP controller database, AtMail and Horde webmail applications is not created during Plesk panel upgrade
[-] Fixed error which occurs when you enable DNS for domain where custom DNS server is specified for NS record.
[-] Fixed error which is related to compatibility of Horde and PHP 5.3.
[-] Fixed error which is caused by IP addresses conflict during migration domains with aliases. More details in article Migration of domains fails with IP conflict.
[-] (Only for Linux) Fixed error when file permissions have changed to 0644 after editing file in File Manager.
[-] (Only for Windows) Fixed error at copying of several folders simultaneously in File Manager.
[-] Fixed error which occurs when you add subnet to white/black list of mailserver.
[-] Fixed error LOGIN_APPx000592 when you go to Accounting -> Accounts Receivable Adding Report in Parallels Customer & Business Manager.
[-] Fixed authorization error for Apple Mail Clients.
[-] Fixed error which occurs when you enable DNS for domain where custom DNS server is specified for NS record.
[-] Fixed error which is related to compatibility of Horde and PHP 5.3.
[-] Fixed error which is caused by IP addresses conflict during migration domains with aliases. More details in article Migration of domains fails with IP conflict.
[-] (Only for Linux) Fixed error when file permissions have changed to 0644 after editing file in File Manager.
[-] (Only for Windows) Fixed error at copying of several folders simultaneously in File Manager.
[-] Fixed error which occurs when you add subnet to white/black list of mailserver.
[-] Fixed error LOGIN_APPx000592 when you go to Accounting -> Accounts Receivable Adding Report in Parallels Customer & Business Manager.
[-] Fixed authorization error for Apple Mail Clients.
Next issues have been fixed:
[*] Plesk Updates page changed to use autoinstaller’s native GUI.
[-] Apache configuration file is not updated when a client changes SSL certificate.
[-] Applications shows as belong to other domains are displayed in ‘Full Report’ of domain.
[-] Client is able to add DNS record to server DNS template.
[-] CNAME record in DNS template is ignoring at domain creating.
[-] SPF doesn’t check TXT record of sender’s domain if SPF record is absent.
[-] PHP fatal error on web users page is some different conditions.
Next issues have been fixed:
[*] Plesk Updates page changed to use autoinstaller’s native GUI.
[-] Apache configuration file is not updated when a client changes SSL certificate.
[-] Applications shows as belong to other domains are displayed in ‘Full Report’ of domain.
[-] Client is able to add DNS record to server DNS template.
[-] CNAME record in DNS template is ignoring at domain creating.
[-] SPF doesn’t check TXT record of sender’s domain if SPF record is absent.
[-] PHP fatal error on web users page is some different conditions.
Parallels Plesk Panel 9.5.1 (Hosting Suite) is now available for downloads and installation through Autoinstaller.
http://www.parallels.com/products/plesk95/
Change log:
1. [+] Support for new hypervizor virtualization solutions: the Panel operates in environments created with KVM and Parallels Server 4 Bare Metal.
Unix-specific changelog
2. [+] SpamAssassin 3.3.1 support for Fedora 11.
3. [-] Backup task starts even if there is not enough disk space on the server bug is fixed. For details, see the Backup and Restore Utilities Administrator’s Guide available at http://download1.parallels.com/Plesk/PPP9/Doc/en-US/plesk-9.5-backup-cli-guide/index.htm?fileName=64885.htm.
4. [-] Backup scheduled to run weekly did not work bug is fixed.
5. [-] Scheduled backups are not created in FTP repository if the repository server works in FTP passive mode bug is fixed.
6. [-] Removing backup located in FTP repository failed with “FTP network error” bug is fixed.
7. [-] When setting up FTP backup repository, defining username like “” is impossible bug is fixed.
8. [-] The Panel resets permissions on folders inside the httpdocs and httpsdocs directories to “755” during migration bug is fixed.
9. [-] Migration hanging at 50% bug is fixed.
10. [-] User password was changed event handler is added.
11. [+] SpamAssassin 3.3.1 support – now the Panel distribution includes the latest version of the SpamAssassin anti-spam solution.
12. [-] The Panel claims that backing up failed when it actually succeeded, if a language other than English (United States) is installed bug is fixed.
13. [-] The A resource record in DNS zone of a domain with physical hosting always points at the IP address on which the domain is hosted, even if an IP address is explicitly set in DNS zone template bug is fixed.
14. [-] After upgrade to Plesk 9, domain templates with Web statistics set to be available via password-protected directory are not restored bug is fixed.
15. [-] Plesk 9 does not restore backup of domain that originates from Plesk 8 if the domain administrator permissions were modified bug is fixed.
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