What’s Changed
[+] Service nodes can be deployed on CloudLinux.
[+] A new utility, called sync_resource_usage, is available for synchronizing information about resource usage between the Server Administration Panel and Hosting Panel.
[+] The hostname utility can update the host names of service nodes in PPA.
[+] During migration from Plesk or Plesk Expand to PPA 11.5, providers can keep their existing SmarterMail servers and connect them to PPA as service nodes.
[*] Migration of a large number of sites now takes less time.
[*] The stability of the migration tool was improved.
[*] The algorithm of service node selection for hosting Microsoft SQL Server databases was improved.
[*] Localization was updated for the following languages: German, Spanish, French, Japanese, Italian, Russian, Chinese simplified, and Chinese traditional.
[*] The calculation of hosted domains for licensing purposes was improved: now only physically hosted sites are counted.
[-] In some cases, the screens of Hosting Panel were not shown in full in Internet Explorer. (PPA-159)
[-] Dr.Web license keys could not be renewed automatically. (PPA-474)
[-] Users could not back up their subscriptions. Scheduled backups also did not work. (PPA-753)
[-] The daily maintenance task stalled during the calculation of disk space usage statistics. (PPA-805)
[-] Migration from Plesk 8 to PPA failed with the error “Error: Table ‘psa.horde.turba_objects’ doesn’t exist”. (PPA-822)
[-] Changing resource limits on a subscription could cause undesirable changes to website hosting settings. (PPA-13)
[-] FTP users could not be restored from backups created on IIS service nodes. (PPA-36)
[-] Users could not see log files for add-on domains in the Hosting Panel. (PPA-501)
[-] Administrators could not manage Microsoft SQL Server databases through Infrastructure > Database Servers > DB Webadmin. Wrong database administration tool was opened.(PPA-594)
[-] Domain forwarding configured by customers on webspaces could be reset to web hosting service after administrators or resellers changed the resource limits in the corresponding service template. (PPA-636)
[-] After upgrading from PPA 11.1 to 11.5, custom ProFTPD configurations were discarded and the operation of FTP server was disrupted. (PPA-646)
[-] Terminated license keys for Dr.Web could not be unassigned from service nodes. (PPA-724)
[-] Enabling of Apache service on PPA backup nodes could disrupt the operation of ProFTPD. (PPA-795)
[-] Webspace provisioning failed on Windows nodes with the error “SIDClient error: Unable to release input thread stack”. (PPA-853)
[-] Migration from H-Sphere could fail if the migration tool was run with the “set-dns-forwarding” option. (PPA-790)
[-] Migration from H-Sphere could fail if the SSH key access was used and the H-Sphere node was missing from the list of known hosts. (PPA-777)
[-] Users could not migrate from Plesk for Windows to PPA 11.5 if the destination service node in PPA was running Windows 2012 R2 with German locale. (PPA-751)
[-] Users could not migrate to PPA 11.5 if PPA used an external Microsoft SQL Server (which was added through Infrastructure > Database Servers). (PPA-771)
[-] Users could not transfer the contents of databases from H-Sphere to PPA if the administrator’s password for the destination MySQL server contained a bracket symbol ({). (PPA-774)
[-] Users could not upgrade the migration tool by using the command installer.sh –upgrade. (PPA-749)
[-] During migration from H-Sphere, user names were incorrectly transferred to PPA. (PPA-814)
[-] The migration tool showed error messages while migrating suspended subscriptions in multiple-webspace mode (“transfer-domains-to-subscription: same” in config.ini). (PPA-779)
[-] Migration from Expand installations with centralized mail could produce warning messages about duplicate domain administrator roles. (PPA-848)
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2/10/2014 Houston, TX – cPanel, Inc. has released EasyApache 3.24. This version removes Apache 1.3/2.0, PHP 5.2, and mod_frontpage. As mentioned in Introducing EasyApache’s Optimal Profiles, these End of Life (EOL) items are no longer available in EasyApache. These items have been removed for the following reasons: They are no …
1/30/2014 Houston, TX – cPanel, Inc. tentatively plans to release EasyApache 3.24 in the very near future. This version will include the removal of Apache 1.3/2.0, PHP 5.2, and mod_frontpage. As mentioned in Introducing EasyApache’s Optimal Profiles, these End of Life items will no longer be available in EasyApache. These …
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.
[*]Security improvements.
The following issues were resolved:
[-](Linux only) Virtual host templates stopped working after installation of Plesk 11.0.9 Update #57 (141716)
[-]Websites could not be opened in the Presence Builder editor if they used the Commenting module and the corresponding Disqus accounts were inaccessible. (117507)
[-](Linux only) Plesk API incorrectly reported about removed packages. (126317)
[-](Linux only) Execution of statistics calculation for a single domain resulted in the deletion of FTP log records for other domains.(122407)
[*] Improved the Objects To Transfer page for transfers from legacy products such as Ensim or Confixx. (139559)
[*] Security improvements. (140735)
The following issues have been fixed:
[-] (Linux only) Panel displayed confusing error messages when restoring backups created by Panel 9.5.4. (69420)
[-] After upgrading from Plesk 8.x or 9.x, mail users of a customer’s subscription could access other subscriptions of the same customer. (72902)
[-] Panel sent summary reports (Home > Tools & Settings > Summary Report) by email in plain text although they were supposed to be HTML pages. (139652)
[-] Administrators could not include domain names in the files of the default virtual host template using the @domain_name@ variable. (140092)
[-] (Linux only) Administrators could not create more user accounts after a successful creation of a large number of accounts (over 3000) because the allowed memory size was exhausted. (140167)
[-] Panel failed to save personal FTP repository settings if users specified a Directory for backup files storage that starts with ‘/’. (140209)
[-] Resellers could set resource limits of their customer’s subscriptions so that these limits would exceed the limits of resources available to the resellers. (140389)
[-] Customers could change their Preferred domain even if they did not have the Domain management permission. (140480)
[-] (Linux only) When administrator ran vzpkg update on a Parallels Virtuozzo Container with Panel, the following error occurred: “Dependencies cannot be resolved”. (140610)
[-] (Linux only) Users could not delete wildcard subdomains with mail service switched on. (138504)
[-] (Linux only) Panel failed to update and upgrade if PHP from the Webtatic repository was installed on the server. (138635)
[-] Panel did not warn users that all website content will be removed when they switched their domains’ hosting type from Website hosting to Forwarding or No web hosting. (140731)
[-] Security improvements. (140797)
[-] (Linux only) The statistics utility failed to calculate statistics for additional domains and subdomains. (140746)
[-] (Linux only) Administrators could not retrieve additional Parallels Premium Antivirus license keys through the Panel GUI. (140803)
[-] (Linux only) Customers could not set the value of the max_execution_time PHP setting to 0. The following error occurred: “Template_Exception: Syntax error on line 64 of /etc/apache2/plesk.conf.d/vhosts/.conf: FcgidIOTimeout must be greater than 0”. (140849)
[-] (Windows only) Administrators were unable to create domains with international domain names by means of API RPC or command line utilities if the Panel mail server supported ‘mbox_quota’ or ‘total_mboxes_quota’ limits (for example, the IceWarp Merak mail server). (71958)
[-] (Windows only) Panel failed to migrate data from Plesk 8.x or 9.x if Apache was running on the source server. (91307)
[-] (Windows only) Panel incorrectly transferred DNS SRV records when transferring domains from Panel 10.4.4. (139162)
[-] (Windows only) Administrators could not switch on the option Always assign one application pool to each subscription on the Tools & Settings > IIS Application Pool > Global Settings page if there was at least one subscription with the Forwarding hosting type on the server. (140363)
[-] (Windows only) Panel failed to restore system users from backups if the users’ passwords contained the symbol ” (double quote). (140394)
[-] (Windows only) Additional administrators could not add mass email templates. Panel raised the error “500 – Internal server error. There is a problem with the resource you are looking for, and it cannot be displayed.” (140478)
[-] (Windows only) When transferring data from another server, Panel failed to transfer mail content of mailboxes that had subfolders within the Inbox folder. (140616)
[-] (Windows only) The utility web_statistics_executor.exe stopped generating web statistics for all domains if an error occurred while processing a domain. (140717)
[-] (Windows only) Panel failed to migrate FTP accounts created for subdomains from Plesk 9.5. The following error occurred: “Unable to create FTP account: There are no available resources of this type (additional FTP accounts) left. Requested: 1; available: 0.” (140725)
(Jan 13) It has been discovered that in ProFTPd, an FTP server, an attacker on the same physical host as the server may be able to perform a symlink attack allowing to elevate privileges in some configurations. [More…]
The following new functionality has been added:
[+] Optional ability to restrict main FTP username changes has been added.
The following bug has been fixed:
[-] (Windows only) File download from File Manager hangs due to improper Content-Length value (116222)
[-] (Windows only) Problem with backup MySQL databases. Error like Could not load file or assembly ‘psaobsolete, Version=11.0.4720.35696, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null’ or one of its dependencies. (125940)
The following new functionality has been added:
[+] Windows 2012 server support has been added
[+] MailEnable upgraded to version 6.5.7
[+] Microsoft Azure support has been added. Learn more here http://kb.parallels.com/114648
[+] (Linux only) Administrators can prevent sending spam from their servers with Parallels Premium Outbound Antispam – a solution that analyzes outgoing mail in real time and blocks messages containing spam or viruses. Learn more here.
The following bugs have been fixed:
[-] (Linux only) Content of subdomains that have separate FTP account is owned by Apache web server user after migartion.
(Dec 9) This update contains the latest stable release of Apache httpd. Three security
fixes are included, along with several minor bug fixes. A flaw was found in
the way the TLS/SSL (Transport Layer Security/Secure Sockets Layer) protocols
handle session renegotiation. A man-in-the-middle attacker could use this flaw
to prefix arbitrary plain text to a client’s session (for example, an HTTPS
connection to a website). This could force the server to process an attacker’s
request as if authenticated using the victim’s credentials. This update
partially mitigates this flaw for SSL sessions to HTTP servers using mod_ssl by
rejecting client-requested renegotiation. (CVE-2009-3555) Note: This update
does not fully resolve the issue for HTTPS servers. An attack is still possible
in configurations that require a server-initiated renegotiation A NULL
pointer dereference flaw was found in the Apache mod_proxy_ftp module. A
malicious FTP server to which requests are being proxied could use this flaw to
crash an httpd child process via a malformed reply to the EPSV or PASV commands,
resulting in a limited denial of service. (CVE-2009-3094) A second flaw was
found in the Apache mod_proxy_ftp module. In a reverse proxy configuration, a
remote attacker could use this flaw to bypass intended access restrictions by
creating a carefully-crafted HTTP Authorization header, allowing the attacker to
send arbitrary commands to the FTP server. (CVE-2009-3095) See the upstream
changes file for further information:
http://www.apache.org/dist/httpd/CHANGES_2.2.14
The following bug have been fixed:
[-] APS application installation hangs on (101821)
[-] Backup file is not transferred to the FTP repository (102253)
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New syntax is:
plesk_password_changer.php <old admin password> [new admin password] [options]
Where [options] can be:
–all – [default] reset passwords for all supported entities
–admin – reset password for admin
–resellers – reset passwords for resellers
–clients – reset passwords for clients
–domains – reset passwords for main FTP account of domains
–domainadmins – reset passwords for Domain Administrators
–users – change passwords for hosting panel users
–additionalftpaccounts – reset passwords for additional FTP accounts for domains
–subdomains – reset passwords for subdomains. NOTE: For Plesk 10.x subdomains treated as domains.
–webusers – reset passwords for Web Users
–mailaccounts – reset passwords for mail accounts
For example, next command
"%plesk_dir%additionalPleskPHP5php.exe" -d safe_mode=0 plesk_password_changer.php setup s3$ret! --admin --clients
means that passwords for admin and clients will be reset, password for admin will be "s3$ret!" (without quotes)
Plesk Service Team is pleased to announce Plesk Server Backup Script.
Main goal of the script is to reduce disk space usage and memory consumption on backing up procedures, especially backing up to FTP repository.
Please check KB http://kb.parallels.com/en/113252 and feel free to discuss Plesk Server Backup Script in special thread on Parallels Forum.
[+] Added possibility to hide advertisement in Plesk Panel. More details in article How to hide promos in Parallels Plesk Panel?
The following bugs have been fixed:
[-] (Windows only) Backups fails on dumping tomcat for sites
[-] (Linux only) Cannot change php safe_mode status via panel if FastCGI mode is used
[-] Domain alias zone is synced with main domain, even if DNS zone sync is disabled
[-] Domain disk space statistics is not displayed if amount exceeds 2Gb on 32-bit systems
[-] (Windows only) Hosting settings cannot be changed if FrontPage is enabled on a domain
[-] Migration from FreeBSD fails because of ‘df’ illegal option
[-] Backup files rotation o FTP repository fails in some cases.
[-] Listing of files in backup FTP repository fails in some cases.
[-] (Windows only) There is able to override system user home path at creating new additional FTP account
[+] Added possibility to hide advertisement in Plesk Panel. More details in article How to hide promos in Parallels Plesk Panel?
The following bugs have been fixed:
[-] (Windows only) Backups fails on dumping tomcat for sites
[-] (Linux only) Cannot change php safe_mode status via panel if FastCGI mode is used
[-] Domain alias zone is synced with main domain, even if DNS zone sync is disabled
[-] Domain disk space statistics is not displayed if amount exceeds 2Gb on 32-bit systems
[-] (Windows only) Hosting settings cannot be changed if FrontPage is enabled on a domain
[-] Migration from FreeBSD fails because of ‘df’ illegal option
[-] Backup files rotation o FTP repository fails in some cases.
[-] Listing of files in backup FTP repository fails in some cases.
[-] (Windows only) There is able to override system user home path at creating new additional FTP account
The following issues were fixed:
[-] (Linux only) Unable to send mail messages to yahoo.com if Qmail mail server used
[-] (Linux only) Watchdog fails with segfault on checking Courier-IMAP status
[-] (Windows only) Backup file is not transferred to the FTP repository by timeout
The following issues were fixed:
[-] (Linux only) Unable to send mail messages to yahoo.com if Qmail mail server used
[-] (Linux only) Watchdog fails with segfault on checking Courier-IMAP status
[-] (Windows only) Backup file is not transferred to the FTP repository by timeout
Plesk Panel 10.1.1 MU#12 – Product functional fixes – is available since Mar 10, 2011 through the Autoinstaller.
The update delivers next bug fixes:
[-] phpMyAdmin works incorrectly on Plesk for Windows with MSSQL selected as a Panel DB provider
[-] At changing password via Horde’s GUI it doesn’t synchronized with plesk’s user
[-] System user(FTP user) name on Plesk for Windows account cannot contains dots
[-] Unable to change password via Horde’s GUI
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.
Parallels Plesk Panel 9.5 is now available for downloads on Parallels PartnerNet.
http://www.parallels.com/partnernet/rtmdownloads/panel/
http://www.parallels.com/products/plesk95/
Changelog
1. [+] PCI Compliance: Parallels Plesk Panel can be made compliant with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard. This can be achieved by running a special PCI compliance resolver utility and additional tuning of system components, as described in the document Achieving PCI Compliance for Servers Managed by Parallels Plesk Panel 9.5. The document is available at http://www.parallels.com/products/plesk/docs/parallels-plesk-panel-9.5-pci-compliance/index.htm.
2. [+] Compatibility with Microsoft Internet Explorer 8: Parallels Plesk Panel is now compatible with Microsoft Internet Explorer 8.
3. [+] CloudLinux support: Parallels Plesk Panel can now work under CloudLinux operating system.
4. [+] Google Services for Websites support (beta): Parallels Plesk Panel 9.5 can now be easily integrated with Google Services for Websites. To learn more, refer to Parallels Plesk Panel 9.5 Administrator’s Guide at http://download1.parallels.com/Plesk/PPP9/Doc/en-US/plesk-9.5-administrators-guide/64635.htm.
5. [+] More virtualization solutions supported: Parallels Plesk Panel 9.5 can operate in virtual environments created by the following virtualization solutions: Parallels Virtuozzo Containers, Microsoft Hyper-V, Xen, and VMWare. There are special licensing options for Parallels Panel software operating inside virtual environments. For more information about licensing options, contact your vendor or call Parallels sales team. The phone numbers are listed at http://www.parallels.com/contact/.
6. [+] Upgraded components: phpMyAdmin to the version 2.9.11, and Horde Application Framework to the version 3.3.6.
7. [-] SpamAssassin spam filter incorrectly classified most of the messages delivered in the year 2010 as spam – issue resolved.
8. [-] Horde webmail did not open properly in Internet Explorer 8 – issue resolved.
9. [-] Cross-site scripting vulnerability was eliminated.
10. [-] A number of security issues were identified that could allow an unauthenticated remote attacker to compromise your system and gain control over it – these issues were resolved.
11. [-] Migration failed if the /tmp file system was full – issue resolved. Now you can specify any other location for the temporary directory.
Linux/Unix-specific
12. [-] Migration of websites from Plesk Control Panel 7.5.4 to Parallels Plesk Panel 9.2.1 failed if the SpamAssassin spam filter was configured to remove spam e-mail – issue resolved.
13. [-] ProFTPD 1.3.1 was prone to a security vulnerability that allowed attackers to perform cross-site request forgery types of attacks – to resolve this issue, ProFTPD was upgraded to the version 1.3.2e.
14. [-] If temporary directory on the server was full, FTP network error occurred on attempt to move a file from an FTP storage to the server repository – issue resolved.
15. [-] If, in Parallels Plesk Panel, there is a domain with the same name as server’s hostname, then a message sent to postmaster@$HOSTNAME is bounced back – issue resolved.
16. [-] During upgrade, the default client and domain template values were reset – issue resolved.
17. [-] Plesk 8.x key was not updated automatically to 9.x during product upgrade – issue resolved.
18. [-] After upgrade, var/qmail/control/me file contained only the hostname – issue resolved.
19. [-] Scheduled security scanning by Watchdog (System Monitoring) Module could not start – issue resolved.
20. [-] Postfix mail server occasionally failed to deliver some e-mail messages with the “Unprocessed command” errors – issue resolved.
21. [-] After upgrading Parallels Plesk Panel from versions 8.x to 9.x, scheduled backups could stop working – issue resolved.
22. [-] Web statistics were not calculated properly when the piped logs feature was switched on – issue resolved.
23. [-] The Watchdog (System Monitoring) Module showed security warnings (false positives) due to incorrect default configuration – issue resolved.
24. [+] Upgraded components: IceWarp (Merak) Mail Server to the version 10, Bind DNS server to the version 9.4.3-P4, PHP to the version 5.2.13
25. [+] It is now possible to specify an arbitrary temporary folder as a command-line parameter of the backup tool.
26. [*] Operation of Plesksrv.exe component was stabilized.
27. [-] Standard Parallels Plesk Panel configuration allowed to view extra information (read webmail folder) – issue resolved.
28. [-] If temporary directory on the server was full, FTP network error occurred on attempt to move a file from an FTP storage to the server repository – issue resolved.
29. [-] Parallels Plesk Panel hanged on attempt to remove domains with several mailboxes – issue resolved.
30. [-] Parallels Plesk Panel failed to install the DotNetNuke application on websites – issue resolved.
Plesk Migration Manager 1.13 for Plesk 8.4 for Windows is released.
This version includes the following features:
– remote migration agent for Helm 3.1.x, Helm 3.2.x, Helm 4
– remote migration agent for Ensim 3.6, Ensim 4.0, Ensim 5.0, Ensim 10.x,
– remote migration agent for IIS 5, IIS 6,
– E-Mail content migration agent,
– User Databases and ODBC Data Sources migration agent,
– DNS Settings migration agent,
– FTP content migration agent,
– remote migration agent from one Plesk for Windows installation to another,
– remote migration agent for Plesk for Unix version 2.5.x, 5.x, 6.x, 7.1-8.4,
– remote migration agent for cPanel 9, 10, 11,
– remote migration agent for Ensim Pro for Linux.
The new feature is:
1. Migration to Plesk 8.4 for Windows.
PMM MSI:
http://download1.parallels.com/Plesk/Plesk8.4/Windows/PMM/080514.12/pmm84_build080514.12.msi
http://download1.parallels.com/Plesk/Plesk8.4/Windows/PMM/080514.12/pmm_agent_build080514.12.msi
Release notes:
http://download1.parallels.com/Plesk/Plesk8.4/Windows/PMM/080514.12/pmm_build080514.12.htm
PMM Guides:
http://download1.parallels.com/Plesk/Plesk8.4/Windows/PMM/080514.12/plesk-win-pmm-guide.pdf
http://download1.parallels.com/Plesk/Plesk8.4/Windows/PMM/080514.12/plesk-win-pmm-guide.zip
http://download1.parallels.com/Plesk/Plesk8.4/Windows/PMM/080514.12/plesk-win-pmm-guide/index.htm
Parallels Plesk Migration Manager 1.12 for Windows is available:
http://www.parallels.com/en/download/plesk/utilities/
http://www.parallels.com/en/products/plesk/docs/
What’s New
1. [+] Migration to Plesk 8.3
2. [+] Remote migration agent for Helm 4
3. [+] Remote migration agent for Ensim Pro for Linux
4. [+] Remote migration agent for cPanel 11
5. [+] FTP content Migration
Release Notes
http://download1.swsoft.com/Plesk/Plesk8.3/Windows/PMM/080211.17/pmm_build080211.17.htm