What’s Changed
[*] PPA now calculates disk usage for SmarterMail domains and mailboxes.
[*] The checker of service nodes for compatibility with Plesk Automation (check_service_node) was significantly improved.
[*] Before a PPA upgrade/update, the following conditions are checked: YUM is installed and properly configured, YUM repositories are accessible on the management and service nodes.
[-] Users could not search by Active at the Service Templates screen. A system error occurred. (PPA-1521)
[-] Mailboxes with names in mixed case stopped working after upgrade from PPA 11.1 to 11.5. (PPA-1232)
[-] Users could not switch on auto-reply for mailboxes on domains that had domain aliases. (PPA-1313)
[-] Administrators could not create a subscription with support for mail services if the webmail node was uninstalled. (PPA-1346)
[-] After upgrading or updating to PPA 11.5.*, the default Plesk license appeared in the License Manager. (PPA-1428)
[-] After updating to PPA 11.5.5, administrators could not set the ‘Allow overuse of disk space and traffic’ activation parameter for a subscription. The parameter did not appear in the list of the subscription’s resources. (PPA-1456)
[-] DNS PTR records for a subscription were not removed on the subscription removal. (PPA-1476)
[-] Users could not use the webmail service if they were subscribed to Roundcube webmail. (PPA-1497)
[-] When users modified a DNS zone and removed both A and NS records, the DNS zone synchronization failed. The following error occurred: NS record “<domain>. NS ns.<domain>.” has no address records (A or AAAA). (PPA-1560)
[-] Users could see uninformative error messages while managing domain aliases. (PPA-168)
[-] Administrators could not remove subscriptions with support for database services if the database service node was registered with a backnet IP address. (PPA-533)
[-] Update from PPA 11.5.1 was taking too much time. (PPA-653)
[-] Administrators could not install a node with the mixed ‘Apache + Postfix + MySQL + PostgreSQL’ role, if a hyphen was used in the PostgreSQL administrator’s username. They were not informed that the hyphen cannot be used for the PostgreSQL administrator’s username either. (PPA-695)
[-] Updates could fail and administrators had to restart the update because of slow restart. (PPA-725)
[-] Administrators could not add a server with already installed MSSQL as a new MSSQL service node. The error message did not explain how to register an existing database server in the system. (PPA-773)
[-] Administrators could not change the host name of a service node based on Windows Server 2012 R2. The following error occurred: Failed to retrieve the host name of the node: ERROR: Cannot open control pipe – NT_STATUS_INVALID_PARAMETER. (PPA-923)
[-] Restoration of a backup and migration failed if there were system users with the same name on different nodes. The following error occurred: System user <username> doesn’t belong to domain being restored. (PPA-1032)
[-] Administrators could not create a subscription if the SSL certificate for the domain was modified. The following error occurred: SSLCACertificateFile: file ‘/usr/local/psa/var/certificates/<cert-name>’ does not exist or is empty. (PPA-1042)
[-] Customers could see the ‘Access to subscriptions’ permission instead of ‘Access to webspaces’ in the Hosting Panel > Users > a user’s settings. (PPA-1118)
[-] A domain’s webmail configuration file /etc/httpd/conf/plesk.conf.d/webmails/<lwebmail>/<domain>_webmail.conf was not removed on the subscription removal if webmail was hosted on a service node. (PPA-1143)
[-] Administrators received the error message about the main PPA licence expiration when the PPA license was valid, but the POA license was uploaded separately and expired. (PPA-1152)
[-] Users with the Application user role and a mail account could access the Mail tab in the Hosting Panel even when the webspace was disabled and the redirection loop occurred on this tab. (PPA-1165)
[-] Customers could not recalculate actual disk space used by mailboxes through the Hosting Panel > Mail > Refresh Usage Stats. The zero usage for all mailboxes on the domain was shown. (PPA-1196)
[-] When administrators added an MSSQL service node, the Customer Data folder remained empty and was not used as the data directory for MSSQL node. (PPA-1225)
[-] The limit on the number of connections per IP in Courier IMAP server configuration was reset to default after upgrade from PPA 11.1 to 11.5. (PPA-1231)
[-] Administrators received an unclear error message when they tried to install a new Linux node and there was a duplicate host name record in /etc/hosts. (PPA-1576)
[-] When administrators changed the host name of a service node with the ppa.hostname utility, several occurrences of the old host name remained in the ‘plesk’ database. (PPA-1067)
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What’s Changed
[+] Providers can change IP addresses of service nodes by means of the command-line utility ppa.ip_address.
[+] The script for deployment of PPA in Parallels Cloud Server now supports deployment of billing service nodes.
[+] After upgrading PPA or moving subscriptions among service nodes, providers can check whether the essential hosting services are operating properly by running the new utility ppa.hosting_check.
[+] Webspaces on CloudLinux nodes are now restricted by their own LVEs. This ensures that a single website will not overload the entire web server. Users who already had installed CloudLinux, should do the following after installing Update #5: go to Service Nodes > <CloudLinux node>, and click Refresh in the User-installed packages group.
[+] Providers can now hide tabs in the Customer Panel, in particular, the Home and Support tabs. Note: It is impossible to hide the Home tab in Customer Panel if PPA is integrated with Parallels Plesk Automation Billing.
[+] SSL certificates purchased in Parallels Plesk Automation Billing are now provisioned to domains.
[+] With this update we start issuing the clues to the most commonly asked questions, which will be visible in the provider panel. The clues will be issued in the form of ZIP file and loaded into the panel by the /usr/local/ppa/bin/helpbox utility. If you would like to update the contents of a Help box on a particular screen, you can do it by clicking the Edit Help box icon in the upper right corner of the page, next to the Refresh icon. If you do not need them, they can be removed by the command /usr/local/ppa/bin/helpbox –clean.
[*] Domain names listed in Customer Panel > Webspaces tab are now sorted by domain name.
[*] The tool /usr/local/ppa/bin/ppa_update was extended with the new command-line option –history to show a report about installed PPA upgrades and updates.
[-] Administrators could not add external Linux-based mail servers. The task “Install additional packages on the node ‘<node>’ according to the role PPA_EXTERNAL_MAIL” failed. (PPA-1173)
[-] Users could not log in to Customer Panel under staff member accounts. The following error occurred: “The user is either locked or is not allowed to log in.” (PPA-164)
[-] A user who was granted access to one webspace could see the list of all webspaces of a subscription. (PPA-1052)
[-] Upgrade could fail if the /tmp partition on a service node was mounted with the “noexec” option. (PPA-993)
[-] On attempting to create subscriptions on Windows-based nodes, users encountered errors related to IP addresses. (PPA-988)
[-] Configurable options for WHMCS where not created automatically. (PPA-987)
[-] DNS service failed to start if there were incorrect resource records in a zone. (PPA-955)
[-] The log file /var/log/poa.log was not rotated and it consumed disk space on service nodes. (PPA-952)
[-] Users could not deploy PPA in PCS using the deployment script if some containers in PCS were configured without the SWAPPAGES parameter. (PPA-950)
[-] The wget utility was not installed automatically on backup service nodes. (PPA-907)
[-] After customers set hosting type for webspaces to “forwarding” or “no hosting”, they could no longer change the resource limits for their subscriptions. (PPA-875)
[-] After executing scheduled backups, domains were not unsuspended, and mail notifications related to backups were not sent to users. (PPA-850)
[-] The operation of billing service nodes could be disrupted after Apache error log consumed all available disk space. (PPA-830)
[-] Customers could not add billing service nodes on volumes created with Logical Volume Manager (LVM). (PPA-807)
[-] Customers could not add billing service nodes because of errors related to conflicting packages. (PPA-611)
[-] Customers were shown an unclear error message when they added Microsoft SQL Server nodes with already installed Microsoft SQL Server. (PPA-773)
[-] Restoration of WordPress sites from backups could fail in some cases. (PPA-758)
[-] Users could not add service nodes on CentOS 6.5 because of the default firewall settings that prohibited connections to port 8356. (PPA-610)
[-] License keys for Dr.Web antivirus could not be automatically updated. (PPA-474)
[-] Access permissions for website files were incorrectly set after restoration. (PPA-411)
[-] FTP user permissions were not saved in backups. (PPA-410)
[-] Providers could not disable access to File Manager from the Customer Panel. (PPA-162)
Migration and Migration Tools
[+] Providers can continue using their existing database servers after migration to PPA from other platforms. Learn more.[*] The performance and stability of the migration tool were improved.
[*] During migration from H-Sphere, the migration tool now checks whether connection between a source and a destination server can be established and whether there is enough free disk space.
[*] The ppa-transfer test-all command now checks whether MySQL and Microsoft SQL Server databases were properly migrated.
[-] In some cases, after migration, databases could be provisioned to the management node, and mail services were pointing to the source server. (PPA-1046)
[-] In some cases, the settings of virtual directories could not be migrated, which could make websites inoperable. (PPA-1041, PPA-1027)
[-] The contents of mail accounts could not be transferred from H-Sphere installations with a large number of domains. (PPA-1150)
[-] Subscriptions could not be migrated to PPA if their owners’ usernames started with a digit. (PPA-1090)
Parallels Plesk Automation Billing 11.5.5
[+] SSL Certificates Provisioning.Now SSL certificates can be provided via PPAB:
The SSL related modules are installed automatically during PPAB node deployment or upgrade, including the plug-ins to the SSL providers:
eNom
GlobalSign
OpenSRS
SSL Store
The initial settings for SSL purchase scenarios in store are configured automatically during installation:
SSL Plan Category
SSL certificates screen
The SSL plug-ins are configured manually with the two-step wizard under System > Settings > Certificates.
The SSL Certificate Service Plans are configured manually with the wizard under Products > Service Plans.
The up-sell chains for SSL certificates in online store are also configured automatically. When you create a new SSL certificate service plan and publish it in the Online Store via the wizard, PPAB automatically sets up SSL certificate as an up-sell option for domains and shared hosting plans sold within the same purchase scenarios. This ensures correct provisioning of the whole service and this also enables you to set up the up-sell promotions.
[+] Now, when a cancellation order is placed from Provider Control Panel, the payment method for the refund can be selected right away, at the same screen with the cancellation order details.
[+] New gTLDs are supported by eNom and OpenSRS plug-ins. These new gTLDs are added to the plug-ins default configuration:
ACADEMY
BUILDERS
CAB
CAMP
CAREERS
CENTER
CEO
COMPANY
COMPUTER
DIAMONDS
DOMAINS
EDUCATION
ENTERPRISES
GLASS
INSTITUTE
LIMO
MANAGEMENT
MENU
PHOTOS
RECIPES
REPAIR
SEXY
SHOES
SOLUTIONS
SUPPORT
TATTOO
TIPS
TRAINING
UNO
VOYAGE
[*] Improved error reporting for failed order provisioning. The link to the problem report and to the related Knowledgebase article (if any) is now shown in the error message that is shown if order provisioning fails.
[*] The TLDs selection screen used for the domain registrar plug-ins configuration has been optimized:
The available TLDs shown on the screen can be filtered by groups. Such as, top-level, second-level, Asia, Australia, Europe. This reduces the number of TLDs shown at the same time and improves the screen performance.
TLDs Selection has been redesigned. Now the TLDs are shown as two lists: one list contains the available TLDs, another one – the selected ones. The TLDs are selected simply by moving them from one list to another.
[*] The format for documents numbering can now be configured using a new functionality called enumerator classes.
Enumerator classes allow defining the format of the reference numbers assigned to orders and AR documents.
Enumerator classes are configured under System > Settings > More Finance Settings. It is not possible to add a new enumerators or delete the existing ones. It is only possible to edit the numbering format.
[*] CentOS 6.4 and RHEL 6.4 are not supported starting from version 11.5.5. Before upgrading PPAB to version 11.5.5, the OS must be upgraded to CentOS 6.5 (or RHEL 6.5).
[-] PPAB installation failed. The task “Install PA agent” failed with the error: “Multilib version problems”. CentOS and RHEL 6.4 are not supported starting from 5.7.5 – this is reflected in PPA Deployment guide and in PPAB Release Notes. (PBA-56370)
[-] A one-time fee service plan could not be purchased from Customer Control Panel. The error “Select Account first” occurred. (PBA-55869)
[-] The implicit date timezone in PHP caused Billing node inoperability. Previously the Apache error log was flooded with the errors like “PHP Warning: strftime(): It is not safe to rely on the system’s timezone settings…” due to wrong configuration of PHP. (PBA-55423)
[-] It was not possible to add a service node with the Billing role using a server with Logical Volume Manager (LVM) volumes. (PBA-55298)
[-] There were no upgrade paths between Bronze/Silver/Gold service plans. Traffic was non-measurable and its units of measure should be GB instead of KB. The configuration of the default service plans has been improved. Now the plans are organized into upgrade path Bronze > Silver > Gold, additional traffic is measured in GB instead of KB. (PBA-55031)
[-] PPAB could not be installed on CentOS 6 because of conflicting packages. (PBA-54749)
[-] Web hosting was configured with an IDN in wrong encoding and the domain name was shown incorrectly in Customer Control Panel. (PBA-54479)
[-] PPAB sent notification that the private key was not loaded even if encryption was not configured at all. Now notifications are sent only if encryption is configured correctly but the keys are missing. (PBA-51932)
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)
PPA migration tools for Parallels Plesk Expand 2.x, Helm4 and Plesk Panel 8.6.x, 9.x
Announcing availability of migration tools for Parallels Plesk Expand 2.x, Helm4 and Parallels Plesk Panel 8.6.x and 9.x
– Migration from: Parallels Expand 2.x, Parallels Plesk Panel 8.6.x, 9.x
– Migration to: Parallels Plesk Automation 11.5
– What’s migrated: accounts, web, DB, mail, DNS
With the new migration tools, the time to migrate to Parallels Plesk Automation is here!
Parallels Plesk Automation 11.1 MU#13 is available!
The following new features have been implemented:
[+] Staff member accounts for administrators. Administrators can create staff member accounts – accounts with limited administrative permissions. Owners of such accounts can help administrators with certain tasks allowed by their permissions.
[+] Adding new language packs. Administrators can add support of new languages to PPA by uploading new language packs.
The following bugs have been fixed:
[-] Several issues related to the operation of Apache web server were resolved.
[-] Dedicated IIS application pool settings defined in service templates were not propagated to the subscriptions based on those templates.
The following features have been improved:
The following bugs have been fixed:
[-] APS mail packages are now upgraded without errors.
[-] Domains created directly in SmarterMail were deleted when subscriptions with the same domain names were created in PPA.
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.
[-] License keys were not updated and statistics were not recalculated if the “Run daily maintenance script” task was canceled in Task Manager.
[-] Migration of subscriptions with wildcard subdomains from Plesk to PPA rendered the DNS service inoperable.
The following new features have been implemented:
[+] Support for new operating systems for deployment of service nodes. CentOS 6.4 and RedHat 6.4 operating systems are now supported.
The following features have been improved:
[*] Option names in the WHMCS module were improved.
The following bugs have been fixed:
[-] Addition of a service node could fail at the step of installing additional packages. Restarting the task or attempting to remove the incompletely added node and then add it again resulted in an error.
[-] Customers could create wildcard PTR records in DNS, which made the DNS server unable to start.
[-] If customers added resource records to DNS zones and some of the records were invalid, then both valid and invalid records were discarded. Now invalid records are ignored and valid records are applied.
[-] Providers were unable to add service nodes running RHEL 5.8 x64 and RHEL 5.9 x64.
[-] Creation of subscriptions could fail if there were several Apache service nodes and at least one of them was down.
[-] After migration, webmail would no longer work if a domain had custom CNAME webmail.<domain name> DNS record pointing to <domain name>.
[-] The set-low-dns-timings command execution could fail on the source server that hosted a great number of websites. For this reason, after migration of websites, it took significant time for new DNS settings to propagate.
[-] After migration from Expand, users who had access to control panel for changing their e-mail settings in Expand’s Centralized Mail, will no longer have such access in PPA.
[-] Migration of mail accounts from Expand failed because of conflicts between mail accounts from Plesk and Expand’s Centralized Mail.
The following new features have been implemented:
[+] Running PPA behind NAT. Administrators can configure PPA to run behind a router with NAT.
The following features have been improved:
The following bugs have been fixed:
[-] Administrators could not register Windows-based service nodes if the administrator’s password contained the ^ symbol.
Parallels Plesk Automation 11.1 MU#7 is now Available!
The following bugs have been fixed:
[-] Subscriptions that included mail services were not properly removed from PPA.
[-] PPA removed the main license key when a license key for a service node was terminated by the Parallels licensing system.
[-] Administrators failed to add service nodes because PPA incorrectly selected an IP address for communications between the management node and service nodes.
[-] Administrators failed to back up customer accounts that had Windows-based hosting subscriptions.
[-] The ppa_mssql package was installed successfully, but the database server was not available for use.
[-] Administrators failed to correctly transfer subscriptions with web forwarding configurations from Plesk for Windows. They encountered the following errors in the console: “Error: Failed to work around IIS dedicated application pools problem. Exception: (‘Failed to %s IIS dedicated application pool, see debug log for more details’, ‘enable’)”
[-] Administrators could not transfer customer accounts from Plesk to PPA if the accounts were associated with a single e-mail address. The following error message was shown in the console: ” There are a number of accounts that are associated with the same e-mail. Change e-mails for the conflicting accounts.”
[-] Administrators failed to move subscription between nodes in case the subscription’s domain had the standard forwarding type. PPA raised an error like “Exception message: Command /usr/local/psa/bin/sw-engine-pleskrun with arguments …”.
[-] When transferring a domain alias with the switched off mail service to PPA, the PPA moving tools erroneously registered the alias on the SmarterMail service node.
[-] The PPA moving tools added the content of the default site template to all transferred subdomains. Thus, after the transfer, subdomain’s root directory contained not only its source content but the content of the PPA site template as well. This happened only when perfroming the transfer from Expand based on Plesk 8.
[-] The PPA moving tools failed to transfer subscriptions that belonged to resellers’ customers.
[-] In some cases, the www DNS records were not transferred to PPA from source Plesk Panel servers.
[-] The ppa-transfer tool failed to transfer subscriptions to PPA in case they were associated with the same system user. The tool raised an error like ” [ERROR] parallels.common.safe |copy-content| Failed to perform an action on subscription…”.
[-] The PPA moving tools failed to transfer domains to PPA in case that domains had IPv6 addresses only.
The following new features have been implemented:
[+] Webmail server nodes. Webmail server nodes are now supported. By default, webmail services are provided by the management node. To reduce the load on the management node, administrators can add a webmail server node to the system.
[+] Support for external mail servers. Administrators can add any external mail server to the PPA infrastructure. This may be useful, for example, when you need to use an MTA which is not supported by PPA’s standard mail node roles. The connection with such servers is performed by means of special APS apps, so-called connectors. Such a connector should be developed and registered in PPA before adding an external mail server node.
[+] Login page branding. Administrators and resellers can adjust the appearance of the login page.
[+] Easy changing of the management node’s IP address. Administrators can seamlessly move the management node to another IP address using the /usr/local/ppa/bin/ppa_ipaddress utility.
[+] Support for SNI on branding subscriptions. Administrators and resellers can use unique SSL certificates for brands on shared IP addresses.
[+] Forced retrieval of PPA license keys. Administrators can update the information about their PPA license keys at any time in License & Security > License Manager.
The following functionality have been improved:
[*] Automatic updating of license keys was improved.
[*] Now administrators can limit the number of subdomains on subscriptions.
[*] Administrators can now connect service nodes with CentOS 6.x or RedHat Linux 6.x without needing to preliminarily configure YUM on them.
[*] The migration process was improved: now it is faster and it takes less disk space.
The following bugs have been fixed:
[-] Administrators failed to properly complete the installation of PPA on CentOS 5.8. On attempting to log in to PPA through a web browser, they encountered the “500 Internal Server Error”.
[-] Administrators sometimes failed to connect a service node if (1) they selected two different IP addresses in the node connection settings: one as the backnet IP address (used for communications between service nodes and the management node) and another as the IP address for hosting; and (2) if both IP addresses were from the same subnet range. They encountered the following error in Task Manager: “Can not configure agent on host ‘IP address’, reason: ‘Stopping pleskd: [ OK ].”
[-] Administrators could not create branded subscriptions on dedicated IP addresses. The subscriptions were always created on shared IP addresses.
[-] Administrators could make management nodes inoperable after installing the Apache services. For this reason, PPA no longer allows installing Apache, Postfix and MySQL on management nodes.
[-] Auto-reply messages could not be shown by mail clients due to incorrectly specified MIME type.
[-] Users were unable to host different web content on domains and subdomains that were hosted on the same dedicated IP address.
[-] Users could not calculate the size of a directory in Content Manager. They encountered the following error: “Unable to get size for . System error 13: Permission denied.”
[-] AWStats did not calculate website visits statistics properly.
[-] Administrators failed to create subscriptions with mail services if the mail service was provided by Postfix installed on the management node. They encountered the following error: “Unable to receive setting ‘plesk_mail_service_node_key’.”
[-] License key expiration warnings shown in the Hosting Panel led to a wrong page.
[-] Administrators failed to migrate hosting subscriptions from Plesk for Linux to PPA if at least one SmarterMail service node was connected to PPA.
[-] During migration from Plesk 11.x, the passwords of resellers and customers for access to the Hosting Panel were reset.
[-] Users were unable to switch off mail services for their subscriptions if the services were provided by SmarterMail. The Hosting Panel raised the following error: “Unable to load object of type DSMail with id=127: Mail_Facade->turnOffDomain() failed: Turning domain off is not supported.”
[-] Administrators failed to create subscriptions with Apache and MySQL hosting on a dedicated IP address. They encountered the following error: Error: Database server mysql :3306 does not exist.
[-] The handling of custom ftp.. and www. DNS records was improved.
[-] Migration from Plesk for Linux to PPA could stall due to an internal error.
[-] After migration from Plesk 8 for Linux, applications installed on websites no longer worked because their databases were not migrated.
[-] If CBM was switched on, and a new auxiliary user account with the Accountant role was partially created in the Hosting Panel (the task failed in the process), then after removing that account from the Administration Panel, users will not be able to create an account with the same username again.
[-] During migration from Plesk for Linux 8.6, domains for which hosting was not configured and the Tomcat service was switched off could not be migrated.
[-] MySQL service nodes could not be added if “sa” was used as the database administrator’s username.
[-] Administrators could not migrate domain administrator accounts from Plesk 8.6 if the account information contained non-Latin characters.
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)
Parallels Plesk Automation 11.0 MU#3
The following new functionality has been added:
[+] Upgraded libcurl(7.15.5) to latest version
[+] Updated PPA localization
The following bugs have been fixed:
[-] Fixed bug with attaching servide node to PPA using sudo account (122291)
[-] Added more explanations for time desync error between MN & SN (122290)
[-] Activated service “iptables” after reboot system (123341)
Upgrading PPA Beta #2 to RTM is now Available!
PPA team is pleased to introduce a tool for upgrading PPA Beta #2 to RTM version.
The following new functionality has been added:
[+] Added support languages "de-DE", "es-ES", "fr-FR", "it-IT", "ja-JP", "nl-NL", "ru-RU", "zh-CN", "zh-TW" in PPA. The guide describing how to change the UI language is available here (121866)
[+] Tool to install/update PPA migrator in one click is available here (119682)
[+] Added tool to change admin password through CLI. The utility will be located /usr/local/ppa/bin/admin_passwd after applying updates.
[+] Added new video tutorials "How to Sign Up New Resellers", "How to Rebrand Hosting Panel for Reselling Services".
The following bugs have been fixed:
[-] Fixed installation issue described in KB article.
[-] Fixed installation issue if hostname contains the host’s IP address (122969)
[-] Fixed issue with migration MySQL databases during transfer accounts from Plesk 11.0
[*] Updated PPA guide lines.
Plesk Automation Preview #5 is now Available!
Key features, the release introduces, are CentOS/RHEL 6 on service node, Plesk 10.x/11.x transfer to PPA, migration from Plesk Expand, upgrade from PPA Preview #4 as well as a few functional enhancements.
Parallels Plesk Automation Preview Installer has been updated!
Plesk Automation team is pleased to introduce an improved Installation Script of the PPA. Thanks to all for feedback!