Plesk Changelog

[Alexandrin Chaples]

Plesk for Linux) Switched the CentOS 7 yum repositories to vault.centos.org because the OS has reached end of life. That way it will still be possible to install system packages on Plesk servers running on CentOS 7. (PPP-65508)

Introducing the Extended Lifecycle Support (ELS) program designed to give you more time and a peace of mind before migrating your Plesk server from an EOL operating system to a supported one. This program will run:

Plesk will continue releasing updates and providing technical support for these OSes beyond the vendor EOL dates, until the dates specified. Supporting EOL OSes incurs additional development and maintenance costs, and so taking advantage of this offer will cost extra. We strongly recommend migrating or dist-upgrading to supported OSes.

Note: The feature works on top of the journald service and follows the server-wide log configuration. If the logs are rotated or removed, information about the emails will also be unavailable. Processing the logs for the first time may consume extra server resources. Afterward, the extension will process only changed data every hour.

Plesk is now fully compatible with the security.txt standard, which defines the way both independent security researchers and your clients can get in touch with you about security concerns and vulnerabilities they have found in Plesk domains.

With the new Native security.txt compliance extension, you can generate one common security.txt file for all domains hosted on your Plesk server. Once you generate the file and enable the feature, Plesk will continuously maintain it. Learn how to enable the feature and generate the file in our documentation.

Added an ability to install and remove PHP 5.6 from Plesk servers running on AlmaLinux 8 and 9 via Plesk Installer. That way you do not have to switch websites running on PHP 5.6 to a supported PHP version before the migration and thus avoid possible errors.

We strongly recommend that you check your existing integrations that use cURL for compliance with this change and update them if necessary. Failure to do so may result in any such integrations ceasing to work after updating to Plesk Obsidian 18.0.62.

We are glad to announce the new Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) extension, coming to Plesk Obsidian 18.0.61 and later. The new extension is meant to offer seamless 2FA authentication to all Plesk users, and comes with the following benefits:

We are glad to announce the fully revamped, customizable Home dashboard in Service Provider View. Keep track of your server and your business by adding, removing, and rearranging informational blocks showing all sorts of data. At the moment, the following blocks are available:

The WordPress single-site management operations from WP Toolkit are now fully integrated into the Dynamic list and shown by default for WordPress websites. If you want to continue managing your WordPress websites from WP Toolkit, you can disable this feature by adding the following lines to the panel.ini file:

To help Plesk users comply with the NIS2 directive, and also to improve the security of Plesk in general, the NIS2 compliance mode makes a number of changes to what is logged to the Plesk Action Log. Learn more about NIS2 compliance mode.

API requests are now logged to the Action Log. To also log API requests that only get information from Plesk and do not result in any changes being made, add the following line to the [actionLog] section:

(Plesk for Linux) We are glad to announce that the ability to upgrade MariaDB database servers to the latest version in the LTS branch via the Plesk interface is no longer in beta! We thank everyone who tried the beta version for their participation and feedback.

The feature is being gradually rolled out to Plesk servers around the world. If you do not see the Upgrade Now button, you can enable the feature manually by adding the following lines to the panel.ini file:

Plesk customers can now get access to Plesk Action Log events related to their subscriptions to monitor changes applied to them. The feature works only together with the Log Browser extension and will be enabled gradually after the release of Plesk Obsidian 18.0.60. The link to Action Log will appear in the right menu near the domain card.

We consider the feature to be a mandatory requirement for Plesk to comply with the NIS2 directive. According to the directive, customers must have an ability to monitor changes related to their domains.

Note: If you have already enabled the nis2complience setting in the panel.ini file, no need to enable actionLogForEndUsers as well. nis2complience enables all features related to compliance with the NIS2 directive.

(For developers of extensions) Starting from Plesk Obsidian 18.0.61, we plan to switch PHP used by Plesk to PHP 8.3. If you are running any custom extensions, you will need to update them to support PHP 8.3 to avoid potential issues.

Starting from Plesk Obsidian for Windows 18.0.60, it will no longer be possible to install the BIND DNS server, or to select it as the default DNS server in Tools & Settings > Server Components. Our support team will also no longer provide answers to questions related to the BIND DNS server in Plesk for Windows.

Plesk customers can now get access to Plesk Action Log events related to their subscriptions to monitor changes applied to them. The feature will be enabled gradually after the release of Plesk Obsidian 18.0.60. The link to Action Log will appear in the right menu near the domain card.

In Service Provider view, we added the count of customers, resellers, domains, subscriptions, and service plans to the left menu. That way you can quickly see how many business items exist on the server. You can disable the feature by adding the following lines to the panel.ini file:

Significantly improved the performance of Dynamic List view on configurations with many domains. Our tests on configurations with 100 domains within one subscription shows a fourfold improvement in the page loading speed. It is now possible to interact with loaded elements without having to wait for the entire page to load, which means no more freezing.

We introduced a new option that prevents changes only to Restricted Mode without affecting the ability to switch between Power User and Service Provider views. To enable the feature, run the following CLI command:

(Plesk for Windows) In March 2024, Internet Systems Consortium (ISC) drops support for BIND for Windows. Starting from Plesk Obsidian 18.0.60, we will stop developing new features for BIND and stop testing BIND DNS. It means that we will not guarantee backward compatibility for such configurations. Our support team will also no longer provide answers to questions related to BIND DNS.

Added the ability to upgrade MariaDB database servers to the latest version in the LTS branch via the Plesk interface. The feature is currently in beta. To enable it, add the following lines to the panel.ini file:

Added the Welcome Panel to make it easier for new users to quickly build websites.It offers many choices to create a website with just one click (like Sitejet, WordPress, Laravel, Node.js, and more).The panel pops up for users who just got hosting with a ready-to-use domain or picked Blank website or Upload files when creating a website.If they close the Welcome Panel, they can still find all the website-making options under the Create Website button on the domain card.

Until September 2024 (the Extended Support end date), Plesk continues to deliver new versions of Plesk Obsidian for Ubuntu 18.04.It includes delivering new features and security updates if they do not contradict the software delivered by the OS vendor.

Note: To fix the issue if you were affected by it, update your Plesk to version 18.0.56 Update 3, and then run the following command: plesk bin apache --listen-on-localhost false or plesk bin apache --listen-on-localhost true.

If you have Plesk Obsidian 18.0.56 (including Updates 1 and 2) that is not running on CentOS 7 or does not use the FastCGI PHP handler, enabling Apache to listen on localhost no longer breaks PHP scripts that use the $_SERVER["SERVER_ADDR"] PHP variable. (PPPM-14184)

Starting from Plesk Obsidian 18.0.57 (November 21), the Laravel Toolkit and Node.js Toolkit extensions are installed by default.If for some reason you want to disable the extensions, add the following lines to the panel.ini file:

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