Plesk v8.3.0 rpm based Linux systems Release Notes

Copyright (c) 2007 by SWsoft

Prior to installing or upgrading Plesk, be sure to backup your server. Refer to the Plesk Installation Guide available at http://download1.parallels.com/Plesk/Plesk8.3/Doc/en-US/plesk-8.3-unix-installation-guide.pdf to obtain instructions on installing and upgrading Plesk.

Other documentation on Plesk 8.3.0 is available at http://www.parallels.com/en/products/plesk/docs

Plesk 8.3.0 FAQ is available at http://faq.parallels.com

Contents

  1. Installing Plesk
    1. Installing Plesk through the Auto-installer Console Utility
  2. Upgrading Plesk
    1. Upgrading Plesk from the Control Panel
    2. Upgrading Plesk through the Auto-installer Console Utility
  3. What's new
    1. Changelog
      1. Plesk 8.3.0 update 2
      2. Plesk 8.3.0 update 1
      3. Plesk 8.3.0
    2. Detailed Description
    3. Known Problems
  4. Contact Information

Installing Plesk

 

IMPORTANT:
If you are using SuSe OS family: Before installing Plesk 8, switch AppArmor service off by command '/etc/init.d/boot.apparmor stop' and remove it from booting list by 'chkconfig --del boot.apparmor stop'
If you are using RedHat OS family: Before installing Plesk 8, switch SELinux off by running command 'setenforce 0' in shell. After you have installed Plesk, switch SELinux on by running command 'setenforce 1'

 

 Installing Plesk through the Auto-installer Console Utility

 To install Plesk software on a server,

 

Installing Plesk Manually from rpm Packages

 

Upgrading Plesk

Important notes for Virtuozzo users:

Since Plesk 8.1, Auto-installer (Plesk Updater) supports updating Plesk inside Virtuozzo virtual private servers (VPS) using EZ templates.

Compared to the previously used updating scheme, updating through EZ templates will save disk space significantly and will allow running more virtual private servers on a single hardware node.

This feature is available only with EZ templates. To upgrade a VPS with Plesk this way, you need to:

As for STD templates:

if you had Plesk 7.5.4 upgraded by the Auto-installer utility, but still wish to upgrade Plesk by upgrading Virtuozzo STD templates, use the "Jump Mode" option.

After upgrading Plesk from version 7.x to 8.3, the Plesk Updater function in the control panel will be accessible. For subsequent upgrades, Virtuozzo users will need to either use the consol Auto-installer utility or unlock the control panel's Updater function. To do this, log in to Plesk's MySQL database server, type "use psa", and then run the query "update misc set val='false' where param='disable_updater';".

 

IMPORTANT: After upgrading to Plesk 8.3.0, all custom (third-party) skins become unregistered.
If you wish to restore the custom skins that you used before the upgrade, run the command "/usr/local/psa/tmp/restore-custom-skins.sh",
where is your Plesk installation directory (for example, /usr/local/psa.) You can remove this file after restoring your skins.

 

 Upgrading Plesk from the Control Panel

To update or upgrade your Plesk software from the control panel:

 

Upgrading Plesk through the Auto-installer Console Utility

To update or upgrade your Plesk software by means of the Auto-installer utility:

 What's new in Plesk 8.3.0

 

Changelog

Plesk 8.3.0 update 2

  1. [-]  Remove debug information from mchk and mailmng output.
  2. [-]  Issue with mchk and mailmng error "Unable to initialize quota settings" is resolved.
  3. [-]  Bug "per-mailbox statistics information for some domains is not displayed" is resolved
  4. [-]  Bug "Watchdog does not run security scan" is resolved
  5. [-]  Issue with "Cannot load mod_bw.so into Apache" on FedoraCore6 is resolved
  6. [-]  Issue with JavaScript errors in WYSIWYG editor is resolved
  7. [-]  Several bugs in Autoinstaller are resoleved
  8. [*]  Security improvements
  9. [-]  Several API bugs are resolved
  10. [-]  Several Backup and Migration Manager bugs are resolved

Plesk 8.3.0 update 1

  1. [-]  Several bugs in Autoinstaller are resolved.
  2. [-]  License management improvement.

Plesk 8.3.0

  1. [+]  Single Sign On (SSO) SAML
  2. [+]  Application Packaging Standard (APS) Licensing & Upgrade
  3. [+]  Autoinstaller 3.3
  4. [+]  mod_bw support
  5. [+]  Kaspersky Antivirus (KAV) statistics
  6. [+]  Firewall ports ranges
  7. [+]  Improved Sitebuilder Integration
  8. [+]  AWStats domain report improvement
  9. [+]  Submission port support
  10. [+]  Components update
  11. [+]  Native IMAP quotas support
  12. [+]  SRV records management
  13. [+]  API for managing subdomains
  14. [+]  API for managing protected URLs
  15. [+]  API for retrieving mailbox usage
  16. [+]  Underscores in DNS
  17. [-]  A lot of bugs were resolved.

 

Detailed Description 

 

  1. Single Sign On (SSO) SAML

    Enable SSO SAML support in Plesk and integrate Plesk with any other applications providing single sign-on ability for its users.

  2. Application Packaging Standard (APS) Licensing & Upgrade

    Upgrade and license applications installed via the Application Vault on a domain level directly via the Plesk interface

  3. Autoinstaller 3.3

    New Autoinstaller includes the following features:

     

  4. mod_bw support

    Configure allowed connection bandwidth per domain by using mod_bw management tools in Plesk. There is a special permission that allows the Client (or Domain Owner) account to manage these settings.

  5. Kaspersky Antivirus (KAV) statistics

    View detailed server stats, including number of e-mails scanned and filtered, collected by Kaspersky Antivirus in Plesk 

  6. Firewall ports ranges

    Manage a port range via the Plesk Firewall module 

  7. Improved Sitebuilder Integration

    Integration of Sitebuilder with Plesk is improved rendering all Sitebuilder module data structures unnecessary. 

  8. AWStats domain report improvement

    Create detailed AWstats domain reports for each month 

  9. Submission port support

    Setup an additional port for incoming SMTP traffic that requires authorization for both incoming mail and for mail to local domains 

  10. Components update

     

  11. Native IMAP quotas support

    Receive quota management functionality for webmail software (Horde) 

  12. SRV records management

    Manage SRV records with Plesk. An SRV record or Service record is a category of data in the Internet Domain Name System specifying information on available services. Newer internet protocols such as SIP and XMPP often require SRV support from clients. Client implementations of older protocols (e.g. LDAP, SMTP) may have SRV support added to it 

  13. API for managing subdomains

    Manage subdomains via API RPC 

  14. API for managing protected URLs

    Manage protected URLS and their users (including passwords) via API RPC 

  15. API for retrieving mailbox usage

    Retrieve mailbox usage stats via API RPC. 

  16. Underscores in DNS

    17. Use underscores in all DNS record types (including TXT and SRV). Underscores are not recommended for use in DNS records(e.g. IE might process it incorrectly), but are not forbidden

 

Known Problems

 

 

Contact Information

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