Plesk Obsidian 18.0.62 is now out there for upgrades and new installations. Let’s check out a number of of the included options.
Prolonged Lifecycle Assist
Introducing the Prolonged Lifecycle Assist (ELS) program, designed to present you extra time and peace of thoughts emigrate your Plesk server from an Finish-of-Life working system to a supported one. Relying on the underlying working system, this program will run:
- CentOS 7 & CloudLinux 7 – January 1, 2026
- Vendor EOL date June 30, 2024
- Ubuntu 18.04 & Debian 10 – July 1, 2025
- Vendor EOL date September 2024 for Ubuntu 18.04; June 30, 2024
Till the above specified dates, Plesk will launch updates and supply technical help for these OSes past the seller EOL dates. As a result of supporting Finish-of-Life working techniques incurs extra improvement and upkeep prices, making the most of this prolonged protection choice requires a month-to-month subscription charge.
To keep away from any extra charges and to verify your servers are updated, we strongly suggest migrating or dist-upgrading to a supported working system. Further particulars concerning the ELS program and any migration choices will be discovered right here: https://www.plesk.com/weblog/numerous/extended-lifecycle-support-oses-update/
E-mail Supply Monitoring
The latest replace to the Log Browser extension contains the brand new Monitor E-mail Supply software. Plesk prospects, and Plesk directors, can now monitor e mail supply and handle deferred emails proper within the area card, beneath the Mail tab. This function is just out there in Plesk for Linux with Postfix because the designated MTA.
Streamline E-mail Supply Troubleshooting
The Monitor E-mail Supply software could make the next handbook duties simpler, saving time throughout e mail supply troubleshooting:
- Examine if emails had been dispatched to an exterior server or caught within the native mail queue. The software’s interface shows extra data concerning the rationale for supply points.
- View mail logs for dispatched emails. In a scenario the place an e mail was efficiently dispatched from the Plesk server, view mail logs to uncover the place within the supply chain an e mail encountered exterior mail server points.
This function can be pushed to prospects regularly, however you possibly can manually allow the function upfront by including the next strains to the panel.ini file:
[ext-log-browser] mailQueue.customerAccess = true
Set up the Log Browser extension at the moment: https://www.plesk.com/extensions/log-browser/
safety.txt Compliance
Assist for the safety.txt customary is now out there with Plesk!
The safety.txt customary defines a standard process for speaking and reporting vulnerabilities, serving to safety researchers get in contact with a server proprietor.
Plesk Obsidian 18.0.62 gives extensions for this compliance to create one international safety.txt file for web sites at the moment going with out.
How We Preserve Core Performance
Now out there by way of the Native safety.txt compliance extension. The Plesk admin e mail is used within the Contact discipline, and we additionally keep the Expires discipline to indicate requesters of the safety.txt file that the knowledge contained inside the file is updated. The whole file will be personalized, and is out there by way of CLI:
# plesk ext security-txt-plesk
In collaboration with LJPc options, one other safety.txt extension is now out there within the Plesk Extension Catalogue. This extension contains superior performance akin to a built-in file generator.
Be taught extra: https://docs.plesk.com/en-US/obsidian/administrator-guide/80027/
HTTPS DNS File Assist
Introducing an alternative choice to CNAME information, HTTPS DNS.
Along with the flexibility to configure HTTPS information for bare domains, which CNAME information can’t do, HTTPS information can even:
- Alias complete domains with out configuring an HTTP to HTTPS redirect on the net server.
- Present extra direct paths for routing net visitors by avoiding the additional lookup step required with CNAME information, decreasing latency and bettering web page load occasions.
- Use totally different values within the precedence discipline, making a fallback configuration for the service.
- Point out totally different TCP/UDP ports.
- Sign to shoppers the supported protocol variations.
This function is disabled in Plesk Obsidian 18.0.62 by default, however will be manually enabled by including the next strains to the panel.ini file:
[dns] information.https.enabled = true
As soon as enabled, HTTPS DNS information will be managed within the Plesk person interface utilizing API requests or the next CLI command:
plesk bin dns
Further Enhancements & Bug Fixes
- Navigation between the most-used pages in Plesk is now 3 occasions quicker.
- Set up and take away PHP 5.6 from Plesk servers operating AlmaLinux 8 and 9 by way of Plesk Installer. You now not have to change web sites operating on PHP 5.6 to a supported PHP model earlier than migration to keep away from potential migration points.
- NOTE: PHP 5.6 is EOL and doesn’t obtain vital safety fixes. After migration, we suggest switching your web sites to a supported PHP model.
- New tile blocks and enhancements to the New Residence Dashboard
- SSL It! Block accommodates the consolidated standing of certificates on the Plesk server to assist keep away from sudden expiration.
- Advisor extension block to assist monitor the state of the Plesk server.
- Through the Serverwide tab of Efficiency Booster, apply one or a number of database server enhancements as a substitute of making use of all prompt enhancements.
View the total change log right here: https://docs.plesk.com/release-notes/obsidian/change-log/#plesk-18062