Plesk Obsidian 18.0.62 is now out there for upgrades and new installations. Let’s check out a couple of of the included options.
Prolonged Lifecycle Assist
Introducing the Prolonged Lifecycle Assist (ELS) program, designed to offer 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 methods incurs further growth and upkeep prices, benefiting from this prolonged protection choice requires a month-to-month subscription price.
To keep away from any further charges and to verify your servers are updated, we strongly suggest migrating or dist-upgrading to a supported working system. Further particulars in regards to the ELS program and any migration choices may be discovered right here: https://www.plesk.com/weblog/varied/extended-lifecycle-support-oses-update/
Electronic mail Supply Monitoring
The latest replace to the Log Browser extension contains the brand new Observe Electronic mail Supply instrument. Plesk clients, and Plesk directors, can now observe e mail supply and handle deferred emails proper within the area card, beneath the Mail tab. This characteristic is barely out there in Plesk for Linux with Postfix because the designated MTA.
Streamline Electronic mail Supply Troubleshooting
The Observe Electronic mail Supply instrument could make the next guide duties simpler, saving time throughout e mail supply troubleshooting:
- Test if emails have been dispatched to an exterior server or caught within the native mail queue. The instrument’s interface shows further info relating to the explanation 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 characteristic will likely be pushed to clients progressively, however you may manually allow the characteristic prematurely by including the next traces to the panel.ini file:
[ext-log-browser] mailQueue.customerAccess = true
Set up the Log Browser extension at present: https://www.plesk.com/extensions/log-browser/
safety.txt Compliance
Assist for the safety.txt commonplace is now out there with Plesk!
The safety.txt commonplace 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 presently going with out.
How We Keep Core Performance
Now out there through the Native safety.txt compliance extension. The Plesk admin e mail is used within the Contact area, and we additionally keep the Expires area to indicate requesters of the safety.txt file that the data contained inside the file is updated. Your complete file may be personalized, and is out there through 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 equivalent to a built-in file generator.
Be taught extra: https://docs.plesk.com/en-US/obsidian/administrator-guide/80027/
HTTPS DNS Document 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 not do, HTTPS information may also:
- Alias complete domains with out configuring an HTTP to HTTPS redirect on the internet server.
- Present extra direct paths for routing net site visitors by avoiding the additional lookup step required with CNAME information, decreasing latency and bettering web page load occasions.
- Use completely different values within the precedence area, making a fallback configuration for the service.
- Point out completely different TCP/UDP ports.
- Sign to shoppers the supported protocol variations.
This characteristic is disabled in Plesk Obsidian 18.0.62 by default, however may be manually enabled by including the next traces to the panel.ini file:
[dns] information.https.enabled = true
As soon as enabled, HTTPS DNS information may be managed within the Plesk consumer 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 three occasions quicker.
- Set up and take away PHP 5.6 from Plesk servers operating AlmaLinux eight and 9 through Plesk Installer. You not have to change web sites operating on PHP 5.6 to a supported PHP model earlier than migration to keep away from doable migration points.
- NOTE: PHP 5.6 is EOL and doesn’t obtain necessary safety fixes. After migration, we suggest switching your web sites to a supported PHP model.
- New tile blocks and enhancements to the New Dwelling 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.
- By way of the Serverwide tab of Efficiency Booster, apply one or a number of database server enhancements as an alternative 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
