• Wednesday, April 3, 2024

What’s New?

  • 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.

    To enable NIS2 compliance mode, add the following lines to the panel.ini file:

    [actionLog]
nis2compliant = true

    Once you have done so, the following changes take effect:

    • 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:

      api.includeImmutable = true
    • Changes to DNS records are now logged to the Action Log, including the specifics (such as what record was added or removed, or what changes were made to an existing record), as well as the GUID of the user who made the change.

    • Action Log is now included in Plesk backups if the “User files” checkbox is selected when creating a backup, and the “Exclude log files” one is not. Customer or reseller level backups only include information pertinent to that customer/reseller.

      Action Log is stored in a separate file with the backup_action-log prefix. Learn how to extract files from a Plesk backup.

  • (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.

    To access this feature, go to Tools & Settings > Database Servers (under “Applications & Databases”), and then click Upgrade Now next to an eligible MariaDB database server.

    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:

    [databaseManagement]
features.canBeUpgraded = true

  • 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.

    To enable the feature before its official release in Plesk Obsidian 18.0.60, add the following lines to the panel.ini file:

    [actionLog]
actionLogForEndUsers = true

    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.

  • Full-featured integration of WP Toolkit into Plesk Dynamic list is now available.

    To enable this feature, add the following lines to the panel.ini file:

    [ext-wp-toolkit]
appModeFeature = on

    Once you have done so, most WP Toolkit features (except for mass management operations) become accessible directly from Dynamic list in Plesk without having to open WP Toolkit.

  • Added the “Get Started” tab to domain cards in Dynamic List view to make it easier for new users to build websites quickly. It offers many options for creating a website with just one click (like Sitejet, WordPress, Laravel, Node.js, and more). The tab appears when opening a newly created domain’s card for the first time, and remains accessible but nonintrusive once closed. The tab replaces both the previously available “Welcome” panel and the “Create website” button.
  • With the new paid Sitejet Commerce feature that supports integration with Ecwid, you can now have an eCommerce store on your Sitejet-based website.
  • Sophos Anti-Virus for Servers can now be installed via Plesk Installer on both Plesk for Linux and Plesk for Windows servers. You can find it in the “Mail hosting” section in Plesk for Linux, and in the “Anti-Virus features” section in Plesk for Windows.
  • The latest 30 entries from the Plesk Obsidian changelog are now available in an RSS feed. You can find the feed here.

Feature Improvements

  • The “Scheduled Backups List” extension has been localized into 31 languages: Arabic, Catalan, Chinese Simplified, Chinese Traditional, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Filipino, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Norwegian Bokmal, Polish, Portuguese, Portuguese, Brazilian, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, and Vietnamese.
  • The Plesk interface and documentation now mention both MariaDB and MySQL where only MySQL was mentioned before.

Linux

  • Plesk now shows the exact amount of physical memory installed on the server. To access this information, go to Tools & Settings > Server Information (under “Server Management”), scroll down to “Memory Usage”, and look for the “Hardware” column.
  • When trying to update Plesk on a server that does not have enough free disk space, Plesk Installer automatically cleans up unnecessary temporary files, then tries again.
  • The “NTP Timesync” extension is now included in the “Recommended” preset.
  • A separate branch of the “NTP Timesync” extension was created so that the extension could still be installed on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.x. Future versions of the “NTP Timesync” extension’s main branch will no longer be compatible with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.x.
  • The “NTP Timesync” extension has been localized into 30 languages: Arabic, Catalan, Chinese Simplified, Chinese Traditional, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian Bokmal, Polish, Portuguese, Portuguese, Brazilian, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, and Vietnamese.
  • Added a message in Tools & Settings > Mail Server Settings advising to set the value of the “Maximum message size” parameter to 135-140% of the maximum allowable attachment size.
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