Plesk 8.1 Features

[Hal9000]

Hello!
I understand Plesk 8.1 will have these new features:
- AWStats
- MySQL 5.0 support
Are there any other news? Does it still solely rely on Qmail?

 

[Mirco@]

- mod_ruby

Qmail only, yep

 

[Hal9000]

how exciting...

 

[zacpac]

yay, but when is the release date ??

 

[secular]

i too would like to know the "estimated" release date at the very least

 

[MattElmore]

A little birdie told me it would be today (11/28) but nothing yet...

AWStats will be included as well, no?

 

[MattElmore]

Apparently my little birdie is a LIAR!

Maybe we will see something on the 31st or the 1st. I am itching to get my hands on the new backup utilities.

 

[Who-m3]

Currently "limited" download capabilities. They haven't posted the "official" release on the site yet, but I found it from previous experience. The release date, acording to the information I see, was 11/29/2006.

Filename: psa-8.1.0-fc5.build81061129.23.i586.rpm.tar.gz

[+] AWstats support
[+] MySQL 5.0 support
[+] FreeBSD packages distribution
[+] FreeBSD packages support for Autoinstaller
[+] Backup to FTP
[+] Updating Plesk inside Virtuozzo VPS using EZ templates
[*] Improved hostname validation
[*] Language Packs distributed as RPM/deb packages
[-] DNS recursion bugfix
[+] VE Custom Reinstall Support
[+] Ruby support
[+] Backup of server settings
[-] Security bug in phpPgAdmin is fixed
[-] Security bug in ProFTPD is fixed
[*] Bugfixes
[*] Improvements

I'm sure the site will show the rest before the end of the day, if not, send me a message and I'll get you the location. Don't wanna post it here (don't want it to go away).

 

[thewolf]

Hi,

Plesk 8.1 is now available!

Did anyone try it yet?

If so, what are your first impressions?

Thanks.

 

[breun]

Full info with detailed changelog: http://download1.swsoft.com/Plesk/Plesk8.1/CentOS4.3/psa-8.1.0-centos4.3.build81061129.22.i586.html

 

[Who-m3]

So far.. I'm not that impressed.. The desktop either doesn't work, or I've got a problem with my install... Either way, thats not something I'd prefer see... I like that it has support for awstats now, only wish it would let the client and/or admin select both, as well as either/or.. I don't see that the DNS issues with DNS Numbering has been resolved..no suprise there..

Things I still need to check:

DNS Aliasing: Does it actually use the template now?
ART's qmail-scanner addon: Will it still work?

Hopefully, they will... That's my next list to check...

 

[breun]

I've upgraded from 8.0.1 to 8.1.0 on a test box (with ART's qmail-scanner package) and all seems fine.

There is one thing though: the changelog mentions a DNS recursion bugfix:

DNS recursion bugfix

DNS recursion option allows only localnet recursion by default.

However, I found this in my /etc/named.conf:

allow-recursion {
                any;
        };

Which doesn't seem like only allowing localnet recursion.

I used to put the following in there myself:

allow-recursion {
                127.0.0.1;
        };

Maybe the Plesk update didn't expect that and handled it a little strange? Anyone else ran the update without having edited /etc/named.conf themselves before?

 

[Hal9000]

Plesk 8.1 for Linux/Unix does not require a new product license for users upgrading from Plesk 8.0.x versions.

What? Am I reading correctly? Can I safelly upgrade from 8.0.x to 8.1.x with the same license?

hal

 

[breun]

Yes, you can.