Plesk 12.5 RTM

drassolov

9 years ago

Plesk 12.5 is already available for installation as an early adopter release. It is stable enough, so you can install it and try the new features.

There are a lot of new interesting features:

Improved database management
Improved PHP management
Incremental backup & other improvements of backup system
Self-repair tools
and many other things…

As usual, to download and install Plesk on a new server, issue the following commands in the console:

wget autoinstall.plesk.com/plesk-installer
chmod +x plesk-installer
./plesk-installer

After a few steps you will see the option to install Plesk 12.5.

Another way to try Plesk 12.5 is to upgrade your server with Plesk. To do so, go to Tools & Settings > Updates and Upgrades Settings and select Early adopter release.

Then, go to Tools & Settings > Updates and Upgrades and upgrade to Plesk 12.5.30 (current).

First of all, you can see the new name Odin as part of logos and copyright notice. Even if you might already know, I will explain what happened. The two directions in which we have long been working are now represented by two brands – Parallels and Odin: Parallels is for cross-platform solutions (famous Parallels Desktop for Mac) and Odin is for solutions for hosters and telecommunication companies (famous Plesk). So please welcome Plesk 12.5 by Odin.

Now look at these screenshots:

Yes, Plesk 12.5 looks good on mobile devices and tablets thanks to the so-called responsive design. By the way, the mobile application was improved too.

Plesk 12.5 was significantly reworked in the backup part. The most important change is the long-awaited support for incremental backups. Incremental backups are created much quicker and take less disk space.

In an ideal world, programs never fail, databases are always consistent, and file storages do not degrade, but Plesk exists in the real world, where all of these sometimes happen. To deal with such issues, you can use the Plesk’s self-repair tool. The tool can diagnose and resolve those issues that can be resolved automatically. Plesk 12.5 offers it ready for use out of the box. I must also mention that this tool quickly and conveniently runs on Windows like the rest of Plesk utilities, although in Plesk 12.0 it was available only on Linux systems.

PS C:\Users\Administrator> plesk repair
Usage: plesk repair ASPECT [OPTION]

Run Plesk check and repair tool.
Provide the aspect 'all' to check and repair all aspects in the interactive mode.

Available aspects: all, mail, web, dns, ftp, db, mysql, mssql.

Available options:
    -y - Try to repair all found issues.
    -n - Do not repair anything, check only.
    -v - Display more detailed output (verbose mode).
PS C:\Users\Administrator> plesk repair all -n

Checking the Plesk database using the native database server tools .. [OK]

Checking the structure of the Plesk database ........................ [OK]

Checking the consistency of the Plesk database ...................... [OK]

Checking host name .................................................. [OK]

Checking FTP root directory ......................................... [OK]

Checking all domain names resolve to appropriate IP addresses ....... [OK]

Checking home directories of additional FTP users ................... [OK]

Checking FTP home junctions ......................................... [OK]

Repairing web server configuration .................................. [OK]

Checking the usage of PHP handlers .................................. [OK]

Repairing the mail server configuration ............................. [OK]

Restoring DNS server configuration .................................. [OK]

Checking MySQL database servers ..................................... [OK]

Repair databases on available servers ............................... [OK]

Repair database users on available servers .......................... [OK]

Checking MS SQL database servers .................................... [OK]

Repair databases on available servers ............................... [OK]

Repair database users on available servers .......................... [OK]

Error messages: 0; Warnings: 0; Errors resolved: 0

Earlier, Plesk already had support for different PHP versions, and was shipped with pre-built packages. Now you can control all these PHP versions from the Server Administration panel: start or stop PHP handlers, edit php.ini files, and modify the set of PHP extensions:

Finally, I’d like to mention small features that make the life of hosting users easier. Probably, all web developers create a PHP file with one line (<?php phpinfo(); ), run it, and then forget to remove it. Do you want to view information about PHP on your hosting? Just click the link. Plesk ensures safety because the file will be removed after you have viewed it:

With another feature, Code Editor, you can quickly correct a minor error or typo on the site:

The real-time log browser, where log messages can be filtered by the log files, helps you with troubleshooting your websites:

Of course, Plesk continues to support new versions of software: Debian 8, CloudLinux 7, RHEL 7, CentOS7, Apache 2.4 (MPM event), MariaDB 10, PostgreSQL 9.4, the full set of PHP versions (5.2-5.6), phpMyAdmin 4.4.9, ProFTPD 1.3.5a, Passenger 5.0.10, Dovecot 2.2.18, Courier 4.16.1, Postfix 2.11.5, Roundcube 1.1.2, Nginx 1.9.2, Fail2ban 0.9.2, MySQL 5.5.41, and so on.

Please note that Plesk Extensions Catalog continues to grow. It already offers 49 applications at https://ext.plesk.com/packages.

Traditionally, full and more official information can be found in the release notes:

Give Plesk 12.5 a try.

Plesk 12.5 for Linux demo

Plesk 12.5 for Windows demo