History of Changes

This chapter describes the version-specific changes in the CL utilities. The changes are grouped by new features in CLI. To describe a particular change in CLI, we use the following notation:

Plesk 12.5

Reassignment of databases between subscriptions

Database user roles and privileges management

PHP handlers management

Listing mail accounts

Setting an end date for auto-replies

Displaying global server settings

Managing server-wide backup limits

Disabling automatic upgrading of extensions

Reassigning IP addresses

Retrieving new license keys from KA

Managing Plesk locales

Installing and upgrading extensions via URL

Security status of WordPress installations

Per site dedicated IIS application pool management

IIS application pool mode management

Enabling password protection for site preview

Plesk 12.0

WordPress toolkit

 

Outgoing mail control

  

Prohibited domain names

 

Access control lists for MySQL database users

 

Remote access for Microsoft SQL Server database users

  

Automated migration and transfer of a large number of objects

  

Converting reseller accounts to customer accounts

 

Moving customer accounts to another owner

 

Converting customer accounts to reseller accounts

 

Custom descriptions of Plesk objects

  

IIS application pool CPU usage

 

IIS 8.0 dynamic IP address restrictions

 

Preventing customers from using a Plesk server as an FTP storage for Plesk backups

 

Database users’ access to databases

 

Clearance of APS applications cache

 

Restoring selected objects from a backup

 

Plesk 11.5

Custom web server settings for websites

 

Status of websites in suspended subscriptions

 

External SMTP server for Plesk notifications and outgoing mail generated by scripts

 

APS applications settings

 

Restricting the list of applications available for installation

 

Search engine friendly redirection and forwarding

 

Plesk Administrator account settings

 

One database user to access all databases

 

The default database server

 

 Multiple PHP versions

 

Mail autoresponder settings

 

Creating auxiliary users while creating mail accounts

 

Specifying mail accounts and instant messengers for auxiliary users

 

Plesk UI appearance and branding

 

Websites maintenance mode

 

The Suspended status of websites

 

Loading Plesk settings from Partner Central

 

Server-wide Plesk settings

 

Server cloning settings

 

Access to Control Panel for resellers

 

Making copies of service plans, add-on plans, and reseller plans

 

Domains and domain aliases settings

 

Displaying customers or subscriptions in a list

 

Turning Tomcat on/off on domain aliases

 

Repairing Plesk configuration

Plesk 11.0

Include a password in a WebMatrix publication settings file

 

Installing the Plesk license key with an activation code

 

Managing Plesk Extensions

 

Improved Plesk security

 

Cloning Plesk in Virtual Environments

  

Custom Buttons Improvements

 

Plesk Updates Improvements

 

Subscribing to security notifications from Plesk

 

Using license bundles (web app licenses associated with a Plesk license)

Plesk 10.4

Customizable PHP configuration

  

Extended overuse options

 

Simple view for administrators

 

Restricting users to access only one subscription

Support for wildcard subdomains

  

Quick preview of a website

 

Manage availability of apps from Storefront

(*) server_pref utility:
New option: -show-commercial-apps

 

Allowing Subdomains to Have Own DNS Zones

Updating Business Manager administrator's profile

Updating Business Manager company settings

Managing Business Manager database connection

Migrating a standalone Plesk Billing database to Business Manager

Troubleshooting GUI Integration between Business Manager and connected Panels

Updating Business Manager configuration and online stores locales and appearance

Plesk 10.3

File sharing functionality

Plesk 10.2

IPv6 support

Encrypting the administrator's password

New command: --show-password

Plesk 10.1

Ability to customize the list of applications available for installation on websites and add links to additional services (external or integrated with Plesk as extensions)

Customization of interface appearance and branding settings

Site maintenance mode

Ability to create trial sites in SiteBuilder

Ability to register an external webmail service with the Plesk and use it in hosting plans

Ability to hide mail management functions from Control Panel

Utilities were renamed to better suit the new hosting model

Plesk 10.0

Changes in the hosting model and hierarchy of user accounts

Power User interface

User interface customization

Additional FTP accounts

Changes in Application Catalog

Changes in settings of mail services

E-mail notification about system events

Plesk 9.5

(+) new options related to integration with Google Services for Websites were added to the admin.exe, reseller.exe, client.exe, and server_pref.exe utilities.

Plesk 9.0

APS Catalog

(+) aps-catalog utility

 

Command line utilities now reside in %plesk_cli% and %plesk_bin% depending on the application scope. For details, see the Getting Started With Command Line Utilities section.

 

Plesk resellers

New utilities

Removed utilities

Updates of existing utilities

 

 

Plesk 8.6

Limit on maximum number of ODBC DSN connections

Permission to choose a database server for a database

Plesk 8.4

Opportunity to create blog and photo subdomains in Sitebuilder upon domain creation in Plesk

DomainKeys support

Plesk 8.3

Plesk 8.3 for Windows CLI Reference introduces the following new features:

Plesk 8.2

Plesk 8.2 for Windows CLI Reference introduces the following new features.

Plesk 8.1.x

Command line utilities in Plesk 8.1 for Windows introduce the following new features.