Release Notes
Full release notes for Parallels Operations Automation (POA) version 5.4.13 can be downloaded here.
New Features
Linux Mail Hosting: Migration Procedures from RHES3/RHES4 to RHEL5/CentOS5
Skins Customization: Highlighting User Password
New Customer Attribute
Known Issues
The Web Site Aliases feature is not supported for the NG line of Apache Linux Hosting. Managing website aliases will be supported for Linux NG Hosting in POA version 5.5, in addition to Linux Shared Hosting and Windows Shared Hosting.
Other Known Issues:
#116693 qmail cluster authentication failure after POA 5.4.13 installation
Functional Changes
Changes in API Methods: A new parameter (note) was added to several methods
SaaS: Locale management improvement
SaaS: The link to subservices is always shown in My Control Panel
Fixed Issues
Linux Shared Hosting
POA-77643 FTP on exclusive IPv6 does not work on NG hosting
POA-77673 The logparser.sh is not added into crontab on NG webservers
POA-78134 NG cluster is removed incorrectly
POA-78578 Having MaxRequestsPerChild set to zero causes memory exhaustion at NG webservers
POA-78689 The Webspaces NG screen statistics are updated after a considerable delay. Fix Description: The NG webspaces journal records were fetched incorrectly. The most recent ones were not taken into account. The issue has been fixed.
POA-78580 Website alias is not supported for Linux Apache NG Hosting in POA 5.4
APS
POA-77997 The odbc.ini/odbcinist.ini used by SAAS controller could be erased due to races in SAAS controller
POA-78032 It is not possible to localize error message related to service user login and password
POA-78111 The Exception message is not localized
POA-78248 Application Reseller Branding settings are not saved
POA-78250 The Service User's address, city, state, and country are not taken from the account
POA-78270 It is impossible to set the custom URL to longer than 32 symbols in Backup Agent Reseller Branding settings
POA-78838 DNS record substitution in APS works incorrectly for multiple records
POA-78860 The hidden/protected settings are not filled according to their classes in Site Apps
POA-77705 In POA, the language selected by a customer during login to Customer Control Panel is not applied; vendor language is used instead
PBA Integration
POA-77975 Some characters are removed when passing an error to POA
POA-78851 The "Hide billing item" option in CCP Settings does not work correctly
Control Panel
POA-77359 Localization of errors from java code in UI should be implemented
POA-78814 The Create Service User and the Edit Service User wizards do not properly validate the domain part of service user name
POA-78688 XSS vulnerability
System
POA-77456 The POA CEP report includes personally identifiable information: the names of Resellers
POA-78671 Value with empty "Name" is shown in POA billing report
POA-77618 A host cannot be re-registered if it has been registered before with the name in uppercase
POA-78218 High memory consumption by WinHostControl system
POA-78606 Security issue
POA-78762 Apache Local File Inclusion Vulnerability on Domain Parking Server
POA-78864 Resellers can manage Provider's Containers
POA-78680 Reporting about the number of failed tasks is needed
DNS
POA-77735 A customer is able to add Provider's nameserver from PBA as registered elsewhere
POA-78409 The Hosted Domains screen loads slowly when there are many subscriptions under end-user account
POA-77984 Custom DNS plugin: All DNS records are destroyed after cancellation of subscription
POA-78406 The Operations Director > DNS Manager > DNS zones screen opens slowly
Exchange
POA-78348 The task "Revoke permissions from public folder..." is very slow if several users are granted the permissions to Public Folder, but permission for only one user is revoked
POA-78385 The Public Folder permissions are set with delay
MessageLabs
POA-77901 The MessageLabs task fails on lab environments because of the new RoleType
Qmail Cluster
POA-76129 Insecure Qmail configuration: LDAP and Whoson
POA-77584 Need to drop mentions of DES encrypted passwords in guides
POA-78769 Redundant emails exist in the list of affected mailboxes for the Qmail host
POA-78750 The migration instructions related to Single-Host QMail, Majordomo, and Autoresponder2 services should be improved
Documentation
POA-78439 Corrections to PA hardware requirements guide regarding PVC
POA-78844 The issue POA-72981 should be removed from POA 5.4.10 Release Notes
POA-78934 Section "Adjust PHP Settings on Legacy Apache Shared Node" of Parallels Presence Builder Integration guide doesn't contain information about changing PHP settings for sw-engine
POA-77433 Interoperability requirements are incomplete for PACI in POA 5.4 update 10 Release Notes
POA-78172 Migration of POA services from RHEL 4: add the migration procedure for qmail clusters
VPS Hosting
POA-78012 Service Plan names (for CLM) are shown in English for Portuguese locale in Customer Control Panel
POA-78388 The instructions for upgrading Parallels Plesk should be updated
PACI
CCU-6114 "remove_backup" fails if no backup is found
CCU-6046 Traffic Usage shows the negative delta
CCU-5972 Do not check Container limits during Load Balancer creation
CCU-5961 The "Application template is installed on one or more nodes" error appears on attempt to unregister an inactive application template
CCU-5960 HAProxy vulnerability
Obtaining
The update can be downloaded here. Please contact Support for its deployment.
Installation
You can find the full installation instructions in the "UPDATE.txt" file from the distribution.
Additional Information
All required system updates can be easily installed through "pa_updates_installer" [instructions].