Hey,
I don't know if any of you know this, or care for that matter. But Plesk 5 is out unofficially. On the site they are just showing and update 2.5.5. But if you go to the forums it has an area for Plesk 5. And in the ftp site (ftp.plesk.com), they have it for download.

An update that I found on the forums is that it wont be out till September.

I just wanted to make everyone aware, There are some cool new featues, here is the change log if you care:

NOTE:
If you used language pack for PSA 2.5.x, then you will need to install the language pack for PSA 5.0 after upgrade, for the proper localization.

NOTE:
As the Webalizer functionality mode has changed substantially, after the PSA upgrade from 2.5.x to PSA 5.0
web statistics will be calculated anew from the beginning of the day the upgrade process took place.
Old Web statistics are retained in the vhosts httpdocs/webstat/ directory.

NOTE:
Log rotation and autoresponder response frequency adjustment mechanism has changed in PSA 5.0, therefore
you should adjust it manually if needed.


What's new in Plesk Server Administrator v.5.0.0 build020809.19
================================================================
[+] capability of controlling other PSA 5.0 servers from one PSA 5.0 server added
[+] capability of restarting services from the PSA interface added
[+] domain page summary information added
[+] aliases for mailbox ability added
[+] mailgroup membership management added
[+] switchable mailbox password dictionary checking added
[+] customizable "Reply-To" header for autoresponder added
[+] FrontPage over SSL support added
[+] ability to add customizable buttons in PSA interface by admin added
[+] log files management added
log rotation management improved
[+] web-based file manager added
[+] primary/secondary DNS zones management capability added
[+] SOA records tuning capability added
[+] possibility of entering different IP-addresses for A domain record and domain hosting address added
[+] customizable notification mechanism added
[+] switchable server-wide SPAM protection (rblsmtpd-0.70) added
[+] skins mechanism to customize the PSA interface appearance added, two standard skins included
[+] "Support" button added
[+] switchable ErrorDocument directive format added
[+] <domain> tag inside files within the skeleton directory handling added
[+] ftp traffic counting added
[+] capability of viewing traffic history through interface added
[+] flexible mechanism of counting disk space usage added
[+] domain templates added
[+] FrontPage WebAdmin access from the PSA interface added
[+] supplementary information displaying added to many PSA pages
webalizer mode changed to "incremental"
default MySQL security improved
admin's Apache changed to version Apache/1.3.26 Ben-SSL/1.48
courier-imap version changed to 1.4.6
phpMyAdmin version changed to 2.2.6
imp version changed to 3.1
horde version changed to 2.0
admin's Apache php version changed to 4.2.2
Apache::ASP version changed to 2.33
Open SSL library is linked dynamically



Well this is kinda cool news. Enjoy,

William

Originally posted by willlangford

An update that I found on the forums is that it wont be out till September.


The person that said that was joking :)
My guess is it will be official Tomorrow or Friday

Another note, Plesk does not care if you download PSA 5 from the ftp, but they will not support it at all until the officially released it.(This includes if your key needs to be upgraded)

but still, it was kinda funny. I think that PSA 5 will be an upgrade that kicks but.

~Will

We have been beta testing PSA 5.0 for a month or two. It really is an exciting new release. There are some great new features which we know people are going to love.

Can you chroot your CGI?

This is something that has lately gotten quite high on my priority list after finding out just what can be done with something as harmless (heh) as fileman from www.gossamer-threads.com (think ls /home/httpd/vhosts for one thing).

Oh I fixed this on my Ensim 3.1 servers in about 20 minutes (18 minutes of research, 2 minutes of implementation).

If that isn't fixed then I'm gonna have to cancel any further uses of Plesk on my servers, the security risk of the unchrooted perl script is way to high, you may as well give everyone SSH access!

it always has been chrooted, and runs in SUExec

My disappointed features

Domain User cannot create sub-domains.
When we use a name-based hosting, we cannot see our sits before DNS propagation.

Originally posted by frozen
it always has been chrooted, and runs in SUExec

I don't know what Plesk you're using but the Plesk I'm using does not run CGI chrooted and I emailed support about this and here's their reply:
Hello Gary,

Unfortunately, it is not possible to limit CGI scripts with user home
directory. Because CGI scripts are executed by Perl. So CGI scripts can
access to all files which accessible by perl.

Thanks,
______________________________
Alexey Baskakov
Technical Support Department
Plesk, Inc.

Doesn't sound to me like it runs chrooted and here I have tech support telling me it ain't possible.

You do know what I mean by running in a chroot jail right?

My apoligies, I had just woke up when I wrote that and wasn't thinking straight. I was getting SUexec and chroot crossed in my head for some reason.

The person that said that was joking. My guess is it will be official Tomorrow or Friday

This plesk 5 release is a limited production release, The Backup and Restore Utilities, Creation Utilities, and Red Hat 7.3 supporting versions are not available at this time. They are working on these for a full production release in September 2002.

Joe

psa5.0 is out now...just downloaded one from their website

Originally posted by papepo55
My disappointed features

Domain User cannot create sub-domains.
When we use a name-based hosting, we cannot see our sits before DNS propagation.

you can if you allow the user to add domains.. The bad part is they could then add full domains too.

you can also see your domains the second you put them in the CP we have our network pointing to the Main IP address and we can even see domains without even registering the domain name.. Of course no one else can but if you are the webmaster need to you can.

Originally posted by GWDGuy


you can if you allow the user to add domains.. The bad part is they could then add full domains too.

you can also see your domains the second you put them in the CP we have our network pointing to the Main IP address and we can even see domains without even registering the domain name.. Of course no one else can but if you are the webmaster need to you can.

Yes, you are right.
I hoped domain users could easily do these.
We need forum.mydomain.com , secure.mydomain.com and etc.
I wanted being able to access http://IPaddress/~mydomain/ .
I don't think they are so hard.

On the users end that would be nice to be able to let them see the domain via ~theirdomain..

Well maybe on Plesk 6.0


Robert

Not to get off subject, but every gripe I've read in this thread (including my own) I have fixed on Ensim or it came out of the box working like that (except for subdomains but I have a customization that turns subdirectories into subdomains).

I have my 3rd Ensim server online now, and I'm really liking it, I may begin the arduous task of converting my existing Plesk servers to Ensim as well.

I was really hoping 5.0 would answer several of my gripes, guess I can wait on 6.0.