PBA 5.5.3 Release Notes

Important: POA 5.5 Update 2 is required to be installed.

New Features

  • Support of SEPA for Direct Debit Payments
  • Improved Processing of Bank Transfer Payments
  • Ability to View and Install Hotfixes from Provider Control Panel
  • Logging in to Customer Control Panel with Various Locales
  • Domain Notifications for User Contacts

Changes

  • Ability to Switch Plans Without Refund Generation
  • Payment-related Placeholders Can Be Used for AR Document Notifications
  • The bm.logrotate Configuration File Remains When Updating PBA

Fixed Issues

Account and Plans Configuration

PBA-52768 It is not possible to download the attachment to the customer account note
PBA-52744 Dash in the ASCII attribute is not allowed

Billing

PBA-52906 Payment order attached to Fraud check gets the status "CC Charge Failed"
PBA-52969 Exception in the order flow may cause the crash of PBA BM container
PBA-52425 Incorrect order line description for ABP subscriptions in case of configured Resource Rate Periods
PBA-52148 Manual operation over order cannot be completed if comment contains quote

Customer CP

PBA-52533 Number of locked admins is displayed incorrectly in Customer Control Panel
PBA-52291 No Languages are actually added upon selecting the language (for Company account only); invalid locale_ID can be saved without validation
PBA-52940 UI customization under some languages is broken after upgrading

Certificates

PBA-51860 If the SSL certificate order is created with invalid approver email, error message does not reflect this fact

Domains

PBA-51494 The ID number and the VAT number are not passed for .nu domains via the InternetX plug-in

License

PBA-53068 The "Additional features" list does not show all the license features upon clicking the "Upgrade License" button in Provider and Customer Control Panels

Online Store

PBA-53014 Special symbols in the purchase scenario title may break the ability to edit plan publication settings
PBA-52945 The Extended Description is shown in the Online Store instead of the Description of the Service Plan
PBA-52742 Empty resource restrictions may break the PACI Online Store
PBA-52734 Cannot order PACI Container or VM with Clustered Storage if the diskspace limit selected is greater than the local_space restriction
PBA-52049 Resource prices are not updated in the store after subscription period is changed

Payment Management

PBA-53197 Several transactions can be generated for one document

POA Integration

PBA-51912 Order for POA subscription provisioning may fail by timeout
PBA-52737 Cannot switch the parent subscription if the old parent subscription has been destroyed

Security

PBA-52317 CSS and HTML injection in the Online Store
PBA-52316 CSS and HTML injection in the Online Store

Documentation

PBA-52650 The OrderStatusChange_API method description should be corrected
PBA-52589 Wrong description of the returned values for the PayToolListForAccountGet_API method
PBA-52473 The AccountUpdate_API method does not update account info in POA; please add note in the documentation
PBA-52335 The OrderProvisioningItemsListGet_API method returns 20 values, not 19
PBA-51216 Documentation is incorrect for "AccountPutOnAdmHold_API" and "AccountTakeFromAdmHold_API" methods - it says that these methods do not stop subscriptions for an account
PBA-51178 Public API Reference guide should be corrected for the PlaceSubscriptionCancellationOrder_API method
PBA-49559 The Manual Resource Usage Update option should be activated when using the SetResourceUsage_API method

Miscellaneous

PBA-52967 It is not possible to download or send Invoice notification if the Unit Price is NULL
PBA-52019 The Deferred Revenue report is incorrect if a customer purchases additional resources
PBA-51878 The Deferred Revenue report is incorrect if a subscription is renewed for differing periods
PBA-44164 The Revenue Recognition report may count resource's recurring details incorrectly

Installation Instructions

New Installations

Linux: http://download.pa.parallels.com/pba/5.5/doc/pdf/Deployment_Guides/pba_5.5_for_linux_deployment_guide.pdf

Windows: http://download.pa.parallels.com/pba/5.5/doc/pdf/Deployment_Guides/pba_5.5_for_windows_deployment_guide.pdf

Upgrade

Linux: http://download.pa.parallels.com/pba/5.5/doc/pdf/Deployment_Guides/PBA_5_5_for_Linux_Update_Guide.pdf

Windows: http://download.pa.parallels.com/pba/5.5/doc/pdf/Deployment_Guides/pba_5.5_for_windows_upgrade_guide.pdf

Installation files

RHEL6/Centos6 - 64-bit

App: http://download.pa.parallels.com/pba/5.5/5.5.3-update3/el6/pba-installer-5.5.3-062.el6.x86_64.sh

Store: http://download.pa.parallels.com/pba/5.5/5.5.3-update3/el6/pba-templatestore-installer-5.5.3-062.el6.x86_64.sh

DB: http://download.pa.parallels.com/pba/5.5/5.5.3-update3/el6/pba-db-installer-5.5.3-062.el6.x86_64.sh

SDK: http://download.pa.parallels.com/pba/5.5/5.5.3-update3/el6/pba-sdk-installer-5.5.3-062.el6.x86_64.sh

Windows 2008R2 - 64-bit

App: http://download.pa.parallels.com/pba/5.5/5.5.3-update3/win64/pba-installer-5.5.3-062.x86_64.exe

Store: http://download.pa.parallels.com/pba/5.5/5.5.3-update3/win64/bm-templatestore-5.5.3-062.x86_64.msi


Additional Information

  1. PBA will require a restart during the update.
  2. During the upgrade, all PBA RPMs will be upgraded to newer versions. If a backup is made with a server/VPS restart, then the private key for credit card encryption needs to be reloaded.
  3. Additional documentation can be found here: http://download.pa.parallels.com/pba/5.5/

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