PBA 5.5.1 Release Notes

Important: POA 5.5 Update 1 is required to be installed.

Changes

  • Improved Performance and Security of the PBA API

  • Password Validation has been Improved in the Online Store

  • Key Administrator Integration Changes Require that the SUS Resources are Dropped During Upgrade

Fixed Issues

Billing

PBA-50807 After the upgrade to version 5.5, the Cancellation order is still called Cancellation Charge.

Control Panel

PBA-49918 An empty column is displayed on the Document details screen in the Customer Control Panel > Financial Documents > Applications.

PBA-47669 When configuring the InternetX registrar with the Domain Registrar Wizard a user receives the "Convert to IDN failed..." error.

Domains

PBA-50348 The Organization Registration Number is asked by the WebNIC plug-in for the domains that do not require such data.

PBA-49666 If a new custom feature is added for the Registrar under the Registrar Features tab, this feature does not appear under the "Domain Zones" tab for this registrar.

E-Commerce

PBA-44399 External Redirect does not work for the payments containing double hyphen in payment data, e.g. payer's email address.

Licenses

PBA-50424 Synchronization of License Classes fails if these License Classes are used in the service plans that were delegated to cancelled resellers.

PBA-49181 The "Installed to" field within the License properties - is obsolete.

Online Store

PBA-50540 The Popular TLDs list for Domain registration form in the Store should be reworked.

PBA-50049 The Company Name instead of the Person Name is used on the confirmation screen for Company Account.

PBA-50004 The layout templates names are saved in PBA only in low case, which may break the Store.

PBA-49808 After the activation parameters for the PACI service plan are changed, the PACI screen in the Store does not work in accordance with the configured values.

PBA-49771 In Store, when trying to open the description of the plans that belong to a particular Sales Category, the descriptions of all of the available plans are expanded.

PBA-49759 The "Print this page" link at the completed order screen in Store redirects to the "Find Your Domain" screen

PBA-49629 The layout related to the "Transfer an existing domain" menu is broken in the Store.

PBA-44667 Online Store is not working in iframe under default security settings in IE 9.0.

Platform

PBA-50806 The "Manage DNS" icon is not displayed in Customer Control Panel > Account > Registered Domains.

Security

PBA-49782 When entering a new password, PA shows an unclear error message.

PBA-49404 The whitelist of safe-to-use PHP functions in Smarty templates is missing.

PBA-48380 The password in PBA can be changed for a Reseller's customer to a lower strength level, than provider requires.

PBA-48016 The ORDERS_VIEW privilege allows managing orders.

PBA-48015 The ORDERS_VIEW privilege allows setting the Sales Person via the 'Take from Account' option.

Miscellaneous

PBA-50844 The BLACK_DOMAIN anti-fraud filter is not applied automatically to sales order for domain subscriptions purchased from Customer Control Panel.

PBA-50606 An error occurs when deploying PBA SDK 5.5 on CentOS 6.4.

Documentation

PBA-51000 No information that when upgrading to PBA 5.5, customer plug-ins code should be adjusted before compiling.

PBA-50168 PBA 5.5 installer requires .NET 4.0, and this should be mentioned in documentation.

PBA-50112 Outdated info on OS software requirements in PBA deployment guides.

PBA-50021 It is needed to describe the ways of fixing the broken links in Customer Control Panel, for the case when POA 5.5 is integrated with PBA 5.4.

PBA-49814 The Cerberus Helpdesk is still mentioned in Provider's guide although it is no longer supported.

PBA-49784 The documentation for the Prepaid PACI feature should be fixed.

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/5.5/5.5.1-update1/el6/pba-installer-5.5.1-091.el6.x86_64.sh

Store: http://download.pa.parallels.com/pba/5.5/5.5.1-update1/el6/pba-templatestore-installer-5.5.1-091.el6.x86_64.sh

DB: http://download.pa.parallels.com/pba/5.5/5.5.1-update1/el6/pba-db-installer-5.5.1-091.el6.x86_64.sh

SDK: http://download.pa.parallels.com/pba/5.5/5.5.1-update1/el6/pba-sdk-installer-5.5.1-091.el6.x86_64.sh

Windows 2008R2 - 64-bit

App: http://download.pa.parallels.com/pba/5.5/5.5.1-update1/win64/pba-installer-5.5.1-091.x86_64.exe

Store: http://download.pa.parallels.com/pba/5.5/5.5.1-update1/win64/bm-templatestore-5.5.1-091.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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