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PBA-49181 The "Installed to" field within the License properties - is obsolete.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
Upgrade
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
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
PBA will require a restart during the update.
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.
- Additional documentation can be found here: http://download.pa.parallels.com/pba/5.5/.