Release Notes
Full release notes for Parallels Operations Automation (POA) version 5.5.3 can be downloaded here.
New Features and Capabilities
Hosted Exchange
- Preview of Subscription Migration from Exchange 2010 to Exchange 2013 in the same ActiveDirectory domain is available
Functional Changes
Linux Shared Hosting
- Update to phpMyAdmin 4.x
VPS Hosting
- Actual disk space usage is shown for a dedicated Virtual Private Server (VPS) in the Customer Control Panel
Known Issues
- Parallels Business Automation - Standard (PBA-S) integration is temporarily not supported
Fixed Issues
Hosted Exchange
- POA-81604 Custom MX record template description is incorrect in documentation
Linux Mail Hosting
- POA-81895 Error occurs on attempt to access the forwarding list in MyCP for email with the storage not set
Windows Shared Hosting
POA-81828 The IIS webspaces tab should be hidden if a customer or a reseller does not have an IIS webspace
- POA-82114 The task "Grant WebFileManager-service(id=161) access to host" fails
Linux Shared Hosting
POA-82109 Wrong search results by shared NG websites, possibly because of the keep-alive
POA-81852 The Mysql5 service PPM package cannot be installed on host with MySQL 5.6
POA-81851 The description of the Synchronize Apache Services function on NG is unclear
POA-81850 Linux Shared Hosting NG resource usage is not updated after upgrading from POA 5.4 to 5.5-respin6 and 5.5-update1
POA-81845 PHP stops working after upgrade to 5.5 on the NG cluster because of low memory limits
POA-81791 The Control Panel opens very slowly
POA-81654 The task taskPrepareExDocRoot does not restart
- POA-82209 Privileges escalation vulnerability
VPS Hosting
POA-81542 Error occurs during Plesk domain creation if a domain record for a nonexistent Plesk instance exists in the database
POA-81503 The logic of the registerDomainName task needs improvement
POA-81145 The pleskConfigurationTimeout task is always completed successfully
POA-80989 The Customer Control Panel backup page is not refreshed after clicking the Restore button
POA-80984 The periodic task "Create Customers VPS scheduled backups" (taskPeriodicalVPSBackupStarter) needs optimization
- POA-80813 In VM subscription, the memory drop-down is missing when ordering Entitlements of 1 GB RAM and rolling back to screens to select the Entitlement of 2 GB
Application Hosting
POA-81702 The package summary is not localized in the Application Vault list
POA-81088 In some methods, the RdbmsSession parameter can be empty unexpectedly
POA-80971 The domain is provisioned to SpamExperts, but it is not binded to the application instance in POA
POA-72668 Sometimes the Hosted Exchange mailboxes are not added to LiveOffice during its provisioning
APS-14628 Two variables one after another cannot be defined in the navigation
APS-14605 "The resource of the aps.environment type not found" error occurs when removing or updating the limits for every APS1 instance created for the POA version earlier than 5.5.2
APS-14000 The auto-generated proxy classes should correctly handle the returned value
APS-13753 The verification script output is not taken into account during service instance provisioning or it is not parsed correctly by POA
APS-10689 It is impossible to activate the "Personal Archiving Access" per mailbox
- APS-10299 It is impossible to create the Distribution List when LiveOffice is included in the subscription
Cloud Infrastructure
CCU-7216 The server console could become inaccessible in the control panel if this server was in use by a VNC connection
CCU-7121 The Cloud Infrastructure module service controller could hang on start if the Active MQ service was not running
CCU-7116 Delivering OS templates to Hardware Nodes could become impossible if there are other OS templates that were not registered on any Hardware Node
CCU-7058 The Cloud Infrastructure agent running on the Hardware Nodes could occasionally fail to perform Autoscale operations on the servers
CCU-7045 When creating or configuring a new server, it could be impossible to set up a backup schedule for it
CCU-6502 If server backups were restricted by a subscription, it could still be possible to back up the servers using API
CCU-6276 New server wizard could be launched even when the maximum number of servers allowed by subscription has been used up
- CCU-7122 Users could not be disabled in the Billing panel when the Instance Manager node registered in POA is not running
Common
POA-82085 Windows 2008 R2 SP1 should be recommended for Core servers in PA 5.5
POA-82043 User passwords brute force vulnerability
POA-81942 POA produces 10 GB of logs per day
POA-81853 Migration fails on the data consistency check
POA-81774 Error message is shown on attempt to open the context Help
POA-81764 Subscription deletion fails
POA-81677 Dedicated Hosting Deployment guide bug
POA-81645 POA watchdog cannot check the new webfilemanager
POA-81601 It is not possible to register the Windows shared node in POA 5.5
POA-79701 POA produces 11 GB of logs per day on Windows Management Node
POA-78905 Apache local file inclusion vulnerability on the domain parking server
POA-78047 Some characters are removed from error messages while passing the error message to POA
POA-73065 The item highlighting in the left menu does not switch when you move to another item
- POA-82213 The POA UI is very slow and writes thousands of errors to the poa-ui.log
Obtaining
The update can be downloaded here.
Please contact Support for its deployment.
Installation
You can find full installation instructions in the UPDATE.txt file from the
distribution.
Additional
All required system updates can be easily installed through pa_updates_installer (see instructions).