Deprecations and Stability Improvements
Deprecations
Due to the deprecation notice from the AWStats vendor, we will remove AWStats from the product distribution in Plesk Obsidian 18.0.79.
We recommend switching to the alternative tool available in the product.
Stability Improvements Across the Platform
Alongside these feature improvements, this release delivers a wide range of fixes that improve reliability across Plesk components and extensions.
Several issues affecting Backup Manager, Laravel Toolkit, Joomla Toolkit, and email services have been resolved. Mail reliability has also been improved through fixes related to DKIM signing, DMARC reporting, and mail configuration repairs.
On Linux systems, improvements include:
- Better Fail2Ban compatibility.
- Improved sendmail wrapper logging by printing the invocation context to the log.
- More accurate diagnostics reporting.
- Issue resolved where Plesk did not send password reset emails from the login page.
Windows environments benefit from:
- Clearer error messages when applying PHP settings.
- Improved log rotation behaviour.
- Fixes related to application pool configuration.
Visit the changelog to view the full list of Linux and Windows specific fixes.
Third-Party Component Updates
Linux
- Updated nginx to version 1.28.2.
- Updated Dovecot to version 2.4.2.
- Updated MariaDB to version 11.8.
Windows
- Updated OpenSSL to version 3.0.19.
- Updated PHP to version 8.4.17.
- Updated Node.js to versions 22.22.0, 20.20.0.
- Updated .NET to versions 10.0.2, 9.0.12, 8.0.23.
- Updated OWASP ModSecurity® CRS to version 4.22.0.
It’s Time to Update
To view the full documentation and details of additional changes, please visit the Plesk release notes.
Plesk Obsidian 18.0.76 is available through the Plesk Installer. Unsure of how to update? We’ve got you. We recommend continuously updating your servers to the latest release to ensure platform security, usability, and stability.
