Resolved New Let's Encrypt extension upgrade (version 3.1.13) breaks old Plesk versions

[RalfMeyer]

Server operating system version

Debian 9

Plesk version and microupdate number

18.0.44.3

Hi everyone,

Today, Plesk released a new version of the Let's Encrypt extension (Change Log for Plesk Obsidian) (version 3.1.13).
It seems that the extension was also updated on older Plesk versions. We still have a few servers running Debian 9 (yeah, I know...) and for this reason old Plesk version (18.0.44.3), which we will upgrade in the coming days / weeks. The Plesk panel on these systems is now not usable, as we get the following error message directly after login into Plesk:

Composer detected issues in your platform: Your Composer dependencies require a PHP version ">= 8.0.2".

I have checked the panel.log and this confirmed that this is related to the Let's Encrypt extension:

[15-Jun-2023 13:05:24 Etc/UTC] PHP Fatal error: Composer detected issues in your platform: Your Composer dependencies require a PHP version ">= 8.0.2". You are running 7.4.28. in /opt/psa/admin/plib/modules/letsencrypt/vendor/composer/platform_check.php on line 24

I think this is due to the fact that these old Plesk panel versions still use PHP 7.4, instead of 8.0.

I think this might be a mistake in the extension update, as as far as I know, Plesk has a way of setting dependencies for new extension versions (as done here, for example: Change Log for Plesk Obsidian)

Is it possible to downgrade the extension? Can you push an update to resolve this for the extension? I totally get that Debian 9 and Plesk 18.0.44.3 is EOL and we are about to upgrade, but obviously this is a problem for us right now and I assume for some other users as well.

Thanks.

 

[AYamshanov]

Hi!

Is it possible to downgrade the extension? Can you push an update to resolve this for the extension? I totally get that Debian 9 and Plesk 18.0.44.3 is EOL and we are about to upgrade, but obviously this is a problem for us right now and I assume for some other users as well.

Thank you for the report, we already are working on the fix.

 

[AYamshanov]

A version with fix is prepared and released.
If you do not have an access to Plesk GUI interface and want to force updating to the new version, use the next command via command line interface,
plesk bin extension --upgrade-url https://ext.plesk.com/packages/16835ed5-f030-4645-a4af-b1afe60e783a-letsencrypt/download?3.1.14-871

 

[cmaxwell]

That command fixed it for us - many thanks.

For reference the old affected server is running:

Product version: Plesk Obsidian 18.0.41.1
OS version: CentOS 8.5.2111 x86_64
Build date: 2022/02/07 23:00
Revision: 8cecdf6536124408249dd8ea2063e3e6f632ba5b

 

[RalfMeyer]

Thank you @AYamshanov, this fixed it for us as well.