Resolved Plesk 12.5 with CentOS 7.3 compatible?

[ESTUGO]

Hi there,

today we have find a CentOS upgrade in the yum repo from CentOS 7.2 to 7.3, that we have installed:

cat /etc/redhat-release
CentOS Linux release 7.3.1611 (Core)

We have installed Plesk 12.5 with MU #55
[root@www74 ~]# cat /root/.autoinstaller/microupdates.xml| grep version
<product id="plesk" version="12.5.30" installed-at="20160105T150819">
<patch version="55" timestamp="" installed-at="20161209T113009" />

Will there be an official Plesk patch? If so, when ?


With best regards
Erik

 

[UFHH01]

Hi Erik,

the Plesk documentation ( => https://docs.plesk.com/release-notes/12.5/software-requirements/#s2-1 ) states clear:

...
CentOS 7 (64-bit)
...

not "CentOS 7.0", nor "CentOS 7.1", nor "CentOS 7.2" and even not "CentOS 7.3" - just "CentOS 7 (64-bit)", which includes ALL CentOS 7.x (64-bit) - versions.
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If you experience any issues/errors/problems after your OS - MINOR-RELEASE - upgrade ( pls. note the difference between "minor" and "major" - release upgrades, where "minor-release - upgrades" include "security/bugfixes" - updates/upgrades, while a "major-release - upgrade" is an upgrade to another OS version: Example: 7.x to 8.0 ), pls. consider to POST the issues/errors/problems, so that ( possible ) investigations can be done, to get to the root cause of your issue/error/problem.

 

[Linulex]

the Plesk documentation ( => https://docs.plesk.com/release-notes/12.5/software-requirements/#s2-1 ) states clear:
not "CentOS 7.0", nor "CentOS 7.1", nor "CentOS 7.2" and even not "CentOS 7.3" - just "CentOS 7 (64-bit)", which includes ALL CentOS 7.x (64-bit) - versions.

@Erik has a valid question because a statement like this from plesk isn't always what it is.

To paraphrase @UFHH01

The uservoice comment https://plesk.uservoice.com/forums/184549-feature-suggestions/suggestions/4027088-dnssec states clearly

... We’re happy to announce that this feature is now available in Plesk Onyx ...

Not "on specific versions", nor "only with bind x.y" - just "available in Plesk Onyx", which includes ALL ONYX installations on all supported Operating systems

ask any centos 6 user how true this statement of plesk was ....

I know they changed it later, but that is not the point, the point is that this was announced and promised by plesk.

regards
Jan

 

[ESTUGO]

Hi @Linulex , Hi @UFHH01,

in the past, Plesk released a extra Microupdate: https://docs.plesk.com/release-notes/12.5/change-log/

12.5.30 Update 37
Linux

• CentOS 6.8 is now supported.
• CentOS 7.2 is now supported.

It would be nice if Plesk-Support (@IgorG ) answered !

 

[Linulex]

@Erik

maybe something changed between 7.1 and 7.2 that a change in plesk was needed and now it didn't so a MU isn't needed.

regards
Jan

 

[Bitpalast]

I can confirm that Plesk Onyx works correctly with CentOS 7.3 and existing installations can upgrade to CentOS 7.3. Tested on two machines that have been upgraded from 7.2 to 7.3 today. When you run the upgrade though the Onyx Package Manager, ZendManager will throw a few errors. That is because the database packages are updated and the database cannot be accessed for a short while. After the upgrade finishes, Plesk works normal as always.

 

[IgorG]

I can say only that we never support newest OS versions for non-latest Plesk version. Most probably that Plesk 12.5 will successfully work on CentOS 7.3 but we have not tested it.
If you need to use latest version of supported OSes - it's time to go to Plesk Onyx.

 

[Linulex]

we never support newest OS versions for non-latest Plesk version

Plesk as we know it: supported version means in plesk speak something else as the rest of the world understands it.

and now they are even ignoring there own recommended version policy

https://www.plesk.com/support/plesk-lifecycle/

So: if plesk 12 (including 12.50.x) is a recommended version and it is not supported on centos 7.3, then what you are in fact saying: one of our recommended versions is only supported on a previous (non-secure) version of centos 7.

regards
Jan

 

[Bitpalast]

Jan, you expect Plesk to guarantee functionality of a software with operating system versions that did not exist when the software was originally developed. That cannot be done. 12.5 runs on the OS platforms that existed when 12.5 was released. How should the developers have known in 2015 what CentOS 7.3 at the end of 2016 will be like? It is not possible to guarantee such compatibility with future underlying platforms. It does not make sense to ask for compatibility of outdated software with future operating systems.

 

[Linulex]

Centos 7.2 also didn't exist when plesk 12.5.30 was released, so your reasoning is incorrect.

12.5.30 isn't outdated, its a fully supported and even a recommended version.

regards
Jan