We're not involved in any of the Early Adopter / General Release for 17.8.11 confusion above, because it's been explained very clearly (we think). Our Plesk setup is General Release and Safe Updates For System Packages only, so is quite smooth running (but we do customise things ourselves sometimes too). Our experience is very good so far, with both Plesk itself and this forum.
Looking forward, we'd like to upgrade to a General Release 17.8.11 installation that runs everything (and we mean everything) at TLSv1.3
Yes TLSv1.3 is still not officially released yet, so yes this means there's plenty of patience required from everyone. However, looking forward again just from a Plesk perspective: This WILL need a recompiled / respecified / re-worked sw-cp-server to accompany a General Release 17.8.11 Plesk Installation. We've answered
a question about this already, but we haven't got an answer from anybody at Plesk... yet. It's a fairly basic system requirement, especially as the current sw-cp-server is massively out of date
Can anybody from Plesk and/or forum members advise a future roadmap inclusion / plan / ETA / a.n.other future self compiling option for this, if, it's still not planned to be provided by Plesk as part of 17.8.11? It feels like it's shrowded in mystery, yet it is such a simple job (by comparison) in relation to all the related 17.5.3. > 17.8.11 upgrade work.
All the other items we think are needed after the Plesk 17.5.3. > 17.8.11 upgrade e.g. openssl upgrade / openssl within php upgrade plus many other custom changes outside of Plesk and/or Distro should all be able to be achieved relatively
easily thanks mainly to good reference info within this forum but occasionally from outside it too
sw-cp-server.... your time is up