Upcoming drops in Plesk Onyx v.17.8

Plesk has announced a series of upcoming drops in Plesk Onyx v.17.8.

In short:

1. No EZ template support.
2. No direct upgrades from Plesk 11.x (and older) to Plesk 17.8.
3. No Debian 7 support.

In detail:

1. No EZ template support

The drop of EZ templates in Plesk 17.8 means you will only be able to use the Autoinstaller for Plesk installations. There won’t be any EZ templates available. Only Plesk 17.5 and older can be installed via EZ templates. Options to install Plesk 17.8 include:

• Install Plesk in batch mode
• Install the latest available Plesk version for the server OS in batch mode
• Install Plesk with interactive console interface
• Install Plesk with interactive Web GUI interface
• Other methods like container/VM

Supported configurations can be directly upgraded to Plesk Onyx 17.8 via Autoinstaller only. There are no direct upgrades to Plesk Onyx 17.8 available via EZ templates.

Limitation: the latest available upgrade via EZ templates can be done to Plesk 17.5.

Options to upgrade to Plesk 17.8:

• to upgrade Plesk with interactive Web GUI interface
• to upgrade Plesk with interactive console interface
• to upgrade Plesk with interactive Web GUI interface

2. No direct upgrades from Plesk 11.x to Plesk 17.8.

The following table provides available upgrade paths from Plesk 11.x to Plesk Onyx. Please note that direct upgrades are possible to Plesk Onyx 17.5 only.

3. No Debian 7 support

Plesk is going to drop the Debian 7 support in version 17.8 because the LTS end of life date of Debian 7 is May 2018.

If you have any questions about these upcoming drops in Plesk Onyx v.17.8, feel free to contact our customer support team.