Whats new in ASL 2.0 Beta 4: Support for Plesk Server Administrator 8.3.0 Improved web GUI New checks for End of Life operating systems PMSON updated to 1.39 ASL command line utilites updated to 1.9.6 Added notification configuration for OSSEC New Mod_security rule manager OSSEC updated to 1.4 New vulnerability checks added for mod_evasive, grsecurity, and Plesk

Bugfixes:

• mod_evasive checks now restart apache correctly
• watchdog module no longer overwrites the default crontab for psmon
• ASL updater now correctly downloads the rule updates
• ssh checks now detect root login conditions correctly
  
• watchdog no longer checks for non-existant services, pop-ssl and imap-ssl
• rkhunter and mod_evasive checks detect missing configuration files correctly
• removed slow audit dir permissions checks

 and much much more!

This update adds in the Plesk 8.3.0 packages to the archive, and deprecates 8.2.x.

Whats New with the archive:

• Fedora Core 7  Plesk is now supported
• Layout now uses a symlink to /latest, currently pointed at 8.3.0
• Atomic Installer  will prompt to add the Plesk repo to your yum config
• Index pages have been update
• 8.2.x packages have been deprecated and removed (low on space, I'm working on that!)

And it is trouble. Breun and I have spent a considerable time working out issues with it, the major one for anyone out there who has had to deal with it already knows that it breaks Horde in Plesk. This is due to modifications to php_admin_value that once invoked cannot be changed. From what Ive determined so far this is entirely based on the context of the first virtual host to invoke it, making it extremely difficult to track down. I first noticed it when I could no longer log into Joomla, Bruen detected this when he could not modify the include path. Its entirely dependent on the setting being modified.

The fix for now is to replace  the use of php_admin_value with php_value.  I have only tested this as far as the domains on this server. You will find this used all over the place in zz010_psa_httpd.conf, domain level httpd.includes, and most likely in your own customizations. The biggest problems Ive had are with register_globals and include_path, I have not run into any issues with PSA httpd.include files and open_basedir.  

If you do run into problems with other settings, or specific applications please let me know here, or post about it in the forums. 

Update: Plesk 8.3 is out, and at the very least Horde has been fixed by default. I haven't had a chance to try 8.3 yet, so I don't know if this solves any other issues.