Category: Announcements

Notice of Upgrade to Credit Card Processing System

On April 10th, we will begin the process of transitioning all cPanel customers and partners to our new and improved payment processing system. This upgrade will solve many issues that have existed within our legacy system and allow for a smoother billing experience moving forward.  Our intention is to make this transition as smooth and behind-the-scenes as possible, however the potential does exist for certain customers and partners to take minor action relative to their …

ELevating cPanel & WHM

Welcome to the cPanel & WHM® contribution to the ELevate project by the AlmaLinux OS Foundation.  ELevate enables upgrades between major versions of RedHat® Enterprise Linux® (RHEL) derivatives.  At cPanel, we’ve created the cPanel ELevate tool that manages the ELevate process end-to-end so that systems administrators can safely and efficiently upgrade a cPanel & WHM server.    Why ELevate Your cPanel & WHM Server?  Sysadmins struggle when it’s time to do operating system upgrades. They’re very costly …

CloudFest 2022

Join us as we celebrate our first in-person event of the year!  Cloudfest 2022 kicks off with a welcome event on Monday, March 21, then the conference runs from March 22-24th. Check out this sneak preview.  Some of the top leaders and creators in the cloud will be speaking this year, and plenty of time for networking. Check out the fantastic line-up of speakers and start 

WordPress Toolkit Version 5.9 Update

As we continue making improvements and adding additional functionalities to WordPress Toolkit, we wanted to take a moment to share some of what has changed with our recent 5.8 and 5.9 updates. What’s new with WordPress Toolkit? Many of our most recent updates are targeted towards security, because keeping the internet safe (and your websites secure) will always be a priority of ours. With that said, we’d like to highlight a couple of these features: …

Updated Paper Lantern Removal Schedule

Back in August of 2021, we announced the deprecation of Paper Lantern. Today we’re updating the schedule for the final stage: its removal. In the previous deprecation schedule, we planned a series of changes across 3 versions: 100, 102 LTS, and 104. With 100 and 102 LTS changes already happening, we are now delaying the removal of Paper Lantern from 104 to 108. In version 108 (debuting Q3-Q4 of 2022): We will stop all development, …

Jupiter, Version 102, and You!

As cPanel & WHM Version 102 nears its release, many of you have reached out to us with feedback about Jupiter, as it appears in the end-user interface as well as WHM. Thank you! We’ve been listening carefully and are happy to now share what we’ve learned, as well as our game plan going forward. Within WHM In v102, we revealed Jupiter in WHM. We haven’t addressed WHM’s user experience in quite some time, so …

cPanel SEO Has Launched

You’ve likely seen our requests for beta testers over the past few months, as well as the mentions in our newsletter – it’s been no secret that a new product was on the way.   The day has now come, and we couldn’t be happier to announce that cPanel SEO has arrived!  cPanel SEO was designed to not only improve your search engine results, but also the actual content of your website. …

Updated End User License Agreement – January 2021

We’ve recently updated our End User License Agreement. The primary purpose is to update the European Union’s “Standard Commercial Clauses” (SCC) in our Data Processing Agreement (DPA).  cPanel is providing the SCCs to help our customers who are in the European Economic Area comply with their regulatory obligations in light of the “Schrems II” decision.  These SCCs will automatically apply to cPanel, and …

The Apache Log4j exploit and how to protect your cPanel server

On Friday, December 10, 2021, a vulnerability for Log4j was announced in CVE-2021-44228.   Log4j is developed by the Apache Foundation and is widely used by both enterprise apps and cloud services. It was reported by Alibaba Cloud’s security team to Apache on November 24. They also revealed that CVE-2021-44228 impacts default configurations of multiple Apache frameworks, including Apache Struts2, Apache Solr, Apache Druid, Apache Flink, and others. The United States Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security …

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As we near the end of 2021, we’re looking forward and feeling excited about all the changes and improvements we’re making, much of which is a direct result of feedback we’ve received from our customers. We’ve reached out via multiple channels throughout this year to get as much feedback from you as we can… some of which has even already been implemented into our products! We wanted to take one last opportunity to hear from …