remove/update the app options (wikis, CMS, bulletin boards, Squirrelmail etc)
These are so out of date as to be seriously vulnerable, with versions that mostly cannot be readily installed without installing PHP version 7.0 and (often) to add in the mysql module to PHP even if you are using that.
These options should be removed unless it can be upgraded to the latest versions of PHP and the mysql module added to PHP - at the very least something on the page BEFORE installation saying that this will require outdated and unsupported versions of PHP and any additional modules so people
a) know the dangers and also
b) so they do not have to go through the steps of installation only to find that they do not have those things installed and will have to do that.
ideally, too, if they have a warning, but want to go ahead:
1) it would be good to have in that warning something to actually install the deprecated versions of this software automatically as part of that process and
2) where appropriate, to offer installation to a subdomain if there is a risk of overwriting an installation that exists where the user is going to install it.
At the moment, you can do a custom install but that is not necessarily obvious on the install page as 'custom' requires the dropdown and there is no warning before Laravel or Afterlogic overwrite your, e.g. Wordpress install, whilst the Nextcloud and Mattermost ones will not do an overwrite but install alongside.
Jonathan Jewell
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Thank you for your input and consideration for keeping Plesk and its users safe. We are aware that the catalogue is currently outdated. The APS technology itself is outdated. Plesk is currently in the process of replacing the old catalog system with a new extension.
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that is fantastic, thank you - do you know when that update/switch to a new one is due?