[1.8.1] - 2026-09-01
This release settles the 1.8.0 feature set. A migration now answers the hard questions before it starts. Filesystem Backups gets a page of its own. A hosting plan offers only what the server can give a customer. One stray alias no longer costs you a certificate. A server that is updating itself now says so.
Migration
- Imported plans keep their limits (AB-1401, CloudLinux Only): A plan created by an import keeps the resource limits its accounts had on the old server. Sites run the same after the move as before it. The import report says whether the limits were applied. A plan you mapped a package onto yourself is left alone.
- You pick the PHP version (AB-1400): Before a migration starts, you choose a target version for every PHP version this server does not have. Nothing is imported until you answer each one. A site that had to change version keeps a warning on its PHP settings until you confirm it.
- A run that does not fit does not start (AB-1399): A migration will not start when the incoming accounts do not fit the free space here. You get a warning when they fit with little to spare. The check runs again on the accounts you confirm in the start dialog.
- A cancelled run really ends (AB-1424): A run you cancel ends up cancelled. It gives back what it was using, even when it stops responding. Nothing stays tied up behind a migration you stopped.
Backups
- Filesystem Backups page (AB-1448): Filesystem Backups has its own client page under Files > Filesystem Backups. A picker at the top chooses the domain you are working on. The domain list gets a Filesystem Backups action that opens the page on that domain.
Hosting plans
- Applications offered where they run (AB-1471): Applications appears on a plan only where the server can run one. A plan that already grants it keeps its setting.
- Module features follow the server (AB-1452): X-Ray, AccelerateWP, PostgreSQL Databases and Remote PostgreSQL appear only where the server has them. A plan can no longer promise what a customer will never see.
- Three more screens on the feature list (AB-1426): Email Catch All, API Keys and SSL Certificates follow the hosting plan feature list. Untick one and its menu entry goes. Its address stops answering. The customer sees the change without signing in again.
SSL
- One stray alias no longer costs the certificate (AB-1428): A certificate covers the optional names that work. These are the www form, parked domains and mail names. A name that points somewhere else is left out. The skipped names are listed with the issuance, so you can fix them later.
Updates
- The server says it is updating (AB-1474): The server shows a maintenance page while the panel updates itself. The update screen follows the progress. It tells you the update is finished before it reloads.
- System Updates covers all of AdminBolt (AB-1454): System Updates lists every part of AdminBolt on the server, not just the panel and the agent. The headline counts how many are behind. The progress screen stays with the update to the end.
Web server
- Restart brings a stopped server back (AB-1490): Restart on OpenLiteSpeed starts a web server that is down. It still reloads one that is running. It reports success once sites are served again.
- A new hostname certificate leaves sites up (AB-1472): A new certificate on the panel hostname leaves OpenLiteSpeed running. Customer sites stay up while you install it.
- Accounts see their own logs (AB-1456): Accounts on OpenLiteSpeed can read their access and bandwidth logs. The access survives a restart of the web server.
PHP
- The PHP Selector decides what customers can pick (AB-1430, CloudLinux Only): Domains and plans offer the PHP versions you enabled in the PHP Selector. A version you switch off or remove there disappears from the panel too.
- Sites on Remi PHP under OpenLiteSpeed work (AB-1356): A domain using Remi PHP on OpenLiteSpeed serves its pages. This holds in the panel and in the client API. The domain's PHP settings no longer offer a mode that cannot work there.
Security
- Git deploy keys checked at the field (AB-035, AB-1418): The Git deploy key field accepts only SSH keys. A key the panel cannot use is refused the moment you paste it. The reason is shown right away, instead of a deployment failing later.
Fixes and smaller changes
- Client cron jobs (AB-1321, AlmaLinux Only): Cron jobs a customer sets up run their PHP again on servers using SecureBox.
- Webmail after a post-install check (AB-1408): Webmail keeps working after an administrator runs the post-install check.
- Client actions during impersonation (AB-1453): Domain edits, databases, database users, SSL, catch-all and backups work while an administrator views a customer's panel.
- Sign out per panel (AB-1462): Signing out of one panel leaves the other panels open in the same browser.
- The panel's own mailbox (AB-1457): The panel's system mailbox keeps receiving mail after the server hostname changes.
- Server configuration restore (AB-1458): A server configuration restore runs to the end. The result it reports is the result you got.
- Mailbox usage on every list (AB-1461): The client API returns mailbox usage on the account-wide list too. It already did so per domain and per mailbox.
- Fields keep what you typed (AB-1465): The mailing list name, mailbox username, forwarder destination and database name fields keep their value when you leave the field. Create accepts the form as you see it.
- Embedded CloudLinux screens (AB-1464, CloudLinux Only): LVE Manager, X-Ray, Resource Usage and AccelerateWP stay usable in a narrow window. They scroll instead of cutting off.
- The domain on the account creation form (AB-1473, AB-1492): The domain on the form is a value you can accept or edit. Typing a username keeps the suggestion in step with it. A domain you type yourself is left alone. Generate Secure Credentials keeps a username you already typed.
- Upgrades open on the dashboard (AB-1475, AB-1476): An upgraded server opens on the dashboard, not the first-run wizard. This covers a server that has resellers or hosting plans but no accounts yet. It keeps its single default reseller.
- Navigation and single sign-on (AB-1463): Sidebar icons tell screen readers where they lead. An administrator who arrives over single sign-on works in their own session.
Install
curl -sSL https://get.adminbolt.com/install.sh | bash
Upgrade from 1.8.0
- Log in to the Admin Panel.
- Open System, then System Updates.
- Click Check for updates and review the release notes.
- Start the update if a newer version is available.
