cPanel & WHM version 92 for CentOS 8

Overview

This document details information for cPanel & WHM’s software releases for CentOS 8. cPanel & WHM version 92 is available for use in servers running CentOS 8.

Warning:

cPanel & WHM version 92 for CentOS 8 is experimental software and we do not recommend using it in production environments.

Upgrade to a later version of cPanel & WHM to use CentOS 8 and CloudLinux 8 in production environments.

Operating Systems

We’ve written this document for advanced WHM users who are familiar with installing CentOS in their servers. For more information, read our Installation Guide.

We tested cPanel & WHM version 92 in the following environments:

  • CentOS 8

Changes that impacted functionality

These are the biggest changes in CentOS 8 that affected functionality in cPanel & WHM:

  • CentOS 8 removed support for the TCP Wrappers package (tcp_wrappers).

Functionality

Currently, functionality of cPanel & WHM version 92 for CentOS 8 is limited to the following interfaces and functions:

  • Installation — Users should be able to successfully install cPanel & WHM version 92 in a CentOS 8 server.
  • Account creation and management:
    • Account Functions
    • Account Information
    • Backup
    • Multi-Account Functions
    • Packages
    • Resellers
  • Webhosting:
    • cPanel
    • Service Configuration
      • FTP Server Configuration — We removed the TCPwrappers section from the interface. This section appeared when a user installed ProFTPD.
      • FTP Server Selection — We removed the string “Supports TCP Wrappers based access controls.” from the ProFTPD Advantages cell.
    • Software
  • Email management:
    • Email
    • Server Contacts
  • DNS tools:
    • Clusters
    • DNS Functions
  • MySQL® Management:
    • SQL Services
      Warning:

      MySQL 8 is the default database service for cPanel & WHM version 92 for CentOS 8. During the installation process, system administrators have the ability to select the default database between MySQL 8 and MariaDB 10.3 only. For more information, read our Installation Guide.

  • Firewall Management:
    • Security Center
      • Host Access Control — We updated this interface’s look and feel to accommodate CentOS 8’s removal of support for the TCP Wrappers package (tcp_wrappers).
    • SSL-TLS
  • Network Management:
    • IP Functions
    • Networking Setup
  • Additional tools:
    • Development
    • Restart Services
    • Scripts
    • Server Configuration
    • Server Status
    • System Health
    • System Reboot

We haven’t tested the functionality for cPanel & WHM version 92 in the WHM interfaces and functions below. However, we plan on testing these in a future release:

  • Locales
  • Market
  • Plugins
  • Support
  • Themes
  • Transfers