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Newly added and upgraded OS Templates and briefly mentions new services that are launched.

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2022:

5 December: New template: CentOS 7.9 (64-bit) with upgraded 20 GB of root disk space is now available on all Simple Cloud, Custom Cloud and Virtual Private Cloud plans.

21 November: New template: Ubuntu 22.04.1 (64-bit) is now available on all Simple Cloud, Custom Cloud and Virtual Private Cloud plans.

18 November: New template: CentOS 7.9 (64-bit) + WHM/cPanel 106 (excluding license) with upgraded 20 GB of root disk space is now available on Simple Cloud Plans 2 and above, Custom Cloud and Virtual Private Cloud plans.

9 September: New template: Ubuntu 20.04.5 (64-bit) is now available on all Simple Cloud, Custom Cloud and Virtual Private Cloud plans.

2021:

July 2: New template: Rocky Linux 8.4 (64-bit) is now available on all Simple Cloud, Custom Cloud and Virtual Private Cloud plans.

January 28: New template: ClearOS 7.8.1 (64-bit) is now available on all Simple Cloud, Custom Cloud and Virtual Private Cloud plans.

2020:

February 18: New template: CentOS 8.1 (64-bit), CentOS 8.1 (64-bit) + LAMP stack (using MariaDB) and CentOS 8.1 + WordPress 5.3.2 are now available on all Simple Cloud, Custom Cloud and Virtual Private Cloud plans.

2019:

September 20: New template: Ubuntu 18.04.3 (64-bit) + Tomcat 9.0.24 is now available on all Simple Cloud, Custom Cloud and Virtual Private Cloud plans.

September 16: Security Advisory: (Another) Exim Mail Server Vulnerability

August 2: New template: Ubuntu 18.04.2 (64-bit) + LAMP stack is now available on all Simple Cloud, Custom Cloud and Virtual Private Cloud plans, to replace the existing template.

July 25: New template: Debian 10 (64-bit), code-named Buster, is now available on all Simple Cloud, Custom Cloud and Virtual Private Cloud plans.

June 13: Security Advisory: Exim Mail Server Vulnerability

May 21: Security Advisory: Remote Desktop / Terminal Services Affecting Windows Server 2008 and Windows 7 OS

May 16: New template: Microsoft Windows Server 2019 (64-bit) is now available on all Simple Cloud, Custom Cloud and Virtual Private Cloud plans.

May 15: Security Advisory: CPU Vulnerabilities - Microarchitectural Data Sampling (MDS)

May 15: New template: CentOS 7.6 (64-bit) is now available on all Simple Cloud, Custom Cloud and Virtual Private Cloud plans.

March 12: New template: Ubuntu 18.04.2 (64-bit) and Ubuntu 18.04.2 (64-bit) + LAMP stack are now available on all Simple Cloud, Custom Cloud and Virtual Private Cloud plans.

2018:

November 1: New template: Ubuntu 18.04.1 (64-bit) is now available on all Simple Cloud, Custom Cloud and Virtual Private Cloud plans, to replace the existing Ubuntu 18.04 (64-bit) OS template.

November 1: New template: Ubuntu 18.04.1 (64-bit) + Docker 18.06.1 CE is now available on all Simple Cloud, Custom Cloud and Virtual Private Cloud plans, to replace the existing Ubuntu 14.04.3 (64-bit) + Docker 1.10.1 OS template.

October 5: New template: CentOS 7.5 (64-bit) + DirectAdmin 1.541 is now available on all Simple Cloud, Custom Cloud and Virtual Private Cloud plans, to replace the existing CentOS 6.6 (64-bit) + DirectAdmin OS template.

October 4: New template: CentOS 7.5 (64-bit) is now available on all Simple Cloud, Custom Cloud and Virtual Private Cloud plans, to replace the existing CentOS 7.2 (64-bit) OS template.

October 3: New template: Debian 9.5 (64-bit) is now available on all Simple Cloud, Custom Cloud and Virtual Private Cloud plans.

October 2: New template: CentOS 7.5 (64-bit) + WHM/cPanel 74 template is now available on Simple 2 plans and above, Cloud Builder (Custom Cloud) plan and all Virtual Private Cloud plans, replacing the old CentOS 6.6 (64-bit) + WHM/cPanel 11.46 template.

September 4: New template: Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (64-bit) is now available on all Simple Menu and VPC plans.

May 2: New template: Ubuntu 16.04.4 (64-bit) + PostgreSQL 10 is now available on all Simple Menu and VPC plans.

April 24: New template: Ubuntu 16.04.4 (64-bit) + Django 2.0.4 on Python 3.5.2 is now available on all Simple Menu and VPC plans.

April 2: New template: Microsoft Windows Server 2016 (64-bit) with MS-SQL 2016 Web edition is now available on Plan M and above, and all VPC plans.

March 15: New template: Microsoft Windows Server 2016 (64-bit) with MS-SQL 2016 Standard edition is now available on Plan M and above, and all VPC plans.

February 28: New template: A new Microsoft Windows Server 2016 (64-bit) template is now available on Plan M and above, and all VPC plans, to replace the existing template.

New template: Microsoft Windows Server 2016 (64-bit) with MS-SQL 2016 Express Edition is now also available on Plan M and above, and all VPC plans.

January 10: Security Advisory: CPU Vulnerabilities - Meltdown and Spectre

2017:

September 21: Security Advisory: Optionsbleed Vulnerability Affecting Apache HTTPD

August 14: New template: Microsoft Windows Server 2016 (64-bit) is now available on Plan M and above, and all VPC plans.

Note that on Windows Server 2016 OS template, the data-disk is not initialized by default. Please refer to this knowledge-base article on how to initialize the data-disk after Windows Server 2016 OS servelet creation.

July 6: New template: Ubuntu 16.04.2 LTS (64-bit) + LAMP Stack is now available on all Simple Menu and VPC plans.

June 23: Security Advisory: Ransomware Threat

June 22: Security Advisory: Stack Clash Vulnerability Affecting Linux Systems

June 14: New template: Ubuntu 16.04.2 LTS (64-bit) is now available on all Simple menu and VPC plans.

May 15: Security Advisory: WannaCry Malware Affecting Windows Systems

May 4: New template: Ubuntu 14.04.5 LTS (64-bit) is now available on all Simple Menu and VPC plans.

2016:

November 16: New template: CentOS 7.2 (64-bit) is now available on all Simple Menu and VPC plans, to replace the older CentOS 7 (64-bit) template. The new CentOS 7.2 (64-bit) template also equipped with password reset functionality which was not available on the earlier CentOS 7 template.

July 28: Security Advisory: HTTPoxy Vulnerability.

June 1: New template: Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (64-bit) + Webmin 1.801 is now available on all Simple menu and VPC plans.

May 5: Security Advisory: OpenSSL Vulnerabilities.

April 23: New template: Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (64-bit) is now available on all Simple Menu and VPC plans.

April 23: New template: Ubuntu 14.04.4 (64-bit) is now available on all Simple Menu and VPC plans, to replace the existing Ubuntu 14.04.3 (64-bit) OS template. This template also fixes the Linux kernel's CXGB3 driver use-after-free vulnerability.

April 15: Security Advisory: Windows SAM and LSAD Downgrade Vulnerability (Badlock).

April 7: Security Advisory: Linux kernel's CXGB3 driver use-after-free vulnerability.

March 14: New template: Ubuntu 14.04.4 (32-bit) is now available on all Simple Menu and VPC plans.

March 5: IPv6 Network Beta-Testing Completed.  More about how to get your free static IPv6 address, IPv6 server configuration, and more.

March 4: Security Advisory: DROWN Attack SSL/TLS Vulnerability

February 22: New template: CentOS 6.7 (64-bit) + CentOS Web Panel (CWP) 0.9.8.11 is now available on all Simple Menu and VPC plans. CWP is a free hosting control panel as an alternative to cPanel, Plesk or DirectAdmin.

February 21: New template: CentOS 6.7 (64-bit) is now available on all Simple Menu and VPC plans, to replace the existing CentOS 6.6 (64-bit) OS template. This template also fixes the GNU C Library vulnerability.

February 18: Security Advisory: GNU C Library vulnerability

February 15: New template: Ubuntu 14.04.3 (64-bit) + Docker 1.10.1 is now available on all Simple Menu and VPC plans. You can now run Docker containers within SimplerCloud's servelets.

January 21: Security Advisory: Linux kernel's "Use After Free" vulnerability

January 20: Security Advisory: cPanel Security Issues

2015:

December 31: New template: Ubuntu 14.04.3 (64-bit) + OwnCloud 8.5.1 is now available on all Simple Menu and VPC plans, to replace the older Ubuntu 14.04.1 (64-bit) + OwnCloud 7.0.2.

December 12: New template: Ubuntu 14.04.3 (64-bit) + Plesk 12.5.30 is now available on all Simple Menu and VPC plans, to replace the older Ubuntu 12.04.5 (64-bit) + Plesk 11.5.30.

November 23: New template: Ubuntu 14.04.3 (64-bit) + WordPress 4.3.1 is now available on all Simple Menu and VPC plans, to replace the older Ubuntu 14.04.2 (64-bit) + WordPress 4.1.

November 20: New template: Ubuntu 14.04.3 (64-bit) + LAMP stack is now available on all Simple Menu and VPC plans, to replace the older Ubuntu 14.04.2 (64-bit) + LAMP stack.

November 16: New template: Ubuntu 14.04.3 (64-bit) is now available on all Simple Menu and VPC plans, to replace the older Ubuntu 14.04.2 (64-bit).

October 20: New template: CentOS 7 (64-bit) is now available on all Simple Menu and VPC plans.

October 15: IPv6 Test-Bed Implementation on all servelets. Please refer to IPv6 Knowledge Base category for more information.

September 15: New template: Debian 8.1 (32-bit) is now available on all Simple Menu and VPC plans.

September 8: New template: Debian 8.1 (64-bit) is now available on all Simple Menu and VPC plans.

July 7: New templates: Ubuntu 14.04.2 (64-bit) + TomCat 8.0.21.0 and Ubuntu 14.04.2 (64-bit) + Ghost 0.6.0 are now available on all Simple Menu and VPC plans, to replace the older Ubuntu + TomCat and Ubuntu + Ghost templates.

June 16: New template: Ubuntu 14.04.2 (64-bit) + Magento CE (Community Edition) 1.9.1.1 is now available on Plan M and above, and all VPC plans.

June 15: New templates: Ubuntu 14.04.2 (64-bit) + Dokku v0.3.17 and Debian 7.8 (64-bit) + Froxlor 0.9.33.1-1 are now available on all Simple Menu and VPC plans, to replace the older Ubuntu + Dokku and Debian + Froxlor templates.

June 9: New template: Ubuntu 14.04.2 (64-bit) + Ruby on Rails 4.2.0 is now available on all Simple Menu and VPC plans, to replace the older Ubuntu 12.04.2 (64-bit) + Ruby on Rails template.

April 21: New template: ArchLinux 3.19.3-3 (64-bit) is now available on all Simple Menu and VPC plans, to replace the older ArchLinux OS template.

April 17: Security Advisory - Critical Alert: HTTP.sys Remote Code Execution Vulnerability Affecting Windows Systems - CVE-2015-1635

April 16: New templates are being released to replace the older templates:

Ubuntu 14.04.2 (64-bit)
Ubuntu 14.04.2 (64-bit) + LAMP stack
Ubuntu 14.04.2 (64-bit) + LEMP stack (nginx)
Ubuntu 14.04.1 (64-bit) + WordPress 4.1
Ubuntu 14.04.2 (64-bit) + Joomla 3.3.3
Ubuntu 14.04.2 (64-bit) + Drupal 7.29
Ubuntu 12.04.5 (64-bit)
CentOS 6.6 (32-bit)
CentOS 5.11 (64-bit)
CentOS 5.11 (32-bit)
CloudLinux 6.6 (64-bit) (excluding license)
Debian 7.8 (64-bit)
Debian 7.8 (32-bit)

March 7: Security Advisory - Critical Alert: FREAK Attack Vulnerability

January 30: Security Advisory - Critical Advisory: "GHOST" glibc library vulnerability in most Linux systems

January 21: New template: CentOS 6.6 (64-bit) with the latest patches to address the bash bug issue is now available on all Simple Menu and VPC plans, to replace the older CentOS 6.5 (64-bit) template.

January 14: New template: Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS (64-bit) + CodeIgniter is now available on all Simple Menu and VPC plans, to replace the old Ubuntu 13.04 (64-bit) + CodeIgniter template.

January 11: New template: CentOS 6.6 (64-bit) + DirectAdmin with the latest patches to address the bash bug issue is now available on all Simple Menu and VPC plans, to replace the older CentOS + DirectAdmin template.

2014

December 11: New template: Slackware 14.1 (64-bit) is now available on all Simple Menu and VPC plans.

December 8: New template: CentOS 6.6 (64-bit) + WHM/cPanel 11.46.0 with the latest patches to address the bash bug issue is now available on Plan S and above, and all VPC plans, to replace the older CentOS + cPanel template.

November 18: Updated template: Windows Server 2012 R2 OS template with the latest patches is now available on Plan M and above, and all VPC plans.

November 12: Security Advisory - Microsoft Windows Schannel Vulnerability has been discovered. You are advised to run Windows Update to install all the latest patches to address the issue.

October 17: Security Advisory - New SSL vulnerability called POODLE has been discovered. You are advised to disable SSLv3 protocol on your applications running SSL on your servelets/servers, especially your web server. More information can be found here.

October 14: New template: Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS (64-bit) + OwnCloud 7.0.2 is now available on all Simple Menu and VPC plans. Useful for those who want Dropbox-type file server on the cloud.

October 13: New template: Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS (64-bit) is now available on all Simple Menu and VPC plans, to replace the old Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (64-bit) template.

October 10: New template: Ubuntu 12.04.5 LTS (64-bit) + Plesk 11.5.30 is now available on all Simple Menu and VPC plans, to replace the old Ubuntu + Plesk template.

Sept 25: Security Advisory - bash bug / shellshock vulnerability - a critical security bug affecting GNU Bash commonly used in Linux-based operating systems:

August 15: New template: Debian 7.6.0 (64-bit) is now available on all Simple Menu and VPC plans, to replace the old Debian 7.2.0 (64-bit) template.

August 13: New template: Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS (64-bit) + Joomla 3.3.3 is now available on all Simple Menu and VPC plans, to replace the old Ubuntu 13.04 + Joomla template.

August 12: New template: Debian 7.6.0 (32-bit) is now available on all Simple Menu and VPC plans.

August 4: New template: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (64-bit) + WordPress 3.9.1 is now available on all Simple Menu and VPC plans, to replace the old Ubuntu 13.04 + WordPress template. Initial WordPress configuration is much simpler now, knowledge-base article has been updated.

July 31: Domain search has been improved to allow for multiple domain extension select and search. This will better accomodate the more than 500 new GTLDs that will be coming on the market by end 2015.

July 24: New template: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (64-bit) + LEMP stack (nginx, MySQL and PHP) is now available on all Simple Menu and VPC plans.

July 22: Ubuntu+Drupal OS template has been updated to the latest Ubuntu version 14.04 LTS and latest Drupal version 7.29.

July 10: New template: Windows Server 2012 + SQL Server 2014 (Web edition and Standard edition) are now available on Simple Menu (plan M and above) and VPC plans.

June 19: New template: CentOS 6.5 (32-bit) OS template is now available on all plans.

June 13: Security Advisory: OpenSSL Man-in-the-Middle (MITM) Flaw

June 3: New template: Windows Server 2012 + SQL Server 2014 (Express edition) is now available on Simple Menu (plan M and above) and VPC plans.

May 19: Ubuntu+LAMP stack OS template is updated to the latest Ubuntu 14.04 LTS version.

May 8: Ubuntu 14.04 (64-bit) OS Template is now available.

May 6: Windows Server 2012 R2 OS Template is now available.

May 6: Ubuntu+Plesk OS Template is updated to the latest Ubuntu 12.04.4 LTS version.

April 20: CentOS+DirectAdmin OS Template has been updated to include some components previously not installed by default, such as Dovecot, Squirrelmail and phpmyadmin.

April 12: New Service: Full Plesk control panel offering, including Plesk Powerpack, Web Presence Builder, Premium Anti-Virus, and more, for Servelets and Dedicated Server available from Order -> Plesk Control Panel Licenses

April 8: CentOS+cPanel OS Template has been updated to the latest CentOS version 6.5 and increased root-disk size from 10 GB to 15 GB.

April 8: Please read this important Heartbleed Advisory