This year has been transformative for Ploi, marked by a beautiful set of new features and improvements. While maintaining our commitment to stability and performance, we've delivered several major updates that make server management even more seamless and secure (and let’s not forget the official Ploi Elephpant: https://ploi.io/elephpant 🥰).

Ubuntu 24.04 support 🐧

We're proud to announce full support for Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, ensuring you have access to the latest stable operating system for your servers. This addition brings enhanced security features and improved performance to your infrastructure.

ZeroSSL integration 🔒

Security remains a top priority, and with our new ZeroSSL support, you have an additional trusted option for SSL certificate management, making secure deployments even more accessible.

PHP 8.4 support ⚡

Keeping up with the latest PHP developments, we've added support for PHP 8.4, allowing you to leverage the newest features and improvements in PHP development.

Passkeys support 🔑

We've implemented passkeys support, offering a more secure and convenient way to authenticate, moving beyond traditional password-based security.

Under the hood

Beyond these major features, we've dedicated significant effort to bug fixing and platform stability:

• Enhanced system reliability
• Improved deployment performance
• Strengthened security measures
• Refined user interface responsiveness

What's coming for 2025?

While we're proud of what we've accomplished in 2024, we're already looking ahead to next year. Our roadmap at https://roadmap.ploi.io/ continues to grow with your feedback and suggestions. If you have ideas for new features or encounter any issues, please don't hesitate to submit them.

A few highlights we will be focussing on for 2025:

• IPv6 support (https://roadmap.ploi.io/projects/1-server-level-requests/items/2-ipv6-support)
• Typesense server type (https://roadmap.ploi.io/projects/1-server-level-requests/items/130-typesense-server)
• Ploi Surge (https://roadmap.ploi.io/projects/1-server-level-requests/items/1126-load-testing-tool-ploi-surge)
• Customized server (https://roadmap.ploi.io/projects/1-server-level-requests/items/803-customized-server-creation)
• Streaming backups (https://roadmap.ploi.io/projects/1-server-level-requests/items/14-stream-backups)
• Brand new file explorer
• And many more… 

Stay connected with us on social media:

• Twitter: https://twitter.com/ploi_deploy
• Facebook: https://facebook.com/ploideploy
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ploi_deploy/
• Mastadon: https://phpc.social/@ploi
• Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/ploi.io

Thank you for being part of the Ploi community in 2024! We're excited to continue serving your deployment needs and bringing you more innovations in 2025! 🚀

Changelog

• [Added] Last used column to the passkeys update
• [Added] New testing domain: ploi.sh
• [Added] Database copy connection URL in databases tab
• [Changed] PHP installation tab is now improved and searchable
• [Changed] We now store server logs separately allowing us to log more content instead of the 40.000 character limit
• [Dropped] PHP 5.6 support has been dropped
• [Fixed] Issue when saving excluded tables for database backups
• [Improved] Swoole (PHP) installation is now installing properly including detecting failures
• [Improved] Event (PHP) installation is now installing properly including detecting failures
• [Improved] Swap installation is now smarter for newly created servers, we are working on swap management as well after installations