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Blog & News

Latest updates, feature announcements, and security news from Panelica.

Security

cPanel Pre-Discloses Three New CVEs (CVE-2026-29201, 29202, 29203) — Second Emergency TSR in 10 Days

cPanel pre-disclosed three new CVEs ahead of the May 8, 2026 patch — the second emergency TSR in 10 days after CVE-2026-41940. Affected versions, /scripts/upcp guidance, and what hosters must do now.

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Security

Inside CVE-2026-41940: The cPanel Vulnerability Behind the .sorry Ransomware Campaign

CVE-2026-41940 (CVSS 9.8) has been actively exploited since February 2026. This technical breakdown covers the CRLF injection chain, .sorry ransomware file format forensics, a verified YARA rule, IOC pack, and a 10-step incident response playbook.

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Feature

The Hosting Panel Industry Is at an Inflection Point: Why the Next Decade Will Look Different

cPanel was designed in 1996. Three decades later, the control panel market has barely moved. Seven structural reasons explain why — and what is quietly beginning to change.

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Feature

Postfix 1998, Dovecot 2002, Roundcube 2008: Why Has the Email Stack Been Frozen for 25 Years?

SMTP dates to 1982. Postfix is maintained by one person. Spam remains unsolved. What if email were designed from scratch today — and could Hashcash have made spam mathematically impossible?

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Security

CVE-2026-31431 (Copy Fail): The 9-Year-Old Linux Kernel Flaw Affecting CloudLinux, Ubuntu, RHEL and Beyond

CVE-2026-31431 Copy Fail is a Linux kernel privilege escalation affecting CloudLinux, Ubuntu, RHEL, Debian and SUSE since 2017. Full mitigation guide, technical analysis and what hosting operators must do.

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Security

cPanel Auth Bypass Crisis (CVE-2026-41940): Why Panelica Customers Are Not Affected

A CVSS 9.8 authentication bypass in cPanel (CVE-2026-41940) exposed the entire hosting industry. Here is a technical breakdown of the exploit and why Panelica\u2019s architecture makes this class of attack structurally impossible.

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Announcement

Panelica Now Officially Supports Ubuntu 26.04 LTS — Resolute Raccoon Ready

Ubuntu 26.04 LTS "Resolute Raccoon" is out. Panelica is officially compatible from day one — fully tested across all 20 services, 5-layer isolation, and 246 API endpoints on Kernel 7.0.

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Security

The MySQL 9.7 cPanel Meltdown: Why Upstream Trust Without Guardrails Breaks Production

On April 21, 2026, a MySQL repository metadata bug caused thousands of cPanel servers to silently upgrade to MySQL 9.7 overnight. Here is what happened, why cPanel servers had no structural defense, and how Panelica's build pipeline prevents this class of failure.

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Announcement

Hosting Panel Benchmark 2026: Installation, Memory, Security Compared

Independent benchmark of Panelica, cPanel, Plesk, HestiaCP, CloudPanel, and CyberPanel on identical hardware. Real numbers on install time, RAM usage, disk footprint, and default security.

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Security

Plesk Vulnerability History: Why Security-Conscious Admins Are Switching

An honest review of Plesk security vulnerabilities including CVE-2025-66431 root code execution and CVE-2025-66430 Apache injection. Compares panel security architectures and how Panelica five-layer isolation reduces attack surface.

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Tutorial

cPanel Is Slow: Why Your Panel Takes 10 Seconds to Load and How to Fix It

Why cPanel dashboards load slowly, what causes WHM performance issues, and how modern single-binary panels like Panelica achieve sub-second response times through Go compilation and in-memory caching.

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Tutorial

PHP-FPM Per-User Isolation: How cPanel, Plesk, and Panelica Handle Multi-Tenant PHP

A deep technical comparison of PHP-FPM isolation strategies across cPanel, Plesk, and Panelica. Covers per-user pools, cgroup resource limits, open_basedir, disable_functions, and per-version management.

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