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Security & continuity

Critical PHP vulnerabilities: patches deployed and protection strengthened

Security bulletin: October 21, 2026 Following the disclosure of critical vulnerabilities CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619, Nuagerie carried out a priority response on its managed cPanel hosting platform. Our technical team tracked official advisory updates, deployed applicable fixes and performed checks to confirm that the patches were present and active in the affected PHP environments. Response status: fixes for both vulnerabilities have been verified across every PHP...

Hosting & cloud

Hosting maintenance: PHP and CloudLinux components updated with compatibility checks

Nuagerie has completed a coordinated maintenance operation on PHP runtimes and supporting CloudLinux components used by its managed hosting platform. The work included PHP packages, extensions, supporting libraries and Imunify components, followed by checks of application responses and the configurations used by hosted websites. Maintaining the components behind your applications A website relies on more than its application code. PHP extensions, libraries and the hosting...

Hosting & cloud

PHP upgrade and default version adjustment

In December 2022, Nuagerie updated the PHP versions offered in its cPanel/WHM hosting environment and adopted PHP 8.1 as the default. This was part of the ongoing modernization of the software foundation used by our customers’ websites and applications. A more recent default version The default version provides a reference runtime for the hosting environment. Updating it helps accommodate evolving application requirements and newer generations of the language. It does not...

Web & applications

PHP 8.0: a major release and a new compatibility milestone

The PHP project released PHP 8.0 on November 26, 2020. This major version introduced new language capabilities and changes to existing behavior. For website owners, its significance extended beyond the version number displayed in a hosting panel: a successful transition depended on the application as well as its runtime. What the release changed PHP 8.0 introduced named arguments, union types, attributes and the nullsafe operator, giving developers new ways to express...

Hosting & cloud

PHP upgrade and change to the native default version

In September 2020, Nuagerie began moving the native PHP version of its hosting environment from PHP 5.6 to PHP 7.4. The objective was to modernize the runtime used by hosted websites while retaining a transition path for applications with specific compatibility requirements. Modernizing PHP with application compatibility in mind PHP runs a large proportion of hosted websites and applications. Its evolution matters both for developer features and for software maintenance. A...

Security & continuity

PHP application protection: introducing Proactive Defense

In July 2018, Nuagerie updated its servers to Imunify360 3.4.1. The release combined maintenance fixes with the production release of Proactive Defense, a feature intended to identify potentially malicious behavior during PHP script execution. Protection during application execution The feature’s behaviour depends on its configuration. Availability does not mean that the same blocking mode is applied to every account. Proactive Defense added a different perspective to...