cPanel 134 Is Here – Less Friction, More Control

We’ve been rolling out the latest cPanel updates across our servers over the past few days. Most of what changed lives deep in the system – things like security patches, upgrades, and compatibility with newer operating systems. You won’t notice most of it, and that’s kind of the point.

But a handful of changes did land in places you actually use. Here’s the version that matters for day-to-day hosting.

Account Preferences, redesigned

The Account Preferences section in cPanel 134 got a proper redesign. It’s now the single place where you manage everything related to your account identity – your password, your contact email address, and your notification preferences. It sounds like a small thing, but if you’ve ever gone hunting through cPanel trying to figure out where to update your contact email or adjust which alerts you receive, you’ll appreciate having it all in one clean screen.

Head to cPanel → Preferences → Account Preferences and it’s all right there.

Temporary domains

Once your hosting account is active, you can create a temporary domain directly from cPanel and use it to build or test a new website before it goes live. It’s handy when you want to work on something without pointing a real domain at it yet – or when the domain isn’t ready but you want to get started.

You’ll find it under cPanel → Domains. When the time comes to switch to your real domain, you update it there. And if you’re running WordPress, you’ll also need to update the domain in WordPress itself, since WordPress stores it separately in the database.

AutoSSL improvements

Free SSL certificates through AutoSSL have always worked well, but the experience when something went wrong was frustrating. The system would mark a domain as failed without telling you much about why. Was it a DNS issue? A CAA record conflict? A propagation delay? Hard to say.

AutoSSL improved both things. Error messages are now specific and actionable – they tell you exactly what’s blocking the certificate so you know what to check. Certificates also issue faster after a domain is added, so there’s less of that waiting period where you’re not sure if it’s working or not.

Email filters and auto-replies in Roundcube

If you manage your email through Roundcube, there’s a set of tools in there now that previously required either a separate app or digging through server-level settings. They’re called Sieve filters and here is what they let you do.

You can create rules that automatically sort incoming emails into folders based on the sender, subject, or keywords in the message. You can set up an auto-reply so anyone who emails you gets an instant response. And you can configure an out-of-office message with a specific start and end date – useful when you’re away and want people to know without having to think about turning it on and off manually.

All of it is in Roundcube’s settings, nothing extra needed.

A new HTML editor in File Manager

The built-in HTML editor in cPanel’s File Manager has been replaced. The old one had been around for a long time and it showed – slow to load, clunky interface, limited formatting options. The new editor, Jodit, is a significant step up. It’s faster, the interface is cleaner, and it actually behaves like a modern editor should. It’s marked as Beta, but in practice it works well for quick edits without needing to pull out an FTP client.

Two quiet DNS improvements

DKIM keys and some third-party verification records – the kind you get from Google Workspace, Microsoft 365 or similar services – are often very long. Longer than 255 characters, which used to be cPanel’s limit for a single TXT record. The workaround was splitting them manually, which was fiddly and easy to get wrong. That limitation is gone. You can now paste the full record in as-is.

The other change is quieter but probably more impactful over time. Every new domain you add to a cPanel account now automatically gets a DMARC record in its DNS zone. DMARC is an email authentication standard that protects your domain from being spoofed in phishing or spam, and it also helps your outgoing emails reach inboxes rather than junk folders. Most people never added it manually even though they should have. Now it’s just there from the start.

All of the above is already live for every JetHost client. If you have questions about any of it, our team is available around the clock.