Last modified: 2026 September 24

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Meridian 1.3.6-1

2026 September 24

Added German, Indonesian, Japanese and Russian

Meridian is now available in German, Indonesian, Japanese and Russian. You can choose each of these languages in Preferences. More of the interface is translated.

Added a page for a required password change

When your hosting provider requires you to change your password, or your password has expired, Meridian now shows a page where you can set a new one. Previously, you reached a page that could not be found, and could not continue until an administrator switched the account to another theme. Changing your password now warns you when you have active API tokens, because they keep working after the change and should be replaced.

Added the account’s own mailbox to the Email hub

The Email hub now lists your cPanel account’s own mailbox, marked as the main account. Only its filters can be managed there. Options that do not apply to it are hidden, and it is not counted among the mailboxes you have created or offered where it cannot be used.

Restored the Run mode setting for Node.js applications

The Run mode setting (Production or Development) is back in a Node.js application’s App configuration, and you can now also choose it when you deploy a new application. Changing it asks you to confirm because it restarts the application. It is unavailable, with an explanation, for an application that does not run as a server or that has not been deployed yet.

Improved the dashboard and the AI Assistant

The Action Required section on the dashboard now always fills exactly one row, however wide the window is, and Show more reveals every item. A long AI Assistant answer now opens at its first line instead of scrolling to its end. While the assistant is thinking, only the progress dots are shown. Rating an answer with a thumbs up or down now sends your rating to the service that produced the answer, for accounts that allow analytics. Email accounts are now listed alphabetically by default.

Fixed archive extraction and backup restore reporting

Extracting a damaged archive in File Manager, or restoring a damaged backup from the Backups tab, now reports the error instead of saying it succeeded. Harmless warnings from an archive that extracted correctly are not reported as failures.

Fixed certificate coverage reporting

A certificate that does not include a website’s domain is no longer counted as securing it. The Security and Websites pages and the security score now report such a site as not covered, separately from a site with no certificate at all, and the Security page can filter for it. The Websites message about an uncovered site now names the domain.

Fixed an icon conflict with CloudLinux

Meridian no longer installs its own copies of the CloudLinux application icons, which conflicted with CloudLinux’s LVE Manager package when cPanel updated.

Meridian 1.3.5-1

2026 September 16

Added the ability to resume an unpublished Nova for WordPress site

A Nova for WordPress site that you started but did not publish can now be picked up again, from the Websites list and from the website’s own page, instead of being offered to you as a build you have not started. The offer disappears once you publish the site.

Every website builder now reads Continue with … while you have unfinished work with it, rather than naming only the editing step.

Matched Nova for WordPress to your appearance setting

Nova for WordPress now opens in the light or dark appearance you chose in Meridian, as the rest of Nova already did.

Changed how the AI Assistant hands over a password

A password the AI Assistant creates for you is now hidden behind a fixed row of dots that does not reveal its length, and is handed to you once. If it can no longer be retrieved, the assistant tells you so and directs you to reset it, rather than reporting that the copy failed.

A change you declined in the AI Assistant is no longer proposed again alongside your next, unrelated request.

Fixed FTP account deletion

Deleting an FTP account no longer deletes a second account that happens to share its username on another domain.

Fixed the expiration dates shown for API tokens

API tokens in Preferences no longer all report Never expires. Each token now shows the date it really expires, and an expired token is marked as such. We removed the Last Used column, because cPanel does not record when a token was last used.

Fixed the certificate reported for a website

A website is no longer reported as secured by a certificate that is not the one actually served for it. The Websites, Security and Dashboard pages now agree on which certificate covers a domain.

Fixed the status of a redeployed application

Redeploying a web application now updates its status when the deployment finishes, instead of reading Deploying until you reload the page. The redeployment keeps running, and stays visible, if you move to another page while it works.

Fixed the suggested actions on the dashboard

Suggested actions on the dashboard are now the same height as one another, with their buttons aligned, however long their descriptions are.

A website builder is no longer offered for a domain that another builder already owns. We also reworded the message shown while Meridian checks a domain’s nameservers.

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Meridian 1.3.3-1

2026 September 10

Changed theme switch-back rules

cPanel accounts that you create on Meridian, and that have never had Jupiter access, can no longer switch back to Jupiter themselves. We removed the Switch Back to Jupiter option from WHM’s Feature Manager interface (WHM » Home » Packages » Feature Manager). An administrator can still change such an account’s theme directly, such as through WHM’s Modify an Account interface, a package change, or the API. Doing so permanently allows the account to use the standard Theme Switching-gated switch-back going forward.

cPanel accounts that started on Jupiter, or were ever moved to Jupiter, can still switch back and forth themselves as long as the hosting provider’s Theme Switching feature is enabled.

Added more languages

Meridian is now available in Spanish, French, Brazilian Portuguese, and Turkish. Server messages, such as Website Backups progress and the feature names and descriptions in WHM’s Feature Manager interface (WHM » Home » Packages » Feature Manager), now appear in your language.

Added the Connections tab

We added the Connections tab, which holds your API tokens and your MCP connection. Your hosting provider controls access to it with the MCP Connection feature in WHM’s Feature Manager interface (WHM » Home » Packages » Feature Manager).

Added a record of the AI Assistant’s changes

The AI Assistant now shows a record of the changes it made, and flags the ones worth a closer look. When you decline a change the assistant proposes, it now gives you step-by-step instructions to make the change yourself. The assistant also shows whether it can recover a paused action.

Added a bulk environment variable editor

We added a bulk .env editor to the App Env tab. Use the Reveal option to display current values. The editor guards against saving an incomplete file.

Deploy a web application to a domain you own

You can now deploy a web application onto a domain that your account already owns. This requires the AI App Hosting plugin version 1.0.2 or later. For more information on how a domain switches between serving files and serving an application, read our How Domains Serve Content documentation.

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Meridian version 1.0.0

Released July 2026

Introduced the Meridian interface

In cPanel & WHM version 138, we introduced Meridian, a new goal-based cPanel interface. Meridian organizes common hosting tasks into six purpose-built hubs for Websites, Email, Files, Databases, Security, and Performance. Its Dashboard highlights required actions, suggests relevant next steps, and provides an account overview.

Meridian’s Guided Setup lets users configure a domain, website, and email in one flow. Users can choose Sitejet Builder, WordPress, a Node.js application from a Git repository or zip file, or upload their own files.

Meridian also introduces several AI-powered capabilities. Availability varies by hosting provider, enabled features, and release tier.

• cPanel AI Assistant — An embedded chat panel in the Meridian interface that lets users ask questions about their account in plain language and get answers without leaving the interface. Users open it from the floating Ask AI button in the bottom-right corner. The assistant is context-aware: it recognizes the interface the user is on and any selected domain, and it offers suggested prompts relevant to the current hub. It can explain a feature or concept and guide users through a task step by step. It can also diagnose issues by reading read-only account details such as domains, disk quota, email accounts, FTP accounts, databases, SSL certificate status, and the AutoSSL error log. When the hosting provider enables it, the assistant can also complete simple changes, such as creating an email account, but only after the cPanel user approves the change. The assistant is opt-in during early access, and hosting providers enable it for their users.
• Nova — An AI website-building option in Guided Setup that generates a site with AI, alongside the existing Sitejet Builder, WordPress, and Node.js options.
• AI App Hosting — A plugin that deploys an AI-built Node.js application to a user’s account with Podman. This is distinct from the Guided Setup option for deploying a Node.js application from a Git repository or zip file. This release only supports subdomain deployments.
• Model Context Protocol (MCP) support — An integration that connects AI tools and agents to a cPanel account through the Model Context Protocol. It links the account to a WebPros MCP server so an MCP-capable AI client, such as Claude Code or Claude Desktop, can automate website deployment and account maintenance. Users can deploy an AI-built application to their website by asking their AI client, without needing to use SSH or manually manage API tokens.

Meridian is an opt-in alternative to the Jupiter interface, not a replacement for it. Jupiter remains fully supported for advanced and less-frequently used tools, and users can return to it at any time by selecting the Classic cPanel Theme option. For a tour of Meridian, read our Welcome to Meridian and Navigating Meridian documentation.

To request early access to Meridian and cPanel AI tools, visit our cPanel AI early access page.

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