Drupal 8 has been installed using composer and can be managed using the drush commandline tool. See an overview on https://agencychief.com/blog/how-install-drupal-8-composer-then-set-drush for more info. Also see https://www.drupal.org/docs/8/update/update-procedure-in-drupal-8
To update drupal and it's modules do the following:
- SSH to the server
- cd to /srv/www/vhosts/drupal8_stock/drupal-new/
- run composer update –with-dependencies to update drupal and the modules
- cd into /srv/www/vhosts/drupal8_stock/drupal-new/web
- run ../vendor/drush/drush/drush updb
- run ../vendor/drush/drush/drush cr
For more info on drush, see https://drushcommands.com/