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2024 Release notes - Cloud Platform

This webpage describes the updates Acquia made to Cloud Platform in 2024. For the latest updates, see Release notes.

Cloud Platform - December 15, 2024 through December 21, 2024

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CHANGENW-11807[Cloud Next] New Relic is upgraded to v11.4.0.17.
FIX

SUB-6667

The Cloud Platform user interface displayed inaccurate Views and Visits data for the same day.
FIX

SUB-6767

The Cloud Platform user interface did not display data in the Views by Environment chart for Views and Visits.

Cloud Platform - December 1, 2024 through December 7, 2024

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change

SUB-6701

The default date range in Acquia’s Views and Visits is updated to cover the current and previous months.
CHANGENW-11580[Cloud Next] For customers that are not FedRAMP compliant, mcrouter is removed to optimize Memcache.

Cloud Platform - November 24, 2024 through November 30, 2024

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change

NW-11548

Environment variables were unavailable when users logged in to Cloud Platform through SSH.

Cloud Platform - November 17, 2024 through November 23, 2024

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change

PC-22787

Security patches are applied to PHP 8.1.30, 8.2.25, and 8.3.13.
CHANGENM-4673[Cloud Next] The Cloud Platform user interface is updated to display detailed error logs and indicate the layer where log forwarding fails. For more information, visit Common issues with log forwarding.
CHANGENW-11674

[Cloud Next] In the Acquia require line, the deployment_identifier setting is set to the Git SHA of the deployed code followed by the -from-scratch string. For example, if the Git SHA of the deployed code is abcdef012345, the deployment_identifier setting is set as follows:

$settings['deployment_identifier'] = 'abcdef012345-from-scratch';
CHANGENW-11530

[Cloud Next] Cloud Next environments are updated to use the Memcached version 1.6.32.

 
FIXPC-22117Symlinks broke in some of the Cloud Classic sites with the php_sessions directory when php_sessions were copied from Cloud Next to Cloud Classic.

Cloud Platform - November 10, 2024 through November 16, 2024

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FIX

NW-11669

[Cloud Next] Issues occurred when SimpleSAML was used with Ubuntu 22.04.

Cloud Platform - October 27, 2024 through November 2, 2024

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CHANGE

NW-11354

[Cloud Next] New Relic is upgraded to v11.3.0.16.
CHANGENW-8698

[Cloud Next] Cloud Platform does not display the following warning messages in mysqldumps:

  • Access denied; you need (at least one of) the PROCESS privilege(s) for this operation
  • Access denied; you need (at least one of) the RELOAD privilege(s) for this operation
CHANGE
NW-11588
[Cloud Next] The memory limit for Cloud Hooks is 2 GB for each environment.
CHANGESUB-6517The facebookexternalhit user agent is excluded from the Views and Visits data in Cloud Platform.

Cloud Platform - October 20, 2024 through October 26, 2024

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CHANGESUB-6500

The detailed data for the following Views and Visits metrics can be exported to a CSV file:

  • IP address
  • User agent
  • Path

In addition, an expanded view of the data can be viewed on a new tab. For more information, visit Subscription usage.

Cloud Platform - October 13, 2024 through October 19, 2024

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CHANGEPC-22343The default PHP version in the Cloud Platform user interface is 8.3.
CHANGENW-10924

[Cloud Next] The OS version can be upgraded to Ubuntu 22.04 through the Cloud Platform user interface. For more information, visit Configuring OS versions.

Cloud Platform - October 6, 2024 through October 12, 2024

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CHANGECX-19449The Cloud API endpoint is updated to deprecate the api_key and api_secret properties and use the client_id  and client_secret properties instead.
FIXNW-11547[Cloud Next] The expect command did not work.
FIX

SUB-6261

The Search Queries - Overall section on the Search Utilization page displayed errors.

Cloud Platform - September 29, 2024 through October 5, 2024

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CHANGEFR-1451

[Cloud Next] Cloud Next is updated to allow users to use grpc and rdkafka PHP extensions in environments that run on the following:

  • Ubuntu 20.04 and later
  • PHP 8 and later
CHANGESUB-6315

The details of the following additional metrics for Views can be viewed through the Cloud Platform user interface:

  • IP address
  • Path
  • User agent
CHANGEPC-21158Cloud Classic environments are updated to support the ed25519 host key for enhanced security.
CHANGENW-10994[Cloud Next] Cloud Next environments are updated to support the ed25519 host key for enhanced security.
CHANGENW-11481[Cloud Next] Scheduled cron jobs can be run for upto 3 hours.
CHANGENW-11354[Cloud Next] New Relic is upgraded to v11.2.0.15.
CHANGEPC-22221Security patches are applied to PHP 8.2.23, PHP 8.3.11, and New Relic.
FIXSUB-6514

The Cloud Platform user interface did not display:

  • Data in the Usage Summary section on the Overview page for subscriptions
  • Charts on the Views & Visits page

Cloud Platform - September 22, 2024 through September 28, 2024

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CHANGENW-11237[Cloud Next]  PHP is updated to 8.2.22 and 8.3.10.
CHANGENW-11237[Cloud Next] Drush 8 is updated to v8.4.12.
CHANGE

NW-11237

[Cloud Next] New Relic is upgraded to v11.1.0.14. 

Cloud Platform - September 8, 2024 through September 14, 2024

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CHANGE

NW-10949

[Cloud Next] The database copy, backup, and restore operations are updated to maintain compatibility between MySQL 5.7 and MySQL 8. This ensures that these operations continue to function as expected during database version upgrade of MySQL. For more information, visit Issues occur if codebases contain a CHARSET or COLLATE name.

Cloud Platform - August 25, 2024 through August 31, 2024

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CHANGE

CX-19227

The Cloud Platform user interface is enhanced to display a warning message for Ubuntu versions that are not FIPS compliant. For more information about such versions, see FIPS for Ubuntu.
CHANGENW-7654The memory for ImageMagick is limited to prevent out-of-memory errors. This might cause the module to take longer to generate images. You can override the limit through the MAGICK_MEMORY_LIMIT environment variable. However, Acquia does not recommend it.
CHANGECX-18930Cloud Platform is updated to allocate default roles to an organization based on its associated entitlements.
CHANGEPC-22040 Security patches are applied to PHP 8.2.22 and 8.3.10.
FIXKCC-1088[Cloud Next] There was an issue with the log forwarding and log downloading functionalities in Cloud Next environments. 

Cloud Platform - August 18, 2024 through August 24, 2024

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CHANGE

CX-19231

The Cloud Platform user interface is updated to display a warning message when you drag and drop code between environments with different node versions.

Cloud Platform - August 11, 2024 through August 17, 2024

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CHANGE

CX-18943

The following PHP parameters can be configured through the Cloud Platform user interface:

  • Max upload file size
  • Max client body size

Cloud Platform - August 4, 2024 through August 10, 2024

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CHANGE

CX-17966

The Cloud API endpoint is updated to deprecate the following properties:

  • features
  • metadata
  • id 
CHANGECX-18792The Cloud API endpoint is updated to include the headless-as-a-service entitlement.

Cloud Platform - July 28, 2024 through August 3, 2024

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CHANGENW-10313[Cloud Next]  The MySQL client version is updated from 5.7 to 8.0.

Cloud Platform - July 21, 2024 through July 27, 2024

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CHANGEPC-20698Security patches are applied to PHP 7.4.33.

Cloud Platform - July 7, 2024 through July 13, 2024

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CHANGEPC-20808[Cloud Next]  PHP is updated to 8.1.29, 8.2.20, and 8.3.8.
CHANGEPC-20808[Cloud Next] New Relic is upgraded to v10.22.0.12.

Cloud Platform - June 30, 2024 through July 6, 2024

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CHANGEPC-20390
PC-20196
PHP is updated to 7.4.33, 8.2.19, and 8.3.7.

Cloud Platform - June 23, 2024 through June 29, 2024

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CHANGENW-10889[Cloud Next] Cloud Hooks can be run for upto 3 hours before they time out. 

Cloud Platform - June 16, 2024 through June 22, 2024

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CHANGEPC-17858Cloud Platform supports PHP 8.3.

Cloud Platform - June 9, 2024 through June 15, 2024

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CHANGENW-10699[Cloud Next] New Relic is upgraded to v10.21.0.11.
CHANGENW-10871[Cloud Next] The scaling ability for PHP 7.4 applications is enhanced on Cloud Next applications.

Cloud Platform - June 2, 2024 through June 8, 2024

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CHANGEORCH-17269

Cloud Platform is enhanced to close port 22 in the balancer layer for public internet. For more information on closing port 22 at the web layer, see Controlling access with Shield.

CHANGEPC-20193Cloud Platform is enhanced to remove support for the deprecated Drush aliases, remote-host and remote-user , in favour of user and host respectively. You do not need to redownload these aliases unless you face issues with the current versions.

Cloud Platform - May 26, 2024 through June 1, 2024

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CHANGENW-10679[Cloud Next] The alpha version of Drupal 11 can be installed in Cloud Next applications.

Cloud Platform - May 19, 2024 through May 25, 2024

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CHANGEPC-19913The default version of PHP in Cloud Platform is 8.2.
CHANGENW-10551[Cloud Next] New Cloud Next environments and upgrades to Cloud Next environments are enhanced to use Ubuntu 20.04. For more information, see Configuring OS versions.
FIX

NW-10743

[Cloud Next] Cron jobs ran with legacy code.

Cloud Platform - May 12, 2024 through May 18, 2024

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CHANGENM-4387[Cloud Next] The log forwarding service in Cloud Next environments is enhanced to include priorities, such as ERROR, WARNING, and CRITICAL in the log files. These are in addition to the existing priorities like NOTICE and 133.
CHANGECX-18710The Platform Email feature cannot be enabled or disabled by using Cloud Platform API or Acquia CLI.

Cloud Platform - May 5, 2024 through May 11, 2024

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CHANGENW-10558[Cloud Next] New Relic is upgraded to v10.20.0.10.
CHANGENW-10558[Cloud Next] PHP is updated to 8.1.28 and 8.2.18.
CHANGENW-10569[Cloud Next] Apache recognizes the webp extension.

Cloud Platform - April 28, 2024 through May 4, 2024

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FIXNW-10647[Cloud Next] Clam AV did not work in Cloud Next environments with Ubuntu 20.04 enabled.

Cloud Platform - April 21, 2024 through April 27, 2024

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CHANGENM-4330[Cloud Next] The log forwarding service in Cloud Next environments is enhanced to send datetime to the syslog destination in microseconds.
CHANGEPC-19347Cloud Classic environments are updated to use the Memcached version 1.6.23.

Cloud Platform - April 14, 2024 through April 20, 2024

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CHANGECX-18679The Cloud API endpoints for creatingpromoting, and refreshing an Acquia Migrate Accelerate environment are deprecated. In addition, the migrate-accelerator entitlement is deprecated from Cloud API.

Cloud Platform - April 7, 2024 through April 13, 2024

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CHANGEFR-1762[Cloud Next] Cloud Next containers can be upgraded from Ubuntu 16.04 to Ubuntu 20.04 through the Cloud Platform user interface. For more information, see Configuring OS versions.
CHANGECX-18841The Cloud API endpoints for enabling and disabling Platform Email are deprecated.

Cloud Platform - March 31, 2024 through April 6, 2024

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CHANGECX-18669In the Cloud API endpoint that updates the remote administration settings for an application, null values are supported for the pause_until and deploy_at parameters.
FIXNM-4236Log streaming did not work in Cloud Classic environments.

Cloud Platform - March 17, 2024 through March 23, 2024

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CHANGEFR-1261[Cloud Next] The web-layer version of the log streaming feature can be used in Cloud Next environments.
CHANGEFR-2248In Cloud Classic environments, Shell logs can be used to view all the commands that are executed by the application user.
CHANGENW-9328[Cloud Next] The Drupal version can be accessed in the Drupal request logs.

Cloud Platform - March 3, 2024 through March 9, 2024

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CHANGENW-9930[Cloud Next] New Relic is upgraded to v10.17.0.7. In addition, the vulnerability_management.package_detection configuration setting is disabled in Cloud Next environments.
CHANGE

CX-18509

Cloud Platform API can be used to view the lists of deployable operating systems for an environment.
CHANGEPIN-16430This release includes security updates for the Platform Email service in Cloud Platform.

Cloud Platform - February 18, 2024 through February 24, 2024

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CHANGESUB-5466The Views and Visits feature in Cloud Platform is enhanced to exclude data from the GoogleOther crawler.
CHANGE

SUB-5266

The Cloud Platform user interface displays the Views and Visits data till t-2 days ago, where t indicates the day when you access the Cloud Platform user interface. For example, on 22 Jan, 2024, you can view the data until 20 Jan, 2024.

Cloud Platform - February 11, 2024 through February 17, 2024

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CHANGE

CX-18551

[Cloud Next] Cloud Next is updated to allow users to download logs for up to 24 hours rather than a fixed duration of 24 hours.

Cloud Platform - January 28, 2024 through February 3, 2024

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ChangeCX-18593[Cloud Next] The Memcached memory limit parameter cannot be updated through the Cloud Platform user interface if it is already set beyond the maximum memcache allocation value of 12 GB. To change the memcache allocation, contact Acquia Support.
ChangeCX-18582[Cloud Next] The memcached_limit parameter cannot be updated through the Cloud Platform API if it is already set beyond the maximum memcache allocation value of 12 GB. To change the memcache allocation, contact Acquia Support.

Cloud Platform - January 14, 2024 through January 20, 2024

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ChangeCX-18245[Cloud Next] The maximum limit for the number of databases per environment is updated to 100.

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