Release notes

Cloud Platform versions

Cloud Platform documentation refers to both the Cloud Classic and Cloud Next versions of this product, unless otherwise noted.

This webpage describes the regular updates Acquia has made to Cloud Platform. Note that some release dates may be in the future to allow for subscribers to prepare their environments for upcoming product versions.

Note

For previous release information, see the individual release note pages for 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, and 2018.

For a list of known issues in Cloud Platform and Cloud Next, see Known issues in Cloud Platform and Known issues in Cloud Next respectively.

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

Type	Related ticket	Release note
CHANGE	NM-4330	[Cloud Next] The log forwarding service in Cloud Next environments is enhanced to send `datetime` to the syslog destination in microseconds.

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

Type	Related ticket	Release note
CHANGE	CX-18679	The Cloud API endpoints for creating, promoting, 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¶

Type	Related ticket	Release note
CHANGE	FR-1762	[Cloud Next] You can upgrade your Cloud Next containers from Ubuntu 16.04 to Ubuntu 20.04 through the Cloud Platform user interface. For more information, see Configuring OS versions.
CHANGE	CX-18841	The Cloud API endpoints for enabling and disabling Platform Email are deprecated.

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

Type	Related ticket	Release note
CHANGE	CX-18669	In 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.
FIX	NM-4236	Log streaming did not work in Cloud Classic environments.

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

Type	Related ticket	Release note
CHANGE	FR-1261	[Cloud Next] You can leverage the web-layer version of the log streaming feature in Cloud Next environments.
CHANGE	FR-2248	You can use Shell logs in Cloud Classic environments to view all the commands that are executed by the application user. For more information, see Shell logs.
CHANGE	NW-9328	[Cloud Next] The Drupal version can be accessed in the Drupal request logs.

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

Type	Related ticket	Release note
CHANGE	NW-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	You can use Cloud Platform API to view the lists of deployable operating systems for an environment.
CHANGE	PIN-16430	This release includes security updates for the Platform Email service in Cloud Platform.

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

Type	Related ticket	Release note
CHANGE	SUB-5466	The 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¶

Type	Related ticket	Release note
CHANGE	CX-18551	[Cloud Next] You can download logs for any time duration up to 24 hours. Previously, you were able to download logs for a fixed duration of 24 hours.

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

Type	Related ticket	Release note
Change	CX-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, you can contact Acquia Support.
Change	CX-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, you can contact Acquia Support.

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

Type	Related ticket	Release note
Change	CX-18245	[Cloud Next] You can have a maximum of 100 databases per environment.

The information contained herein is subject to change without notice and is not warranted to be error-free. If you encounter any errors, contact Acquia Support.