This webpage describes the updates Acquia made to Acquia Cloud in 2018. For the latest updates, see Release notes.
Acquia Cloud update - December 20, 2018
December 20, 2018
Acquia Cloud was updated with the following change:
Acquia Cloud no longer supports the
X-Forwarded-Host
proxy header by default. Customers that must use theX-Forwarded-Host
header for their application can re-enable the header by adding the following code after the Acquia include statement in theirsettings.php
file:$settings['reverse_proxy_host_header'] = 'X_FORWARDED_HOST';
Acquia Cloud update - December 17, 2018
December 17, 2018
Acquia Cloud was updated to resolve the following identified issue:
- A two-factor authentication (TFA) error prevented subscribers from successfully signing in to
https://accounts.acquia.com/sign-in
.
Acquia Cloud updates - week of December 9, 2018
December 17, 2018
Acquia Cloud includes the following updates for the week of December 9, 2018 through December 15, 2018:
Changes
The Acquia Cloud interface now includes an icon that allows you to quickly access several associated Acquia products, including:
- Acquia Cloud
- Edge
- Acquia Journey
- Acquia Lift
- Acquia DAM
- Developer Tools
This feature is available on the following websites:
- accounts.acquia.com
- cloud.acquia.com
- insight.acquia.com
- www.acquia.com
Fixed issue
- When attempting to reset a user password using a TFA-enabled account at accounts.acquia.com , an error was displayed.
Acquia Cloud update - December 14, 2018
December 14, 2018
Acquia Cloud was updated to resolve the following identified issue:
- Acquia Cloud prevented subscribers from successfully signing in from
https://accounts.acquia.com/sign-in
.
Acquia Cloud updates - November 28, 2018
November 28, 2018
Fixed issue
- Customers may experience brief connectivity issues as SSH services restart.
Acquia Cloud updates - week of November 4, 2018
November 13, 2018
Acquia Cloud includes the following updates for the week of November 4, 2018 through November 10, 2018:
Changes
- Drupal applications can now create environment variables from within the Acquia Cloud interface.
Fixed issue
- ImageMagick failed to process PDFs correctly.
Acquia Cloud 1.112
November 9, 2018
Acquia Cloud includes the following updates:
Release Schedule
Platform | Release date |
---|---|
Acquia Cloud Professional | Wednesday, November 14, 2018 |
Acquia Cloud Enterprise | Wednesday, November 28, 2018 |
Site Factory | Wednesday, December 5, 2018 |
Although no subscriber actions are required for this release, you may notice momentary website traffic interruptions as PHP restarts.
Change
- The Acquia Cloud log streaming feature now supports log files in JSON format.
Fixed issue
- In certain circumstances, jobs displayed an error message when no files were changed in version control.
Acquia Cloud updates - November 8, 2018
November 8, 2018
Change
- Recently configured security settings for Acquia Cloud were adjusted to address an access issue for Drupal 8.
Acquia Cloud updates - week of October 28, 2018
November 5, 2018
Acquia Cloud includes the following updates for the week of October 28, 2018 through November 3, 2018:
Changes
- SSH client sessions now time out after 15 minutes. For more information, see limitations on shell access.
Fixed issue
- Authentication failures resulted in
401
,409
, or500
error responses, instead of403
responses.
Acquia Cloud updates - October 25, 2018
October 26, 2018
Acquia Cloud includes the following update:
Change
- Acquia Cloud no longer supports the removal of cookies for Drupal assets with
itok
query strings, introduced with Acquia Cloud 1.111.
Acquia Cloud updates - week of October 21, 2018
October 31, 2018
Acquia Cloud includes the following updates for the week of October 21, 2018 through October 27, 2018:
Changes
- Devices can no longer be remembered for 30 days when signing in to
https://accounts.acquia.com/sign-in
.
Fixed issues
- After downloading Drush aliases for a subscription, the Acquia Cloud interface displayed an incorrect command to
untar
the Drush aliases. - When attempting to reset a user password at accounts.acquia.com, an error was displayed.
- Attempts to resize the server on an Acquia Cloud Professional subscription failed with an error.
- The Acquia Cloud API failed to print JSON responses in human-readable format.
Acquia Cloud updates - week of October 7, 2018
October 15, 2018
Acquia Cloud includes the following updates for the week of October 7, 2018 through October 13, 2018:
- The following included software was updated:
- PHP versions were updated to 7.1.22 and 7.2.10
Acquia Cloud 1.111
September 27, 2018
Acquia Cloud includes the following updates:
Release Schedule
Platform | Release date |
---|---|
Acquia Cloud Professional | Wednesday, October 3, 2018 |
Acquia Cloud Enterprise | Wednesday, October 10, 2018 |
Site Factory | Wednesday, October 17, 2018 |
Changes
- The following included software was updated:
- PHP versions were updated to 5.6.37, 7.1.21, and 7.2.9
- Subscriptions provisioned after the release of Acquia Cloud 1.111 will use PHP 7.2 by default.
- Document headers contain the following changes:
- The
Via
header now returns the valueVarnish
. - The
X-Varnish
header has been removed. - Requests now set the
X-Request-ID
andX-AH-Environment
headers.
- The
- The following log files contain additional fields:
- Acquia Cloud now removes cookies for Drupal assets with
itok
query strings. - To enable Varnish caching, query strings from common web analytics software (such as Google Analytics) are now removed.
- Load balancers provisioned after the release of Acquia Cloud 1.111 include a valid SSL certificate for the
acquia-sites
default domain name. - The maximum number of memcache connections is now 2,048.
- SSH client sessions now time out after 15 minutes.
Fixed issues
- The PHP CLI memory limit temporarily reverted to its default value during PHP upgrades.
Acquia Cloud updates - week of September 16, 2018
September 24, 2018
Acquia Cloud includes the following updates for the week of September 16, 2018 through September 22, 2018:
Change
- The following Acquia-related websites no longer support TLS 1.0:
- cloud.acquia.com
- accounts.acquia.com
- acquia.com
- insight.acquia.com
Acquia Cloud 1.110
August 15, 2018
Acquia Cloud includes the following updates:
Release Schedule
Platform | Release date |
---|---|
Acquia Cloud Professional | Wednesday, August 15, 2018 |
Acquia Cloud Enterprise | Wednesday, August 22, 2018 |
Site Factory | Wednesday, August 29, 2018 |
Changes
- The Acquia Cloud interface now displays PHP-FPM metrics for Site Factory customers.
- Acquia Cloud clears Twig caches on all of your subscription’s servers if you push a code change to your application.
- SSH sessions now time out after 15 minutes of inactivity.
Acquia Cloud updates - week of August 5, 2018
August 13, 2018
Acquia Cloud includes the following update for the week of August 5, 2018 through August 11, 2018:
Note
The value of the LOGNAME
environment variable should not be used to determine sitegroup or sitename in your .htaccess
file or other custom scripts. Use the AH_SITE_NAME
, AH_SITE_GROUP
, or AH_SITE_ENVIRONMENT
environment variables instead.
Acquia Cloud updates - week of July 29, 2018
August 6, 2018
Changes
Acquia Cloud includes the following updates for the week of July 29, 2018 through August 4, 2018:
- Support for the obsolete headers
X-Original-URL
andX-REWRITE-URL
has been removed as a mitigation for Drupal Core - 3rd-party libraries - SA-CORE-2018–005 - The following included software was updated:
- New Relic was updated to 8.1.0.209
- On the Servers webpage, the Server Graphs icon was renamed to Stack Metrics.
Acquia Cloud updates - week of July 1 - July 7, 2018
July 9, 2018
Changes
Acquia Cloud includes the following updates:
- The following included software was updated:
- PHP versions were updated to 7.1.18 and 7.2.6
- Drush version was updated to 8.1.17
Acquia Cloud 1.109
July 3, 2018
Acquia Cloud includes the following updates:
Release Schedule
Platform | Release date |
---|---|
Acquia Cloud Professional | Wednesday, July 11, 2018 |
Acquia Cloud Enterprise | Wednesday, July 18, 2018 |
Site Factory | Wednesday, July 25, 2018 |
Customers may experience brief outages as Apache and Varnish services restart.
Changes
- Customer websites will restart less frequently due to updates.
ah-db-backup
will now be used to run customer backups, eventually becoming the default backup method.- Vendored Drush users can now use the
site-install
task. - The value of the
LOGNAME
environment variable should not be used to determine sitegroup or sitename in your.htaccess
file or other custom scripts. Use theAH_SITE_NAME
,AH_SITE_GROUP
, orAH_SITE_ENVIRONMENT
environment variables instead.
Fixed issues
- When the same code is committed to multiple branches within the same minute, the
site-update task
runs correctly.
Acquia Cloud updates - June 7, 2018
June 7, 2018
Acquia Cloud includes the following updates:
Changes
- XML can not be uploaded into support tickets. Place the XML in a
.zip
file and attach that file to the ticket.
Acquia Cloud 1.108
May 18, 2018
Acquia Cloud includes the following updates:
Release Schedule
Platform | Release date |
---|---|
Acquia Cloud Professional | Wednesday, May 30, 2018 |
Acquia Cloud Enterprise | Wednesday, June 6, 2018 |
Site Factory | Wednesday, June 15, 2018 |
Although no subscriber actions are required for this release, you may notice momentary website traffic interruptions as PHP restarts.
Changes
- The following included software was updated:
- PHP versions were updated to 7.1.17 and 7.2.5
- Timeouts for websites behind balancers have been increased.
- Cloned web servers will have identical volume sizes.
PHP 7.2 is now selectable for Acquia Cloud Professional and Acquia Cloud Enterprise subscriptions. Learn more. For information about upgrading to PHP 7.2, see Upgrading to PHP 7.2.
Important
To use PHP 7.2, Acquia recommends Drupal 8.5 or later.
Fixed issues
- Stack Metrics graphs for Varnish requests correctly show data.
Acquia Cloud updates - week of April 15, 2018
April 23, 2018
The Cloud Platform includes the following updates for the week of April 15, 2018 through April 21, 2018:
Changes
- The Minimal installation profile is again available in the Acquia Cloud interface for your use.
Acquia Cloud 1.107
April 16, 2018
Acquia Cloud includes the following updates:
Release Schedule
Platform | Release date |
---|---|
Acquia Cloud Professional | Thursday, April 26, 2018 |
Acquia Cloud Enterprise | Wednesday, May 2, 2018 |
Site Factory | Wednesday, May 9, 2018 |
Although no subscriber actions are required for this release, you may notice momentary website traffic interruptions as PHP restarts.
Change
- The following included software was updated:
- PHP versions were updated to 7.1.15 and 5.6.34
Acquia Cloud updates - week of March 18, 2018
April 2, 2018
The Cloud Platform includes the following updates for the week of March 18, 2018 through March 31, 2018:
Changes
- The Activity Stream indicator will not indicate busy status as frequently.
- Users with the Administrator or Owner roles can view the Acquia Cloud interface last login date for a team member on the organizational details page.
- Environment cards now display which tag or branch is deployed to that environment.
- Acquia’s HMAC implementation no longer supports PHP 5.5.
Acquia Cloud 1.106
March 12, 2018
Acquia Cloud includes the following updates:
Release Schedule
Platform | Release date |
---|---|
Acquia Cloud Professional | Wednesday, March 21, 2018 |
Acquia Cloud Enterprise | Wednesday, March 28, 2018 |
Site Factory | Wednesday, March 4, 2018 |
Although no subscriber actions are required for this release, you may notice momentary website traffic interruptions as PHP restarts.
Change
- The following included software was updated:
- PHP versions were updated to 7.1.1 and 5.6.33
Acquia Cloud updates - week of February 25, 2018
March 5, 2018
The Cloud Platform includes the following updates for the week of February 25, 2018 through March 3, 2018:
Change
- ClamAV was updated to version 0.99.3.
Acquia Cloud 1.105
February 21, 2018
Acquia Cloud includes the following updates:
Release Schedule
Platform | Release date |
---|---|
Acquia Cloud Professional | Wednesday, February 28, 2018 |
Acquia Cloud Enterprise | Thursday, March 1, 2018 |
Site Factory | Wednesday, March 7, 2018 |
Although no subscriber actions are required for this release, you may notice momentary website traffic interruptions as PHP and Apache restart.
Changes
- The following included software was updated:
- PHP versions were updated to 7.1.13 and 5.6.33
- New Relic was updated to 7.7.0.203
- Node.js applications will experience less downtime during server reboots.
- The Git origin will be pruned before fetching during code deployments.
- Deletion of Acquia Cloud CD environments is more reliable.
- The Apache version will no longer be displayed on 4XX errors.
- Deployed Git branches or tags can no longer be deleted.
- The Drush launcher now uses the application’s site Drush version.
- MySQL dump restores should be faster.
Acquia Cloud updates - week of February 11, 2018
February 20, 2018
The Cloud Platform includes the following updates for the week of February 11, 2018 through February 17, 2018:
Changes
- Acquia Cloud Enterprise customers can now change their application’s PHP memory limits from the Acquia Cloud interface. Learn more
Acquia Cloud updates - week of January 28, 2018
February 5, 2018
The Cloud Platform includes the following updates for the week of January 28, 2018 through February 3, 2018:
Changes
- Branches that are deployed to an environment can no longer be deleted.
Acquia Cloud updates - week of January 21, 2018
January 29, 2018
The Acquia Cloud product includes the following updates for the week of January 21, 2018 through January 27, 2018:
Changes
- Stack Metrics graphs now display results more quickly.
- Administrative usernames that contain the strings
admin
,root
, andadministrator
are required to have a minimum username length of 15 characters.
Acquia Cloud updates - week of January 1, 2018
January 8, 2018
The Acquia Cloud product includes the following updates for the week of January 1, 2018 through January 7, 2018:
Fixed issue
- When switching environments in Acquia Insight, the displayed environment did not change.
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.