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2018 Release notes - Acquia Cloud

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 the X-Forwarded-Host header for their application can re-enable the header by adding the following code after the Acquia include statement in their settings.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:

    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

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

Fixed issue

  • Authentication failures resulted in 401, 409, or 500 error responses, instead of 403 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 value Varnish.

    • The X-Varnish header has been removed.

    • Requests now set the X-Request-ID and X-AH-Environment headers.

  • 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:

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 the AH_SITE_NAME, AH_SITE_GROUP, or AH_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, and administrator 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.