Cloud Platform

2023 Release notes - Cloud Platform

This webpage describes the updates Acquia made to Cloud Platform in 2023. For the latest updates, see Release notes.

Cloud Platform - December 10, 2023 through December 16, 2023

  • Change [Cloud Next] The Utilization by Service Layer and Utilization by Resource charts are no longer available in the Cloud Platform user interface. During initial testing of this Beta feature, Acquia received user feedback and found a few areas for improvement. Until such feedback is addressed, Acquia has hidden the Stack Metrics charts from the Cloud Platform user interface.

Cloud Platform - November 26, 2023 through December 2, 2023

  • Change [Cloud Next] PHP is updated to 8.1.24 and 8.2.11.

  • Change [Cloud Next] The Percona toolkit is upgraded to v3.5.5.

  • Change [Cloud Next] New Relic is upgraded to v10.14.0.3.

  • Change [Cloud Next] The project’s vendor/bin directory is added to the PATH environment variable ahead of /usr/local/bin. With this, global calls to Drush defaults to the vendor version.

Cloud Platform - November 12, 2023 through November 18, 2023

Cloud Platform - October 29, 2023 through November 4, 2023

  • Change The password functionality in the Cloud Platform user interface is enhanced to support the Password Have I Been Pwned? module. This ensures that the system validates your password against a list of compromised passwords and prevents you from specifying such passwords.

  • Change [Cloud Next] Cloud Next environments are updated to use the Memcached version 1.6.22.

Cloud Platform - October 22, 2023 through October 28, 2023

  • Change [Cloud Next] Cloud Platform creates the AURABot user in your organization-level team called RA-BOT-team. This user is visible only if you are using Remote Administration to deploy Drupal updates on your Cloud Next environments. For more information, see Cloud Next.

Cloud Platform - October 15, 2023 through October 21, 2023

  • Change [Cloud Next] New Relic is upgraded to v10.13.0.2.

  • Fix [Cloud Next] New Relic reported the duration of certain Drupal-specific HTTP requests incorrectly. For example, Drupal calls to Acquia Search or other Solr endpoints were not reported correctly. To ensure that the reports are accurate, PHP global configurations are updated to leverage the newrelic.guzzle.enabled flag in New Relic. This flag controls the reporting of the PHP Guzzle library’s external requests.

Cloud Platform - October 8, 2023 through October 14, 2023

  • Change [Cloud Next] New Relic is upgraded to v10.12.0.1.

Cloud Platform - October 1, 2023 through October 7, 2023

  • Change [Cloud Next] Cloud Platform is enhanced to disable transaction tracing and dynamic tracing in New Relic. For more information about the New Relic setting, see Transaction tracer .ini settings.

  • Change Cloud Platform no longer supports PHP 8.0.

Cloud Platform - September 24, 2023 through September 30, 2023

  • Change The default version of PHP in Cloud Platform is 8.1.

  • Change When you copy files or databases from a Cloud Next environment to a Cloud Classic environment, Cloud Platform can execute cloud hooks.

Cloud Platform - September 17, 2023 through September 23, 2023

  • Change [Cloud Next] PHP is updated to 8.0.30 and 8.1.22.

  • Change [Cloud Next] Security patches are applied to PHP 7.4.33.

  • Fix [Cloud Next] When the code for database connection was not included in Drupal’s settings.php file, Cloud Platform displayed a warning message.

  • Fix When trying to update IdP details in the Cloud Platform user interface, the system did not update the SSO URL parameter.

Cloud Platform - September 10, 2023 through September 16, 2023

  • Fix When users requested to view data for multiple months in Stack Metrics, Cloud Platform could not render the graphs correctly.

Cloud Platform - August 27, 2023 through September 2, 2023

  • Change [Cloud Next] PHP is updated to 7.4.33 and 8.1.21.

  • Fix [Cloud Next] The AH_NETWORK_KEY and AH_NETWORK_IDENTIFIER environment variables were incorrectly set.

Cloud Platform - August 20, 2023 through August 26, 2023

  • Change When you request an access token from accounts that you want to use in Cloud API, the system does not add organization scopes that are not requested in the access token. For information about the impact of this change, see Federated Authentication requires a workaround.

Cloud Platform - August 13, 2023 through August 19, 2023

  • Change [Cloud Next] The Percona toolkit is upgraded to v3.5.4.

  • Change [Cloud Next] Cloud Next environments are updated to use the Memcached version 1.6.21.

Cloud Platform - July 30, 2023 through August 5, 2023

  • Fix When users requested to view 6 months of data in Stack Metrics, Cloud Platform picked incorrect value for the resolution parameter, and displayed an inaccurate error message.

Cloud Platform - July 23, 2023 through July 29, 2023

  • Change [Cloud Next] The interned_string_buffers parameter is updated to have the default value of 24 MB. In addition, existing settings are increased by 16 MB up to a maximum value of 32 MB.

Cloud Platform - July 9, 2023 through July 15, 2023

  • Change [Cloud Next] Cloud Platform APIs are enhanced to exclude the enablement of the Live Development mode in Cloud Next applications.

  • Change [Cloud Next] PHP 8.2 is updated to 8.2.7.

Cloud Platform - July 2, 2023 through July 8, 2023

  • Change SSL and non-SSL Nginx configurations for node balancers are combined.

  • Change The X-Forwarded-Proto header is added for node balancers.

  • Change [Cloud Next] New Relic is upgraded to v10.11.0.3.

  • Change [Cloud Next] PHP is updated to 8.0.29 and 8.1.20.

Cloud Platform - June 25, 2023 through July 1, 2023

  • Change Cloud Platform supports the svg format in the ImageMagick module.

  • Change Owners and administrators of an organization in Cloud Platform can perform any operation on any resources owned by the organization.

Cloud Platform - June 18, 2023 through June 24, 2023

  • Change [Cloud Next] To ensure the performance and scalability of your Cloud Next environment, your non-production memcache storage might be emptied from time to time.

  • Fix [Cloud Next] Users could not add any keys or other information to the $HOME/.ssh folder. With this change, the $HOME/.ssh folder is made persistent.

Cloud Platform - June 11, 2023 through June 17, 2023

Cloud Platform - June 4, 2023 through June 10, 2023

  • Change The Consumption Based Pricing (CBP) entitlement check is removed from the usage metrics API.

  • Change [Cloud Next] Cloud Next environments are updated to use the Memcached version 1.6.20.

  • Change [Cloud Next] New Relic is upgraded to v10.10.0.1

  • Change [Cloud Next] The Percona toolkit is upgraded to v3.5.3.

Cloud Platform - May 28, 2023 through June 3, 2023

  • Fix [Cloud Next] In Drupal sites, the security hardening mechanism that prevents PHP to run from the files directory was not enforced correctly.

Cloud Platform - May 21, 2023 through May 27, 2023

  • Change [Cloud Next] You can view the acquia-request-id parameter for traces under Custom attributes in the New Relic user interface. By leveraging the value of this parameter, you can match traces to logs downloaded from the log download or log forwarding feature.

Cloud Platform - May 14, 2023 through May 20, 2023

  • Change [Cloud Next] For Drupal 8 or later sites upgrading to Cloud Next, the system overrides $settings['reverse_proxy_addresses'] and sets it to platform defaults if the parameter is not set. Therefore, BLT 11.x users can upgrade such sites to Cloud Next without upgrading the BLT version.

Cloud Platform - May 7, 2023 through May 13, 2023

  • Change [Cloud Next] Like Cloud Classic, Cloud Next environments leverage the robots.txt file to block search engines from crawling acquia-sites.com domains.

  • Fix [Cloud Next] The X-Robots-Tag parameter was not present in 301 requests for acquia-sites.com domains. In addition, the robots.txt file is overridden.

Cloud Platform - April 30, 2023 through May 6, 2023

  • Change The Views and Visits feature in the Cloud Platform user interface is updated for enhanced user experience.

  • Change [Cloud Next] Cloud Next environments are updated to use the Memcached version 1.16.9.

Cloud Platform - April 23, 2023 through April 29, 2023

Cloud Platform - April 16, 2023 through April 22, 2023

  • Change The Cloud Platform API endpoint is enhanced to include the expires_at, offering_ids, and flags parameters. With these parameters, you can know if an entitlement is a trial entitlement.

Cloud Platform - April 9, 2023 through April 15, 2023

  • Change The Cloud Platform user interface does not display the user profile image.

  • Change The memory limit for Cloud Hooks is updated to 800 MB.

  • Change [Cloud Next] New Relic is upgraded to v10.9.0.324.

  • Change [Cloud Next] The Percona toolkit is upgraded to v3.5.2.

  • Change [Cloud Next] The WebEIPs shim function supports the PATCH and CONNECT methods in Drupal 7.

  • Fix [Cloud Next] When using SSH, customers did not get the full output.

  • Fix [Cloud Next] The post-db-copy hook incorrectly sent the schema name instead of the database role when copying databases between Cloud Classic and Cloud Next environments.

  • Fix Certain Acquia Cloud Platform Professional customers could not resize their servers.

Cloud Platform - April 2, 2023 through April 8, 2023

  • Change [Cloud Next] New Relic is upgraded to v10.8.0.323.

  • Fix [Cloud Next] The post-db-copy hook incorrectly sent the schema name instead of the database role when copying databases between Cloud Next environments.

Cloud Platform - March 15, 2023 through May 30, 2023

  • Change [Cloud Next] The Code Assembly Beta program is available for Cloud Next environments. For more information, see Code Assembly.

Cloud Platform - March 12, 2023 through March 18, 2023

  • Change [Cloud Next] PHP is updated to 8.1.16, 8.0.28, and 7.4.33.

  • Fix [Cloud Next] The default Apache icons were displayed during security scans.

Cloud Platform - February 26, 2023 through March 4, 2023

  • Change The Cloud Platform user interface is updated to enhance the usability of breadcrumb navigator.

Cloud Platform - February 5, 2023 through February 11, 2023

  • Change The Cloud Platform user interface is enhanced to display user initials instead of the avatar image.

Cloud Platform - January 29, 2023 through February 4, 2023

  • Change [Cloud Next] You can have a maximum of 50 databases per environment.

  • Change The Views and Visits datepicker is updated to allow selecting data for only up to 90 days.

Cloud Platform - January 22, 2023 through January 28, 2023

  • Fix Some Cloud Platform API endpoints incorrectly accepted both query and request body parameters in the payload.

Cloud Platform - January 15, 2023 through January 21, 2023

  • Change Cloud Platform is enhanced to enable the Platform Email feature in your environments without requiring you to manually enable the feature.

Cloud Platform - January 8, 2023 through January 14, 2023

  • Change The Cloud API portal is updated to include Code Studio endpoints.

  • Fix [Cloud Next] Users were experiencing application time-out issues because the system processed the max_execution_time value as 30 seconds even when its default value was set to 300 seconds. For more information, see Configuring max execution time.


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.