This webpage describes the updates Acquia made to Cloud Platform in 2024. For the latest updates, see Release notes.
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| CHANGE | NW-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. |
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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. |
| CHANGE | NW-11580 | [Cloud Next] For customers that are not FedRAMP compliant, mcrouter is removed to optimize Memcache. |
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| change | NW-11548 | Environment variables were unavailable when users logged in to Cloud Platform through SSH. |
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| change | PC-22787 | Security patches are applied to PHP 8.1.30, 8.2.25, and 8.3.13. |
| CHANGE | NM-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. |
| CHANGE | NW-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';
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| CHANGE | NW-11530 | [Cloud Next] Cloud Next environments are updated to use the Memcached version 1.6.32. |
| FIX | PC-22117 | Symlinks broke in some of the Cloud Classic sites with the php_sessions directory when php_sessions were copied from Cloud Next to Cloud Classic. |
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| FIX | NW-11669 | [Cloud Next] Issues occurred when SimpleSAML was used with Ubuntu 22.04. |
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| CHANGE | NW-11354 | [Cloud Next] New Relic is upgraded to v11.3.0.16. |
| CHANGE | NW-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 operationAccess denied; you need (at least one of) the RELOAD privilege(s) for this operation
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NW-11588 | [Cloud Next] The memory limit for Cloud Hooks is 2 GB for each environment. |
| CHANGE | SUB-6517 | The facebookexternalhit user agent is excluded from the Views and Visits data in Cloud Platform. |
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| CHANGE | SUB-6500 | The detailed data for the following Views and Visits metrics can be exported to a CSV file: In addition, an expanded view of the data can be viewed on a new tab. For more information, visit Subscription usage. |
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| CHANGE | PC-22343 | The default PHP version in the Cloud Platform user interface is 8.3. |
| CHANGE | NW-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. |
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| CHANGE | CX-19449 | The Cloud API endpoint is updated to deprecate the api_key and api_secret properties and use the client_id and client_secret properties instead. |
| FIX | NW-11547 | [Cloud Next] The expect command did not work. |
| FIX | SUB-6261 | The Search Queries - Overall section on the Search Utilization page displayed errors. |
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| CHANGE | FR-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
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| CHANGE | SUB-6315 | The details of the following additional metrics for Views can be viewed through the Cloud Platform user interface: |
| CHANGE | PC-21158 | Cloud Classic environments are updated to support the ed25519 host key for enhanced security. |
| CHANGE | NW-10994 | [Cloud Next] Cloud Next environments are updated to support the ed25519 host key for enhanced security. |
| CHANGE | NW-11481 | [Cloud Next] Scheduled cron jobs can be run for upto 3 hours. |
| CHANGE | NW-11354 | [Cloud Next] New Relic is upgraded to v11.2.0.15. |
| CHANGE | PC-22221 | Security patches are applied to PHP 8.2.23, PHP 8.3.11, and New Relic. |
| FIX | SUB-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
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| CHANGE | NW-11237 | [Cloud Next] PHP is updated to 8.2.22 and 8.3.10. |
| CHANGE | NW-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. |
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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. |
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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. |
| CHANGE | NW-7654 | The 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. |
| CHANGE | CX-18930 | Cloud Platform is updated to allocate default roles to an organization based on its associated entitlements. |
| CHANGE | PC-22040 | Security patches are applied to PHP 8.2.22 and 8.3.10. |
| FIX | KCC-1088 | [Cloud Next] There was an issue with the log forwarding and log downloading functionalities in Cloud Next environments. |
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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. |
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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
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| CHANGE | CX-17966 | The Cloud API endpoint is updated to deprecate the following properties: |
| CHANGE | CX-18792 | The Cloud API endpoint is updated to include the headless-as-a-service entitlement. |
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| CHANGE | NW-10313 | [Cloud Next] The MySQL client version is updated from 5.7 to 8.0. |
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| CHANGE | PC-20698 | Security patches are applied to PHP 7.4.33. |
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| CHANGE | PC-20808 | [Cloud Next] PHP is updated to 8.1.29, 8.2.20, and 8.3.8. |
| CHANGE | PC-20808 | [Cloud Next] New Relic is upgraded to v10.22.0.12. |
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| CHANGE | PC-20390
PC-20196 | PHP is updated to 7.4.33, 8.2.19, and 8.3.7. |
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| CHANGE | NW-10889 | [Cloud Next] Cloud Hooks can be run for upto 3 hours before they time out. |
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| CHANGE | PC-17858 | Cloud Platform supports PHP 8.3. |
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| CHANGE | NW-10699 | [Cloud Next] New Relic is upgraded to v10.21.0.11. |
| CHANGE | NW-10871 | [Cloud Next] The scaling ability for PHP 7.4 applications is enhanced on Cloud Next applications. |
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| CHANGE | ORCH-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. |
| CHANGE | PC-20193 | Cloud 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. |
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| CHANGE | NW-10679 | [Cloud Next] The alpha version of Drupal 11 can be installed in Cloud Next applications. |
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| CHANGE | PC-19913 | The default version of PHP in Cloud Platform is 8.2. |
| CHANGE | NW-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. |
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| CHANGE | NM-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. |
| CHANGE | CX-18710 | The Platform Email feature cannot be enabled or disabled by using Cloud Platform API or Acquia CLI. |
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| CHANGE | NW-10558 | [Cloud Next] New Relic is upgraded to v10.20.0.10. |
| CHANGE | NW-10558 | [Cloud Next] PHP is updated to 8.1.28 and 8.2.18. |
| CHANGE | NW-10569 | [Cloud Next] Apache recognizes the webp extension. |
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| FIX | NW-10647 | [Cloud Next] Clam AV did not work in Cloud Next environments with Ubuntu 20.04 enabled. |
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| CHANGE | NM-4330 | [Cloud Next] The log forwarding service in Cloud Next environments is enhanced to send datetime to the syslog destination in microseconds. |
| CHANGE | PC-19347 | Cloud Classic environments are updated to use the Memcached version 1.6.23. |
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| 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. |
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| CHANGE | FR-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. |
| CHANGE | CX-18841 | The Cloud API endpoints for enabling and disabling Platform Email are deprecated. |
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| 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. |
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| CHANGE | FR-1261 | [Cloud Next] The web-layer version of the log streaming feature can be used in Cloud Next environments. |
| CHANGE | FR-2248 | In Cloud Classic environments, Shell logs can be used to view all the commands that are executed by the application user. |
| CHANGE | NW-9328 | [Cloud Next] The Drupal version can be accessed in the Drupal request logs. |
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| 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 | Cloud Platform API can be used 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. |
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| 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. |
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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. |
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| 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, 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, contact Acquia Support. |
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| Change | CX-18245 | [Cloud Next] The maximum limit for the number of databases per environment is updated to 100. |
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.