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title: "Cloud Platform - September 29, 2024"
date: "2025-09-12T05:57:24+00:00"
summary: "Cloud Platform updates: PHP extensions, metrics, security enhancements, cron jobs, and UI fixes. Explore new features and improvements."
image:
type: "announcement"
url: "/acquia-cloud-platform/release/2024-09-29/81296-cloud-platform-september-29-2024"
id: "b5d0b2d9-c1f4-4109-8d6c-519ef62b4387"
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**Type**

**Related ticket**

**Release note**

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

CHANGE

SUB-6315

The details of the following additional metrics for Views can be viewed through the Cloud Platform user interface:

*   IP address
*   Path
*   User agent

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