---
title: "Cloud Platform - October 20, 2025"
date: "2025-11-03T17:59:21+00:00"
summary: "Cloud Platform updates: Improved Drupal caching for better performance and PHP version upgrades to enhance security and functionality."
image:
type: "announcement"
url: "/acquia-cloud-platform/release/2025-10-20/94946-cloud-platform-october-20-2025"
id: "5039fb68-24ba-4a17-b529-267af31e50cd"
---

**Type**

**Related ticket**

**Release note**

CHANGE

NW-13433

\[**Cloud Next**\] To improve performance, Drupal's default layered caching behavior is enabled for Drupal 9 and later sites. This change utilizes a fast cache backend before checking Memcache.

CHANGE

NW-13754

\[**Cloud Next**\] PHP is updated to `8.4.13` and `8.3.26`.