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title: "Site Factory 2.81 - October 2, 2018"
date: "2025-09-12T05:57:24+00:00"
summary: "Discover Site Factory 2.81: New security features, improved staging, and alphabetical hook script execution for Drupal developers."
image:
type: "announcement"
url: "/site-factory/release/2018-10-02/80616-site-factory-281-october-2-2018"
id: "70a7aa6d-2243-423c-802f-73e38681e475"
---

This release of Site Factory is scheduled for release on October 10, 2018. It contains the following updates:

Note

*   Acquia recommends that as part of this release you upgrade your websites to use the latest version of the [Site Factory Connector](https://www.drupal.org/project/acsf) module.
*   All users will be signed out of the Site Factory Management Console as part of this release.

### Changes

*   Site Factory subscriptions provisioned after this version’s release are configured by default to [sign out inactive user accounts](/site-factory/manage/preferences/security) after 30 minutes.
*   All Site Factory subscriptions have access to an [updated staging process](/site-factory/staging-factory-non-production-environment "Staging a Factory to a non-production environment").
*   Hook scripts now execute [in alphabetical order](/site-factory/hooks-site-factory "Hooks in Site Factory").
*   The Site Factory Management Console session name now indicates that it is a secure session.

### Fixed issue

*   Pausing a release did not block website update tasks from starting.