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title: "Site Factory 2.83 - November 16, 2018"
date: "2025-09-12T05:57:24+00:00"
summary: "Discover new features and fixes in Site Factory 2.83, including easier access to website identification data and improved staging."
image:
type: "announcement"
url: "/site-factory/release/2018-11-16/80601-site-factory-283-november-16-2018"
id: "6cda0961-daf3-46ec-94f1-6fbd8bcc36f8"
---

This release of Site Factory is scheduled for release on November 26, 2018. It contains the following updates:

### Feature

*   **You can now access website identification data from the user interface**   
     
    
    Whenever you need to make changes or do maintenance to your website with an action that requires its **Site ID** or **DB identifier** (such as custom code development or restoring databases), you can now view these values in the Site Factory Management Console. [Learn more](/site-factory/manage/website).
    

### Changes

*   When pausing tasks, you can now provide a reason, which will be displayed in the [audit log](/site-factory/monitor/auditlog).
*   The [audit log](/site-factory/monitor/auditlog) now displays user account creation, update, and deletion actions.

### Fixed issues

*   The [List sites](https://docs.acquia.com/site-factory/site-factory-api#operation/get_Sites_getSites) API endpoint returned incomplete websites.
*   Attempting to staging websites would fail if a subscription’s home directory contained an excessive amount of files in the `files/css` or `files/js` directories.
*   In certain circumstances, attempting to sign in with single sign-on using SimpleSAML failed if Site Factory could not find the website registry file.
*   Website staging occasionally failed for subscriptions using customer-defined standard domains.
*   Occasionally, the website staging process failed when attempting to clear the target environment’s database.