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title: "Site Factory 2.97 - December 5, 2019"
date: "2025-09-12T05:57:24+00:00"
summary: "Site Factory 2.97 update: Improved website duplication, SimpleSAMLphp upgrade, and enhanced theme handling for better performance."
image:
type: "announcement"
url: "/site-factory/release/2019-12-05/80506-site-factory-297-december-5-2019"
id: "b037a949-0623-4cf4-bbf2-fa81aa0de806"
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The [Site Factory Connector module](https://www.drupal.org/project/acsf) was updated for this release. Acquia recommends you upgrade your websites to use this latest module version.

*   Change Updated the SimpleSAMLphp library to version 1.17.8.
*   Change Site Factory now includes several improvements to the website duplication process for subscribers provisioned after October 2, 2019.
*   Change The theme registry is no longer explicitly cleared (due to the `cache-rebuild` Drush command handling this function.)
*   Change The theme cache flushing operations have been re-ordered to reduce the stale Twig cache file generation: theme list flushing, theme registry flushing, and then Twig cache file removal. Before, the order was Twig cache file removal, theme list flushing, and then theme registry flushing.
*   Change Theme registry flushing executes on a single server, instead of every server.
*   Change The Acquia Cloud-provided Twig cache directory location is no longer overridden by the Drupal 8 Site Factory Connector module.
*   Change Several updates have been made to improve future domain resolution.
*   Fix Processes including staging and theme handling failed for FIPS-enabled servers.
*   Fix Occasionally, website duplication attempts would fail for some websites if the distributed file system reported a missing file.