2020 Release notes - Site Factory
This webpage describes the updates Acquia made to Site Factory in 2020. For
the latest updates, see
Release notes.
Site Factory 2.114 - December 15, 2020
- Fix When performing a cross-tangle site duplication, theme symlinks were
sometimes broken.
Site Factory 2.113 - December 03, 2020
- Feature Site Factory now adds two new end points for Groups/API to add
and remove sites from the groups.
- Feature Site Factory has now extended the staging options, and all the
new and existing wipe options have been restricted to Platform Admin and
Release Engineer roles only. Developers can still stage, but cannot wipe the
target stage. For users with wipe permission, there is now the possibility to
wipe some stacks, not all. Not-wiped stacks should remain unaffected during
staging. Wiped stacks will have all their sites removed, before the selected
sites are added back.
- Fix Site Factory now displays API docs theme page correctly, when viewed
anonymously.
Site Factory 2.111 - October 30, 2020
- Feature The sites sidebar in the Site Factory UI now displays the site,
group, and member count.
Site Factory 2.110 - October 21, 2020
- Feature The Site Factory site install REST API endpoint now returns the
install task ID to track the installation progress.
- Change Site factory dashboard now shows environment specific indicators
on the top of the page with different colours for prod and lower
environments.
- Change Site Factory Connector module has been updated with bug fixes and
improvements for the fix provided in this release. Acquia recommends to
upgrade the module.
- Fix When using REST API to create/restore site backups, the POST callback
requests are now fired.
Site Factory 2.109 - September 30, 2020
- Feature Site Factory now provides Manage site domains on the
site collection page that allows you to manage external domains of the
primary site.
Site Factory 2.108 - September 9, 2020
- Feature We have introduced a new user role called Content editor in
Site Factory. A content editor can sign in to Site Factory, view websites, and
log in to websites.
- Change The Submit a Support Ticket option in the Help menu of
Site Factory now links to Acquia Help Center.
- Fix Filtering options were not available on the Users overview page.
- Fix The Restore button on the Restore sites page was incorrectly
displayed.
- Fix The Site Factory REST API documentation page contained a typo.
Site Factory 2.107 - August 19, 2020
- Fix The keyboard tab navigation of radio buttons and checkboxes was
incorrect. This affected all inputs of this type including installation
profile selection on the site creation page.
- Fix The autocomplete suggestions were displayed separately from the text
box. This affected all site drop down lists including the drop down for
Choose sites to deploy on the stage deploy page.
Site Factory - July 30, 2020
- Change Site Factory subscribers can now utilize the
environment configuration settings
in the Cloud Platform user interface to modify a subset of their
environment’s PHP settings.
Site Factory 2.106 - July 29, 2020
- Feature Site Factory now executes
post-site-duplication
hook implementations (if there are any) after subscribers duplicate a website.
The implementations have the following arguments: sitegroup
,
environment
, database role
, and domain
. See the
Hooks in Site Factory page for more details.
- Change Site Factory
authentication feature is
now available for all Drupal versions.
- Change Site Factory Connector module has been updated with bug fixes and
improvements for the fix provided in this release. Acquia recommends to
upgrade the module.
- Fix Drupal 9 Sites with certain installation profiles couldn’t be staged
from one environment to another.
Site Factory - July 9, 2020
- Feature Subscribers can now view the Site Factory user
interface in French.
Site Factory 2.105 - July 8, 2020
- Fix The Forgot your username or password link on the Site Factory
login page was incorrectly displayed.
- Fix The Refresh button on the Staging deployment status page was
incorrectly displayed.
- Fix Refresh Themes button on the Manage site theme repository
page was incorrectly displayed.
- Fix Text fields on the Create a new site and Duplicate site
pages were incorrectly displayed.
- Fix The link to the authenticator app for Windows Phone on the
TFA setup - Application page was incorrect.
- Fix The Export CSV link on the Users overview page didn’t work
correctly.
- Fix Drop down options in the table header on the Users overview page
were incorrectly displayed.
- Fix Cancel and Delete buttons on the site collection removal
confirmation page were incorrectly displayed.
- Fix Radio buttons for profile selection under
Select an installation profile were incorrectly displayed for subscribers
having multiple installation profiles.
- Fix The Remove and Save buttons on the Manage Users page
were incorrectly displayed.
- Fix The Cancel and Restore buttons on the Restore Site page
were incorrectly displayed.
- Fix The All My Groups link in the left navigation menu didn’t
work correctly.
Site Factory - July 2, 2020
- Feature Site Factory subscribers can now upload multiple
SSL certificates using the
Cloud Platform user interface.
Site Factory - June 30, 2020
- Change Site Factory now includes a new user interface with
improved responsiveness, accessibility, and minor usability enhancements.
- Change Site Factory subscribers can now use the
AH_PRODUCTION
and AH_NON_PRODUCTION
environment variables on their
Site Factory environments.
Site Factory 2.104 - June 17, 2020
- Change The SimpleSAMLphp library
included in the Site Factory Management Console is now updated to
version 1.18.7.
Site Factory - May 31, 2020
- Feature Site Factory now supports Drupal 9.
Site Factory 2.103 - May 27, 2020
- Fix The rebuild registries option under the Site update action
section on the Site Update page, was in some cases visible for stacks
with Drupal versions other than Drupal 7.
- Fix Drush 9 and 10 commands were using an outdated method for setting
the cache directory resulting in intermittent issues while staging a site
from one environment to another, site installations, or other processes.
Site Factory - May 11, 2020
- Change The Ruby version on Site Factory was updated.
Site Factory 2.102 - April 29, 2020
- Change The Create a new user link is now located in the top
right-hand corner of the Users overview page.
Site Factory 2.101 - April 9, 2020
- Feature Site Factory is now compatible with Drush 10.
Acquia recommends subscribers test thoroughly before pushing a codebase to
production that includes Drush 10.
- Change The Drupal 8 version(s) of the
Site Factory Connector module now require users to have a
version of Drupal 8.5.0 or higher installed to connect their website to the
Site Factory platform. Acquia recommends upgrading your
Site Factory Connector module to the latest version and checking
any custom code that extends the module’s classes due to deprecated code
being removed and replaced.
- Change The README file in the Site Factory Connector module
was updated to include more details and technical information.
Site Factory 2.100 - March 18, 2020
- Feature Site Factory now executes
post-site-install
hook implementations (if there are any) after subscribers create a website.
The implementations have the following arguments: sitegroup
,
environment
, database role
, and domain
. See the
Hooks in Site Factory page for more details.
- Change The text under the Start Time section on the Site Update
page was updated in the Site Factory user interface to let
subscribers know that when scheduling a code update without providing a
timezone, the time will be interpreted as UTC.
- Change The Site Factory REST API
documentation was updated to let subscribers
know that when scheduling a code update without providing a timezone, the
time will be interpreted as UTC.
Site Factory 2.99 - March 2, 2020
- Change The tool used to navigate site lists in the
Site Factory user interface was updated to include page numbers
and more options to browse through pages.
Site Factory 2.98 - February 10, 2020
- Feature The Site Factory API now includes
endpoints to return
the database name of the website.
- Feature Using the Site Factory API, you can now add, edit, or delete
websites’ third-party themes.
- Feature The Site Factory API now allows you to refresh a
website’s theme from its third-party theme repository.
- Change The site details Site Factory API
endpoint now returns a website’s third-party theme data.
- Change When subscribers attempt to deploy code that fails,
Site Factory now reverts the unsuccessful code release, restoring your code
to its previously working state.
The information contained herein is subject to change without notice and
is not warranted to be error-free. If you encounter any errors, contact
Acquia Support.