Releases

• Fix When performing a cross-tangle site duplication, theme symlinks were sometimes broken.

• 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.

• Feature The sites sidebar in the Site Factory UI now displays the site, group, and member count.

• 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 colors 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.

• Feature Site Factory now provides Manage site domains on the site collection page that allows you to manage external domains of the primary site.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• Feature Subscribers can now view the Site Factory user interface in French.

• 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.

• Feature Site Factory subscribers can now upload multiple SSL certificates using the Cloud Platform user interface.

• 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.

• Change The SimpleSAMLphp library included in the Site Factory Management Console is now updated to version 1.18.7.

• Feature Site Factory now supports Drupal 9.

• 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.

• Change The Ruby version on Site Factory was updated.

• Change The Create a new user link is now located in the top right-hand corner of the Users overview page.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• Change Site Factory now supports a custom SimpleSAMLphp configuration for non-production environments.
• Change SimpleSAMLphp configuration files are no longer staged to non-production environments for applications using version 8.x-2.56 or later, 8.x-1.56 or later, or 7.x-1.56 or later of the Site Factory Connector module.
• Change The Clear caches site action now rebuilds the theme list only once.
• Change The Clear caches site action now flushes Twig caches for all servers for Drupal 8 applications.
• Change Refreshing your themes now flushes Twig caches for all servers for Drupal 8 applications.