Releases

• 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• Fix Drush 9 and 10 commands were using an outdated method for setting the cache directory resulting in intermittent issues while staging a site from one environment to another, site installations, or other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.

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• 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.

• Change The SimpleSAMLphp library included in the Site Factory Management Console was updated to version 1.17.7.

• Change The Site Factory Connector module now includes various coding standards improvements.
• Change The Site Factory platform now includes various improvements to the website duplication process.
• Fix Single sign-on failed for Site Factory subscribers with certain compliance requirements.
• Fix Warning messages were displayed when enabling the Site Factory Connector module, or its acsf_sso submodule, on a website not hosted by Site Factory.

• Change All Site Factory subscriptions with environments on PHP 7.1 will be upgraded to PHP 7.2 starting on October 1, 2019, when PHP 7.1 reaches end-of-life. To upgrade your environments from PHP 7.1 to PHP 7.2 manually before this date, see Upgrading From PHP 7.1 to 7.2 and contact Acquia Support. Upgrades may take several minutes to complete.

• Feature Site Factory is now compatible with PHP 7.3. Contact Acquia Support to request your non-production environments be placed on PHP 7.3 for testing. Acquia doesn’t recommend placing your production environment on PHP 7.3 without testing in non-production environments first.

• Change Database lookups for domain names are now cached in APCu.

• Change The Create a site API endpoint now accepts a stack_id parameter, which must be an integer.
• Change The Site Factory user interface now displays clearer warnings for applications containing many stacks when staging a Factory to a non-production environment.
• Fix Attempts to search documentation from the Site Factory user interface were directed to a non-existent website.
• Fix When executing Drush commands without providing a website context, PHP notices were displayed.

• Change Twig caches have been moved to website-specific directories.
• Fix During website update tasks, Drupal 8 websites occasionally displayed Twig cache errors.
• Fix When using the REST API endpoint to create or edit a sitegroup, names containing only spaces were allowed to be used.

• Feature The Site Factory API now includes additional endpoints that you can use to manage your groups and their members, including editing or deleting groups, adding or removing group members, determining admin role assignments.
• Change The Gardens distribution (used by some subscribers) was updated to include Drupal 7.67.
• Fix Deploying codebases with an installed Site Factory Connector module caused Acquia-hosted websites not on Site Factory to experience errors when servers were provisioned or restarted, or databases were copied.
• Fix The Site Factory Connector module for Drupal 8 didn’t select the correct version of the SAML toolkit library for PHP 7.2.
• Fix Occasionally, website duplication attempts would fail for some websites.

• Fix Automated backups didn’t run for websites updated to use one of the Site Factory Connector module versions distributed with Cloud Site Factory 2.88.

• Change Scheduled jobs now display a Reason field in the detail view for a job’s result.
• Fix The Site Factory user interface displayed empty sitegroup pages to signed-in users even if the user did not have permission to view the sitegroup’s page.
• Fix In certain circumstances, single sign-on failed on duplicated or staged websites.

• Change The default robots.txt file now excludes *.acsitefactory.com default domains from search engine indexing.

• Feature Site Factory now allows you to schedule complex data processing jobs that can be executed at a single, specific time in the future. Learn more.
• Change You can no longer restart website installation processes.
• Change When a website installation process fails, Site Factory now starts a file cleanup process.

• Change Drupal 8 websites now disable the maintenance mode checkbox during Site Factory code releases.
• Change The namespacing of variables in sites.php, sites.inc and settings.php has been improved to prevent collisions.
• Change The List deployable refs Site Factory API endpoint examples have been updated.
• Fix Subscriber unit tests failed when running PHPUnit tests against existing non-default websites.
• Fix In certain circumstances, websites remained in maintenance mode after code releases.
• Fix On Drupal 7 websites with many public files, website update tasks took a long time to complete.
• Fix Cron handlers on unused stacks displayed errors.
• Fix When re-deploying the current code tag in a release, the audit log was not updated.
• Fix In certain circumstances, Drupal 8 websites displayed an invalid Export site action.
• Fix Certain expressions, including drush ev statements in Site Factory cron jobs caused cron jobs to display errors.