Acquia recommends that as part of this release you upgrade your websites to use the latest version of the Site Factory Connector module.
Feature
Programmatically control the termination of tasks Using the Site Factory API, you can now terminate running tasks and delete tasks by using the Task Site Factory API endpoint.
Known issue
For Drupal 8 websites, the Site Factory Management Console documentation information will not display when embedded in an iframe.
Fixed issues
Attempts to sanitize databases failed after 10 minutes.
In some circumstances, the private files directory became inaccessible during a release.
Occasionally, deleting a website did not delete the symlinks between environments.
After a failed attempt to duplicate a website, Site Factory did not remove public and private files.
Site Factory did not preserve newline characters in the task logs.
The task logs displayed HTML-encoded versions of executed commands.
Attempting to restore a website failed if the restoration task was executed on a server that had never executed a backup process.
When duplicating a website, the database wipe process repeated multiple times.
If users with the developer or release engineer roles were assigned additional roles that included the ability to create a website from backup, these users could still access backups after the additional role assignments were removed.
When staging a secondary website from a site collection using the Site Factory API, the primary website from the site collection failed to stage.
In some circumstances, code release tasks and site duplication tasks could block each other from progressing.
This release of Site Factory is scheduled for release on April 9, 2018. It contains the following updates:
Features
Stage only the websites that you need to your non-production environment You can now copy individual, selected websites down to your non-production environment, instead of copying all websites from your production factory. Learn more.
Automate website updates after staging After copying production websites to a non-production environment, you can now synchronize data structures and module updates with the post-staging-update hook.
This release of Site Factory is scheduled for release on March 14, 2018. It contains the following updates:
Changes
Cron jobs now execute against the preferred domain when the All sites option is selected.
When clearing website caches from the Site Factory Management Console, the cache-rebuild commands use the website’s preferred domain name.
SimpleSAMLphp was updated to version 1.15.3.
Fixed issues
Site Factory displayed an error message that a website was unavailable due to a filesystem issue even after the file system issue was resolved.
When cron jobs were performed with the Sites with custom domains only option, websites in a site collection with a custom domain name were not included.
In some circumstances, Site Factory did not detect new install profiles.
This release of Site Factory is scheduled for release on January 31, 2018. It contains the following updates:
Change
Site Factory no longer requires that you use a specific version of PHP when executing Drush commands on Drupal 7 websites.
Fixed issues
When users attempted to view task logs to review successful tasks, Site Factory did not display human-readable messages.
In certain circumstances, cron tasks were executed twice.
Attempting to clear Varnish caches on path-based domains failed.
Enabling the Site Factory Connector module on a non-Site Factory website caused Drush error messages to display.
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.
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