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This webpage describes the updates Acquia made to Acquia Cloud in 2018. For the latest updates, see Release notes.
Acquia Cloud update - December 20, 2018
December 20, 2018
Acquia Cloud was updated with the following change:
Acquia Cloud no longer supports the X-Forwarded-Host proxy header by default. Customers that must use the X-Forwarded-Host header for their application can re-enable the header by adding the following code after the Acquia include statement in their settings.php file:
Acquia Cloud now removes cookies for Drupal assets with itok query strings.
To enable Varnish caching, query strings from common web analytics software (such as Google Analytics) are now removed.
Load balancers provisioned after the release of Acquia Cloud 1.111 include a valid SSL certificate for the acquia-sitesdefault domain name.
The maximum number of memcache connections is now 2,048.
SSH client sessions now time out .
Fixed issues
The PHP CLI memory limit temporarily reverted to its default value during PHP upgrades.
Acquia Cloud updates - week of September 16, 2018
September 24, 2018
Acquia Cloud includes the following updates for the week of September 16, 2018 through September 22, 2018:
Change
The following Acquia-related websites no longer support TLS 1.0:
cloud.acquia.com
accounts.acquia.com
acquia.com
insight.acquia.com
Acquia Cloud 1.110
August 15, 2018
Acquia Cloud includes the following updates:
Release Schedule
Platform
Release date
Acquia Cloud Professional
Wednesday, August 15, 2018
Acquia Cloud Enterprise
Wednesday, August 22, 2018
Site Factory
Wednesday, August 29, 2018
Changes
The Acquia Cloud interface now displays PHP-FPM metrics for Site Factory customers.
Acquia Cloud clears Twig caches on all of your subscription’s servers if you push a code change to your application.
SSH sessions now time out after 15 minutes of inactivity.
Acquia Cloud updates - week of August 5, 2018
August 13, 2018
Acquia Cloud includes the following update for the week of August 5, 2018 through August 11, 2018:
Note
The value of the LOGNAME environment variable should not be used to determine sitegroup or sitename in your .htaccess file or other custom scripts. Use the AH_SITE_NAME, AH_SITE_GROUP, or AH_SITE_ENVIRONMENTenvironment variables instead.
Acquia Cloud updates - week of July 29, 2018
August 6, 2018
Changes
Acquia Cloud includes the following updates for the week of July 29, 2018 through August 4, 2018:
Customers may experience brief outages as Apache and Varnish services restart.
Changes
Customer websites will restart less frequently due to updates.
ah-db-backup will now be used to run customer backups, eventually becoming the default backup method.
Vendored Drush users can now use the site-install task.
The value of the LOGNAME environment variable should not be used to determine sitegroup or sitename in your .htaccess file or other custom scripts. Use the AH_SITE_NAME, AH_SITE_GROUP, or AH_SITE_ENVIRONMENTenvironment variables instead.
Fixed issues
When the same code is committed to multiple branches within the same minute, the site-updatetask runs correctly.
Acquia Cloud updates - June 7, 2018
June 7, 2018
Acquia Cloud includes the following updates:
Changes
XML can not be uploaded into support tickets. Place the XML in a .zip file and attach that file to the ticket.
Acquia Cloud 1.108
May 18, 2018
Acquia Cloud includes the following updates:
Release Schedule
Platform
Release date
Acquia Cloud Professional
Wednesday, May 30, 2018
Acquia Cloud Enterprise
Wednesday, June 6, 2018
Site Factory
Wednesday, June 15, 2018
Although no subscriber actions are required for this release, you may notice momentary website traffic interruptions as PHP restarts.
Timeouts for websites behind balancers have been increased.
Cloned web servers will have identical volume sizes.
PHP 7.2 is now selectable for Acquia Cloud Professional and Acquia Cloud Enterprise subscriptions. Learn more. For information about upgrading to PHP 7.2, see Upgrading to PHP 7.2.
Important
To use PHP 7.2, Acquia recommends Drupal 8.5 or later.
Fixed issues
Stack Metrics graphs for Varnish requests correctly show data.
Acquia Cloud updates - week of April 15, 2018
April 23, 2018
The Cloud Platform includes the following updates for the week of April 15, 2018 through April 21, 2018:
Changes
The Minimal installation profile is again available in the Acquia Cloud interface for your use.
Acquia Cloud 1.107
April 16, 2018
Acquia Cloud includes the following updates:
Release Schedule
Platform
Release date
Acquia Cloud Professional
Thursday, April 26, 2018
Acquia Cloud Enterprise
Wednesday, May 2, 2018
Site Factory
Wednesday, May 9, 2018
Although no subscriber actions are required for this release, you may notice momentary website traffic interruptions as PHP restarts.
The Cloud Platform includes the following updates for the week of February 25, 2018 through March 3, 2018:
Change
ClamAV was updated to version 0.99.3.
Acquia Cloud 1.105
February 21, 2018
Acquia Cloud includes the following updates:
Release Schedule
Platform
Release date
Acquia Cloud Professional
Wednesday, February 28, 2018
Acquia Cloud Enterprise
Thursday, March 1, 2018
Site Factory
Wednesday, March 7, 2018
Although no subscriber actions are required for this release, you may notice momentary website traffic interruptions as PHP and Apache restart.
Changes
The following included software was updated:
PHP versions were updated to 7.1.13 and 5.6.33
New Relic was updated to 7.7.0.203
Node.js applications will experience less downtime during server reboots.
The Git origin will be pruned before fetching during code deployments.
Deletion of Acquia Cloud CD environments is more reliable.
The Apache version will no longer be displayed on 4XX errors.
Deployed Git branches or tags can no longer be deleted.
The Drush launcher now uses the application’s site Drush version.
MySQL dump restores should be faster.
Acquia Cloud updates - week of February 11, 2018
February 20, 2018
The Cloud Platform includes the following updates for the week of February 11, 2018 through February 17, 2018:
Changes
Acquia Cloud Enterprise customers can now change their application’s PHP memory limits from the Acquia Cloud interface. Learn more
Acquia Cloud updates - week of January 28, 2018
February 5, 2018
The Cloud Platform includes the following updates for the week of January 28, 2018 through February 3, 2018:
Changes
Branches that are deployed to an environment can no longer be deleted.
Acquia Cloud updates - week of January 21, 2018
January 29, 2018
The Acquia Cloud product includes the following updates for the week of January 21, 2018 through January 27, 2018:
Changes
Stack Metrics graphs now display results more quickly.
Administrative usernames that contain the strings admin, root, and administrator are required to have a minimum username length of 15 characters.
Acquia Cloud updates - week of January 1, 2018
January 8, 2018
The Acquia Cloud product includes the following updates for the week of January 1, 2018 through January 7, 2018:
Fixed issue
When switching environments in Acquia Insight, the displayed environment did not change.
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.
2018 Release notes - Acquia Cloud
This webpage describes the updates Acquia made to Acquia Cloud in 2018. For the latest updates, see Release notes.
Acquia Cloud update - December 20, 2018
December 20, 2018
Acquia Cloud was updated with the following change:
Acquia Cloud no longer supports the X-Forwarded-Host proxy header by default. Customers that must use the X-Forwarded-Host header for their application can re-enable the header by adding the following code after the Acquia include statement in their settings.php file:
Acquia Cloud now removes cookies for Drupal assets with itok query strings.
To enable Varnish caching, query strings from common web analytics software (such as Google Analytics) are now removed.
Load balancers provisioned after the release of Acquia Cloud 1.111 include a valid SSL certificate for the acquia-sitesdefault domain name.
The maximum number of memcache connections is now 2,048.
SSH client sessions now time out .
Fixed issues
The PHP CLI memory limit temporarily reverted to its default value during PHP upgrades.
Acquia Cloud updates - week of September 16, 2018
September 24, 2018
Acquia Cloud includes the following updates for the week of September 16, 2018 through September 22, 2018:
Change
The following Acquia-related websites no longer support TLS 1.0:
cloud.acquia.com
accounts.acquia.com
acquia.com
insight.acquia.com
Acquia Cloud 1.110
August 15, 2018
Acquia Cloud includes the following updates:
Release Schedule
Platform
Release date
Acquia Cloud Professional
Wednesday, August 15, 2018
Acquia Cloud Enterprise
Wednesday, August 22, 2018
Site Factory
Wednesday, August 29, 2018
Changes
The Acquia Cloud interface now displays PHP-FPM metrics for Site Factory customers.
Acquia Cloud clears Twig caches on all of your subscription’s servers if you push a code change to your application.
SSH sessions now time out after 15 minutes of inactivity.
Acquia Cloud updates - week of August 5, 2018
August 13, 2018
Acquia Cloud includes the following update for the week of August 5, 2018 through August 11, 2018:
Note
The value of the LOGNAME environment variable should not be used to determine sitegroup or sitename in your .htaccess file or other custom scripts. Use the AH_SITE_NAME, AH_SITE_GROUP, or AH_SITE_ENVIRONMENTenvironment variables instead.
Acquia Cloud updates - week of July 29, 2018
August 6, 2018
Changes
Acquia Cloud includes the following updates for the week of July 29, 2018 through August 4, 2018:
Customers may experience brief outages as Apache and Varnish services restart.
Changes
Customer websites will restart less frequently due to updates.
ah-db-backup will now be used to run customer backups, eventually becoming the default backup method.
Vendored Drush users can now use the site-install task.
The value of the LOGNAME environment variable should not be used to determine sitegroup or sitename in your .htaccess file or other custom scripts. Use the AH_SITE_NAME, AH_SITE_GROUP, or AH_SITE_ENVIRONMENTenvironment variables instead.
Fixed issues
When the same code is committed to multiple branches within the same minute, the site-updatetask runs correctly.
Acquia Cloud updates - June 7, 2018
June 7, 2018
Acquia Cloud includes the following updates:
Changes
XML can not be uploaded into support tickets. Place the XML in a .zip file and attach that file to the ticket.
Acquia Cloud 1.108
May 18, 2018
Acquia Cloud includes the following updates:
Release Schedule
Platform
Release date
Acquia Cloud Professional
Wednesday, May 30, 2018
Acquia Cloud Enterprise
Wednesday, June 6, 2018
Site Factory
Wednesday, June 15, 2018
Although no subscriber actions are required for this release, you may notice momentary website traffic interruptions as PHP restarts.
Timeouts for websites behind balancers have been increased.
Cloned web servers will have identical volume sizes.
PHP 7.2 is now selectable for Acquia Cloud Professional and Acquia Cloud Enterprise subscriptions. Learn more. For information about upgrading to PHP 7.2, see Upgrading to PHP 7.2.
Important
To use PHP 7.2, Acquia recommends Drupal 8.5 or later.
Fixed issues
Stack Metrics graphs for Varnish requests correctly show data.
Acquia Cloud updates - week of April 15, 2018
April 23, 2018
The Cloud Platform includes the following updates for the week of April 15, 2018 through April 21, 2018:
Changes
The Minimal installation profile is again available in the Acquia Cloud interface for your use.
Acquia Cloud 1.107
April 16, 2018
Acquia Cloud includes the following updates:
Release Schedule
Platform
Release date
Acquia Cloud Professional
Thursday, April 26, 2018
Acquia Cloud Enterprise
Wednesday, May 2, 2018
Site Factory
Wednesday, May 9, 2018
Although no subscriber actions are required for this release, you may notice momentary website traffic interruptions as PHP restarts.
The Cloud Platform includes the following updates for the week of February 25, 2018 through March 3, 2018:
Change
ClamAV was updated to version 0.99.3.
Acquia Cloud 1.105
February 21, 2018
Acquia Cloud includes the following updates:
Release Schedule
Platform
Release date
Acquia Cloud Professional
Wednesday, February 28, 2018
Acquia Cloud Enterprise
Thursday, March 1, 2018
Site Factory
Wednesday, March 7, 2018
Although no subscriber actions are required for this release, you may notice momentary website traffic interruptions as PHP and Apache restart.
Changes
The following included software was updated:
PHP versions were updated to 7.1.13 and 5.6.33
New Relic was updated to 7.7.0.203
Node.js applications will experience less downtime during server reboots.
The Git origin will be pruned before fetching during code deployments.
Deletion of Acquia Cloud CD environments is more reliable.
The Apache version will no longer be displayed on 4XX errors.
Deployed Git branches or tags can no longer be deleted.
The Drush launcher now uses the application’s site Drush version.
MySQL dump restores should be faster.
Acquia Cloud updates - week of February 11, 2018
February 20, 2018
The Cloud Platform includes the following updates for the week of February 11, 2018 through February 17, 2018:
Changes
Acquia Cloud Enterprise customers can now change their application’s PHP memory limits from the Acquia Cloud interface. Learn more
Acquia Cloud updates - week of January 28, 2018
February 5, 2018
The Cloud Platform includes the following updates for the week of January 28, 2018 through February 3, 2018:
Changes
Branches that are deployed to an environment can no longer be deleted.
Acquia Cloud updates - week of January 21, 2018
January 29, 2018
The Acquia Cloud product includes the following updates for the week of January 21, 2018 through January 27, 2018:
Changes
Stack Metrics graphs now display results more quickly.
Administrative usernames that contain the strings admin, root, and administrator are required to have a minimum username length of 15 characters.
Acquia Cloud updates - week of January 1, 2018
January 8, 2018
The Acquia Cloud product includes the following updates for the week of January 1, 2018 through January 7, 2018:
Fixed issue
When switching environments in Acquia Insight, the displayed environment did not change.
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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