Changelog

Release 4625: Tweaked checking interval in the PHP-FPM GONE slayer

This release includes a slight optimization in how we handle requests that are already processing where visitors of Magento shops click away when the server is under high load. Smart request handling on Hypernode On Hypernode servers we do various things to filter out unnecessary work. Under normal load these mechanism aren’t really noticeable but…

Release 4615: Ported Hypernode memory management daemon to Python 3

Hypernode OOM monitor In this release we have ported our memory management daemon from Python 2 to Python 3. For more information about the Hypernode OOM monitor see this earlier changelog. If you are using hypernode-vagrant please do a git pull and a box update. See this pull request for details. Magerun Additionally we have…

Release 4589: Brotli enabled on all Hypernodes, PHP 7.0.25

In this release we have enabled Brotli on all Hypernodes. Google Brotli Compression Brotli is the often requested generic-purpose lossless compression algorithm by Google that can achieve a compression ratio of 20 to 26% higher than their previous Zopfli compression algorithm. This can give the performance of your shop an edge in low bandwidth situations…

Release 4582: Updated and configurable SSL ciphers

Updated SSL cipher suites We updated our SSL settings to the Mozilla Intermediate configuration. We now support a larger range of secure ECDSA ciphers. Several unused DSS ciphers have been removed, in favor of more popular and secure RSA ciphers. The Mozilla Intermediate configuration is advised by Mozilla for websites that need to support a…

Release 4566: Increased NGINX map_hash_bucket_size

In this release, we have increased the NGINX map_hash_bucket_size from the default 64 to 128. This change will allow longer lines in map includes. This is convenient in situations like the external whitelist include we describe in this article about Magento and smarter 404 handling. For example, the app/force404.txt in that article will now be…

Release 4560: Varnish Edge Side Includes over HTTPS

Problems with non-loading ESI blocks fixed We’ve updated our Varnish configuration to include the -p feature=+esi_ignore_https flag by default for new Hypernodes. We’ve updated this because of problems with ESI (Edge Side Includes) blocks not loading when retrieved using site-wide HTTPS with Varnish enabled in Magento 2 stores. As Varnish does not natively support HTTPS, ESI…

Release-4535: Update Nginx in preparation for brotli compression. Improve OCSP cache warming

We’ve updated Nginx to version 1.13.5. With this update we’ve included the option to use the brotli compression algorithm (it’s still disabled for everyone though). We are looking for volunteers to test the brotli compression, if you are interested please send us an e-mail to support@byte.nl. Brotli is a new compression algorithm from Google which…

Release-4475: Multi-threaded magerun-hypernode cache warmer, PHP update and more

Multi-threaded cache warmer In this release we’ve once again deployed a new version of magerun-hypernode. This time with a great new feature by the people at Tickles. This update makes the hypernode cache warmer multi-threaded so it can warm the cache for multiple pages at the same time. To specify the amount of concurrent requests…

Release-4453: Renamed hypernode-importer3 to hypernode-importer

In this release we have renamed the new version of the hypernode-importer to hypernode-importer (before it was named hypernode-importer3). The old version of the hypernode-importer will not be completely removed yet, but instead has been renamed to hypernode-importer-legacy for backwards compatibility. For more information about changes in the new importer, see this earlier changelog. Other…

Release-4424: Bugfix for maintenance mode in hypernode-importer3

This release brings a minor bugfix for hypernode-importer3 (and the service panel importer). Previously if the –set-maintenance-on-source flag was used to set the original shop in maintenance mode, the importer would fail if the maintenance mode flag was removed on the Hypernode the shop was imported on before the entire import had been completed. Because…

Release-4310: Updated PHP 7 to 7.0.23

We have updated our PHP 7 version to 7.0.23. For a complete list of changes see the PHP 7 ChangeLog. We will be deploying this update gradually over all Hypernodes this week.

Release-4398: hypernode-magerun magerun2 modules installed system wide

In this Hypernode changelog we discuss the latest changes made to the hypernode-magerun package and the hypernode-image-optimizer. Hypernode-magerun In this release we’ve updated the hypernode-magerun package to install some modules for magerun2 system wide. Currently this only includes the hypernode:performance command. $ magerun2 | grep hypernode hypernode hypernode:performance Generate a performance report based on sitemaps….

Release-4379: fix Blackfire for PHP 5.6

Fixed the Blackfire PHP 5.6 integration. When we released PHP 5.6 for Hypernode we forgot a small step which prevented Blackfire from working. This has been fixed.

Release 4373: Importer improvements, log parser bugfixes and more

This release brings a new version of hypernode-importer3, some bugfixes for hypernode-parse-nginx-log and various changes to our cloud operations job processing backend. Magento path discovery in the importer is now breadth first The hypernode-importer3 tool will now find the top level Magento in the specified path. If a path was supplied that contained a Magento…

Release 4366: PHP 5.6 is now the default for new Magento 1 Hypernodes

From now on when a new Magento 1 Hypernode is created the default PHP version will be 5.6 instead of 5.5. Magento 2 Hypernodes will still be created with PHP 7.0 as the default setting. PHP 5.6 is a lot faster than PHP 5.5, check out this benchmark of an unoptimized Magento 1 shop with…

Release-4352: Updated magerun-hypernode

We’ve added a new version of magerun-hypernode to our repositories. Changes since the last release: [ Jochem Klaver ] * Fixing #46 hypernode:patches:list matching the inconsistent patch names in applies.patches.list (#47) * Do not list reverted patches as applied [ Timon de Groot ] * Make command hypernode:performance available for n98-magerun2 * Add information to…

Release-4333: Install/prepare PHP 5.6 release

In preparation for the PHP 5.6 release, we are installing PHP 5.6 alongside the other PHP versions. The ability to use PHP 5.6 for your shop will follow soon. Additionally, we now allow LOAD DATA INFILE queries from all locations

Release-4310: Updated PHP 7 to 7.0.22

We have updated our PHP 7 version to 7.0.22. This new release includes various minor bugfixes, for a complete list of changes click here.

Release-4295: Updating php-redis, php-imagick and blackfire

PHP 5.6 preparations In preparation for the PHP 5.6 release we’ve rebuilt the php-redis and php-imagick PHP modules. These have already been re-built for existing PHP versions (PHP 5.5 & PHP 7). In addition they are also built for PHP 5.6 now. Blackfire updates We’ve also updated our Blackfire probes: blackfire-agent 1.11.0 -> 1.14.1 blackfire-php…

Release-4293: New hypernode-importer3 with Magento 2 support

In the past month we re-wrote the hypernode-importer from scratch to fix a couple of issues, added some new functionalities and made it more efficient. Now it supports Magento 2, handles special characters in database passwords and imports the database and file-system in parallel. Hypernode-importer3 – loads of new options The original hypernode-importer will still…

Release-4287: ioncube for php7, more mysql connections for larger nodes

Ioncube for PHP 7 We’ve made ioncube available for PHP 7 as an opt-in option. If you would like to use ioncube for PHP 7 please contact support, and let them know for which nodes you would like to enable ioncube. More MySQL connections For larger Hypernodes (from 20 cores and up) we’ve increased the…

Release-4252: Automatic recovery delayed at night

We’ve changed our automatic recovery to be delayed at night. When a server goes offline or becomes unresponsive, an automated process attempts certain rescue strategies in order to resolve the issue. Some customers run cron jobs at night which would cause database locks and effectively causing their websites to go offline. Our recovery is now…

Release-4236: Gzip vector based images by default and more

In this release GZIP compression in NGINX for vector based images is enabled by default. In the past this was already configurable by adding custom GZIP types to your NGINX config, but enabling this in the default config is a sensible default. The following image formats are now compressed: image/svg image/svg+xml image/eps. Suggested by Mark…

Release-4224: add php snappy module

We’ve added the snappy compression algorithm to PHP. Snappy offers much higher compression/decompression speeds compared to gzip, at a slight compression ratio cost. This is taken from the Squash Benchmark, which is a good overview over various compression algorithms vs various input data. From the above benchmarks, using the core i-7 machine together with the…