Changelog

Release 6052: RabbitMQ on Hypernode

In this release we deploy the possibility for Hypernodes to run RabbitMQ. Now that Magento 2.3 has been released, RabbitMQ can be used on Magento Open Source installations. Previously it was already possible to use RabbitMQ in the Enterprise version of Magento 2, or with the help of custom third party modules. While Hypernode has…

Release 6047: trials have more specs

In this release, we’ve equipped our trials with more specs. New customers trying out our platform for free now get 3 cores, 4G memory and 62G storage (before: 2c-2G-44G). Of course, all features like Sphinx, Varnish, New Relic, Blackfire are still included. Also (spoiler alert!) RabbitMQ will very soon be available on trials. Magento 2…

Release-6025: Hypernode Diagnostic

In this release we added a new command, hypernode-diagnostic. It gathers some basic information related to your Hypernode and Magento shop and presents this in a nice and easy to read format. Information such as PHP version, cron jobs, Magento version/edition and more. $ hypernode-diagnostic Magento information on 2018-12-20 10:29:27: – Magento version 2.3.0 Community…

Release 6016: Bugfix in hypernode-parse-nginx-log, also known as pnl

In this release we have pushed a new version of hypernode-parse-nginx-log to fix a bug relating to access logs in the file access.log.1. The pnl, or hypernode-parse-nginx-log tool can be used to convert the JSON Nginx webserver logs into a human readable format and filter specific fields. Previously the tool would only read files like…

Release 6000: Magerun2 updated to support Magento 2.3

In this release we will update the command-line tool magerun2 from 2.2.0 to 3.0.1. This new version will add support for Magento 2.3. The new Magento version was previously not yet supported. Note that this new version will also remove support for 2.0.x and for PHP 5.6. If you still depend on those versions you…

Release 5953: Magento 2 preinstall updated to 2.3.0

Magento released a new version of Magento 2 yesterday. The Magento 2 preinstall on Hypernode has been updated to reflect this. The new preinstalled version when you order a Hypernode is 2.3.0. ./bin/magento –version Magento CLI 2.3.0 Note that as of right now magerun2 is not yet compatible with this new version, so keep that…

Release 5946: Configurable memory management policy and RSS bruteforce detection

Configurable memory management policy In this release we will amend the change we made earlier this month where we increased the limit for our non-essential process slaying mechanism in order to allow more one-off memory hungry processes to run without executing overly drastic measures. While this change worked as intended, it did however result in…

Release 5874: Better out of memory pattern detection for preventive non-essential process slaying

On Hypernode we have a very sophisticated system for dealing with low memory situations. As described in these earlier changelog articles this system has evolved quite a bit over time and we are constantly looking for tweaks and adjustments so that we can strike the best possible balance between stability, performance and flexibility. Over time…

Release 5869: Configurable ft_min_word_len for products with short names

In this release we expose functionality in the hypernode-api that will make it possible to configure the ft_min_word_len for MySQL. The ft_min_word_len is the minimum length of the word to be included in a MyISAM FULLTEXT index. So, if you sell things in your Magento shop like wol or a sok then today is your…

Release 5852: Additional PHP Object Injection WAF rules

In this release we will expand on the configuration changes we’ve made in yesterday’s release which addressed a number of the PHP Object Injection vulnerabilities in third party Magento 1 extensions. Today’s change contains extra filters for probes we’ve seen with an URI encoded version of the payload and for probes where the payload is…

Release 5850: Blocking Magecart zero-days

In this release we will deploy a preliminary new version of our Web Application Firewall which will block various forms of known attacks that have been encountered in the wild on a selection of the vulnerable Magento 1 extensions that were disclosed in this blogpost by Willem de Groot, security researcher and ex-Byte founder. The…

Release 5840: hypernode-servicectl can also restart Redis

In this release we will push an update to the hypernode-servicectl command-line tool that will make it so that the app user is now also privileged to restart the Redis service. It will be possible to restart the default Redis instance that is commonly used for the full page cache, but it will also be…

Release 5793: ImageMagick security update

This week a security release for imagemagick was pushed to fix a vulnerability relating to the underlying Ghostscript interpreter. Because in Magento sites it is not very common for non-trusted users to upload images that will be converted to one of these formats, this vulnerability isn’t very critical. But because people can get very creative…

Release 5785: Migrating Hypernode DEV plans to the new Combell OpenStack

In this release we have started our previously announced effort to migrate production resources from DigitalOcean to the brand new Combell OpenStack cloud. This change will allow for a couple of cool new features like volume swap migration between the Magento Professional 3XL, 4XL and 5XL plans and way faster provisioning (around 10 minutes from…

Release 5734: Default n98-magerun.yaml configuration file

From this release on we will start placing a default .n98-magerun.yaml configuration file for Magerun in /data/web if no such file exists yet. Previously we already placed this file when a new node was ordered with a Magento 1 preinstallation. But, for the instructions in this article about installing Magento 1 on Hypernode to work…

Release 5678: New hypernode-postsuper utility to clear mail queue

In this release we introduce a new command which exposes the capability of clearing out or removing individual items from the mail queue to the app user. The command is called <code>hypernode-postsuper</code>. Use case The common software systems providing email services queue messages as part of their operations. Hypernodes are configured to process a capped…

Release 5677: SMTPD limits on low disk space

In this release we have tuned a couple of postfix configurations to safeguard Hypernodes from excessive e-mail volumes. What may affect users is that when the root disk has free space less than 15MB, SMTPD would not accept new requests. We have also adjusted the active queue size in proportion to the enforced mail limits,…

Release 5664: Follow migration process from the commandline

In this release we have added a new commandline tool on Hypernode which allows you to track the progress of running jobs for your Hypernode. This enables you to get a better insight into at what part of the process actions are as they are happening. The command is named hypernode-log and can be run…

Release-5640: hypernode-vpn a fully automated OpenVPN solution

In this release we introduce hypernode-vpn a fully automated VPN solution for Hypernode, which can be used for securely connecting to your database. hypernode-vpn is based on OpenVPN, with settings optimized for Hypernode. How it works When hypernode-vpn is enabled on a Hypernode, the Hypernode automation takes care of installing openvpn and generating the required…

Release-5637: hypernode-systemctl CLI introduction

With the recent announcement of the Hypernode-API beta we’re now also able to provide some tools to improve the way you manage your Hypernode on the command line. We’ve introduced the hypernode-systemctl tool to let you take control of certain settings of your node and to allow you to whitelist IP’s. This also provides a…

Release 5624: Customer changes now have a higher priority than system jobs and more

Prioritising customer changes in our backend system In this release we have made a big change to our back-end system to decrease the time it takes for customer changes to be propagated throughout the platform when we are running system jobs. Our automated systems periodically perform operations on all Hypernodes, like installing updates, running backups…

Release 5619: Newsletter brute-force protection & enforcement of mail limits

In this release we have updated our fail2ban configuration to protect against more different flavors of brute-forces on the Magento newsletter form. The protection only applies to visitors from outside the Netherlands and should not trigger in-case of normal usage. The second change is this release is that we now queue outgoing e-mails in excess…

Release 5548: Slightly quicker new node provisioning

In this release we have changed our configuration management so it only installs the enabled PHP version during initial provisioning instead of all PHP versions. Previously we would install all available versions on all Hypernodes always in order to speed up switching between versions. But by only installing the enabled version on demand, the time…

Release 5541: PHP 7.2 can now be chosen in the service panel

Last week we announced that PHP 7.2 is now available on Hypernode. Today we’ve pushed a new version of our service panel to production which makes it so that you can now switch to (and from) this new version yourself without having to contact support to perform the change for you.