Changelog

Release 7807: Sansec’s Magento corediff

Yesterday our friends over at Sansec announced they opensourced their corediff tool! You can check out their Github repository and enjoy it for yourself. Corediff is a commandline tool that can be used to uncover server side payment skimming amongst other things. It does this by comparing your Magento directory to legitimate code hashes provided…

Release 7802: Improvements on MySQL settings

At Hypernode, we constantly look for opportunities to improve our platform. In a proactive approach for the coming holiday season, we’ve been benchmarking our platform to find possible improvements of our Hypernode setup. In this release we tweaked a few MySQL settings: Increase the innodb_log_buffer_size and innodb_log_file_size to reduce disk IO operations used for InnoDB…

Release 7786: Ensuring stability on Hypernode

In the coming days of the holiday season, the last thing you want to worry about is your hosting environment. This is why we have taken extra proactive measures to ensure the stability of your Hypernode. We do this with the changes that are listed in this changelog. These changes have been released alongside our…

Release 7785: Increasing performance on Hypernode

At Hypernode, we constantly look for opportunities to improve our platform. In a proactive approach for the coming holiday season, we’ve been benchmarking our platform to find possible improvements of our Hypernode setup. Here is a list of changes that we’ve made to our platform that give a significant improvement of response times and reduce…

Release 7721: Block python-requests/2.13.0

We have started automatically blocking all requests that have the user agent python-requests/2.13.0 on our fleet of servers. This is because we have seen an increase of this user agents performing a malicious amount of requests, as can be seen in this graph: If you do not want to have this user agent blocked,…

Updated Magento version check with Magento 2.4.1, 2.4.0-p1 and 2.3.6

Magento Version Check has been updated With the release of these latest Magento versions (2.4.1, 2.4.0-p1 and 2.3.6) we’ve updated our Magento Version check to include these latest versions. You can scan your website on magereport.com to see if you’ve installed the latest versions successfully. To make this check more visible for users visiting the…

Magereport servers OS upgrade

The Magereport servers have been upgraded. This change doesn’t add or change any of the existing Magereport functionality. But it is a general OS and system upgrade. IP will change more often The Magereport servers are now running on a new cloud system, that treats the servers like cattle rather than pets. Long story short…

Magento 1 vulnerability check for open /downloader url

Magento 1 open downloader url check Last weekend over 2000 shops were hacked through a new zero day exploit in Magento 1. Read more about this exploit and how we solved this on our Hypernode platform on our blog. You can now scan your website on magereport.com to see if you are vulnerable to this…

Analyzing access logs and blocking UserAgents on the Control Panel

As of today you can block bots and other unwanted UserAgents from accessing your shop. By going to the “Bots Blacklist” menu item in the Hypernode menu, you can add a user agent you want to block. We will prevent that user agent from accessing your shop from that point on. We assembled a list…

Release 7648: Nginx 1.18.0

We’re gradually rolling out a new version of Nginx web server on Debian Buster Hypernodes. Nginx will be upgraded from nginx/1.16.1 to nginx/1.18.0. The changelog for the new version can be found here. The latest 1.18.0 build fixes some security vulnerabilities, and brings other enhancements.

Release 7620: Hypernode-systemctl bash-completion, PHP CLI memory limit increase

This changelog introduces the addition of bash-completion functionality to the hypernode-systemctl command, which helps you find the right command to execute on the command line. Next to this, we made a change to the memory limit for PHP CLI. We will be applying both of these changes to all Hypernodes over the coming week. Hypernode-systemctl…

Release 541: MySQL slow query logs on the Control Panel

As of today you can view your MySQL slow query logs in the Control Panel. It allows you to easily see which queries take the longest and the details about those queries. Just visit the new menu item called MySQL Slow Logs on a selected hypernode to see the slow queries logs on your hypernodes.

Release 532: New Account settings page with SSH key manager included

Account settings: We’ve redesigned the personal settings page into an Account settings page, where you can change your profile and change your password or e-mail. SSH key manager: We also moved the SSH key option from the Hypernode level to the new account settings page. Now you can add SSH key(s) on the account settings…

Release 514: User management: Roles and Permissions

User Roles and Permissions on Hypernode’s Control Panel We’ve introduced Roles as a way of differentiating between different access levels within the Control Panel, for every team member within a Team. When inviting a new team member you now have to assign a role to the invited team member. The Different Control Panel Roles: Currently…

Updated Magento version check with Magento 2.4.0 and 2.3.5-p2

Magento Version Check has been updated With the release of these latest Magento versions (2.4.0 and 2.3.5-p2) we’ve updated our Magento Version check to include these latest versions. You can scan your website on magereport.com to see if you’ve installed the latest versions successfully. To make this check more visible for users visiting the site…

Release 7552: Magento 2.4 preinstall and more

Last week Tuesday Magento 2.4 was released, since then we have updated our Magento 2 preinstall (and sample data) to use this new version. With this new version some system requirements have changed: for the first time we will now enable ElasticSearch (version 7.6.x) by default on nodes that request a preinstallation of Magento. While…

Release 7498: PHP 7.4

In order to prepare the Hypernode platform for the upcoming Magento 2.4 release later today we’ve added PHP 7.4 as an option. In this new version of Magento, PHP 7.4 will be officially supported for the first time. PHP 7.4 offers a small performance increase, various language features and more. We are currently in the…

Release: Shopware pre-install available through Hypernode orderpage and CLI

We’ve added the possibility to pre-install Shopware 5 or Shopware 6 on your Hypernode either while ordering a Hypernode through our website (only available for customers using the English Control Panel). If you are using the Dutch Service Panel or if you already have a Hypernode, you can use the CLI to get the pre-install…

Release 398: Whitelisting IP’s through the Control Panel

Whitelisting IP addresses As of today you can easily whitelist IP addresses on the Control Panel for: WAF (Add IP address for whitelisting from the Web Application Firewall) Database (Add IP address for external access to the selected Hypernode’s databases) FTP (Add IP address for external access to the selected Hypernode’s FTP) Just visit the…

Release: Introduction Professional S plan and stop sale Start plans.

With this release, we introduce a new plan in the Professional range: Professional S and also we will stop selling Start plans. Professional S plan We will introduce the Prof S plan on Combell Open Stack (COS) only, this plan has the following features and prices: Grow Professional S Professional M CPU 2 CPU 2…

Release 7351: New Hypernodes will be booted on Debian buster

In this release we’ve changed the operating system a new Hypernode will get when it is newly ordered. From now on it will run on the new Debian Buster OS, before today it ran on Ubuntu Xenial. For more information about this upgrade see this previous changelog and check out this article on our knowledgebase:…

Release 389: Enable New Relic and Blackfire on your Hypernode

New Relic As of now you can enable New Relic One (APM) on your Hypernode(s) through the Control Panel and CLI. Control Panel Head over to the Hypernode’s submenu Monitoring > New Relic, enable New Relic and enter (and save) your licence key and app name here to activate New Relic. CLI SSH to your…

Release 385: Introducing Logs on Hypernode Control Panel

Logs We just released a brand new page on the Control Panel: Logs! You can easily access this page via the left side menu. Here you can view all the events happening on the Hypernode(s) and Team(s) you have access to. It also shows logs regarding your personal account. The log page comes with nice…

Release 7279: [BETA] Debian Buster hypernode-docker and configuration specific images

In this release we have published new hypernode-docker images. These new Docker containers run on the new recently released operating system Debian Buster, unlike the previous image that ran on the Ubuntu Xenial operating system from 2016. Also in this release for the first time we have published Docker images of specific settings configurations, a…