Changelog

Release 8324: Domain registration system on the Control panel

Domain registration system As from now domain registration and transferring is possible through the Control Panel. After ordering you can edit DNS records directly from the DNS manager. For transfers, DNS records can already be configured before finalising you transfer. DNS Only We also support using our DNS manager without the domain registration. By pointing…

Release 8286: Scheduled up and downgrading your Hypernode is available on the Control Panel

Scheduled up and downgrading As from now you are able to schedule up or downgrades for your Hypernode on a date and time (UTC +1) of your choosing. Control Panel We have added a date & time picker on the Hypernode’s change plan menu by which you can schedule an up or downgrade for future…

Release 8250: PHP 8.1

Every Black Friday / Cyber Monday period we try to minimize our deployments to the production platform to ensure maximum stability, so it’s been a while since our last platform changelog. This year during Black Friday we’ve had traffic peaks double of what we’d have on a calm Saturday two months earlier. Some shops on…

Release 8169: Two factor authentication on Hypernode Control Panel

Two factor authentication As from now we added two factor authentication (TOTP) to the login proces on the Hypernode Control Panel. This extra security layer was added to meet current security standards for accessing the Hypernode Control Panel. When you login, you’ll be prompted to enable the 2FA option. If not enabled directly, you can…

Release 8125: Magento 2 preinstall updated to 2.4.3

Recently Magento 2.4.3 was released. We updated our default preinstall to this latest version. If you want to take this new Magento version for a spin you can easily deploy it on your Hypernode using the hypernode-systemctl preinstall command-line tool or by selecting the preinstall option when ordering a new Hypernode or starting a new…

Release 8100: Access MailHog with Basic Authentication

In this release we’ve added the option to make MailHog accessible without using a SSH Tunnel. This can be done by creating a vhost with hypernode-manage-vhosts and adding a –type mailhog. If HMV (Hypernode Managed Vhosts) is enabled on your Hypernode, you can easily create a vhost for MailHog by using the command below which…

Release 8092: New feature added to the Control Panel: Managed SSL

Managed SSL As from now you can order an SSL certificate for your Hypernode(s) in the Control Panel. We’ll manage issue-ing and renewing the certificate so chances on downtime because of SSL certificate issues will be eliminated. (And this does happen a lot with unmanaged certificates) A new menu-item SSL is added to the Control…

Release 8036: New SSL functionality added

Recently we’ve added a new SSL menu item in our Hypernode Control Panel. Initially, only owners of a Hypernode could add a third-party certificate and view the specifications on the renewed SSL detail page. From this page, an owner could link a certificate to any number of other Hypernodes owned by this user. With this…

Release 8035: More settings on dashboard and New Relic bugfix

In this release we have updated the dashboard on our Hypernode Control Panel to display more configurable settings for your Hypernode and we have made our Hypernode configuration management more resilient against stubborn newrelic-daemon processes. Additional Dashboard settings During the development of our new Hypernode Control Panel which is going to replace our old legacy…

Release 8033: Firewall overhaul and keeping tabs on MySQL memory

In this release we have overhauled our hypernode-firewall and we’ve added a handy script for users to keep tabs on excessive MySQL memory usage. Hypernode Firewall overhaul In the past we have blogged about the self-learning Hypernode firewall. For all Hypernodes we aggregate data about suspicious requests in our central Elasticsearch so that we can…

Release 8022: Human readable filesize for hypernode-auto-logrotate

In this release we’ve updated our recently new hypernode-auto-logrotate command to display human readable file sizes as part of the output. The command can be used to automatically set up and configure logrotation for your application’s logfiles. Of course on Hypernode we have built in logrotation out of the box for system services such as…

Release 8019: Blackfire Agent v1 to v2 Upgrade

In this release we’re updating our Blackfire packages. Blackfire is deprecating their V1 agent version and the V1 version will be sunset on the first of September 2021. Blackfire is a tool that you can use to profile your webshop from your browser. Check out this Hypernode knowledge base article to see how you can…

Release 8016: PHP 8.0

In this release we’ve added the capability to enable and use PHP 8.0. To change the PHP version of your Hypernode you can use the hypernode-systemctl command-line tool: $ hypernode-systemctl settings php_version 8.0 Operation was successful and is being processed. Please allow a few minutes for the settings to be applied. Run ‘livelog’ to see…

Release 8007: Dedicated change SLA page on the Control Panel

A new page where you can easily change your SLA has been added to the Control Panel. You can reach this page by using the Hypernode submenu. If you want to change your plan and your SLA at the same time, you can still use the Change plan page for that. Note: Since we don’t…

Release 7971: automatically rotate logs with hypernode-auto-logrotate

This release adds the hypernode-auto-logrotate command to our bundle of hypernode- system utilities. This is a command line tool which automatically rotates log files, which helps avoid disk space and backup issues. Log rotation A hypernode contains files that applications write their logs to. For example, Magento writes to /data/web/magento2/var/log/debug.log. These log files can get…

Release: Akeneo 5.0 pre-install available through Hypernode orderpage and CLI

We’ve added Akeneo’s latest release, Akeneo 5.0, as pre-install option on your Hypernode when 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 Akeneo 5.0 pre-install…

Release 7925: Composer 2 installed in a separate path by default

On Hypernode we want to offer the best experience for e-commerce developers out of the box. We strive to have good defaults so that as a Magento or Shopware developer you can get quickly up and running. For that reason we prevented our default /usr/local/bin/composer installation from self-updating to the 2.0 version by self updating…

Release 7859: Clearer backup output in hypernode-log

In this release we have made a small change to our hypernode-log command-line tool (and livelog) which displays the tasks our automation system has and is performing on your Hypernode. We are changing the state reverted to background for the create_backup job. The output of the hypernode-log command represents the status of Jobs on our…

Release 7857: Shopware 6 preinstall updated to 6.3.5.1

In this release we have updated our Shopware 6 preinstall to version 6.3.5.1. If you want to test out the Shopware ecommerce platform in general or poke at some of the new features of the 6.3.x version of this CMS, this preinstall can be a convenient way to quickly set up a fresh environment. The…

Release 7856: Magento 2 preinstall updated to 2.4.2

Recently Magento 2.4.2 was released. Last week we updated our default preinstall to this latest version. If you want to take this new Magento version for a spin you can easily deploy it on your Hypernode using the hypernode-systemctl preinstall command-line tool or by selecting the preinstall option when ordering a new Hypernode or starting…

Release 7855: Automatically disable crons during upgrades

In this release we have made a small improvement to our up and downgrade automation. When you increase or decrease the size of your plan we create a new Hypernode of that size and then either copy over the data of the installation or do a cloud operation to detach the disk from the old…

Up- and Downgrading your Hypernode plan on the Control Panel!

As of today you can Up- and Downgrade using our new tool in the Control Panel: The Change Plan page. On this page you can compare plans, so you can easily see how many resources your current plan has and what you will get if you up- or downgrade to a different plan. You can…

Release 7836: Elasticsearch support in all Hypernode docker images

Since we started offering many configuration options for our hypernode-docker, the one feature everyone was waiting for was Elasticsearch. We are glad to announce that Elasticsearch 7.6, which has been available on Hypernodes for a while, is now installed by default on all docker images using PHP 7.1 and up. On all docker images with…