Sunsetting Node.js versions 6 and 10
Effective Date: May 1st, 2024 We’re committed to providing a secure, efficient, and up-to-date platform for all our customers. As part of this commitment, we’re announcing the sunsetting of Node.js versions 6 and 10 on our platform. Starting from May 1st, 2024, servers using Node.js versions 6 and 10 will be automatically upgraded to Node.js…
Read moreRelease 9557: PHP 8.3
With this release, we’ve added support for PHP 8.3. This latest minor version was released on November 23, 2023. See the PHP 8.3 release announcement. PHP-related integrations like Tideways, New Relic and Blackfire have all been updated to be compatible with PHP 8.3. For people using ionCube: we’re still waiting for an update of the…
Read moreRelease 9446: Tideways
We’re excited to announce we now have support for Tideways! Tideways is an APM service which can be used for monitoring, profiling and exception tracking of your application. Click here to learn more. You can enable Tideways by configuring the following settings: tideways_api_key: The API key for your application tideways_enabled: Enable the integration. Possible values:…
Read moreRelease 9355: Xdebug Cloud support and updates
Xdebug Cloud support With this release, we’ve added support for Xdebug Cloud to our Xdebug configuration (read more about Remote Debugging). When xdebug is enabled on your Hypernode, you can configure the Xdebug Cloud key with the php_xdebug_cloud_key setting: app@abcdef-example-magweb-cmbl ~ $ hypernode-systemctl settings php_xdebug_cloud_key aaa-bbb-ccc Operation was successful and is being processed. Please allow…
Read moreRelease 9311: Changing PHP’s default serialize_precision
With this release, we’re changing the serialize_precision setting from 17 to the default setting for PHP 8.3 (which hasn’t been released yet) and onwards. The setting was set to 17 when PHP didn’t have an algorithm yet to select a rounding precision on its own. The default used to be 100, so by using 17…
Read moreRelease 9171: Improved Brancher list accuracy
With this release, we have improved the hypernode-systemctl brancher –list (or hypernode-brancher –list) command to page through the entire result, instead of showing the first page. For most users this was working properly, but the result basically wasn’t accurate when you’d have more than 50 active Brancher nodes or when listing the terminated Brancher nodes…
Read moreRelease 9156: Faster hypernode-fpm-status and livefpm on high load
With this release, we have some improvements for hypernode-fpm-status and livefpm! We enhanced the utility’s responsiveness, especially for big Hypernodes with high traffic loads. Improved Performance for Big Hypernodes For hypernode-fpm-status, we use a component called psutil to gather information about the connections and processes. However, the way we used psutil didn’t scale very nicely…
Read moreRelease 9096: Rollback of 9077
At Hypernode, we’re always looking for ways to optimize the configuration and to improve the customer experience. Last Monday, we announced release 9077, which introduced an optimized nginx configuration for varnish-enabled Magento 2 vhosts. Although we tested this change very thoroughly on several Magento 2 environments, this change did not have the intended effect for…
Read moreRelease 9077: Optimized Magento 2 + Varnish nginx configuration
With this release, we have changed the vhost scaffolding template for the Magento 2 vhost type when Varnish is enabled for the vhost. Previously, all requests were passed on to varnish, which means that also the static assets and the media files were being passed to varnish. Because the Magento 2 Varnish configuration passes static/media…
Read moreRelease 8992: Redis 7, Composer updates and Brancher improvements
This release contains quite some new features and improvements! Redis 7 We now have support for Redis 7, which is the newly recommended Redis version for Magento 2.4.6. To upgrade to Redis 7, you can easily do so by using the hypernode-systemctl command: app@abcdef-example-magweb-cmbl:~$ hypernode-systemctl settings redis_version 7.x Operation was successful and is being processed….
Read moreRelease 8939: OpenSearch 2.x
With this release, we’ve added support for OpenSearch 2.x! It has taken us some time to make this available, because the Debian distribution of OpenSearch 2.x arrived just at the beginning of 2023. Magento has had support for OpenSearch for quite some time, but since version 2.4.6, it added support for OpenSearch 2.x. Using OpenSearch…
Read moreRelease 8920: New Relic for PHP 8.2, Brancher improvements and n98-magerun2 update
New Relic for PHP 8.2 Support for New Relic with PHP 8.2 has been added. This was still a missing feature, but New Relic has released a new version of their PHP agent, which added support for PHP 8.2. Brancher improvements We have fixed a bug where the /data/web/.my.cnf configuration file did not have the…
Read moreRelease 8906: Brancher install hook
With this release, we’ve added a new Brancher feature: install hook. With this install hook, you can configure your application automatically on the Brancher node when the node is ready. To read more about this feature, check out our documentation on configuring the install hook. app@abcdef-example-ephsggiwy-magweb-cmbl:~$ cat brancher-install-hook.log Brancher hostname is: example-ephsggiwy.hypernode.io app ~ Config…
Read moreRelease 8900: NGINX configuration changes
With this release, we’ve made some changes to the NGINX configuration on the Hypernode platform. We’re currently hard at work to create more Hypernode Cluster features. Last month we showcased our database role for the Hypernode Cluster, which makes it available for Hypernodes to offload the MySQL load to a separate Hypernode, making more resources…
Read moreRelease 8874: PHP 8.2, New Relic update and other updates
With this release, we’ve added support for the latest PHP minor version 8.2. This PHP version was released on November 24, 2022. Updating to this new PHP version is easy: app@abcdef-example-magweb-cmbl:~$ hypernode-systemctl settings php_version 8.2 Operation was successful and is being processed. Please allow a few minutes for the settings to be applied. Run ‘livelog’…
Read moreRelease 8860: Brancher improvements
In the past weeks we have made some improvements for Hypernode Brancher. Labels We added the option to specify labels when creating a Brancher instance. This is an administrative thing to be able to track what kind of Brancher instances were created, what role they fulfill, what change they are related to, etc. This is…
Read moreRelease 8831: New documentation site
With this release, we’d like to announce our new documentation site: Hypernode Docs. The new documentation site is more intuitive, has more (and better) features, allows us to write even beter documentation for our platform, and perhaps the most important thing: it’s open source on GitHub! Go to ByteInternet/hypernode-docs-next to visit the GitHub repository. Everything…
Read moreRelease 8800: WAF improvements
With this release we have expanded the WAF configuration to protect Magento stores from the vulnerabilities in CVE-2022-24086. The configuration has been rolled out in the past week. We have placed the NGINX configuration at /data/web/nginx/server.cve_2022_24086. If you’re experiencing problems with this configuration and your Magento store is up to date, feel free to comment…
Read moreRelease 8766: Fixed Blackfire enablement
Not a feature this time, but with this release we have fixed a bug where Blackfire was installed on Hypernodes by default. This bug was in effect for Hypernodes that hadn’t enabled or disabled the blackfire_enabled setting yet. In that case the setting was reported as disabled, but Blackfire was actually still being installed. If…
Read moreRelease 8739: Managed magerun2 versions
In the past month we haven’t deployed many changes to the platform to keep things sailing smoothly for the Black Friday weeks/days. We haven’t been standing still though, so we have another cool new feature this week: managed n98-magerun2 versions, finally! Previously the default n98-magerun2 version was 3.2.0. We chose for this because n98-magerun2 has…
Read moreRelease 8728: Remote debugging with Xdebug
With this release, we are excited to announce a cool new feature on the Hypernode platform: remote debugging. With remote debugging, one can connect to a Hypernode and start debugging while the application doesn’t take a performance hit! How does this work? When you enable the php_xdebug_enabled setting, we spin up a separate php-fpm instance…
Read moreRelease 8702: Updated New Relic
With this release, we have updated the New Relic packages to the latest version. Users were experiencing problems where most New Relic transactions were named ‘unknown’ after changing the PHP version to 8.1. The related issue was: newrelic/newrelic-agent#387. The updated New Relic packages are also applied to the Hipex platform.
Read moreRelease 8697: Update PHP versions
With this release we have updated all PHP versions on the Hypernode platform. The new PHP versions are: app@gz22ew-tdgroot-magweb-cmbl:~/laravel$ for v in 5.6 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 7.4 8.0 8.1; do php$v -v | grep -E ‘^PHP’; done PHP 5.6.40-63hypernode20221031.050736 (cli) PHP 7.0.33-63hypernode20221031.040934 (cli) (built: Sep 29 2022 21:55:10) ( NTS ) PHP 7.1.33-50hypernode20221031.041254 (cli)…
Read moreRelease 8659: MySQL patch version 8.0.29 is now available
With this release, we have update the Percona MySQL 8 server from version 8.0.19 to 8.0.29. Within this release of patch versions we have found quite some performance optimizations, upgrade (from say 5.7) fixes and stability improvements. We’ll be gradually rolling out the update and restart the MySQL servers after upgrading. Please keep in mind…
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