Changelog - Hypernode

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…

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…