Changelog

Release 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 […]

Release 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 […]

Release 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 […]

Release 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. […]

Release 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 […]

Release 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 […]

Release 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 […]

Release 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 […]

Release 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’ […]

Release 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 […]

Release 8851: Varnish 6 for docker images PHP 7.4 and up

In this release we have updated the Varnish version of the hypernode-docker images that run on PHP 7.4 or higher from Varnish 4.1 to Varnish 6.1. Images for PHP version 7.3 or lower will remain on the Varnish 4.1 version for now. The system requirements for Magento have been updated to no longer support Varnish […]

Release 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 […]

Release 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 […]

Release 8789: Configuration for GoAccess out of the box

In this release we have added configuration for GoAccess so it can handle Hypernode’s custom access log format out of the box. We’ve had the goaccess binary installed on Hypernode ever since December 2019 but considering Hypernode uses a custom json based log format for NGINX it was difficult to use. On Hypernode there are […]

Release 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 […]

Release 8762: Hypernode hints

We have made a small change to the message of the day, it will now include some nice hints. The ‘motd’ is the output you see when you log in to a Hypernode using SSH. It contains some useful information about the server and information about how to use the system. In this release we […]

Release 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 […]

Release 8733: Official Hypernode API Python client

In this release we are publishing our official Python client for the Hypernode API. This hypernode-api-python API client is the Python equivalent of the official hypernode-api-php API client we published earlier. This API client implements various methods which can be useful for automating tasks related to your Hypernode. With our API-first design philosophy we aim […]

Release 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 […]

Release 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.

Release 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) […]

Release 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 […]

Release 8558: Newer Node.js versions, NGINX tweaks and new aliases

With this release, we have added quite some changes we can be proud of! It’s a collection of various improvements, but let’s start with the biggest change! Newer Node.js versions After receiving quite some feedback from our users to include a newer Node.js version, we are proud to announce that we have finally added support […]

Release 8546: Redis 6 support!

With this release, we have added support for Redis 6.0 (see Redis release blog post). This version of Redis has many changes and improvements: Performance improvements ACL support Longest Common Subsequence commands Newest Redis protocol RESP3 We have added support for this major Redis version, because Magento >= 2.4.2 has a soft requirement (yes soft, […]