Engine Yard Release Notes- September 2016

Engine Yard Stack Release Notes for September 15th, 2016

Minor: Engine Yard Gentoo 2016 stack upgrade

Action: You apply the following changes the next time you click the Upgrade button for your Engine Yard Gentoo 2016 environment.

Note: For clarity, since we now have 2 Gentoo stacks, we refer to this stack as the Engine Yard Gentoo 2016 stack. You can access it by using the Stack select field in the Environment UI:

It's best practice to upgrade your Engine Yard Gentoo 2016 (stable-v5) stack regularly for the latest security and product updates. This week's updates:

• Updated PHP to 5.6.25.
• Fixed tmp permissions for nginx uploads

For more information on Engine Yard Gentoo 2016, see the Engine Yard Gentoo 2016 docs.

Engine Yard Stack Release Notes for September 27th, 2016

Minor: Engine Yard Gentoo 12.11 stack upgrade

Action: You apply the following changes the next time you click the Upgrade button for your Engine Yard Gentoo 12.11 environment.

Note: For clarity, since we now have 2 Gentoo stacks, we refer to this stack as the Engine Yard Gentoo 12.11 stack. You can access it by using the Stack select field in the Environment UI:

stable-v4-2.0.113

It's best practice to upgrade your Engine Yard Gentoo 12.11 (stable-v4) stack regularly for the latest security and product updates.

• Updated Certificate Authority Certificates
• Updated DNApi version, may break custom chef recipes that use DNApi
• Fixed ntp email alerts on successful states
• Fixed Sent disk space alerts every hour.
• Upgrades Ruby 2.3.x to 2.3.1 on instances using OpenSSL 1.0.1 (default).

Note: currently running Ruby processes will continue to run on the existing version of ruby. To update these processes, redeploy your app, and restart any background ruby processes. If using passenger, run /etc/init.d/nginx upgrade on each app instance to restart passenger and its workers on the new version.

For more information on Engine Yard Gentoo 12.11, see the Engine Yard Gentoo 12.11 docs.

Engine Yard Stack Release Notes for September 9th, 2016

Minor: Engine Yard Gentoo 2016 stack upgrade

Action: You apply the following changes the next time you click the Upgrade button for your Engine Yard Gentoo 2016 environment.

Note: For clarity, since we now have 2 Gentoo stacks, we refer to this stack as the Engine Yard Gentoo 2016 stack. You can access it by using the Stack select field in the Environment UI:

It's best practice to upgrade your Engine Yard Gentoo 2016 (stable-v5) stack regularly for the latest security and product updates. This week's updates:

• Made disk alerts persistent
• Removed deprecated functionality from "deploy" cookbook and cleanup
• Updated sshd_config to improve security configuration
• Added documentation on custom cookbooks
• Fixed typo on README
• Made NodeJS 6.4.0 available in attributes
• Cleaned up Passenger 5 monitoring recipe
• Added websocket support for actioncable in passenger 5, puma, unicorn.
• Added sequelizejs optional recipe
• Added MySQL 5.7 support, fixes collectd monitoring for mysql, updates mytop and dbd-mysql
• Updated PHP to 5.6.25.
• Fixed tmp permissions for nginx uploads

For more information on Engine Yard Gentoo 2016, see the Engine Yard Gentoo 2016 docs.