We did an emergency reboot of all servers during DrupalCon to install a patch for the Venom security vulnerability.
Pantheon release notes
Barrel Roll Reboots
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WordPress Launch Check
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WordPress Launch Check is an automated report you can run to make sure your site is ready to launch—built right in to the Pantheon Dashboard or available as a WP-CLI extension. For more details, see related blog post Announcing WordPress Launch Check.
WordPress core Updates to 4.2.1
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WordPress 4.2 came out this month to great fanfare. For more details, see Version 4.2 announcement. A few days later, the core team released a security update. We were on it, and the most recent version is available in all Pantheon WordPress Site Dashboards. We recommend updating all of your WordPress sites as soon as possible.
Styx-to-Appserver Encryption
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We now have encryption for routing to appserver, so if you’re running HTTPS you will automatically have end-to-end encryption on non-free sites.
SAML Users
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Single-sign on customers now have a dedicated log in page. Learn more about SAML For Pantheon Agencies.
Fedora Update
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We’ve officially completed a fleet-wide codeserver update to Fedora 20.
Edge Cache Configuration Update
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in place of the campaign attributes in the original URL. Now you will no longer experience PANTHEON_STRIPPED normalization in any of your Google Analytics reports.
Documentation
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New Articles
Learn how to use a quick PHP script to Convert MySQL tables from MyISAM to InnoDB.
Want the security of SSL on your Pantheon site but the budget won't allow it? Check out our new doc to learn how to set up and use Cloudflare SSL for free for your WordPress site.
New Guides
Our new guide will show you how to get up and running using a GitHub account to collaborate with your team. Learn how to synchronize your existing Pantheon site to GitHub, create repositories, synchronize existing GitHub repositories with Pantheon, and develop collaboratively by using branching and pull requests.
Two-factor authentication (TFA) is a security practice that prevents attackers from compromising accounts by requiring an extra authentication method beyond only using a password to log in. Our new guide will walk you through installing two-factor authentication on Drupal and WordPress, for both the single site and organization-wide cases.