Pantheon release notes

We have renamed Personal Workspaces to My Dashboard and have removed the ability to create new sites directly within it. Going forward, all new sites must be created within a Professional Workspace.

For details on workspaces, including how to create a free Professional Workspace, see related documentation.

What's changing?

• The Personal Workspace has been renamed to My Dashboard throughout the Pantheon dashboard.
• Site creation:

  • In the dashboard, the option to select a Personal Workspace during site creation has been removed. Users must now select a Professional Workspace when creating a new site.

  • From the commandline, running terminus site:create without the --org flag returns this wanring:

    An org must be defined to create a site.

    Sites created via Terminus without an org are added to your My Dashboard workspace.

What's not changing?

Existing sites associated with My Dashboard are not affected. This update to the dashboard site creation process only prevents new sites from being added.

Site creation via Terminus without an org will still complete successfully at this stage. No changes to your existing Terminus scripts are required yet.

Looking ahead

Starting June 1, 2026, specifying an org will be required when creating sites via Terminus. We recommend updating your scripts now to avoid disruption:

We are continuing to enhance the Top Traffic Patterns interface to help you go from insight to action even faster.

• Click-to-Audit for top paths: You can now run Google Lighthouse performance audits directly from the Top Paths table. Easily check the performance and SEO scores of your most visited pages with a single click. (Note: To prevent errors, this option is automatically disabled for static assets and backend administrative paths).
• Streamlined IP Block Requests: Advanced Global CDN customers can now easily request blocks against bad actors directly from the dashboard. We've added an action link within the Top IPs table that automatically routes the malicious IP details to our support team for blocking, removing the friction of manual context switching.

Note: The Top Traffic Patterns feature is in active, iterative development. You can expect frequent updates and new enhancements in the near future.

The site list in the Pantheon dashboard now syncs your active filters and search terms to the URL. This means you can bookmark a filtered view, share it with teammates, or refresh the page without losing your place.

What's changed

• Shareable filtered views: Filter and search state is reflected in URL query parameters, so you can copy and share a link that opens the exact filtered view you're looking at.
• Persistent state on refresh: Filters and search terms are restored from the URL when you load the page, so a browser refresh no longer resets your site list view.

No action is required. The next time you visit your site list and apply filters, the URL will update automatically.

We’ve updated the Top Traffic Patterns interface, located in the Metrics tab of your Live environment dashboard, to give you deeper visibility into your site's traffic. You can now see the exact request count alongside each of the metrics IPs, User Agents, and Paths.

By surfacing the exact volume of requests, it is much easier to measure the true impact of specific actors or pages. These counts help you confidently decide if an aggressive scraper warrants being blocked, or exactly how much load a highly visited path is handling so you can accurately prioritize your caching and optimization efforts.

Note: The Top Traffic Patterns feature is in active, iterative development. You can expect frequent updates and new enhancements in the near future.

A new user interface is now available in the Metrics tab of the Live environment of site dashboards, named Top traffic patterns which reports the following new traffic metrics:

• Top IP addresses
• Top user agents
• Top visited URL paths

With this data, you can identify aggressive crawlers or scrapers, that you may want to block manually or prioritize caching and optimization efforts based on the specific pages receiving the highest request volume.

Note: This data includes both counted and uncounted visits.

Teams using Pantheon's Secrets Manager to set variables like API tokens can now do so through the site dashboard. Previously this feature only had a command line user interface through a Terminus plugin. Secrets Manager works with WordPress, Drupal, and Next.js sites hosted on Pantheon. It does not work with the sunsetting Front-End Sites product.

Secrets Managers encrypts values at rest and then makes them available to your application's code as it runs. Secrets Manager is suitable for setting variables that are truly sensitive like a password, token, or key that allows Next.js to read from a back-end CMS as well as variables that might not be sensitive like a Google Tag Manager ID.

What's new?

• Create new site-owned secrets from the site dashboard
• Create new site-owned secrets in bulk from the site dashboard by either:
  • manually adding multiple keys at once of the same type and scope
  • or importing secrets from .env files (e.g., Next.js sites)
• Manage existing site-owned secrets from the site dashboard:
  • Edit default secret value and/or secret scope
  • Add/edit/delete environment overrides

For details, see related documentation.

The new Site Dashboard is now available for all Workspaces. Today's release switches Personal Workspaces over to the new experience, a change we recently completed for Professional Workspaces.

The following ON/OFF toggles have been removed from the user interface:

• Personal Workspace > Site list "Open sites in new beta"
• Professional Workspace > Site list "Open sites in new beta" (removed in a previous release)

• Same functionality, familiar workflows – No need to relearn anything. Your day-to-day tasks remain unchanged.
• Modern, accessible design – We’ve made significant improvements to align with the latest usability design standards, enhancing readability, contrast, and navigation.
• Performance improvements under the hood – While this may feel mostly visual, we’ve reworked key infrastructure for long-term speed and reliability.
• Small but powerful UX upgrades – New conveniences like one-click to copy the commit SHA, along with other thoughtful touches for enhanced usability.

A refreshed, modernized site migration experience is now available in the Pantheon Dashboard for all users.

Share questions and feedback in the Pantheon Community Slack.

Key Changes

• Design improvements to align with the latest usability standards for increased consistency.
• The previous Drupal migration process (which leveraged drush ard) led to failures for most users. The Drupal migration process has now been streamlined so that, when the site deployment is complete, users are instead prompted to migrate manually with crosslinks to respective docs for each step.