Pantheon release notes

Drupal 8.9.20 is now available on the Pantheon platform. Detailed information on applying and debugging core updates can be found in the Core Updates documentation. Customers still using Drupal 8 on the Pantheon platform are strongly encouraged to upgrade to Drupal 9. Refer to the upgrade documentation for more information.

Personal Workspace Billing - Billing for Personal Workspaces in the New Dashboard is now more accessible. Users can add and manage subscription plans, change billing frequency, view the billing history for each renewal, and update payment information, all in one place. For more information on Billing in Personal Workspaces, refer to the documentation.

Multidev Access - To accelerate development and streamline maintenance, customers with Gold, Platinum, or Diamond accounts now have Multidev access automatically extended to contractors and agencies. For more information, refer to the Multidev FAQ documentation.

Support in the New Dashboard - Unified Support is now available in the New Dashboard. The Support tab in the New Dashboard simplifies the user experience for getting support on the Pantheon platform and offers users ease of access to the various support channels. Additionally, Diamond and Platinum Account customers can now call Pantheon's premium technical support line directly for any technical issues, escalations, site, billing, or overages queries. For more information, refer to the Support documentation.

Drupal 9.2.7 is now available for production sites. Drupal 9 sites on Pantheon use Integrated Composer, enabling one-click core updates through the Dashboard. To check for available updates, click Check Now from the Site Dashboard Dev tab.

Drupal 9.2.x will receive security coverage until June 15, 2022. Sites on 9.1.x or earlier should update to Drupal 9.1.13.

Convert a Standard Drupal 8 Site to a Composer Managed Site - Upgrade a standard Drupal 8 site, by converting it to a Composer-managed Drupal 8 site on the new Integrated Composer framework. The documentation provides a guide for converting a standard Drupal 8 site using drops-8 to the new Integrated Composer drupal9 upstream while remaining on Drupal 8.

Using Solr 8 on Drupal 9 - Pantheon Search with Solr 8 is currently in Limited Availability. Pantheon Search derives from Apache Solr 8 and gives Drupal 9 web teams a high-performance search index integrated with Integrated Composer's easy one-click updates.

WordPress 5.8.1 is a short-cycle security and maintenance release that is currently available on the Pantheon platform. The next major WordPress release will be version 5.9. Detailed information on applying and debugging core updates can be found in the Core Updates documentation.

Drupal 9.2.6 is now available for production sites. Drupal 9 sites on Pantheon use Integrated Composer, enabling one-click core updates through the Dashboard. To check for available updates, click Check Now from the Site Dashboard Dev tab.

Drupal 9.2.x will receive security coverage until June 15, 2022. Sites on 9.1.x or earlier should update to Drupal 9.1.13.

Drupal 8.9.19 is now available on the Pantheon platform. Detailed information on applying and debugging core updates can be found in the Core Updates documentation.

Autopilot - The Autopilot updater bot now scans a site’s homepage when initially enabled and automatically suggests 10 links that are important for VRT, allowing users to enable it for large site portfolios without having to manually create a test plan. You can also use the CMS update automation tool in the Dashboard to determine the estimated time your team has saved in Autopilot. For more information, refer to our Autopilot documentation.

Pantheon Global CDN - The Global CDN now offers Experience Protection to provide continuous and uninterrupted site uptime. If your site experiences issues, whether it’s an infrastructure problem or an application error, the Global CDN now delivers cached content to visitors instead of displaying an error message. For more information, refer to our Experience Protection documentation.

Terminus - The default branch name of the Terminus GitHub repository has changed from master to 2.x. This change only impacts individuals with a local clone of the Terminus repository, such as Terminus contributors or plugin developers. Update the local clone of the branch to 2.x as described in the GitHub documentation to avoid disruptions.