According to the process applied by DIGIT Drupal Hosting Service in the management of unsupported versions announced on 13 September, this is the timeline for the end of life of Drupal Core 9.3.x:
• 15 September: communication on EOL for 9.3.x
• 30 November: CI/CD blocks any deliver with Drupal Core 9.3.x
• 14 December: EOL Drupal 9.3.x. Details available on this page
• 14 March 2023: business restrictions imposed in the websites using Drupal 9.3.x
• 12 June: websites using Drupal 9.3.x are moved into static version
Clean-up and alignment of Version Control System users (15/09/2022)
As a preparation task for the migration into a new licensing model for DIGIT corporate Version Control System (VCS) solution, we will proceed with a reorganisation and deep clean-up of our users. The process will deeply impact the access to the codebase of the sites hosted in DIGIT Drupal Hosting service and to the related tools Drone, CI/CD, NextCloud and Graylog.
Maintenance impacting cloud sites on 19 September (12/09/2022)
Sites hosted in DIGIT Drupal cloud infrastructure (AWS) might be impacted by the upgrade of Web Linux hosts taking place on 19 September from 19.00 to 23.00.
During that time frame:
Each site might be down for five minutes.
It is recommended not to launch any deployment.
Maintenance impacting deployments on 22 September (12/09/2022)
The Drupal infrastructure related with deployments will be in maintenance mode on 22 September from 6.00 to 8.00 AM due to a version upgrade of Gitlab.
The expected impact during this time frame is:
No deployments will be possible on Gitlab and Drone
Unavailability of access to Gitlab services
Drupal Hosting - general approach to EOL Drupal versions (13/09/2022)
With the Drupal community going in a more flexible and faster release timing for new versions, it is important to clarify the process applied by DIGIT Drupal Hosting Service in the management of unsupported versions.
Log management platform Graylog available for Drupal websites (16/06/2022)
Graylog is a fully integrated open-source log management platform for collecting, indexing, and analysing both structured and unstructured data from almost any source. DIGIT has integrated Graylog in the Drupal hosting infrastructure to collect and store logs from the hosted Drupal instances (production and acceptance environments). Developers of the hosted websites can now request access to Graylog service to benefit from its capabilities.
Enriched documentation on package reviews (16/06/2022)
Selenium 4 available in the Continuous Integration and Deployment (01/06/2022)
Drupal/monolog module becomes mandatory on 17 June (01/06/2022)
From 17 June, the recommended module “drupal/monolog” will be marked as mandatory in the DIGIT Drupal Continuous Integration and Deployment. Projects not using the module by that date will be requested to install it in order to proceed with deployments.
You can find more information on the drupal/monolog module and how to install it on your project on this page.
CI/CD blocking tasks – remember checking the failure information (01/06/2022)
When encountering blocking tasks marked in red on the DIGIT Drupal Continuous Integration and Deployment, development teams should check the available information on the red task to understand the reason of the failure. In many cases, the information allows developers to fix the issue themselves, without the need to request support to the DIGIT Quality Assurance team.
Maintenance impacting sites in the cloud on 1 June (30/05/2022)
Sites hosted in DIGIT Drupal cloud infrastructure (AWS) might be impacted by the upgrade of Web Linux hosts taking place on 1 June from 19.00 to 23.00.
During that time frame:
Each site might be down for five minutes.
It is recommended not to launch any deployment.
Maintenance impacting deployments on 2 June (30/05/2022)
The Drupal infrastructure related with deployments will be in maintenance mode on 2 June from 6.00 to 8.00 AM due to a version upgrade of Gitlab.
The expected impact during this time frame is:
No deployments will be possible on Gitlab and Drone
Unavailability of access to Gitlab services
Maintenance impacting sites in the cloud on 11 May (05/05/2022)
Sites hosted in DIGIT Drupal cloud infrastructure (AWS) might be impacted by the upgrade of Web Linux hosts taking place on 11 May from 19.00 to 20.00.
During that time frame:
• Each site might be down for five minutes.
• It is recommended not to launch any deployment.
From 1 May, the latest version of Toolkit will be enforced. This will introduce some fixes to improve the component check such as, checking if mandatory modules are active and checking if an insecure package can be allowed (e.g., remote_stream_wrapper). The update to this version is transparent for developers and no changes to project configuration are required.
To stay updated on Toolkit release information, you can subscribe to the notifications on the Toolkit page in Github.
Guidelines for user private data sanitisation when copying production databases to development environments (28/04/2022)
Maintenance impacting deployments on 3 May (28/04/2022)
The Drupal infrastructure related with deployments will be in maintenance mode on 3 May from 6.00 to 8.00 AM due to a version upgrade of Gitlab.
The expected impact during this time frame is:
• No deployments will be possible on Gitlab and Drone
• Unavailability of access to Gitlab services
Maintenance impacting sites in the cloud on 21 April (19/04/2022)
Sites hosted in DIGIT Drupal cloud infrastructure (AWS) might be impacted by the upgrade of Web Linux hosts taking place on 21 April from 19.00 to 20.00.
During that time frame:
• Each site might be down for five minutes.
• It is recommended not to launch any deployment.
Replacement of Poetry affecting OpenEuropa websites (01/04/2022)
The Poetry translation system owned by DG Translation (DGT) and used on Europa websites will be discontinued by the end of 2022 (date to be confirmed). DGT already released the new e-Poetry system which will replace the old one. DIGIT and COMM are working on the Europa Web Publishing Platform (EWPP)/OpenEuropa integration with e-Poetry, expected to release in September or October.
Managers of OpenEuropa sites using the component oe_poetry that integrates Poetry should plan a specific release of their sites to include the new component for e-Poetry to avoid discontinuity of the translation service.
DIGIT will inform in time about the exact date when the e-Poetry component will be available, around September or October, and will provide a window of four weeks to allow the deployment of OpenEuropa sites including the new e-Poetry component.
Websites using the Europa Web Publishing Platform do not need to take any action since the ePoetry integration will be included in the corresponding platform upgrade.
Maintenance impacting deployments using NextCloud on 4 April (01/04/2022)
The Drupal infrastructure related with deployments will be in maintenance mode on 4 April from 19.00 to 20.00 due to a version upgrade of NextCloud.
The expected impact during this period for sites using NextCloud is:
• NextCloud user interface will be unavailable.
• Deployments using NextCloud ASDA will not be possible.
