Engine Yard Release Notes- July 2017

Engine Yard Stack Release Notes for July 13th, 2017

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-v4-2.0.124

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

• Disables SSL feature for MySQL 5.5 on versions 5.5.40 and lower and MySQL 5.6 on versions 5.6.22 and lower.
• Improves functionality and alerting for logical backups (eybackup)
  • Corrects issue where mysql backups were recording database name in the backup
  • Adds server identity to mysql backups to make them useful for replication-based restores
  • Prevents and warns about overlapping backup runs; provides an override option off by default.
  • cli improves backup errors when params specified incorrectly (leaving off db arg)
  • listing backups with all now properly indexes multiple databases in environment
  • OKAY messages only sent on first success after backup failure
  • Error messages are printed to /var/log/engineyard/eybackup/#{dbname}.alert
  • Backup Size and datestamps are printed to /var/log/engineyard/eybackup/#{dbname}.sizes which is capped at 100 lines
  • new_backup option now backs up a specific db if listed, otherwise will back up all databases
  • postgres restores perform analyze after load; adds a skip_analyze option
  • adds multi-part upload and uploads up to 4.9TB as a single file
  • adds Server Side Encryption (S3 managed keys) for all new S3 uploads
• Improves functionality and wording for eyrestore tool
  • eyrestore displays bucket name hint when unable to access other environment
  • eyrestore no longer requires both the database specified in both the --databases and --index args
  • eyrestore with gpg backups should say download when restoring with gpz extension
• Updates fog-aws module from 0.3.0 to 1.2.1
• Deprecates and removes unused aws-s3 gem

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