Weekly Platform Update #5

The Weekly Platform Update is a series of posts about every impactful changes on Clever Cloud. You’ll find the updated parts of Clever Cloud below, to follow fixes, updates, new products and more on a weekly basis.

Core

  • New hardened DNS infrastructure
  • Ruby: update bundler to 1.13
  • Node: 6.9.1, used by default as it is the new LTS (instead of 4.x)
  • Fixed Dirty COW (CVE-2016-5195) in Linux kernel
  • Setup of alpha support for sandboxed SSH access to instances (still WIP)

Products

  • Documentation:
    • Update of the organisation
    • A new “Get Started”, “API” and “FAQ” quick links header
    • New articles for the Clever Cloud CLI

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