cflinuxfs4 change in Cloud Foundry

What’s happening?

There has been a change to the cflinuxfs4 stack which removes the ruby package. This occurred with the latest upgrade.

Potential impact to clients

When restarting or restaging applications which use the cflinuxfs4 stack and older buildpack versions, your application may fail to start with an error.

This impacts users of the Java, PHP, and staticfile buildpacks.

Call to action

If you encounter this error, you have 2 options:

  1. Update your buildpack version to the latest version (this is the best long-term solution).
  2. If you absolutely cannot update your buildpack version, you can revert to the cflinuxfs3 stack by doing one of the following:
    • Add stack: cflinuxfs3 to your manifest in the application section and push your application.
    • Run cf push with the --stack cflinuxfs3 option.

Start time

This change occurred during the May Cloud Foundry upgrade.

HSDP BitBucket (GIT) upgrade on Saturday, June 03, 2023

Environment(s) impacted

HSDP BitBucket, the GIT repository solution within HSDP (bitbucket.hsdp.io)

What's happening

HSDP BitBucket will be upgraded to the latest Long Term Support release version, 8.9.0. This version contains several bug fixes, new features, GUI changes, and stability improvements.

Potential impact to clients

Due to the nature of this upgrade, the HSDP BitBucket service will be unavailable for the duration of the maintenance window. During this time, all requests from your deployment tools or CI/CD services to the BitBucket endpoints will fail. We suggest that you stop any automatic deployments during the window of the upgrade. After the maintenance window, your requests to BitBucket will function as normal again.

With this upgrade, we have introduced session timeouts for the dashboard (15 mins). Please note that the dashboard makes periodic REST requests to the server to refresh itself, so users need to make sure they do not have any web browser tabs with the Bitbucket dashboard page open. There are no further changes to the way of working with BitBucket.

Event start: 2023-June-03, 01:00 UTC

Event duration: 8 hours. Please note the impact of 5 hours of downtime during this event from the start time of the upgrade.

Primary contact: Please speak with your HSP TAM or raise a ticket with HSP support.

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