Elasticsearch 5.6, upcoming Cloud Foundry Summit, and platform updates

Announcements

• In this featured FEC Case Study, find out how cloud.gov helps the agency ensure their applications are available, secure, and resilient. Want us to feature your agency? Drop us a line at inquiries@cloud.gov.
• Join us at the Cloud Foundry Summit on April 18-20 in Boston, MA. Members of the cloud.gov team will present at this gathering of people who use and run platforms—like cloud.gov—that are based on the Cloud Foundry open source project. It includes government-focused sessions and training opportunities that may be useful to you and your team.

Added

• Elasticsearch version 5.6 is now available. This includes performance improvements and new features. We recommend upgrading from version 2.4 to 5.6, but we don’t have near-term plans to end support for 2.4.
• If your application involves multiple languages, and it’s not practical to split it into smaller applications, cloud.gov now has improved support for multiple buildpacks

Fixed

• Upgrade to the latest version of the CF CLI tool v6.34.1 for improvements and bug fixes.
• If you deploy Docker containers, it’s now possible to push Docker images from an Azure container registry.

Buildpack updates

• PHP Buildpack v4.3.46 → 4.3.48
  • Added PHP 7.2.1
• .NET Core Buildpack 1.0.25 → 2.0.1
  • .NET Core now defaults to 2.x
• NodeJS Buildpack 1.6.13 → 1.6.15
  • Default NodeJS is now 6.x
  • Added 9.3.0
• Python Buildpack 1.6.4 → 1.6.7
• Staticfile Buildpack 1.4.20 → 1.4.21
• Java Buildpack 4.7.1 → 4.8
  • Upgraded to openjdk JRE 1.8.0_162
• Ruby Buildpack 1.7.8 → 1.7.11
  • This resolves a bug with Rails asset:precompile.
  • Default Ruby is now 2.4
  • Removed Ruby 2.1

Platform updates

• Stemcell v3468.15 → 3468.21
• CloudFoundry v283 → Cloud Foundry Deployment cf-deployment v1.9.0
• Diego v1.32.0 → 1.34.0
• RootFS cflinuxfs2 v1.176.0 → 1.187.0