September 4th 2025 Platform Release Notes
Hello! Cloud.gov is starting to do our release notes again. Our focus is on bubbling up changes that affect our Cloud.gov developers and users. This release note will include items and changes from the past few months.
Developer-Impacting Changes
The audience for this section is developers who maintain applications on Cloud.gov and may need to respond to stack or buildpack changes.
New Cloud.gov Docs Website
As part of Cloud.gov's ongoing efforts to expand our capabilities and services, we updated the Cloud.gov Website and moved documentation to a standalone website docs.cloud.gov.
Platform Bug Fixes
- Fixed CA Certificate Key Usage Issue with Python 3.13 and Container-to-container Networking
- Rolled out CF CLI / API fix that caused space quotas to be miscalculated and not be able to create new service instances.
Cloud.gov Services Deprecations
There are several services provided via Cloud.gov that have older versions moving to AWS Extended Support. Customers will need to upgrade to newer versions before it happens. Here is the a quick table:
| Service | Version | Standard Support End Date |
|---|---|---|
| AWS RDS | Postgres 12 | In Extended Support |
| AWS Elasticsearch / Opensearch | Elasticsearch 7.4 | Novemember 2025 |
| AWS RDS | Postgres 13 | February 2026 |
| AWS Elasticache (Redis) | 5.X | February 2026 |
Please email support@cloud.gov for assistance or information on how to get your service instances upgraded to newer versions.