April 2015 Summaries

Scheduled for release on April 21st, the upcoming platform update introduces numerous enhancements and version upgrades across various components. Bundler receives an update to version 1.9.3 with the new Molinillo dependency resolver, and other software like Cassandra, Elasticsearch, Elixir, and MongoDB also see version increments. Major performance improvements are noted in Redis version 3.0.0, and updates are provided for Node.js and PHP, among others. The platform also integrates the Java dependency manager Gradle, and adds Ruby versions 2.1.6 and 2.2.2, which can be selected using specific build commands. Users are encouraged to test the new platform using Ubuntu 14.04 LTS v1504 and report any issues before the final release, with a comprehensive list of changes accessible in the platform changelog.