Platform Update on November 22nd

Scheduled for November 22, 2016, the upcoming platform update introduces several software version upgrades, including Chromedriver 2.25, Git 2.10.2, Go 1.7.3, Java 8u111, JRuby 9.1.6.0, Node.js 4.6.2, PHP 5.6.28 and 7.0.13, and Pip 9.0.1, with the latter containing potential breaking changes. Among the new features are the addition of Node.js version 7.1.0, which can be utilized in builds via the command "nvm use 7.1," and the inclusion of Yarn pre-installed for Node.js versions 4.x and above. Users are encouraged to switch to the Ubuntu 14.04 LTS v1611 release candidate platform to test compatibility and provide feedback before the final release. The Docker-enabled platform is updated to docker-engine version 1.12.3, and Ruby 2.3.3 is now included. The release candidate phase concludes on November 22, 2016, and a complete list of changes can be found in the platform changelog.