Summer Product Announcement

In Q3, we are shipping a modernized dashboard beta, Content Publisher's smarter styling and layouts, and PHP Runtime Generation 2. Dive in for details!

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Modernized Site Dashboard Beta

Pantheon is upgrading the Site Dashboard—our core product and the daily workspace for thousands of developers. This is your "mission control center," your operational base for managing the web. 

Here, you can expect a streamlined interface and an updated architecture that enhances performance, accessibility, and usability across the board. Other updates:

  • The commit log history
  • Site settings functionality
  • Environment management page

Access will be rolling out to all users in the next few weeks. Sign up now to skip the wait! 

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New in Content Publisher: Smarter Styling and Layouts

Pantheon Content Publisher is a content integration cloud service designed to simplify content workflows and publishing from Google Docs to websites running WordPress, Drupal, Next.js, or any other composable technology. Sign up to test the latest enhancements:

  • Updated WordPress Plugin: It enables Google Docs to WordPress publishing without copy-paste or plugin conflicts.
  • Webstyles for Google Docs: Editors can now apply styles directly from their website’s design system – right inside Google Docs.
  • Approval workflows: Before anything goes live, managers can require formal approval, ensuring sensitive or high-stakes content gets an extra layer of review. 
  • Responsive tables: Tables in Google Docs can now be rendered as responsive grids, solving one of the biggest layout limitations in web publishing.
  • Advanced image controls: Editors can wrap text around images, crop visuals, and manage alt text and captions, all within Google Docs.

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Platform enhancements, built for you

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Modern Infrastructure

PHP 8.4 & PHP Runtime Generation 2

Starting September 17, all customer sites will begin transitioning to Pantheon’s PHP Runtime Gen 2 for delivering Drupal and WordPress content. The rollout will take place over 40 days. What’s new:

  • PHP 8.4 (exclusive to Gen 2 and available now!)
  • LTS PHP editions
  • Modernized PHP extensions
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Enhanced Customer Support

Please meet your new customer support chat platform: Zendesk Messaging. This isn’t just a new interface — we've reimagined how support conversations should work: faster, more efficient, and more helpful from the start. The chat experience is rolling out gradually across all workspaces. Here's what to expect:

  • Linking tickets to ongoing chat conversations.
  • Unified support history.
  • AI gets you to the right person faster.
  • Added context with support for richer attachments.

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Enhanced security tools

Introducing Security Starter with Rate Limiting

For years, advanced traffic management tools like bot protection and rate limiting were seen as enterprise-only solutions. But the threat landscape has changed—automated attacks now target organizations of all sizes.

Pantheon’s new Security Starter offering brings Rate Limiting to more teams at a lower cost. 

The JavaScript Ecosystem

Coming soon: Next.js

Next.js is one of the fastest-growing web technologies, and we’re bringing it to Pantheon. Soon you’ll be able to deploy sites built with Node.js frameworks, including Next.js, directly on the platform – right alongside your Drupal and WordPress sites. 

What to expect:

  • Support for both static and dynamic Next.js sites.
  • Next.js site management in the Terminus CLI and Pantheon Dashboard

This marks the first step in expanding Pantheon’s support for modern JavaScript frameworks. 

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Coming Soon

The following features are in development. Stay tuned for updates!

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Elasticsearch

​​Elasticsearch is the go-to search solution for enterprise-scale WordPress sites. We are working on bringing it to Pantheon! Would you like to beta test it? Let us know!

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Public API

The modernized Pantheon Dashboard is backed by a robust API. What would you build if you had direct access? Better command line tools? A developer portal? Let us know!

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Log forwarding

How would you use a service to seamlessly send logs from sites to your preferred monitoring or log management platforms, such as Splunk or Sumo Logic? Let us know! 

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Build with velocity on Pantheon

Deliver the perfect digital experience for your business using the technologies you trust. Publish freely and frequently, at pace with market demands.