Pantheon Adds Next.js Support, GitHub Integration, and Solr 9 Beta

Platform updates from Pantheon add support for Next.js, direct GitHub integration, Solr 9 beta availability, and customer-managed scheduled jobs. The company outlined the changes in its second-quarter product announcement, which also included winners from its first Show + Tell Community Challenge.

The announcement is relevant to Drupal teams using Pantheon because the updates affect common hosting, deployment, search, and automation workflows. Solr 9 support relates directly to Drupal search infrastructure, while scheduled jobs expand options for recurring maintenance, integrations, and command execution. The source provides availability and workflow-level information, with implementation details split across linked documentation and case-study pages.

Pantheon said Next.js is now generally available for Gold-tier and higher customers. The company said the feature connects Drupal, WordPress, and Content Publisher to a Next.js frontend while allowing content teams to keep existing publishing workflows. A linked SPS Commerce case study says the company migrated SupplierWiki from Netlify to Pantheon in eight days after consolidating a Next.js frontend with its existing Pantheon-hosted WordPress setup.

The company also highlighted a direct GitHub integration. Pantheon said commits pushed to connected repositories can trigger automatic builds, while pull requests can create live Multidev environments for review. The announcement frames the feature as a way to reduce extra configuration for teams managing code in GitHub.

For Drupal sites using Apache Solr, Pantheon said Solr 9 is available in beta. The company noted that Solr 3 and Solr 8 are end of life and will be removed from the platform. Pantheon said Solr 9 can be enabled through pantheon.yml and tested in a Multidev environment before production deployment.

Customer Scheduled Jobs adds more control over recurring automation. Pantheon said the feature is now available to all customers and supports automated cron jobs on hourly, daily, weekly, or monthly schedules. Each site has a daily budget of 300 minutes for scheduled job execution, and new users can configure the feature through the Terminus Scheduled Jobs Plugin.

Pantheon also announced the winners of its first Show + Tell Community Challenge. First place went to Paul Babin, Web Systems Manager at UCLA Health Information Technology, for a bot-fighting dashboard that analyses Advanced Global CDN logs through S3, OpenSearch, Grafana, and a lightweight database. Other winning projects included Rob Watson’s Advanced Security Header plugin for managing Content Security Policy behaviour from live traffic and Tyler Shuster’s PHPStorm plugin for configuring Pantheon environments.

The product announcement primarily identifies platform capabilities and availability updates. For Drupal users, the most immediate areas to watch are Solr 9 testing, scheduled automation workflows, and the operational fit of GitHub-based deployments. Teams considering the new features should refer to Pantheon’s technical documentation and linked case studies for configuration requirements before making production changes.