# Datomic Cloud 704-8957

**URL:** <https://forum.datomic.com/t/datomic-cloud-704-8957/1571>\
**Category:** Announcements\
**Created:** [August 7, 2020, 2:58pm UTC](https://forum.datomic.com/t/datomic-cloud-704-8957/1571 "2020-08-07T14:58:48Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 1\
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**Author:** ![jaret](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.datomic.com/jaret/32/45_2.png) [@jaret](https://forum.datomic.com/u/jaret)\
**Post date:** [August 7, 2020, 2:58pm UTC](https://forum.datomic.com/t/datomic-cloud-704-8957/1571/1 "2020-08-07T14:58:48Z")

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This message covers changes in this release. For a summary of critical release notices, see  
[https://docs.datomic.com/cloud/releases.html#critical-notices](https://docs.datomic.com/cloud/releases.html#critical-notices)

### 2020/08/07 704-8957 - Compute Update

- New feature: [Cancel | [https://docs.datomic.com/cloud/transactions/transaction-processing.html#cancel](https://docs.datomic.com/cloud/transactions/transaction-processing.html#cancel)]
- New region: `eu-west-2`
- Fix: Prevent race condition in valcache that could lead to a failed read
- Improvement: Better entity predicate error messages
- Improvement: Better indexing performance
- Upgrade: The version of the Presto server running on the access gateway is now 338. This includes an upgrade to Java 11 on the access gateway.
- Upgrade: The AMI is now based on the 6/17/2020 version of Linux 2 base AMI
- Upgrade: AWS SDK for Java to version 1.11.826
- Upgrade: core.async to version 1.3.610