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  • How we dealt with the server outage on July 11, 2025

    Last Friday, we had a major outage at Flownative Beach, which took around 30 customer projects offline for about an hour and a half. We would like to explain transparently what happened, how we dealt with it and what measures we are planning for the future.

  • New in Beach: Restore backups yourself

    Regular backups are made automatically for all Beach instances. If something goes really wrong, it was previously possible to quickly restore the working state via a support ticket. So that you can now do this yourself at any time of day or night, there is a new feature in the Control Panel - and it can do even more than just restore backups!

    In the Control Panel, you will now find a “Backups” section where you can see all available backups:

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  • No RegreSSHion – CVE-2024-6387 fixed

    The recent security vulnerability in OpenSSH – nicknamed RegreSSHion for good reason – is already patched in Flownative Beach.

    The issue, assigned the CVE-2024-6387 and published on July 1st, is rated with a score of 8.1 out of 10. So we understand our customers are worried about a potential impact on our Flownative Beach cloud hosting.

  • Removal of outdated PHP versions 8.0 & 8.1 from Beach

    PHP 8.0 has served us well. So did PHP 8.1 But now it's time to move on–to newer PHP 8 versions.

    No longer supported by the developers, PHP 8.0 no longer receives any updates at all since November 26th 2023. As the PHP website states:

    Each release branch of PHP is fully supported for two years from its initial stable release. […]

    After this two year period of active support, each branch is then supported for an additional year for critical security issues only. […]

  • Removal of outdated PHP version 7.4 from Beach

    PHP 7.4 has served us well over the past years. But now it's time to move on–to PHP 8.

    No longer supported by the developers, PHP 7.4 will no longer receive any updates at all from November 28th on. As the PHP website states:

    Each release branch of PHP is fully supported for two years from its initial stable release. […]

    After this two year period of active support, each branch is then supported for an additional year for critical security issues only. […]