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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.

  • Updating Neos – Why, When and How – 2024 edition

    On this Neos Conference 2024 I presented a talk on updating Neos (again). I tried to answer three four questions:

    1. Why you should be updating?
    2. When you should be updating?
    3. How to do updates?
    4. What about updating to Neos 9?
    The video

  • Flow support for Xdebug

    Last year at the Neos Conference, Derick Rethans presented a proof of concept which added a path mapping feature to Xdebug, making debugging of Flow and Neos applications much easier.

    You can watch a recording of that session on the Neos CMS YouTube channel.

    This is one of the most requested improvements related to testing and debugging Flow and a long time after I first spoke about this with Derick some years ago, we now can make this happen.

  • Removal of outdated PHP versions 8.0 & 8.1 from Beach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  • Removal of outdated PHP version 7.4 from Beach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. […]