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  • 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.

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  • Removal of outdated PHP versions 8.0 & 8.1 from Beach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