April Community Recap

Hey there, May! You sneaked up on us. I haven't even had a chance to dust off my lightsaber or think of a witty Star Wars meme for May 4th. (If you've got a good meme, you could earn a Liquibase t-shirt!) I've been busy thinking about all of the cool things that happened in the Liquibase Community this past month! Let's dive into some updates from April.

Liquibase 4.3.5 Released

Look out for all of the squashed bugs! Read more about what bug fixes were included in this release.

Neo4j Plugin for Liquibase

Big fan of Neo4j? You can now use it with Liquibase thanks to the latest plugin. Special shoutout to Florent Biville for his contributions to the community!

Liquibase Secret Closed Beta

Want to earn 10 points towards Liquibase Legends and test out a better dev database workflow? We have a super-secret Beta that we're looking for feedback on.

Codephrase: "Git for data."

But shhh. Don't talk too loud about it. Reach out to beta@liquibase.com if you're interested in participating.

Upcoming Community Events

Liquibase Events

• May 13 - Liquibase Community Roundtable - "Ask Me Anything"

External Events

• May 5 & 6 - Delivering Database DevOps with Octopus Deploy and Liquibase  - Watch Replay

• May 5 -  Swiss Oracle User Group
• DevOps your Oracle Database with Liquibase in Less Than 1 Hour by Rafa? Grzegorczyk from Pretius

• May 13 - Percona Live Online - "Databases: The Anchor in Your CI/CD Process"
• Register to see Kristyl Gomes, Director of Quality Engineering at Liquibase and Robert Reeves, CTO at Liquibase demonstrate why implementing standardization and automation is necessary to achieve what every team wants�speed and stability, with control.

Content we Love

Thanks to all of the people in the community who share their stories, insights, and experience with Liquibase. Below are the top pieces of content from April.

• Supercharging DevOps for the Future - Stephanie Simone
• Use Liquibase to Safely Evolve your Database Schema - Baeldung 
• How to identify cost increases in Amazon Aurora due to I/O consumption and strategies to reduce costs -Carlos Andres Zambrano Barrera 
• JHispter Micronaut Blueprint 1.0 Release -Jason Schindler, Frederik Hahne
• SpringBoot+Mybatis+Liquibase(???????) -Atom
• The DataOps Vendor Landscape, 2021 -Beth Pfefferle 
• CI/CD with Oracle Database and APEX -Jeff Smith 
• Webinar Experior #03 Liquibase + Delphix -Experior 
• Getting Started with Liquibase and Spring Boot - Sergio Martin Rubio

Top questions asked on the forum

These questions had the most views in our forum recently. Check out their answers from members of our community.

• Is there a way to whitelist blacklist particular objects when doing a diff - JLG
• Liquibase maven plugin with mongo db updatesql - Pooja
• Diff shows difference interger to int- rolton

Have a question about Liquibase? Join our forum!

Top forum supporters of the month

Thank you to the following for supporting our community by answering the most questions in the Liquibase forum this month! See where they rank on the Liquibase Legends Leaderboard.

Thank you to all who have continued to support and contribute to Liquibase. As always, hop over to our community page to learn more about how to get involved.

See you in June with more updates!