October 2022 Community Recap

Our Liquibase Community was very active in October! We added 262 new community members across all of our platforms and saw a 12% increase in activities from new members and an 11% increase from returning members. Want to join in the discussion? Find us on your favorite platforms. Let’s take a look at what else our Community focused on in the last month.

Latest Releases

Here are the release highlights for October:

Liquibase 4.17.1 Has been released

Full changelog: v4.17.0…v4.17.1

Fixes:

fix: Use default localhost finder for MacOs – fix #2098 by @grzi in #2134
Allow renameColumn on newer SQLite versions by @MalloD12 in #3264
Implement logic to validate DBMS set at changeset and stored procedure levels by @MalloD12 in #3291
Fixed URIResource.resolveSibling by @nvoxland in #3354
Use liquibase StringUtil, not lang3.StringUtils by @nvoxland in #3338
Handle absolute path in getAll method by @wwillard7800 in #3369

JDBC Driver and Third-Party Library Updates

Upgraded ojdbc8 from 21.6.0.0.1 to 21.7.0.0 by @dependabot in #3223
Upgraded maven-shade-plugin from 3.3.0 to 3.4.0 by @dependabot in #3276
Upgraded slf4j-jdk14 from 2.0.2 to 2.0.3 by @dependabot in #3321
Upgraded snakeyaml maven reference from 1.32 to 1.33 by @nvoxland in #3359
Upgraded commons text transitive dependency by @abrackx in #338

OWASP Dependency Check: Reported Vulnerabilities

hsqldb.jar – This was a vulnerability reported against the hsqldb driver. A fix was released in Liquibase version 4.17.2 on November 2, 2022.
snakeyaml.jar – This is a vulnerability reported against the snakeyaml. We are currently on the snakeyaml 1.33 and this issue has been fixed in 1.32.

You can read the Release Notes for additional info.

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Community Highlights

There were a lot of great contributions from the Liquibase Community this month. Here are some of the highlights!

First-Time Contributors for October

@grzi made their first GitHub code submission in #2134

Liquibase University

Enroll today to level up in Liquibase! Visit Liquibase University and brush up on your skills and get certified for free. You can share your new certification on LinkedIn, too, so your colleagues can celebrate your progress with you!

Top Forum Supporters of the Month

Thank you to the following members for supporting our community by being our top responders in the Liquibase forum this month! We appreciate that they take the time to help other community members learn more about Liquibase on our Forum. See where they rank on the Liquibase Legends Leaderboard.

Here are the best of the Community-Sourced Liquibase Videos from October, plus bonus videos from Mario Champion, our Product Manager!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-gxLbR08No

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOv2YK8rfqI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2FUG6G0LIgo

You can watch many other helpful videos on our YouTube channel – Don’t forget to subscribe and hit that bell to be notified when we upload new content!

Recorded Webinar: 2022 State of DevOps Deep Dive

2022 State of DevOps Report Deep Dive

Google Cloud & DORA survey results are in! Discover DevOps practices that make teams successful.

Our Experts

Dave Stanke, Developer Relations Engineer, Google Cloud Platform
Robert Reeves, Founder & CTO, Liquibase
Pete Pickerill, Founder & Director of Product, Liquibase

Watch the webinar video now!

Community Helpers Wanted!

We’re here to help you sharpen your Liquibase skills, expand your knowledge and connect you with cool people from all over the world. In return, we hope you share your talents and perspective with the rest of the community. Let’s get you started!

Get tapped in

Follow us on Twitter, LinkedIn, and Reddit and join in the conversation online
Discord Channel – chat in real-time with other community members
Forum – ask questions or offer up your expertise
Liquibase University – brush up on your skills and get certified for free
Liquibase Meetup – meet face-to-face (virtually) with users at our monthly Roundtable

Start contributing

Work with Liquibase code…#opensource ?
Submit a bug
Contribute code
Create an extension
Contribute content ✍
Write an article or blog
Create videos
Improve Documentation
Lend your brain power to support others ?
Answer questions in the Liquibase Forum
Answer questions in StackOverflow

You can earn points towards your Liquibase Legends status by answering questions. Click one of the links above this week and help answer a new question from other folks in the community. Hope to see you there!

Tips & Tricks for Standardizing Database CI/CD Pipelines on AWS

Tips for creating modularity and centralization to bring projects into your CI/CD pipelines faster.

If you’re a Liquibase user, community partner, or just have a great story about how you use Liquibase, we’d love to hear more and possibly feature you at a community Tech Talk. Click the link below and submit your idea!

What’s your idea or story?

To all of the people in the community who share their Liquibase stories, insights, and experience –Thank you. Below are some of our favorite content contributions from last month.

How to install liquibase locally in MacOS and add a MySQL driver (Zenida’s Blog)
Main Benefits of a Technical Blog (Agile Zone)
SQLcl 22.3 is now available & major updates for Liquibase (ThatJeffSmith.com)
Series: Developing a web application with Ktor (DevGenius.io)
#JoeKallmanDay 2022: It’s a Wrap! (The Oracle-Base Blog)
Computed Columns and Identity Columns in Liquibase – #JoelKallmanDay (priitp’s Fear and Loathing 3.0)
Introduction to Liquibase (knoldus.com)
Top Data Version Control Tools for Machine Learning Research in 2022 (MarkTechPost)
Medium
Data Migration With No Frustration (@genezeiniss)
Manage your database through Liquibase (@maddyraj)
Building Microservices with Spring and Cloud Spanner (@manerajona)
CI/CD Databases with Liquibase (@manerajona)
Twitter:
Getting a Handle on Mental Health Through Open Source (@_iautomateitall)
Coffee Sponsors! (@Monktoberfest)
“The DB Versioning Tool of Choice” (@GerdAschemann)
It’s a major award! (@s3ventures)
Migration Talk at #Nodes2022 (@fbiville)

Thank you to everyone who continues to support and contribute to Liquibase. As always, head over to our community page to learn more about how to get involved. See you next month with more updates!