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October 2022 Community Recap
November 4, 2022
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
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!
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!
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
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 💻
- Contribute content ✍
- Lend your brain power to support others 🧠
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!
Top Questions Asked in the Forum
These questions had the most views in our forum recently. Check out their answers from members of our community and comment with your expertise! See who’s on the top of the forum.
- MSSQL stored procedure GO issue with includeAll configuration
- Issue in connecting to SQL Server via liquibase
- SQL Server: Unable to connect
- Liquibase Ci CD
- Preprocessing of changelogs
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!
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!
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