Life, the universe & data… Y42 reimagines DataOps
Technology nomenclature evolves. Perhaps nowhere more prevalently than in cloud computing and data science.
Where we once thought of operations as nothing more than the Ops element of sysadmin and DBA database administration that eventually morphed into DevOps, we now have new notions of opera... Read more
Git 2.35 is available: mostly bug fixes, slight improvements
The release of Git 2.35 introduces a new parameter and various bug fixes.
Git 2.35 is a relatively minor update totalling 494 non-merge commits. The version fixes various bugs, including fetch misses, matching issues in sparse-checkout and a number of grep issues. Git-stash, a new parameter, all... Read more
Linux Foundation launches certification program for software development
The Linux Foundation has created a certification program for open source software development on Linux and Git.
The Linux Foundation has announced the immediate availability of three new training courses on the edX platform. The first of these is Open Source Software Development: Linux for Devel... Read more
Microsoft releases Visual Studio 17.1 Preview 2
Increased Git productivity tops the list of new improvements
Microsoft has announced the second preview of Visual Studio 2022 17.1. This release includes new features that align with themes of Visual Studio 2022, such as productivity.
New Git productivity features will make day-to-day w... Read more
Git 2.32 offers developers a reliable way to fix typos
Git, the originator of the version control tool, has launched version 2.32 to improve the usability experience for developers who can continue working on their projects at a faster rate.
What you need to know about Git 2.32
Git commits –fixup=<commit> is now offering a new option to h... Read more
Hackers added backdoor to PHP source code
Hackers have managed to hack PHP's Git server. This has allowed them to add their own code to PHP's source code. This allows them to gain access to websites that make use of the code.
In a message on their website, the PHP developers say that two malicious commits were performed on the php-src-r... Read more
GitHub releases an official command-line interface for the platform
GitHub just released their version 1.0 of their CLI, allowing interaction and repository control from the command line. The hosted repository has it’s foundation on Git, which is a command-line tool in itself. In addition to this, a project called hub gives users a CLI for GitHub.
Getting conf... Read more
Hacker empties out Git repositories and asks for ransom money
Hundreds of developers have fallen victim to a hacker who has cleared out the Git source repositories and replaced them with a ransom demand. The attacks seem to be coordinated across different hosting services, such as GitHub, Bitbucket and GitLab.
The attacks started on Friday, reports ZDNet. It i... Read more
“Nearly 400,000 websites are at risk of hacking through open .git folders.
According to Czech security researcher VladimÃr Smitka, almost 400,000 websites are at risk of being hacked. The reason is that the pages have an open .git folder. It concerns /.git/HEAD, which should not be publicly accessible.
This is dangerous because it allows malicious parties to access cur... Read more