Why DNS Is Critical for Modern Application Deployments

2020-09-02 KENNETH 0

Why DNS Is Critical for Modern Application Deployments In a previous blog, I explained how application outages can impact customer confidence and bring your business to a standstill. In today’s marketplace, failing to adapt and deliver new services to the market quickly can be just as harmful. With the rise of DevOps and improvements to the tooling that supports continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD), companies can improve their ability to deploy and ship code with excellent results. But in rolling out new updates, they still want to mitigate their risk of a bad deployment, minimizing the chance of downtime for their customers. This blog post explores different deployment strategies DevOps and NetOps teams can use to seamlessly and safely deploy updates to production, and explains how DNS can work with specific deployment models. Blue-Green Deployments Blue-green deployments are a [ more… ]

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USN-4482-1: Ark vulnerability

2020-09-02 KENNETH 0

USN-4482-1: Ark vulnerability Fabian Vogt discovered that Ark incorrectly handled symbolic links in tar archive files. An attacker could use this to construct a malicious tar archive that, when opened, would create files outside the extraction directory. Source: USN-4482-1: Ark vulnerability

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WordPress 5.5.1 Maintenance Release

2020-09-02 KENNETH 0

WordPress 5.5.1 Maintenance Release WordPress 5.5.1 is now available! This maintenance release features 34 bug fixes, 5 enhancements, and 5 bug fixes for the block editor. These bugs affect WordPress version 5.5, so you’ll want to upgrade. You can download WordPress 5.5.1 directly, or visit the Dashboard → Updates screen and click Update Now. If your sites support automatic background updates, they’ve already started the update process. WordPress 5.5.1 is a short-cycle maintenance release. The next major release will be version 5.6. To see a full list of changes, you can browse the list on Trac, read the 5.5.1 RC1 and 5.5.1 RC2 posts, or visit the 5.5.1 documentation page. Thanks and props! The 5.5.1 release was led by @audrasjb, @azhiyadev, @davidbaumwald, @desrosj, @johnbillion, @planningwrite, @sergeybiryukov and @whyisjake. Thank you to everyone who helped make WordPress 5.5.1 happen: Amit Dudhat, Andrea Fercia, Andrey “Rarst” Savchenko, Andy Fragen, Angel Hess, avixansa, [ more… ]