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WordPress 4.9.5 Security and Maintenance Release

2018-04-04 KENNETH 0

WordPress 4.9.5 Security and Maintenance Release WordPress 4.9.5 is now available. This is a security and maintenance release for all versions since WordPress 3.7. We strongly encourage you to update your sites immediately. WordPress versions 4.9.4 and earlier are affected by three security issues. As part of the core team's ongoing commitment to security hardening, the following fixes have been implemented in 4.9.5: Don't treat localhost as same host by default. Use safe redirects when redirecting the login page if SSL is forced. Make sure the version string is correctly escaped for use in generator tags. Thank you to the reporters of these issues for practicing coordinated security disclosure: xknown of the WordPress Security Team, Nitin Venkatesh (nitstorm), and Garth Mortensen of the WordPress Security Team. Twenty-five other bugs were fixed in WordPress 4.9.5. Particularly of note were: The previous styles on [ more… ]

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Partial update of JSON values

2018-04-04 KENNETH 0

Partial update of JSON values MySQL 8.0 introduces partial update of JSON values, which is a nice performance improvement for applications that frequently update small portions of large JSON documents. Before, in MySQL 5.7, whenever you made a change to a stored JSON document, the full new JSON document would be written to the database, even if the update just changed a few bytes in the document.… Source: Partial update of JSON values

Updating the NGINX Application Platform

2018-04-03 KENNETH 0

Updating the NGINX Application Platform Today, our vision to simplify the journey to microservices takes a big step forward. We are announcing the upcoming availability of the next version of our flagship software, NGINX Plus R15, with exciting new features, and the upcoming launches of NGINX Unit 1.0 and NGINX Controller R1. Combined, these launches advance the NGINX Application Platform, a product suite that includes a load balancer, content cache, API gateway, WAF, and application server – all with centralized monitoring and management for monolithic apps, for microservices, and for transitional apps. The NGINX Application Platform is our vision for building microservices The NGINX Application Platform has already gained tremendous traction. More than 11 million new domains install NGINX Open Source each month – four instances every second. Three million instances of NGINX Open Source are running in production microservices environments. One million [ more… ]

What is a Service Mesh?

2018-04-03 KENNETH 0

What is a Service Mesh? A service mesh is a configurable infrastructure layer for a microservices application. It makes communication among service instances flexible, reliable, and fast. The mesh provides service discovery, load balancing, encryption, authentication and authorization, support for the circuit breaker pattern, and other capabilities. The service mesh is usually implemented by providing a proxy instance, called a sidecar, for each service instance. Sidecars handle communications within the app. Istio, backed by Google, IBM, and Lyft, is currently the best‑known service mesh architecture. Kubernetes, which was originally designed by Google, is currently the only container orchestration framework supported by Istio. Service mesh comes with its own terminology for component services and functions: Container orchestration framework. As more and more containers are added to an application’s infrastructure, a separate tool for monitoring and managing the set of containers – a [ more… ]

Windows 10 Tip: Five expert tips to help you master ink in OneNote

2018-04-03 KENNETH 0

Windows 10 Tip: Five expert tips to help you master ink in OneNote Write and draw even more naturally Using a pen feels natural with tilt* support, letting you draw and shade just like you would with paper and pencil. Simply select the Pencil tool, angle your pen slightly, and watch as your ink stroke changes from a point to a more natural angle. Draw with dazzling ink Spice up your notes and sketches with fun ink effects** like rainbow, galaxy, gold, silver, lava, ocean, and more. Clean up your notes OneNote lets you convert your handwritten notes into text, making them more presentable and easier to read. It’ll even preserve the size and color of your ink, as well as highlights and ink effects like rainbow and galaxy! Set things straight with the ruler Can’t draw a straight line [ more… ]