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Mattermost v5.32 is generally available today. The new feature release offers the following new features (see changelog for more details).

Mattermost now gives users flexibility to organize channels and direct messages into custom, collapsible sidebar categories. Users gain full personalization of their sidebar to improve productivity, reduce clutter, and focus on what matters. Upgrade to Mattermost server v5.32 (releasing February 16th) and later to access these feature enhancements on your desktop, with mobile support coming soon.

As an important part of the security ecosystem, Identity Management shields organizations against cyberattacks. In 2018 and 2019, Osterman Research published important findings indicating hackers’ increased preferences to target employees with social engineering being one of their preferred methods. But identity governance is not an easy task.

Thousands of developers rely on Raygun to help them deliver great customer experiences every day. Software teams can spend 75% of their time debugging errors and performance problems — mostly in the manual process of finding and diagnosing them. Every busy developer should be able to reach the answers they need quickly — not just where things went wrong but which customers were impacted by errors, crashes, and performance issues.

The phone app for mobile access to Alloy Navigator™ ITSM software keeps getting better and gains more features with every update. This time around, the mobile app takes on change management to help your team request infrastructure or process-related changes and take action on approval requests using phones or tablets.

We are pleased to announce the general availability (GA) of Elastic 7.11. This release brings a broad set of new capabilities to our Elastic Enterprise Search, Observability, and Security solutions, which are built into the Elastic Stack — Elasticsearch and Kibana. This release enables customers to optimize for cost, performance, insight, and flexibility with the general availability of searchable snapshots and the beta of schema on read.

In Elastic Enterprise Search 7.11, we’re thrilled to announce the beta launch of Elastic App Search web crawler, a simple yet powerful way to ingest publicly available web content so it becomes instantly searchable on your website. Making content on these websites searchable can take several forms. Elastic App Search already lets users ingest content via JSON uploading, JSON pasting, and through API endpoints.

Hello, Puppet friends! It’s been a few months since we rolled out the latest major version of the Puppet platform, bumping PuppetDB, Puppet Server and Puppet Agent to “7.0.0.” First, we’d like to extend our gratitude to our vibrant Puppet community, who helped us immensely in locating and fixing some annoying bugs that managed to sneak through the release. We promptly provided follow-up releases, so be sure to check out the latest available versions for your operating system.

Grafana v7.4 has been released! The big news for Grafana 7.4 is the next-generation graph panel called time series, which is in beta. A high-performance visualization based on the uPlot library, it uses the new panel architecture introduced in Grafana 7.0 and integrates with field options, overrides, and transformations.

We recently added password access for our Dashboards which has been in popular demand. Previously Dashboards were public and could be accessed by anyone with who you shared the link – but from today you can add a password to your dashboard in order to ensure only authorized visitors can see the data.