Ymir Report #80 ā PHP 8.4 support
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Heya friend! Carl here. You signed up to receive updates about Ymir, the WordPress serverless DevOps platform that Iām building. INTRO Heya! It's been a little while since the last report. December was super busy and then I had some unfortunate events during the holiday and in January which delayed a lot of stuff. I'm still not done writing my year in review because of them š«£š There's actually been quite a bit of work done on the product since the last update. The biggest new feature is PHP 8.4 support. I tried getting it out in December last year, but there were unforeseen issues that pushed it to this January. Otherwise, business is flat. No trials, no churn, no new subscriptions. PRODUCT You can always view the history of Ymir's product development at https://ymirapp.com/changelog. Busy last two months on the product front. Lots of small bug fixes to the PHP runtime and the build process. This culminated with adding PHP 8.4 support. Ymir now supports 8 (!!) PHP versions which is wild. The Ymir CLI was the other major recipient of bug fixes and features. I added support for Podman as an alternative to the Docker client. Docker made some breaking changes that don't play well with Amazon Elastic Container Registry. For now, Podman allows things to continue working normally. I also finished the refactor of the database export and import commands. They now use PHP instead of being wrappers around mysql and mysqldump commands. This should make them less error prone from now on. MARKETING I've been bad and hadn't updated the reports page or the changelog in a while. (I do it manually.) Reports page wasn't so bad, but the change log was missing 10+ entries. I hadn't updated it since September! š Still trying to sit down with 40Q to write the case study. Hopefully, I can get some traction on that in the next month. I want more case studies. Hopefully, I can start putting some logos on the marketing site too! Otherwise, I'll be heading to CloudFest in March. I'm trying to speak, but I'll be taking part in the hackathon at the very least. My goal is to network there and see how Ymir might fit in the larger hosting landscape. BUSINESS You can always view Ymir's up-to-date business metrics at ymirapp.com/open. They're updated every 10 minutes. Nothing new on the business side besides that I still love the product and working on it! I'm writing larger thoughts in my year in review. So stay tuned for that. Carl |
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