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WordPress 4.9 “Tipton” was released today, named in honor of jazz musician and bandleader Billy Tipton, a gifted pianist, and saxophonist. The new release marks a significant step toward a more user-centric way to customize and manage websites, with great improvements to the Customizer, new exciting functionalities to widgets, a powerful text editor for editing code, and much more.…

The wait is finally over! Version 5.5 of Laravel is now officially out and as expected the Laravel community is super excited about the new features of the new version. …

Crowdfunding has had a big impact on how products are being developed. The number of good ideas that are actually realized instead of being buried by things like production cost, funding and other obstacles of entrepreneurship skyrocketed.…

By now you should have heard the phrase ‘Gutenberg Project’. And no, I am not referring to Johannes Gutenberg, who invented a printing press with movable type more than 500 years ago.…

OpenCart 3.0 is here! It has been quite a wait for the OpenCart community, but the new update is now accessible for you to enjoy! It was released on June the 19th and it is now available on OpenCart’s official website for downloading.…

Woohoo! The wait is over. Happy WordPress update day! Version 4.8 dubbed “Evans” after the famous jazz pianist and composer William John “Bill” Evans arrived yesterday. This is the first major WordPress release of 2017.…

It’s been an exciting journey so far… For the last four years, we, at FastComet have constantly used customer feedback to iterate on and improve our solutions. But today’s blog post isn’t about nostalgia.…

WooCommerce 3.0 “Bionic Butterfly” was just released with significant improvements to the product gallery and developer tools. It’s hard to believe it’s been so long since the last major WooCommerce release when plugin switched to semantic versioning, but sometimes good things are worth waiting for.…

VersionPress 3.0 has been released officially on the 28th of April and is a prime example of what transitioning to open source can bring to the table of application features and improvements.…

Google has released an important security notice regarding a vulnerability (CVE-2016-3626) in the PageSpeed Module. The recommendation was to immediately update to the newest version of PageSpeed as all previous versions were affected.…

cPanel published an important security post on January 18, notifying customers of a critical update to their software. While the post does not include any technical information or specific details on the issues or the vulnerabilities fixed in the latest release, it does rate them in severity from low to critical.…

We recently received several Security Advisories that require us to perform updates to our host servers. In order to apply the updates, hosts must be rebooted. The Security Advisories will be publicly released on October 29th, therefore we must complete the updates before that date.…