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Mattermost v7.2 is generally available today. The following new features are included (see changelog for more details).

The demands of a tight production schedule can make it difficult to produce consistent, readable, and concise code in the lead-up to a manual code review. This often makes the process stressful — if not outright dreaded. Standard tests are a critical part of development that verify that our code produces the expected outputs. But great tests don’t always lead to good code.

Implemented well, automation can be a powerful tool for accelerating and scaling DevOps processes to keep your team building and shipping code quickly. But knowing what and how to automate DevOps workflows can be challenging; every organization’s DevOps practices are unique, and there’s no one “right” way to approach automation. Let’s look at a few tips for approaching DevOps workflow automation to help your team move faster.

Welcome to the August 2022 edition of Open Source Matters: our regular publication about the latest happenings in open source! Let’s dive into the news.

GitLens is a popular extension built for Visual Studio Code that helps developers extract the powerful insights hidden within Git code repositories. This VS Code extension makes development effortless by providing tools to quickly glance through, compare, and track each line of a code. It also helps address the drawbacks and intrusiveness of native Git features in large-scale projects.

Your team has worked hard on a software product for months, and it’s finally ready to release to your users! But then the worst-case scenario happens: a wide release soon indicates that the software is plagued with bugs and performance issues, resulting in poor reviews and widespread user dissatisfaction.

In this article, I’ll provide a guide to Git for non-developers. So, if you are reading this as a full experienced Git user, you may disagree with some of my statements. Don’t bother reading on; we recognize you as the expert! If, on the other hand, you’re new to Git, this piece is for you.

In previous articles in our Intro to the CLI series, we’ve gone over why to master using the command line, some command line basics and tools, and tips for customizing your CLI shell. In case you missed any, feel free to catch up using the links below. And now, you’re going to learn the basics of shell scripting to automate complex jobs and build entirely new applications!