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Mattermost v6.6 is generally available today and includes the following new features (see changelog for more details).

Kubernetes 1.24 is about to be released, and it comes packed with novelties! Where do we begin? Update: Kubernetes 1.24 release date has been moved to May 3rd(from April 19th). This release brings 46 enhancements, on par with the 45 in Kubernetes 1.23, and the 56 in Kubernetes 1.22. Of those 46 enhancements, 13 are graduating to Stable, 14 are existing features that keep improving, 13 are completely new, and 6 are deprecated features.

FireHydrant captures your incident, from declaration through remediation, and gives you a framework to run your retrospectives. But retrospectives are only as effective as their inputs. Now we're delivering a better way to learn from and analyze retrospectives by guaranteeing consistent, structured, and sufficient data from your team.

GitKraken knows that software development relies on efficiently coordinating with your A-Team. That is why we’ve added a pull requests section, more repo information to GitKraken Workspaces and a new way to organize and share them with your teams in GitKraken Client! As Mr. Keif would say: I pity the tool that doesn’t have the incredible team features included in GitKraken Client v8.4!

As most developers know, alert-fatigue is real, and the last thing you want is another feed of notifications. Read on to learn how the new Alert Details view helps you filter out notifications for Issue Alerts you don’t care about, and how it can help you focus on the ones that do. When you get started with Sentry, you’ll likely create an Alert for every Issue.

Datadog Events provides customers with a data feed about their infrastructure and applications, delivering an up-to-the-minute history of activity such as code deployments, configuration changes, and triggered alerts. Events collects data from Datadog products and over 100 third-party integrations—including Docker, Jenkins, Kubernetes, Sentry, AWS CloudWatch, and Azure Service Health.

I’m very excited to tell you all about the latest Grafana Loki installment, 2.5! A huge amount of work, nearly 500 PRs, has gone into Loki between v2.4 and now. The major themes for this release are improved performance, continuing ease of operations, and more ways to ingest your logs. I usually find myself the most excited about performance improvements, so let’s start there.

Since the beginning of the year, our team has been busy working with the open source community of VictoriaMetrics users and our customers as we continuously enhance and improve Vicky! Thanks to everyone who has contributed with their feedback, questions, feature requests, bug reports, etc.

We’re excited to announce that Upsun now offers OpenSearch as a service available and included on all plans. OpenSearch is a distributed RESTful search and analytics engine you can use for log analytics, a search backend, clickstream analytics, and more. With the recent move by ElasticSearch to switch to a licensing model, it was important for us to propose a strong open source alternative. And OpenSearch is completely open source, so you could run and manage it on your own.

StatusGator status pages are a unique way to consolidate the status of all of your vendors on a single page. Reduce support ticket volume by publishing your status page to your team or users. Now you can publish a message to the top of your status page for even more effective communication. Use this space for maintenance notifications, highlighting critical outages, or explaining your page to your users.