The second alpha version of Bootstrap 5 is now available. Some Bootstrap v5.0.0-alpha2 highlights:

• Documentation design updates, including improved navigation to make it easier to read while on a mobile device or a narrow viewport
• New directional positioning utilities that make it possible to quickly position an element with top, right, bottom, and left utilities with support for 0, 50%, and 100% by default
• A new dark carousel as well as dark dropdown menus
• Improved colors with green and cyan getting new values as well as higher contrast ratios for all colors
• New .border-width utility

For more information about other changes, click here.

More:

• What's coming next: 
  • v5.0.0-beta1 in October 2020
  • v5.0.0-beta2 in November 2020 
  • v5.0.0 in December 2020 (stable release)
• Explore the new release and get started here.

Cloudflare has launched Cloudflare Analytics, what it calls a "privacy-friendly" web analytics tool. The new feature makes it possible to build custom analytics dashboards using data you need with the GraphQL Analytics API and more, including the ability to track the health of your origin server and optimize your Cloudflare configuration.

More:

• Cloudflare also launched Cloudflare Radar to provides insights on the Internet’s patterns.
• The new releases are a part of Cloudflare's 10th birthday celebrations, wherein the platform will be launching a new product and change every day. 
• While at press time, the team has not provided specific details about what else it will release this week, it did offer some hints:
  • Thursday: New security service that website parts and Internet apps that are "behind the scenes."
  • Friday: New one-click performance improvements.
• To keep up-to-date with the new updates as they are launched, bookmark this page.

📅  Dev Calendar: October 2020 Virtual Events and Hackathons, Part 1: 

VIRTUAL EVENTS:

SEPT. 29-OCT. 1: VMware's VMworld 2020 conference covering app modernization, the virtual cloud network, and more.

OCT. 1-2: Free TNW Conference with speakers from Facebook, Shopify, Microsoft, Snap, Reddit, Spotify, Google, and 100+ other companies. 

OCT. 1-2, OCT. 5-9: GIDS.WEB Live, a front-end web development conference covering the likes of Angular, React, and Vue, as well as components, architecture, the decentralized web, refactoring, performance, security, accessibility, tooling, and more.

OCT. 2: Microsoft's MS Stage conference, wherein 16 sessions will be presented about the future of Microsoft's technology stack, including .NET, C#, F#, MS Azure, Cosmos DB, SQL Server, VS Code Spaces and more.

OCT. 2-5: Python...

Start reading the list of 15+ events so you don't miss out.

The first version of Elder.js, a Svelte framework and static site generator, has been released. Some of its notable features include:

• The team boasts the framework comes with a highly optimized build process, making it possible for it to generate a data-intensive 18,000-page site in eight minutes using a budget 4 core VM.
• Build hooks that make it possible to plug into any aspect of the page generation process and customize it.
• Community Plugins, making it easy to extend what your Elder.js site can do by adding prebuilt plugins to your site.

More:

• At current, the ElderGuide.com team expects to maintain the project until at least 2023-2024.
• The creators explain they purposefully built the framework to make it possible to build flagship SEO sites with 10-100k+ pages.
• Click here for instructions on how to get started.

At this week's DevOps World 2020 conference, industry experts presented new statistics illustrating the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on the world of software development.  One report specifically dived into the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on software delivery and priorities, highlighting the new developer and team trends we are starting to see become possibly a part of the new normal as a result.

So you don't need to read through the lengthy report, here are the highlights:

COVID-19's impact on organizations’ ability to create software:

New software priorities:

• 51.75% of respondents say they increased their focus on DevOps initiatives and 52.25% increased their progress on migration to cloud service providers (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Platform).
• There has been a growth in...
• 1/3 of organizations (33.83%) are seeing speed increases in software delivery since...

Workforce shifts:

• 12.7% said they anticipate returning on-site to an office location full-time, which is a notable point given almost half of the respondents report being in leadership roles...
• 37.18% of respondents noted...
• In terms of productivity and new tools, there have been...

To read the rest of the highlights of the report and receive regular breakdowns offering valuable insights into trends so you can start preparing now, start your FREE 14-day trial of Inside Dev Premium.

The last minor release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 7, RHEL 7.9, is now available. The new release comes with the live-patch program Kpatch, making it possible to update your RHEL 7 kernels "live" without rebooting. Other features:

• The ability to do in-place upgrades with LEAPP, a command-line interface (CLI) program
• A security content automation protocol (SCAP) profile for the Center for Information Security (CIS) benchmark

More:

• RHEL 7.9 will be supported until June 30, 2024, so developers have time to migrate from RHEL 7.
• RHEL 7 is now entering the Maintenance Support 2 phase, wherein Red Hat will release Red Hat-defined Critical and Important impact Security Advisories (RHSAs) and some Urgent Priority Bug Fix Advisories.
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 7.0 was first released in 2014.

VMware has purchased Saltstack, the company that produces the Salt open-source software. Through the acquisition, VMware plans to extend its automation capabilities to the software and packages within virtual machines and containers. 

More:

• VMware says it will also improve its vRealize cloud management software suite with end-to-end automation and integrated configuration management.
• VMware also reassured Salt users it will fully support SaltStack's work on open source projects.
• The announcement comes as the virtual VMworld 2020 is currently taking place from Sept. 29 through Oct. 1. 

Quick Hits:

• Researchers found in a new study that while women are equal to men in computing skills, they show less confidence. 
• The creator of CodeTriage, a platform for contributing to open source, discusses how he triages and works with issues on open source projects.
• In case you missed it, Node v14.12.0 is now available and features update to uvwasi 0.0.11 and N-API to version 7.
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