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Tomorrow sees the world telecommunications and information society day and in the spirit of the day, we thought it would be a good time to reach out to our clients and let them know all the great changes that have been happening at Reconnix, as well as look at some of the new ideas in the pipeline for 2014.
The Liverpool Pathway for Software?
As time ticks by it’s important to keep an eye on the versions of software running in your infrastructure. Chris Davidson gives the lowdown on why keeping your software up-to-date and fully patched is critical.
End of life of a service such as the ones described below means that there will be no further development work done on the relevant branch on the project, not even to fix major security vulnerabilities which may later be found. For example the last Apache release that became EOL was done so with the following statement;
The Apache HTTP Server Project has ended legacy development of the 2.0 legacy branch, and announces the conclusive, historical release of version 2.0.65 of Apache HTTP Server (“httpd”). No further releases will occur for the 2.0 version family.
This version of httpd represents the last security and bugfix release of 2.0, although it is by no means all-inclusive of either security or bug fixes. The Apache HTTP Project developers strongly encourage all users to finish their migrations to stable version 2.4 or the legacy version 2.2 for additional, important updates.
| App | Latest Versions | Latest version EOL | Last version number | Last version EOL | Biggest risk |
| PHP | 5.5.12 | 20 June 2016 | 5.4.X
5.3.X |
1 March 2015
July 2014 |
Security / Speed |
| Apache | 2.2.27 / 2.4.9 | TBC | 2.0.65 | 9 July 2013 | Security |
| MySQL | 5.6 | Unknown (src) | 5.5
5.1 |
Still updated
Still updated |
Security |
Contact us to talk about updating your software
New Client Portal On the Way
Our development team is expanding and we have been focussing on data visualisation tools and HTML5 applications to give you real insight into your service with Reconnix, Paul Adamson tells all about the new version of the Portal coming soon.
A spring clean, new javascript toys, and lots of html5; a new portal is being built with the objective of being a better customer experience. This means more than just ticket management, allowing insights into disk space, reviewing the state of off server backups, and more as the application develops.
We’re implementing a lot of cool technology to achieve the goal of improving our client experience. For more information on what we’re using, and how, give us a call.
Contact us to join in with the new Portal trial
Expanding Horizons
On Thursday 1st May, our team visited Newark Academy to reach out to the young people in the community and show the great benefits of a career in open source technologies.
Here at Reconnix we take apprenticeships very seriously and see it as the future of our company. We are looking to recruit a number of young enthusiastic people who are passionate about IT and new technologies. They will not only be trained through a proper apprenticeship scheme, they will be put through our initial formal training and then progress onto first class on the job, mentor-led training. Our highly skilled team members will help develop skills and give them the opportunity to have a fulfilling career with great progression prospects within the company.
OpenStack, a BCS Talk
On Tuesday 15th of July, our CTO Steve Nice will be delivering a talk to the special interest group at the British Computing Society on the subject of OpenStack and the future of open source cloud computing. All clients are welcome to attend as our guest, please get in touch if you are interested in hearing what will be an enlightening talk.