December 2023 Summaries

In the world of software development, self-hosted CI/CD hardware can be a significant challenge for mobile developers due to physical build hardware constraints, maintaining build environments with outdated tools, unexpected hidden costs, manual updates and forced standstills, and error fixing and firefighting. A fully-hosted cloud-based CI/CD platform like Bitrise offers a solution by alleviating these burdens, ensuring up-to-date build environments, eliminating hidden costs, and enabling developers to focus on creating exceptional mobile apps while enjoying a seamless development workflow.

The company is making changes to its Release Management add-on to improve security and efficiency. The new changes will give team admins more control over who has access to release to production by removing the automatic assignment of release manager permissions to all developers. Instead, admins can assign these roles as needed, allowing for tighter control and enhanced security. Developers will no longer automatically inherit release manager permissions and must request them from their team admin if they need them. The company believes this change will forge a more secure and controlled environment for mobile app releases.

The holiday season is approaching and Bitrise is sharing its plans for the end of 2023. Engineers will remain on-call throughout the holidays, ensuring support for any unexpected issues that may arise. To minimize disruptions, Bitrise will not release any stack updates from December 15, 2023, to January 8, 2024, with only critical security patches allowed during this period. Users can reach out through standard communication channels or submit a request for technical, billing, or general feedback, and sales-related inquiries should be directed to the sales team.