Starting right now it’s no longer possible to create projects using PHP 7.0 and PHP 7.1 on violinist.io. The reason for this is that none of the versions are receiving security updates since 2019, with version 7.1 being the most recent to be unsupported with its December 2019 EOL. …

PHP 8.1 was released last week. 🥳 As a project built for and by PHP, this is something to celebrate for Violinist.io. A key feature of Violinist.io is to be able to run the updates of your projects in the same environment as you use on your live site. While…

Conventional commits is a commit message specification that you can use to more easily aggregate types of change in a codebase. Or, more eloquently, according to the website: A specification for adding human and machine readable meaning to commit messages This makes it much easier to automatically generate changelogs and…

Drupal 9.2.4 recently came out, and it was a security release. I decided that this would be the perfect opportunity to compare different services for updating Drupal automatically. So for this blog post we are going to have a race! There are three contestants in this exciting race: Dependabot, Renovate…

Do you have better things to do than to do maintenance and security updates on your Drupal site? Of course you do. This is a tale about how violinist.io will help you save money, frustration and possibly sleep. Prerequisites This article is going to assume a couple of things: You have…

Composer 2 is coming to PHP dependency managed projects all over the internet, finally! Among many things it can provide your project is memory and time savings, repository priorities, faster download times, partial offline support and run-time platform requirements check. …

If you have reviewed a couple of code changes (in a merge request / pull request) you know that changes to a file like composer.lock can be a bit of a hassle to review. It can be long, it can be hard to parse, and it can be hard to…

Violinist.io was started as a need for a more automated workflow for composer based Drupal projects. We maintain several modules on drupal.org and our website is a Drupal website. …

PHP 7.4 was released yesterday. 🥳 As a project built for and by PHP, this is something to celebrate for Violinist.io. A key feature of Violinist.io is to be able to run the updates of your projects in the same environment as you use on your live site. While there…