FlowForge v1.4 with device provisioning in bulk and staged development process

#  Improvements

• It's now much easier to change the resources available to your Node-RED instance. With a few clicks a resource intensive workload can be processed faster by changing between small, medium, or large instance types. #595

• Last release allows users to capture flows in a shared library to reuse in another flow, now it's possible to preview the stored flows. #1657

• Add a synchronous mode for the FlowForge persisted context store, next to the asynchronous mode already available. #17

• Add a Last Seen status for devices connecting to FlowForge. #1599

• Added a check to ensure the team slug is unique. #1609

• Optionally set snapshot as target at creation, to quickly roll out changes to remote deployments #1527

• Agents are more rugged when starting up if they're unable to connect to FlowForge, and will retry to connect.

• With FlowForge v1.4 some changes were made under the hood to speed up the recovery of Node-RED instances. On terminal failures of an instance it will now be automatically be redeployed with the correct flows. This uses Kubernetes features and is also available if you've installed through kubernetes. To migrate the old style of deployments to this system a restart or stack upgrade is needed.

#  Bug Fixes

We've fixed the following bugs in this release.

• Deleting your only team, doesn't exit from the team UI. #1630
• Async Team Slug Check. #1609
• Improve communication of Device Last Seen and Status #1599

#  Contributors

We'd like the thank the following for their contributions to this release:

• UlisesGascon for their work on #74

As an open-source project, we welcome community involvement in what we're building. If you're interested in contributing, checkout our guide in the docs.

#  Try it out

We're confident you can have self managed FlowForge running locally in under 30 minutes. You can install our local build, use Docker, or Kubernetes.

If you'd rather use our hosted offering: Get started for free on FlowForge Cloud.

#  Upgrading FlowForge

FlowForge Cloud is already running 1.4.

If you installed a previous version of FlowForge and want to upgrade, our documentation provides a guide for upgrading your FlowForge instance.

#  Getting help

Please check FlowForge's documentation as the answers to many questions are covered there.

If you hit any problems with the platform please raise an issue on GitHub. That's also a great place to send us any feedback or feature requests.

You can also get help on the Node-RED forums

As well as in the forum within our Github project

Chat with us on the #flowforge channel on the Node-RED Slack workspace

You can raise a support ticket by emailing support@flowforge.com

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