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Ajay Ahir

Ajay Ahir

21 April 2021

Ajay Ahir

Ajay Ahir

21 April 2021

Customize validation rules with ignoreMigrationPatterns

Flyway can validate your migrations according to its own conventions, giving you the confidence you need to apply new migrations. However, as the lifetime of a project increases, there will inevitably be hotfixes, deleted migrations and other changes that break the conventions of Flyway’s validation. In these cases you need… Read more
Chris Heppell

Chris Heppell

19 April 2021

Chris Heppell

Chris Heppell

19 April 2021

Why you should be testing Flyway migrations in CI

“It worked on my machine“. You’ve likely either heard this from a colleague or thought this yourself when a Flyway migration failed during a production deployment. The fact is that unfortunately, bad migrations slip through to the release process despite our best efforts. Thankfully, there are solutions to this –… Read more
Jonathan Roberts

Jonathan Roberts

16 December 2020

Jonathan Roberts

Jonathan Roberts

16 December 2020

What’s next for Flyway

18 months ago, Flyway was acquired by Redgate. It’s been quite a ride since then and we thought we’d end 2020 with an update on what’s been happening with the world’s most popular open source migrations framework for database deployments. We’ve learned a lot, and I wanted to share that… Read more
Ajay Ahir

Ajay Ahir

2 December 2020

Ajay Ahir

Ajay Ahir

2 December 2020

Introducing the shouldExecute script configuration option

Have you ever wanted more customizable control over when your migrations are executed? In Flyway Teams Edition 7.3.0 we released the shouldExecute script configuration option which lets you achieve just that! What is the shouldExecute option? shouldExecute is a new script configuration option, and if you aren’t already familiar with this concept you… Read more
Julia Hayward

Julia Hayward

25 November 2020

Julia Hayward

Julia Hayward

25 November 2020

Flyway 7.3.0 Released

Flyway 7.3.0 is out! This release contains new features and improvements over Flyway 7.2.0. Highlights You can find a detailed list of the changes in the release notes. Migration filename placeholder It can be useful to know the full name of a migration file at the time it’s executed, for auditing purposes.… Read more
Tey Peryie

Tey Peryie

5 November 2020

Tey Peryie

Tey Peryie

5 November 2020

DB DevOps

Why and how you should automate database migrations The desire to release features faster and deliver value to customers sooner is prompting many IT teams to adopt DevOps and Agile practices. By automating parts of the development process where possible and working in shorter cycles to release small changes more… Read more
Philip Liddell

Philip Liddell

27 October 2020

Philip Liddell

Philip Liddell

27 October 2020

Flyway 7.1.0 Released

Flyway 7.1.0 is out! This release contains new features and improvements over Flyway 7.0.0. Highlights You can find a detailed list of the changes in the release notes. Filtering info output Flyway Teams  In the Flyway CLI output from info can be filtered to only the parts of the history that you care about… Read more
Philip Liddell

Philip Liddell

16 October 2020

Philip Liddell

Philip Liddell

16 October 2020

Skip Executing Migrations Examples

As you’ve likely seen we recently released Flyway 7.0.0, containing a lot of new features (read more about what features are available in the blog post). One of the new features is the new Flyway Teams configuration parameter skipExecutingMigrations. This configuration parameter changes migrate to skip executing the contents of the migrations during a flyway migrate or flyway… Read more
Mikiel Agutu

Mikiel Agutu

28 September 2020

Mikiel Agutu

Mikiel Agutu

28 September 2020

Flyway 7.0.0 Released

Flyway 7.0.0 is out! It contains many new features and improvements over Flyway 6.5.7. This version also adds more features and fixes on top of the V7 beta release. Highlights Most of the bigger changes are already detailed in the V7 beta blog post. Highlights of the new changes since the beta are: You… Read more