OpenTofu v1.6.0-rc1, the final stage before the first stable release, is out today. It follows the quick succession of its alpha and beta versions, on the road to an expected General Availability release on January 10, 2024, right after the holidays.
Read more about: $OpenTofu Release Candidate Is Out, GA Set for Jan 10thOpenTofu v1.6.0-rc1, the final stage before the first stable release, is out today. It follows the quick succession of its alpha and beta versions, on the road to an expected General Availability release on January 10, 2024, right after the holidays.
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Jumping into a newly forked project can be a difficult task, maybe even frightening! Now, think about jumping into a production-ready project with nine years of legacy code base there. On top of that, you have the task of taking one of the project’s new features from experimental to production-ready.
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OpenTofu is introducing new office hours, open to everyone.
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Four weeks ago, HashiCorp switched Terraform from an open source license to the Business Source License (BSL); three weeks ago, we released the OpenTofu manifesto, asking HashiCorp to switch back to an open source license; two weeks ago, with no response from HashiCorp, we created a private fork of Terraform and said we'd make it public in 1-2 weeks; and today, as promised, we're happy to announce that the OpenTofu repository is now publicly available at github.com/opentofu/opentofu!
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Two weeks ago, HashiCorp announced they are changing the license to all their core products, including Terraform, to the Business Source License (BSL). In an attempt to keep Terraform open source, we published the OpenTofu manifesto, and the community response was huge! Over 100 companies, 10 projects, and 400 individuals pledged their time and resources to keep Terraform open-source. The GitHub repository for the manifesto already has over 4k stars, and the number is growing quickly!
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