ActiveState Platform Releases

Released: Nov 12, 2025

Updates in November 2025

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  • Introduced a Public Image Catalog, offering secure, minimal container images with low-to-no CVEs. This catalog is designed for development, deployment, and popular open-source applications. It enhances the experience for both current and prospective users, allowing them to easily browse, evaluate, and pull the latest free container images.
    • The Catalog will include a summary of each container, including:
      • Latest published date.
      • Image size.
      • Image architecture (x86).
      • README.
      • CVE count by...

Released: Apr 29, 2025

Updates in April 2025

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  • Create a Project by Ingesting an SBOM:
    • ActiveState projects can now be created from an SBOM file. Compatible SBOMs can be generated by third-party services like Snyk, Trivy, Syft, and more, or by using the ActiveState SBOM generator.
  • View the Breaking Changes Report:
    • When you make changes to the ingredients of a project, you can now view the Breaking Changes report to gain insight into how those changes might break your code.

Released: Nov 30, 2024

Updates in November 2024

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  • New branding, themes, messaging, and layouts:
    • ActiveState has a new modern look to complement the addition of important new features and highlight how ActiveState is changing what it does to meet the emerging needs of supply chain security.
    • ActiveState has new subscription tiers to reflect how the ActiveState Platform targets supply chain problems with market-leading features.
  • The Dashboard has been improved:
    • ActiveState has made key dependency and vulnerability summary information...

Released: Oct 31, 2024

Updates in October 2024

Fehlerkorrekturen

  • ActivePython 2.7 Extended Support:
    • Updated ActivePython Enterprise versions with vulnerability fix 2.7.18.10.

Released: Jun 30, 2024

Updates in June 2024

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  • Python 2.7 Extended Support:
    • The new back end regains support for projects that contain OS X 11 builds.
    • Tkinter/Tcl support has been restored for Windows.
    • Scipy support removed from all platforms.
    • ActivePython ships with dormant pip/setuptools by default. These can be replaced post-installation using python -m ensurepip, but if a specific pip or setuptools version is desired that should be added to the configuration.

Released: May 31, 2024

Updates in May 2024

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  • Python 2.7 Extended Support:
    • Migrated the Python2 builders to a new back end.
    • The new back end supports projects that contain Linux builds for Glibc 2.17 and/or 2.28.
    • Added support for Windows 64 bit.
    • Removed Tkinter/Tcl support from Windows builds.

Released: Mar 19, 2024

Updates in March 2024

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  • The ActiveState Platform is regularly updated with new, patched and versioned packages and languages.
    • Added the latest versions of the following:
      • sqlite3 v3.45.1.
      • zlib v1.3.1 - New patch version has been added to resolve bugs & CVE 2023-45853.
      • Pillow CVE - Pillow versions prior to v8.1.1 have been patched to address a memory allocation flaw.
      • PostgreSQL CVE - PostgreSQL versions prior to v15.6 have been patched to remove a flaw that allowed arbitrary execution of SQL functions...

Released: Feb 5, 2024

Updates in February 2024

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  • The ActiveState Platform is regularly updated with new, patched and versioned packages and languages.
    • Added the latest versions of the following:
      • postgresql v16.1.0 - Patches flaws for pg_cancel_backend roles, remote system memory reads and data overflows during array modification.
      • numpy v1.26.3 - Required to install the latest version of Pandas.
      • h5py v3.8 to v3.10 - Perl database driver for Oracle now builds for Mac.
      • OpenSSL v3.2.1.
  • Added a new Dark Mode setting.

Released: Jan 23, 2024

Updates in January 2024

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  • The ActiveState Platform is regularly updated with new, patched and versioned packages and languages.
    • Added the latest versions of the following:
      • flask 1.1.4.1 - A simple Web framework compatible with Python <v3.6.
      • NLTK 3.4.5.1 - Resolves a regex denial of service (ReDoS) vulnerability.
      • DBD-Oracle - A Perl database driver for Oracle that now builds for Mac.
      • Python 3.11.7 - Resolves a number of issues with previous versions - recommended upgrade.
      • openssl v3.2.0.

Released: Dec 4, 2023

Updates in December 2023

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  • The ActiveState Platform is regularly updated with new, patched and versioned packages and languages.
    • Added the latest versions of the following:
      • Crypt-OpenSSL-AES 0.17 (Perl).
      • XML-LibXSLT 2.x (Perl).
      • Net-SSH2 0.73 (Perl).
      • pyarrow 12.0.0, 12.0.1, and 14.0.0 (Python).
      • Numba 0.58.1 (Python) - Resolves a number of issues with previous versions.