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FlowFuse recently launched Software Bill of Materials (SBoM) for enterprise customers. This powerful tool enhances security and management within projects, particularly in the Node-RED ecosystem. As open-source libraries and software continue to play a pivotal role in the industry, monitoring third-party components used in projects becomes essential. The SBoM enables organizations to track dependencies and identify vulnerabilities, ensuring compliance and mitigating risks.

This update introduces new ways to enhance data visualization and customization in your dashboards. With key improvements, including a new chart type, customizable app icon support and a dialog feature for groups, this release helps tailor dashboards for better user interaction and flexibility.

Version control is essential, especially when multiple people are working on the same Node-RED project. Without it, changes can easily overlap, or worse — accidental updates could break critical flows. FlowFuse solves this challenge with snapshots, allowing you to create backups of your flows, restore previous versions, and safeguard your project from unexpected issues.

FlowFuse 2.9 bring improvements in application maintenance with the new "Software Bill of Materials" and in building full stack applications, with an iteration on the "Static Asset Service", by providing the option to "share" your assets assets publicly, making them consumable by external services and your Dashboards.

FlowFuse 2.8 sees a new major feature introduced to the platform. The first iteration of the "Static Assets Service" is now available, allowing you to host and serve static files from your FlowFuse instance, giving you easy access to file storage for your applications, and seamless integration of those assets and files within Node-RED.

At FlowFuse, we're constantly evolving to make sure your dashboard experience is seamless and efficient. This month, we're excited to introduce several new features that enhance your interaction with the platform. From organizing your data with Tabs to visualizing critical information with new Gauges, we've got you covered.

FlowFuse 2.7 has had a big focus on user experience improvements, particularly centered around teams running at large scales, with over a thousand devices and instances. With this in mind, we've introduced a new search feature that allows you to search across all of your FlowFuse instances, devices and applications from a single place, made it easier to manage your devices with bulk actions, introduced a new notifications inbox to give you a clearer picture on activity across your team, and just for good measure, we've also extended the AI-infused Node-RED experience to the JSON Editor.

It's been a while coming, but we've finally introduced a new set of chart types to FlowFuse Dashboard. We've added Pie, Donut and Grouped (Stacks and Side-by-Side) Bar charts to the UI Chart node. We've also shipped plenty of other improvements and fixes in this release, so let's dive in.

Throughout history, technology has continuously transformed industries, job roles, and entire companies. While these changes often evoke fear and resistance, they also create new jobs, opportunities for innovation and growth. This post will explore how historical technological advancements have reshaped both individual job roles and entire companies, examine current trends like AI and low-code tools, and discuss the critical importance of adaptability for both individuals and businesses in navigating technological disruption, Importantly, we will address the pressing question of our time: "How can AI and low-code tools both enhance and challenge human capabilities, creativity, and the job market, and is this the next frontier in manufacturing or just hype"

FlowFuse Dashboard has featured multi-tenancy features through the FlowFuse User Addon. This made user based applications available only to specific FlowFuse team tiers and customers. However, the Node-RED community wanted to use the same feature set in cases FlowFuse didn't consider initially. Taking this feedback on board, today we announce some significant changes to how you can build Dashboards with multi-tenancy in mind.

Having taken that feedback on board, we've made some significant changes to how you can build Dashboards with multi-tenancy in mind.

Node-RED 4.0 is the new major release of the project, which is at the heart of all we do at FlowFuse. It brings a range of new features that continue to make Node-RED the first choice for low-code development.

FlowFuse 2.5 introduces LDAP integration, snapshot comparison, extends the ability to preview flow to Blueprints, rounds out the management for snapshots, and allows you to point your own domain names at your FlowFuse instances.

Digital transformation is a series of technological advancements that aim to simplify complex tasks. From calculators and graphical user interfaces (GUIs) to new programming languages, these advancements have enabled individuals to create value that was once beyond their reach. The key is to understand that these tools are not meant to replace expertise but to enhance it, making complex tasks more manageable, speeding up development time, and empowering more people.