# Community News January 2022
> A roundup of January 2022 news from the FlowFuse and Node-RED communities, covering platform updates and community highlights.
Welcome to the first FlowFuse newsletter, we’re going to publish this as a regular roundup of what`s happening with both FlowFuse and the wider Node-RED community, if you want to receive it via email, sign up for updates at the bottom of the page.
If you’ve got something that you’d like us to share please email [contact@flowfuse.com](mailto:contact@flowfuse.com).
[FlowFuse 0.1 Released](/blog/2022/01/flowforge-01-released/)
First up we are really pleased to ship the first version of our platform, this is a very early release but hopefully will give you an idea of the direction we’re going in.
[Node-RED 2.2](https://nodered.org/blog/2022/01/27/version-2-2-released)
The next version of Node-RED has been released with new editor features, predefined environment variables and improvements to some of the core nodes. Checkout the blog post and change log for more details.
[Make your IoT data beautiful](https://blog.golioth.io/building-iot-dashboards-with-golioth-grafana-and-node-red)
Ben Mawby wrote a guide on connecting Golioth's WebSocket endpoints to Grafana using Node-RED and InfluxDB
[Alexa Voice Service on Node-RED](https://www.sammachin.com/posts/alexaweb-reborn)
Sam Machin rebuilt an app on Node-RED allowing you to talk to Alexa through the browser. And he has published a new [node](https://flows.nodered.org/node/@sammachin/node-red-alexa-voice-service) to use the Alexa Voice Service within your own flows.
[New Team Members](/blog)
We welcomed 2 new members of the FlowFuse team this month [ZJ](/blog/2022/01/welcome-zj/) joins as our CEO and [Steve](/blog/2022/01/welcome-steve/) has come onboard to work on the Node-RED project
[We are Hiring](https://boards.greenhouse.io/flowfuse/jobs/4312861004)
We're looking for the next member of our team, If you're a Node.JS developer and want to work with us take a look at the link.