Cloudsmith Changelog

If you're making use of Cloudsmith's custom domains feature, you can now request that the top-level (i.e. root page) of your domain (e.g. npm.example.com) redirects to a location of your choice. This provides a little more "discoverability" for your users, by sending them to the right place if they go to the domain directly. Whether you want to re…

As a vendor, understanding your bandwidth usage is an invaluable insight into how packages are distributed across your user base and how specific users have grown over a timeframe. The easiest way to get started exploring these metrics is to check out the metrics command within the Cloudsmith CLI. Alternatively, to get more fine-grained metrics, y…

We're very pleased to announce that the Debian package format now supports upstream proxying and caching. Adding a Debian upstream allows for searching and downloading packages not yet in your Cloudsmith repository using the native apt tooling. Fetches made for packages resolved to an upstream can be cached and synchronised to your Cloudsmith repo…

Between now and 25th of September, we'll be deprecating user-based repositories and accounts.What does the deprecation mean for me? What does the deprecation mean for me? If you have a user account, with repositories, we'll be performing the following actions for you: We'll create a new organisation for you, that uses the same slug/username as y…

With Cloudsmith, users have the choice to store their assets where they want, whether it's for compliance purposes or to keep them close to your users for maximum performance. We've rolled out two new US regions to give you even more choice: Ohio and Oregon. Try them out today when creating your new repositories, or transfer an existing repository…

Introducing the ability to manually and eagerly invalidate a repository cache: Cloudsmith caches data to be as quick as machine-ly possible when your users need it, but sometimes waiting for a refresh isn't fast enough. If you've made an update to a repository, such as a package republish or editing information for a package, but it doesn't get re…

Cloudsmith loves open-source software! The team is actively involved in the community and love giving back whenever we can. As a team, we are preparing early to get involved with Hacktoberfest. If you would like to find out more about how we plan to do this and even contribute to an open-source project, check out our blog post…

It's now possible to create more robust webhooks templates, and to filter for specific packages! Whether you're automating in the name of ChatOps to get notifications for events on packages, or you're building complex CI/CD deployment machinery, or you're integrating payments via IFTTT or Zapier; our webhooks have got you covered to make this easi…

We're pleased to announce that Debian (and related) DSC/source packages are now fully supported! From the Debian Wiki, a source package is one that provides you with all of the necessary files to compile or otherwise, build the desired piece of software. In other words, you can get the sources used to create a binary package, and compile them your…

We’re delighted to announce that Cloudsmith now supports Conan! Conan is an open-source package manager for C/C++, including everything from its client to server implementation and even documentation. You can read all about Conan and how to get started over on our blog. If you would prefer a demo be sure to check out our 5 minutes Conan over on Yo…