News

Here you can find up-to-date news on pretalx, both the software and the hosting. All new releases are announced here, and we will also use this space to talk about security incidences and our plans for the future.

How pretalx works: Organization and funding

July 5, 2019

Coins from the age of Charles the First, old book drawing

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In this post, we'd like to tell you how the pretalx project is organized, how it is funded, and what you can do to help.

Incident Report: Data leak in pretalx 1.0

June 7, 2019

Today, we found and fixed a data leak in pretalx that was deployed on pretalx.com for several weeks

🥁 Drum roll for: pretalx 1.0!

June 2, 2019

A drawing of a drum, as taken from an old book

Drum roll!

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It took some time, but we guarantee the long wait was worth it: We're now releasing 🥁 pretalx v1.0 🥁! We'll use this blog post to give you an overview over the latest and greatest features – for a full list (including all the UI improvements and tiny features missing below), plus a list of bug fixes, please refer to our changelog.

Feature Requests Welcome

Feb. 28, 2019

Two months ago, Katie McLaughlin (who is involved with plenty of Python/Django conference organisation shenanigans) asked Twitter for a wish list of conference system software, and received many answers by people with experience on all sides of the conference biz

Releasing pretalx v0.9.0 – Hello, 35C3, hello, public hosting!

Dec. 21, 2018

Just before the year is over, we're releasing pretalx v0.9.0 – and we'd like to

Releasing pretalx v0.8.0

Sept. 23, 2018

After a long summer break of three months, we're happy to announce pretalx v0.8.0.

Releasing pretalx v0.7.0

June 19, 2018

pretalx has just been released with version v0.7.0, and we're hoping to release our big 1.0 release before the year is

Releasing pretalx v0.6.0

May 6, 2018

pretalx has just been released with version v0.6.0, and we're getting close to a big 1.0 release!

Releasing pretalx v0.5.0

March 7, 2018

Only two weeks after the last release, we present pretalx v0.5.0, with a long list of features, most prominently a

Releasing pretalx v0.4.0

Feb. 4, 2018

Only two weeks after the last release, we present pretalx v0.4.0, with a long list of features!

Releasing pretalx v0.3.0

Jan. 17, 2018

As the first pretalx release in 2018, we're introducing pretalx v0.3.0, with some features, and some bug fixes.

Releasing pretalx v0.2.1!

Dec. 6, 2017

Another milestone reached – we have our first patch release with several minor bug fixes

Releasing pretalx v0.2!

Dec. 1, 2017

pretalx has just reached its second release – in the month since the first release, we have been busy and introduced a

First pretalx release – 0.1.0!

Nov. 1, 2017

pretalx has just matured enough to reach its first release version – v0.1.0 is here, and you can now install pretalx