News

Get updated on pretalx, both the software and the hosting. All new releases are announced here. We will also use this space to talk about security incidents and our plans for the future.

Releasing pretalx 1.1 – one year of hosting!

Dec. 21, 2019

We're pretty excited to announce that we're releasing pretalx v1.1 exactly one year after 0.9, when we started our journey into commercial hosting services

How pretalx works: Organization and funding

July 5, 2019

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.

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

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

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.

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

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