Blog · publishing since 2008
Release announcements, version previews, security advisories, and the occasional detour — written by the team building Blesta.
A first peek at the Blesta 3.0 admin design: the client Services box with a changeable color theme, status icons, and a layout that scales to your browser.
How Blesta 3.0 secures data for decades: RSA public-key encryption for stored credit cards, optional private-key passphrases, and AES for module data.
Liquid Web sent their sought-after Hero action figure to Blesta HQ, and we documented his stay with a lighthearted photo shoot around the office.
Blesta 3.0 adds two-factor authentication with TOTP and Mobile-OTP one-time passwords, backported to 2.5, protecting accounts even if a password is reused.
A look at the office vending machine's habit of eating money and dangling snacks, and a very relatable post-it note left for the vending machine guy.
Blesta 3.0's API design: building on the minPHP MVC framework yields an automatic RESTful API exposing all public model methods, in JSON, XML, and more.
minPHP is released: a lightweight, open source MVC PHP framework under the MIT license from the makers of Blesta, and the foundation for Blesta 3.0.
How Suhosin, the PHP hardening module used by many shared hosts, broke Blesta's database session revival by encrypting session data, and the rename fix.
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