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Meteor Monthly Newsletter In this month's email, we'll discuss various topics, including the newest beta release of Meteor, Meteor events, our ambassador program, and brand new Meteor content. Let's get down to business! Meteor 2.8 Beta Version Just last month, we released Meteor 2.8 beta.5, and now, a month later, we're ready to upgrade you to 2.8 beta.7. Since the latest version of Meteor is still in beta, we want to ensure everything is working properly before we give it our stamp of approval and recommend Meteor 2.8 to you. For now, the highlights of this version are listed below: - New Mongo Package Async API - Updated MongoDB driver to 4.8 - Updated MongoDB driver to 4.9 - Updated Cordova Android to 10.1.2 - Upgrade Node to v14.20.0 - Docs improvements and bug fixes - Updated skeletons - New Chakra-UI skeleton - SolidJS skeleton We’re one step closer to releasing the recommended version, so stay tuned! You can keep track of updates by clicking [here](. You can also update your app with meteor update --release 2.8-beta.7. Meteor Hackathon Winners Congratulations to the winners of our [2022 Meteor Hackathon]( The focus for this year was creating an application that had an impact on its users. There was no lack of ideas at this year's gathering, whether it was for social reform, animal welfare, or climate change. We had three winners for this event, with the first-place team taking home a $2,000 cash prize! Below are the top 3 winners (from first to third place): - Fasalians - Sus GAWKY (also won Best Presentation) - De-central Budapest We will upload the hackathon on our YouTube channel so make sure you subscribe to receive a notification when we upload it Thank you to everyone who participated and we hope to see you again next year! Meteor Impact Is Almost Here This year, on the 13th and 14th of October, is the third annual Meteor Impact conference. Our biggest annual community event is coming up soon! With over 490 attendees and 40 presenters, last year's Meteor Impact was a smashing success. Community members from all across the world attended the two-day event. Visit this [link]( for additional information or to sign up. Meteor Ambassador Program On our social media channels, we released profiles of some of our first round of ambassadors. Jan Dvorák, Juan Pablo Meijia, Dmitry Golev, Leonardo Venturini, Jan Küster, and Lindoélio Lázaro are among them. You may discover more about them by visiting our Facebook, LinkedIn, or Twitter pages. Jan Dvorák, Jan Küster, Medhi Mahmoudi, and Filipe Névola are also registered to speak at Impact 2022. Don’t pass on this opportunity to hear them speak! Sign up for Impact [here](. In Case You Missed It Below are additional resources, links, and posts relating to Meteor. CHARM stack - In this blog post, fellow Meteor developer, Gabriel Grubba, will introduce and evangelize this stack that focuses on making your developer experience as smooth as possible. To read it, click [here](. Apify case study - Our newest case study features Apify, a web scraping and automation platform built with Meteor. It lets you extract data from websites, process harvested data, and automate workflows on the web. Learn about their story by clicking [here](. How to update your Meteor app - When your app uses an old Meteor version, you must first know which version you are running in your project. Another thing to remember is the breaking changes and the migration steps. Henrique Schmaiske will show you how to update your Meteor app in this [blog post](. ViteJS with Meteor - You can now use ViteJS with Meteor! ViteJS is a build tool that aims to provide a faster and leaner development experience for modern web projects. Click [here]( to view this tutorial by Guillaume Chau. Vue 3 with Meteor - Vue 3 now works with Meteor. You can due Meteor subscriptions, reactive data, and methods in your Vue 3 components with the new version of vue-meteor-tracker! Click [here]( to read more. Shout out to Guillaume Chau for leading this! Have questions? Reach out to our support directly at support@meteor.com, or visit the Meteor forum to chat with Meteor experts & like-minded developers. [Facebook]( [Twitter]( [Instagram]( [LinkedIn]( [YouTube]( [Website](meteor.com) Copyright © 2022 Meteor Software, All rights reserved. Because you have an account at Meteor Software Our mailing address is: Meteor Software 101-524 Yates StVictoria, BC V8W 1K8 Canada [Add us to your address book]( Want to change how you receive these emails? You can [update your preferences]( or [unsubscribe from this list](.