# News

This page keeps track of interesting developments around babashka. Feel free to
make a PR if you have anything to add. Also see
[#babashka](https://twitter.com/hashtag/babashka?src=hashtag_click&f=live) on
Twitter.

## 2020-11

This month there is a babashka [survey](https://nl.surveymonkey.com/r/H2HK3RC)
where you can leave feedback about babashka. This will be used for future
development.

- Nate Jones published his [presentation](https://youtu.be/RogyxI-GaGQ) at the
  LA Clojure meetup from April.
- Nicolas Ha published a [Github action](https://github.com/turtlequeue/setup-babashka) for babashka.
- Jakub Holy added a [feature flag](https://github.com/borkdude/babashka/blob/master/doc/build.md#feature-flags) to support the Oracle database.
- Aleksandr Zhuravlёv posted a [gist](https://gist.github.com/zelark/49ffbc0cd701c9299e35421ac2e3d5ab)
  that shows how to build a torrent viewer.
- Steffen Glückselig posted a [gist](https://gist.github.com/MrGung/81bee21eb52cb9307f336705d5ab08ad) that shows how to clone all repositories from a Gitlab group
- [Matchete](https://github.com/xapix-io/matchete), a pattern matching library,
  works with babashka, see
  [example](https://github.com/borkdude/babashka/issues/631)

## 2020-10

- [Malcolm Sparks](https://twitter.com/malcolmsparks/status/1320274099952848896) posted a
  [script](https://gist.github.com/malcolmsparks/61418b6bbcd0962536add1ccb07033b5) that
  sorts his photo collection.
- Babashka 0.2.3 released. See [release notes](https://github.com/borkdude/babashka/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md#v023-2020-10-21).
- [Image viewer](https://github.com/borkdude/babashka/tree/master/examples#image-viewer) example
- SQL Server [pod](https://github.com/xledger/pod_sql_server) by Isak Sky
- [SSH Auth Github](https://github.com/nextjournal/ssh-auth-github) by
  NextJournal. A script that retrieves public keys from a specific team under a
  specific organization on Github.
- [pod-tzzh-mail](https://github.com/tzzh/pod-tzzh-mail): a pod to send mail.
- NextJournal [replaces bash with a babashka script](https://twitter.com/kommen/status/1311574776834666496)

## 2020-09

Babashka
[0.2.1](https://github.com/borkdude/babashka/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md#v021-2020-09-25)
and 0.2.2 released.

- Code Quality report for Clojure projects in Gitlab using babashka and clj-kondo. See [gist](https://gist.github.com/hansbugge/4be701d771057e8ef6bbbb0912656355). By Hans Bugge.
- [pod-tzzh-aws](https://github.com/tzzh/pod-tzzh-aws): a pod to interact with AWS.
- [spotifyd-notification](https://github.com/dharrigan/spotifyd-notification):
  an example of using Babashka to show spotifyd notifications by David Harrigan.

## 2020-08

Babashka [0.2.0](https://github.com/borkdude/babashka/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md#v020-2020-08-28) released.

- Maarten Metz
  [blogs](https://www.mxmmz.nl/blog/building-a-website-with-babashka.html) about
  how he rebuilt his blog using babashka.

## 2020-07

- Blake Miller published [https://gitlab.com/blak3mill3r/emacs-ludicrous-speed](emacs-ludicrous-speed).
- [babashka-clojure](https://github.com/marketplace/actions/babashka-clojure) Github action.
- [testdoc](https://github.com/liquidz/testdoc) works with babashka.
- [babashka-test-action](https://github.com/liquidz/babashka-test-action)
- New release of [tabl](https://github.com/justone/tabl)
  which also can be used as a pod from babashka.

## 2020-06

Babashka [0.1.3](https://github.com/borkdude/babashka/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md#v013-2020-06-27) and 0.1.2 released.

- New release of [brisk](https://github.com/justone/brisk), a CLI around nippy which can be used as a pod from babashka.
- [passphrase.clj](https://gist.github.com/snorremd/43c49649d2d844ee1e646fee67c141bb) script by Snorre Magnus Davøen