Blog¶

News, announcements, and updates from the Hop3 project.

2026¶

March¶

• March 27: Hop3 0.4.0 Released - Hop3 0.4.0 brings a complete rewrite with client-server architecture, multi-language support, database addons, and automatic SSL.
• March 22: Separating Build and Run: The BuildArtifact Pattern - Clean architecture for portable deployment artifacts.
• March 17: Configuration Validation with Pydantic - How we validate hop3.toml and provide helpful error messages.
• March 10: Hop3's Plugin Architecture: Extensibility Without Complexity - How we use Pluggy to build a modular, extensible PaaS.
• March 03: From Monolith to Modular: Hop3's Package Architecture - How we split Hop3 into 5 focused packages for better maintainability.

February¶

• February 20: Designing hop3.toml: Configuration That Makes Sense - Complete guide to every hop3.toml configuration option.
• February 06: Your First Hop3 Deployment: From Zero to Production - Step-by-step tutorial for deploying a Flask app with database and custom domain.

January¶

• January 23: Why We're Building Hop3: Autonomy and Simplicity - Project philosophy and motivation - why we built an open-source PaaS for strategic autonomy.
• January 09: Announcing Hop3 0.4 Beta: A Modern Open-Source PaaS - First public beta release of Hop3 0.4, an open-source PaaS for self-hosted deployments.

2025¶

December¶

• December 05: Hop3 at OSXP 2025 - Talk at Open Source Experience on achieving strategic autonomy through simplified self-hosting.

June¶

• June 13: Hop3 at OW2Con 2025 - Presentation at the OW2 open source community conference.

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