Thank you for the thorough update and for managing this transition with such clarity. The migration of UrbanCode resources to IBM’s DevOps Community marks an important evolution that not only centralizes tools and documentation but also fosters a more connected and knowledge-driven user base.

The consolidation of plugin access via GitHub, coupled with the continued availability of product documentation through IBM Docs, provides a strong foundation for both continuity and growth. It's reassuring to see that the ecosystem remains stable and fully supported during the shift.

As a suggestion for further enhancing the onboarding experience, it might be worth considering the addition of a centralized “Resource Index” or “Quick Access Portal” within the community. This could serve as a curated entry point for users looking for plugin documentation, release notes, migration best practices, and community contributions – essentially a streamlined launchpad for both new and returning users.

Great to see how smoothly the move has played out—and even more impressive to watch the UrbanCode topic space blossom since the big DevOps Deploy v 9.0 refresh in March 2025. The richer tagging system and single-sign-on you rolled out then made it far easier to hop between plugin repos and release-note threads without losing context.

When we migrated our own content hub last winter, we found that the hardest part wasn’t the mechanics of lifting databases but rather making sure long-tail resources stayed discoverable. Your idea of a “Quick Access Portal” resonates: even a lightweight index that cross-links the GitHub plugin tree with IBM Docs would save newcomers a ton of clicks—especially now that the Velocity dashboards knit everything together.

One lesson we learned— and that might add an extra layer of trust here—is to surface background information on project ownership. In the online-gaming world we use open-source intelligence (OSINT) to trace licence holders, board members and hosting jurisdictions; our recent field notes on that process are up at TryggeNettCasino if anyone’s curious about applying similar verification habits to open-source contributions or third-party plugins.

Keep up the great work. I’m looking forward to diving into more of the community labs and, who knows, maybe contributing a case study of our own once the new plugin rating system lands later this year.

UrbanCode Release Notes

Release notes of all current and previous UrbanCode releases have moved to IBM Docs. To help you find the new location of release notes, the links to current UC release notes are given below:

• UrbanCode Deploy: What’s New, Fixlist, and Upgrade notes
• UrbanCode Velocity: What’s New, Fixlist, and Upgrade notes

Hi Mike!

Yes, the plugins are all supported, unless they are Community plugins - those continue to be supported by the community. And some of the partner plugins are supported by partners. But nothing has changed as far as support.

We are working on migrating all of the Release Notes (What's New) to Github also, so we'll have the historical perspective on what has been delivered. Additionally, Release Notes will be in the product documentation for all versions.