Hello everyone!
Happy to share that we have done a massive upgrade to the hackathon event creation experience with the intent to make this key flow self-serviced. This is aligned to our vision for Xathon as a self-reliant platform for creating, managing and monitoring hackathons and ideathons. We know that our customers want complete control, and that is exactly what our remodeled event creation flow gives. Ease of use and practicality are at the center of this update along with other incremental usability enhancements and a new look and feel.
Key enhancements:
- We have introduced a real time preview mode for our customers to visualize the event landing page as they progress, before actually making the event live.

- We have introduced banner and logo templates for streamlining creative assets for an event.

- We have restructured all the pages into more appropriate categories for ease of use. For example—clubbing relevant configurations under sections such as- event details, team details, SEO etc.

- Implemented Mettl Design System 2.0 to make Xathon more cohesive and connected with other Mettl Products
We believe that these changes will open new markets especially in the international geos and conversations where customers want to create events on their own.
Cheers!
Kapil Malik
AVP, Products @ Mercer | Mettl
Oracle Corporation has announced the end of support for Oracle Database version 18c (18.0.0.0) on June 30, 2021 [1], post which Oracle Support will no longer release Critical Patch Updates for this database version.
For both License-Included (LI) and BYOL (Bring Your Own License) models, Amazon RDS for Oracle will deprecate support for Oracle Database version 18c (18.0.0.0) on June 30, 2021 [2].
Mercer | Mettl will be ending support for Oracle 18c for all question types by June 20, 2021.
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[1] https://support.oracle.com/knowledge/Oracle%20Database%20Products/742060_1.html
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Oracle Corporation has announced the end of support for Oracle Database version 11.2.0.4 on December 31, 2020 [1], post which Oracle Support will no longer release Critical Patch Updates for this database version.
For License-Included (LI) model, Amazon RDS for Oracle will end the support for Oracle Database version 11.2.0.4 Standard Edition 1 (SE1) on October 31, 2020 [2].
Mercer | Mettl will be ending support for Oracle 11g for all question types by October 31, 2020.
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If you have already upgraded your DB query questions to a higher version, there will be no changes for you. In case you have DB query or CodeProject questions in your account using Oracle 11g, we will automatically be upgrading them to Oracle 18c before October 31, 2020.
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[1] https://www.oracle.com/us/assets/lifetime-support-technology-069183.pdf
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