2019 October 2
Meteor acquired by Tiny!
Ben Newman hinted that something was brewing for the past few weeks and today we finally got to know what. It was announced earlier today that Meteor has been acquired by Tiny. This sale includes only Meteor and Galaxy. There won't be any immediate changes, but we can expect new investment into the development of the Meteor platform and community.

Speaking of Meteor, both upcoming versions have made significant progress, Version 1.8.2 will bring native Typescript compiler among many other improvements, currently in release candidate stage. Version 1.9 will see upgrade to Node v12, currently in beta. Expect newsletters with more details once these are released.
Podcast
The first community interview is out! Once we figure out things more we will expand. In the meantime please bear with us and let us know what you think.

Other news from MDG/Apollo
Some amazing articles and forums topics to check out:
What does the Meteor.js community think? — April 2019
See the results of a survey that started this whole thing.

Meteor + Kubernetes
Gregivy has created a guide how to do Meteor with Kubernetes.

Meteor + Kubernetes
What projects are you guys working on?
Check out what people are creating with Meteor and let us know what you are working on!

Learning Resources - What do you wish/need?
Patric Neuhaus is creating tutorials for Meteor. Let him know what you would like to learn about and check out his existing tutorials!

Economical servers & databases for Meteor apps?
Want to host a small Meteor app cheaply or looking for where to host your DB. Checkout this topic for some suggestions.

Deploying Meteor apps on Heroku made easy
Justin Krup (one of the authors of Meteor Now) has published an utility to easily publish Meteor application on Heroku services.