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farewell dukapress farewell and thank you kelvin jayanoris nairobi 18 may 2025 fifteen years ago in nairobi a handful of us cracked open a blank dukapress php file and asked a wild question why shouldn t any shop owner anywhere spin up a secure online cart in minutes that question became dukapress 1 0 on 19 august 2010 fourteen months before woocommerce was even a fork on github from day one our ambition was global duka may mean shop in swahili but the code never assumed a kenyan postcode what happened next still feels a little unreal thousands of live stores from brasília to bratislava wordcamp kenya 2011 where a plugin built in nairobi headlined an international schedule community translators who turned our rough strings into german spanish and bahasa a pluggable gateway api that let a kisumu courier a bangkok stripe account and a boston fulfilment house all settle the same checkout flow the inevitable 3 a m security scramble when timthumb bit us in 2011 lesson learned why we re signing off by april 2017 our last major tag v 3 2 landed wordpress commerce had shifted automattic s resources made woocommerce the gravitational centre and our volunteer bandwidth couldn t stretch to php 8 migrations or new payment rails rather than drift into quiet breakage we re freezing the repo dukapress is now sunset software no new features no support nor scheduled patches the docs changelogs and final zips remain online for historians and nostalgic diff hunters where to next github mirror wp plugins dukapress is archived read only fork at will migration woocommerce or easy digital downloads both import csv exports from dukapress parting thoughts we built dukapress to prove world class code could spring from kenya as readily as california and for a bright stretch it did its deeper legacy is the conviction it left in a generation of african engineers you can start local and aim planetary to everyone who installed forked translated criticised or evangelised dukapress asante sana you gave the project its pulse i leave proud humbled and fiercely curious about whatever you code next see you in the repos github twitter true african history