State of the Fin 2026-01-06
Happy New Year and welcome to the State of the Fin!
Happy New Year and welcome to the State of the Fin!
Software Freedom Conservancy congratulates its phpMyAdmin project on succesfuly completing completing a thorough security audit, as part of Mozilla's Secure Open Source Fund . No serious issues were found in the phyMyAdmin codebase.
This blog post is inspired by this GitHub issue from three days ago: Support WASIX ( see also )
Backstreet's back again
With the release of ScyllaDB Open Source 3.0, we’ve introduced a rich set of new production-ready features that surpass the capabilities of Apache Cassandra.
Nix is a tool that takes a unique approach to package management and system configuration. Learn how to make reproducible, declarative and reliable systems.
The LXQt team announces the release of LXQt 2.0.0, the Lightweight Qt Desktop Environment.
In December, I wrote about the state of leadership in the WordPress ecosystem. I shared how too much power rests with one person, and how the lack of transparen
Writing at the end of the world, from Hveragerði, Iceland
Podman Desktop 1.5 has been released!
Docker is a founding member of the Blueprint Alliance, a 12-company reference architecture for securing AI agents, built around four governance questions.
The PostgreSQL Global Development Group announces that the first release candidate is available for download. This release should fix all …
New SBCL versions are usually released at the end of each month: check the Sourceforge File List to see the current version. The new features of all SBCL releases are listed below.
Open Source We have worked on Overgrowth for 14 years. It is our longest running, ongoing project, and a massive reason why we have…
The GNOME Project is proud to announce the release of GNOME 44, ‘Kuala Lumpur’. This release brings a grid view in the file chooser, improved settings panels for Device Security, Accessibility, etc, and refined quick settings in the shell. The Software and Files apps have seen improvements, and a whole slew of new…
This page lists some of the changes I make to a vanilla install of FreeBSD for security hardening. Some changes to increase network performance or make things a bit more sane are also included. It only covers basic changes that a sysadmin can make to a running system.
Nextcloud Hub 21 brings a wide range of improvements in file handling performance with Files High Performance Back-end and important new collaboration features in Text, Talk, Groupware and Files.
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Welcome to this month’s community update. As many of you know, we have now entered the Chinese New Year (CNY) period, which means that all manufacturing and related business activities have ground to a halt. It is always a mad rush to complete ongoing work prior to CNY, but now that the festive period is upon us we…
we’re proud to finally announce the new feature release of darktable, 2.2.0! the github release is here: https://github.com/darktable-org/darktable/releases/tag/release-2.2.0. as always, please don’t use the autogenerated tarball provided by github, but only our tar.xz. the sha256 checksum is…
UNIX is always litigious
Freeing my tablet (Android hacking, SW and HW)
Command-line optimization and target options are now streamed on a per-function basis and honored by the link-time optimizer. This change makes link-time optimization a more transparent replacement of per-file optimizations. It is now possible to build projects that require different optimization settings for…
This week I launched datasette.io—the new official project website for Datasette. Datasette’s first open source release was just over three years ago, but until now the official site duties have …
Dedication asks each of its adherents to have faith even as time and energy pass through from one year to the next. Dedication brings with it a variety of challenges, but also rewards. Dedication is something most people claim to have, but few …