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Game of Trees 0.108 released

7 hónap 3 hét óta

Version 0.108 of Game of Trees has been released (and the port updated):

  • add ssh -i identity-file support to commands which use the network
  • make 'got import' output independent of readdir(3) entry order
  • avoid full file content comparisons in 'got status' for speed
  • tog: fix NULL deref when log view T keymap is used on worktree entry
  • tog: fix a deadlock (hang) in the log view implementation
  • tog: plug a memory leak
  • tog: do not exit if a tag pointing at a non-commit is selected in ref view
  • tog: do not mark an incorrect base commit in nested log views
  • tog: fix NULL deref when scrolling small tree views down
  • tog: avoid showing a negative log view entry index
  • tog: do not apply a pointless count modifier to the H, &, p keymaps
  • tog: do not make users wait for the worktree diff to quit out of tog
  • gotwebd: make parent process drop root privileges
  • gotwebd: drop read access to /var/www from parent process
  • gotwebd: rename "socket" processes to "server"
  • gotadmin cleanup: pack the repository before removing objects
  • gotadmin cleanup: do not delete directly referenced trees and blobs
  • gotadmin cleanup: do not delete objects reachable via nested tags
  • regress: skip test memleak_send_basic in sha256 mode; expected to fail
  • regress: make seq(1) invocations portable to fix test failures on linux
  • regress/gotwebd: implement paginated commits test

There's also a toot which mentions some ongoing work.

Zero-trust builds for FreeBSD

7 hónap 3 hét óta

The FreeBSD Foundation has announced that it has undertaken a project to deliver zero-trust builds commissioned by the Sovereign Tech Agency (STA).

The Zero-Trust Build project is scheduled from Jan-Aug 2025 and centers on the FreeBSD build process, and in particular, release building. The primary goal of this work is to enable the entire release process to run without requiring root access, and that build artifacts build reproducibly – that is, that a third party can build bit-for-bit identical artifacts.

Additionally, the project aims to enhance build process documentation, ensuring that release building is straightforward and does not require specialized knowledge. The work is targeted for completion prior to the release of FreeBSD 15.0.

The Foundation says that updates should not impact users of FreeBSD release images, but it may have an impact on developers basing projects or products on FreeBSD that make modifications to its release process.

jzb

[$] A revamped Python string-formatting proposal

7 hónap 3 hét óta
The proposal to add a more general facility for string formatting to Python, which we looked at in August 2024, has changed a great deal since, so it merits another look. The changes take multiple forms: a new title for PEP 750 ("Template Strings"), a different mechanism for creating and using templates, a new Template type to hold them, and several additional authors for the PEP. Meanwhile, one controversial part of the original proposal, lazy evaluation of the interpolated values, has been changed so that it requires an explicit opt-in (via lambda); template strings are a generalization of f-strings and lazy evaluation was seen by some as a potentially confusing departure from their behavior.
jake

[$] A mouseless tale: trying for a keyboard-driven desktop

7 hónap 3 hét óta

The computer mouse is a wonderful invention, but for the past few months I've been working to use mine as little as possible for productivity and ergonomic reasons. It should not be surprising that there are quite a few open-source applications, utilities, and configuration options that are either designed to or incidentally assist in creating a keyboard-driven desktop. This includes tiling window management with PaperWM, the Vimium browser extension, Input Remapper, and more.

jzb

Puppet fork OpenVox makes first release

7 hónap 3 hét óta

The Vox Pupuli project has announced the first release of OpenVox, a "soft-fork" of the Puppet automation framework. The intention to fork was announced in December 2024.

OpenVox 8.11 is functionally equivalent to Puppet and should be a drop-in replacement. Be aware, of course, that even though you can type the same commands, use all the same modules and extensions, and configure the same settings, OpenVox is not yet tested to the same standard that Puppet is. [...]

Please don't use these packages on critical production infrastructures yet, unless you're comfortable with troubleshooting and reporting back on the silly errors we've made while rebranding and rebuilding.

jzb

Wine 10.0 released

7 hónap 3 hét óta
Version 10.0 of the Wine Windows compatibility layer is out. "This release represents a year of development effort and over 6,000 individual changes". Those changes include full support for the Arm64EC architecture, better high-DPI display support, Wayland enabled by default, and more.
corbet

Security updates for Wednesday

7 hónap 3 hét óta
Security updates have been issued by Debian (snapcast), Fedora (python-jinja2), Mageia (rsync), SUSE (cdi-apiserver-container, cdi-cloner-container, cdi- controller-container, cdi-importer-container, cdi-operator-container, cdi- uploadproxy-container, cdi-uploadserver-container, cont, gh, kernel, kubevirt, virt-api-container, virt-controller-container, virt-exportproxy-container, virt-exportserver-container, virt-handler-container, virt-launcher-container, virt-libguestfs-t, nvidia-open-driver-G06-signed, and pam_u2f), and Ubuntu (linux-oem-6.11 and vim).
jzb