Git security vulnerabilities announced
Upgrade your local installation of Git, especially when cloning with `–recurse-submodules` from untrusted repositories, or if you use `git shell` interactive mode. ⌘ Read more
Ignite Realtime Blog: REST API Openfire plugin 1.10.0 released!
We are happy to announce the immediate availability of version 1.10.0 of the REST API plugin for Openfire!
This release will see the performance on lookups of MUC rooms based on case-insensitive room names, or non-existing rooms. This will be particularly notable in systems that hold many chat rooms.
Another feature that is added is that basic statistics on REST endpoint usage are now exposed. These can be viewed thro … ⌘ Read more
Announcing Docker Hub Export Members
Find out how Docker Business admins can export members to track their utilization of Docker and audit Docker usage. ⌘ Read more
Ignite Realtime Blog: New Openfire plugin: Push Server!
The Ignite Realtime Community is pleased to announce the 1.0.0 release of the Push Server plugin for Openfire. This plugin is developed by the company Busoft Teknoloji A.Ş. It is inspired by Conversations Push Proxy and developed for Openfire.
Your instance of Openfire should automatically display the availability of the new plugin in the next few hours. Alternatively, you … ⌘ Read more
Breaking: Google announces new messaging service it cancelled three days ago
“This new product was so good that it was worth cancelling even before we announced it.” ⌘ Read more
And that I can silence it without having or go through the full test announcing fire and carbon monox throughout the house.
The Docker-Sponsored Open Source Program has a new look!
Learn about the latest updates to the Docker-Sponsored Open Source Program. This announcement covers the new benefits being added and what’s staying the same! ⌘ Read more
The full lineup for Git Merge 2022 revealed
We are pleased to announce the full lineup of talks and workshops for this year’s Git Merge conference in Chicago. 17 talks, 3 workshops, 1 panel, and some great company! ⌘ Read more
Super Smash Bruz. Melee (Announcement!) ⌘ Read more
Public Service Announcement: Fear not, we’re still on patrol and ask you to keep a close eye on your Yarn neighborhood. We got some reports of suspicious activities going on in the background lately.
The next step for LGTM.com: GitHub code scanning!
Today, GitHub code scanning has all of LGTM.com’s key features—and more! The time has therefore come to announce the plan for the gradual deprecation of LGTM.com. ⌘ Read more
GitHub Pages now uses Actions by default
As GitHub Pages, home to 16 million websites, approaches its 15th anniversary, we’re excited to announce that all sites now build and deploy with GitHub Actions. ⌘ Read more
Ignite Realtime Blog: Openfire 4.7.3 released
The Ignite Realtime Community is pleased to announce the release of Openfire version 4.7.3. This version brings a number of bug fixes and other improvements and signifies our efforts to produce a stable 4.7 series of Openfire whilst work continues on the next feature release 4.8.0.
You can find download artifacts on our website with the fol … ⌘ Read more
Planning next to your code – GitHub Projects is now generally available
Today, we are announcing the general availability of the new and improved Projects powered by GitHub Issues. GitHub Projects connects your planning directly to the work your teams are doing in GitHub and flexibly adapts to whatever your team needs at any point. ⌘ Read more
Microsoft Announces “Start Menu as a Service”
The company is also reportedly considering a free, ad-supported option. ⌘ Read more
Ignite Realtime Blog: Openfire 4.7.2 released
The Ignite Realtime Community is pleased to announce the release of Openfire version 4.7.2. This version fixes a number of bugs and signifies our efforts to produce a stable 4.7 series of Openfire whilst work continues on the next feature release 4.8.0.
A major highlight of this release is fixing of BOSH bugs found under load testing.
You can find [download artifacts](https://ign … ⌘ Read more
Ignite Realtime Blog: Push Notification Openfire plugin 0.9.1 released
The Ignite Realtime community is happy to announce the immediate availability of a bugfix release for the Push Notification plugin for Openfire!
This plugin adds support for sending push notifications to client software, as described in XEP-0357: “Push Notifications”.
[This update](https://www.igniterealtime.org/projects/openfire/plugins/0.9.1/pushnotificatio … ⌘ Read more
W3C announces Web 3.11 “Web for Workgroups”
“The original code name ‘Everything is an NFT now’ didn’t focus test as well as we thought.” ⌘ Read more
Announcing the summer 2022 MLH Fellowship GitHub Contributors
Meet the 2022 MLH Fellowship cohort! This 12-week internship alternative is for aspiring software engineers, and powered by GitHub. ⌘ Read more
Britain’s Queen Elizabeth meets Scottish leader Sturgeon amid new independence vote push
The monarch met Nicola Sturgeon at the Palace of Holyroodhouse in Edinburgh a day after Scotland’s First Minister announced plans for a 2023 referendum. ⌘ Read more
Ignite Realtime Blog: Smack 4.4.6 released
We are happy to announce the release of Smack 4.4.6. For a high-level overview of what’s changed in Smack 4.4.6, check out Smack’s changelog
This release mostly consists of bug fixes, many of them reported by the Jitsi folks. I would like to thank especially Damian Minkov for detailed problem descriptions, for the fruitful collaboration and for various joint bug hunts whi … ⌘ Read more
Scotland takes fight for independence vote to UK’s top court
Scotland’s government drew the battle lines for a historic tussle with London as it announced plans to hold a second independence referendum on October 19, 2023. ⌘ Read more
Maritime authorities yet to announce Jumbo Floating Restaurant’s fate as Hong Kong expert says sinking it might not be possible
Maritime authorities look into what actions may be taken according to local and international rules. ⌘ Read more
GitHub Advisory Database now supports Erlang and Elixir packages!
We’re excited to announce that the GitHub Advisory Database now includes curated security advisories on Erlang, Elixir, and more. ⌘ Read more
Iran launches rocket into space as nuclear talks to resume
It is unclear when or where the rocket, Zuljanah, was launched, but the announcement came after satellite photos showed preparations at Imam Khomeini Spaceport. ⌘ Read more
Malaysia’s Ismail Sabri Yaakob unveils more handouts for low-income families as Najib, Anwar take aim at rising prices
Payments will be disbursed along with 1.11 billion ringgit to be handed out in the second of four tranches of direct aid budgeted for this year. Announcement came hours after the opposition threatened a mass demonstration. ⌘ Read more
US bans use of anti-personnel landmines everywhere – except the Korean peninsula
The announcement comes after years of criticism by human rights groups that the US had refused to adopt an international treaty banning the deadly devices. Russia is among the countries that haven’t agreed to the ban on landmines. ⌘ Read more
ProcessOne: Announcing ejabberd DEB and RPM Repositories
Today, we are happy to announce our official Linux packages repository: a source of .deb and .rpm packages for ejabberd Community Server. This repository provides a new way for the community to install and upgrade ejabberd.
All details on how to set this up are described on the dedicated website:
 available for users in Germany. ☹️ I’m especially waiting for the feature to be able to convert voice messages to text. 😅 ⌘ Read more
Incoming Hong Kong leader John Lee finalises cabinet line-up, submits list to Beijing for consideration
John Lee pledges to announce the list once it receives the green light from Beijing. ⌘ Read more
US, China economic policies like night and day as Fed pushes interest rate skyward and PBOC eyes stabilisation
As the US Federal Reserve announces the largest hike to its benchmark interest rate in 28 years, China is pushing for stabilisation and shying away from headline rate reductions to stimulate the economy. ⌘ Read more
ProcessOne: Announcing ejabberd DEB and RPM Repositories
Today, we are happy to announce our official Linux packages repository: a source of .deb and .rpm packages for ejabberd Community Server. This repository provides a new way for the community to install and upgrade ejabberd.
All details on how to set this up are described on the dedicated website:
 in Charlotte, NC.
Title says the gist.
In 2018, I went to Southeast Linuxfest and gave a presentation which you can see here or .
It was nice meeting the (shockingly normal) people who knew me from the interest last time.
I’m going to be attending again this year, as the title says Ju … ⌘ Read more
Improved REST API documentation
We’re excited to announce some big improvements to our REST API documentation. We know developers rely on this documentation to integrate with GitHub, and we are committed to making it trustworthy, easy to find, and easy to use. ⌘ Read more
Gajim: Gajim 1.4.1
Only a week after the release of Gajim 1.4.0, we’re happy to announce Gajim 1.4.1! 🎉 This release brings several fixes for issues you reported to us. Thanks for your feedback!
In order to make it easier to reach us for help, we added a new menu item “Join Support Chat” under “Help”. Clicking it will directly join our support chat at gajim@conference.gajim.org.
While redesigning the message window, we moved message timestamps to the r … ⌘ Read more
Math support in Markdown
Mathematical expressions are key to information sharing amongst engineers, scientists, data scientists, and mathematicians. Today we are pleased to announce that math expressions can be rendered in Markdown on GitHub using $$ as a delimiter for code blocks with math content or the $ delimiter for inline math expressions. ⌘ Read more
Paul Schaub: Creating an OpenPGP Web-of-Trust Implementation – A Series
I am excited to announce that PGPainless will receive funding by NGI Assure to develop an implementation of the Web-of-Trust specification proposal!
The Web-of-Trust (WoT) serves as an e … ⌘ Read more
Make Linux Shell scripts declare “Success” or “Failure” using the Super Smash Bros announcer voice
… or any other audio files if you want to get creative about it. ⌘ Read more
Nix 2.8.0 released
We’re pleased to announce the availability of Nix 2.8.0. It will be
available from NixOS -\
Getting Nix / NixOS.
Here are the release notes:
New experimental command:
nix fmt, which applies a
formatter defined by theformatter.<system></system>flake
output to the Nix expressions in a flake.Various Nix commands can now read expressions from standard input
using--file -.New experimental builtin function
builtins.fetchClosurethat c … ⌘ Read more
Richard Stallman - “The state of the Free Software movement” - April 13, 2022
Free Software founder has choice words for Ubuntu, Apple. Announces a manual for GNU C. ⌘ Read more
My thoughts on and motivation behind GoBlog reactions
Yesterday I announced a spontaneously developed GoBlog feature, reactions. The post also got a lot of reactions, over 900 times the buttons were pressed. But I also got some comments. ⌘ Read more