Flatpak Happenings (blog.sebastianwick.net)
 

Yesterday I released Flatpak 1.17.0. It is the first version of the unstable 1.17 series and the first release in 6 months. There are a few things which didn’t make it for this release, which is why I’m planning to do another unstable release rather soon, and then a stable release still this year.

Back at LAS this year I talked about the Future of Flatpak and I started with the grim situation the project found itself in: Flatpak was stagnant, the maintainers left the project and PRs didn’t get reviewed.

Some good news: things are a bit better now. I have taken over maintenance, Alex Larsson and Owen Taylor managed to set aside enough time to make this happen and Boudhayan Bhattcharya (bbhtt) and Adrian Vovk also got more involved. The backlog has been reduced considerably and new PRs get reviewed in a reasonable time frame.

 

Nextcloud Hub 25 Autumn makes it easy to get started with powerful collaboration while in control of your data. Discover our latest release.

Their blog post is too long. 😑 Let's do a short summary ☺️

  • tactile forms : buttons are more clickable
  • improved UI & look in light & dark mode
  • 11 new file templates across documents, spreadsheets, and presentations, and reworked six older templates to cover the most common tasks
  • improved nextcloud UI & performance & make keyboard shortcut more visible
  • added suggestion bar in nextcloud text to help users
  • improved UI in nextcloud talk : bottom bar & side bar
  • improved file search
  • photo search filter & can create album based on search filter
  • rewritten iOS app Nextcloud file : improved performance &UI
  • improved navigation in the drawer menu in Android app nextcloud file
  • busy button : selfactivate during a call
  • live AI during call
  • improved whiteboard for live session
  • overview of everyone planning & vote schedule on empty slot
  • new admin tool in occ
  • clean up issue...

Ect

 

Open Minds aims to increase the digital skills of one of the key sectors of European civil society: that covering social and cultural players and the broad public with whom they are in contact.

The needs in terms of digital transition increased during the health crisis, which highlighted the extent of the digital divide and the need to increase digital skills.

To develop the project, we proposed to work along three lines:

  • free access to a database of free software resources
  • a training environment for socio-cultural players
  • regular publications to encourage change towards free software.
 

Fish 4.2 is now available as the latest version of this popular shell on Linux, macOS, and other systems.

Since Fish 4.0 the shell was rewritten from C++ to Rust. With Fish 4.2, the minimum supported Rust version is bumped to Rust 1.85. Fish 4.2's history-based auto-suggestions now include multi-line commands, a transient prompt containing more lines than the final prompt will now be cleared properly, various language translation updates, and a variety of interactive improvements. Plus a number of Fish 4.1 regressions have been resolved and other improvements.

Fish 4.2 comes in at nearly 500 commits over the prior version from nearly three dozen contributors. Downloads and more details on the Fish 4.2 shell via GitHub.

 

Debian developer Julian Andres Klode sent out a message on Halloween that may give some Debian Linux users and developers a spook: the APT packaging tool next year will begin requiring a Rust compiler. This will place a hard requirement by Debian Linux on Rust support for all architectures. Debian CPU architectures with ports currently but lacking Rust support will either need to see support worked on or be sunset.

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Open Minds aims to increase the digital skills of one of the key sectors of European civil society: that covering social and cultural players and the broad public with whom they are in contact.

The needs in terms of digital transition increased during the health crisis, which highlighted the extent of the digital divide and the need to increase digital skills.

To develop the project, we proposed to work along three lines:

  • free access to a database of free software resources
  • a training environment for socio-cultural players
  • regular publications to encourage change towards free software.
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https://kdenlive.org/news/releases/25.08.1/

https://kdenlive.org/news/releases/25.08.2/

https://kdenlive.org/news/releases/25.08.3/

The Kdenlive team is happy to announce the release of version 25.08.0 packed with over 300 commits and fixing more than 15 crashes. This release has no major shiny new features, just a ton of bug fixes and lots of polishing to give you a pleasant editing experience in the summer heat.

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This week in FreeCAD development:

Sketcher: AjinkyaDahale fixed a regression where trimming would break polygons (PR#25054).

PaddleStroke fixed a bug where Offset would not select an open loop correctly (PR#25091).

He also improved constraint rendering (PR#24534, PR#25055). tetektoza patched the code to make it remember the cursor angle for on-view parameters (OVP) after an OVP…

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Today we are releasing Krita 5.2.13! This is a bugfix release containing a number of important Android fixes, courtesy of Carsten Hartenfels, our new Android Maintainer. The release also includes a security fix that affected the work with TGA files.

Flatpak Happenings (blog.sebastianwick.net)
submitted 10 months ago by [M] to c/geekos@piefed.zip
 

Yesterday I released Flatpak 1.17.0. It is the first version of the unstable 1.17 series and the first release in 6 months. There are a few things which didn’t make it for this release, which is why I’m planning to do another unstable release rather soon, and then a stable release still this year.

Back at LAS this year I talked about the Future of Flatpak and I started with the grim situation the project found itself in: Flatpak was stagnant, the maintainers left the project and PRs didn’t get reviewed.

Some good news: things are a bit better now. I have taken over maintenance, Alex Larsson and Owen Taylor managed to set aside enough time to make this happen and Boudhayan Bhattcharya (bbhtt) and Adrian Vovk also got more involved. The backlog has been reduced considerably and new PRs get reviewed in a reasonable time frame.

 

Nextcloud Hub 25 Autumn makes it easy to get started with powerful collaboration while in control of your data. Discover our latest release.

Their blog post is too long. 😑 Let's do a short summary ☺️

  • tactile forms : buttons are more clickable
  • improved UI & look in light & dark mode
  • 11 new file templates across documents, spreadsheets, and presentations, and reworked six older templates to cover the most common tasks
  • improved nextcloud UI & performance & make keyboard shortcut more visible
  • added suggestion bar in nextcloud text to help users
  • improved UI in nextcloud talk : bottom bar & side bar
  • improved file search
  • photo search filter & can create album based on search filter
  • rewritten iOS app Nextcloud file : improved performance &UI
  • improved navigation in the drawer menu in Android app nextcloud file
  • busy button : selfactivate during a call
  • live AI during call
  • improved whiteboard for live session
  • overview of everyone planning & vote schedule on empty slot
  • new admin tool in occ
  • clean up issue...

Ect

[–] [S] 1 point 10 months ago

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Jeremy: You know, when we work on the internet, we use tools developed by large companies, which then collect the data we produce and use it for advertising, profiling, and targeting purposes.

We've decided to counter this by developing a tool called Clic.

Mathieu Ritimo: We're working on a solution that allows you to download a file with a single click. It can be installed on a small computer, about this big, which consumes four watts, or on an old computer that you no longer use and have repurposed.

This will allow you to have services on your computer such as those found at Framasoft, free services, and to store your data locally. This is typically when you need confidentiality, when you need to store your data locally and prefer to refrain from connecting to the wider internet.

You have a small local internet. It also allows you to go to places where there is no internet, such as a ZAD (Zone à Défendre, or Zone to Defend).

It can also be useful if you want and need to store your data locally for your family, but you have the option, if you wish, to connect to it, in which case you have the guarantee that your data is stored on your machine, but you can access it via the internet.

Jeremy: So, we are still working on Clic, which will be available in spring 2023. From then on, you will be able to download and install it in one click on your computers, old computers or small computers, and thus regain control over your data.

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  • [–] 9 points 10 months ago

    !fediverse@piefed.social is great, and slowly growing. I lack good ressource for update and news. It's hard to find good content about it. :)

    !geekos@piefed.zip is fulling its goal, a free software community on piefed. I'm slowly filling the tag cloug with hashtag as linux, kde, gnome, libre phone...they will reach the fediverse. :3 And i added foss event where asso, dev, foundation meet each other and share their ideas. :)

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  • [–] [S] 3 points 11 months ago

    Thanks ! :D

    On a side mote : Quite nice that piefed feature to announce a new community. I didn't know that it would share my sidebar, and i did it rather quickly 😅

    i need to improve the wiki :D

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