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Status update, May 2024

Hi!

Sadly, I need to start this status update with bad news: SourceHut has decided to terminate my contract. At this time, I’m still in the process of figuring out what I’ll do next. I’ve marked some SourceHut-specific projects as unmaintained, such as sr.ht-container-compose (feel free to fork of course). I’ve handed over hut maintenance to xenrox, and I’ve started migrating a few projects to other forges (more to follow). I will continue to maintain projects that I still use such as soju to the extent that my free time allows.

On a more positive note, this month Igalia’s display next hackfest took place. Although I couldn’t attend in-person, it was great to discuss in real time with other engineers in the community about focused topics. We discussed about color management, HDR, adaptive sync, testing, real-time scheduling, power usage implications of the color pipeline, improved uAPI to handle KMS atomic commit failures, hardware plane offloading, display muxes, backlight, scaling and sharpening filters… And I probably missed a few other things.

We’ve released wlroots 0.17.3 with a bunch of new bug fixes (thanks to Simon Zeni). The patches to add support for ICC profiles from M. Stoeckl have been merged. I’ve continued working on the new ext-screencopy-v1 protocol but there are a few remaining issues to address before this is ready.

The display hackfest has motivated me to work on libliftoff. Apart from a few bug fixes, a new API to set a timeout for the libliftoff algorithm has been added, and some optimizations are about to get merged (one thanks to Leo Li).

The Wayland release cycle has started, we’ve merged patches to generate validators for enum values and added a new deprecated-since XML attribute to mark a request, event or enum as deprecated. Thanks to Ferdinand Bachmann, kanshi has gained output defaults and aliases (useful for sharing output configurations across multiple profiles). mako 1.9 has been released with a new flag to toggle modes, another new flag to bypass history when dismissing a notification, and support for compositor-side cursor images.

In IRC news, goguma now uses Material 3 (please report any regression), has gained support for messages only visible to channel operators (STATUSMSG), and I’ve spent a fair bit of time investigating the infamous duplicate message bug. I have a better understanding of the issue now, but still need a bit more time to come up with a proper fix.

Thanks to old patches sent by sitting33 that I took way too long to review, gamja now only marks messages as read when it’s focused, shows the number of unread highlights in the tab title, and hides the internal WHO reply chatter from the user.

Last, I’ve released go-imap 2.0.0 beta 3 with a whole bunch of bug fixes. Ksenia Roshchina has contributed a client implementation of the ACL IMAP extension.

That’s all for now, see you next month!


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