Hi!

Once again, this status update will be rather short due to limited time bandwidth. I hope to be able to allocate a bit more time slots for my open-source projects next month.

We’re getting closer to a new Sway release (fingers crossed), with lots of help from Kenny and Alexander to iron out the remaining bugs. We’ve just shipped wlroots 0.18.1 today (thanks to Simon Zeni for leading the backporting efforts!). I’ve been expanding wlroots’ explicit synchronization support by adapting our multi-GPU logic, the Vulkan renderer and the libliftoff backend. I’ve released wayland 1.23.1 with some Clang and wayland-scanner fixes. I’ve ported the cage kiosk compositor to wlroots 0.18. Last but not least, I’ve rewritten makoctl in C because shell scripts only get you so far.

I’ve been giving feedback and contributing to KDE’s SVG cursor spec. The cursor theme landscape isn’t in a great spot at the moment, because we’re stuck with XCursor images. Now that the cursor-shape protocol is gaining adoption there is an opportunity to more easily switch the underlying image format. Thanks to KDE folks for pushing this forward! I’d really like to see the spec standardized under the freedesktop.org umbrella.

delthas has been contributing some nifty new features to soju: admins can now configure per-user network count limits, can now impersonate a user via SASL, and the file upload endpoint now sends back an error early when the file is too large. soju 0.8.2 has been released with a bunch of bug fixes.

The NPotM is varlinkgen (better name TBD). It’s a Varlink C library and code generator. If you’ve been following my projects for a while, you probably know how much I love code generators producing type-safe APIs from schemas. I must admit, I appreciate Varlink’s simplicity and lack of central bus. I plan to use varlinkgen in kanshi, and maybe other daemons in need of an IPC.

See you next month!