[$] CoMaps emerges as an Organic Maps fork
The open-source mobile app Organic Maps is used by millions
of people on both the Android and iOS platforms. In addition to featuring
offline maps (generated from OpenStreetMap cartography) and turn-by-turn
navigation, it also promises its users greater privacy than proprietary options.
However, controversial decisions taken by the project's leaders, feelings of
disenfranchisement among contributors, and even accusations of embezzlement have
precipitated a divide in the community, leading to a new fork called
CoMaps.
Radicle Desktop released
The Radicle peer-to-peer code collaboration project has
released Radicle Desktop: a graphical interface designed to simplify more
complex parts of using Radicle such as issue management and patch reviews.
Radicle Desktop is not trying to replace your terminal, IDE, or code editor -
you already have your preferred tools for code browsing. It won't replace our
existing app.radicle.xyz and search.radicle.xyz for finding and exploring
projects. It also doesn't run a node for you. Instead, it communicates with your
existing Radicle node, supporting your current workflow and encourages gradual
adoption.
LWN covered Radicle in March 2024.
Security updates for Friday
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (.NET 8.0,
.NET 9.0, glibc, kernel, and mod_security), Fedora (chromium, gh, mingw-icu,
nginx-mod-modsecurity, python3.10, python3.9, thunderbird, valkey, and yarnpkg),
Oracle (.NET 8.0, .NET 9.0, glibc, grafana-pcp, kernel, libxml2, mod_security,
nodejs:20, and thunderbird), SUSE (audiofile, helm, kubernetes-old,
kubernetes1.23, kubernetes1.24, libcryptopp, postgresql15, thunderbird, and
valkey), and Ubuntu (linux-nvidia-tegra-igx).
[$] FAIR package management for WordPress
The last year has been a rocky one for the WordPress
community. Matt Mullenweg—WordPress co-founder and CEO of WordPress
hosting company Automattic—started a messy public spat with WP Engine
in September and has proceeded to use his control of the project's WordPress.org
infrastructure as weapons against the company, with the community caught in the
crossfire. It is not surprising, then, that on June 6 a group of WordPress
community participants announced the Federated and Independent Repositories
Package Manager (FAIR.pm) project. It is designed to be a decentralized
alternative to WordPress.org with a goal of building "public digital
infrastructure that is both resilient and fair".
Summaries from the 2025 Python Language Summit
The Python Software Foundation blog is carrying a set of
detailed summaries from the 2025 Python Language Summit: The Python Language
Summit 2025 occurred on May 14th in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Core
developers and special guests from around the world gathered in one room
for an entire day of presentations and discussions about the future of the
Python programming language.
Topics covered include making breaking changes
less painful, free-threaded Python, interaction with Rust, and challenges faced
by the Steering Council.