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Repository activities from 2024-03-05 to 2024-03-19

Repository roundup

Developpers will be able to use more up-to-date tools since GCC upgrade to version 10 has been merged, and the contributions from rubdos and direc85 will now allow to enjoy LLVM 15 and Rust 1.75.

Communication bits

Location services

User interface

Browser stack

Multimedia

Other applications

  • nemo-qml-plugin-filemanager, QML bindings for file management, pvuorela cleaned the requirements, removing old ones that are not needed anymore (like contactscache, D-Bus, profile, connman…).

Low level libraries

Developper's corner

  • gcc, the GNU compiler collection, mal's work to upgrade GCC has been merged in. It moves to version 10.3 (from 2021), while GCC was previously in version 8.

  • python3, the popular and widely used programming language, mal proposed to update it to 3.8.18.

  • kbuild, a framework for writing simple makefiles for complex tasks, mal updated it to r3565.

  • dtc, the device tree compiler, mal updated it to 1.7.0.

  • ncurses, the library to use terminals, Thaodan fixed an issue with Bash/readline.

  • readline, a library for editing typed command lines, Thaodan worked on updating it to 8.2, also revamping the packaging spec file.

  • e2fsprogs, utilities to manage ext2, ext3 and ext4 file systems, pvuorela removed an old patch from 2016 since coreutils has been upgraded in-between.

  • expat, an XML parser library, mal updated it to 2.6.1.

  • python-M2Crypto, support for using OpenSSL in python scripts, Thaodan updated it to 0.41.0.

  • lipstick, the home screen code (open source parts), pvuorela updated the documentation.

  • pvuorela cleaned packaging of various projects, removing unnecessary dependencies: