Mitchell Hashimoto from Vagrant, Terraform, HashiCorp, and Ghostty fame has introduced Vouch, new trust management system for open source projects.

With this in place, maintainers can implement a trust-based system where contributors must be vouched before submitting code to designated areas.

The system also allows blocking bad actors entirely through a denouncement feature and maintains a simple list of approved and blocked contributors for easy management (stored as a .td file).

Thanks to this, vouch lists of other projects can be aggregated to create a network where open source projects can check if someone is already trusted elsewhere. This means contributors don't need to get vouched separately for every project they want to contribute to.

7-Zip, a popular open-source tool for compressing and extracting files, has released version 26.0. This update refreshes the internal code for several archive formats, such as ZIP, CPIO, RAR, UDF, QCOW, and Compound.

The 7-Zip File Manager has also been updated. Now, file lists are sorted more consistently by using the file name as a secondary sorting key, making it easier to view archive contents.

Benchmarking features have been improved, too. The built-in benchmark tool now works with systems that have more than 64 CPU threads, so it is more accurate and compatible with modern workstations and servers.

Ntfy, a self-hosted open-source notification service for sending and receiving push notifications through HTTP requests, has released version 2.17.

A key update is priority field templating, which lets users dynamically set notification priority using templates. This simplifies adapting notification behavior based on context or payload content without extra client-side logic.

The web UI now includes a clipboard copy action to make it easier to extract notification content, and unread notifications are indicated with a favicon badge

MythTV 36 is now available for this long-time open-source digital video recorder "DVR" software that has been around now for more than two decades as the leading choice for those wishing to watch and/or record live TV under Linux especially as an HTPC.

MythTV is out with its annual feature release. Even with all of the Internet streaming and video on-demand services these days, MythTV continues pushing forward for those desiring an open-source DVR/PVR solution. With MythTV 36 they have made enhancements to their Web App as well as introducing FFmpeg 8 multimedia library support. Those are the main additions to find with MythTV 36 along with various bug fixes.

It's an open source venture backed by $35M from FirstMark Capital, Spark Capital, and GV (Google Ventures). It's a drop-in replacement for MySQL with an extension architecture. See their native UUID extension with efficient 16-byte storage as an example.

GitHub Repo.

• On-device translation using Mozilla's translation models
• Transliteration of non-latin script
• OCR (Optical Character Recognition) for translating text in images
• Automatic language detection
• Image translation overlay that preserves original formatting
• Support for multiple language pairs
• No internet required for translation once models are downloaded
• All translation happens locally

Redherring32, in collaboration with Nick from Mousebitelabs, has just released OpenTendo-AGB: An open source recreation of the original AGB-CPU-01 Game Boy Advance motherboard. As with Redherring’s previous open source NES motherboard the OpenTendo, it’s completely open source, with this released under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. So basically, anyone can use this to make replacement GBA motherboards, or fork the project to integrate other options.

Github: https://github.com/Redherring32/OpenTendo-AGB

Work like this, as well as other reverse-engineer-ers like Natalie is crucially important to preserve these consoles and handhelds. But of course, nerds like me always think about what else can be done with something like this! Imagine if someone integrated the also open source GBAHD into this board, for a fully functional handheld with zero-lag HDMI-out???

Regardless of the use case, I always appreciate work like this and will keep people posted if the project is forked or sold anywhere.

With the release of Linux kernel 6.19 earlier today, Linus Torvalds confirmed that the next major kernel series will have a version number bump as Linux 7.0 rather than Linux 6.20.

So there you have it, the Linux 6.x era has ended with today’s Linux 6.19 kernel release, and a new one will begin with Linux 7.0, which is expected in mid-April 2026. The merge window for Linux 7.0 will open tomorrow, February 9th, and the first Release Candidate (RC) milestone is expected on February 22nd, 2026.

“And as people have mostly figured out, I’m getting to the point where I’m being confused by large numbers (almost running out of fingers and toes again), so the next kernel is going to be called 7.0,” said Linus Torvalds in a mailing list announcement.

After discovering this morning that Intel archived/discontinued its On Demand "SDSi" GitHub project around that controversial feature, it was a slippery slope in noticing Intel recently archived around two dozen other open-source projects they previously maintained.

Since late 2025 there have been numerous GitHub repositories that Intel officially maintained and now are marked as archived with Intel engineers no longer maintaining them. The latest projects now-archived by Intel since December are noted below. Notably, abandoning of these projects all came after last year's unfortunate summary in Intel's Open-Source Strategy Is Changing At Odds With The Ethos Of Open-Source.

Back in 2022 DreamWorks Animation announced they were open-sourcing their MoonRay renderer and was then published in early 2023 for this renderer that has been used in a variety of featured animated films. Since then they have continued advancing this MoonRay code via the open-source OpenMoonRay project and this week published their newest feature update.

OpenMoonRay 2.40.0.1 was published this week and most notably introduces an experimental new GUI alternative to its existing one. The new GUI is relying on the ImGui library and is focused on a better user experience with usability enhancements like pixel inspection, snapshots, a status bar, and improved path visualizer drawing. OpenMoonRay's existing GUI was using the Qt toolkit but they have found better success now with ImGui.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.bestiver.se/post/911815

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Been working on a personal project to create community software that's deployable as a single image with no external dependencies (eg: no need to set up a db).

I've made a lot of progress, but am feeling technically lonely.

I would love it if there were anyone else out there with interests in open source, community and maybe some experience with the following tech that's maybe also looking for some comradery:

• UX/UI
• HTML/CSS
• Cross-platform apps
• Typescript

You can check the code out here to help decide if you're interested: https://andyburke.dev/andyburke/autonomous.contact

Fair warning: This project is still in the prototyping phase and isn't recommended for anyone other than a developer who's looking to help out. Additionally, there's currently no ActivityPub support, though federation is an eventual goal - if you know ActivityPub, I'd love to talk.

Ps. I am pretty bad at reaching out to people and I am not sure if this is the best way to find connection. If this isn't the right place, please let me know and I'll remove this.

Pandoc can now be used in the browser, see the announcement on discourse.

I think this is awesome, may more languages adopt wasm support.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.bestiver.se/post/906609

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