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Tor ☛ Arti 1.4.6 is released: Hidden Service resilience; work on flow control, Conflux, and CGO. | The Tor Project
Arti is our ongoing project to create a next-generation Tor client in Rust. We're happy to announce the latest release, Arti 1.4.6.
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Libre Arts ☛ Weekly recap — 3 August 2025
Week highlights: new major releases of PixiEditor and Flameshot, new features in GIMP, FreeCAD, OpenSCAD, and Ardour.
There were two user-visible changes this past week: [...]
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Rajeesh K Nambiar: TUG2025: A retrospective
The 46th annual TeX Users Group conference (TUG2025) took place in Kerala during July 18–20, 2025. I’ve attended and presented at a few of the past TUG conferences; but this time it is different as I was to present a paper and help to organize the conference. This is a personal, incomplete, (and potentially hazy around the edges) reflection of my experience organizing the event, which had participants from many parts of the Europe, the US and India.
Preparations
The Indian TeX Users Group, lead by CVR, have conducted TUG conferences in 2002 and 2011. We, a group of about 18 volunteers, lead by him convened as soon as the conference plan was announced in September 2024, and started creating todo-lists, schedules and assigning responsible persons for each.
STMDocs campus has excellent conference facilities including large conference hall, audio/video systems, high-speed internet with fallback, redundant power supply etc. making it an ideal choice, as done in 2011. Yet, we prioritized the convenience of the speakers and delegates to avoid travel from and to the hotel in city — prior experience found it is best to locate the conference facility closer to the stay. We scouted for a few hotels with good conference facilities in Thiruvananthapuram city, and finalized the Hyatt Regency; even though we had to take greater responsibility and coordination as they had no prior experience organizing a conference with requirements similar to TUG. Travel advisories were published on the conference web page as soon as details were available.
Projector, UPS, display connectors, microphones, WiFi access points and a lot of related hardware were procured. Conference materials such as t-shirt, mug, notepad, pen, tote bag etc. were arranged. Noted political cartoonist E.P. Unny graciously drew the beloved lion sketches for the conference.
Karl Berry, from the US, orchestrated mailing lists for coordination and communication. CVR, Shan and I assumed the responsibility of answering speaker & delegate emails.