Standards and Free, Libre, and Open Source Software

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Aug 19, 2025

• Undeadly ☛ OpenSSH will now adapt IP QoS to actual sessions and traffic

  OpenSSH will now adapt IP QoS to actual sessions and traffic. In a fresh commit, Damien Miller (djm@) introduced a significant change, which enables ssh and sshd to set the IP QoS based on what connections and sessions are active.

• Web Browsers/Web Servers

  • Cédric Bonhomme ☛ RSS Feeds With a Fresh Coat of XSLT

    With XSLT styling, the second group of people at least gets a pretty preview instead of a wall of tags. Think of it as putting lipstick on an XML pig. Except this pig now has a decent font, some CSS, and a “Visit Website →” button. 🐷✨

• Education

  • Raspberry Pi ☛ Code Club Projects

    Find a project based on a topic you like.

• Standards/Consortia

  • United States Standards Strategy Update Available for Comment

    Twenty-five years ago, the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) convened a working group of public and private sector representatives to draft the first version of a standards strategy for the United States. After much work, that document was approved.

  • APNIC ☛ DNS at IETF 123

    At IETF meetings, DNS discussions span several Working Groups. In this report, I’ll focus on the material presented at the DELEG and DNSOP Working Groups. To keep things (relatively) brief, I won’t cover Adaptive DNS Discovery (ADD), Extensions for Scalable DNS Service Discovery (DNSSD), or DANE Authentication for Network Clients Everywhere (DANCE).

  • Jamie Zawinski ☛ XSLT

    I finally got around to adding XSLT styling to my blogs' RSS feeds, after the latest Google assholery. Let me know if it breaks anything.

  • TechSpot ☛ The CD turns 43: The format that changed music forever | TechSpot

    The idea of the compact disc had been forming for several years. In the late 1970s, both the Dutch electronics giant Philips and the Japanese company Sony were independently working on digital audio disc technologies. Philips had created a prototype CD player and sought to establish an international standard, while Sony had advanced digital encoding and error correction techniques. In 1979, after Philips demonstrated its prototype in Japan, the two companies agreed to collaborate, forming a joint task force to define the technology and specifications that would become the CD.

  • CNX Software ☛ Matter 1.4.2 adds support for WiFi only provisioning for cheaper devices, improves security, and more

    The Connectivity Standards Alliance (CSA) released the Matter 1.4 specification in fall 2024, and we skipped Matter 1.4.1 here, but decided to cover the Matter 1.4.2 release, which enables WiFi only provisioning, removing the need for a Bluetooth LE radio often only used for onboarding Smart Home devices. This will enable device makers to reduce costs and hardware complexity by removing the Bluetooth LE radio and the associated software stack in designs where a BLE radio is only used solely for commissioning. While Matter 1.4.2 is a minor dot release, it includes many other changes we’ll cover below.