today's leftovers

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jul 12, 2026

• Server

  • Kubernetes Blog ☛ Announcing etcd v3.7.0 | Kubernetes

    This release also includes new versions of the two core etcd dependencies, bbolt v1.5.0 and raft v3.7.0.

• Audiocasts/Shows

  • Hackaday ☛ FLOSS Weekly Episode 874: Really, We Do PDFs

    This week Jonathan chats with Andrea Gallo about RISC-V! What does it mean for RISC-V to be an Open ISA? Where is RISC-V popping up, and what’s the new frontier? Watch to find out!

  • Pivot to AI ☛ I’m on Tech Report: Companies are killing themselves with AI

    Isaac Pound from Times Radio’s Tech Report interviewed me this afternoon talking about AI and the job market — and it’s up already! 32 minutes of me talking quite fast. This came out super well.

• Applications

  • LWN ☛ A look at MinIO alternatives: Ceph and Garage [LWN.net]

    MinIO is a popular object-storage server that offered compatibility with the Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) API. In December 2025, the company behind the project (also named MinIO) announced that the project was in maintenance mode and would not accept new changes; it was archived completely in February 2026. MinIO users have been hunting for alternatives since then, but the array of choices can be baffling. While many other projects aim to fill the space, their strengths and areas of focus tend to vary. Two of the alternatives—Ceph and Garage—are particularly compelling, and both offer solid S3 compatibility.

    MinIO did not state its reasons for retiring the project, but it has a proprietary project with similar features that it recommended in place of the now-defunct project. The company has continued to publish vulnerability information that details security problems that affect the last version of MinIO, at least through April of this year, but it is no longer supplying updates to the open-source project.

    Most users of MinIO have moved on to other projects that remain on open-source licenses. Ruohang Feng is maintaining a MinIO fork called Silo, but he has indicated that his plans are limited to bugs and security fixes; new feature development is not in scope. Its most recent release was on June 18, 2026.

• Desktop Environments (DE)/Window Managers (WM)

  • GNOME Desktop/GTK

    • GNOME ☛ Code of Conduct Committee: Transparency report from October 2025 to June 2026

      Report about two Mastodon posts which were subsequently removed. Reminded the reported people that Mastodon posts in the context of GNOME are also under the scope of the Code of Conduct.

• Systems

  • Mobile Systems

    • Making working conditions fairer for everyone

      Fairphone products are assembled under fairer working conditions in fairer factories and mines. We talk about this a lot. And