Free, Libre, and Open Source Software Leftovers

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Oct 02, 2026

• FSF ☛ September GNU Spotlight with Amin Bandali featuring seventeen new GNU releases: Coreutils, SCM, and more!

  Seventeen new GNU releases in the last month (as of September 30, 2026): [...]

• Christian Tietze ☛ Watch My EmacsConf Talk: Zettelkasten for Regular Emacs Hackers

  The pitch: writing improves the quality and depth of thought, and a Zettelkasten is an environment for thinking through writing, not merely a place to store notes. Nobody can hand you a finished thinking environment the way they can hand you an email client. You have to build your own, and Emacs is the most moldable place to do it.

• Andrew Nesbitt ☛ Software Heritage Identifiers

  Software Heritage has been building a universal archive of source code since Inria launched the project in 2016. It crawls GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket and a long tail of smaller forges, plus package registries and distro sources, and stores what it finds in one deduplicated Merkle DAG. As I write this that DAG holds about 30 billion source files, 23 billion directories and 6 billion commits from 445 million origins.

• Instant Messaging Freedom ☛ Pidgin 3.0 Alpha 3 2.97.0 has been released! - Pidgin - Instant Messaging Freedom's Discourse

  We are ecstatic to announce that we have released the third alpha version of Pidgin 3.0!!! This release has an official version number of 2.97.0. We will continue releasing in this fashion until we are ready for 3.0.0 which will be the release we consider ready for end users. You can read more about our development phases here.

• Tor ☛ Arti 2.7.0 released | The Tor Project

  Arti is our ongoing project to create a next-generation Tor implementation in Rust. We're happy to announce the latest release, Arti 2.7.0.

• Server

  • Make Use Of ☛ 2026-09-22 [Older] I turned my gaming PC into a Proxmox server and found a whole new use for its power

  • Make Use Of ☛ 2026-09-22 [Older] I stopped wasting a whole mini PC by moving its working n8n automations to a VM in one shot

• New Releases

  • Undeadly ☛ OpenBGPD 9.3 released

    In another hint that a new OpenBSD release is close, the OpenBGPD project has announced a new release of its software, version 9.3: [...]

  • Didier Stevens ☛ Update: search-for-compression.py Version 0.0.8 | Didier Stevens

    Option -S takes a value, a positive number. It’s the size of the decompression buffer. By default, its value is 0.

  • PowerDNS ☛ PowerDNS Recursor 5.3.11 and 5.4.7 Released

    These are maintenance releases that fix bugs and include a few improvements. The most important ones are: [...]