Arcan 0.7.1 – Minutes to Midnight
4 months ago
- #Networking
- #Open Source
- #Software Development
- Release tagged for the main project before the 39th Chaos Communication Congress.
- DECT extension provided for on-site communication (6681).
- Tragic news of Elijah “moon-child” Stone's passing at age 22.
- Community updates include switch from GitHub to Fossil for development, with mirroring to Codeberg.
- Final warning to packagers to use updated repositories.
- In-person hackathon outputs: Gamescope port, Qt platform plugin, A12 protocol viewer, and experimental applications.
- Bug fixes and new tools like Xkbd2Lua for X Keyboard Layouts translation.
- Arcan updates: ML-KEM support for Post-Quantum cryptography, connection resumption, and casting features.
- Unified and referential links introduced for directory server roles.
- Dynamically Hosted Directed Sources allow server-side application hosting with fine-grained control.
- External Resource Resolver for handling file requests dynamically.
- Custom Debugger Integration for debugging locally and remotely with Lua VM.