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FOSS Weekly #15 - Open Source Bug Bounty, GNOME mobile, grep 3.8, OBS Studio 28.0 & more

FOSS Weekly #15 - Open Source Bug Bounty, GNOME mobile, grep 3.8, OBS Studio 28.0 & more

Sai Phanindra
September 04, 2022

Here is everything that has happened in the Linux and Open Source world the last week. Lots of great releases and announcements from several projects. The sudden demise of Peter Eckersley is a big loss.

🐧 Linux updates

Linus releases Linux Kernel 6.0-rc3 [lkml.org/lkml/2022/8/28/295]
Ubuntu 22.10 will be powered by Linux 5.19 [phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-22.10-Linux-5.19]
KDE's chat app Kaidan is adding encrypted audio and video calls [kaidan.im/2022/09/03/audio-video-calls]
Help test Fedora 37 during the upcoming test weeks [fedoramagazine.org/contribute-at-the-i18n-release..]
GNOME mobile shell prototype looks sick [twitter.com/tobias_bernard/status...]
Steam users on Linux reach 1.27% in August [phoronix.com/news/Steam-Survey-August-2022]

📰 News

Microsoft will retire MS Teams Linux client in december [news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32678839]
Tor implementation in Rust - Arti 1.0.0 released [blog.torproject.org/arti_100_released]
SUSE turns 30 [suse.com/c/30-fun-facts-about-suse]
Google launches bug bounty program for its open source projects [security.googleblog.com/Announcing...]
Meta, open sources Velox: An open source unified execution engine with Ahana, Intel, and Voltron Data [engineering.fb.com/2022/08/31/open-source/velox]

📝 Releases

digiKam 7.8.0 [digikam.org/news/7.8.0...]
OBS Studio 28.0 [projectobs.com/en/news/obs-studio-28-0]
grep 3.8 [savannah.gnu.org/...forum_id=10227]
PipeWire 0.3.57 [gitlab.freedesktop.org/pipewire/..tags/0.3.57]
Wine 7.16 [winehq.org/announce/7.16]
Ubuntu 22.04.5 LTS [lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-announce...]

🔗 Also read

This Week in GNOME [thisweek.gnome.org/...twig-59]
This Week in KDE [pointieststick.com/this-week-in-kde..]
August GNU spotlight [fsf.org/blogs/community/august-gnu-spotlight...]
Fedora weekly round up [communityblog.fedoraproject.org/fridays-fedora-facts]
Linux Mint August review [blog.linuxmint.com/?p=4405]

👉 Other Things

Peter Eckersley, co-founder of Let's Encrypt, has died at 43 due to cancer. He was the director of computer science at the Electronic Frontier Foundation and has worked on Let's Encrypt, Certbot, Privacy Badger, HTTPS Everywhere, Panopticlick, and many other privacy-related projects. May his soul rest in peace.

Peter Eckersley, may his memory be a blessing

I'm devastated to report that Peter Eckersley (@pde), one of the original founders of Let's Encrypt, died earlier this evening at CPMC Davies Hospital in San Francisco. Peter was the leader of EFF's contributions to Let's Encrypt and ACME over the course of several years during which these technologies turned from a wild idea into an important part of Internet infrastructure. He also took a lot of initiative in coalescing the EFF, Mozilla, and University of Michigan teams into a single team and...

https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/peter-eckersley-may-his-memory-be-a-blessing/183854

Watch his eulogy for Aaron Swartz here: youtube.com/watch?v=ztMGZlE_Tag

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