FOSS Weekly #37 - GNOME 44rc, Ubuntu on RISC-V, Raspberry Pi's new Camera, and more

Welcome to the latest edition of FOSS Weekly! The latest news in the open source world includes Raspberry Pi's new camera, GitHub's 2FA requirement, and the discontinuation of the screen recorder Peek. In Linux updates, Flathub shared their plans for 2023, and I am excited for GNOME 44. Finally, there have been several new software releases from Rust, Weblate, and others

📰 News

• Raspberry Pi's new $50 "Global Shutter Camera" for machine vision [raspberrypi.com]

• GitHub mandates 2FA for all developers by end of 2023 [github.blog]

• Peek - GIF screen recorder has been discontinued [github.com]

• Thunderbird for Android / K-9 Mail: February progress report [thunderbird.net]

🐧 Linux updates

• Flathub in 2023 - plans, challenges, and more [flathub.org]

• GNOME 44.rc is here. Final release on March 22 [gnome.org]

• Linux 6.3 drops support for the Intel ICC Compiler [phoronix.com]

• Ubuntu extends RISC-V support to new hardware [riscv.org]

📝 Releases

• Rust 1.68.0 [rust-lang.org]

• digiKam 7.10.0 [digikam.org]

• GNU Octave 8.1.0 [octave.org]

• Samba 4.18 [samba.org]

• Weblate 4.16 [weblate.org]

• Audacious 4.3 [audacious-media-player.org]

🔗 Also read

• This Week in GNOME [thisweek.gnome.org]

• This Week in KDE [pointieststick.com]

• Fedora weekly round up [fedoraproject.org]

✨ Links from the interwebs

• The Quest for Netflix on Asahi Linux [da.vidbuchanan.co.uk]

• Saving 4 million books from landfill [archive.org]

• Akademy 2023 - Call for participation [akademy.kde.org]

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