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Haiku R1/beta5 released

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It’s always a lovely day when it’s a Haiku release day – and sadly, those don’t come very often. Of course, Haiku’s nightlies tend to be rather solid so an official release isn’t really a must if you want to use Haiku, but if you were holding out for something more stable: Haiku has just released its fifth beta, Haiku R1/beta5. We’ve covered most of the new features and changes as they were developed, but since it’s been so long since the previous beta, we should cover some of the highlights. One of the collection of improvements that’s impossible to put in a screenshot is the performance improvements the successor to BeOS has received since the release of R1/beta4, and there are many. There’s a ton of general performance improvements, of course, covering everything from the kernel to applications, including much better throughput in TCP, the network stack, which should lift Haiku’s network performance much closer to that of other, more mature operating systems. There’s also an overhaul of the user_mutex system, and much more. A great many performance optimizations were done to the kernel and drivers, including batching many more I/O operations, avoiding unnecessary locks on application startup, improved pre-mapping of memory mapped files, reduced lock contention in page mapping, batched modification of the global memory areas table (and a different implementation of its underlying data structure), changes to keep page lists in-order to ease allocations, temporary buffer allocation performance improvements in hot I/O paths, support for DT_GNU_HASH in the ELF loader, and more. ↫ Haiku R1/beta5 release notes Looking at the end user side of things, the Appearance dialog has been simplified without removing any features or capabilities, and Haiku now also comes with a dark mode. The little power/battery widget in Deskbar has also been overhauled to provide more accurate battery information, and it’ll load automatically if a battery is detected in the system. Tracker (the file manager) and Icon-O-Matic have seen improvements, there’s a rewritten FAT driver, a brand new UFS2 driver, and much more. There’s also a ton of new application ports from the Qt and GTK world, especially if the last time you’ve tried Haiku was one of the previous betas. Thanks to all of these ports, it’s much more realistic now to use Haiku as a daily driver. Haiku now also offers experimental support for .NET and FLTK, which provides further avenues for ports. This is just a small selection, as there is so much more contained in this new beta release. If you’ve been running the nightlies this new beta won’t mean much to you, but if you’ve been out of the running for a while, Haiku R1/beta5 is a great place to start to see what the platform has to offer.

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Four Kitchens: Get ready for Drupal 11: An essential guide

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Four Kitchens: Get ready for Drupal 11: An essential guide
Four Kitchens: Get ready for Drupal 11: An essential guide

Yuvania Castillo

Backend Engineer

A graduate of the University of Costa Rica with a passion for programming, Yuvania is driven to constantly improve, study, and learn new technologies to be better every day.

January 1, 1970

Preparing for Drupal 11 is crucial to ensure a smooth transition, and we’re here to help you make it easy and efficient. This guide offers clear steps to update your environment and modules, perform thorough tests, and use essential tools like Upgrade Status and Drupal Rector.

Don’t fall behind! Making sure your site is ready for the new features and improvements Drupal 11 brings will make the upgrade work quick and easy.

Read on to learn how to keep your site updated and future-proof.

Ensure your environment is ready

  • Upgrade to PHP 8.3: Ensure optimal performance and compatibility with Drupal 11
  • Use Drush 13: Make sure you have this version available in your development or sandbox environment
  • Database requirements: Ensure your database meets the requirements for Drupal 11:
    • MySQL 8.0
    • PostgreSQL 16
  • Web server: Drupal 11 requires Apache 2.4.7 or higher. Keep your server updated to avoid compatibility issues.

Upgrade to Drupal 10.3. Before migrating to Drupal 11, update your site to Drupal 10.3 to handle all deprecations properly. Drupal 10.3 defines all deprecated code to be removed in Drupal 11, making it easier to prepare for the next major update.

Update contributed modules. Use Composer to update all contributed modules to versions compatible with Drupal 11. The Upgrade Status module will help identify deprecated modules and APIs. Ensure all modules are updated to avoid compatibility issues.

Fix custom code. Use Drupal Rector to identify and fix deprecations in your custom code. Drupal Rector automates much of the update process, leaving “to do” comments where manual intervention is needed. Perform a manual review of critical areas to ensure everything functions correctly.

Run tests in a safe environment. Conduct tests in a safe environment, such as a local sandbox or cloud IDE. It’s likely to fail at first, but it’s essential to run multiple tests until you achieve a successful result. Use:

  • composer update --dry-run to simulate the update without making changes
  • composer why-not drupal/core 11.0 if there are issues, identify which dependencies require an earlier version of Drupal

Compatibility tools. Install and use the Upgrade Status module to ensure your site is ready. This module provides a detailed report on your site’s compatibility with Drupal 11. Check for compatibility issues in contributed projects on Drupal.org using the Project Update Bot.

Back up everything. Before updating, ensure you have a complete backup of your code and database. This is crucial to restore your site if something goes wrong during the update.

Considerations for immediate upgrade

You may wonder if you should upgrade your site to Drupal 11 as soon as it’s available. Here are some pros and cons to consider:

  • Maybe no: Sites can wait up till when the Drupal 10 LTS (long term support) ends (mid-late 2026) and then upgrade. This allows contributed modules to be fully ready for the update.
  • Maybe yes: Upgrading early lets you take advantage of new features and improvements but may introduce new bugs. Additionally, if everyone waits to upgrade, it could delay the readiness of contributed modules for the new version.

While Drupal 10 will be supported for some time, it’s advisable to stay ahead with these updates to use the improvements they offer and ensure a smoother, optimized transition.

By following these steps and considerations, your Drupal site will be well prepared for the transition to Drupal 11, ensuring a smooth and uninterrupted experience. Get ready for the new and exciting features Drupal 11 has to offer!

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Encode your nostalgia

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This Week in F-Droid

TWIF curated on Thursday, 12 Sep 2024, Week 37

Community News

Arx Libertatis, An improved, cross-platform and open source engine for Arx Fatalis, a 2002 first-person role-playing game / dungeon crawler / immersive sim was just added, bringing another cult classic to the Android screen. You’ll need the Demo data files just to test, or use the game files from your old CDs or fresh off a digital game service. You can follow the instructions in the Wiki to setup the game.

Blocker was updated to 2.0.4497-fdroid, small note, be aware that the included rules might be missing. The next update will fix them. Upstream issue

Briar was updated to 1.5.13, a small polish after last months UI update to Material Design 3. Briar is a peer-to-peer messaging app that does not depend on centralized servers, and it routes messages via the Tor network. This can be a pain for mobile devices as they can go online and offline as the geography dictates (or your OEMs battery optimizations) hence messages can be delayed. But did you know you can pair Briar with Briar Mailbox? Announced last year and in F-Droid since April, Mailbox acts as your own private server that you can setup on a spare Android device that sits comfortable always online and keeps your messages ready to be delivered to you or to your contacts. Linking your account to Mailbox is as easy as scanning a QR code.

Element – Secure Messenger was updated to 1.6.20, as the Element team gave F-Droid the ok to build one month later than their release. It’s an important update as it adds support for “Authenticated media”, about which you can read more here. Unfortunately the armv7 version hit some memory limits so it will be rebuilt next. SchildiChat users are already covered as their app was updated a few weeks ago and FluffyChat users might get the update by the time they read this TWIF. Element X is still work-in-progress, as newer versions fail to build reproducible, we are communicating with the Element team to bring it up to date as soon as possible.

mpvKt: MPV based media player, A media player based on the popular commandline media player mpv, was just added, it’s based on mpv-android and tries to offer you the power of mpv in a nicer UI that’s easier to use and handle. Will it replace your old player? Do test and tell us!

Chaldea was updated to 2.5.14 and kardi notes | privacy matters to 2.1.1, but we’ll have to ask you to skip these updates as they are broken, being the victims of an aggressive scanning issue.

What scanner issue? Last week we added a new check to the scanner which was intended to catch non-deterministic builds. When a package manager file, e.g. pubspec.yaml, is found without a lock file aside, the scanner throws an error or deletes the file, when scandelete is used. This feature was not tested on enough app source code bases and, when deployed for hundreds of apps a cycle needs to build, it caused, besides delayed updates, many false positives and even made some builds (as pointed above) produce broken packages. We appologize for the mess. This issue has been fixed and failed packages have been rebuilt.

Removed Apps

1 app were removed

Video Transcoder, Video transcoding between common formats, was getting long in the tooth, no longer being developed and based on a 6 year old FFmpeg version that has its share of known vulnerabilities. But it’s not all bad news as at least Bunny Media Editor and Open Video Editor can cover your video editing tasks and, if needed, FFShare will let you tweak that final encoding.

Newly Added Apps

8 more apps were newly added

Updated Apps

82 more apps were updated

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