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Tag1 Consulting: Tag1 D7ES Adds Full Support for CKEditor 5 in Drupal 7
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“Master Hotwire” ebook
For some time now I’ve been working on an e-book about Hotwire, specifically aimed at Experienced Software Engineers. Why that focus? It’s simple: If you’re experienced I can save you time while giving you more information. For books the biggest cost is actually your time investment, not the price of the book. If this sounds interesting, I’m happy to say that the Beta version of the book is ready and available at: https://masterhotwire.com/ 🙂
Python 3.14.0 alpha 3 is out
O Alpha 3, O Alpha 3, how lovely are your branches!
https://www.python.org/downloads/release/python-3140a3/
This is an early developer preview of Python
3.14
Major
new features of the 3.14 series, compared to 3.13
Python 3.14 is still in development. This release, 3.14.0a3, is the
third of seven planned alpha releases.
Alpha releases are intended to make it easier to test the current
state of new features and bug fixes and to test the release process.
During the alpha phase, features may be added up until the start of
the beta phase (2025-05-06) and, if necessary, may be modified or
deleted up until the release candidate phase (2025-07-22). Please keep
in mind that this is a preview release and its use is
not recommended for production environments.
Many new features for Python 3.14 are still being planned and
written. Among the new major new features and changes so far:
- PEP 649: deferred
evaluation of annotations - PEP 741: Python
configuration C API - PEP 761: Python 3.14
and onwards no longer provides PGP signatures for release artifacts.
Instead, Sigstore is recommended for verifiers. - Improved
error messages - (Hey, fellow core developer, if a feature
you find important is missing from this list, let Hugo
know.)
The next pre-release of Python 3.14 will be 3.14.0a4, currently
scheduled for 2025-01-14.
More resources
- Online
documentation - PEP 745, 3.14
Release Schedule - Report bugs at https://github.com/python/cpython/issues
- Help fund Python and
its community
And now for
something completely different
A mince pie is a small, round covered tart filled with “mincemeat”,
usually eaten during the Christmas season – the UK consumes some 800
million each Christmas. Mincemeat is a mixture of things like apple,
dried fruits, candied peel and spices, and originally would have
contained meat chopped small, but rarely nowadays. They are often served
warm with brandy butter.
According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the earliest mention of
Christmas mince pies is by Thomas Dekker, writing in the aftermath of
the 1603
London plague, in Newes
from Graues-end: Sent to Nobody (1604):
Ten thousand in London swore to feast their neighbors with nothing
but plum-porredge, and mince-pyes all Christmas.
Here’s a meaty recipe from Rare
and Excellent Receipts, Experienc’d and Taught by Mrs Mary Tillinghast
and now Printed for the Use of her Scholars Only (1678):
- How to make Mince-pies.
To every pound of Meat, take two pound of beef Suet, a pound of
Corrants, and a quarter of an Ounce of Cinnamon, one Nutmeg, a little
beaten Mace, some beaten Colves, a little Sack & Rose-water, two
large Pippins, some Orange and Lemon peel cut very thin, and shred very
small, a few beaten Carraway-seeds, if you love them the Juyce of half a
Lemon squez’d into this quantity of meat; for Sugar, sweeten it to your
relish; then mix all these together and fill your Pie. The best meat for
Pies is Neats-Tongues, or a leg of Veal; you may make them of a leg of
Mutton if you please; the meat must be parboyl’d if you do not spend it
presently; but if it be for present use, you may do it raw, and the Pies
will be the better.
Enjoy the new release
Thanks to all of the many volunteers who help make Python Development
and these releases possible! Please consider supporting our efforts by
volunteering yourself or through organisation contributions to the Python Software
Foundation.
Regards from a snowy and slippery Helsinki,
Your release team,
Hugo van Kemenade
Ned Deily
Steve Dower
Łukasz Langa
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Making Chrome QUICer
In October 2020, Chrome enabled HTTP/3 by default. HTTP/3 (RFC 9114) runs over IETF QUIC (RFC9000). Default-enabling HTTP/3 in Chrome resulted in improved performance compared not only HTTP/1 and HTTP/2, but also Google QUIC. Benefits included reduced Google search latency and fewer rebuffers for YouTube.
The journey to optimizing performance did not end when HTTP/3 was default enabled. Recent advancements include the implementation of the HTTP/3 ORIGIN frame (RFC 9412) and Server’s Preferred Address (RFC 9000 Section 9.6). The former enhances connection coalescing, while the latter reduces a connection’s round trip time (RTT). Both features have been enabled by default in M131, which was released to Stable on 11/19.
ORIGIN Frame
When a connection is established for a specific hostname, the server’s certificate typically contains numerous other hostnames for which the server is authoritative. However, a client cannot immediately send requests for those other hostnames on that connection without first performing a DNS lookup for the other hostname and verifying that the IP address of the connection matches the resolved address. This additional DNS resolution introduces latency and significantly reduces the likelihood of connection pooling due to potential IP mismatches. The metrics from Chrome indicate that nearly 20% of HTTP/3 connections would be unnecessary if not for this IP mismatch.
Creating a new connection, even with QUIC 0-RTT, is expensive in terms of latency, memory, and CPU usage. This is because:
- DNS resolution adds latency unless cached locally in Chrome’s DNS cache.
- Both client and server must send multiple packets to complete a QUIC handshake.
- TLS necessitates CPU-intensive asymmetric cryptography on both ends.
- The congestion controller begins in its default state, potentially leading to under or over-sending.
- 0-RTT might fail.
- Non-safe requests aren’t sent via 0-RTT.
- More connections consume more memory.
Additionally, features like HTTP priorities (RFC 9218) are only effective if there are multiple simultaneous responses to send.
The HTTP/3 ORIGIN Frame (RFC 9412) enables a server to indicate what domains it would like to pool onto a connection. Additionally, once the frame is received, it indicates other domains should not be pooled onto that connection, even if they are in the certificate.
Server’s Preferred Address
In some cases, the initial server address to which the client connects is not the most efficient route. It might be behind an L4 load balancer, and connecting directly could increase stability. Particularly when using Anycast, it’s possible the server is distant from where traffic enters the network, creating a 3-legged path that increases the round trip time.
Once the handshake is confirmed, Server’s Preferred Address allows a server to indicate it would like the client to migrate to a different server IP. Though a QUIC connection is not bound to a single 4-tuple like TCP, this is the only type of migration in RFC9000 where the server can change its address.
So far, only Google’s Media CDN has widely enabled advertising an alternative address, but we expect more servers to adopt it soon. Testing has shown that this migration is successful over 99% of the time in Chrome and reduces average RTT by 40-80%.