Open Source

Happy Monday, everyone! Let’s review the Apache community’s activities from the past week, including major announcements and status snapshots. Have an item to add? Feel free to email the press team!

New features include i18n support for multilingual websites, integration with Shoelace & Lit components, HTML & XML Inspectors, Sass support with esbuild, and Markdown enhancements. And just published: a website migration guide from Jekyll. Check out the full announcement here.

Ansible Vault lets you keep sensitive data, such as passwords and keys, in encrypted files. Here’s how to use it in playbooks to improve automation workflow safety. Read More at Enable Sysadmin

The post How to encrypt sensitive data in playbooks with Ansible Vault appeared first on Linux.com.

We have recently began a repackaging of [nonsystemd] packages (see #3290). The displaymanager-openrc package has been removed and specific init scripts have been added for their respective display manager (e.g. sddm-openrc for sddm, gdm-openrc for gdm and so on with lxdm, xdm and lightdm)

Regarding NetworkManager and dbus, their nonsystemd builds used to ship with their corresponding OpenRC init scripts, but now they were separated into networkmanager-openrc and dbus-openrc. Please install these when upgrading those packages.

Work on this Fuchsia project within Android — dubbed “device/google/fuchsia” — stalled in February 2021, with no public indication of how things were progressing. This week, all of the code for “device/google/fuchsia” was removed from Android, formally signaling the end of this particular avenue. In its place, we have a lone “TODO” message, suggesting that Google may be building up something new in its place. The developer responsible for the change primarily works on Fuchsia’s “Starnix” project. First shared in early 2021 as a proposal, Starnix is designed to make it possible for Fuchsia to “natively” run apps and libraries that were built for Linux or Android. To do this, Starnix would act to translate the low-level kernel instructions from what Linux expects to what Fuchsia’s Zircon kernel expects. Fuchsia is still very much in flux, and stuff like this further illustrates that while I firmly believe it’s the future of Google’s consumer operating system efforts, it’s still got a long way to go.