Open Source

Authored by Nadiia Nykolaichuk.

Drupal is ceaselessly evolving, with the best Drupal minds nurturing brilliant ideas and implementing them in the new releases. Six months ago, Drupal 10.2 rolled out with a set of exciting enhancements. Now it’s time to celebrate that Drupal 10.3 has been officially released on June 20.

If you need robust configuration loading, validation, and modeling (with optional transformations), then Etcher 2.0.0 might the firepower you need. This release smooths out some of the rough edges in the 1.x.x series while giving more power to overrides (should you need them). Additional transformers and loaders are provided to make life a bit easier too.

Crystal Kolipe writes in about a new article posted by the crew at Exotic Silicon on fun things to do with OpenBSD —

Implementing a self-managed, dual-stacked VPN.

Today we’re showing you how to use iked to tunnel both IPv4 as well as IPv6 to a remote server for a self-managed VPN. We’re doing all this with utilities from the OpenBSD base system so the setup is nice and sleek, completely avoiding the need to install countless programs from ports.

Not only that, but we’ll also show you how to isolate the VPN traffic in it’s own routing domain so it can be used only when required, (or if you’re really clever like us, you can even configure more than one simultaneously).

Of course, the setup supports inbound connections too, so you can run servers from diverse physical locations whilst using the inbound address space and connectivity of the datacentre. Stuck without IPv6 or inbound connectivity at home? Not anymore!
All this excitement and even more is right here waiting for you in setting up an IPv6 capable VPN. Read it today!

Have you ever wondered how to get a friend or colleague or even a
complete stranger hooked up with free software? Here’s the ultimate
guide.

To evolve Fuchsia beyond smart home devices, Google has been working on projects such as Starnix to run unmodified Linux binaries on Fuchsia devices. In addition, since late April of this year, Google has been working on a new project called “microfuchsia” that aims to make Fuchsia bootable on existing devices via virtualization. Microfuchsia, according to Google, is a Fuchsia OS build that targets virtual machines and is designed to be bootable in virtualization solutions such as QEMU and pKVM. ↫ Mishaal Rahman at Android Authority The goal here might be, according to Mishaal Rahman, might be to use this new microfuchsia thing to replace the stripped-down Android version that’s currently being used inside Android’s pKVM to run certain secured workloads. Relevant patches have been submitted to both the Fuchsia and Android side of things for this very purpose. At this point, it really seems that Google’s grand ambitions with Fuchsia simply didn’t survive the massive employee culling, with leadership probably reasoning that Android and Chrome OS are good enough, and that replacing them with something homegrown and possibly more suited – speculation, of course – simply isn’t worth the investment in both time and money. It probably makes sense from a financial standpoint, but it’s still sad.