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On September 22 we released systemd v262 into the wild.

In the weeks leading up to that release (and since then) I have posted a series of serieses of posts to Mastodon about key new features in this release, under the #systemd262 hash tag. In case you aren't using Mastodon, but would like to read up, here's a list of all 35 posts:

• Post #1: Word List Based Hostname Patterns
• Post #2: Extended Attributes on Socket Inodes
• Post #3: Varlink Socket Tagging & varlinkctl list-sockets
• Post #4: Machine Tags from udev/hwdb
• Post #5: systemd-sysupdate's installdb
• Post #6: Signed systemd-report Reports
• Post #7: CLI Introspection via --introspect-cli
• Post #8: fscrypt v2 Support in systemd-homed
• Post #9: Read-Only ESP Support in systemd-boot/systemd-stub
• Post #10: Recovery Key Enrollment on First Boot & Varlink IPC for systemd-cryptenroll
• Post #11: Rogue TPM Protection for LUKS Enrollments
• Post #12: Encrypted + Verity Protected DDIs
• Post #13: FONT_SCALE= in /etc/vconsole.conf
• Post #14: Static, Single-Binary Service Manager Builds
• Post #15: Intel TDX CoCo Support in systemd-vmspawn
• Post #16: Varlink IPC for systemd-sysinstall
• Post #17: systemd-report as Varlink Service & New Metrics
• Post #18: Sessions as Inhibitors via pam_systemd's inhibit=
• Post #19: NvPCR Rework
• Post #20: bootctl link-auto
• Post #21: systemd-sysupdate Completion Hooks
• Post #22: /etc/clonetab
• Post #23: Atomically Enqueuing Multiple Jobs
• Post #24: Following the Journal via Varlink
• Post #25: Coredumps via the Kernel's New Socket Protocol
• Post #26: Hardware-Suggested systemd-sysupdate Features/Components
• Post #27: ActivatingConcurrencyMax=
• Post #28: Restarting/Reloading Units on confext/sysext Application
• Post #29: System Credentials for CoCo VMs in systemd-vmspawn
• Post #30: Persisting the TPM EK
• Post #31: systemd.firstboot=headless
• Post #32: RestartRandomizedDelaySec=
• Post #33: systemd.credentials_boot_policy=
• Post #34: systemctl kexec --kernel-cmdline-reuse
• Post #35: PCR Signature Policyrefs

I intend to do a similar series of serieses of posts for the next systemd release (v263), hence if you haven't left tech Twitter for Mastodon yet, now is the opportunity. My series for v263 will begin in a few weeks most likely, under the #systemd263 hash tag.

In case you are interested, here is the corresponding blog story for systemd v261, here for v260, here for v259, here for v258, here for v257, and here for v256.

Hello, I am pleased to announce a new Cambalache release.

Cambalache is a WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) tool that allows you to create and edit user interfaces for Gtk 4 and 3 applications.

This new version depends on GNOME SDK 51 and includes all new properties and types from Gtk and Adwaita! It also removes the file hash from the project file which should prevent unnecessary git conflicts.

In case you missed it, you can read more about Cambalache in version 1.0 release blog.

Cambalache’s First Major Milestone!

Help us continue developing

If you find this application useful you can support it’s development by contributing on Liberapay or Patreon

Where to get it?

From Flathub

flatpak remote-add --if-not-exists flathub https://dl.flathub.org/repo/flathub.flatpakrepo flatpak install flathub ar.xjuan.Cambalache

or directly from gitlab

git clone https://gitlab.gnome.org/jpu/cambalache.git Matrix channel

Have any question? come chat with us at #cambalache:gnome.org

Mastodon

Follow me in Mastodon @xjuan to get news related to Cambalache development.

As usual happy coding!

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