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TWIF curated on Thursday, 12 Dec 2024, Week 50

Community News

Fcitx5, Input method framework and engines, and its plugins: Anthy , Clipboard Filter, Hangul, Jyutping, RIME, Sayura, Unikey were updated to 0.1.0-0-g78c03d12 adding a new plugin for Thai, floating candidates window when using physical keyboard and removed many unnecessary files in the packages. You can read more in the detailed changelog.

Back in October 24-th TWIF we’ve mentioned that Syncthing will no longer be developed, and that time has come, this week’s update 1.28.1 is the last one as its source code repository was archived. We repeat the advice to backup your settings and restore in the currently developed Syncthing-Fork app. The now old app will be Archived by the time the next TWIF appears so as future new users don’t get stuck with it and to allow current users to update at least.

GNU Taler is a privacy-preserving payment system, not meant as a store of value, but with transactions always backed by an existing currency. This “not another crypto coin” project is about digital money done right. Taler has been part of the “digital euro” discussion for a while now, as seen in past banks studies like these ones from Austria or Switzerland.

Since January 2024 they announced the creation of an EU-funded consortium with the central objective to launch GNU Taler as a privacy-preserving payment system across Europe. You can read more about NGI Taler, funding calls, its events and partners on the dedicated web page.

Latest grant from NLnet foundation that paid for the development of libeufin for regional- and event-currencies had its first result too, as it funded an external crystal-box security audit of the libeufin component of GNU Taler. You can read more, about the findings and the fixes, here

GNU Taler Point-of-Sale was updated to 0.2.8 and Taler Wallet was updated to 0.14.0.

Newly Added Apps

5 more apps were newly added
  • Logger: view and export call logs in CSV format
  • Midandpad: An Android MIDI controller
  • PicGuard: Your pictures, your signature
  • Tuning fork: Reference tones source for musical instruments tuning
  • XiVPN: Proxy client based on XRAY

Updated Apps

131 more apps were updated
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