The year 2023 has witnessed several significant events and developments in the realm of open projects and information security. Here are some of the most noteworthy occurrences:
Open Source Projects:
- Red Hat has made a decision to continue publishing the initial texts of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux distribution packages. As a result, Centos Stream is now the only public source of Rhel packages code. This move comes as a response to Red Hat’s dissatisfaction with products created without its modifications. To counter this, distributions such as Alma Linux, Rocky Linux, and Oracle Linux have been restored by utilizing Rhel packages. In addition, the Openla Association has been formed, allowing Rocky Linux, Oracle, and Suse to collaborate and maintain a package base that is compatible with Rhel.
Conflicts:
- There have been conflicts surrounding Red Hat’s business model, with critics raising concerns. There has also been an attempt to promote the Web Integrity API, which led to its removal from Chromium due to fears related to the origin of DRM likes for the web. Furthermore, Björn Straustrup has voiced his opposition to the imposition of safe programming languages. Other conflicts include the deviation of patches from Baikal Electronics, as well as disputes between Indians and Apache. Additionally, Docker Hub Free Team was temporarily abolished and later reinstated.
Corporate Transformations:
- Canonical, the parent company of Ubuntu, has transformed LXD into its corporate project. In response, the Linux Containers community, together with the founders of LXD, established an independent fork called Incus. This sparked Canonical to change the project’s license from Apache 2.0 to AGPLV3.
Forks:
- Several notable forks have occurred in 2023, including the creation of Librepgp, a fork of the OpenPGP standard from the author GNUPG. Additionally, Crab, a fork of the Rust programming language, was introduced. Opentofu and Openbao were created as Terraform and Vault alternatives following Hashicorp’s transition to a proprietary license.
Absorptions
/Reports, release notes, official announcements.