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Published the 2024-08-04 on Willow's site

Status update August 2024

Hey, it's been a while! But as I started a daily job, I don't have that much to summarize:

Sxmo

We released last month Sxmo 1.16. With some patch tags, it went great. It is a tiny release, mostly containing fixes, integrating new apps, and supporting new devices.

Of my most notable patches, we can count (1) some refactorisations around wake scripts. They are now more usefull to the user outside the sxmo internals. It is now very easy for the user to write basic periodic jobs that wake the device from suspension, and keep it awake while doing so. (2) A red LED when the battery level is low. (3) Support for distro wallpaper to be selected instead of the Sxmo one when available. Mainly usefull for the new wallpapers from PostmarketOs.

Another notable thing is that Peter left the maintainer team. He did not announce this himself, and asked for us to do so. For some reason that I'm not sure to understand, it was something hard to do for me. I think it took me three full weeks to officially announce it.

Hare release, and so are my Hare childs

0.24.2 has been flagged recently, and so I took some time to clean my projects using Hare, and flagged new minors.

Bonsai and Sxmobar are already merged in Alpine packages.

Bonsai - A Finite State Machine structured as a tree that trigger commands

Sxmobar - A status bar component manager

Splitter is on the way, mainly because hari depends on the new hare-harfbuzz.

Splitter - A Speedrun GUI tool

hari - UI toolkit for Hare

hare-harfbuzz - Harfbuzz wrapper for Hare

And a new one, mcron is already on the way to be packaged. I wrote this post some months ago to present it.