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Julian Sequeira is a cofounder of Pybites. 
He's a Python coach, a podcaster, a career mindset advocate, and is learning guitar.

Topics include:

• Learning guitar
• Vacationing in Canada
• Pybites
• Splitting finances with Bob
• Building a community and a team
• Coaching
• Conscious positivity
• Australia is full of animals that want to kill you. Except kangaroos.
• Teaching Python to non-technical people

The Complete pytest Course

• Level up your testing skills and save time during coding and maintenance.
• Check out courses.pythontest.com

★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★ <p>Julian Sequeira is a cofounder of Pybites. <br>He's a Python coach, a podcaster, a career mindset advocate, and is learning guitar.</p><p>Topics include:</p><ul><li>Learning guitar</li><li>Vacationing in Canada</li><li>Pybites</li><li>Splitting finances with Bob</li><li>Building a community and a team</li><li>Coaching</li><li>Conscious positivity</li><li>Australia is full of animals that want to kill you. Except kangaroos.</li><li>Teaching Python to non-technical people</li></ul> <br><p><strong>The Complete pytest Course</strong></p><ul><li>Level up your testing skills and save time during coding and maintenance.</li><li>Check out <a href="https://courses.pythontest.com/p/complete-pytest-course">courses.pythontest.com</a></li></ul> <strong> <a href="https://www.patreon.com/PythonPeople" rel="payment" title="★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★">★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★</a> </strong>

After a few days of work the Fedora KDE SIG is proud to announce the availability of KDE 6th Megarelease Release Candidate 1 on Fedora Rawhide!

For those who like bleeding edge, feel free to try it!

We are very excited and looking forward to Fedora 40 + KDE 6 + Wayland only

Note: right now the update is sitting on testing. If you don’t want to wait a few hours until it reaches stable…

You can access it via a dnf repository like:

[main] cachedir=/var/cache/yum debuglevel=1 logfile=/var/log/yum.log reposdir=/dev/null retries=20 obsoletes=1 gpgcheck=0 assumeyes=1 keepcache=1 install_weak_deps=0 strict=1 # repos [build] name=build baseurl=https://kojipkgs.fedoraproject.org/repos/f40-build-side-81132/5738561/x86_64

In 2002, Kent Beck released a book called  "Test Driven Development by Example".
In December of 2023, Kent wrote an article called "Canon TDD".
With Kent's permission, this episode contains the full content of the article.

Brian's commentary is saved for a followup episode.

Links:

• Canon TDD
• Test Driven Development by Example

The Complete pytest Course

• Level up your testing skills and save time during coding and maintenance.
• Check out courses.pythontest.com

<p>In 2002, Kent Beck released a book called  "Test Driven Development by Example".<br>In December of 2023, Kent wrote an article called "Canon TDD".<br>With Kent's permission, this episode contains the full content of the article.</p><p>Brian's commentary is saved for a followup episode.</p><p>Links:</p><ul><li><a href="https://tidyfirst.substack.com/p/canon-tdd">Canon TDD</a></li><li><a href="https://bookshop.org/p/books/test-driven-development-by-example-kent-beck/115205">Test Driven Development by Example</a></li></ul> <br><p><strong>The Complete pytest Course</strong></p><ul><li>Level up your testing skills and save time during coding and maintenance.</li><li>Check out <a href="https://courses.pythontest.com/p/complete-pytest-course">courses.pythontest.com</a></li></ul>

Here are 50 Python Data Structure exercises covering List, Set, Dictionary, and Tuple operations. These are excellent exercises for any beginner learning Python. In the following exercises, you’ll engage in a series of hands-on challenges that traverse the landscape of Lists, Sets, Dictionaries, and Tuples, as well as more advanced concepts like list comprehension. Each […]

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Here are 45 Python exercises on loops (for, while), if-else statements, and the range() function, along with their solutions. Each exercise comes with a brief description of the problem and a solution that utilizes the mentioned constructs. 45 Python Exercises on Loops, Conditions, and Range() Function If you already have learned the basics of Python […]

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Wow, it feels like it’s been a while! And while many of KDE’s contributors have been enjoying some holiday and vacation time, quite a lot happened too! We’re getting pretty close to the projected February 28th release day for the KDE 6 megarelease, so all hands have been on the bug-fixing deck.

Overall we’re in good shape. Despite the large number of open bug reports, most are not serious, and I have confidence that we’ll get the remaining major ones done before the final release. Of course, the best way to make sure that happens is to help out!

KDE 6 Mega-Release

(Includes all software to be released on the February 28th mega-release: Plasma 6, Frameworks 6, and apps from Gear 24.02)

General info – Open issues: 238

UI improvements

It’s now possible to quickly apply a wallpaper to all screens at once (Prajna Sariputra, link)

You can now set a custom mouse pointer speed, just like you can for the touchpad (Denis Zhdanov, link)

Discover Notifier no longer appears in your System Tray (even just the inactive area) unless it actually has something to notify you about–which means you can remove it permanently by simply telling Discover to never check for updates automatically on System Settings’ Updates page (Yifan Zhu, link)

Breeze-themed buttons and text field now always have the same height so they’ll never look slightly different when adjacent to one another (Akseli Lahtinen, link)

Throughout KDE software, the way symbolic icons (i.e. those whose names end with -symbolic) are found has been improved: when a symbolic icon is not found and the system has to fall back to a more generic icon, you’ll now get a symbolic version of that icon if it exists (Joshua Goins, link)

You can now configure Plasma to turn off the screen at the same moment when it locks (Jakob Petsovits, link 1 and link 2)

Various utility and dialog windows that don’t show up in the Task Manager also no longer show up in the Overview effect either (Akseli Lahtinen, link)

Bug fixes

Important note: I don’t mention fixes for bugs that were never released to users; it’s just too much for me (it would probably be too much for you to read as well), and most people never encountered them in the first place. Because we’re in the middle of a big Plasma dev cycle, there are a lot of these bugs! So big thanks to everyone who’s made it a priority to fix them!

Ark now preserved extended attributes of files in archives when editing and saving their contents (Kristen McWilliam, link)

In Dolphin’s Details view, expandable folders now expand to the correct places again when sorting by size (Akseli Lahtinen, link)

Fixed a file descriptor leak in Plasma that could cause it to run out of file descriptors and crash under certain circumstances (Moody Liu, link)

Fixed an issue that could prevent the GlobalProtect SAML authentication method in OpenConnect VPNs from working (Rahul Rameshbabu, link)

Night color can now co-exist with color correction using ICC profiles–at least in the Wayland session (Xaver Hugl, link)

When using the weather widget’s DWD weather provider, you’ll no longer sometimes see nonsensically high temperature values shown in the forecast (Ismael Asensio, link)

Tabs in the weather widget no longer sometimes overlap in certain circumstances (Ismael Asensio, link)

Plasma’s “Alternatives” popup now follows the opacity level of its parent panel (Niccolò Venerandi, link)

When showing a preview of the selected Task Switcher style, clicking away from the preview now closes it as expected in the Plasma Wayland session (Ismael Asensio, link)

Other bug information of note:

• 4 Very high priority Plasma bugs (up from 3 three weeks ago). Current list of bugs
• 37 15-minute Plasma bugs (up from 35 three weeks ago). Current list of bugs
• 262 KDE bugs of all kinds fixed over the past 3 weeks. Full list of bugs

Performance & Technical

The colord-kde repo has been ported to Qt6, so that color management on X11 works too (Nicolas Fella, link)

Reduced the background CPU usage when moving the pointer (Xaver Hugl, link)

A wide variety of pieces of transient state in QtWidgets-based apps are now stored in the state config file, not the settings file used for persistent user-set settings. This is a part of a very vocal crowd’s favorite bug! (Alexander Lohnau, link)

Automation & Systematization

Added GUI tests to make sure several Plasma bugs don’t recur (Fushan Wen, link 1, link 2, link 3, and link 4)

Added an autotest to make sure symbolic icon fallback works properly (Joshua Goins, link)

…And Everything Else

This blog only covers the tip of the iceberg! If you’re hungry for more, check out https://planet.kde.org, where you can find more news from other KDE contributors.

How You Can Help

Thanks to you, our Plasma 6 fundraiser has been a crazy success! I originally thought the goal of 500 new KDE e.V. supporting members was over-optimistic, but you’ve all proven me happily wrong. We’re now up to an incredible 627 members and unlocked multiple stretch goals! The first one has been met, but the second one is still on offer. So if you like the work we’re doing, spreading the wealth via this fundraiser is a great way to share the love.

If you’re a developer, work on Qt6/KF6/Plasma 6 issues! Which issues? These issues. Plasma 6 is very usable for daily driving now, but still in need of bug-fixing and polishing to get it into a releasable state by February.

Otherwise, visit https://community.kde.org/Get_Involved to discover other ways to be part of a project that really matters. Each contributor makes a huge difference in KDE; you are not a number or a cog in a machine! You don’t have to already be a programmer, either. I wasn’t when I got started. Try it, you’ll like it! We don’t bite!

We are thrilled to announce Python Data Science Day will be taking place March 14th, 2024; a “PyDay” on Pi Day: 3.14 . If you’re a Python developer, entrepreneur, data scientist, student, or researcher working on projects from hobbyist and start up to enterprise level, you’ll find solutions to modernize your data pipelines and answer complex queries with data.

We’re looking forward to your content submission!

Submit a session or a lightning talk proposal to join the list of amazing speakers for Data Science Day. The CFP opened January 11th, 2024 and closes January 25th, 2024 AOE (Anywhere on Earth). Full schedule will be announced early mid February.

There are two types of submissions:

• Session (25 minutes, pre-recorded or live) Sessions are delivered by no more than two people and can cover high level programming topics. Many times these talks are accompanied by slides, demonstrations or blog posts. This could cover a programming story, how it was approached and the solution; or it could dive deeper into a particular topic or using a suite of features.
• Lightning Talk (5 to 7 minutes, pre-recorded) A Lightning talk is a very short presentation. It is a great introduction to public speaking or a great way to present something short and sweet. These talks typically prioritize a singular idea in a digestible way that inspires further learning.

Good submissions will…

• discuss a hot or cool tool, product, or skill.
• include accessible content with slides, Notebook, repository, tutorial, or blog post.
• create a thoughtful, cohesive story for a Data Science audience.

Special Guest Speakers on Data Science Day

You could be among the speakers on Python Data Science Day.

Sarah Kaiser, PhD Soojin Choi You! Python Cloud Developer Advocate Jupyter Notebook Product Manager Speaker at Python Data Science Day Submit your CFP

 

More ways to engage with all the Data Science fun:

• Join the Microsoft Fabric Global AI Hack Together on February 15th to March 4th, 2024. Fabric is an end-to-end AI-powered analytics platform that unites your data and services, including data science and data lakes. Register for the event to participate in live streams every week and solve real-world problems with guidance and a community.
• Read our 14 Days of Python Data Science series where for fourteen days leading up to Python Data Science Day, we will drop cool articles and recipes for using Data Science on Microsoft tools. Link coming soon!
• Check out the Data Science Cloud Skills Challenge if you want to go through some self-paced learning! This challenge is active until April 15th, 2024.
• Join us on Discord at https://aka.ms/python-discord

More Data Science at Microsoft…

• Data Scientist Certifications
• Data Scientist Training Path
• Data Science for Beginners – GitHub Repo

The post Data Science Day Announcement and Call for Speaker Proposals appeared first on Python.

Contributing to Debian is part of Freexian’s mission. This article covers the latest achievements of Freexian and their collaborators. All of this is made possible by organizations subscribing to our Long Term Support contracts and consulting services.

LXD/Incus backend bug in autopkgtest by Stefano Rivera

While working on the Python 3.12 transition, Stefano repeatedly ran into a bug in autopkgtest when using LXD (or in the future Incus), that caused it to hang when running cython’s multi-hour autopkgtests. After some head-banging, the bug turned out to be fairly straightforward: LXD didn’t shut down on receiving a SIGTERM, so when a testsuite timed out, it would hang forever. A simple fix has been applied.

/usr-merge, by Helmut Grohne

Thanks to Christian Hofstaedtler and others, the effort is moving into a community effort and the work funded by Freexian becomes more difficult to separate from non-funded work. In particular, since the community fully handled all issues around lost udev rules, dh_installudev now installs rules to /usr.

The story around diversions took another detour. We learned that conflicts do not reliably prevent concurrent unpack and the reiterated mitigation for molly-guard triggered this. After a bit of back and forth and consultation with the developer mailing list, we concluded that avoiding the problematic behavior when using apt or an apt-based upgrader combined with a loss mitigation would be good enough. The involved packages bfh-container, molly-guard, progress-linux-container and systemd have since been uploaded to unstable and the matter seems finally solved except that it doesn’t quite work with sysvinit yet. The same approach is now being proposed for the diversions of zutils for gzip. We thank involved maintainers for their timely cooperation.

gcc-for-host, by Helmut Grohne

Since forever, it has been difficult to correctly express a toolchain build dependency. This can be seen in the Build-Depends of the linux source package for instance. While this has been solved for binutils a while back, the patches for gcc have been unfinished. With lots of constructive feedback from gcc package maintainer Matthias Klose, Helmut worked on finalizing and testing these patches. Patch stacks are now available for gcc-13 and gcc-14 and Matthias already included parts of them in test builds for Ubuntu noble. Finishing this work would enable us to resolve around 1000 cross build dependency satisfiability issues in unstable.

Miscellaneous contributions

• Stefano continued work on the Python 3.12 transition, including uploads of cython, pycxx, numpy, python-greenlet, twisted, foolscap and dh-python.
• Stefano reviewed and selected from a new round of DebConf 24 bids, as part of the DebConf Committee. Busan, South Korea was selected.
• For debian-printing Thorsten uploaded hplip to unstable to fix a /usr-merge bug and cups to Bookworm to fix bugs related to printing in color.
• Utkarsh helped newcomers in mentoring and reviewing their packaging; eg: golang-github-prometheus-community-pgbouncer-exporter.
• Helmut sent patches for 42 cross build failures unrelated to the gcc-for-host work.
• Helmut continues to maintain rebootstrap. In December, blt started depending on libjpeg and this poses a dependency loop. Ideally, Python would stop depending on blt. Also linux-libc-dev having become Multi-Arch: foreign poses non-trivial issues that are not fully resolved yet.
• Enrico participated in /usr-merge discussions with Helmut.

Saturday, 13 January 2024

KDE today announces the release of KDE Frameworks 5.114.0.

KDE Frameworks are 83 addon libraries to Qt which provide a wide variety of commonly needed functionality in mature, peer reviewed and well tested libraries with friendly licensing terms. For an introduction see the KDE Frameworks release announcement.

This release is part of a series of planned monthly releases making improvements available to developers in a quick and predictable manner.

New in this version Baloo

• [IndexCleaner] Remove no-op recursion over includedFolders
• [ExtractorProcess] Remove unused members
• [TimeEstimator] Cleanup, remove QObject depency
• Use forward declaration for Baloo::Database
• Remove inacurate mimetype check in xattrindexer and indexcleaner

Extra CMake Modules

• Fixes to FindLibGit2.cmake (bug 478669)

KActivities

• Drop unused KF5WindowSystem from cli

KCodecs

• KEmailAddress: Only trim surrounding whitespace between E-Mail addresses instead of also replacing all whitespace within E-Mail address names with a single ASCII space

KCoreAddons

• Fix license text loading on Android

KHolidays

• Introduce holidays observed in Kenya

KImageFormats

• avif: new quality settings
• Update CI template
• HEIF plug-in extended to support HEJ2 format

KIO

• kpropertiesdialog: don't trip over malformed Exec (bug 465290)
• WidgetsAskUserActionHandler: fix backport (bug 448532)
• WidgetsAskUserActionHandler: Use QPointer to check the validity of parent widgets (bug 448532)

Kirigami

• Make drawer actions accessible

KJobWidgets

• KUiServerV2JobTracker: prevent potenial use-after-free (bug 471531)

KRunner

• DBusRunner: Use /runner as default for X-Plasma-DBusRunner-Path property

Plasma Framework

• [CI] Fix pipeline include

Purpose

• Adapt to KAccounts API change

Security information

The released code has been GPG-signed using the following key: pub rsa2048/58D0EE648A48B3BB 2016-09-05 David Faure faure@kde.org Primary key fingerprint: 53E6 B47B 45CE A3E0 D5B7 4577 58D0 EE64 8A48 B3BB

Posted on January 13, 2024
Tags: madeof:atoms, craft:bookbinding

In 2022 I read a post on the fediverse by somebody who mentioned that they had bought on a whim a cute tiny book years ago, and that it had been a companion through hard times. Right now I can’t find the post, but it was pretty aaaaawwww.

At the same time, I had discovered Coptic binding, and I wanted to do some exercise to let my hands learn it, but apparently there is a limit to the number of notebooks and sketchbooks a person needs (I’m not 100% sure I actually believe this, but I’ve heard it is a thing).

So I decided to start making minibooks with the intent to give them away: I settled (mostly) on the A8 size, and used a combination of found materials, leftovers from bigger projects and things I had in the Stash. As for paper, I’ve used a variety of the ones I have that are at the very least good enough for non-problematic fountain pen inks.

Thanks to the small size, and the way coptic binding works, I’ve been able to play around with the covers, experimenting with different styles beyond the classic bookbinding cloth / paper covered cardboard, including adding lace, covering food box cardboard with gesso and decorating it with acrylic paints, embossing designs by gluing together two layers of cardboard, one of which has holes, making covers completely out of cernit, etc. Some of these I will probably also use in future full-scale projects, but it’s nice to find out what works and what doesn’t on a small scale.

Now, after a year of sporadically making these I have to say that the making went quite well: I enjoyed the making and the creativity in making different covers. The giving away was a bit more problematic, as I didn’t really have a lot of chances to do so, so I believe I still have most of them. In 2024 I’ll try to look for more opportunities (and if you live nearby and want one — or a few — feel free to ask!)

The Free Software Foundation (FSF), a Massachusetts 501(c)(3) charity with a worldwide mission to protect computer user freedom, seeks a motivated and talented individual, if possible Boston-based, to be our full-time outreach and communications coordinator.

Join the FSF and friends on Friday, January 19, from 12:00 to 15:00 EST (17:00 to 20:00 UTC) to help improve the Free Software Directory.

Let’s go for my web review for the week 2024-02.

Where have all the websites gone?

Tags: tech, web, blog, culture

This is in part why I started my web review… maybe I should start a kind of blogroll, or maybe have links to websites I like straight on my front page.

https://www.fromjason.xyz/p/notebook/where-have-all-the-websites-gone/

The browsers biggest TLS mistake

Tags: tech, browser, tls, security

Some of that certificate chain validation is troublesome… in Chrome based browsers it’s even truly insane.

https://blog.benjojo.co.uk/post/browsers-biggest-tls-mistake

This holographic camera turns any window into an invisible camera | Digital Camera World

Tags: tech, surveillance

What could possibly go wrong? Panopticon 2.0 here we come.

https://www.digitalcameraworld.com/news/this-holographic-camera-turns-any-window-into-an-invisible-camera

Outlook is Microsoft’s new data collection service | Proton

Tags: tech, microsoft, windows, email, surveillance

Looks like Microsoft is really catching up fast for its surveillance apparatus to be on par with Google and Meta.

https://proton.me/blog/outlook-is-microsofts-new-data-collection-service

Meta ignores the users’ right to easily withdraw consent

Tags: tech, law, facebook, surveillance, attention-economy

Very welcome complaont, Meta is trying to workaround the GDPR to increase paid accounts. Can only hope they get fined and that this shady practice disappear (they’re not the only ones doing this).

https://noyb.eu/en/meta-ignores-users-right-easily-withdraw-consent

Messengers performance - Grafana

Tags: tech, messaging, battery, android

If you’re wondering where your battery power goes… this is a nice list of measures for various clients on Android. It looks like XMPP is still hard to beat.

https://decentim.grafana.net/public-dashboards/92602d3a4aa842ce97812d310077691d?orgId=1

How I pwned half of America’s fast food chains, simultaneously

Tags: tech, security

A not so gentle reminder that you shouldn’t get sloppy in the security practices of your services.

https://mrbruh.com/chattr/

SSH-Snake: Automatic traversal of networks using SSH private keys

Tags: tech, ssh, security, tools

Fascinating script which jumps over SSH servers in several hops and replicates itself without a file upload.

https://joshua.hu/ssh-snake-ssh-network-traversal-discover-ssh-private-keys-network-graph

SSH based comment system

Tags: tech, ssh, blog

Very funny hack for a blog comment system.

https://blog.haschek.at/2023/ssh-based-comment-system.html

Automate your outgoing webmentions

Tags: tech, self-hosting, blog, webmention

Looks like a nice way to ease the use of webmentions. Also comes with a command line option not relying on third party hosted service apparently.

https://webmention.app/

Visualizing ext4

Tags: tech, filesystem

Fascinating exploration of the patterns visible inside ext4 filesystems.

https://buredoranna.github.io/linux/ext4/2020/01/09/ext4-viz.html

A tool for exploring each layer in a docker image

Tags: tech, docker, tools

Looks like an interesting tool if you’re dealing with docker image. This kind of analysis is definitely missing from docker itself.

https://github.com/wagoodman/dive

Do we think of git commits as diffs, snapshots, and/or histories?

Tags: tech, git, version-control, teaching

So, which team are you on when you think about commits in Git?

https://jvns.ca/blog/2024/01/05/do-we-think-of-git-commits-as-diffs–snapshots–or-histories/

Statically enforcing frozen data classes in Python | Redowan’s Reflections

Tags: tech, python, type-systems

Interesting trick even though I always cringe at such difference of behavior between runtime and “compile” time.

https://rednafi.com/python/statically_enforcing_frozen_dataclasses/

Python 3.13 gets a JIT

Tags: tech, python, jit, optimization

Want to better understand the JIT approach introduced in Python 3.13, this is a good little article. This JIT is a first step towards more optimizations.

https://tonybaloney.github.io/posts/python-gets-a-jit.html

Vcc - the Vulkan Clang Compiler

Tags: tech, shader, vulkan, c++

Interesting proof of concept to compile C++ into shaders. This reminds CUDA a bit without being tied to a given GPU brand.

https://shady-gang.github.io/vcc/

Tidy First? | Henrik Warne’s blog

Tags: tech, refactoring, craftsmanship, book

Review of the newest book from Kent Beck, I’ll probably check it out and read it.

https://henrikwarne.com/2024/01/10/tidy-first/?

Are any of your features the steak on the menu? | nicole@web

Tags: tech, product-management

Interesting metaphor regarding that feature you have because it is expected but otherwise doesn’t quote work.

https://ntietz.com/blog/the-steak-on-the-menu/

How to make your team read your mind - by Anton Zaides

Tags: tech, management

Interesting approach for a manager to give transparency and to clarify expectations.

https://zaidesanton.substack.com/p/how-to-make-your-team-read-your-mind

My Diverse Hiring Playbook - Jacob Kaplan-Moss

Tags: tech, hr, hiring

Good list of tips and ideas. This is not necessarily as easy as it sounds. The lack of good metrics doesn’t help (totally understandable though, privacy first).

https://jacobian.org/2024/jan/4/diverse-hiring-playbook/

Bye for now!

Version 0.0.16 of RcppSpdlog is now on CRAN and will be uploaded to Debian. RcppSpdlog bundles spdlog, a wonderful header-only C++ logging library with all the bells and whistles you would want that was written by Gabi Melman, and also includes fmt by Victor Zverovich. You can learn more at the nice package documention site.

This releases updates the code to the version 1.13 of spdlog which was release this morning.

The NEWS entry for this release follows.

Changes in RcppSpdlog version 0.0.16 (2024-01-12)

• Upgraded to upstream releases spdlog 1.13.0

Courtesy of my CRANberries, there is also a diffstat report. More detailed information is on the RcppSpdlog page, or the package documention site.

If you like this or other open-source work I do, you can sponsor me at GitHub.

This post by Dirk Eddelbuettel originated on his Thinking inside the box blog. Please report excessive re-aggregation in third-party for-profit settings.

An new version 0.2.6 of the random-number generator tester RDieHarder (based on the DieHarder suite developed / maintained by Robert Brown with contributions by David Bauer and myself along with other contributors) is now on CRAN (and to the day year after the previous release).

This release contains changes to printf format strings to avoid new warnings on Windows. No functional changes have been made.

Thanks to CRANberries, you can also look at the most recent diff to the previous release.

If you like this or other open-source work I do, you can now sponsor me at GitHub.

This post by Dirk Eddelbuettel originated on his Thinking inside the box blog. Please report excessive re-aggregation in third-party for-profit settings.

We’re pleased to announce the release of KDSoap version 2.2.0, an update that brings new enhancements to improve both the general build system and client-side functionality.

What is KDSoap?

KDSoap, a SOAP (“Simple Object Access Protocol“) component rooted in Qt, serves as an essential tool for both client-side and server-side operations. Tailored for C++ programmers using Qt, it not only facilitates the creation of client applications for web services but also empowers developers to seamlessly build web services without requiring additional components like dedicated web servers. For further details on KDSoap, visit here.

What’s New in KDSoap Version 2.2.0?

Build System Co-installability: The buildsystem now supports the co-installability of Qt 5 and Qt 6 headers. Qt 6 headers are installed into their dedicated subdirectory. This ensures compatibility with client code and allows co-installation with Qt 5.

Client-Side:

• WS-Addressing Support: The new release adds KDSoapClientInterface::setMessageAddressingProperties(). This addition enables the use of WS-Addressing support specifically with WSDL-generated services.
• SOAP Action Requirement Removal: KDSoap no longer requires a SOAP action for writing addressing properties.

WSDL Parser / Code Generator Changes:

Enhanced -import-path Support: Notable changes have been made to the WSDL parser and code generator, impacting both client and server sides. The update improves -import-path support by incorporating the import path in more areas within the code. This refinement enhances the overall functionality of the parser and code generator.

These updates collectively contribute to a more streamlined and efficient experience for KDSoap users, addressing specific issues and introducing valuable features to facilitate seamless integration with Qt-based applications. For detailed information and to explore these enhancements, we refer to the KDSoap documentation accompanying version 2.2.0 on GitHub.

How to Get Started with KDSoap Version 2.2.0?

For existing users, upgrading to the latest version is as simple as downloading the new release from the GitHub page. If you are new to KDSoap, we invite you to explore its capabilities and discover how it can streamline your web service development process.

As always, we appreciate your feedback and contributions to make KDSoap even better. Feel free to reach out to us with any questions, suggestions or bug reports on our GitHub repository.

Thank you for choosing KDSoap, and happy coding!

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Back in April, we wrote to the community about our concerns for the future of the open source ecosystem generally and CPython and PyPI specifically if the European Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) were to pass in the form that had been shared. At the time, we were worried that in the course of providing software for anyone to use, analyze or change that the PSF and/or the Python community might become legally responsible for security issues in the products that are built with the code components that we are providing for free. We asked for increased clarity, specifically:

“Language that specifically exempts public software repositories that are offered as a public good for the purpose of facilitating collaboration would make things much clearer. We'd also like to see our community, especially the hobbyists, individuals and other under-resourced entities who host packages on free public repositories like PyPI be exempt.”

The good news is that CRA text* changed a lot between the time the open source community – including the PSF – started expressing our concerns and the Act’s final text which was cemented on December 1st. That text introduces the idea of an “open source steward.”

“'open-source software steward’ means any legal person, other than a manufacturer, which has the purpose or objective to systematically provide support on a sustained basis for the development of specific products with digital elements qualifying as free and open-source software that are intended for commercial activities, and ensures the viability of those products;” (p. 76)

Furthermore, the final text demonstrates a crisper understanding of how open source software works and the value it provides to the overall ecosystem of software development.

“More specifically, for the purpose of this Regulation and in relation to the economic operators referred therein, to ensure that there is a clear distinction between the development and the supply phases, the provision of free and open-source software products with digital elements that are not monetised by their manufacturers is not considered a commercial activity.” (p. 10)

So are we totally done paying attention to European legislation? Ah, while it would be nice for the Python community to be able to cross a few things off our to-do list, that’s not quite how it works. Firstly, the concept of an “open source steward” is a brand new idea in European law. So, we will be monitoring the conversation as this new concept is implemented or interacts with other bits of European law to make sure that the understanding continues to reflect the intent and the realities of open source development. Secondly, there are some other pieces of legislation in the works that may also impact the Python ecosystem so we will be watching the Product Liability Directive and keeping up with the discussion around standard-essential patents to make sure that the effects on Python and open source development are intentional (and hopefully benevolent, or at least benign.) 

Thank you to Open Forum Europe (OFE) — especially Ciarán O’Riordan – for bringing the FOSS community together to share our thoughts on how the proposed text would affect open source, thinking about how the goals of the proposed act might be achieved without unintentionally creating a chilling effect for open source and communicating those ideas to legislators. OFE’s work to coordinate our efforts certainly made it easier for the PSF’s concerns to be heard and I’m fairly certain it made it easier for legislators to assess and consider impacts to the open source ecosystem when we were able to speak with one voice. 

*The entire Regulation is published here, if you want to dive into the text more deeply.

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