FOSS activities (April 2026)

Apr 29, 2026

This most will summarise my FOSS activities over the last several months.

I would suggest reading these two posts for some major work that I did in this time period.

I will try to list below some more activities that do not belong in the above detailed posts.

  • Reported and fixed a reproducibility bug in fwupd. See PR 10096.
  • Reported and provided a patch for a reproducibility bug in NASM. See issue 220.
  • Reported a reproducibility bug in OVMF. See issue 12360.
  • Migrated flatpak-github-actions to Node 24, and released version 6.7. See the commit log.
  • Merged several fixes to the Steam Flatpak package. See the commit log.
  • Addded various Flatpak docs. See the commit log.
  • Fixed pygtk build in shared-modules repo. See PR 460.
  • PR to add more context to reqwest errors to flat-manager. See PR 165.
  • PR to migrate flathub::manifest key from metadata to the custom tag in flat-manager-hooks. See PR 134.
  • Several test fixes to flathub-external-data-checker. See the commit log. Added a feature to include branch name in PR title and merged an old PR fixing the checker for rotating load-balanced URLs. PR to add support for robots.txt, see PR 512 which was a bunch of work. PR to support multiple != constraints in the versions property, see PR 510. PR to fix a freeze when async tasks do not get cancelled. See PR 511.
  • Reviewed 18 PRs to Flatpak itself and merged some
  • 20 merged PRs to flatpak-builder, 4 PRs waiting to be merged, a security fix. I will write more about this later.
  • PR to libglnx to silence warnings around g_clear_fd. See the commit. I want to extend this to other parts of libglnx too and tests for it. I have two draft PRs for that waiting for feedback.
  • Several bug fixes and new features to Flathub backend, see the commit log. Reviewed a couple of PRs here too.
  • Several bug fixes and new features to vorarbeiter, see the commit log. Reviewed a PR to add support for the merge command.
  • Created a new action to close stale Flathub submission PR, see the commit log.
  • Updated several Flatpak packages I maintain, and the usual exception PR reviews.
  • Usual Freedesktop SDK maintainance, I crossed the 4000 commit mark recently in just 3 years:
git shortlog -sn --all --no-merges|head -4

 15884	freedesktop_sdk_updater
  4071	bbhtt
  2673	Seppo Yli-Olli

I also wrote several proposals to improve maintainance of the SDK, see the open issues, submitted a fix to buildstream-plugins-community and joined some arguments with some people!

That should be all.