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Open Source Sustainability

Topic covering how open-source projects fund upkeep, choose licensing models, and sustain long-term development of widely used software.

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buildConfirmed5 publishers

OpenSSH 10.6 turns off LZ77 compression to stop a cross-channel plaintext leak

OpenSSH 10.6, released October 6, turns off the LZ77 coder in SSH compression to block an attack that reads one channel's secrets from another. Hosts using the Compression option will get less from it, so the project suggests compressing in the application.

Perspective Coverage

5 publishers
Builder
Builder 42%
Operator
Operator 52%
Investor
Investor 6%

Reality

Evidence82
Adoption
Insufficient
Hype gap+5
Incentives20
Confidence78
buildOne report1 publisher

Shopify drops React Native for Swift and Kotlin across every app

Shopify is moving every one of its apps off React Native to native Swift and Kotlin, and rebuilt its Shop app that way in 12 weeks. The switch leaves three Shopify-maintained React Native libraries, including the widely used FlashList, archived or without a maintainer.

Publishers:dev.to

Reality

Evidence48
Adoption63
Hype gap+14
Incentives55
Confidence42