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Oh boy, 3 years without any blogpost ! So much things happened in the Xfce world!
First, we finally released Xfce 4.14 in August 2019, more than 4 years of effort, a migration to gtk3, and so much new things, but you already know that, and you surely already run it. We are now working on Xfce 4.16 , with the hope to release it this year (yes, in 2020) !
You can read more development news on our blog.
Some buzzwords: new icons, CSD, drop of gtk2 support, UI revamp, and tons of other stuff.

More than 1 year since my latest blogpost… wow !
Lots of activities these last months, on code and infra side :)
But the good news is that we had done a lots of background tasks (see the Infrastructure section) !

The looong road to xfce 4.14. I hope you still want some news about Xfce !
As usual, the xfce development is slow, has some organisation problems (only few members have access to servers, and are often not present), and lack “core” maintainers/mentors. But hey, we do our best :).

Ce 10 Novembre 2015 a eu lieu le second meetup ArchLinux France, chez BlaBlaCar à Paris ! Pour rappel le premier Meetup avait eu lieu en Octobre 2014. Pour cette nouvelle édition, il y avait 5 présentations, et près de 70 personnes ! (vous pouvez retrouver le programme sur meetup).

Cassandra usually output all its logs in a system.log file. It uses log4j old 1.2 version for cassandra 2.0, and since 2.1, logback, which of course use different syntax :)
Logs can be enhanced with some configuration. These explanations works with Cassandra 2.0.x and Cassandra 2.1.x, I haven’t tested others versions yet.

Chinese CA WoSign issues free multi-domain SSL certificates valid for 3 years. You can read some informations on how to get theses free certificates on https://www.ohling.org/blog/2015/02/wosign-free-2y-ssl-certificate.html.
FYI, I received my certificate around 1hour after submission :)

Like the well known awesome-awesomeness repository on Github, below, you’ll find a list of Weekly (some are not so weekly ^^) newsletters.

I’ll talk about changing Cassandra CompactionStrategy on a live production Cluster.
First of all, an extract of the Cassandra documentation :

HTTP Alternative services allow an origin’s resources to be authoritatively available at a separate network location, possibly accessed with a different protocol configuration.
Opportunistic Encryption (OE) provides unauthenticated encryption over TLS for data that would otherwise be carried via clear text. It allows a http:// connection to use secure resources.

A bunch of news from the development of Xfce 4.12 !
Since my previous post in november (read it !) , many things have happened.
First, the most awaited news … wait for it… a date has been decided ! 4.12 will released by the last week end of February 2015 ! (yes, 1 week from now)

Update 19/02/2015 : A new post is available !

Ce 21 Octobre a eu lieu le premier meetup Archlinux France, dans les locaux d’Arkena à Paris.

The problem : be able to cache a backend response if it took more than 5 seconds. If not, don’t cache it!
A good challenge from @florentsolt. He solves the problem with a nodejs reverse proxy behind nginx, but I prefer a pure nginx implementation ;)

A new vulnerability has been discovered in bash, related to how environment variables are processed. You can read more on redhat security blog. This vulnerability can be used to execute remote code, even via ssh, if the remote shell is bash.

Update 19/11/2014 : A new post is available !

Some news from Xfce, my favourite Desktop Environment, that I use since something like 2006.