The final selection of the most important and noticeable events of 2024 related to open projects and information security:
- Conflicts: Crisis in the Nixos project. The exclusion of Sonny Pierce from the Board of Directors GFNOME Foundation. The temporary detachment of the author of BSACHEFS and his criticism by Linus Torvalds. Removal of one of the key developers Python. WordPress C WP Engine conflict, which has grown to the substitution of the ACF plugin. Malibal attacks on Coreboot. Complaint European regulator on Mozilla. Ublock Origin Lite blocking. Apache rebranding because of the Indians.
- Sanctions and blocking: exclusion of 11 linux nucleus miners. Spring refusal to accept changes from developers from the Russian Federation. Mozilla Roskomnadzor requirements, subsequent abolition of blocking and fine. Temporary blocking of the Russian Federation in Docker Hub. Closing of the access of the Russian Federation to the Opentofu repositories. An erroneous OpenXray lock on GitHub. Blocking in gitlab browser additions BPC.
- Forks: Freenginx – Fork Nginx, ValKey and Redict – Forks of DBMS Redis, Flock – Fork Flutter, Apache Cloudberry – Fork DBMS GreenPlum. The first issue of Opentofu, Terraform Fork. The transition of Opensearch, Fork Elasticsearch, in Linux Foundation.
- Absorptions, associations and joint projects: Microsoft handed over to Mono to the Wine community. IBM buys Hashicorp. Mozilla absorbed Anonym. Association Tor and Tails. Openssl restructuring and association with the libraries of Bouncy Castle and Cryptlib. The initiative for the development of architecture X86.
- Patents and copyright: Nintendo attacks on projects, developing prefix emulators: yuzu, suyu, ryujinx, forks yuzu. The initiative of OS Zone is canceled 54 patents. Removing part of the Zluda code at the request of AMD. HDMI Forum did not allow HDMI 2.1 in open drivers.
- Laws and Rules: the possibility of blocking the developers of the Linux nucleus that violate the Code of conduct. FCC returned the rules of network neutrality.
/Reports, release notes, official announcements.