W3C Open Source Software – News for 2024

gb (ghurlbot) version 0.4

2024-02-02 This new version of gb (ghurlbot) can also look up, close and reopen GitHub discussions (in addition to issues and pull requests).

b6+ version 1.93

2024-10-20 The b6+ slide framework has an improved user interface for operating in two-window mode: Previously, the 2 key opened a control window, which could then be used to start a slide show in the original window. Now the 2 key opens a second window and immediately starts the slide show in that window. The original window acts as the control window, until the second window is closed.

There is no change to the operation when using a single window.

There are a few other, smaller changes:

• When going backwards through slides, an (experimental) option allows configuring if you can also go backwards through incremental elements and if so, how. You can choose from four behaviors.
• Style sheets that support the class “darkmode” to simulate dark mode should now signal that support in a different way.
• When an error occurs on the connection to a sync server (used for remote control via the SSE or EventSource protocol), b6+ now assumes that the browser will try to reconnect to the server automatically. The S key stops the connection attempts.

gb (ghurlbot) version 16 January 2024

2024-01-20 This new version of gb (ghurlbot) fixes a bug: The order of the repositories that gb associated with each IRC channel would change when the bot restarted and reconnected to IRC. The order is now preserved.

And gb now reads the due date in an action item slightly differently: The due date no longer needs to be at the start or the end of the issue description on GitHub, but can be anywhere in that description, as long as it is all on one line. This should make it easier for other software that reads or writes action items. As far as known, all existing action items have due dates on one line, so this should not break anything.