What's cooking? February 2020

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+title: What's cooking on Sourcehut? February 2020
+date: 2020-02-15
+author: Drew DeVault
+---
+
+Hello again! Another month into 2020, and SourceHut development continues at a
+strong pace - a pace I expect to pick up a bit in the coming weeks. We're joined
+by another 443 users this month, bringing our total to 12,757. Welcome to
+SourceHut, everyone! And to our older members, thanks for your continued
+support.
+
+## General News
+
+Our meetup at FOSDEM went well - thanks to everyone who attended! I'm glad I got
+to meet more of you in person, and we had a great chat going over the plans for
+the future and getting your feedback on what's important to you.
+
+In terms of general development, there are a few news items. First, you will
+probably have noticed that subtle design changes landed throughout the services
+early this month. These changes brought us into 100% compliance with the WCAG
+accessibility standards, which is a feat that no other code forge can claim. We
+score higher now on standard tests of performance, accessibility, and web
+standards than any other code hosting service. SourceHut is now objectively the
+fastest, lightest, and most accessible service in the biz. I even fielded a bug
+report from a Lynx user last week!
+
+Search support has also been improved throughout the site thanks to Ivan
+Habunek's hard work, and special thanks to Denis Laxalde as well for his
+improvements to builds.sr.ht search. Documentation for the new features is
+coming soon.
+
+I've also been working with some community contributors whose aim is to improve
+Markdown support across the site, bringing support for CommonMark and aligning
+our implementation more closely with what you may have come to expect from your
+experiences on the rest of the web. These require changes careful testing, so
+please be patient while we work on them.
+
+## git.sr.ht
+
+A cool new git.sr.ht feature landed this week: attaching files to annotated
+git tags. This allows you to attach compiled executables, PGP signatures, and so
+on to your releases. Check out the [user documentation here][user docs], and the
+[API docs here][api docs]. This is the first of several planned features which
+utilize the new blob storage infrastructure - additional features coming soon
+include git-lfs support, build artifacts, build caches, and a "SourceHut
+Pages"-like service.
+
+[user docs]: https://man.sr.ht/git.sr.ht/#attaching-files-to-releases
+[api docs]: https://man.sr.ht/git.sr.ht/api.md#post-apireposusernamereposnameartifactsref
+
+More subtle changes to git.sr.ht include detecting if your repository has a
+license, which leads to [our wiki page with suggestions on how to choose
+one][choose a license]. I also added support for LibreJS for the few (optional)
+bits of JavaScript on git.sr.ht, which along with the other changes brings
+[SourceHut's score for the GNU ethical repository criteria][ethical criteria]
+into pretty good standing.
+
+[choose a license]: https://man.sr.ht/license.md
+[ethical criteria]: https://lists.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/sr.ht-discuss/%3CC03B4X6WE7XN.9NAXAORGDJ0B%40homura%3E
+
+## builds.sr.ht
+
+Denis Laxalde, in addition to his work on improving builds.sr.ht search
+functionality, has also implemented RSS feeds for each page. You can obtain RSS
+feeds for your user page, any combination of build tags (useful for per-project
+RSS feeds), and for arbitrary search queries. Thorben Günther also implemented a
+small bugfix which resolved a long puzzling issue with build status emails -
+related to UTF-8 email addresses.
+
+Image-specific updates:
+
+- Debian builds with custom repositories now also automatically include the
+  source repos.
+- FreeBSD builds no longer use `-cpu qemu64`, following upstream fixes to AMD
+  EPYC support.
+- OpenBSD images now include X11 headers.