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Minetest 5.8.0

Minetest 5.8.0 is coming to Rawhide and Fedora 39.

The biggest change users should be aware of is that the Minetest Game is no longer shipped with the engine by upstream, and this is reflected in the packaging as well. At first run, desktop users will be asked if they’d like to re-download the Minetest game, which is needed to play previously created worlds that use it.

For servers, this process is less straightforward. For that reason, we now place the Minetest Game in the appropriate place in minetest server user’s home folder, as part of the server RPM. This allows for a more seamless upgrade process.

I’ve tested all of this on my local and server worlds, and everything works perfectly. If you test it and find the same, please give the update some karma. If not, let me know.

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2023-877949f206

Additionally, Minetest is in the Fediverse, at @Minetest.

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Inkscape 1.3

Inkscape 1.3 is on it’s way to rawhide and Fedora 38. Particularly of note is that because of a test failure on i686, I’m taking this opportunity to end builds for that architecture. Assuming the change is approved, LibreOffice will be doing the same as of Fedora 39.

Here’s the upstream release notes: https://inkscape.org/release/inkscape-1.3/

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My podman-based services stopped responding! (with fix)

So I run a local web application I wrote, in the following configuration: Two podman pods of 3 containers each, sitting behind a haproxy instance, with the containers talking to a mariadb backend. This makes it easy to update the containers to a new image without downtime, and I use scripts that handle updating the systemd unit files, etc. I had to set the SELinux boolean haproxy_connect_any=on, and it’s all working wonderfully.

Until this morning. I updated the Fedora 32 box this all runs on and I could no longer access the app.

To save you some time, the breaking change was a new SELinux boolean. Once I set container_connect_any=on, all was well again.