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Expat 2.7.5 has been released, featuring important security fixes for vulnerabilities reported by various contributors.
Expat 2.7.4 has been released, featuring important security fixes and enhancements, including new symbol versioning capabilities.
The blog post announces the release of Expat 2.7.2, a widely used XML parser written in C. The release addresses a critical vulnerability (CVE-2025-59375) that could lead to remote denial of service due to excessive memory allocat...
The blog post announces the release of Expat 2.7.3, a widely used XML parser written in C. It highlights the motivation for the release, which includes fixing regressions related to previous security vulnerabilities (CVE-2024-8176...
Life lessons from personal experiences highlight the value of wise spending, understanding communication, finding meaning, and kindness towards others.
The author discusses the need for an alternative to Cabot for monitoring website availability and how they found Healthchecks.io to be a suitable solution. They describe the process of integrating Healthchecks with a small tool to...
DomainFactory, a part of Host Europe and a GoDaddy company, has forced an email migration to Microsoft Office 365 in 2025, causing numerous issues for customers. The company has a history of making changes that negatively impact c...
The text explains how to configure s-nail/s-mailx/mailx for use with Manitu. It provides a working result for the file ~/.mailrc and highlights the need for special characters percent-encoding for parameters EMAIL and PASSWORD to ...
The text discusses the security of long-term support (LTS) and how it does not live up to the expectations. It highlights five types of security issues that are prevalent in long-term support, including vulnerabilities being out o...
Expat 2.7.0 has been released with security fixes, including a long-standing vulnerability, CVE-2024-8176. The release also includes fixes to build systems, improvements to documentation, and a new fuzzer xml_lpm_fuzzer. The vulne...
The author maintains a public list of companies using libexpat in hardware and found that 78% of the 50 companies tested do not serve /.well-known/security.txt or /security.txt as per RFC 9116 in 2025. The difficulty in finding th...
The text discusses the benefits of helping Open Source projects, the state a project needs to be in to be considered healthy, and how to fund help in general. It also addresses the challenges in funding a project and provides idea...
The text provides a recipe for hot oatmeal with apple and cinnamon, a quick and easy breakfast meal that the author's mother used to prepare for them in their childhood.