- urls: [https://github.com/flori/json/pull/567]
  tags: [Ruby, JSON, SoftwareFreedom]
  desc: |
    ruby-json contains code that is not Free under the FSF's
    definition, not Open Source under the OSI's definition, and not
    GPL-compatible.  This has coused much consternation among folks
    who care about any of those 3 things.

    This PR replaces that non-Free code with Free code, removing
    friction for Ruby users on GNU/Linux distros that care about those
    3 things.
- urls: [https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/mkinitcpio/mkinitcpio/-/merge_requests/328]
  tags: [ARM]
  sponsored-by: Umorpha Systems
  desc: |
    To do its work, mkinitcpio needs to know the version number of the
    Linux kernel that it is generating an image for; the normal way
    that it knows this is to sniff the version number from the kernel
    file.  However, it fails to sniff the version number from ARM
    zImage kernels, which means that Arch Linux ARM and Parabola for
    ARM need to resort to hacks to get mkinitcpio to work right.

    This PR removes that friction by teaching mkinitcpio to understand
    ARM zImage files.
- urls: [https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/mkinitcpio/mkinitcpio/-/merge_requests/277]
  sponsored-by: Umorpha Systems
  desc: |
    One of the things going on in the secure-boot world is moving
    toward "Unified Kernel Images" (UKI), which are when the kernel
    and the init-ramdisk are bundled together into a single file to
    reduce the risk of a compromised init-ramdisk being able to
    compromise a secured kernel.  This PR reduces friction when using
    mkinitcpio to generate images directly as UKI without generating a
    plain init-ramdisk first.
- urls:
    - https://mailman.astron.com/pipermail/file/2024-April/001335.html
    - https://github.com/file/file/commit/cf139abf35d07ebfd0c3edcab2fc400a211c0fbb
  tags: [ARM]
  desc: |
    This PR improves its ability to detect information about Linux
    kernel ARM zImage files.
- urls:
    - https://mailman.astron.com/pipermail/file/2024-March/001327.html
    - https://github.com/file/file/commit/3b92878ee277a6b6c0a37429e9edf5e5b55fcdd4
  tags: [docs]
  desc: |
    To do this, `file` reads a "magic" file that describes the magic
    numbers that it might see in a file.  This PR fixes a mistake in
    the `magic(5)` manual for writing such files.
- urls: [https://github.com/diamondburned/gotk4/pull/140]
  tags: [GI, docs]
  desc: |
    The not-quite-markdown format that `.gir` files use for
    documentation is under-specified and hard to parse.  Right now I'm
    focusing on how to properly parse it, so that we can have
    top-notch language-specific documentation for GI libraries.

    This PR is laying the groundwork for the new parser.
- urls:
  - https://lists.ozlabs.org/pipermail/linux-erofs/2023-November/009765.html
  - https://github.com/erofs/erofs-utils/commit/f528b82ffbcb15484a7195c1a1d08ece0ff67350
  - https://github.com/erofs/erofs-utils/commit/197e3294bcdf93f37d12989cd830a33c055b1a53
  - https://github.com/erofs/erofs-utils/commit/f97311883337eb7e0ded55e60995e6599eba73e5
  tags: [docs]
  sponsored-by: Umorpha Systems
  desc: |
    This patchset improves the `--help` documentation and man-pages
    the EroFS userspace tools, and reduces friction by having
    `fsck.erofs` accept common command line flags that fsck
    implementions for other filesystems take.