Hyperbola

We hereby announce a new revision of Hyperbola live image and HyperTalking for Hyperbola GNU/Linux-libre. This revision contains the latest hyperbola-keyring with our build server public GPG key and bugfixes such as the speakup software synthesizer module and HyperTalking audio intro made by belette.

Download information can be found here.

We apologize for the brief downtime earlier this week. All services have now been successfully migrated and restored to full functionality.

In order to better use existing donations, Hyperbola founders decided to switch from Gandi to UltraVPS for hosting our website, repositories and services infrastructure. This will save us from paying 120 EUR every 3 months.

Hyperbola Project has now paid for two years of hosting so that we can have more stability moving forward. This comes to 100 EUR yearly for 2 VPS machines.

After several weeks of testing, we are happy to announce the first stable release of Icedove-UXP. Unlike previous versions of Icedove, this is a completely new application built against the UXP toolkit.

Some of the new application features:

• New internal web engine with regular security updates, courtesy UXP.
• More complete and thorough Icedove branding than any previous version.
• Supports XUL Addons (not WebExt for privacy reasons).
• Hardened now excludes access to /proc for additional security.
• Several longstanding javascript bugs were fixed with backports that were not included in Thunderbird 52.

Note: All addons are incompatible with this version of Icedove ...

Since Liberapay's payment processor (Mangopay) is throwing them out, we are evacuating the remaining money from our account in Liberapay to our Bank account (Swissquote) in Switzerland.

Currently, Liberapay requires us to configure a Stripe payment account to receive donations. Stripe is an US-based service (Stripe Inc. is a registered ISO of Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., Concord, CA, USA) which affects our Social Contract.

For that reason, we have decided suspend this account for an indefinite period, until they find a way avoid using payment processor services - such as Stripe or PayPal to receive donations. For now, we ...

After several weeks of testing, we are happy to announce the first stable release of Iceweasel-UXP. Unlike previous versions of Iceweasel, this is a completely new application built against the UXP toolkit.

Some of the new application features:

• New internal web engine with regular security updates, courtesy UXP.
• More complete and thorough Iceweasel branding than any previous version.
• Supports XUL Addons (not WebExt for privacy reasons).
• Hardened now excludes access to /proc for additional security.