Sourceware

Funding the core toolchain infrastructure https://inbox.sourceware.org/6f6b79ecac58c7d2fa1c65cb6f65ce418882321b.camel@klomp.org This quarter we launched a Fundraiser. With ~$12,000 raised we already got 2/3rd of the budget for 2026/2027 in just one quarter. This quarter we got ~$2800 through 68 individual donations of which ~$250 are recurring per month. And three more companies joined the Sourceware sponsorship program. Open Source Security joined as a Supply Chain Defender. BayLibre and Suse joined as Infrastructure Supporters. @conservancy@social.sfconservancy.org

AI scraperbots keep hammering us. We blocked most datacenters we could identify, but residential proxies just keep going and are really hard to block. We are seeing 7000-8000 concurrent connections. We have enough resources and network bandwidth to handle the requests/data, but given how aggressive these bots new connection setup is really slow or even times out. Tomorrow we will try to put a nginx tls terminator in front of httpd which hopefully helps handling more concurrent connections.