zopen Community DIGEST Q1 - 2026

[HarithaIBM]

We’re excited to share the latest updates across the zopen community, including newly ported tools, upstream contributions, enhancements, and upgrades.

🆕 New Tools Now Available
Each of these tools has been introduced to strengthen zopen’s capabilities across security, development, testing, and modern workloads:
oqs-provider – Enables hybrid cryptographic algorithms, helping prepare for post-quantum security.
gtest – A widely used C++ testing framework to improve unit testing and code reliability. Thank you, @likhitha for your contribution.
Thrift – A cross-language RPC framework that simplifies building scalable, multi-language services.
k6 – A modern load testing tool for performance testing and observability.
sqlite-vec – Adds vector search capabilities to SQLite, useful for AI/ML and similarity search use cases.
botan – A comprehensive cryptography library offering modern and secure primitives.
hlasm_language_server – Provides LSP support for High Level Assembler, improving developer experience with editor integrations.

⬆️ Upstream Contribution
libassuan is now available upstream.

✨ Enhancements
Retained tags in rsync and resolved readability issues across different encodings.
Achieved 100% test coverage for tools like yq and rsync.
Fixed CMake platform recognition issues (thanks to Sachin).

🔄 Tool Upgrades
We’ve invested in keeping the ecosystem up to date with the latest versions of:
clang, vim, gpg, which, coreutils, nano, libgcrypt, neovim, zlib, jq, awk, perl, zip, unzip

🛠️ Fixes and Improvements
Several fixes have been made across:
bash, gettext, autoconf, sed, tmux, zoslib, lazygit

⚙️ zopen Updates (Upcoming)
A new zopen installer (beta) will soon be available for testing.
You can currently try the dev version using zopen install meta --release-line dev
Work is in progress to generate RPM packages using zopen build, simplifying distribution and deployment workflows.
OpenSSL (with liboqs integration) – Bringing quantum-safe cryptography support into standard SSL/TLS workflows.

A big thank you to all contributors and community members, excited to keep the momentum going this quarter!