Topic: open source

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We have just released version 2.6.1 of the mctp utilities - the first stable point-release for the project.

Version 2.6 was the first to support running with restricted privileges, and has been integrated into meta-openembedded's "blacksail" release; with OE as a primary consumer of the mctp tools, a stable release gives us a method of providing a set of fixes, without potentially-disruptive feature changes that may come with integrating a major release.

Maintaining a long-lived series of changes against a fast-moving open source project can be a headache. Ideally we wouldn't put ourselves in this situation - instead we'd work with upstream to merge the changes and find better things to do with life. However, that's not always feasible.

Some of the bigger headaches are caused by merge conflicts. Sometimes conflicts are invisible as they are solved by clever merge strategies. Other times there's been significant rework of the code on both sides and you are forced to demonstrate you know what you're doing.