2025 Free / Open Source Software Accomplishments

As 2025 draws to close, it’s time for my annual tradition of reviewing my open source accomplishments over the past year.

This year’s contributions are once again quite varied. In addition to the usual Linux, Java, docker/containers, and security focus, this year I started looking into AI/LLM and worked on microcontrollers (specifically the Espressif platform with ESPHome).

What follows is a list of many of the pull requests I created this year. I won’t list the bug reports, but I assure you there are plenty of those as well. Hopefully you’ll see a project you use, like, or find interesting in this list – perhaps I’ve even made an improvement that directly benefits you. Better yet, perhaps this list inspires you to submit an improvement or two of your own.

• Gentoo: Linux distribution built using the Portage package management system. Unlike a binary software distribution, the source code is compiled locally according to the user’s preferences and is often optimized for the specific type of computer. Precompiled binaries are available for some larger packages or those with no available source code.
  • Maintainer for more than 100 packages
  • Made more than 200 commits
• Spring Boot: helps you to create Spring-powered, production-grade applications and services with absolute minimum fuss.
  • JdbcSessionAutoConfiguration may not match when using the auto-configured DataSource
• docker-node: Official Docker Image for Node.js
  • docs: Use numeric uid instead of username in Dockerfile
• pipeline-components: collection of docker containers for running in gitlab pipelines
  • 🔼 Updates python Docker tag to v3.13.1-alpine3.21
• browserup-proxy: free utility to watch, test, and manipulate web application network traffic and performance.
  • Add Authority Key Identifier to generated server certificates
• pywhispercpp: Python bindings for whisper.cpp, the high-performance inference of OpenAI’s Whisper automatic speech recognition (ASR) model
  • update whisper.cpp submodule to v1.8.2
• gradle-lint-plugin:
  • org.eclipse.jdt:core 3.3.0-v_771
• markdownlint-cli2: A fast, flexible, configuration-based command-line interface for linting Markdown/CommonMark files with the markdownlint library.
  • Use UID number rather than username in Dockerfile
• Spring Security: Spring Security is a powerful and highly customizable authentication and access-control framework. It is the de-facto standard for securing Spring-based applications.
  • Add FormPostRedirectStrategy to enable POST OIDC Logout
• esphome: ESPHome is a system to control your ESP8266/ESP32 by simple yet powerful configuration files and control them remotely through Home Automation systems.
  • [online_image] Set Accept header
  • [online_image] Last-Modified-Date and ETag response caching
  • [http_request] allow retrieval of more than just the first header
  • [deep_sleep] enable sleep pull up/down for wakeup pin
• Alpine Linux: a Linux distribution designed to be small, simple and secure.
  • community/npm: upgrade to 11.3.0
  • community/yq-go: upgrade to 4.45.4
  • [3.22] community/yq-go: upgrade to 4.46.1
  • community/helm: security upgrade to 3.18.4
  • community/npm: upgrade to 11.4.2
• GitLab’s SAST Analyzer based on Semgrep
  • update `go` version to `v1.23.2`; multiple dependency upgrades due to security findings
• semgrep: Lightweight static analysis for many languages. Find bug variants with patterns that look like source code.
  • fix(sarif): helpUri fallback to source-rule-url
• Fortify SSC: enables management, development, and security teams to work together to triage, track, validate, automate, and manage software security activities.
  • feat: Display SARIF tags
  • fix(deps): Upgrade io.freefair.lombok to 8.13.1
  • chore(build): Upgrade Gradle to 8.12.1
  • feat: line number and snippet
• GitLab
  • Docs: Kubernetes executor respects job docker:image:user
• GitLab Dependency Scanning (aka Gemnasium)
  • Use relative path instead of absolute path for gradle command

I’m already looking forward to continuing to contribute and do my small part to improve the software we all know and love in 2026.

2025 Free / Open Source Software Accomplishments by Craig Andrews is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.