We are very happy to announce a new feature for OpenFastTrace in version 4.1.0: You can now create and use third party plugins!

Using plugins you can extend OFT with new imports and exports without modifying the core product. The very first plugin openfasttrace-asciidoc-plugin was contributed by @sophokles73 and is available in version 0.2.0.

We also have good news for Maven users: It’s very easy to use OFT plugins with our openfasttrace-maven-plugin if they are published to a Maven repository, see the documentation for details. The latest version 2.1.0 contains OFT 4.1.0.

Michal Orzel and Ayan Kumar Halder from AMD published their presentation “Xen Functional Safety — Update” from the Xen Summit 2024.

It’s an interesting read.

They talk about how OpenFastTrace helps in their documentation process on slide 20.

Which developer does not know this situation: you debug like a mad person and form all sorts of crazy theories my the code in front of you does not work. Especially if you are new to a topic — like we are with our shiny new Hugo blog.

When I created the blog, I intended to keep the directory structure identical to the old WordPress blog:

<domain>/<year>/<month>/<day>/<post>

All good and well, until I updated to a different theme, because the minimal theme by Calin Tataru that I originally chose — and which I still find stunningly beautiful in its clean simplicity — is apparently not maintained anymore. At least the last commit dates four years back.

Itsallcode.org is on YouTube now!

Check out our three-and-a-half minute quick-introduction to OpenFastTrace.

If you have a little bit more time you can also watch the presentation we prepared for the Xen Summit.

We also talk about rocket science. :-)

Version 4.0.0 of OpenFastTrace marks an important milestone for us. We now have reStructuredText support, which is something that Python users have been waiting for quite a while now.

For more awesome new features check out the release letter.