Ryan's proposal has expired, with a quorum, and the No votes have won. So, for now, nothing happens. What has emerged since is an understanding that besides a16z's No votes and the votes of the current board, several people either voted No or abstained because they agree we nee...
I am not going to sugar coat it: Urbit has had a tough few years of governance. To make a heroic effort to summarize the last few years (dates are approximate):Curtis Yarvin, the founder of Urbit, left the project and divested of his galaxy holdings sometime around 2018. He st...
The Urbit Foundation released a new over the air update upgrading your binary to version 410 and your OS to version 3.2.To upgrade your binary run: ./your-ship-name/.run nextThen, you can install the new version of Urbit OS by typing this at your dojo prompt:|bumpRelease notes:410 is a major re...
Curtis Yarvin is back at the helm, and the Urbit Foundation team has been busy implementing our founder’s new vision: Athens. We’re making progress across several fronts. Piraeus is an infinitely zoomable tiling UI, designed to contain your entire digital world. Captive Apps&...
Directed Messaging: this is the headliner of the release. Directed Messaging improves data transfer speeds by 1000-10,000x and makes peer discovery significantly more reliable. This enables fast and efficient transfer of large amounts of data — from Group backlogs to large files.HTTP Scry &am...
Reports and videos are starting to come in from the recent Urbit Lake Summit developer conference....In this one Ted Blackman outlines four big new features rolling out soon.Ares - Make Nock fast, allow for big data processing, add Vere compatibility (Target October-December 2024)Directed Messaging ...
We’ve got a new developer conference coming up, an outline for a grand project to fulfill some of Urbit’s more ambitious promises, the first ever print journal of solid-state computing, and a new session of Hoon Academy...