What changed in each release of my open-source tools. The essays about why the tools exist are in the main post list; each project page has both.
If your Elasticsearch data already has Kibana dashboards, you shouldn’t need Kibana to look at them. That’s the bet behind teleplot, and v2026.10.0 is the first release you can install. Teleplot is a …
Ask for a diagram of the circuit breaker pattern and you get a picture. Ask whether the picture says what you meant, and nobody checks. infographic is my attempt at the checking half. infographic is a …
A Backstage descriptor almost never declares everything it names. The owning group lives in the org catalog, the system in another repository. A tool that drops those references draws a tidier …
A code graph is only as useful as the things it leaves out. This release is mostly about that, plus a way to get the graph’s numbers out of the tool. symgraph is a Rust command-line tool and MCP …
puml 2026.10.2 is tagged. The change that matters is that puml can now hand a diagram to another program as plain data instead of only as SVG. puml is a Rust command-line reimplementation of PlantUML. …
forge v2026.10.2 is mostly one change: the parser and layout code can now be used as a library, without the command line attached. Everything else in the release is dependency upkeep. forge is a …
A diagram that has been laid out is just data: boxes with sizes, lines with routes, colours that mean something. Nothing about that requires the code that drew it to be the code that displays it. …
This is a short release note, not an argument. If you use IntelliJ, RustRover, GoLand or WebStorm and you’ve been curious about forge, this is the release that gives you a preview pane. forge is a …