## What a summer!

We are truly proud of all the progress we made with the help of our students. GNU social mentees have to submit code on the level of typical contributors without spoon-feeding and that's something achieved in all of ours GSoC editions.

A GNU social contributor deals with {reliability, software and computer security} engineering. Mastery with full-stack web development and git is acquired in a hands-on way without ever dismissing theoretical computer science teachings for optimal efficiency and effective designs.

GNU social is a beautiful software that follows GNU and UNIX philosophies by heart.

A big thanks for all the support of our lovely community and devs who have been with us in yet another great journey!

## Network Services Improvements

Proposed by Bruno Casteleiro and mentored by Diogo Cordeiro

- Improvements on OpenID support
- Improvements on URLMapper
- The Free Network - fluid transition between federation protocols
- Some ActivityPub support improvements:
  - Add Queues
  - Add collection caching
  - Proper audience targetting
  - Inbox Forwarding
  - Groups over ActivityPub

Technical Report

## Optimizations on Load Balance System and Storage Usage

Proposed by Miguel Dantas and mentored by Diogo Cordeiro

- Improvements on the OEmbed plugin (turned into Embed plugin)
- Improvements on the Media Handling System
- Added Redis support (queues and caching)
- Fixed Memcached support

Technical Report