Self-Host Weekly (31 October 2025)

Weekly Highlights 🎃

This week, GitHub released their year-in-review Octoverse report, an annual analysis of trends and insights gleaned from users, projects, and activity across the platform (Sep 2024 – Aug 2025). The report itself is a bit lengthy, but absolutely worth the read if you're into statistics and that kind of stuff.

If that's not your thing, here were my biggest takeaways:

• GitHub is now home to 630 million projects (4.3 million are AI-related projects)
• Approximately 230 new repos are created every minute
• Despite 63% of all repos being public, ~82% of all contributions happened in private repos
• 6 of the top 10 open source projects are AI-focused
• Home Assistant ranked 6th among open source projects in number of contributors and 3rd in first-time contributors
• The number of projects with Dockerfiles has grown 120% since 2024
• India was the largest source of new developer signups, but the U.S. remains the largest source of contributions
• TypeScript is now the most popular programming language (presumably due to its AI-friendliness)
• ~80% of new projects used just six languages (Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, Java, C++, and C#)

In other related news and activity:

• Unraid released v7.2.0, which includes the much-anticipated responsive web interface (mobile support!) and open source API
• Immich now has a v2 release tag for the Watchtower people who YOLO updates
• It was Microsoft's turn to evangelize the benefits of self-hosting as Azure experienced severe outages (is October the new Self-Host Awareness Month?)
• r/selfhosted held an interesting discussion on users' day jobs (as of writing, the top response is farmer)
• Tailscale hosted a Fall Update Week event with a series of blog posts and videos covering up-and-coming features/services

Happy selfh.st/ing!

Newswire

Octoverse: A new developer joins GitHub every second as AI leads TypeScript to #1

In this year’s Octoverse, we uncover how AI, agents, and typed languages are driving the biggest shifts in software development in more than a decade.

The GitHub BlogGitHub Staff

How we got to the new Nextcloud Photos - Nextcloud

In this article, we explore the new Nextcloud Photos, what it can do, and how we got there.

NextcloudMikaela Schneider

FFmpeg Receives $100K in Funding from India’s FLOSS/fund Initiative

It is one of the world’s most widely used multimedia frameworks today.

It's FOSS NewsSourav Rudra

Fedora Linux 43 is here! - Fedora Magazine

I’m excited to announce my very first Fedora Linux release as the new Fedora Project Leader. Fedora Linux 43 is here! 43 releases! Wow that’s a lot. I was thinking about proposing special tetracontakaitrigon stickers to celebrate this release, but I’m not sure anyone would notice they weren’t circles. Thank you and congrats to everyone […]

Fedora MagazineJef Spaleta

Discourse MCP is here!

It didn’t take long for our community to request an official MCP server for Discourse, and after considering many approaches on how to quickly deliver something useful to our very diverse user base we are happy to introduce the Discourse MCP CLI.

DiscourseFalco

Pi-hole FTL v6.3, Web v6.3 and Core v6.2 Released! – Pi-hole

Pi-hole

Tailscale’s visual policy editor is now generally available

Web-based tools or human-readable JSON: edit your tailscale access however you like.

Unraid OS 7.2.0 Stable is Now Available

Unraid OS 7.2.0 Stable is Now Available

Unraid

The Microsoft Azure Outage Shows the Harsh Reality of Cloud Failures

The second major cloud outage in less than two weeks, Azure’s downtime highlights the “brittleness” of a digital ecosystem that depends on a few companies never making mistakes.

WIREDLily Hay Newman

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Content Spotlight

Meet Home Assistant Time Machine, a web-based platform for Home Assistant configuration backups. With Home Assistant Time Machine, users can create time-based snapshots of Home Assistant configurations, automations, and scripts for later reference and restoration. Features include snapshot browsing, side-by-side backup comparisons, individual restores, and scheduled backups.

Home Assistant Time Machine can be easily deployed as a Home Assistant add-on or standalone Docker container.

Links: Source Code

Videos and Podcasts

• Tugtainer: Docker Container Update Manager with Web UI | DB Tech
• DockMon: The Ultimate Self-Hosted Docker Monitor | SYNACK Time
• Smart Homes NEED to Change | Everything Smart Home
• The Free Proxmox Monitoring Dashboard You’ve Been Waiting For | VirtualizationHowTo
• Turn Your Server into a Book Library! | Booklore Installation & Setup Guide | AlienTech42

Command Line Corner

Use timeout to limit the amount of time a command is allotted to run:

$ timeout 10s command.sh

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• Christian Cleberg
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