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== December 17th, 2018 ==
* '''Firefox Reality 1.1 shipped''' -- Firefox Reality 1.1 is now available for download in the Viveport, Oculus, and Daydream app stores. [https://blog.mozvr.com/firefox-reality-update-supports-360-videos-and-7-additional-languages/ This release] includes some major new features, including localization to seven new languages (Mandarin - simplified and traditional, French, Italian, German, Spanish, Japanese, Korean) including voice search support, a new dedicated theater viewing mode, bookmarks, 360 video support, and significant improvements to the performance and quality of our user interface.
* '''Winning Clubhouses''' -- Last month Sketchfab and Mozilla announced a VR Clubhouse Design Challenge to encourage creation of visually rich virtual reality meeting rooms compatible with our Hubs by Mozilla social VR environment. The design challenge has ended and our panel of judges has selected the winners. You should definitely check them out via the [https://blog.sketchfab.com/mozilla-hubs-clubhouse-contest-the-winners/ announcement post] on Sketchfab’s blog, as the top three were a multi-story wizards library, a beautiful tea house with dragon fountain and scroll library, and a sprawling playground with numerous interactive games like bowling and checkers. The Honorable Mentions are awesome too (including the Space Smuggler Pirate Clubhouse). Amazing!!
* '''Rust 2018 released''' -- Rust 2018, the first major edition since Rust 1.0 shipped in 2015, [https://rust-lang-nursery.github.io/edition-guide/rust-2018/index.html launched last week] with an [https://sdtimes.com/softwaredev/rust-team-releases-rust-2018-plans-for-rust-2019/ emphasis on productivity], including tooling, documentation networking, web assembly, and devices. The Rust 2018 feature set came through an extensive survey of the Rust community and active developers.
 
== November 26th, 2018 ==
* '''Eight IndieWebCamps Completed in 2018''' -- <span style="float:right">[https://indieweb.org/2018/Berlin https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4905/45698785541_b00e74a5da_t.jpg]</span>This month we hosted [https://indieweb.org/2018/Berlin IndieWebCamp at our Berlin office], the eighth city in this year’s [https://indieweb.org/IndieWebCamps series of global grass-roots BarCamps] helping individuals take back their data and online experience from the content silos. By bringing users, designers, and developers together, we helped accelerate the adoption of [https://spec.indieweb.org/ decentralized web standards], from [https://snarfed.org/1-million-webmentions Webmention which broke the 1 million mark] at the start of this year, to emerging building blocks like [https://indieweb.org/Microsub Microsub] which enabled the launch of [https://indieweb.org/reader new mobile social readers] that put users in control, instead of advertisers & algorithms. And you too can become part of the movement at an IndieWebCamp near you as we have at least eight [https://indieweb.org/Planning#2019 planned for 2019] along with the [https://indieweb.org/next-hwc monthly HomeBrew Website meetups] we help host.
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