Monthly summary for 2025-10 focusing on NixOS/nixpkgs contributions around QOwnNotes. Delivered key features and necessary packaging improvements to enhance end-user experience and maintainability. The changes improve functionality, packaging reliability, and developer experience by integrating a spell-checker and ensuring the executable is correctly exposed after builds.

June 2025 – Shopify/nixpkgs: Focused on QOwnNotes package maintenance and dependency modernization. Delivered two incremental upgrades and a major dependency integration to improve build stability and compatibility. Implemented via two commits: 3e5e1cf05e4ebeb2280f33088c7221bcb42508a5 (qownnotes: 25.5.10 -> 25.6.0) and ed67750e822cae357e1b78a994263d6ab79fdb4e (qownnotes: 25.6.2 -> 25.6.4). Key changes included migrating from botan2 to botan3, updating build configuration, and adding libgit2 as a build dependency with corresponding CMake enablement, download URLs, and SHA updates. This work consolidates package maintenance for QOwnNotes and improves reproducible builds and downstream compatibility.

November 2024 — srid/nixpkgs: Delivered a packaging-focused feature update for QOwnNotes, implementing the 24.11.1 release by updating version numbers and the download URL hash in default.nix. No major bugs fixed this month. Overall impact: ensured the latest QOwnNotes release is packaged and ready for downstream deployments with improved traceability and build reproducibility. Key commit reference included: 54953ef09a04e7dd4aa7babf7d6322344cdd1759 (qownnotes: 24.9.8 -> 24.11.1).