<- HOME - a blog about xit RSS ██╗ ██╗██╗████████╗██╗ ██████╗ ██████╗ ╚██╗██╔╝██║╚══██╔══╝██║ ██╔═══██╗██╔════╝ ╚███╔╝ ██║ ██║ ██║ ██║ ██║██║ ███╗ ██╔██╗ ██║ ██║ ██║ ██║ ██║██║ ██║ ██╔╝ ██╗██║ ██║ ███████╗╚██████╔╝╚██████╔╝ ╚═╝ ╚═╝╚═╝ ╚═╝ ╚══════╝ ╚═════╝ ╚═════╝ DEVLOG - SUPPORTING ZIG 0.16 AND SERVER-SIDE NETWORKING - April 14, 2026 Today Zig 0.16 was released, which means I could finally merge two huge changes to the master branch of xit: support for 0.16 and support for server-side networking. Each of these changes took months for me to do, so it's a huge relief to finally merge them. The first commit adds support for 0.16. This was a massive effort, as you can see from the number of lines changed, because xit makes extensive use of the Zig standard library. In addition to Zig's new Io interface, there were many breaking changes in the std lib that had to be accounted for. The second commit adds support for server-side networking. In particular, it adds equivalents to the following git commands: upload-pack, receive-pack, and http-backend. These are mostly intended to be drop-in replacements. The point of the server-side commands is to allow you to run a server that stores repos in the xit repo format. These commands *also* work with git clients, not just xit clients. I think the xit repo format will prove to enable a lot of things like server-side merging with patches, supporting large files, and supporting undo. I have a lot of plans for xit, but in the short term I'm focusing on my health. For reasons completely unrelated to this project, my health declined a lot in the past year. Lately I've been spending more time cooking my own food, working out, and walking. I think this coming year is going to be better for me than the last, and better for xit too.