# Midterm Published articles for Midterm. This is one page of public article previews, not the complete archive. Follow Next page to continue. Summaries are not the original full articles. ## GSoC Bluetooth Improvement Midterm Recap DevFeed: [GSoC Bluetooth Improvement Midterm Recap]() Original publisher: [Read original article]() Author: mohammedrattia Published: 2026-07-17T23:06:42Z Content type: article Language: en Sources: [Haiku Project]() Topics: [Bluetooth](), [Operating system](), [Embedded Software Dev]() Tags: [bluetooth](), [commands](), [devices](), [firmware](), [gsoc](), [gsoc2026](), [haiku](), [implementation](), [interface](), [midterm](), [recap](), [software]() ### AI overview This midterm recap describes improvements to Haiku's Bluetooth stack during a Google Summer of Code project. The work includes updating outdated Host-Controller Interface commands and events, implementing mandatory Bluetooth functionality, adding a setting for the device's friendly name, and adding support for canceling device inquiries. ### Source excerpt Hello! The GSoC's midterm (at least for me) has just passed, so I thought of making a recap post about the improvements I've made so far. I'll try to keep the post brief to make it easier for readers (foreshadowing: I realized that's impossible :P). I've already posted an introduction about me and the project. You can read it here if you haven't already. Host-Controller Interface (HCI) Commands and Events The Host-Controller Interface (HCI) is the specification for how the operating system (the host, in our case, is Haiku) communicates with the Bluetooth controller. The Bluetooth controller is basically the firmware on the Bluetooth chip. So, it's vital to implement at least most of the mandatory HCI commands and events from the Bluetooth specification for Bluetooth to function properly. HCI commands and events were mostly outdated, dating back to version 2.0 or 2.1, so updating them was the first step to get the Bluetooth stack back to life. The Bluetooth SIG provides an Implementation Conformance Statement (ICS) for HCI, which can be used as a checklist for what's mandatory and what's optional. So, I started by completing what Haiku's Bluetooth stack lacked from the mandatory list. I'll mention here the features that users will be using without getting into internal details, so please feel free to contact me if you want to know more. Set Friendly Name Honestly... I personally don't think this would affect the user experience that much, but it's not me who decides anyway. It was mandatory in HCI, so I implemented it in the Bluetooth settings. Anyway, users can now set any name they want for their Haiku's Bluetooth device. Thanks to Máximo for solving a crash this caused later on and to KitsunePrefecture for reporting the crash :) Cancel Inquiry Discovering Bluetooth devices in Haiku wasn't working before the GSoC application phase. It lacked the handling of critical events needed to understand modern devices. Some GSoC applicants had already fixed a great part of it ## \[GSoC 2026\] Midterm progress on the Devices application DevFeed: [\[GSoC 2026\] Midterm progress on the Devices application]() Original publisher: [Read original article]() Author: aquamatic123 Published: 2026-07-11T17:46:30Z Content type: article Language: en Sources: [Haiku Project]() Topics: [App](), [Hardware](), [GUI](), [USB](), [Bluetooth]() Tags: [app](), [bluetooth](), [gsoc](), [gui](), [haiku](), [hardware](), [midterm](), [software](), [usb]() ### AI overview A GSoC 2026 midterm report describes progress on revamping the Devices application, including improved hardware and driver information, a clearer tree-based interface, USB and HID descriptor support, and ongoing Bluetooth hardware scanning. ### Source excerpt Hello Everyone! I have officially reached the midterm mark of my GSoC project, revamping the devices application. Over the past few weeks, I have made a couple of changes extracting more hardware information and presenting it cleanly to the user. Here is a look at what has been accomplished so far. Extracting the device path and driver used The first goal of my GSoC project was to determine which driver is loaded for a device, and display the device path as well if existent. To do this, I worked with the device_manager to get the driver path. I managed to get a hold of this in the app with a dm_wrapper call, and then display it in DevicesView by creating the devices with that new attribute. For the device path, I also used the device_manager to add the published path as an attribute, that would get fetched in DevicesView as well. A Cleaner Layout I also had to make the device data easier to read. Previously, attributes were somewhat clumped together. I introduced a new tree-view layout that clearly separates Basic Information (like the device name) from the more advanced attributes. Building on that UI improvement, I also modified how attributes are displayed. Instead of just dumping all attributes into a single list, the application now generates an expandable tree structure. It looks for attributes containing a / in their name and parses them into nested folders, making complex configurations much cleaner to navigate. Extracting USB and HID Descriptors A major focus of the first half of this project was bringing the Devices app to include specific information like the command-line tool listusb -v. I implemented a new BuildUSBTree structure that maps a device to its hardware path (using a BUSBDevice object) and recursively goes through the configurations, interfaces, alternates, and endpoints of connected USB devices. This allows the GUI to display almost all the USB attributes that a user would normally need the terminal to see. I also added support for fetching H ## Blog: Halfway Through GSoC 2024: My Progress and Plans with Falco DevFeed: [Blog: Halfway Through GSoC 2024: My Progress and Plans with Falco]() Original publisher: [Read original article]() Published: 2024-07-24T00:00:00Z Content type: article Language: en Sources: [Falco - Falco](), [Falco - The Falco blog]() Topics: [Falco](), [benchmarking](), [Testing](), [ci]() Tags: [benchmarking](), [container](), [continuous-integration](), [falco](), [gsoc](), [mentorship](), [midterm](), [testing](), [yaml]() ### AI overview A GSoC 2024 mentee describes progress improving Falco's event-generator for testing and benchmarking. The project includes declarative YAML-based Falco rule testing, a container runner, and planned CI pipelines to assess threat-detection correctness and performance. ### Source excerpt Hello Falco community, I'm Kiriti, a current GSoC mentee under Falco Security. I have been working diligently to improve the testing and benchmarking capabilities of Falco's event-generator project. Now that we've reached the midterm of GSoC, I'm eager to share the journey so far. In this blog, I'll delve into the details of my contributions, particularly focusing on two key PRs that have been merged, and outline my plans for the remainder of the program. My Project: Enhancing Falco's Event-Generator The event-generator is a vital utility within the Falco ecosystem, designed to test Falco's detection capabilities. My Google Summer of Code project focuses on upgrading the event-generator to enhance its testing and benchmarking capabilities, reliability, and consistency. Additionally, I am developing new Continuous Integration (CI) pipelines based on the upgraded event-generator. The ultimate goal is to evolve the event-generator into the standard tool for systematically assessing the correctness and performance of Falco's threat detection capabilities during every release and development cycle. My Journey So Far: Before being selected for GSoC, I contributed to the event-generator repository. I am grateful to Leonardo Grasso and Federico Di Pierro, who played a vital role in getting my PRs merged during the pre-GSoC contribution phase. These contributions helped me understand the event-generator codebase. I am also thankful to my mentors, Jason Dellaluce and Aldo Lacuku, for selecting me as a GSoC mentee. I will share my complete story of getting selected to GSoC in future. After my selection, Jason, Aldo, and I collectively designed a plan to enhance the event-generator. The community bonding period was crucial in designing and understanding the implementation plan. You can view our idea here, which we will implement during this GSoC period. Once the coding period began, we managed to merge two key PRs before the midterm. These PRs partially added support for testin