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 title: '2021 in retrospect & happy new year 2022!'
 ---
 
-<img align="right" height="100" style="margin-left: 30px;" src="https://www.gentoo.org/assets/img/news/2022/2022.png" alt="Gentoo Fireworks">
 Happy New Year 2022! 
 
+<img align="right" height="100" style="margin-left: 30px;" src="https://www.gentoo.org/assets/img/news/2022/2022.png" alt="Gentoo Fireworks">
 The past year 2021 brought us all both great and sad news, with the world 
 still fighting the COVID pandemic via the ongoing vaccination efforts.
 Gentoo is going strong however, and we are happy to present once more our 
@@ -15,8 +15,11 @@ on Gentoo development.
 
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+
 ## Gentoo in numbers
 
+XXXXXXXX TEXT STILL MISSING (since we dont have the numbers yet) XXXXXXXXXXXX
+
 <!-- obviously this needs to be updated
 
 **2020 has featured a major increase in commits to the [::gentoo](https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/)
@@ -40,140 +43,158 @@ number of bugs closed in 2020 was 23500, compared to 15000 in 2019.
 
 ## New developers
 
-In the past year 2021 we have gained a record number of  **seven new Gentoo developers** (in chronological order):
+In the past year 2021 we have gained a record number of  **seven new Gentoo developers!** In chronological order:
 
 1. **[John Helmert III (ajak)](https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/User:Ajak)**
+
    <img align="right" height="65" style="margin-left: 30px;" src="https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/0d893d3dabb88ade5c41f0dd97b1da30?s=65&d=retro">
-   John was the first one to [join in February](https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-project/message/eb5f3efb9725a31d93ae30cae18dd4b5). He's focusing on the never-ending
-   security work, also via the internal applications and infrastructure of the 
-   security team.
-   
-2. **[Andrew Ammerlaan (andrewammerlaan)](https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/User:Andrewammerlaan)**
+   John was the first one to [join in February](https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-project/message/eb5f3efb9725a31d93ae30cae18dd4b5). He's focusing 
+   on the never-ending security work, wrangling bugs and issuing GLSAs but also developing the internal applications and infrastructure of the 
+   security team. We will hopefully have a fresh new GLSAmaker soon! 
+
+2. **[Andrew Ammerlaan (andrewammerlaan)](https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/User:AndrewAmmerlaan)**
+
    <img align="right" height="65" style="margin-left: 30px;" src="https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/1211c489de44db2f60c5b44af2648e71?s=65&d=retro">
    Andrew [signed up in May](https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev-announce/message/b9c2ec909212fc3c8bc88c4d10949d78)
-   and is well known for working on our scientific software stack, also handling
-   user contributions for both the Gentoo repository and the sci overlay.
+   and is well known for working on our scientific software stack (specifically physics and electronics), and also handling
+   user contributions for both the Gentoo repository and the sci overlay. Beyond this he active in the GURU team and also
+   in Python packaging.
 
 3. **[Ionen Wolkens (ionen)](https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/User:Ionen)**
+
    <img align="right" height="65" style="margin-left: 30px;" src="https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/eaa3cff502cdba37e308fedbfc3c3286?s=65&d=retro">
    Ionen [started in June](https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev-announce/message/158d8d7c0737c9a07ad8537b5b7f55d0)
-   and by now is active in many corners of Gentoo. One of his special focus areas
-   is games stuff!  XXXXXXXXXXXXX TEXT MISSING XXXXXXXXXXXXX
+   and by now is active in many corners of Gentoo. His specific focus area, however, is games, games, games!!! 
+   In addition, he's also taken over one of our somewhat "special fun" packages, nvidia-drivers ... 
 
 4. **[Florian Schmaus (flow)](https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/User:Flow)**
+
    <img align="right" height="65" style="margin-left: 30px;" src="https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/d61bfcb0536111f32b3669fed1038a23?s=65&d=retro">
    Also having [started in June](https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev-announce/message/3806eb498e53f00c9851a0835ef59362),
    Florian is busy with Java support, co-administrating the GURU overlay, and the
-   proxy maintenance team.  XXXXXXXXXXXXX TEXT MISSING XXXXXXXXXXXXX
+   proxy maintenance team. In addition he contributes to Erlang packaging - one of the more exotic programming 
+   languages present in Gentoo.
 
 5. **[Arthur Zamarin (arthurzam)](https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/User:Arthurzam)**
+
    <img align="right" height="65" style="margin-left: 30px;" src="https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/7c3755d199857c933a5213fe17c3e9db?s=65&d=retro">
    Next, [in August](https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev-announce/message/bdd3eff9c70806cb9748c908306fdcd3), came 
    Arthur. He's contributing a lot to our Python team, keeping the large number of
-   Python packages uptodate. In addition, he recently joined several arch teams, so we
-   can keep offering Gentoo for diverse hardware.
+   Python packages maintained there up-to-date. In addition, he recently joined several architecture teams, so we
+   can keep offering Gentoo for highly diverse hardware.
 
 6. **[Jakov Smolić (jsmolic)](https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/User:Jsmolic)**
+
    <img align="right" height="65" style="margin-left: 30px;" src="https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/d5972a8e23045ac76b1639bd3bb50f5c?s=65&d=retro">
    Our second new recruit [in August](https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev-announce/message/6b1c3d06be26877d295121a1fca742d0)
    was Jakov. Master of odd jobs, he's fixing bugs across the gentoo tree, solving
-   QA problems, and weeding out old packages. Last but not least, he has also joined our
-   recently renewed arch team efforts.
+   QA problems, and also weeding out old packages. Last but not least, he has also joined our
+   recently renewed architecture team efforts.
 
 7. **[Maciej Barć (xgqt)](https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/User:Xgqt)**
-   <img align="right" height="65" style="margin-left: 30px;" src="https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/bffdcbbb8835c4081a88052c7b4a785f?s=65&d=retro">
-   Last but not least, [November](https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev-announce/message/bff150221efaf417a83271af07ef71c1)
-   brought us Maciej. XXXXXXXXXXXXX TEXT MISSING XXXXXXXXXXXXX
-   
 
-[Very sad news reached us in February.](https://www.gentoo.org/news/2021/02/12/in-memory-of-kent-kentnl-fredric.html)    **Kent Fredric (kentnl)**, a driving force behind our Perl and Rust efforts, died in 
+   <img align="right" height="65" style="margin-left: 30px;" src="https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/bffdcbbb8835c4081a88052c7b4a785f?s=65&d=retro">
+   Finally, [November](https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev-announce/message/bff150221efaf417a83271af07ef71c1)
+   brought us Maciej. He's coming from the mathematics corner, and consequently his areas
+   of specialization are scientific and in particular mathematical packages, Scheme, but also, for
+   example, OCamML.
+
+<br><img align="left" height="65" style="margin-right: 30px;" src="/assets/img/news/2022/kent.png">
+[Very sad news reached us in February.](https://www.gentoo.org/news/2021/02/12/in-memory-of-kent-kentnl-fredric.html)
+**Kent Fredric (kentnl)**, a driving force behind our Perl and Rust efforts, died in 
 a drowning accident - just when he had moved to Florida to start a new phase in his life. 
 We will all remember his enthusiasm, helpfulness and love for detail, and wish his family
 all the best.
 
 
+<br>
 ## Featured changes
 
-Let's look at the major changes and improvements of 2021 now.
+Let's look at the major changes and improvements of 2021 in Gentoo now.
 
 
 ### Packages
 
-- **libxcrypt**
-
-- Python 3.9 default
-
-- Moving towards Pipewire...?
+- <img align="right" height="65" style="margin-left: 30px;" src="https://www.gentoo.org/assets/img/news/2022/logo-musl.svg">
+  <b><a href="https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Hardened_musl">Musl</a>:
+  Stage 3 tarballs for the alternative libc musl</b> are now built using the
+  main Gentoo repository only and have been published for several more arches and
+  configurations. Work is ongoing to import more musl-related fixes and support patches
+  from the musl overlay, with the objective that musl-based installations
+  eventually work out-of-the-box in Gentoo.
 
-
-- <img align="right" height="65" style="margin-left: 30px;" src="/assets/img/news/2022/logo-musl.svg">
-  <b><a href="https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Hardened_musl">Musl libc</a>: Stage 3 tarballs for the alternative libc musl are now built using the
-  main Gentoo repository only; stages have been published for several more arches and
-  configurations.</b> Work is ongoing to import more musl-related fixes and support patches
-  from the musl overlay, with the objective to eventually support musl-based installations
-  out-of-the-box in Gentoo.
-
-<!--
+- **libxcrypt:** GNU glibc based installations have this year migrated from the deprecated internal 
+  crypt support to the external, new [libxcrypt](https://packages.gentoo.org/packages/sys-libs/libxcrypt). 
+  With this we follow several other distributions; we gain modern algorithm support for one-way 
+  hashing of passwords and much easier bugfixing outside the glibc release cycle.
 
 - <img align="right" height="50" style="margin-left: 30px;" src="https://www.gentoo.org/assets/img/news/2021/logo-python.svg">
-  <b><a href="https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Python">Python</a>:
-  We have managed to almost withdraw Python 2.7 from Gentoo,
-  and upgrade the default to Python 3.8.</b>
-  Python 2.7 is still available as a build-time dependency for a few
-  packages.  We have additionally patched all the 
-  <a href="https://blogs.gentoo.org/mgorny/2020/09/12/new-vulnerability-fixes-in-python-2-7-and-pypy/">vulnerabilities</a>
-  known from later versions of Python.
--->
-  
-### Architectures
+  <b><a href="https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Python">Python</a>:</b>
+  In the meantime the default Python version in Gentoo has reached Python 3.9. Additionally we have
+  also Python 3.10 available stable, which means we're fully up to date with upstream.
 
-- **[PPC64](https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:PowerPC):
-  <b>new profiles, stages, isos</b>  XXXXXXXXXXXXX TEXT MISSING XXXXXXXXXXXXX
-  <!-- https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=715680 -->
 
+### Architectures
 
-- **[RISC-V](https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:RISC-V):
-  Support has improved a lot over the past year.** Many packages have been keyworded, 
-  from rust to llvm, and from XXXXXXXXXXXXX TEXT MISSING XXXXXXXXXXXXX. [Stage files
+- <img align="right" height="30" style="margin-left: 30px;" src="/assets/img/news/2022/logo-ppc.svg">
+  <b>[PPC64](https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:PowerPC): The PowerPC profiles and downloads have
+  seen significant updates and enhancements.</b> Several new ppc64 little-endian profiles (desktop, 
+  plasma, ...) have been added to the Gentoo repository. Our weekly updated downloads now include 
+  little-endian stages optimized for the POWER9 CPU series, and big- and little-endian Hardened musl
+  stage files.
+
+- <img align="right" height="50" style="margin-left: 30px;" src="https://www.gentoo.org/assets/img/news/2022/logo-riscv.svg">
+  <b><a href="https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:RISC-V">RISC-V</a>:
+  Support for RISC-V has improved enormously over the past year.</b> Modern desktop environments such as
+  KDE Plasma, Gnome, but also Lxde, Xfce4, and Enlightenment are fully available, as are other
+  packages ranging from Rust to ZFS. Many more are in preparation. Gentoo is running nicely and 
+  is actively used on many of the first physical RISC-V systems. [Stage files
   are now published weekly](https://gentoo.osuosl.org//releases/riscv/autobuilds/) for 
-  all supported ABI in both systemd and OpenRC variants.
-  Additionally, we have adapted the library directory paths to those used by other 
-  distributions for better binary compatibility.
-  
+  all supported ABI in both systemd and OpenRC variants. We have adapted the library directory paths to 
+  those used by other distributions for better binary compatibility.
 
+- **[M68k](https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:M68k):
+  Gentoo on Motorola 68000 is back!** We have regularly updated stages for download again, 
+  and keywording of packages is ongoing.
 
-### Infrastructure
+- **LoongArch64**: 
+  While this is not an official Gentoo project yet, we have already received first code contributions
+  for Gentoo on [LoongArch64](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loongson#LoongArch), a Chinese development 
+  originally based on MIPS.
 
-<!--
 
-- <img align="right" height="50" style="margin-left: 30px;" src="https://www.gentoo.org/assets/img/news/2020/gentoo-package.svg">
-  <b><a href="https://packages.gentoo.org/">packages.gentoo.org</a>:
-  The packages website has received many improvements towards being
-  a central source of information on Gentoo packages.</b> It now shows
-  the results of QA checks, bugs, pull requests referencing
-  a package, and a maintainer dashboard indicating stabilization
-  candidates and outdated versions (according to <a href="https://repology.org/">Repology</a>).
-  Additionally, the display can be <a href="https://packages.gentoo.org/user/preferences/">configured</a>
-  for your personal preferences!
+### Infrastructure
 
--->
+- <b><a href="https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:RelEng">Release Engineering</a>: This year brought big
+  updates of our build hardware as well as improvements in [Catalyst](https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Catalyst)</b>.
+  A new AMD Ryzen 7 3700X 8-core machine at Hetzner now handles our builds for *amd64*, *x86*,
+  *alpha*, *m68k*, and *riscv* (the latter via [qemu](https://www.qemu.org/)); a new ARM64 Ampere Neoverse-N1 80-core
+  machine provided by [Equinix](https://www.equinix.com/) through the [Works On Arm program](https://www.worksonarm.com/)
+  handles *arm64* and *arm*; and two 16-core POWER9 machines provided by [OSUOSL POWER Development 
+  Hosting](https://osuosl.org/services/powerdev/) handle *ppc64* and *ppc*.
+  This means we have had the capacity to add a [large variety of builds](https://www.gentoo.org/downloads/), from openrc and systemd variants
+  to musl-based builds whereever possible.
 
 
 ### Other news
 
-- Experimental binhost started
+- **Online Gentoo workshops: A series of online workshops in German language started in 2021.**
+  The meetings take place in BBB every 2 months on the 3rd Saturday of the
+  month. The events have been very well received, and we also want to provide workshops in 
+  English starting on 2022-02-19. All events are listed on [https://gentoo-ev.org/](https://gentoo-ev.org/).
 
-- anything?
+- <img align="right" height="50" style="margin-left: 30px;" src="https://www.gentoo.org/assets/img/news/2021/logo-liberachat.svg">
+  **The move to Libera.Chat:** After major changes in the governance of Freenode IRC, **Gentoo
+  and many other open source projects moved their IRC presence to [Libera Chat](https://libera.chat/).** This new
+  IRC network, founded by former Freenode staffers, has in the meantime become the de-facto replacement of Freenode;
+  we can certainly say that we feel very welcome and at home there and have a very strong presence with over 100
+  Gentoo channels. Freenode mutated to, well, [something else](https://freenode.net/)...
 
-<!--
+- **Experimental binary package hosting:** First steps have started to also [provide binary package
+  hosting](https://dilfridge.blogspot.com/2021/09/experimental-binary-gentoo-package.html) on the Gentoo mirrors.
 
-- <img align="right" height="55" style="margin-left: 30px;" src="https://www.gentoo.org/assets/img/news/2021/hpc-paper.png">
-  **HPC adoption: The [Prefix](https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Prefix) Project
-  has published a [conference proceeding](https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/202024505036)** on a case
-  study of Gentoo in high energy physics.  Gentoo also sees **wider adoption in the HPC community**
-  such as [Compute Canada](https://www.computecanada.ca) and [EESSI](https://www.eessi-hpc.org).
+- anything else?
 
--->
 
 ## Discontinued projects
 
@@ -183,35 +204,22 @@ in the past.  With limited resources, we had to divert our time
 and effort from projects showing little promise and activity.  The most important
 projects discontinued in 2021 were:
 
-- **Eudev**
-
-<!--
+- **Eudev**: After several years, Gentoo maintainers decided that keeping
+  this barely modified fork of systemd-udev alive was not worth the effort, in particular
+  since also musl-based installations now work with the original.
+  In the meantime, maintenance of eudev has been picked up by a [cross-distribution
+  team](https://github.com/eudev-project/eudev), which means it may be
+  available for longer.
 
-- **Architectures**: Alpha and IA64 keywords were reduced to ~arch (i.e. unstable/testing only).
-  HPPA stable keywords were limited to the most important
-  packages only.  SH (SuperH) was removed entirely.  With very small number
-  of users of these architectures, our arch teams decided that
-  the effort in maintaining them is too great.  In case of SuperH,
-  our last available hardware died.
+- anything else???
 
-- **[LibreSSL](https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:LibreSSL)**:
-  By the end of 2020, we have decided to discontinue support
-  for LibreSSL.  With little to no support from various upstream projects,
-  the effort necessary to maintain package compatibility exceeded
-  the gain, especially given that OpenSSL has made a lot of progress
-  since the forking point.
-
--->
 
 ## Thank you!
 
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+Of course, if you look in detail, there has been much more news; we can't cover everything here.
+**We would like to thank all Gentoo developers and everyone submitting contributions
+for their relentless everyday Gentoo work.** As a volunteer project, Gentoo could not exist 
+without them.
 
-<!-- 
-
-We can here describe only a few major items, and these cover by far not all that is going on.
-**We would like to thank all Gentoo developers for their relentless everyday Gentoo
-work.**  While they are often not recognized for this work, Gentoo could not exist without them.
-Cheers, and let's make 2021 even more productive!
-
--->
+And now it's time to break out the champagne - let's celebrate the new year 2022, 
+let's hope for good days, and let's make it even more productive!