Radicle 1.6.0 – Amaryllis

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Radicle is a peer-to-peer, local-first code collaboration stack built on Git. Radicle 1.6.0 – Amaryllis 14.01.2026 Happy new year! The Radicle team is excited to announce the release of Radicle 1.6.0 (4a5a51e6), code name Amaryllis. The Amaryllis flower blooms late winter and prefers to sit in the window (foreshadowing…) First off, we would like to say sorry for the hiatus. As the team worked on some major refactoring, we ran into a snag before we could perform this release. Thankfully, we caught the bug, but as we were pushing up against holiday time, we put a hold on releasing. Now that we are on the other side of the new year, and sufficiently defrosted, we are back to making regular releases! This release consists of massive 153 commits from 12 contributors. People really banded together to make a better release for Radicle this time round! Let’s give thanks to: ade icetan defelo Johannes K. matthias Richard L. Sebastian M. Yaroslav H. Installation curl -sSLf https://radicle.xyz/install | sh -s -- --no-modify-path --version=1.6.0 Migrating radicle-node to mio The crates netservices, io-reactor, and popol were crucially valuable for implementing radicle-node. However, they are not ideal dependencies for ensuring long-term health of the network I/O layer: popol is only intended to support Unix-like platforms, and support on other platforms, like Windows, is desired. Even though io-reactor defines the trait reactor::poller::Poll to potentially support multiple I/O polling mechanisms, there is only one single implementation wrapping popol. Issues for other polling crates are open since 2023 without tangible progress: #10 for mio, #9 for polling, #8 for epoll. This suggests that it is not a high priority for the maintainers to integrate with other polling abstractions which might offer better cross-platform compatibility when compared to popol. The trait reactor::poller::Poll can only be implemented for file descriptors which also implement std::os::fd::raw::AsRawFd,...