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Intel Open-Source Software Setback: IWD Development Hiatus (www.phoronix.com)

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Adding to the unfortunate engineering setbacks at Intel this year as part of cost-cutting measures, the Intel IWD software development has been on a hiatus for the past three months. Going from previously seeing monthly releases and almost constant activity to now development ceasing up with no activity in the past three months.

Over the past three months a number of Phoronix readers have written in with concern around IWD, the Intel software project that they open-sourced back in 2016 with the intent of serving as a replacement to WPA_Supplicant. Over the past decade it's seen a lot of growth with new features added, adoption by various Linux distributions, and overall rigorous development up until three months ago. This wireless daemon has worked out very well on modern Linux systems.

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