2023 Changes

This page lists all changes to my web site in 2023, except for new journal entries, along with a brief description. For more recent changes and the current RSS feed, see the current changes page. For older changes, see the changes for 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, and 2008.

December 2023

2023-12-30 — Add new INN::ovsqlite_client documentation

Add documentation for the new INN::ovsqlite_client Perl module to the INN documentation pages.

2023-12-29 — Review: The Hound of Justice

Review of The Hound of Justice by Claire O'Dell.

2023-12-29 — Update personal archive signing key

The key rotation for my personal Debian archive has been completed and the metadata is now signed with the bookworm key.

2023-12-29 — Broken link cleanup

Another periodic cleanup of broken links.

2023-12-28 — Review: The Afterward

Review of The Afterward by E.K. Johnston.

2023-12-27 — Review: Nettle & Bone

Review of Nettle & Bone by T. Kingfisher.

2023-12-26 — Review: A Study in Scarlet

Review of A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle.

2023-12-25 — Review: A Study in Honor

Review of A Study in Honor by Claire O'Dell.

2023-12-25 — krb5-strength 3.3

Maintenance release with portability improvements and minor bug fixes. Update Perl dependencies for current community recommendations.

2023-12-24 — Review: The Blackwing War

Review of The Blackwing War by K.B. Spangler.

2023-12-23 — Review: Liberty's Daughter

Review of Liberty's Daughter by Naomi Kritzer.

2023-12-22 — Review: Bookshops & Bonedust

Review of Bookshops & Bonedust by Travis Baldree.

2023-12-21 — Review: Wintersmith

Review of Wintersmith by Terry Pratchett.

2023-12-20 — Review: The Box

Review of The Box by Marc Levinson.

November 2023

2023-11-20 — Review: Thud!

Review of Thud! by Terry Pratchett.

2023-11-19 — Review: The Exiled Fleet

Review of The Exiled Fleet by J.S. Dewes.

2023-11-04 — Add 2023 winner of the World Fantasy Award

Add the 2023 winner of the World Fantasy Award for best novel (Saint Death's Daughter, by C.S.E. Cooney).

2023-11-04 — Add 2023 winner of the Hugo Award

Add the 2023 winner of the Hugo Award for best novel (Nettle & Bone, by T. Kingfisher).

2023-11-04 — Add 2023 winner of Ursula K. Le Guin Prize

Add the 2023 winner of the Ursula K. Le Guin Prize (Arboreality, by Rebecca Campbell).

October 2023

2023-10-24 — Review: Going Infinite

Review of Going Infinite by Michael Lewis.

2023-10-22 — Review: Going Postal

Review of Going Postal by Terry Pratchett.

2023-10-21 — Refresh my personal PGP key

Refresh my personal PGP key to include new expiration dates for its keys.

2023-10-18 — Review: The Cassini Division

Review of The Cassini Division by Ken MacLeod.

2023-10-17 — Review: Wolf Country

Review of Wolf Country by Mar Delaney.

2023-10-16 — Review: A Hat Full of Sky

Review of A Hat Full of Sky by Terry Pratchett.

2023-10-14 — Review: A Killing Frost

Review of A Killing Frost by Seanan McGuire.

2023-10-09 — Review: Chilling Effect

Review of Chilling Effect by Valerie Valdes.

2023-10-05 — Review: The Far Reaches

Review of The Far Reaches by John Joseph Adams (ed.).

2023-10-03 — Review: The Last Watch

Review of The Last Watch by J.S. Dewes.

2023-10-02 — Review: Monstrous Regiment

Review of Monstrous Regiment by Terry Pratchett.

2023-10-01 — Add winner of 2023 British Fantasy Award

Add the winner of the 2023 Robert Holdstock Award for Best Fantasy Novel (The Spear Cuts Through Water, by Simon Jimenez).

September 2023

2023-09-09 — Broken link cleanup

Another periodic cleanup of broken links.

2023-09-04 — Review: Before We Go Live

Review of Before We Go Live by Stephen Flavall.

2023-09-01 — Add 2023 Mythopoeic winner

Add the 2023 winner of the Mythopoeic Award for adult novel (When the Angels Left the Old Country by Sacha Lamb).

August 2023

2023-08-27 — Add 2023 Aurora winner

Add the 2023 winner of the Prix Aurora Award for best novel in English (The Embroidered Book by Kate Heartfield).

2023-08-27 — Add 2023 Clarke Award winner

Add the 2023 winner of the Arthur C. Clarke Award (Venomous Lumpsucker, by Ned Beauman).

2023-08-20 — Review: Some Desperate Glory

Review of Some Desperate Glory by Emily Tesh.

2023-08-05 — Broken link cleanup

Another periodic cleanup of broken links.

2023-08-03 — Add 2023 World Fantasy Award nominees

Add the 2023 nominees for the World Fantasy Award for best novel.

July 2023

2023-07-22 — Add 2023 Ursula K. Le Guin Award nominees

Add the 2023 nominees for the Ursula K. Le Guin Award.

2023-07-22 — Add 2023 Arthur C. Clarke Award nominees

Add the 2023 nominees for the Arthur C. Clarke Award for best novel.

2023-07-22 — Add 2023 Hugo nominees for best novel

Add the 2023 nominees for the Hugo Award for best novel.

2023-07-17 — Review: Legends & Lattes

Review of Legends & Lattes by Travis Baldree.

2023-07-16 — Review: The Unkindest Tide

Review of The Unkindest Tide by Seanan McGuire.

2023-07-05 — Broken link cleanup

Another periodic cleanup of broken links.

June 2023

2023-06-28 — Review: Semiosis

Review of Semiosis by Sue Burke.

2023-06-27 — Review: Translation State

Review of Translation State by Ann Leckie.

2023-06-27 — Add winners of 2023 Locus Awards

Add the winners of the 2023 Locus Awards. Best SF novel: The Kaiju Preservation Society, by John Scalzi. Best fantasy novel: Babel, by R.F. Kuang. Best first novel: The Mountain in the Sea, by Ray Nayler.

2023-06-24 — Review: The Wee Free Men

Review of The Wee Free Men by Terry Pratchett.

2023-06-23 — Review: Rose/House

Review of Rose/House by Arkady Martine.

2023-06-21 — Review: Furious Heaven

Review of Furious Heaven by Kate Elliott.

2023-06-05 — Broken link cleanup

Another periodic cleanup of broken links.

May 2023

2023-05-30 — Review: Night Watch

Review of Night Watch by Terry Pratchett.

2023-05-29 — Review: The Mimicking of Known Successes

Review of The Mimicking of Known Successes by Malka Older.

2023-05-27 — Update N.D. Stevenson's name

Change earlier references to N.D. Stevenson's work to use his preferred name for professional attribution.

2023-05-22 — Review: A Half-Built Garden

Review of A Half-Built Garden by Ruthanna Emrys.

2023-05-21 — Review: Tsalmoth

Review of Tsalmoth by Steven Brust.

2023-05-21 — Add 2023 Nebula Award winner

Add the 2023 winner of the Nebula Award for best novel (Babel by R.F. Kuang).

2023-05-20 — Review: The Stone Canal

Review of The Stone Canal by Ken MacLeod.

2023-05-14 — Remove references to the old INN testing directory

We no longer have a separate directory for test releases and instead use prereleases on GitHub.

2023-05-13 — Broken link cleanup

Another periodic cleanup of broken links.

2023-05-13 — Add winner of 2023 British Science Fiction Award

Add the 2023 winner of the British Science Fiction Award for best novel (City of Last Chances, by Adrian Tchaikovsky).

April 2023

2023-04-30 — Review: The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents

Review of The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents by Terry Pratchett.

2023-04-29 — INN 2.7.1

A bug fix and minor feature release over INN 2.7.0. See the NEWS file in the release for a full summary of changes.

2023-04-13 — Review: Babel

Review of Babel by R.F. Kuang.

2023-04-12 — Review: Once Upon a Tome

Review of Once Upon a Tome by Oliver Darkshire.

2023-04-11 — Review: The Last Hero

Review of The Last Hero by Terry Pratchett.

2023-04-10 — Review: Circe

Review of Circe by Madeline Miller.

2023-04-02 — Review: The Nordic Theory of Everything

Review of The Nordic Theory of Everything by Anu Partanen.

2023-04-02 — Add new ovsqlite-util INN documentation

Add new man page for ovsqlite-util to the INN documentation for both CURRENT and 2.7.

March 2023

2023-03-31 — rra-c-util 10.4

Add serial numbers to all Autoconf macros. Try again to fix the portable/getnameinfo test. Add some new perltidy flags.

2023-03-24 — Review: Thief of Time

Review of Thief of Time by Terry Pratchett.

2023-03-21 — Review: The Kaiju Preservation Society

Review of The Kaiju Preservation Society by John Scalzi.

2023-03-19 — Review: The Star Fraction

Review of The Star Fraction by Ken MacLeod.

2023-03-18 — Review: Allow Me to Retort

Review of Allow Me to Retort by Elie Mystal.

2023-03-11 — Broken link cleanup

Another periodic cleanup of broken links.

2023-03-11 — Add finalists for 2022 Nebula Award for best novel

Add the finalists for the 2022 Nebula Award for best novel, which, following my normal practice for awards, is shown as the 2023 award since that's the year in which it will be awarded.

February 2023

2023-02-25 — Review: An Informal History of the Hugos

Review of An Informal History of the Hugos by Jo Walton.

2023-02-14 — Update author of The Fortunate Fall

Reflect the author's name change to Cameron Reed in the body of the review of The Fortunate Fall, but keep the Raphael Carter attribution in the review index and heading at the author's request.

2023-02-03 — Remove changes from December 2022

Remove the changes from December 2022 from the recent changes page.

January 2023

2023-01-29 — Add winners of 2022 Otherwise Award

Add winners of the 2022 Otherwise Award (Light from Uncommon Stars by Ryka Aoki and Sorrowland by Rivers Solomon).

2023-01-27 — Review: The Library of the Dead

Review of The Library of the Dead by T.L. Huchu.

2023-01-17 — Review: Forward

Review of Forward by Blake Crouch (ed.).

2023-01-16 — Review: Night and Silence

Review of Night and Silence by Seanan McGuire.

2023-01-15 — Review: The Truth

Review of The Truth by Terry Pratchett.

2023-01-08 — Review: Black Stars

Review of Black Stars by Nisi Shawl & Latoya Peterson (ed.).

2023-01-07 — Review: Postwar

Review of Postwar by Tony Judt.

2023-01-06 — Broken link cleanup

Another periodic cleanup of broken links.

2023-01-01 — Rotate 2022 changes

Move all web site changes from 2022 to a separate page and remove all entries older than December of 2022 from the current changes page.

2023-01-01 — 2022 reading in review

Add an overview of my 2022 reading, main book recommendations, and reading statistics.

Last modified and spun 2024-01-02