The FAIR Blog
Second star to the right and straight on till morning...
Joost de Valk and Karim Marucchi announce they are stepping away from FAIR's day-to-day operations. FAIR continues under the Linux Foundation, expanding beyond WordPress with TYPO3 integration and preparing for the EU Cyber Resilience Act.
2025 FAIR Recap
A look back at FAIR's first year: from founding and the Basel launch, through building out the software suite, engaging at conferences worldwide, and envisioning the road ahead with nine software products and a steady release cadence.
FAIR Connect 1.2.2 Release Announcement
A fast follow-up release fixing a fatal error introduced in version 1.2.1. Includes manual update steps and WP-CLI instructions for updating.
FAIR Connect 1.2.1 Release Announcement
Bug fixes for metadata access and modal display, new features including directory hashing and update preservation, fully backward compatible with version 1.1.
FAIR Connect 1.2 Release Announcement
FAIR Plugin becomes FAIR Connect, Mini FAIR becomes FAIR Beacon, and AspireExplore becomes FAIR Explorer. Plus custom avatar handling, browser compatibility improvements, and IndexNow optimizations.
FAIR Plugin 1.1 Release Announcement
The first update in a 6-week release cycle. Adds WP-CLI DID support, update dates, modal tabs, avatar handling, browser list integration, FAIR directory link, and custom assets.
What is FAIR?
Based on Ryan McCue's LoopConf 2025 presentation. A deep dive into the dependency and privacy problems in WordPress, and how FAIR's federated architecture solves them with independent repositories, discovery aggregators, and trust layers.
Discover, trust, install: FAIR 1.0 is here
The 1.0 milestone release bringing together AspireCloud for aggregation and search, AspireExplorer for web browsing, the FAIR Plugin with ED25519 signatures and GDPR compliance, Mini-FAIR Repo, and Planet FAIR.
Fair Plugin version 0.4.0: Decentralized Installation!
Introducing DID-based installation, multisite compatibility with network activation, avatar management, IndexNow on deletion, and browser checks.