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Sovereign Tech Agency Making 2026 Investments In systemd, PHP, Servo & More

Written by Michael Larabel in Free Software on 22 October 2025 at 11:37 AM EDT. 22 Comments
Germany's Sovereign Tech Agency (nee Sovereign Tech Fund) is out with their latest newsletter where they outlined some new investments in various key open-source projects.

In today's STF newsletter they highlight recently commissioned work as for the following projects:
"Scala, SDCC, Let's Encrypt, Servo, chatmail, Drupal, Fedify, openprinting, PHP, Apache Arrow, Open SSL, R Project, Open Web Docs, conda, systemd, and phpseclib"

Their PHP investment for 2025~2026 amounts to €223k to help with improving security, reliability, and collaboration.

For systemd in 2025~2026 is €399k for extending it to improve security, integrity, and robustness for multi-user systems.

Servo is set to receive €545k for improving accessibility, embedding support, and maintainability.

OpenPrinting is looking at €190k for helping with its maintenance and improvements.

More details on these new Sovereign Tech Agency investments via their newsletter.

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