A week ago, Google announced that 185 open source organizations who have been selected for the Google Summer of Code 2026, one of the biggest GSoCs ever.

I am happy to announce that, for the tenth consecutive year, OpenWISP has been accepted into this program! Over the past 9 years, we've completed over 25 successful projects, most of which have been merged and are now essential parts of OpenWISP.

I'm incredibly proud of what we've built together. Many contributors who started their journey with us have gone on to shape the open source world and are still contributing today. GSoC keeps bringing fresh talent through our doors, and honestly, that never gets old.

Check out our list of ideas for GSoC 2026 if you're interested in joining us this year.

I held off on this announcement because I wanted to share some big news: I just merged the last three GSoC25 pull requests which were still open.

These took months of aggressive testing, reviewing, and stress testing, because they touched around 20,000 lines of code across 3 different OpenWISP core modules: something that doesn't happen every day and is not exactly a walk in the park.

The merged PRs are:

• General Map: Indoor, Mobile, Linkable URLs, see also Geographic & Indoor Maps for more information.
• WHOIS Information and IP Address-Based Geolocation, see also WHOIS Lookup and Estimated Location for more information.
• Improve UX and Flexibility of the Firmware Upgrader Module, see also GSoC 2025: Improve UX and Flexibility of the Firmware Upgrader Module for more information.

Huge achievements, all of them.

Time to rest up, I've been working like a maniac to get this done on time. GSoC 2026 awaits!