I've been using this for a couple of weeks now with no issues. If it gets accepted, I can package and maintain it, if that helps.

Sounds reasonable. They seem to be discussing the matter on how releases should be handled in future. There seem to be only a handful of people committing, and as a community driven effort there will be quaters with more/less commits.

Yes, Synergy is developed more actively very likely being a commercial product gaining new features. I personally don't need those, but my requirements are very low ("just share mouse/keyboard/clipboard").

We'll see how this turns out. I don't know how it works out if the barrier project actually lives if there's a possibility having both solutions packaged (redundancy etc.), if having a commercial (with more features) and a free product in the repos is possible / agreeable by the devs (I can't use the commercial one, doubt I'd get paid the license by my company for unofficially running a linux box).

As a note, a new release has been tagged on Github: https://github.com/debauchee/barrier/archive/v2.3.0.tar.gz

2.3.0 is still marked as pre-release, I've asked the dev if 2.3.1 as it is marked as "latest release" is the official stable release here: https://github.com/debauchee/barrier/issues/425.

It is. It might also be worth waiting for 2.3.2, which has some quality of life additions, and memory leak reductions.

Full disclosure, I've been watching the project quite closely and contributed to it. :D

v2.3.2 has been released.

Just making sure this doesn't fall through the cracks

(I would like this too)

Was curious so created a package.yml for this, license is a bit of a question though as it mentions GPL2.0 but with an OpenSSL compiling section so will need review.

name       : barrier
version    : 2.3.2
release    : 1
source     :
    - https://github.com/debauchee/barrier/archive/v2.3.2.tar.gz : 6b92a70c5f4d625065842d133386982ec2ad1db2a809af47e46ab8ce2acd39b5
license    : GPL-2.0-or-later
component  : network.util
summary    : Open-source KVM software
description: |
    Eliminate the barrier between your machines.
builddeps  :
    - pkgconfig(avahi-compat-libdns_sd)
    - pkgconfig(ice)
    - pkgconfig(libcurl)
    - pkgconfig(Qt5Core)
    - pkgconfig(sm)
    - pkgconfig(xext)
    - pkgconfig(xi)
    - pkgconfig(xinerama)
    - pkgconfig(xrandr)
    - pkgconfig(xtst)
setup      : |
    %cmake
build      : |
    %make
install    : |
    %make_install

Can't take on maintainer of this, so won't be submitting a patch.