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Roboto: Google’s signature font is now open source
The latest news from Google on open source releases, major projects, events, and outreach programs for early career developers.
Fedora 22 released
We are proud to announce the official release of Fedora 22, the community-driven and community-built operating system now available in Cloud, Server, and Workstation editions. If that’s all you need to hear, jump over to Get Fedora to download — or for current users, run the upgrade tool. In addition to the latest…
Critical fix for a potential data corruption issue in PostgreSQL 9.3 and 9.4
The PostgreSQL Global Development Group has released an update with multiple functionality and security fixes to all supported versions of …
Firefox 38 released
We'd also like to extend a special thank you to all of the new Mozillians who contributed to this release of Firefox!
Diaspora 0.5 released
After a long wait we are really happy to announce that a new major version of diaspora*, v0.5.0.0, has been released today! This is the biggest release the community has ever done, and includes many of the large features and improvements you have been waiting for.
Mercurial: Onward and upward
Automating releases, semantic version bumps, and API calls often involves configuring branch permissions and storing long-lived credentials in pipeline variables. Managing credential rotation adds an ongoing maintenance burden. Today, we’re introducing granular step-level permissions and container tokens in Bitbucket…
Atom Shell is now Electron
We are archiving Atom and all projects under the Atom organization for an official sunset on December 15, 2022.
GCC 5.1 released
Command-line optimization and target options are now streamed on a per-function basis and honored by the link-time optimizer. This change makes link-time optimization a more transparent replacement of per-file optimizations. It is now possible to build projects that require different optimization settings for…
Grafana 2.0 Released
Grafana is the open source analytics & monitoring solution for every database.
Docker 1.6: Engine and Orchestration Updates, Registry 2.0, and Windows Client
Docker is a founding member of the Blueprint Alliance, a 12-company reference architecture for securing AI agents, built around four governance questions.
NGINX Open Source: Reflecting Back and Looking Ahead
Deliver modern applications with NGINX. Explore high-performance load balancing, API gateways, and web server solutions trusted by top global enterprises.
Updating Our Open Source Patent Grant
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Mono 4.0.0 Release Notes
Mono has historically chosen to use the highest possible precision for all floating point operations. This means that both 64-bit math and 32-bit math were done with the highest precision available.
Firefox 37 Release Notes
We'd also like to extend a special thank you to all of the new Mozillians who contributed to this release of Firefox!
Pruning and Polishing: Keeping OpenBSD Modern
Owing to its historic roots as a derivative of the original Berkeley Systems Distribution (BSD), OpenBSD includes a great deal of old code. Many files bear copyright notices from the year 1980, and in some cases, even older. Although not explicitly stated as a project goal, keeping OpenBSD modern is an important part…