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We're determined to deliver a stable release of Godot 4.0 as soon as possible. To achieve this, we are going to enter the feature freeze phase (beta) for Godot 4.0, to shift our focus towards stabilizing the existing functionality and fixing bugs.
Aiming for a 10 year life-cycle for smartphones
Around the end of 2020, I looked at GNOME's commit history as a proxy for the project's overall health. A year and a half went by since then, and it's time for an update.
LocalStack 1.0 is generally available with 80+ AWS services, the AWS Server Framework, parity testing, reworked Cloud Pods, Extensions, and IAM enforcement.
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Product updates, company news, and educational content on AI storage, object storage, data lakehouses, and cloud-native infrastructure from MinIO.
Porting Linux to Apple Silicon
This release should put us at about half way through the planned work for the networking focus set of releases (0.6.x), a scope roughly defined by the article on A12: Advancing network transparency…
We are pleased to announce the general availability of Rocky Linux 9.0. Release notes are available in the Rocky Linux Documentation - these notes con...
Supposedly “open“ standards – including those ratified by ISO, CEN and ETSI – can’t be implemented without going cap-in-hand to the world’s largest companies to buy a license.
Recently [the Python Package Index](https://pypi.org/) announced that they will be implementing new account-security policies, and hoo boy are some people …
Insights on running a Home Area Network (HAN) nearly completely on open source software, including configurations and metrics.
More thoughts on supply chain and package managers.
Recently I got a feedback from a user, who has suffered from Notepad++ for several years: Feeling sorry and guilty, I replied him with all my compassion: My bad conscience has been relieved for Tom. But then I think of other Notepad++ users in pain.
After almost 9 years since the beginning of the last wxWidgets stable release series, the first release in the new stable 3.2 series is finally available on GitHub . You will find there archives with the library sources and documentation as well as binaries for the selected Windows compilers such as Microsoft Visual…
We’re thrilled to announce Ruby Shield, a partnership between Ruby Central and Shopify that underscores our shared commitment to security work. This partnership will allow Ruby Central to focus more on security and general Ruby and Rails infrastructure development and maintenance. Ruby Central operates rubygems.org…
On top of the existing fixed-function fog, Godot 4.0 introduces a new type of fog: Volumetric Fog. For the 4.0 release, we decided to take Volumetric Fog one step further with the addition of FogVolumes. These allow users to dynamically place fog and control complex fog effects with shaders.
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We’re proud to announce the new feature release of darktable, 4.0.0! The github release is here: https://github.com/darktable-org/darktable/releases/tag/release-4.0.0. As always, please don’t use the autogenerated tarball provided by github, but only our tar.xz file. The checksums are: $ sha256sum…
Those who forget history often inadvertently repeat it. Some of us recall that twenty-one years ago, the most popular code hosting site, a fully Free and Open Source (FOSS) site called SourceForge, proprietarized all their code — never to make it FOSS again. Major FOSS projects slowly left SourceForge since it was…
Our huge annual release, Thunderbird 102, brings highly-requested features, visual refinements + quality-of-life upgrades to our 20M+ users.
To celebrate Maintainer Month, GitHub has invested an additional $500,000 to help sponsor the open source projects that it depends on.
