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HandBrake 1.0.0 Released
News and Project Updates!
Google’s robots.txt parser is now open source
The latest news from Google on open source releases, major projects, events, and outreach programs for early career developers.
Cloudflare is sponsoring Ladybird and Omarchy
We're excited to announce our support of two independent, open source projects: Ladybird, an ambitious project to build a completely independent browser from the ground up, and Omarchy, an opinionated Arch Linux setup for developers.
Measuring the impact of AI on experienced open-source developer productivity
We conduct a randomized controlled trial to understand how early-2025 AI tools affect the productivity of experienced open-source developers working on their own repositories. Surprisingly, we find that when developers use AI tools, they take 19% longer than without—AI makes them slower.
Freesound just reached 500K Creative Commons sounds
In our recent 2020 in numbers blog post we predicted that we would reach 500k sound uploads at some point in 2021 and… it has just happened! At some point during the past weekend, the number of sounds which are available for download in Freesound has surpassed half a million. Note that by sounds which are available…
Elasticsearch is open source, again
Elastic announces the return of open source licensing for Elasticsearch and Kibana, adding AGPL as an option alongside existing licenses. This change reinforces our long-standing commitment to open so...
Firefox 72.0
We'd like to extend a special thank you to all of the new Mozillians who contributed to this release of Firefox.
ChakraCore GitHub repository is now open
In a December 2015 talk at JSConf US, we announced that we would be open-sourcing the key components of the Chakra JavaScript engine that powers Microsoft Edge. Today, we are excited to share with you that we’ve just made the sources for ChakraCore available under the MIT License at the ChakraCore GitHub repository…
PostgreSQL 9.4 Released
18 DECEMBER 2014: The PostgreSQL Global Development Group announces the release of PostgreSQL 9.4, the latest version of the world's …
UnifiedPush: A decentralized, open-source push notification protocol
A modern Android smartphone relies on a lot of services, from app stores and calendars to messaging and push notifications. Most of them have open alternativ...
Epic Games Supports Blender Foundation with $1.2M
The Free and Open Source 3D Creation Software — blender.org
Devtools must be open source
The age of personalized software is here.
RethinkDB joins the Linux Foundation: What Happens Next
When the company behind RethinkDB shut down last year, a group of former employees and members of the community formed an interim leadership team and began devising a plan to perpetuate the RethinkDB open-source software project by transitioning it to a community-driven endeavor. Today’s announcement by the Cloud…
Blender Is Free Software
Blender is Free Software. It is free to use for everyone. Free to use for any purpose, also commercially. Blender is free to share with others, it is free to study Blender's sources and free to make new versions.
Operation Rosehub – patching thousands of open-source projects
The latest news from Google on open source releases, major projects, events, and outreach programs for early career developers.
Firefox 65.0 released
We'd like to extend a special thank you to all of the new Mozillians who contributed to this release of Firefox!
Our plans for Thunderbird on Android
We're thrilled to announce our first steps on the road to delivering an outstanding Thunderbird on Android experience.
Cap'n Proto 1.0
It’s been a little over ten years since the first release of Cap’n Proto, on April 1, 2013. Today I’m releasing version 1.0 of Cap’n Proto’s C++ reference implementation.
Automerge 2.0
Automerge 2.0 is here and ready for production.
ETH Zurich and EPFL to release a LLM developed on public infrastructure
ETH Zurich and EPFL will release a large language model (LLM) developed on public infrastructure. Trained on the “Alps” supercomputer at the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS), the new LLM marks a milestone in open-source AI and multilingual excellence.