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Apache Open Office as an unmaintained project?

The Apache Software Foundation offers a suite of office productivity software named Apache Open Office. Based on the download page, you would never guess the last major release of the software was made available in 2014. With that bit of release history in mind, would it be fair to consider Apache Open Office as an…

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The Zulip Foundation

Today marks a major transition for the Zulip open-source project and for Kandra Labs, the company behind it: I’m stepping back from full-time Zulip leadership to join Anthropic, alongside three senior team members, and we’re donating the company to a newly created, independent, nonprofit Zulip Foundation. …

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RStudio becomes a public benefit corporation

We started the RStudio project because we were excited and inspired by R. The creators of R provided a flexible and powerful foundation for statistical computing; then made it free and open so that it could be improved collaboratively and its benefits could be shared by the widest possible audience.

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Zulip 2.0: Open source team chat

We’re excited to announce the release of Zulip Server 2.0, containing hundreds of new features and bug fixes. Zulip is the world’s most productive team chat software, used by thousands of teams as an alternative to Slack, HipChat, Mattermost and IRC. Zulip’s unique topic-based threading combines the …

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QEMU 7.0

We’d like to announce the availability of the QEMU 7.0.0 release. This release contains 2500+ commits from 225 authors.