WordPress 5.0: A Gutenberg FAQ
Update: On December 6th we released WordPress 5.0. It was definitely the most controversial release in a while, but the usage and adoption metrics are looking similar to previous releases. I’m look…
Nextcloud introduces social features, joins the fediverse
Today, Nextcloud 15 has been made available. As there is so much new and improved in this release, we have dedicated separate blogs to each main area of improvement. This blog covers a preview of the the brand new Nextcloud Social app, introducing social networking to Nextcloud. Download now! The Mastodon project is…
Mastodon’s 2 Year Anniversary
Mastodon was first announced to the public through Hacker News, a link aggregator site for programmers, on October 6, 2016. Now we’re celebrating the 2 year anniversary! 🎉
What OpenStreetMap can be
Over the past two years, the biggest buzz among the geo chatterati has been Justin O’Beirne’s meticulously argued (albeit bizarrely formatted) feature-by-feature comparisons of Google and Apple Maps: their design choices, their data, their production processes.
NetBSD Network Security Audit
Over the last five months, hundreds of patches were committed to the source tree as a result of this work. Dozens of bugs were fixed, among which a good number of actual, remotely-triggerable vulnerabilities.
KeePassXC 2.3.0 released
KeePassXC Password Manager
Kubernetes Containerd Integration Goes GA
Kubernetes Containerd Integration Goes GAIn a previous blog - Containerd Brings More Container Runtime Options for Kubernetes, we introduced the alpha version of the Kubernetes containerd integration. With another 6 months of development, the integration with containerd is now generally available! You can now use…
How Tutanota replaced Google’s FCM with their own notification system
As mentioned in This Week In F-Droid 17, Tutanota is now on F-Droid. In this special post Ivan from Tutanota, tells us the story. Hi, I’m Ivan and I am devel...
New Release: 0 A.D. Alpha 23 “Ken Wood”
Wildfire Games, an international group of volunteer game developers, proudly announces the release of 0 A.D. Alpha 23 “Ken Wood”, the twenty-third alpha version …
Librem 5 Phone Progress Report
Purism makes premium phones, laptops, mini PCs and servers running free software on PureOS. Purism products respect people's privacy and freedom while protecting their security.
Running FreeBSD on OS X using xhyve, a port of bhyve
xhyve is port of bhyve to OS X. It is built on top of Hypervisor.framework in OS X 10.10 Yosemite and higher, runs entirely in userspace, and has no other dependencies.
Crossplane – Open Source Multicloud Control Plane
Today we are introducing Crossplane, the open source multicloud control plane. It exposes workload and resource abstractions on-top …
Intel microcode license updated to permit redistribution
Access technologies from partnerships with the community and leaders. Everything open source at Intel. We have a lot to share and a lot to learn.
The cpu_features library
The latest news from Google on open source releases, major projects, events, and outreach programs for early career developers.
What is wrong with Microsoft buying GitHub
According to Bloomberg Microsoft is said to have agreed to buy GitHub . GitHub which reportedly has been losing money being acquired is a major development because of its central role in the development of many open and closed source projects.
Movim – Federated, open-source alternative to Tumblr
Tumblr has decided to ban all NSFW content from its network. Although we understand the reasons…
µUBSan: clean-room reimplementation of the Undefined Behavior Sanitizer runtime
Over the past month, I've implemented from scratch a clean-room version of the UBSan runtime. The initial motivation was the need of developing one for the purposes of catching undefined behavior reports (unspecified code semantics in a compiled executable) in the NetBSD kernel. However, since we need to write a new…
GIMP 2.10.0 Release Candidate 1 Released
GIMP 2.10.0-rc1: bugfixes, stability and polish
ARM releases free Cortex-M processor cores for FPGAs
Cambridge-based processor giant Arm has telegraphed increasing concern regarding the threat from free and open source silicon (FOSSi) cores, offering
Krita 4.1.3 Released
Krita is a professional FREE and open source painting program. It is made by artists that want to see affordable art tools for everyone.
Horizon: Facebook’s Open Source Applied Reinforcement Learning Platform
In this paper we present Horizon, Facebook’s open source applied reinforcement learning (RL) platform. Horizon is an end-to-end platform designed to solve industry applied RL...
Django core no more
If you're not the sort of person who closely follows the internals of Django's development, you might not know there's …