April 2, the NetBSD project released the latest GA version “NetBSD 8.2”. It is available on the project website.
“Cortex 1.0” Released, a Prometheus-based metrics collection system for scalable clouds
April 2, Grafana Labs released “Cortex 1.0”, a Prometheus-based metric collection system. It provides support for collecting and analyzing long-term metrics and can be used for capacity planning.
Eclipse Theia 1.0 Released, an open-source IDE implemented in TypeScript
March 31, the Eclipse Foundation announced the release of “Eclipse Theia 1.0”, an open-source integrated development environment (IDE) platform. It is a development platform implemented in TypeScript, and it can run both on desktops and in web browsers.
LXD/LXC/LXCFS version 4 Released, with virtual machine support for LXC
March 31, development teams of system container LXD and its related technologies LXC and LXCFS have each announced their major release “LXD 4.0”, “LXC 4.0”, and “LXCFS 4.0”. They are LTS releases, which will be supported till June 2025.
Mozilla announced Grant Program for Solving Coronavirus-related Problems
March 31, Mozilla announced “COVID-19 Solutions Fund”, which is a program that provides financial support to open-source technologies which are responding to COVID-19 pandemic. Awarded project will be provided with financial assistance of $50,000 each.
Linux Kernel 5.6 Released, with WireGuard support
March 29, Linus Torvalds announced the latest release of Linux Kernel “Linux Kernel 5.6”.
Adobe Released a Color Palette Tool “Leonardo” on Open Source
Adobe Systems released a color generator technology “Leonardo” on open source. It allows creating adaptive color palettes based on a desired contrast ratio.
Angular 9.1 Released, with support for TypeScript 3.8
March 25, development team of “Angular”, JavaScript application framework, released the latest version “Angular 9.1.0”.
Wine 5.5 Released, with enhanced support for UCRT libraries
“Wine” is a compatibility layer that runs Windows applications on Linux. The “Wine” development team released the latest “Wine 5.5” on March 27.
Kubernetes 1.18 Released
March 25, container orchestration Kubernetes (K8s) development team released the latest version “Kubernetes 1.18”. This is their first release in 2020. Beat and stable features are improved to provide better user experience.