March 12, the development team of GNU compiler Collection (GCC), released ‘GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) version 9.3’. This point release includes 150 bug fixes.
Unicode 13 Released
March 10, Unicode Consortium announced the latest version 13 of the Unicode standard. It includes 5930 new characters, and now there are in total 143,859 characters.
Firefox 74.0 Released, DNS over HTTPS is enabled by default for US users
March 10, Mozilla Firefox development team announced the latest release of the web browser ‘Firefox 74.0’. For US-based users, DNS over HTTPS is enabled by default, and it includes the new add-on feature, which blocks Facebook tracking.
Memcached 1.6 Released with enhanced meta protocol
March 8, the development team of Memcached, a distributed memory object caching system, released ‘Memcached 1.6’. External flash storage will be compiled by default, and the meta protocol has been enhanced.
Istio 1.5 Released, introducing ‘Istiod’ and Envoy extension model
March 5, the development team of ’Istio’, a service mesh for container cluster, released ‘Istio 1.5’. It includes feature improvements to bring easier installation and configuration.
Microsoft Released PowerShell 7.0
March 4,, Microsoft announced the latest release of ‘PowerShell 7.0’, a .NET-based command-line shell and scripting language.
Samba 4.12 Released
March 3, the Samba team released ‘Samba 4.12.0’, implementation of Windows services, like Windows file sharing, for Linux/UNIX. There are notable improvements added to the release, for example enhanced performance brought forth by adopting GnuTLS.
GCC 8.4 Released
March 4, the GNU Project announced the latest release of the GNU Compiler Collection 8th series ‘GCC 8.4’.
DBeaver 7 Released
March 2, the development team of Beaver, a database management tool, announced the latest major release ‘DBeaver 7.0’. Free community version is available on the project website.
Apache Brooklyn 1.0 Released, a software for managing cloud applications
March 3, Apache Software Foundation announced Apache Brooklyn 1.0, a management tool for distributed applications.