January 26, Linus Torvalds announced the release of Linux Kernel 5.5.
PyTorch 1.4 Released with improved mobile support
January 15, PyTorch development team released the latest stable version PyTorch 1.4.
FSF Demands that Windows 7 Be Released as Free Software
January 23, Free Software Foundation, a non-profit organization who supports free software, started a petition demanding Microsoft to release Windows 7, whose support has just expired, as free software. FSF argues that Microsoft should release the source code to let the community “study and improve” it.
Canonical Announced “Anbox Cloud”
January 21, Canonical announced Anbox Cloud, a mobile cloud computing platform. It is a service that offers Android environment that runs in a container. It is suitable for playing cloud games.
GitLab 12.7 Released
January 22, GitLab, a Dutch company who develops Git repository manager “GitLab”, released the latest version “GitLab 12.7”.
ALBERT, a deep learning model for processing natural language
Google has released “A Lite Bert (ALBERT)” in open source version, which is positioned as the lightweight version of “BERT”, a deep learning model for natural language processing. Google says that ALBERT achieves just as much accuracy as Bert, with fewer parameters.
Wine 5.0 Released, now supports Vulkan 1.1
January 21, Wine development team announced the latest major release “Wine 5.0”.
GNU Make 4.3 Released
January 19, the development team of GNU Make, a build automation tool, announced the latest release of GNU Make 4.3. It’s been three and a half years since the previous release. There are numerous feature enhancements added in the release.
Microsoft Released Source Code Analysis Tool “Application Inspector”
January 16, Microsoft released Microsoft Application Inspector, a tool to analyze open source component security problem.
Microsoft Officially Released Chromiun-based “Edge”
January 15, Microsoft announced the release of Chromium-based web browser “Microsoft Edge”. The version number is 79.0.309.65. It supports Windows and MacOS on desktops, and iOS and Android on mobile platforms. It supports over 90 languages.