December 12, Qt development team released Qt 5.14, a development framework for creating UI and applications. Getting ready for the upcoming major release Qt 6, there are major improvements, like 3D related features.
Microsoft Teams for Linux Desktop, now available in public preview
December 10, Microsoft announced the Linux preview version of Microsoft Teams, a developer collaboration tool.
Google Chrome 79 released, With WebXR Device API
December 10, Google announced the release of Chrome 79.0.3945.79 (Chrome 79), the latest version of the Google web browser Chrome.
Kubernetes 1.17 Released
Kubernetes development team announced the release of Kubernetes 1.17, which is a container orchestration tool.
Mozilla Released Deep Speech 0.6, a speech-to-text engine
December 5, Mozilla released DeepSpeech 0.6, a speech-to-text engine. The quality has improved, and now it supports Windows.
Microsoft Released .NET Core 3.1, a long term support release of three years
December 3, Microsoft released .NET Core 3.1, an application development platform that runs not only on Windows but also on MacOS and Linux. Being a long term support (LTS) release, it will be supported for three years.
Open Source CMS Drupal 8.8 Released
December 4, the developer team of Drupal announced their latest stable release Drupal 8.8.0. Drupal is open source CMS (Content Management System). There are many feature enhancements, one of which is the stable Media Library module.
Python Web framework Django 3.0 Released, introducing support for asynchronous processing
December 2, The developer team of Python Web framework Django announced their latest major release Django 3.0.
Firefox 71 Released with Picture-in-Picture and improved password manager
December 3, Mozilla released Firefox 71.0, the latest version. Desktop and Android (Firefox 68.3.0) versions for Windows, MacOS, and Linux are available on their project website.
Qt Launched Qt marketplace
December 2, the Qt Company announced their Qt Marketplace, a marketplace to find and share Qt extensions developed by external developers. The developers can use this platform to offer and sell their creations.