August 4, Germany-based ownCloud announced its latest open-source online storage service “ownCloud 10.5”. Starting with this release, it is delivered in two different bundles: “complete” and “minimal”. Now Enterprise features are available via a license key.

August 5, Software Foundation, who promotes free software, announced the election of a new president, Geoffrey Knauth. It took 11 months for the post to be filled since the resignation of Richard M. Stallman, the founder of FSF.

August 6, GNU C Library project rolled out the latest stable release “GNU C Library (2.32)”.

August 4, the developers behind the Python-based web framework “Django” released the latest version “Django 3.1”.

August 5, The LibreOffice Project announced its latest major release of the open-source office suite “LibreOffice 7.0”. It includes support for OpenDocument Format (ODF) 1.3 and brings many big features like Skia graphics engine.

August 3, nonprofit organization Linux Foundation, who promotes Linux and open-source software, announced its efforts to establish the “Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF)”. Microsoft is one of the founding members.

August 3, the developers behind the open-source application performance monitor tool (APM) “Apache Sky Walking” announced its latest stable release “Apache SkyWalking 8.1”.

August 1, the developers behind Linux distribution Debian released “Debian 10.5”, which is the latest stable version of Debian 10 “buster”. This release has fixed the vulnerability problem in the GRUB2 bootloader.

August 2, Linus Torvalds released the latest Linux kernel “Linux 5.8”. This big release introduces Kernel Concurrency Sanitizer and other features.

July 28, Apache Hadoop community announced the release of the latest stable version “Apache Hadoop 3.3.0”. It brings many improvements including support for ARM and Java 11 runtime.