PostgreSQL 13.0 is out this morning as the latest major update to this widely-used relational database server.

Following the major Inkscape 1.0 release happening back in May for this very popular, cross-platform vector graphics program there is the first point release now available.

Open-source consulting firm KDAB has released Hotspot 1.3 as their GUI utility for visualizing Linux perf reports.

Blender 2.90 is out as a huge feature update to this widely-used, cross-platform and open-source 3D modeling solution.

Unity Tech is the latest high profile company joining the Blender Development Fund for assisting this leading open-source 3D modeling software.

The Free Software Foundation has elected a new president following Richard Stallman's resignation last September from the FSF.

For fiscal year 2019 the Apache Software Foundation valued their codebase at around $20 billion USD. The open-source organization has now published their annual report for fiscal year 2020.

Debuting this weekend was LuxCoreRender 2.4, the newest version of this impressive open-source physically based renderer.

Set to be formally introduced next quarter alongside Phoronix Test Suite 10.0 is the long-overdue overhaul of OpenBenchmarking.org -- the biggest upgrade to our public "cloud" platform for benchmark aggregation and result analytics since its debut nearly one decade ago. Before then, a public beta of OpenBenchmarking.org should get underway in the next few weeks while here is an early look at some of the changes.

Git 2.28-rc1 was released on Friday in stepping towards the next feature release for this widely-used, distributed revision control system.

The Monado open-source OpenXR runtime has seen a lot of features added this year and the most recent is support for OpenXR's XR_EXTX_overlay extension to allow for multi-application / overlay rendering.

The Crust CRM suite that aims to compete with Salesforce has been open-source under an Apache 2.0 license but now its paywall has been dropped to make it more compelling as a free software CRM suite.

This leading open-source physically based renderer is about to get even better with the upcoming LuxCore 2.4 release.

Flatpak 1.8 stable is out today as this leading open-source Linux application sandboxing and distribution technology.

Blender 2.83 is out today as the project's first long-term support release (LTS) while still introducing many new features and improvements for existing functionality.

Monado as the leading open-source OpenXR implementation for AR/VR headsets is out with a new release.

In aiming to promote freedom-respecting video conferencing at a time when other platforms like Facebook and Zoom are exploding in popularity as a result of the coronavirus crisis, the Free Software Foundation is offering a video conferencing system for its associate members.

Facebook's compression experts responsible for Zstandard have today released Zstd 1.4.5 with more performance improvements.

Inkscape 1.0 is finally here! This open-source vector graphics editor that has been around for nearly two decades has finally reached 1.0 status.

Redis 6.0 is out to end out April as this widely-used, open-source in-memory key-value database solution.

BLAKE3, the cryptographic hash function that advertises itself as being "much faster" than the likes of SHA1 and MD5 and its predecessor BLAKE2 while being more secure and highly parallelizable has seen an experimental implementation for GPU-based acceleration using the Vulkan API.

Nginx 1.18 is out this week as their newest stable branch succeeding the Nginx 1.16 series for this versatile HTTP server and reverse proxy / load balancer / HTTP cache / mail proxy.

Blend2D, a software-based 2D renderer with JIT pipeline construction with aims to be a high performance vector graphics engine, is now faster thanks to multi-threading.

The release candidate to the long-awaited Inkscape 1.0 emerged at the end of last week for this popular cross-platform SVG/vector graphics editor.

POCL 1.5 has been released as the "Portable CL" implementation for running OpenCL on CPUs and other devices with LLVM back-ends.

POCL 1.5 is on the way for release in April as the first feature update to this Portable OpenCL implementation since the previous release last September.

Today marks twenty-one years since the Apache Software Foundation was created out of the Apache Group and incorporated as a non-profit organization.

Richard Hughes of Fwupd/LVFS, PackageKit, and Colord notoriety last month announced Jcat as a new open-source project he initiated to serve as an alternative to Microsoft's Catalog files proprietary format.

Marcel Holtmann of Intel's open-source Linux team released BlueZ 5.54 this morning as the latest version of this widely-used user-space Linux Bluetooth stack.

Memcached 1.6 was released on Sunday as a big update for this popular open-source distributed memory caching system.