It's been twenty-five years to the day since GIMP was started as an open-source image editor and in turn sparked the creation of the GTK tool-kit.

The Inclusive Naming Initiative has been formed by various industry players to make "consistent, responsible choices to remove harmful language" from software.

The open-source, cross-platform LuxCoreRender physically based renderer is closing in on its version 2.5 release and most noticeable is supporting NVIDIA's OptiX library for faster acceleration on NVIDIA RTX GPUs.

As we roll into 2021 the Free Software Foundation is looking to update its high priority free software projects list. These are the software projects that should be incorporating "the most important threats, and most critical opportunities, that free software faces in the modern computing landscape." For now the FSF is looking for help deciding what to include.

The FreeType text rendering library is out with version 2.10.4 today as an important security update.

While the LibreOffice fork is much more popular than OpenOffice these days, the Apache Software Foundation does continue maintaining the OpenOffice codebase born out of Sun Microsystems' StarOffice.

At the end of 2019 the lead developer of CUPS left Apple after he joined Apple and the company purchased the source code a decade prior for this long-standing open-source printing system used by not only macOS but also Linux and other Unix-like platforms. This unfortunately has not bode well for CUPS in 2020.

While GIMP 3.0 development drags on, the GIMP 2.10.x stable series continues seeing new and interesting point releases. Out today is GIMP 2.10.22 that now supports the AV1-based AVIF image format for import and export.

U-Boot 2020.10 released on Monday as the latest quarterly feature update to this open-source bootloader popular with embedded devices.

The Free Software Foundation on Sunday marked thirty five years since its founding by Richard Stallman.

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.