Arcan, the open-source display server powered by a game engine, is out with a new release. Its Durden desktop environment has also been updated.

Java 9 (JDK 9) has finally reached general availability! Following setbacks, Java 9 is officially available as well as Java EE 8.

The first release candidate of PostgreSQL 10.0 is now available for testing.

For those that haven't jumped fully on the Meson build system bandwagon, the SCons 3.0 software construction utility is now available.

Some interesting remarks today by Facebook's HHVM/Hack language team as they plot their future agenda.

For those that missed the news over the weekend, IBM has open-sourced its in-house JVM and contributed it to the Eclipse Foundation. Eclipse OpenJ9 is this new, full-featured, enterprise-ready open-source Java Virtual Machine.

BlueZ 5.47 has been released as the latest user-space components to the Linux Bluetooth stack.

Last month Raptor Engineering announced the Talos II POWER9-powered workstation that is cheaper than the original Talos Workstation while still aiming to be very free software friendly. The Free Software Foundation will be exploring the possibility of "Respect Your Freedom" certification on this hardware when it's ready to ship.

With the Outreachy Summer 2017 internship period wrapping up, the application period has opened for the Outreachy Winter 2017 internship program.

PulseAudio 11.0 is now available as the latest feature release of this widely-used, cross-platform sound server.

PHP 7.2 has matured past the alpha and beta stages and is now out with its first release candidate.

AmanithVG is a new library implementing the Khronos OpenVG 1.1 vector graphics 2D API. This library supports OpenVG rendering using a software/CPU-based approach or in turn using OpenGL / OpenGL ES 1.1.

Not only is GSoC wrapping up now as school nears for many of the involved student developers, but the Outreachy internship program is also ending this coming week.

The Simple DirectMedia Library (SDL) now has initial support for the KHR_no_error extension that was included in this summer's release of OpenGL 4.6.

For audio engineers and musicians making use of the cross-platform, open-source Ardour Digital Audio Workstation, its 5.11 release is now available.

On the same day as Microsoft releasing .NET Core 2.0, the Mono folks are out with a software update of their own.

Those wishing to do some database testing this weekend can try out PostgreSQL 10's third beta update, which was released earlier this week.

SQLite 3.20 was released earlier this week with many improvements to this widely-used, embedded database library.

The second beta is now available for the upcoming PHP 7.2, which will be officially released at the end of November.

Git 2.14 is now available as the latest feature update to this widely-used, open-source revision control system.

The Boost C++ libraries is planning for a new build system, but they aren't going for Meson that's been the recent trend among open-source projects.

PHP 7.2 Beta 1 was released yesterday as the next step towards this next refinement to PHP7 that is expected to be officially released in November. I couldn't help but to run some initial benchmarks.

Last month Lennart Poettering of systemd and PulseAudio fame introduced his newest project, casync. The goal of casync is for distributing file-system images and is inspired by rsync and Git.

Junio Hamano has today announced the first preview release of Git 2.14 version control system in the form of Git 2.14-rc0.

SPI, Software in the Public Interest, has released their annual report covering 2016. SPI, for the uninitiated, serves as the steward to many open-source projects from Arch Linux to the X.Org Foundation to OpenMPI and LibreOffice.

The Free Software Foundation has endorsed fifteen "new" devices under their Respects Your Freedom (RYF) certification.

PHP 7.2.0 Alpha 3 is now available as the latest test release ahead of the official PHP 7.2 debut later in the year. This release offers various fixes and improvements over the earlier alphas.

The first release candidate for Samba 4.7 is now available for testing.

Rapid Photo Downloader, the open-source software for Linux which its developer claims is "the Linux desktop's best photo and video downloader/importer", is out with a new release after two and a half years in development.

For fans of the QNX operating system, SDL2 mainline can now run on QNX 7.0.