Four years after the debut of Trisquel 7.0 and a year and a half since the 8.0 Alpha, Trisquel 8.0.0 is now available for this Linux distribution that's endorsed by the Free Software Foundation.

The GRUB2 boot-loader now has support for the Flash-Friendly File-System so it can boot to systems formatted with F2FS as the root file-system.

For fans of the FreeCAD open-source 3D CAD modeling software, a new major release is now available -- the first update in almost two years.

GnuCash 3.0 is now available for those looking for a free and open-source accounting program with a focus on personal and small business accounting.

The folks maintaining the GNU Linux-Libre downstream of the Linux kernel have released their kernel 4.16 release that pulls in yesterday's Linux 4.16 kernel but strips out parts that aren't entirely free software and eliminates support for loading binary-only modules, etc.

Richard Biener of SUSE issued a status report today on GCC 8.0.1 ahead of the GCC 8.1 stable release expected in the weeks ahead.

The latest program joining the Zstd bandwagon is Tar.

The GNU Project has released an updated version of their alternative to Vixie Cron from handling cron jobs. Today's Mcron 1.1 release is the first update to the project in several years.

The latest feature addition to the GCC compiler this week is support for Intel's new "ENCLV".

Red Hat's David Malcom has outlined some of the usability improvements coming with the imminent release of GCC 8.

GNU's GRUB bootloader has picked up another feature ahead of the GRUB 2.04 release expected later this year.

While Meson+Ninja remains all the hype these days when it comes to open-source build systems, the GNU build system isn't going away any time soon and a key component of that was just updated, Automake 1.16.

Released at the beginning of February was Glibc 2.27 and it's comprised of a lot of new features and performance improvements. But what's the best of Glibc 2.27?

Linux developers and enthusiasts on x86_64 have long enjoyed the ability to use the -march=native option for having the GCC compiler attempt to auto-detect the CPU and set the appropriate microarchitecture flags. That support is finally being offered up for ARM with GCC 8.

Ring that joined the GNU project in late 2016 to focus on decentralized, multi-device communication has high hopes for 2018.

Yesterday at FOSDEM 2018 Hurd developer Samuel Thibault talked about the work done on this GNU kernel for a PCI arbiter to allow different user-land drivers to access PCI devices concurrently. During this PCI arbiter talk he also went over the current state of the hardware support and recent achievements for GNU Hurd.

Albert Chu of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory announced the release this weekend of FreeIPMI, the GNU project implementing Intelligent Platform Management Interface v1.5/2.0 support.

It's been nine months since the release of GRUB 2.02 while the GRUB 2.04 stable release should be out by year's end.

Back in November I wrote about a GCC patch for the Intel Icelake CPU target and now that code has finally been merged for the GNU Compiler Collection ahead of the upcoming GCC 8.1 release.

Being released right on time is Glibc 2.27, version 2.27 of the GNU C Library.

Version 8.1 of the GNU Debugger (GDB) is now available for developers.

The Free Software Foundation's largest-ever single contribution came in the form of one million dollars worth of Bitcoin.

It has been more than two years since the release of Ncurses 6.0 as the GNU project for developing terminal-independent text-based user-interfaces while this weekend marked the availability of the big Ncurses 6.1 update.

Released this weekend is Binutils 2.30 as the latest collection of these GNU utilities important to the open-source ecosystem.

Glibc 2.27 will be released as soon as next week as the latest half-year update to the GNU C Library.

GNU Compiler Collection 7.3 is now available as the latest GCC7 point release and the prominent changes being support for helping mitigate Spectre variant two using some new compiler switches.

SUSE's Richard Biener is making preparations for officially releasing GCC 7.3.0 on Thursday, 25 January.

GNU developers are preparing to quickly ship GCC 7.3 now in order to get out the Spectre patches, a.k.a. the compiler side bits for Retpoline with -mindirect-branch=thunk and friends.

The backporting of -mindirect-branch, -mindirect-return and -mindirect-branch-register, a.k.a. the GCC "Retpoline" patches, have been back-ported and merged into the GCC 7 branch.

The GCC 8 compiler is on to its last stage of development.