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Blender 5.2 arrived July 14 as the project's newest long-term support release, adding experimental node-based physics for cloth and hair, remotely hosted asset libraries, a Cycles texture cache, and EEVEE performance improvements.
Rust shipped an emergency point release fixing an LLVM miscompilation that quietly existed since Rust 1.87 and turned crash-prone after 1.97.0.
IBM and Red Hat launched commercial Lightwell offerings on July 8, building on their $5 billion pledge to secure open source software supply chains.
Rust 1.97.0, released July 9, made the v0 symbol-mangling scheme the stable default, stabilized a Cargo build.warnings setting, and enabled linker warning output by default.
The German state has moved 5,000 employees off Microsoft SharePoint onto a self-hosted Nextcloud platform, with a long-term goal of 50,000 users as part of a digital sovereignty push.
OpenMandriva says former contributor Davide Beatrici deleted years of GitHub repository work and published a package that obsoleted GNOME and Cosmic packages in its Cooker branch after a community dispute.
npm v12 disables install scripts, Git dependencies, and remote-URL dependencies by default, closing the execution path several npm worms exploited over the past year.
Microsoft shipped TypeScript 7.0 as generally available on July 8, 2026, moving the compiler and language service to a native Go port that Microsoft says is typically 8x to 12x faster on full builds.
GitHub's new License Compliance feature enters public preview, letting Enterprise Cloud customers with GitHub Advanced Security block pull requests that add dependencies violating license policy.
Erin Catto, creator of the Box2D physics engine, has released Box3D v0.1.0, an MIT-licensed 3D physics engine for games that blends Box2D code with remnants of Rubikon-Lite, a hobby version of the Half-Life: Alyx physics engine, and already powers Facepunch's s&box.
AWS launched Blocks, an open-source Apache 2.0 TypeScript framework in preview that lets developers define application code and AWS infrastructure together and run a full local backend with no AWS account.
Meituan released LongCat-2.0, a 1.6T-parameter MoE model under an MIT license, claiming it is the first trillion-parameter model trained and served entirely on domestic ASICs.