Software Development

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.

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.

Rust cracked the TIOBE Index top 10 for the first time in July 2026, climbing from 18th to 10th place as the 25-year-old index marks its anniversary.

Linkerd 2.20 refactors the CNCF service mesh's destination controller, cutting control plane memory use by almost 85 percent and adding rate-limit-aware load balancing.

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.

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.

Python's core developers filed PEP 836, setting performance and compatibility bars for CPython's JIT compiler after the Steering Council gave the project six months to justify staying in the codebase.

Visual Studio Code 1.128 lets a single Claude agent-host session hold multiple parallel chats and moves Copilot Vision to general availability.

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.