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PHP Retires Its 23-Year-Old Custom License and Adopts BSD 3-Clause Starting With PHP 8.6
After a six-month community process and unanimous vote, the PHP Group has retired the PHP License 3.01 and Zend Engine License in favor of the widely recognized BSD 3-Clause.
Google Puts Spanner Omni in Preview, Letting Enterprises Run Its Distributed Database Outside Its Own Cloud
Google announced a downloadable edition of Cloud Spanner that runs on-premises, on rival clouds, or on a laptop, dismantling a dependency on proprietary infrastructure that its engineers once thought impossible to remove.
KernelScript 0.1 Debuts as a Type-Safe DSL for eBPF, Unifying Kernel and Userspace Development
Multikernel Technologies releases KernelScript, an Apache 2.0-licensed DSL that generates eBPF, userspace, and kernel module code from a single source file.
Mojo 1.0 Beta Arrives as Modular Declares the AI-Native Systems Language Feature Complete
Modular ships Mojo v1.0.0b1 on May 7, 2026, deprecating the fn keyword, enabling default CPU bounds checking, and expanding GPU support to AMD MI250X and NVIDIA B300.
Go Team Launches Official pkg.go.dev API, Replacing Years of Web Scraping Workarounds
The Go team published a formal REST API for pkg.go.dev on May 21, giving tool authors and IDE integrations a stable, versioned interface to module metadata, documentation, symbols, and vulnerability data.
OpenTelemetry Achieves CNCF Graduation After Seven Years, Confirming Its Role as the De Facto Observability Standard
The CNCF announced OpenTelemetry's graduation on May 21, capping seven years of development and a merger of two rival projects into a unified observability standard with 12,000+ contributors.
OpenTofu 1.12 Ships the Dynamic Destroy Protection Terraform Refused to Build for a Decade
OpenTofu v1.12.0 lands with variable-driven prevent_destroy, a destroy=false lifecycle flag, and dual output modes — features the Terraform tracker left open since 2016.
JUnit 6.1.0 Ships Pioneer Extensions, a New Parallel Executor, and a Compact Module in Its First Minor Release
JUnit 6.1.0, released May 19, absorbs JUnit Pioneer's locale, timezone, and system-property extensions into core while replacing ForkJoinPool with a simpler thread pool for parallel test execution.
ClickHouse 26.5 Ships 38 New Features and 51 Performance Optimizations in Its Spring Release
ClickHouse 26.5 arrives on May 21 with 38 new features, 51 performance optimizations, a 27x Merge table speedup, Iceberg V3 geometry support, and new SQL compatibility aliases for PostgreSQL, Snowflake, and BigQuery.
VS Code 1.121 Ships Remote Agents Over SSH, Built-In Mermaid Diagrams, and a New Open Agent Protocol
VS Code 1.121, released May 20, adds remote agent sessions over SSH and dev tunnels, native Mermaid diagram rendering, HTML file preview, and a new Agent Host Protocol for multi-client agent coordination.
Zulip Converts Kandra Labs Into a Nonprofit Foundation as Founder Tim Abbott Departs for Anthropic
Tim Abbott is donating Kandra Labs to a newly created Zulip Foundation and joining Anthropic, adopting a Mozilla-style nonprofit governance model for the open-source team chat project.
Temporal Adds Serverless Workers to Its Durable Execution Platform at Replay 2026
Temporal unveils Serverless Workers for AWS Lambda at Replay 2026, letting teams run durable workflows on pay-per-invocation compute with no cluster management.