Open Source

GCC's Steering Committee will decline copyright-significant contributions derived from LLM output, carving out exceptions for small changes and test cases.

GitHub says its Sponsors program has funneled more than $100 million to open source maintainers since 2019, with growth accelerating sharply.

System76 released COSMIC Epoch 1.5.0, fixing Chromium/Electron scaling bugs, a D-Bus deadlock, and raising the wallpaper limit from 100 to 500.

Debian has opened a General Resolution with four competing proposals on AI-assisted contributions, from an outright ban to conditional acceptance, with no vote date set yet.

Codeberg e.V. members voted 358-144 to prohibit AI-generated 'vibe-coded' projects and to commit that Codeberg will never train AI on hosted code, citing soaring hardware costs and community trust.

Jellyfin's project leader, a nearly-eight-year core team member, and a co-founder all departed within days in July 2026, citing burnout and a dispute over AI-assisted development tools.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Kyverno 1.18 patches two flaws in its HTTP-based policy execution, blocks loopback and metadata addresses by default, and flags ClusterPolicy for deprecation later this year.