Open Source

Google will shut down free access to the Apache 2.0-licensed Gemini CLI on June 18, replacing it with a closed-source Go rewrite that enterprise subscribers alone will inherit.

Microsoft open-sourced its Eclipse IDE Copilot plugin on May 21, releasing roughly 15,000 lines of Java under MIT and drawing 1,200+ stars within hours.

RHEL 10.2 and 9.8, released May 20, add ML-KEM post-quantum SSH, kernel livepatching without reboots, the goose AI CLI tool, and extensive language stack updates.

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.

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.

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.

Mesa 26.1.0, released May 6, 2026, delivers over 40 new Vulkan extensions across major GPU drivers, adds VirtIO-GPU native-context support for Intel, and marks the end of VirGL maintenance.

A community patch merged into SDL on May 14 routes the Steam Controller's touchpads, capacitive stick touch and grip sense to games that never talk to Steam, ten days after Valve's $99 hardware shipped.

Fivetran announced May 13 that it will steward the Great Expectations open source community and GX Core data quality framework, keeping the project fully community-driven while advancing its Open Data Infrastructure vision for AI-era analytics.

The window Julian Andres Klode set for APT's hard Rust dependency has arrived, but no Rust code has landed in APT yet and alpha, hppa, m68k, and sh4 still lack toolchains.

WordPress 7.0 arrives May 20 with new blocks, an AI Connectors API, and a redesigned admin, but its headline collaboration feature was cut on May 8 over performance and reliability concerns.

WordPress 7.0 arrives May 20 with a built-in AI Client API and a wp-admin refresh, after real-time collaboration was cut from the release over stability concerns.