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Apache Software Foundation Passes 10,000 Committers in FY2026 Report Spanning 302 Projects
The ASF's FY2026 annual report tallies 10,225 committers, 302 projects, 11 new Top-Level Project graduates, and 1,709 releases for the year ended April 30, 2026.
OpenShot 4.0 Ships With a Native Qt6 Timeline, Local AI Object Masking, and Professional Color Grading Tools
OpenShot 4.0 adds screen recording, offline AI subject masking, and a color-grading workspace, completing a Qt5-to-Qt6 rewrite.
AI Crawlers Now Devour 20% of git.kernel.org's CPU, Kernel.org Administrator Reports
Kernel.org administrator Konstantin Ryabitsev says AI scrapers generate 98% of git.kernel.org's 6 million daily requests, burning more CPU than all legitimate traffic combined.
Rust Foundation Names Its First Six Maintainers in Residence, Funding Core Compiler, Rustup, and Clippy Work for a Year
The Rust Foundation Maintainers Fund has raised $350,000 and named its inaugural cohort of six paid maintainers, resolving details left open when the fund launched in June.
Linux Foundation Asks OSI to Approve OpenMDW-1.1 AI Model License as Reviewers Split Over Its Copyright Termination Clause
The Linux Foundation submitted its OpenMDW-1.1 AI model license to the Open Source Initiative for approval, but reviewers are contesting a clause that terminates rights over copyright lawsuits, not just patent ones.
Xen Project Forms Safety Committee, Enlisting AMD, EPAM, and Renesas to Pursue Formal Certification for Its Open Source Hypervisor
The Linux Foundation-hosted Xen Project launched a Safety Committee with AMD, EPAM, and Renesas as founding contributors, aiming to bring formal functional-safety certification to the open source hypervisor for automotive, avionics, and robotics use.
Linux Kernel 7.2 Ships With Cache-Aware CPU Scheduling and Btrfs Large Folios by Default
Linus Torvalds released Linux 7.2 on August 16, 2026, headlined by cache-aware CPU scheduling, default Btrfs large-folio support, and a raft of late-week DRM scheduling reverts.
Debian's General Resolution on LLM Usage Enters Voting With Eight Options, After a Corrected Ballot
Debian Developers began voting on eight rival LLM-usage proposals August 15, after a corrected ballot replaced the project secretary's first call for votes.
X Open-Sources Its 'For You' Ranking Algorithm, Adding a Shadowban Transparency Tool
X published a far larger open-source release of its recommendation code on GitHub, plus a tool letting active users check visibility labels on their account.
Ryan Dahl Releases Celld, a Self-Hosted Open-Source Alternative to Cloudflare's Durable Objects
Node.js and Deno creator Ryan Dahl has open-sourced celld, letting developers run Cloudflare's Durable Objects and Workers APIs on their own S3-backed infrastructure.
OpenProject 17.7 Adds Enterprise Resource Management Module and Department-Based User Organization
OpenProject's 17.7 release adds a capacity-planning resource management module for Enterprise plans, plus departments, work schedules, and multiple active sprints for all users.
Home Assistant 2026.8 Drops the :8123 Port Requirement and Strips 'Advanced' Labels in Push for Approachability
Home Assistant's August release removes the long-standing :8123 port requirement for new installs and strips 'advanced' and 'expert' wording from roughly 43 places in the app.