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C-Kermit 11 Ships as First Full Release in 15 Years, Modernizing the 45-Year-Old File-Transfer Protocol
John Goerzen released C-Kermit 11 on August 3, 2026, the first full release of the Kermit file-transfer protocol since 2011, adding IPv6 support and fixing CVE-2025-68920.
FFmpeg 9.0 Ships With Vulkan-Accelerated APV Decoding, Animated WebP Support, and Expanded AMD AMF Hardware Encoding
FFmpeg 9.0 lands August 4 with Vulkan-accelerated APV decoding, animated WebP support, and expanded AMD, NVIDIA, and Apple hardware acceleration filters.
Valve-Sponsored Collabora Effort Ports Mesa's Open-Source RADV Vulkan Driver to Windows, Already Running Counter-Strike 2
Collabora, funded by Valve, has ported an early version of the open-source RADV Vulkan driver from Linux to Windows, reaching the point where it can launch Counter-Strike 2.
File Browser's Creator Archives the Self-Hosted Project for Good, Citing Unfixable Security Flaws
Henrique Dias is retiring File Browser, archiving its GitHub repo on September 1 after concluding the decade-old codebase can't be patched into shape.
GCC Adopts Policy Rejecting Significant AI-Generated Code Contributions Over Copyright Concerns
GCC's Steering Committee will decline copyright-significant contributions derived from LLM output, carving out exceptions for small changes and test cases.
GitHub Sponsors Crosses $100 Million in Cumulative Open Source Funding
GitHub says its Sponsors program has funneled more than $100 million to open source maintainers since 2019, with growth accelerating sharply.
System76 Ships COSMIC Epoch 1.5, Fixing Chromium Scaling Bugs and Raising the Wallpaper Limit to 500
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 Weighs Four Rival Proposals on Whether to Ban or Allow AI-Generated Contributions
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 Members Vote to Ban 'Vibe-Coded' Projects and Bar LLM Training on Its Code
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 Loses Project Leader Joshua Boniface, Core Team Member Anthony Lavado, and Co-Founder Andrew Rabert Within Days
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 LTS Ships With Remote Asset Libraries, Cycles Texture Cache, and Experimental Physics in Geometry Nodes
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.
Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Swaps Microsoft SharePoint for Nextcloud, Targeting 50,000 Public Sector Workers
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.