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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.
Mesa 26.1 Ships With Over 40 New Vulkan Extensions, VirGL Officially Unmaintained
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.
SDL3 Merges Native Support for the New Steam Controller, Exposing Touchpads, Stick Touch and Grip Sense Without the Steam Client
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 to Become Steward of Great Expectations Open Source Data Quality Project
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.
Debian's APT Reaches Its 'No Earlier Than May 2026' Rust Window With No Code Merged Yet and Four Legacy Ports Still on the Clock
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 Ships May 20 Without Real-Time Collaboration After Matt Mullenweg Pulls the Phase 3 Flagship 12 Days Before Release
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 Ships May 20 With a Provider-Agnostic AI Client in Core, an Admin Refresh, and No Real-Time Collaboration
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.
Debian Starts Blocking Non-Reproducible Packages From Testing, Making Bit-Identical Builds a Hard Gate for Forky
Debian's release team has switched on a migration block for any package that fails to build reproducibly, with 98.29% of architecture-independent packages already passing.
Warp Open-Sources Its Agentic Terminal Under AGPLv3 With OpenAI as Founding Sponsor and an Agent-First Contribution Model
After four years of promises, Warp released its terminal client on GitHub under AGPLv3, with OpenAI sponsoring a contribution workflow that has agents writing code while humans focus on review.
NetHack 5.0 Ships 11 Years After 3.6, Replacing Yacc and Lex With Lua and Rebasing the Roguelike on C99
The DevTeam released NetHack 5.0.0 on May 2, ending an 11-year wait since 3.6.0 and folding more than 3,100 fixes, a Lua-driven dungeon and quest pipeline, and full C99 source into the 39-year-old roguelike.
Microsoft Open-Sources 86-DOS 1.00 on Its 45th Anniversary, Releasing Code Transcribed From Tim Paterson's Original Printouts
On April 28, 2026, Microsoft published the earliest known DOS source code under the MIT License, including the 86-DOS 1.00 kernel and PC-DOS 1.00 development snapshots transcribed from Tim Paterson's printouts.
Intel Archives Its Open Source Evangelism Hub and Several Community Projects, Capping a Months-Long Retreat From Broad OSS Stewardship
Intel archived the GitHub repository that anchored its Open Ecosystem Community and Evangelism program on April 20, 2026, and shuttered several community-facing projects — the most visible step in a multi-quarter pullback that began with executive comments last October.