Open Source

systemd 261-rc1 adds systemd-sysinstall, an IMDS subsystem, a storagectl tool, and PID1 support for the kernel's Live Update Orchestration and Kexec Handover.

AGL released the initial SoDeV reference platform in its 'Ultimate Unagi' code base on May 14, 2026, bundling Xen, Zephyr, and Linux containers to decouple vehicle software from hardware.

The Wayland compositor's 0.55 release shifts configuration to Lua while keeping the old Hyprlang format working, and lets users define custom window layouts directly in the config.

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.