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Broadcom Donates Velero to the CNCF Sandbox, Shifting Kubernetes Backup Governance to the Community
Broadcom has contributed Velero, the Kubernetes-native backup and disaster recovery tool with 9,900 GitHub stars, to the CNCF Sandbox after the Technical Oversight Committee approved the proposal filed in February 2026.
Tekton Joins the CNCF as an Incubating Project After Seven Years of Kubernetes-Native CI/CD Development
The CNCF Technical Oversight Committee has voted to accept Tekton, the Kubernetes-native CI/CD framework with 600-plus contributors and 11,000 GitHub stars, ending its tenure as a CD Foundation graduated project.
European Open Source Adoption Surges as Vendor Lock-In Fears and Regulatory Deadlines Converge
Three major 2026 reports reveal Europe is accelerating open source adoption as a strategic tool for digital sovereignty, even as vulnerabilities double and Cyber Resilience Act deadlines loom.
Seven AI Companies Pledge $12.5 Million to Shield Open Source Maintainers from the AI Security Report Flood They Helped Create
Anthropic, AWS, GitHub, Google, Google DeepMind, Microsoft, and OpenAI fund a Linux Foundation initiative to help overwhelmed open source maintainers triage AI-generated vulnerability reports.
Kali Linux 2026.1 Ships BackTrack Anniversary Mode, Eight New Security Tools, and Kernel 6.18
Kali Linux 2026.1 commemorates BackTrack's 20th anniversary with a retro desktop mode, adds eight new security tools including an MCP server for Metasploit, and upgrades to kernel 6.18.
NVIDIA Donates Its GPU Resource Driver to the CNCF as KubeCon Europe Draws a Wave of Open Source AI Infrastructure Contributions
NVIDIA transferred its Dynamic Resource Allocation driver for GPUs to community ownership under the Kubernetes project at KubeCon Europe 2026, while Google open-sourced the GKE Cluster Autoscaler and Broadcom donated Velero to the CNCF Sandbox.
Dragonfly Reaches CNCF Graduation as P2P Distribution System Proves Critical for AI-Era Container Workloads
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation has graduated Dragonfly to its highest maturity level, recognizing the peer-to-peer distribution system's role in scaling container and AI workloads across production environments at Alibaba, ByteDance, Datadog, and Intel.
GNOME 50 Ships as the First Major Desktop Environment to Fully Remove X11, Ending a 40-Year Display Server Era
GNOME 50 completely removes X11 from Mutter, Shell, and GDM, making Wayland the sole display protocol. The release stabilizes VRR and fractional scaling, and will ship in Ubuntu 26.04 LTS and Fedora 44.
Linux 7.0 Enters Release Candidate Phase With 14,500 Commits, Intel Nova Lake and AMD Zen 6 Support
Linus Torvalds confirms the next kernel will be 7.0, citing confusion over large numbers, as the first RC ships with one of the largest merge windows on record.
Open Source Projects Splinter into Opposing Camps as AI-Generated Contributions Force a Governance Reckoning
A RedMonk study of 32 organizations reveals a fragmented policy landscape as projects from cURL to the Linux kernel draw competing lines on AI code.
Prominent Open Source Developers Launch Endowment Fund to Permanently Solve OSS Funding Crisis
A new 501(c)(3) nonprofit modeled on university endowments aims to generate sustainable returns for critical open source projects, backed by the founders of HashiCorp, cURL, and Vue.js.
Firefox 148 Ships a Master AI Kill Switch After Users Revolt Against Mozilla's 'AI Browser' Pivot
Mozilla delivers on its kill switch promise: Firefox 148 adds a single toggle to block all current and future AI features, arriving February 24.