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LibreOffice online is a web-based version of the LibreOffice suite that can be hosted on anybod [...]

Version 5.4.0 of GNU awk (gawk) has been released. This is a major release with a change in gaw [...]

Version 148 of Firefox has been released. The most notable change in this release is the additi [...]

The facilities provided by the kernel for the management of processes have evolved considerably in the last few years, driven mostly by the advent of the pidfd API. A pidfd is a file descriptor that refers to a process; unlike a process ID, a pidfd ...

Version 11.1.0 of the GNU Octave scientific programming language has been released. This maj [...]

The 7.0 merge window closed on February 22 with 11,588 non-merge commits total, 3,893 of which came in after the article covering the first half of the merge window. The changes in the second half were weighted toward bug fixes over new features,

Over on the Collabora blog, Marius Vlad has an overview of Weston 15.0, which was released on F [...]

The Ladybird browser project has announced a move to the Rust programming language: When we [...]

The PostgreSQL project has been chugging along for decades; in that time, it has become a thriving open-source project, and its participants have learned a thing or two about what works in attracting new contributors. At FOSDEM 2026, PostgreSQL ...

Linus has released 7.0-rc1 and closed the merge window for this development cycle. 'You all kn [...]