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The new release of the widely deployed and supported open source PostgreSQL relational database platform integrates enhanced logging, data compression, SQL and data replication capabilities

After 12 years and 26 releases, the open source OpenStack cloud project continues to add incremental features and new projects to help cloud operators.

“It’s a fundamental feature for enabling the usage of Linux in safety-critical systems, a trend that is mainly led by automotive and industrial applications,” de Oliveira told VentureBeat. “But it will also help to improve Linux’s reliability in general across industries and use scenarios.”

Linux vendor Red Hat announced this week the beta release of the latest update for its Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) platform with the 8.7 and 9.1 milestones. Both RHEL 8.7 and 9.1 add new features and capabilities designed to help organizations more effectively use Podman containers

Java continues to move forward with features that improve performance and extend the capabilities of the open source programming language project led by Oracle.

Packaging and then deploying applications to run in cloud-native environments, with the Kubernetes container orchestration system, can be complex. It’s a challenge that Acorn is looking to help solve. There is no shortage of vendors in the Kubernetes space, but Acorn’s pedigree is particularly strong.

The open source Apache Beam batch and stream data processing technology is finding a home in a growing number of large organizations.

Perhaps more interesting than what’s in Rocky Linux 9, is how the operating system was built and what that will now enable for enterprises. Rocky Linux 9 was put together with a new build system called Peridot that in the future could allow organizations to assemble very customized versions of Rocky Linux for specific use cases

When IBM acquired Linux vendor Red Hat for $34 billion in 2019, Paul Cormier took the reins as Red Hat CEO. After three years, Cormier is now handing those reins over to a new leader.“When IBM acquired us three years ago, I thought for me personally, I’ve been here 21 years, maybe that was the right time, but there was a lot of unfinished business for me to complete,” Cormier said.

At the Open Source Summit event today, Torvalds discussed the state of Linux, in a fireside chat with his longtime friend Dirk Hohndel, who currently is the chief open-source officer at the Cardano Foundation. The conversation ranged from the state of open-source security, to new technology and the impact of the pandemic on Linux development.

In a full-day event at the Open Source Summit on June 20, supporters, leaders and contributors to OpenSSF discussed the current state of open-source security and detailed, at great length, multiple efforts underway to help improve the existing state of affairs.

The Ubuntu Core provides an optimized version of the open-source Ubuntu Linux operating system for smaller device footprints, using an approach that puts applications into containers. On June 15, Ubuntu Core 22 became generally available, providing users with new capabilities to help accelerate performance and lock down security.

The new Suse Enterprise Linux update also includes support for the latest AMD confidential computing capabilities. Suse is now also among the first enterprise Linux distributions to include open-source Nvidia GPU drivers, which will help to accelerate graphics and AI use cases on Linux systems.

Multiple vendors including AWS, Google, Kubecost, and SUSE have come together to support the open source OpenCost project for cloud-native cost management.

Cloud provider DigitalOcean brings open-source-based serverless capabilities to SMBs.

At the Open Source Software Security Summit II in Washington, D.C., OpenSSF announced an ambitious, multipronged plan with 10 key goals to better secure the entire open-source software ecosystem.

GitHub IT Operations and Management>DevOps GitHub Desktop 3.0 Improves DevOps Collaboration GitHub is making it easier for DevOps teams to stay up to date with code changes and requests via the updated GitHub Desktop 3.0 open-source tool.

The open-source Node.js 18 release provides long-term support for the popular JavaScript framework and new features to improve developer productivity.

Key updates to OpenStack Yoga include new hardware enablement features and better support for Kubernetes.

Open source Java continues to improve, with a focus in Java 18 on supporting new developers.