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| April 2025 |
Yocto Project
Yocto Project releases Walnascar version with support until November 2025
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| October 2024 |
Yocto Project
Yocto Project releases Styhead version, supported until May 2025
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| April 2024 |
Yocto Project
Yocto Project releases Scarthgap version, supported until April 2028 with extended long-term support
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| 2023 |
Sbt
sbt 1.9 was launched with further Coursier updates and a new text-based menu to help with creating new projects.
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| November 2023 |
Yocto Project
Yocto Project releases Nanbield version, supported until May 2024
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| May 2023 |
Yocto Project
Yocto Project's Mickledore version reaches End of Life (EOL)
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| 2022 |
Azure DevOps Server
Azure DevOps Server 2022 released as an on-premises version.
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| 2022 |
Sbt
sbt 1.8 was released with updates to Coursier and improved Ivy support.
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| October 2022 |
Yocto Project
Yocto Project's Langdale version reaches End of Life (EOL)
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| May 2022 |
Yocto Project
Yocto Project releases Kirkstone version, supported until April 2026
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| 2021 |
Sbt
sbt 1.5 added support for Scala 3 and enhanced BSP (Build Server Protocol) support for better IDE integration.
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| November 2021 |
Yocto Project
Yocto Project's Honister version reaches End of Life (EOL)
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| June 23 2021 |
Spinnaker
The third annual Spinnaker Summit was co-located with the CD Foundation's cdCon, which was held virtually from June 23-24. Day Zero of the conference was dedicated to Spinnaker topics, with a continued Spinnaker track in the main conference schedule.
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| April 2021 |
Yocto Project
Yocto Project's Hardknott version reaches End of Life (EOL)
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| 2020 |
GitLab
KDE completes its migration to a self-hosted GitLab repository.
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| 2020 |
Azure DevOps Server
Azure DevOps Server 2020 released as an on-premises version (Version 18).
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| November 2020 |
Yocto Project
Yocto Project's Gatesgarth version reaches End of Life (EOL)
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| April 2020 |
Yocto Project
Yocto Project releases Dunfell version
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| January 3 2020 |
LibreCMC
LibreCMC began its first release based upon the OpenWrt 19.07 codebase.
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| 2019 |
Azure DevOps Server
Azure DevOps Server 2019 released as an on-premises version (Version 17).
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| 2019 |
Sbt
sbt 1.3 improved user experience by adopting Coursier as the default dependency manager and added support for JDK 11.
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| November 15 2019 |
Spinnaker
The annual Spinnaker Summit was held in San Diego, California from November 15-17, bringing together software professionals and enthusiasts to discuss the Spinnaker continuous delivery platform.
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| October 2019 |
Yocto Project
Yocto Project's Zeus version reaches End of Life (EOL)
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| October 2019 |
LibreCMC
OpenWRT 19.07 release with significant changes: ath79 replacing ar71xx targets, new tiny sub-target, and first release built on Power9 hardware.
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| October 2019 |
Bazel
Bazel reaches version 1.0, signifying its maturity and readiness for widespread adoption.
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| August 7 2019 |
Qbs
The Qt Company announced in a blog post that cmake will become Qt's standard build system starting with Qt 6, citing cmake's extreme popularity.
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| April 2019 |
Yocto Project
Yocto Project releases Warrior version
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| April 1 2019 |
LibreCMC
Added support for TPE-R1200 router and bumped OpenVPN to version 2.4.7.
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| 2018 |
Azure DevOps Server
Azure DevOps Services launched as a cloud service.
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| 2018 |
Sbt
sbt 1.1 launched the sbt server, enabling IDE interactions via Language Server Protocol (LSP), and added cross-building support for Scala.js and Scala Native.
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| November 2018 |
Yocto Project
Yocto Project's Thud version reaches End of Life (EOL)
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| October 2018 |
Yocto Project
Arm Holdings partnered with Intel to share code for embedded systems through the Yocto Project, enhancing cross-industry collaboration in embedded Linux development.
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| October 2018 |
Qbs
Qbs was deprecated by the Qt Company in favor of qmake and/or cmake.
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| October 31 2018 |
AnthillPro
Final day of support for AnthillPro, after which the product was fully retired and replaced by IBM UrbanCode Build and IBM UrbanCode Deploy.
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| May 2018 |
GitLab
GNOME begins using GitLab for its repository management.
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| April 2018 |
Yocto Project
Yocto Project releases Sumo version
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| March 2018 |
Jenkins
Jenkins X software project for Kubernetes was publicly presented, with support for multiple cloud providers including AWS EKS.
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| 2017 |
Azure DevOps Server
Team Foundation Server 2017 and Team Foundation Server 2018 released as on-premises versions (Versions 15 and 16).
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| 2017 |
Sbt
sbt 1.0 was released, introducing substantial changes to the codebase with a focus on performance and stability, including unified slash syntax and switching to the Zinc 1.0 incremental compiler.
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| October 17 2017 |
LibreCMC
Release addressing additional security issues, including dnsmasq, OpenVPN, and KRACK vulnerability fixes.
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| October 7 2017 |
LibreCMC
Release addressing various security issues, including fixes for dnsmasq and OpenVPN.
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| August 28 2017 |
AnthillPro
AnthillPro's retirement was officially announced, with the product to be discontinued and no longer supported after October 31, 2018.
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| July 5 2017 |
Bazel
Bazel officially announced a new logo design, replacing the original green 'b' stylized as a basil plant stem with three green building blocks arranged in a heart shape on the Bazel Blog.
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| March 29 2017 |
LibreCMC
Release of 'Frivolous Fred' version, based on LEDE 17.01 codebase.
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| March 29 2017 |
LibreCMC
LibreCMC began its first release based upon the LEDE (Linux Embedded Development Environment) 17.01 codebase.
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| February 2017 |
Jenkins
Oracle announced Hudson as obsolete.
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| February 8 2017 |
Jenkins
Jenkins replaced Hudson in the Eclipse Foundation.
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| September 2016 |
GitLab
August Capital, Y Combinator, and Khosla Ventures collectively invest 20 million US dollars in GitLab.
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| April 20 2016 |
Jenkins
Version 2 of Jenkins was released, enabling the Pipeline plugin by default with a domain-specific language based on Apache Groovy.
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| March 10 2016 |
LibreCMC
The Free Software Foundation again awarded their RYF certification to a new router pre-installed with libreCMC, further demonstrating the project's ongoing commitment to free software.
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