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| 2025 | Honor planned to release MagicOS 9.x, which will be compatible with Android 15. |
| 2024 | OpenBSD project completed separation from original NetBSD fork, with all original files either modified or removed, except for a single data file in the 'quiz' program. |
| 2024 | Excluded Russian developers from the list of Linux kernel maintainers, commenting against Russian aggression. |
| 2024 | Honor released MagicOS 8.x, running on Android 14 operating system. |
| October 2024 |
Linux
Linux achieved an estimated 4.3% market share on desktop computers, reflecting its ongoing growth in the desktop operating system market.
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| May 2024 |
Year 2038 problem
MariaDB 11.5.1 released, extending timestamp handling to 2106 using unsigned 32-bit values on 64-bit platforms.
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| April 2024 |
Debian project leaders
Andreas Tille was elected as the Debian Project Leader, defeating candidate Sruthi Chandran in an election. This marked his first leadership campaign after being a Debian Developer for over 25 years.
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| January 2024 |
QNX
BlackBerry introduced QNX Everywhere, a new initiative to make QNX more accessible to hobbyists and academic users.
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| 2023 | Stallman later announced that he was in remission and receiving treatment for his lymphoma. |
| 2023 | Honor released MagicOS 7.x, which upgraded to Android 13 operating system. |
| 2023 | Honor brought its first foldable smartphone, the Honor Magic VS, to the European market, expanding its international presence with a premium foldable device. |
| December 2023 |
QNX
QNX releases QNX SDP 8.0 with next-generation microkernel, supporting latest Intel and ARM 64-bit platforms, GCC12 toolchain, and QNX toolkit for Visual Studio Code.
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| November 20 2023 | Updated OpenSSH to 9.5p1 and OpenSSL to 3.0.12, enhanced bhyve hypervisor with TPM and GPU passthrough, added support for up to 1024 cores, and upgraded ZFS to OpenZFS 2.2. |
| September 2023 | Richard Stallman publicly revealed his diagnosis of follicular lymphoma during his keynote presentation at the GNU 40th anniversary event, stating his prognosis was good and expressing hope to be around for years to come. |
| July 2023 | Joined RESF's Board of Directors, which encompasses the Rocky Linux project. |
| April 2023 |
Debian project leaders
Jonathan Carter was re-elected as Debian project leader for a fourth term, this time without any opposing candidates.
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| April 2023 |
Linux
Android reached 68.61% market share of mobile devices accessing websites, demonstrating its dominance in the mobile operating system market.
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| 2022 | Honor rebranded Magic UI to MagicOS, releasing version 6.x running on Android 12. |
| 2022 | Vixie began working at Amazon Web Services (AWS). |
| October 14 2022 | New riscv64 platform added, marking the 51st release. |
| June 29 2022 | Smart Global Holdings announced the acquisition of Stratus from Siris Capital Group for US$225 million. |
| April 2022 |
Debian project leaders
Jonathan Carter was re-elected as Debian project leader for a third term, running against candidates Felix Lechner and Hideki Yamane.
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| January 2022 |
Year 2038 problem
MySQL 8.0.28 released with support for 64-bit time values on supported platforms, handling time functions beyond the 2038 limitation.
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| 2021 | Vixie's company Farsight Security was acquired by DomainTools. |
| December 2021 | Honor released the Honor 50, which was the first smartphone to support Google Play Services since the brand's separation from Huawei. |
| October 14 2021 | New powerpc64 platform added. |
| August 2021 |
Year 2038 problem
GNU C Library version 2.34 added support for 64-bit time_t on 32-bit platforms with compatible Linux versions.
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| May 1 2021 | 50th release of OpenBSD. |
| April 2021 |
Debian project leaders
Jonathan Carter was re-elected as Debian project leader, competing against candidate Sruthi Chandran.
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| April 13 2021 | Updated LLVM toolchain to version 11.0.1, removed obsolete binutils and gcc, added kernel-level TLS encryption support, and promoted 64-bit ARM to Tier-1 status. |
| April 12 2021 | The FSF board made a statement reaffirming its decision to bring back Richard Stallman, despite criticism from multiple organizations. |
| March 2021 | Stallman announced his return to the FSF board of directors at LibrePlanet2021, which prompted an open letter on GitHub calling for his removal. |
| January 2021 | Honor released its first non-Huawei phone, the V40. |
| 2020 |
Year 2038 problem
Linux version 5.6 introduced 64-bit time_t support on 32-bit architectures, primarily for embedded Linux systems.
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| 2020 | helloSystem project started, aiming to create a FreeBSD adaptation for macOS users |
| 2020 | A new project was initiated to automatically collect information about tested hardware configurations for FreeBSD. |
| November 17 2020 | Huawei announced the complete sale of Honor to Shenzhen Zhixin New Information Technology Co., Ltd. |
| October 18 2020 | 25th anniversary release of OpenBSD. |
| October 17 2020 | Introduction of sysupgrade(8) to automate upgrades to new releases or snapshots. |
| July 23 2020 |
QNX
QNX releases Software Development Platform (SDP) version 7.1
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| May 2020 | Quit Amazon Web Services due to concerns over the termination of whistleblowers, demonstrating his commitment to ethical workplace practices. |
| May 2020 | Left AWS after expressing dismay over the company's treatment of warehouse worker whistleblowers during the COVID-19 pandemic, despite holding a vice president rank. |
| April 2020 |
Debian project leaders
Sam Hartman completed his term as Debian Project Leader, having served for one year and worked on improving project communication and decision-making processes.
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| April 2020 |
Debian project leaders
Jonathan Carter was elected as Debian project leader, defeating candidates Sruthi Chandran and Brian Gupta in the leadership election.
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| 2019 | An anonymous critic named 'Stein' presented a talk at CCC called 'A systematic evaluation of OpenBSD's mitigations', critiquing the effectiveness of OpenBSD's security mitigations while acknowledging some were effective. |
| 2019 | The Carnegie Corporation of New York honored Torvalds with the Great Immigrants Award. |
| 2019 | Honor expanded its product range to include earbuds and TVs. |
| 2019 | Honor launched its first two TV models, the Vision and Vision Pro, marking the brand's entry into the television market. |
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