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Every dated event in the handbook, from 1932 to 2027: when each technology and idea appeared, and what changed since. These are the timelines from each page’s history, 5086 events in all. The landscape can play the same years on the map.

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1930s

1932

1950s

1953

  • Backup & restoreFirst · IBM introduces the vacuum-column tape drive with the 701
  • Data structuresFirst · Hans Peter Luhn’s IBM memo describes hashing into buckets with linked-list overflow

1956

  • Block storageFirst · IBM’s RAMAC introduces random-access disk storage: 5 million characters

1958

1960s

1960

  • ObservabilityFirst · Rudolf Kálmán defines observability in control theory
  • Data structures · Edward Fredkin’s “Trie Memory” appears in Communications of the ACM

1961

1962

  • Data structures · Adelson-Velsky and Landis publish the AVL tree, the first balanced binary search tree

1964

1965

  • Message queuesFirst · IBM announces QTAM for System/360 mainframes
  • MultithreadingFirst · Dijkstra’s “Cooperating sequential processes” introduces semaphores and the deadly embrace
  • Optional valuesFirst · Hoare adds the null reference to ALGOL W

1967

  • Amdahl’s lawFirst · Amdahl’s AFIPS paper on the validity of the single-processor approach
  • HypervisorsFirst · IBM’s CP-40 goes into production, running virtual machines on a modified System/360
  • Virtual machinesFirst · IBM’s CP-40 goes into production, running virtual machines on one System/360
  • Object-oriented programming · Simula 67 introduces classes, subclasses and objects; Kay coins “object-oriented”

1968

  • CachingFirst · IBM announces the System/360 Model 85, the first commercial computer with a cache
  • In-process cachesFirst · Donald Michie describes “memo” functions in Nature
  • MicroservicesFirst · Melvin Conway’s “How Do Committees Invent?” appears in Datamation
  • Team structuresFirst · Melvin Conway’s “How Do Committees Invent?” appears in Datamation

1970s

1970

  • Database indexesFirst · Bayer and McCreight describe B-trees in a Boeing Scientific Research Laboratories report
  • Incident managementFirst · Southern California fires expose failures of multi-agency coordination
  • Relational databasesFirst · Codd publishes the relational model at IBM San Jose
  • Data structures · Bayer and McCreight describe B-trees in a Boeing research report
  • Team structures · Jo Freeman’s talk “The Tyranny of Structurelessness”

1971

  • FTPFirst · RFC 114 proposes a File Transfer Protocol at MIT
  • Network protocolsFirst · RFC 114 proposes a File Transfer Protocol for the ARPANET

1972

1973

  • Actor modelFirst · Hewitt, Bishop and Steiger propose the actor formalism at IJCAI
  • Synchronous and asynchronous executionFirst · Hewitt, Bishop and Steiger describe the actor model
  • TCPFirst · Work begins on a host-to-host protocol for interconnected networks
  • C · The Unix kernel is rewritten in C
  • Functional programming · Milner’s group at Edinburgh begins LCF, whose metalanguage becomes ML
  • Hypervisors · Goldberg’s Harvard thesis classifies monitors as Type I (bare machine) and Type II (hosted)

1974

  • SQLFirst · Chamberlin and Boyce publish SEQUEL, designed for IBM’s System R
  • Relational databases · IBM’s System R project begins; SEQUEL, later SQL, is designed
  • TCP · RFC 675 specifies an Internet Transmission Control Program

1975

1976

1977

1978

1979

  • AuthenticationFirst · Morris and Thompson describe salted, slow password hashing in Unix
  • C++First · Stroustrup starts “C with Classes” at Bell Labs
  • ContainersFirst · chroot appears in Version 7 Unix
  • Key-value storesFirst · Ken Thompson’s dbm key-value library ships with AT&T Unix
  • Backup & restore · Seventh Edition Unix ships dump with incremental levels 0 to 9
  • Object-oriented programming · Stroustrup starts “C with Classes”, which becomes C++ (released 1985)
  • Programming languages · Bjarne Stroustrup starts “C with Classes”, later C++
  • Relational databases · Oracle V2, one of the first commercial SQL databases, ships

1980s

1980

1981

1982

  • Distributed ledgersFirst · Lamport, Shostak and Pease publish “The Byzantine Generals Problem”
  • Incident management · ICS broadened to all hazards in the National Interagency Incident Management System

1983

  • CRUDFirst · James Martin’s Managing the Data-base Environment likely popularises the term
  • Data warehousesFirst · Teradata DBC/1012, a database computer built for decision support
  • DNSFirst · Paul Mockapetris publishes the first DNS specs, RFC 882 and 883
  • Dynamic dispatchFirst · C++ adds virtual functions, borrowed from Simula
  • Event loopFirst · 4.2BSD ships the select() system call
  • File storageFirst · IBM’s Barry Feigenbaum designs SMB for networked DOS file access
  • C++ · First used inside AT&T in August; renamed C++ late that year
  • Entity-attribute-value (EAV) · Stead and Hammond describe TMR’s “chartless” medical record from Duke
  • TCP · Target date for the ARPANET’s complete switch from NCP to TCP/IP

1984

1985

  • Bitemporal modelingFirst · Snodgrass and Ahn’s “A Taxonomy of Time in Databases” separates valid and transaction time
  • FTPSFirst · RFC 959 FTP sends everything unencrypted
  • Pub/subFirst · Teknekron Software Systems founded; builds the Information Bus for trading rooms
  • Static dispatchFirst · First commercial C++ release, with function and operator overloading and virtual functions
  • C++ · First commercial release (Cfront 1.0) and The C++ Programming Language
  • FTP · RFC 959, the current FTP specification

1986

  • BEAM (Erlang virtual machine)First · Erlang work begins at Ericsson’s Computer Science Laboratory
  • ErlangFirst · Erlang work starts at the Ericsson Computer Science Laboratory
  • PostgreSQLFirst · POSTGRES project begins at UC Berkeley under Michael Stonebraker
  • Purely functional data structuresFirst · Driscoll, Sarnak, Sleator and Tarjan present “Making Data Structures Persistent”
  • Runtime virtual machinesFirst · Erlang work begins at the Ericsson Computer Science Laboratory
  • SprintsFirst · Takeuchi and Nonaka publish “The New New Product Development Game” in HBR
  • Actor model · Work on Erlang begins at the Ericsson Computer Science Laboratory
  • Block storage · SCSI-1 standard published, growing out of Shugart’s SASI (1981)
  • Relational databases · SQL becomes an ANSI standard, and ISO follows in 1987
  • SQL · ANSI adopts the SQL standard; ISO follows in 1987
  • Version control · Dick Grune posts the CVS shell scripts

1987

  • HaskellFirst · Committee formed at FPCA ’87 to design a common lazy functional language
  • Workflow orchestrationFirst · The sagas paper introduces compensating transactions
  • DNS · RFC 1034 and 1035 define DNS as it is still used
  • Microservices · Garcia-Molina and Salem propose sagas: transactions undone by compensating steps
  • Pub/sub · Cornell’s Isis toolkit released, with a topic-based “news” service
  • UDP · DNS (RFC 1035) recommends UDP port 53 for standard queries

1988

  • CQRSFirst · Bertrand Meyer’s Object-Oriented Software Construction introduces command-query separation
  • Data notebooksFirst · Mathematica 1.0 ships with a notebook front end
  • ETL & ELT pipelinesFirst · Devlin and Murphy at IBM describe a warehouse loaded from operational systems
  • Amdahl’s law · Gustafson’s “Reevaluating Amdahl’s Law” after 1,024-processor results at Sandia
  • Block storage · Patterson, Gibson and Katz publish “A Case for Redundant Arrays of Inexpensive Disks”
  • Data warehouses · Devlin and Murphy at IBM describe the “business data warehouse”
  • Haskell · Wadler proposes type classes to the committee
  • Remote procedure calls · Sun publishes its RPC protocol as RFC 1050
  • Static dispatch · Stroustrup presents templates at the USENIX C++ conference
  • Synchronous and asynchronous execution · Liskov and Shrira’s promises for asynchronous remote calls

1989

  • Customer supportFirst · First ITIL books published by the UK government’s CCTA
  • MonadsFirst · Moggi presents monads for describing computation at LICS
  • PythonFirst · Implementation starts at CWI in December
  • BEAM (Erlang virtual machine) · JAM, the first Erlang virtual machine, replaces the Prolog interpreter
  • C · ANSI C (C89) is completed; ISO adopts it as C90 in 1990
  • Erlang · JAM virtual machine, about 70 times faster than the Prolog prototype
  • File storage · NFS version 2 published as RFC 1094 (March)
  • Haskell · Work on GHC begins at the University of Glasgow
  • PostgreSQL · Version 1 released to outside users
  • TCP · RFC 1122 makes congestion control a requirement

1990s

1990

1991

  • HTTPFirst · Tim Berners-Lee documents the original HTTP, later called HTTP/0.9
  • JavaFirst · Gosling, Sheridan and Naughton start the project at Sun as Oak
  • Semantic layersFirst · Business Objects files its patent for querying databases through business objects (granted 1996)
  • Dashboards and BI · Business Objects files its patent for querying databases through business terms
  • Dynamic dispatch · Polymorphic inline caches for Self (ECOOP ’91)
  • Key-value stores · First general release of Berkeley DB
  • Monads · Moggi’s “Notions of computation and monads” published
  • Network protocols · Tim Berners-Lee’s first HTTP: one GET line over TCP port 80
  • Programming languages · Guido van Rossum posts Python to Usenet in February
  • Python · Version 0.9.0 posted to alt.sources in February
  • Remote procedure calls · CORBA 1.0 defines an IDL for distributed objects
  • Static dispatch · Cfront 3.0 ships templates

1992

  • Identity & access (IAM)First · Ferraiolo and Kuhn formalise role-based access control at NIST
  • Binary parsing and encoding · Graham Hutton’s “Higher-order functions for parsing”
  • Data warehouses · Bill Inmon publishes Building the Data Warehouse
  • File storage · Network Appliance (NetApp) founded; its file server appliances come to dominate NAS
  • Monads · Wadler’s “The essence of functional programming” applies monads to everyday programs
  • SQL · SQL-92 adds keys, referential integrity and subqueries in FROM

1993

1994

  • Formal methodsFirst · Lamport publishes “The Temporal Logic of Actions” in ACM TOPLAS
  • Post-quantum cryptographyFirst · Peter Shor publishes polynomial-time quantum algorithms for factoring and discrete logarithms
  • RESTFirst · Fielding starts the “HTTP object model” in October
  • TLA+First · “The Temporal Logic of Actions” is published in ACM TOPLAS
  • Bitemporal modeling · The TSQL2 temporal extension to SQL-92 is published
  • FTP · RFC 1579 recommends passive mode for firewalls; RFC 1635 explains anonymous FTP
  • PostgreSQL · Andrew Yu and Jolly Chen add SQL, creating Postgres95
  • Python · Python 1.0 released in January

1995

  • JavaScriptFirst · Brendan Eich writes the Mocha prototype at Netscape in May; it ships as LiveScript in a Navigator 2.0 beta in September
  • Load-balancing algorithmsFirst · RFC 1794 describes rotating DNS answers to spread load
  • MySQLFirst · MySQL’s official birthday, May 23
  • Perforce P4First · Christopher Seiwald starts writing Perforce in Alameda, California
  • RacketFirst · The PLT group starts an outreach project for novice programmers
  • ScalaFirst · Odersky and Wadler’s Pizza compiles a functional language to Java bytecode
  • SFTPFirst · Tatu Ylönen releases SSH 1.0; IANA assigns it port 22
  • Synthetic monitoringFirst · Keynote Systems founded to measure websites from the user’s side
  • The Apache Software FoundationFirst · The eight-person Apache Group patches NCSA HTTPd; Apache 1.0 ships December 1
  • TLSFirst · Netscape’s SSL 2.0 specification (Kipp Hickman, February)
  • Database indexes · Hellerstein, Naughton and Pfeffer present GiST at VLDB
  • Java · Sun releases Java in May
  • Multithreading · Ousterhout’s talk “Why Threads Are A Bad Idea (for most purposes)”
  • Object-oriented programming · Sun announces Java
  • Sprints · Schwaber and Sutherland first present Scrum at OOPSLA

1996

1997

  • Automated testingFirst · Beck and Gamma write the first JUnit on a flight to OOPSLA
  • CDNsFirst · MIT paper introduces consistent hashing to relieve web hot spots
  • Foreign function interfacesFirst · JDK 1.1 ships with the Java Native Interface
  • HetznerFirst · Martin Hetzner founds the company in Gunzenhausen
  • Caching · HTTP/1.1 adds Cache-Control for browsers and proxies
  • FTPS · RFC 2228 adds AUTH, PROT, PBSZ and CCC security extensions to FTP
  • Haskell · The Haskell Workshop decides to freeze a stable Haskell 98
  • HTTP · HTTP/1.1 published on the Standards Track as RFC 2068
  • Java Virtual Machine (HotSpot) · Sun buys Animorphic, makers of the Strongtalk VM
  • JavaScript · Ecma publishes ECMA-262, the first ECMAScript edition
  • Load-balancing algorithms · Karger and colleagues publish consistent hashing (STOC)

1998

  • DbVisualizerFirst · Roger Bjärevall starts work on DbVisualizer
  • Issue trackingFirst · Bugzilla goes live at mozilla.org in April and is open-sourced in August
  • NoSQL databasesFirst · Carlo Strozzi names his shell-based relational database NoSQL
  • VMware ESXiFirst · VMware founded in Palo Alto
  • Actor model · Ericsson announces the AXD301 switch; Open Source Erlang released in December
  • BEAM (Erlang virtual machine) · Erlang released as open source in December
  • C++ · C++98, the first ISO standard (ISO/IEC 14882:1998)
  • CDNs · Akamai incorporated on 20 August
  • Database clients and design tools · phpMyAdmin is started as a web front-end to MySQL
  • Erlang · AXD301 announced in March; Open Source Erlang released in December
  • FTP · RFC 2428 adds EPRT and EPSV for IPv6
  • Load balancers · Wensong Zhang starts the Linux Virtual Server project
  • Load-balancing algorithms · Linux Virtual Server starts, with round robin, least-connection and hashing schedulers
  • Message queues · JMS gives Java a standard API for messaging products
  • XML · XML 1.0 becomes a W3C Recommendation (10 February)

1999

  • AlertingFirst · NetSaint, later Nagios, sends a notification per failed check
  • Apache JMeterFirst · Versions 1.0.1 to 1.4 are released between January and July
  • Branching strategiesFirst · Extreme Programming popularizes continuous integration into one mainline
  • Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE)First · MITRE proposes a common enumeration in January; the CVE List launches in September with 321 records
  • DRY: Don’t Repeat YourselfFirst · The Pragmatic Programmer names the DRY principle
  • Error trackingFirst · Windows Error Reporting goes into use, bucketing crash reports
  • Graph databasesFirst · RDF becomes a W3C Recommendation
  • IoT device messagingFirst · MQTT designed to monitor oil pipelines over satellite
  • MQTTFirst · Stanford-Clark and Nipper design MQTT for pipelines over satellite
  • OVHcloudFirst · Octave Klaba founds OVH
  • PiperFirst · Google moves its code from CVS to Perforce, in a single repository
  • ScalewayFirst · Online starts web hosting and domain registration
  • Search indexesFirst · Doug Cutting writes Lucene; it joins Apache in 2001
  • Software as a service (SaaS)First · Salesforce is incorporated to build a CRM delivered over the web
  • Time-series databasesFirst · Tobias Oetiker’s RRDtool, with its fixed-size round-robin database, is in public beta
  • Web APIsFirst · Dave Winer publishes the XML-RPC specification
  • Authentication · Provos and Mazières present bcrypt, with an adjustable cost
  • Bitemporal modeling · Snodgrass publishes “Developing Time-Oriented Database Applications in SQL”
  • C · C99 adds long long, <stdint.h>, // comments and variable length arrays
  • CDNs · Akamai’s commercial service launches in April, with Yahoo! as a charter customer
  • Database clients and design tools · DbVisualizer 1.0, a Java client for any JDBC database
  • DbVisualizer · Version 1.0 released publicly
  • DRY: Don’t Repeat Yourself · Fowler’s Refactoring popularises Don Roberts’s rule of three
  • Event loop · Dan Kegel publishes the C10K problem
  • Formal methods · TLC, the TLA+ model checker by Yuan Yu, Panagiotis Manolios and Lamport
  • FTP · RFC 2577 documents bounce attacks and other security problems
  • FTPS · TLS 1.0 (RFC 2246), which RFC 4217 later builds on
  • Hypervisors · VMware Workstation virtualizes x86 with binary translation
  • Java Virtual Machine (HotSpot) · HotSpot performance engine released on 27 April
  • Multithreading · Dan Kegel publishes the C10K problem
  • Network protocols · TLS 1.0 (RFC 2246), based on Netscape’s SSL 3.0
  • Object storage · Seagate submits an object storage device command set to the T10 committee
  • Observability · NetSaint, later renamed Nagios, is released
  • Pub/sub · MQTT written to monitor oil pipelines over satellite
  • Purely functional data structures · Kaplan and Tarjan publish deques with worst-case O(1) catenation
  • REST · HTTP/1.1 published as RFC 2616 in June
  • Runtime virtual machines · Sun releases the HotSpot JIT engine in April
  • Scala · Odersky joins EPFL and builds Funnel
  • The Apache Software Foundation · The ASF incorporates on June 1 as a 501(c)(3) non-profit
  • TLA+ · TLC, the TLA+ model checker, is described at CHARME
  • TLS · TLS 1.0 published as RFC 2246
  • Virtual machines · VMware Workstation virtualizes the x86 PC
  • XML · Namespaces in XML (January)

2000s

2000

  • Apache SubversionFirst · CollabNet starts Subversion as a replacement for CVS (February)
  • BaculaFirst · Kern Sibbald starts the project in January
  • C#First · Microsoft announces C# on June 26 and submits it to ECMA
  • CI/CD pipelinesFirst · Martin Fowler and Matthew Foemmel publish “Continuous Integration” in September
  • Neo4jFirst · The founders build a first graph prototype after hitting relational limits
  • SQLiteFirst · Hipp writes SQLite; version 1.0 is released in August
  • Build tools · Ant leaves the Tomcat code base to become Apache Ant
  • Cloud service models · salesforce.com launches hosted CRM with “The End of Software”
  • Containers · FreeBSD 4.0 ships jails for shared hosting
  • File storage · NFSv4 (RFC 3010) builds in file locking, with state kept on the server (December)
  • HTTPS · RFC 2818 documents HTTP over TLS on port 443
  • Issue tracking · Joel Spolsky publishes “Painless Bug Tracking”
  • Load balancers · Willy Tarreau starts writing HAProxy
  • REST · Fielding’s dissertation defines REST
  • Software as a service (SaaS) · salesforce.com launches with “The End of Software”
  • Web APIs · SOAP 1.1 published as a W3C Note; Fielding’s dissertation defines REST

2001

  • .NET runtime (CLR)First · ECMA-335, the Common Language Infrastructure, published in December
  • Cherry ServersFirst · Founded by students in Lithuania
  • Hibernate ORMFirst · Gavin King starts Hibernate as an alternative to EJB 2 entity beans
  • JSONFirst · Crockford starts sending JavaScript object literals as data at State Software
  • LogsFirst · RFC 3164 documents the BSD syslog protocol as observed
  • Object-relational mappingFirst · Gavin King starts Hibernate as an alternative to EJB 2 entity beans
  • Protocol BuffersFirst · Work on Proto1 starts inside Google
  • YAMLFirst · Design starts on yaml-core; the first YAML framework is written in Perl
  • ZephyrFirst · Wind River buys Eonic Systems, maker of the Virtuoso RTOS
  • Apache Subversion · Subversion becomes self-hosting (August 31)
  • Bitemporal modeling · The SQL/Temporal standards project is cancelled amid controversy
  • Data notebooks · Fernando Pérez starts IPython at CU Boulder
  • Event loop · Jonathan Lemon presents kqueue at USENIX
  • Hetzner · First rented data center, in Nuremberg
  • Load-balancing algorithms · Mitzenmacher publishes “The Power of Two Choices in Randomized Load Balancing”
  • Object-oriented programming · Dahl and Nygaard receive the Turing Award for Simula
  • Purely functional data structures · Bagwell publishes “Ideal Hash Trees”
  • Scala · Design of Scala begins
  • SFTP · SSH File Transfer Protocol draft-02 defines protocol version 3
  • Sprints · The Agile Manifesto is written at Snowbird, Utah
  • SQLite · Version 2.0 replaces gdbm with its own B-tree
  • Version control · Subversion becomes self-hosting on August 31
  • VMware ESXi · ESX Server, VMware’s first bare-metal hypervisor, ships
  • XML · W3C XML Schema 1.0 (May)

2002

  • Base Class Library patternsFirst · .NET Framework 1.0 and C# 1.0, with events and Begin/End async
  • Data transfer objectsFirst · Fowler’s Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture names the Data Transfer Object
  • Event busesFirst · The term “enterprise service bus” appears in print, credited to Gartner’s Roy Schulte
  • F#First · First release from Microsoft Research Cambridge, in June
  • Haskell containersFirst · Daan Leijen writes Data.Map (copyright date in the module)
  • NGINXFirst · Igor Sysoev starts writing nginx to tackle the C10K problem
  • Service layerFirst · Fowler’s Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture names Service Layer, Transaction Script and Domain Model
  • .NET runtime (CLR) · CLR 1.0 ships with the .NET Framework and C# 1.0 in January
  • Bacula · First public release, 1.16, on SourceForge on April 14
  • C# · C# 1.0 ships with Visual Studio .NET in January
  • Containers · Linux 2.4.19 adds mount namespaces, the first namespace
  • DbVisualizer · DbVisualizer Pro launched
  • Formal methods · Specifying Systems, the TLA+ book, is published
  • Issue tracking · Atlassian launches Jira
  • JSON · json.org goes up with the grammar
  • Microservices · Bezos’s service-interface mandate at Amazon, by Steve Yegge’s later account
  • Object storage · EMC Centera ships content-addressed archive storage
  • Object-relational mapping · Fowler’s Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture names Active Record, Data Mapper and Unit of Work
  • Runtime virtual machines · C# 1.0 and the .NET Framework’s CLR ship in January
  • The Apache Software Foundation · The board creates the Apache Incubator in October
  • TLA+ · Specifying Systems, the TLA+ book, is published
  • Version control · The Linux kernel moves to BitKeeper

2003

  • Amazon EC2First · Black and Pinkham’s paper on standardized, automated, web-service infrastructure
  • Apache CamelFirst · Hohpe and Woolf publish Enterprise Integration Patterns
  • Apache HadoopFirst · Google publishes the GFS paper; the MapReduce paper follows in 2004
  • API frameworksFirst · PEP 333 defines WSGI, a standard interface between Python web servers and applications
  • Correlation IDsFirst · Enterprise Integration Patterns names the Correlation Identifier
  • Domain-driven designFirst · Eric Evans publishes Domain-Driven Design
  • MemcachedFirst · Brad Fitzpatrick writes memcached for LiveJournal
  • MetricsFirst · Google creates Borg, and soon Borgmon to monitor it
  • Microsoft Hyper-VFirst · Microsoft acquires Connectix’s Virtual PC and Virtual Server (Feb 19)
  • MonolithsFirst · DHH starts writing Basecamp as one application
  • QEMUFirst · First commit (February 18); 0.1 in March; 0.4 boots a Linux kernel in June
  • RabbitMQFirst · John O’Hara starts designing AMQP at JPMorgan
  • Xen Project hypervisorFirst · “Xen and the Art of Virtualization” presented at SOSP by the Cambridge team
  • Yocto ProjectFirst · OpenEmbedded started by Chris Larson, Michael Lauer and Holger Schurig (January)
  • Caching · Brad Fitzpatrick writes memcached for LiveJournal
  • Dashboards and BI · Tableau is founded to commercialise Stanford’s Polaris research
  • DbVisualizer · DbVis Software AB founded in Stockholm
  • DRY: Don’t Repeat Yourself · Thomas tells Bill Venners DRY covers schemas, tests, builds and docs, not just code
  • Errors and exceptions · Armstrong’s thesis sets out “let it crash”; Hejlsberg explains why C# has no checked exceptions
  • Event buses · Enterprise Integration Patterns names the Message Bus and Content-Based Router
  • Hypervisors · Xen introduces paravirtualization on x86
  • Incident management · US presidential directive leads to the National Incident Management System
  • kdb+ · Kx releases q and the kdb+ database
  • Message queues · JPMorgan begins designing the open AMQP protocol
  • Scala · First Scala release
  • Service layer · Evans’s Domain-Driven Design separates application, domain and infrastructure layers
  • Service layer · Fowler’s “Anemic Domain Model” calls logic-only services an anti-pattern
  • Virtual machines · Xen released from the University of Cambridge
  • Workflow orchestration · BPEL4WS, from IBM and Microsoft, is submitted to OASIS

2004

2005

  • Apache CouchDBFirst · Damien Katz starts CouchDB
  • API gatewaysFirst · IBM buys DataPower, maker of XML gateway appliances for SOA
  • Artifact registriesFirst · Tamás Cservenák starts Proximity, a Maven proxy (December)
  • Blue-green deploymentsFirst · A ThoughtWorks project uses blue-green deployment for sub-second cutover
  • ClojureFirst · Hickey starts Clojure during a self-funded sabbatical
  • Document databasesFirst · Damien Katz starts CouchDB
  • ElasticsearchFirst · Shay Banon open-sources Compass, a Java framework on top of Lucene
  • File formatsFirst · C-Store paper makes the case for column stores; RFC 4180 documents CSV
  • Gerrit Code ReviewFirst · Guido van Rossum begins Mondrian, Google’s internal review tool
  • GitFirst · First commit April 7; the kernel moves April 16; Junio Hamano maintainer from July; 1.0 in December
  • Git hooksFirst · Git gains its update hook (July 31), sample hooks (August 2), and pre-commit, commit-msg and post-commit (August 18)
  • libvirtFirst · First commit by Daniel Veillard (November 2), as libxen; 0.0.1 in December
  • MercurialFirst · Matt Mackall announces Mercurial v0.1 on the kernel mailing list (April 19)
  • Narrow tablesFirst · First release of Wickham’s reshape package for R
  • Persistence: state, events and replayFirst · Martin Fowler describes Event Sourcing
  • Proxmox Virtual EnvironmentFirst · Martin and Dietmar Maurer found Proxmox Server Solutions
  • Sonatype Nexus RepositoryFirst · Tamás Cservenák starts Proximity (December)
  • SQLAlchemyFirst · Michael Bayer introduces SQLAlchemy
  • Threat detection (SIEM)First · Gartner analysts Mark Nicolett and Amrit Williams introduce the term SIEM
  • Unity Version ControlFirst · Pablo Santos co-founds Códice Software to build Plastic SCM
  • Wide tablesFirst · C-Store paper: a relational database that stores each column separately
  • Active Record (Ruby on Rails) · Rails 1.0 on 13 December
  • Apache Subversion · 1.2 adds file locking and makes FSFS the default (May 23)
  • Authentication · SAML 2.0 becomes an OASIS Standard
  • Backup & restore · PostgreSQL 8.0 adds WAL archiving and point-in-time recovery
  • Base Class Library patterns · C# 2.0 iterators; .NET Framework 2.0 brings the Event-based Asynchronous Pattern
  • Build tools · Maven 2.0 is released (October)
  • C# · C# 2.0 adds generics and iterators
  • Commit conventions · Linus Torvalds makes Git’s first commit (April 7)
  • Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) · NIST launches the National Vulnerability Database; FIRST becomes custodian of CVSS in April
  • Data warehouses · C-Store paper makes the case for column stores
  • F# · F# 1.0 declared in January
  • FTP · RFC 4217 standardises FTP over TLS
  • FTPS · RFC 4217 standardises explicit FTP over TLS with AUTH TLS
  • Haskell containers · Ross Paterson adds Data.Sequence
  • Hibernate ORM · Hibernate 3.0 adds JDK 5 annotations
  • Hypervisors · Intel ships the first processors with hardware virtualization (VT-x)
  • Infrastructure as code · Luke Kanies starts Puppet
  • Jenkins · First Hudson release in February
  • MySQL · Oracle buys Innobase, maker of the InnoDB engine
  • pg_trgm · Ships with PostgreSQL 8.0 in January, with GiST indexes
  • QEMU · Bellard’s USENIX paper on QEMU’s portable dynamic translator
  • Software as a service (SaaS) · Salesforce AppExchange opens to third-party apps
  • Version control · BitKeeper split in April; Git’s first commit on April 7; Mercurial announced
  • Virtual machines · Intel VT-x and AMD-V add hardware virtualization to x86
  • XML · Atom syndication format published as RFC 4287
  • YAML · YAML 1.1, with yes/no and on/off booleans

2006

  • Amazon S3First · Launches on 14 March at $0.15 per GB-month; objects up to 5 GB
  • Amazon VPCFirst · EC2 launches on a single flat network shared by all customers
  • Apache HBaseFirst · Google publishes the Bigtable paper
  • Apache NiFiFirst · Development of Niagarafiles begins at the NSA
  • Azure ReposFirst · Team Foundation Server 2005 ships with centralized version control (March 17)
  • BazelFirst · Google starts building Blaze
  • Data lakesFirst · Hadoop splits off from Nutch, bringing cheap storage on commodity servers
  • DRLM (Disaster Recovery Linux Manager)First · Relax-and-Recover (ReaR) created from a rewrite of mkCDrec
  • Google BigQueryFirst · Dremel starts as a 20 percent project inside Google
  • Infrastructure as a service (IaaS)First · Amazon EC2 enters beta on August 24
  • JFrog ArtifactoryFirst · Yoav Landman starts Artifactory as an open-source project
  • KVM (Kernel-based Virtual Machine)First · Written at Qumranet by Avi Kivity and Yaniv Kamay
  • On-callFirst · Werner Vogels: “You build it, you run it”
  • oneTBBFirst · Intel releases Threading Building Blocks as a commercial library
  • Percona OperatorsFirst · Percona founded to support MySQL
  • PgQueFirst · Marko Kreen starts PgQ at Skype, inspired by Slony-I
  • Platform engineeringFirst · AWS launches, making infrastructure programmable
  • RustFirst · Graydon Hoare starts Rust as a personal project
  • Time-series compressionFirst · Ratanaworabhan, Ke and Burtscher compress scientific doubles by XORing them with a prediction
  • Virtual private cloudsFirst · EC2 launches with all customers on one shared, flat network
  • Wide-column storesFirst · Google publishes the Bigtable paper
  • Amazon EC2 · Limited public beta opens on August 25 with a single instance type
  • Amazon SQS · Generally available in July, with messages of up to 8 KB
  • Apache Hadoop · NDFS and MapReduce leave Nutch as Hadoop; Yahoo adopts it
  • Artifact registries · Yoav Landman starts Artifactory
  • Ceph · Ceph paper at OSDI and CRUSH paper at SC ’06
  • Cloud service models · Amazon EC2 enters beta: virtual servers by the hour (IaaS)
  • Coordination services · Google describes Chubby at OSDI
  • Database indexes · PostgreSQL 8.2 adds GIN and rebuilds its R-tree on GiST
  • Document databases · RFC 4627 describes JSON
  • Domain-driven design · Evans and Fowler place pattern summaries in the Creative Commons
  • Foreign function interfaces · Python 2.5 adds ctypes, written by Thomas Heller, to the standard library
  • Hibernate ORM · JPA 1.0, modelled on Hibernate, is finalised in May
  • Java · Sun starts releasing the JVM and libraries under the GPL (finished in May 2007)
  • Java Virtual Machine (HotSpot) · Sun releases HotSpot under the GPL on 13 November
  • JSON · RFC 4627 registers application/json (July)
  • libvirt · Renamed libvirt (February); 0.1.0 in April
  • LSM trees · Google’s Bigtable paper describes memtables, SSTables, compactions and Bloom filters
  • Message queues · Amazon SQS becomes generally available after a 2004 beta
  • Metrics · Chris Davis writes Graphite at Orbitz
  • Monoliths · Werner Vogels describes how Amazon grew out of its Obidos monolith into services
  • NoSQL databases · Google publishes the Bigtable paper
  • Object storage · Amazon S3 launches: buckets, keys and an HTTP API, billed per GB
  • Object-relational mapping · Java Persistence API 1.0 is finalised, modelled on Hibernate
  • Purely functional data structures · Hinze and Paterson publish finger trees
  • REST · Amazon S3 launches with REST and SOAP interfaces
  • Runtime virtual machines · Sun releases HotSpot under the GPL on 13 November
  • Scaleway · Dedibox begins renting dedicated servers
  • Search indexes · Google Code Search launches with regex search over a trigram index
  • SFTP · SSH-2 published as RFCs 4251 to 4254; SFTP draft-13 (version 6) is the last before it expires
  • SQLAlchemy · Version 0.1.0 on PyPI in February
  • Unity Version Control · Plastic SCM 1.0 unveiled at TechEd Developers in Barcelona (November)
  • Web APIs · Amazon S3 launches with REST and SOAP interfaces
  • Wide tables · Google’s Bigtable paper; “wide-column” later names a different idea
  • Xen Project hypervisor · Amazon EC2 launches, its first instances running as Xen PV guests
  • XML · ECMA-376 standardises Office Open XML (December)
  • YAML · Kyrylo Simonov releases PyYAML and LibYAML

2007

  • Amazon DynamoDBFirst · Amazon’s Dynamo paper describes its internal key-value store
  • Apache CassandraFirst · Amazon’s Dynamo paper, co-written by Avinash Lakshman, is published
  • Apache PigFirst · Yahoo Research’s Pig enters the Apache Incubator in September
  • Apache ThriftFirst · Facebook publishes the Thrift paper and open-sources it in April
  • Backblaze B2 Cloud StorageFirst · Backblaze is incorporated in April to sell unlimited computer backup
  • ConstructFirst · Construct 2.0; Filiba steps back from the project
  • FossilFirst · Fossil hosts itself (July 16); SQLite’s documentation moves to it (November 12)
  • GitHubFirst · First commit on October 19
  • GoFirst · Griesemer, Pike and Thompson sketch the language on 21 September
  • HerokuFirst · Development starts in June, for Ruby apps only
  • Hybrid (medium) tablesFirst · Wickham’s reshape paper describes melting and casting between long and wide
  • MongoDBFirst · 10gen is founded to build a cloud platform and starts the database
  • Oracle VirtualBoxFirst · innotek releases VirtualBox 1.3.2 under the GPL in January
  • Platform as a service (PaaS)First · Heroku is founded to run Ruby web apps
  • The Linux FoundationFirst · OSDL and the Free Standards Group announce their merger into the Linux Foundation on January 22
  • Unbounded queriesFirst · Release It! is published; in December Nygard names the “Unbounded Result Set”
  • ZeroMQFirst · Pieter Hintjens registers zeromq.org; ZeroMQ starts at iMatix with Martin Sustrik as architect
  • Apache Camel · James Strachan checks in the Camel routing library on 19 March, inside ActiveMQ’s repository
  • Apache HBase · Mike Cafarella posts HBase code; it ships in Hadoop 0.15.0
  • Artifact registries · Sonatype starts Nexus, which absorbs Proximity
  • Bacula · Bacula 2.0
  • Binary parsing and encoding · Construct 2.0, a declarative binary parser and builder for Python
  • C# · C# 3.0 adds LINQ and lambda expressions
  • Clojure · Announced and released as open source on October 17
  • Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) · CVSS version 2 released in June
  • Customer support · Zendesk launches a hosted help desk, built in a Copenhagen loft
  • Entity-attribute-value (EAV) · Dinu and Nadkarni publish guidelines on when EAV is and isn’t appropriate
  • F# · Asynchronous workflows (async { }) announced in October
  • Graph databases · Neo4j is open-sourced under the GPL
  • Haskell containers · GHC 6.8.1 (3 November) splits containers 0.1 off from base
  • Hypervisors · KVM merged into Linux 2.6.20
  • Key-value stores · Amazon publishes the Dynamo paper
  • KVM (Kernel-based Virtual Machine) · Merged into Linux 2.6.20 (February 5); OLS paper describes the design
  • libvirt · QEMU support added by Daniel P. Berrangé, released in 0.2.0 (February 14)
  • Message queues · RabbitMQ, an open-source AMQP broker, is released
  • Narrow tables · The reshape paper names the wide-to-long step “melting”
  • Neo4j · Neo Technology is formed in Sweden; Neo4j is released under the GPL
  • NoSQL databases · Amazon publishes the Dynamo paper
  • oneTBB · Open-sourced under GPLv2 with a runtime exception (July)
  • PgQue · Open-sourced in SkyTools; Londiste replication is its first user
  • Purely functional data structures · Clojure ships persistent hash maps and vectors as its default collections
  • RabbitMQ · RabbitMQ 1.0 released in February by LShift and CohesiveFT
  • Remote procedure calls · Facebook open-sources Thrift in April
  • Sonatype Nexus Repository · Sonatype asks him to build Nexus, which absorbs Proximity
  • Virtual machines · KVM merged into Linux 2.6.20
  • Virtual private clouds · Nicira founded to pursue software-defined network virtualization
  • VMware ESXi · ESX Server 3i: a 32 MB hypervisor with no service console
  • Wide tables · Wickham’s reshape package names the wide-to-long step “melting”
  • Wide-column stores · HBase code is posted and ships with Hadoop 0.15.0
  • Xen Project hypervisor · Citrix agrees to buy XenSource for about $500 million (August 15)

2008

  • Amazon CloudFrontFirst · CloudFront launches in beta on 18 November with 14 edge locations
  • Amazon EBSFirst · Launches on 20 August: 1 GB–1 TB volumes, snapshots stored in S3
  • Apache HiveFirst · Facebook contributes Hive to Hadoop as a contrib project
  • Apache ZooKeeperFirst · Comes to the Apache Software Foundation, under the Hadoop project
  • Azure Blob StorageFirst · Windows Azure announced at PDC in October; storage enters production in November
  • CedarDBFirst · Kemper and Neumann start HyPer at TU Munich
  • Cross-platform mobile appsFirst · PhoneGap is created to build mobile apps from web code
  • DuplicatiFirst · Kenneth Skovhede starts Duplicati as a GUI for Duplicity in June
  • Entity Framework CoreFirst · Entity Framework 1 ships with .NET Framework 3.5 SP1
  • GelFirst · Yury Selivanov and Elvis Pranskevichus start MagicStack
  • Google App EngineFirst · Preview launches at Campfire One: Python only, for the first 10,000 developers
  • Google Cloud RunFirst · App Engine preview: Google’s first managed platform for running apps
  • JamstackFirst · GitHub Pages launches on December 18, publishing sites through Jekyll
  • Local cloud emulatorsFirst · App Engine ships with an SDK and a local development environment
  • ML frameworksFirst · Theano development begins at the University of Montreal
  • SentryFirst · First commit of djangodblog on 12 May
  • Serverless functions (FaaS)First · Google App Engine preview runs apps without managed servers
  • Software-defined networkingFirst · OpenFlow paper published in April
  • Static read modelsFirst · Tom Preston-Werner announces Jekyll, a static site generator for a personal blog
  • TARSFirst · TAF in use inside Tencent
  • Amazon EC2 · EBS adds persistent volumes in August; beta label dropped in October
  • Amdahl’s law · Gunther shows Amdahl’s and Gustafson’s laws are special cases of the USL
  • Apache Camel · Becomes a top-level Apache project in December
  • Apache Cassandra · Facebook launches Inbox Search on Cassandra and open-sources it
  • Apache CouchDB · Enters the Apache Incubator in February and graduates in November
  • Apache Hadoop · Top-level Apache project; Yahoo’s Webmap runs on 10,000+ cores
  • Apache Pig · SIGMOD paper on Pig Latin; Pig 0.1.0; graduates as a Hadoop subproject
  • Apache Subversion · 1.5 adds merge tracking (June 19)
  • Apache Thrift · Enters the Apache Incubator in May
  • Backup & restore · Amazon EBS launches with snapshots to S3
  • Bacula · Bacula Systems SA founded to offer commercial support
  • Base Class Library patterns · Framework Design Guidelines, 2nd edition
  • Block storage · Amazon EBS makes network block volumes self-service in the cloud
  • CDNs · Amazon CloudFront offers a CDN with no contract, billed per GB
  • Cherry Servers · Goes all in on hosting and infrastructure
  • Cloud service models · Google App Engine preview: apps on Google’s infrastructure (PaaS)
  • Commit conventions · Tim Pope’s “A Note About Git Commit Messages” (April 19)
  • Containers · cgroups merged into Linux 2.6.24; LXC released
  • Coordination services · ZooKeeper, built at Yahoo, comes to the Apache Software Foundation
  • CQRS · Udi Dahan’s training course applies CQRS with service-oriented design
  • Distributed ledgers · Satoshi Nakamoto publishes the Bitcoin paper in October
  • Document databases · CouchDB becomes a top-level Apache project
  • Documentation sites · Sphinx 0.1, written for the Python documentation, in March
  • Dynamic dispatch · Google open-sources Chromium with the V8 JavaScript engine
  • Error tracking · First commit of django-db-log, later Sentry (May)
  • Error tracking · thoughtbot launches Hoptoad, a hosted error catcher for Rails (July)
  • Gerrit Code Review · Rietveld released; Gerrit begins as patches to it for the Android Open Source Project
  • Git · GitHub opens to the public
  • GitHub · Pull requests in February; public launch on April 10
  • Graph databases · SPARQL becomes a W3C Recommendation
  • JavaScript · TC39 abandons ES4 and starts Harmony
  • JFrog Artifactory · JFrog is founded around Artifactory
  • KVM (Kernel-based Virtual Machine) · Red Hat buys Qumranet for about $107 million (September)
  • Load balancers · Google’s Maglev software load balancer starts serving production traffic
  • LSM trees · Facebook launches inbox search on Cassandra
  • Mercurial · Mercurial 1.0 (March 24)
  • Microservices · Netflix starts its seven-year move from a monolith to cloud microservices
  • Microsoft Hyper-V · Hyper-V released to manufacturing for Windows Server 2008 (June 26)
  • MySQL · Sun Microsystems buys MySQL AB for about $1 billion
  • Object storage · Windows Azure Storage, with blobs, tables and queues, enters production (November)
  • Object-relational mapping · Microsoft ships the Entity Framework in .NET 3.5 SP1
  • Oracle VirtualBox · Sun announces the purchase of innotek on February 12 and completes it on February 20
  • pg_trgm · PostgreSQL 8.3 adds GIN support
  • Platform as a service (PaaS) · Google App Engine opens as a preview on April 7
  • Protocol Buffers · Proto2 is open-sourced on July 7; licence moves to BSD in September
  • Proxmox Virtual Environment · 0.9 in April, the first public release; 1.0 in October with KVM and OpenVZ
  • Python · Python 3.0 breaks compatibility with 2.x to fix its design
  • SQL · SQL:2008 standardizes FETCH FIRST n ROWS ONLY
  • The Apache Software Foundation · Hadoop becomes a top-level project; the Attic is set up in November
  • Time-series databases · Graphite, built at Orbitz, is open-sourced
  • TLS · TLS 1.2 (RFC 5246) becomes the recommended version
  • Version control · GitHub opens to the public on April 10
  • VMware ESXi · ESXi becomes free to download (July 28)
  • Wide-column stores · Facebook open-sources Cassandra
  • XML · XML 1.0 Fifth Edition, the current text (November)
  • Yocto Project · Intel buys OpenedHand, maker of the Poky build system

2009

  • AkkaFirst · Bonér starts Akka in February and tags 0.5 in July
  • Amazon CloudWatchFirst · Launches on 18 May with Elastic Load Balancing and Auto Scaling
  • Apache AvroFirst · Doug Cutting proposes Avro as a Hadoop subproject in April; 1.0 ships in July
  • Apache BookKeeperFirst · BookKeeper contributed to Apache ZooKeeper in January
  • Apache FlinkFirst · Stratosphere research project starts at TU Berlin
  • Apache SparkFirst · Spark created at UC Berkeley’s AMPLab
  • Apache TinkerPop (Gremlin)First · TinkerPop starts at Los Alamos National Laboratory
  • AutoscalingFirst · AWS Auto Scaling launches alongside CloudWatch and Elastic Load Balancing
  • AWS Application Load BalancerFirst · Elastic Load Balancing launches with CloudWatch and Auto Scaling
  • Axon FrameworkFirst · Allard Buijze starts Axon Framework as open source
  • Canary releasesFirst · IMVU describes automatic canary pushes with statistical rollback
  • ClickHouseFirst · Alexey Milovidov starts ClickHouse as an experiment at Yandex
  • Cloud FoundryFirst · Conceived at VMware as Project B29
  • Cloud Foundry FoundationFirst · Project B29 starts at VMware
  • Container orchestrationFirst · Mesos first presented by UC Berkeley researchers
  • FoundationDBFirst · FoundationDB is founded by Dave Rosenthal, Nick Lavezzo and Dave Scherer
  • jOOQFirst · Lukas Eder starts jOOQ
  • Lakehouse catalogsFirst · Hive paper describes the metastore: databases, tables, locations in a relational database
  • LogstashFirst · Jordan Sissel starts Logstash; first prototype commit in August
  • MariaDBFirst · Monty Widenius forks MySQL; MariaDB 5.1.38 beta ships in October
  • Node.jsFirst · Ryan Dahl presents Node.js at JSConf EU in Berlin in November
  • Open vSwitchFirst · First release, developed at Nicira
  • Query enginesFirst · Facebook describes Hive, SQL over files in Hadoop
  • RedisFirst · Built to scale LLOOGG; released as open source in February
  • RethinkDBFirst · Founded with Y Combinator seed funding, first as a MySQL storage engine for SSDs
  • Structured loggingFirst · RFC 5424 adds structured data elements to syslog
  • Table formatsFirst · Hive paper describes tables as directories plus a metastore
  • Zenko CloudServerFirst · Scality founded
  • Actor model · Akka 0.5 brings Erlang-style actors to the JVM
  • Amazon EC2 · Spot Instances let customers bid on unused capacity
  • Amazon VPC · Amazon VPC introduced on 25 August, connected to data centers by IPsec VPN
  • Apache Camel · Camel 2.0 in August
  • Apache Cassandra · Cassandra enters the Apache Incubator in January
  • Apache CouchDB · Presented at the first NoSQL meetup in San Francisco
  • Apache Hive · VLDB paper describes Hive at Facebook: 700+ TB, 100+ users
  • Apache Pig · About 60% of Yahoo’s ad-hoc Hadoop jobs come through Pig
  • API gateways · Sonoa Systems releases Apigee, a cloud API management tool
  • Automated testing · Cohn’s Succeeding with Agile publishes the pyramid
  • Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage · Publishes the Storage Pod design: 45 drives, 67 TB, about $7,867
  • Caching · Redis brings data structures and persistence to in-memory stores
  • Clojure · Clojure 1.0 released in May
  • Cloudflare · Cloudflare founded; wins the Harvard Business School business plan competition
  • CQRS · Dahan’s “Clarified CQRS” separates the pattern from event sourcing
  • CRUD · Roy Fielding: “It is okay to use POST”; Udi Dahan: “Don’t Delete: Just Don’t”
  • Data lakes · Facebook describes Hive: SQL tables mapped onto HDFS directories
  • Document databases · MongoDB’s first official release, 0.8
  • Duplicati · First release in June
  • Error tracking · Microsoft publishes ten years of WER experience at SOSP
  • Errors and exceptions · Go is released without exceptions
  • Event loop · Ryan Dahl releases Node.js
  • File formats · Avro brings schema-described binary row files to Hadoop
  • Fossil · The SQLite source code moves to Fossil (August 11)
  • Gerrit Code Review · Gerrit 2.0, the Java rewrite (January 26)
  • Go · Released as open source on 10 November
  • Graph databases · TinkerPop starts work on Gremlin and a common graph API
  • Hetzner · Own data center park opens in Falkenstein
  • HTTP · Google announces SPDY
  • Incremental view maintenance · DBToaster, a SQL compiler for delta processing, at VLDB
  • Infrastructure as code · Chef released
  • Issue tracking · GitHub adds Issues, with closing from commit messages
  • JavaScript · ES5 published in December; Node.js released in May
  • JSON · ECMAScript 5 adds a built-in JSON object (December)
  • Key-value stores · Redis is released as open source
  • KVM (Kernel-based Virtual Machine) · QEMU 0.10 adds KVM acceleration upstream (March); KSM lands in Linux 2.6.32
  • Load balancers · AWS launches Elastic Load Balancing as a managed service
  • Logs · RFC 5424 standardises syslog and obsoletes RFC 3164
  • Memcached · 1.4.0 adds the binary protocol
  • Microsoft Hyper-V · Windows Server 2008 R2 adds live migration (Oct 22)
  • MongoDB · First official release, 0.8, in February
  • Multithreading · Google open-sources Go, with goroutines
  • MySQL · Widenius forks MySQL as MariaDB after Oracle announces it will buy Sun
  • NoSQL databases · The NoSQL meetup in San Francisco on 11 June gives the movement its name
  • On-call · PagerDuty founded in Toronto by three former Amazon engineers
  • Optional values · Hoare’s talk “Null References: The Billion Dollar Mistake” at QCon London
  • Percona Operators · Percona XtraBackup launched
  • PgQue · SkyTools 3 alpha adds cascading, cooperative consumers and the pgqd daemon
  • Programming languages · Go becomes open source on 10 November
  • QEMU · QEMU 0.10 (March): TCG, KVM acceleration, virtio and live migration
  • Relational databases · Amazon RDS offers managed MySQL in the cloud
  • Rust · Mozilla begins sponsoring the project
  • SQLAlchemy · Version 0.5 brings a stable form in January
  • Static read models · Martin Fowler describes Eager Read Derivation from Greg Young’s QCon talk
  • Synchronous and asynchronous execution · Google open-sources Go, with goroutines and channels
  • TLA+ · PlusCal, the algorithm language that translates to TLA+
  • Virtual private clouds · Amazon VPC introduced: isolated networks linked to data centers by VPN
  • YAML · YAML 1.2 makes YAML a strict superset of JSON

2010s

2010

  • Activity feedsFirst · Yahoo! Research’s “Feeding Frenzy” paper analyses push versus pull per producer and consumer
  • AerospikeFirst · Sold as Citrusleaf
  • Amazon Route 53First · Amazon Route 53 announced on 5 December
  • Amazon SNSFirst · Beta launch in April, delivering over HTTP, HTTPS, email and to SQS
  • Apache DrillFirst · Google publishes the Dremel paper
  • Apache KafkaFirst · Built at LinkedIn to move activity data and metrics
  • Apache ParquetFirst · Google’s Dremel paper describes columnar storage for nested records
  • Astra DBFirst · Riptano, later DataStax, is founded to support Cassandra
  • AWS IAMFirst · IAM previewed in September
  • BitbucketFirst · Atlassian buys Bitbucket, a Mercurial host with 60,000 accounts (September 29)
  • Chaos engineeringFirst · Netflix describes Chaos Monkey as one of the first systems it built on AWS
  • Chaos MonkeyFirst · Netflix describes Chaos Monkey as one of the first systems it built on AWS
  • DatadogFirst · Pomel and Lê-Quôc found Datadog in New York in June
  • Distributed tracingFirst · Google publishes the Dapper paper
  • DPDK (Data Plane Development Kit)First · Created at Intel
  • Event streamsFirst · LinkedIn starts building Kafka to replace ad hoc pipelines
  • Google Cloud StorageFirst · Announced as Google Storage for Developers at Google I/O; limited preview (May)
  • HashiCorp VagrantFirst · Started in January; 0.1.0 released in March for VirtualBox
  • LakehousesFirst · James Dixon coins “data lake” for raw data kept in Hadoop
  • Open Infrastructure FoundationFirst · Rackspace and NASA launch OpenStack in July
  • OpenStackFirst · Rackspace and NASA announce OpenStack on 19 July
  • OpenTelemetryFirst · Google publishes the Dapper paper on distributed tracing
  • OpenTSDBFirst · Benoît Sigoure starts OpenTSDB at StumbleUpon
  • Package managersFirst · Bundler’s guidance: applications commit Gemfile.lock, libraries don’t
  • PlanetScaleFirst · YouTube creates Vitess to scale its MySQL databases
  • Red Hat OpenShiftFirst · Red Hat acquires Makara, the PaaS start-up behind the first OpenShift
  • SeaweedFSFirst · Facebook presents the Haystack photo store at OSDI
  • Service discovery & meshFirst · Yahoo’s ZooKeeper paper describes a coordination service teams use as a registry
  • toxFirst · Holger Krekel releases tox 0.5 (July)
  • VitessFirst · Created at YouTube to scale its MySQL databases
  • Active Record (Ruby on Rails) · Rails 3.0 in August
  • Amazon CloudFront · Custom origins let it serve from any HTTP server, not just S3
  • Apache Avro · Becomes a top-level Apache project in April
  • Apache Cassandra · Becomes a top-level Apache project; Facebook picks HBase for Messages
  • Apache CouchDB · CouchDB 1.0, the first stable release
  • Apache HBase · Top-level Apache project in April; Facebook picks it for Messages
  • Apache Hive · Becomes a top-level Apache project in September
  • Apache Pig · Becomes a top-level Apache project in September
  • Apache Spark · HotCloud paper in June; BSD licence added to the code in December
  • Apache Subversion · Becomes a top-level Apache project, Apache Subversion (February)
  • Apache Thrift · Becomes a top-level Apache project in October
  • Apache ZooKeeper · USENIX ATC paper; becomes a top-level Apache project
  • Automated testing · tox 0.5 runs a package’s tests across Python interpreters in virtualenvs
  • Azure Blob Storage · Commercially available on 1 February, with Blobs, Tables and Queues
  • Base Class Library patterns · .NET Framework 4 introduces Task
  • Blue-green deployments · Fowler’s bliki entry in March; Humble and Farley’s Continuous Delivery in July
  • Branching strategies · Vincent Driessen publishes the git-flow branching model in January
  • Canary releases · Humble and Farley describe canary releasing in Continuous Delivery
  • CDNs · Cloudflare launches, with a free plan
  • Ceph · Ceph client merged into Linux 2.6.34
  • Cherry Servers · Launches the BalticServers brand for foreign markets
  • CI/CD pipelines · Humble and Farley publish Continuous Delivery
  • Cloudflare · Public launch at TechCrunch Disrupt on 27 September
  • Container orchestration · Twitter begins testing Mesos
  • Coordination services · ZooKeeper paper at USENIX ATC; it becomes a top-level Apache project
  • Correlation IDs · Google’s Dapper paper propagates trace and span IDs
  • CQRS · Greg Young’s CQRS Documents set out the architecture
  • CRUD · RFC 5789 adds the HTTP PATCH method
  • Data lakes · James Dixon coins “data lake” in a blog post
  • DNS · The root zone is signed with DNSSEC in July; Route 53 launches
  • Domain-driven design · Greg Young’s CQRS Documents build a DDD architecture on separate commands and queries
  • Elasticsearch · Elasticsearch announced and released as 0.4.0 in February
  • Entity-attribute-value (EAV) · Bill Karwin’s SQL Antipatterns lists EAV as a logical design antipattern
  • F# · Visual F# 2.0 ships with Visual Studio 2010; source released under Apache 2.0 in November
  • File formats · Google’s Dremel paper shows columnar storage for nested data
  • Foreign function interfaces · Haskell 2010 makes the foreign function interface part of the language standard
  • GitHub · Pull Requests 2.0 turns them into discussions with diffs (August 31)
  • Google BigQuery · Dremel paper at VLDB; BigQuery introduced at Google I/O in May
  • Haskell · Haskell 2010 report, edited by Simon Marlow
  • Heroku · Salesforce agrees to buy Heroku for about $212 million on December 8
  • Infrastructure as a service (IaaS) · Rackspace and NASA announce OpenStack in July; first release, Austin, on October 21
  • IoT device messaging · IBM publishes MQTT 3.1 royalty-free
  • Java · Oracle completes its acquisition of Sun and becomes Java’s steward
  • MQTT · IBM publishes MQTT 3.1 royalty-free
  • MySQL · Oracle completes the Sun deal; InnoDB becomes the default engine in 5.5
  • Neo4j · Neo4j 1.0 is released
  • Object storage · Google previews its storage service (May); Rackspace open-sources OpenStack Swift (July)
  • Observability · Google publishes the Dapper paper on distributed tracing
  • OpenStack · First release, Austin, with Nova and Swift on 21 October
  • Oracle VirtualBox · Oracle completes its purchase of Sun in January; 4.0 splits off the Extension Pack in December
  • Persistence: state, events and replay · Greg Young’s CQRS Documents link event sourcing, DDD and CQRS
  • Platform as a service (PaaS) · Salesforce agrees to buy Heroku for about $212 million on December 8
  • PostgreSQL · 9.0 adds built-in streaming replication and hot standby
  • Pub/sub · Amazon SNS brings managed topics to the cloud
  • Query engines · Google’s Dremel paper shows interactive SQL on data in place
  • RabbitMQ · SpringSource (VMware) acquires Rabbit Technologies
  • Racket · PLT Scheme is renamed Racket with version 5.0, released in June
  • Redis · VMware hires Sanfilippo to work on Redis full time
  • Search indexes · Shay Banon open-sources Elasticsearch in February
  • Sentry · Released as django-sentry
  • Sprints · First Scrum Guide; David Anderson’s book on the Kanban Method
  • SQLite · 3.7.0 adds write-ahead logging (WAL)
  • Static read models · Greg Young’s CQRS Documents set out denormalised, eventually consistent query sides
  • The Apache Software Foundation · HBase, Hive, Pig, Cassandra and ZooKeeper become top-level projects
  • Wide-column stores · Cassandra and HBase become top-level Apache projects
  • Yocto Project · Linux Foundation announces the Yocto Project (October)
  • Zenko CloudServer · First version of Scality RING released
  • ZeroMQ · iMatix leaves the AMQP working group to focus on ZeroMQ

2011

  • Amazon ElastiCacheFirst · Launches in beta as a managed Memcached-compatible cache (August)
  • Apache DruidFirst · Metamarkets introduces Druid in April
  • ArangoDBFirst · triAGENS in Cologne commits the first AvocadoDB code in October
  • AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK)First · AWS CloudFormation launches with JSON templates
  • AWS CloudFormationFirst · CloudFormation launches on February 25 with JSON templates
  • AWS Elastic BeanstalkFirst · Public beta on January 19, for Java apps on Tomcat
  • Backend as a service (BaaS)First · Parse is founded; mobile backend as a service startups multiply
  • CitusFirst · Citus Data is founded in Istanbul and joins Y Combinator
  • DapperFirst · Sam Saffron writes up the mapper behind Stack Overflow’s speed-up (30 March)
  • ElixirFirst · José Valim makes the first commit on 9 January
  • FluentdFirst · First commit in June; v0.10.0 tagged in October
  • GitLabFirst · Dmitriy Zaporozhets and Valeriy Sizov start GitLab in Ukraine (first commit October 8)
  • JupyterFirst · The IPython Notebook is released
  • nanopbFirst · Petteri Aimonen writes nanopb
  • NewSQL and distributed SQLFirst · Matthew Aslett of The 451 Group coins “NewSQL”
  • OpenAPI SpecificationFirst · Swagger 1.0 released in August, after Tony Tam started it at Wordnik in 2010
  • ReactFirst · First used in Facebook’s News Feed
  • RealmFirst · TightDB founded; Y Combinator summer batch
  • ReplitFirst · Amjad Masad builds JSRepl, an open-source precursor
  • RocksDBFirst · Google open-sources LevelDB under a BSD-style licence, July 27
  • Stream processingFirst · Storm is open-sourced at Strange Loop, after Twitter buys BackType
  • TerraformFirst · Hashimoto calls for an open, cloud-agnostic CloudFormation
  • UI librariesFirst · Twitter releases Bootstrap publicly on 19 August
  • Versity S3 GatewayFirst · Versity founded by Bruce Gilpin and Harriet Coverston
  • WebRTCFirst · Google open-sources WebRTC, built on technology from its purchase of Global IP Solutions
  • Akka · Akka 1.0 in February; Bonér and Odersky launch Typesafe in May
  • Amazon CloudWatch · Custom metrics in May
  • Amazon EBS · A faulty network change in US East causes a “re-mirroring storm” outage (April)
  • Amazon Route 53 · Generally available in May with weighted routing and load balancer aliases
  • Amazon SNS · SMS text message delivery
  • Amazon VPC · Internet gateways, public and private subnets, NAT and network ACLs arrive
  • Apache Avro · Hadoop adds a Protocol Buffers RPC engine; Avro’s role settles on data
  • Apache BookKeeper · Code moved into its own BookKeeper subproject, with Hedwig
  • Apache Cassandra · Cassandra 1.0 is released in October
  • Apache Hadoop · Hadoop 1.0.0 released in December
  • Apache JMeter · JMeter becomes a top-level Apache project in November
  • Apache Kafka · Open-sourced in January; NetDB paper; enters the Apache Incubator in July
  • Apache TinkerPop (Gremlin) · TinkerPop1: Blueprints, Pipes, Gremlin and Rexster
  • AWS IAM · Launches in May; identity federation and temporary credentials in August
  • Azure Blob Storage · SOSP paper describes Windows Azure Storage and its strong consistency
  • Bitbucket · Git repositories added alongside Mercurial (October 3)
  • Bitemporal modeling · SQL:2011 adds application-time periods and system-versioned tables
  • Branching strategies · Scott Chacon describes GitHub flow in August
  • C · C11 adds threads, atomics and a memory model
  • C++ · C++11 starts the modern era and a three-year release cycle
  • Caching · AWS launches ElastiCache, a managed memcached-compatible cache
  • Chaos engineering · Netflix announces the Simian Army, including Chaos Gorilla for losing a whole Availability Zone
  • Chaos Monkey · The Simian Army is announced
  • CI/CD pipelines · Hudson’s community renames the project Jenkins
  • Clojure · Work starts on ClojureScript, for JavaScript
  • Cloud Foundry · VMware releases Cloud Foundry under Apache 2.0 on April 12
  • Cloud Foundry Foundation · VMware releases Cloud Foundry as open source
  • Cloud service models · NIST SP 800-145 defines SaaS, PaaS and IaaS
  • Construct · Corbin Simpson takes over maintenance and moves it to GitHub
  • CQRS · Martin Fowler’s bliki entry warns that most systems don’t need it
  • CRUD · Martin Fowler’s CQRS note contrasts it with the CRUD mental model
  • Customer support · Intercom and Help Scout founded
  • Dapper · Dapper 1.0.0 published on NuGet (14 April)
  • Data notebooks · IPython 0.12 introduces the browser-based notebook in December
  • Documentation sites · First release of the Swagger Specification in August
  • Error tracking · Hoptoad is renamed Airbrake
  • Event streams · Kafka is open-sourced
  • Formal methods · AWS engineers start using TLA+
  • Google App Engine · Leaves preview with release 1.6.0 and a 99.95% SLA for paid apps
  • Google Cloud Storage · Opens to all developers, with objects up to 5 TB (May)
  • Heroku · Heroku conceives buildpacks; Adam Wiggins writes the twelve-factor app
  • Identity & access (IAM) · AWS IAM launches with JSON policies; federation follows in August
  • In-process caches · Python 3.2 adds functools.lru_cache; Guava 10 adds CacheBuilder
  • Infrastructure as a service (IaaS) · NIST SP 800-145 defines infrastructure as a service
  • Infrastructure as code · AWS CloudFormation launches in February with JSON templates
  • Java Virtual Machine (HotSpot) · JDK 7 adds invokedynamic for dynamic languages
  • Jenkins · The community renames the project Jenkins in January
  • Logs · The Twelve-Factor App: treat logs as event streams
  • Logstash · v1.0.0 tagged in May
  • LSM trees · Google open-sources LevelDB
  • Memcached · AWS launches ElastiCache, a managed Memcached service
  • Metrics · Etsy releases StatsD
  • MQTT · IBM contributes MQTT client code to Eclipse Paho
  • NGINX · Nginx, Inc. founded to offer commercial support and products
  • Object-relational mapping · Stack Overflow builds and open-sources Dapper, a micro-ORM
  • OpenTSDB · Version 1.0 is tagged in December
  • Perforce P4 · Streams arrive in the 2011.1 server
  • pg_trgm · 9.1 indexes LIKE and ILIKE and adds nearest-neighbour search
  • Platform as a service (PaaS) · VMware releases Cloud Foundry as open source (April 12); Heroku conceives buildpacks; Adam Wiggins writes the twelve-factor app
  • QEMU · QEMU 1.0 (December)
  • Real-time analytics databases · Metamarkets introduces Druid for real-time ad analytics
  • Red Hat OpenShift · OpenShift launches in May as a hosted PaaS with its own container system
  • SeaweedFS · Chris Lu starts Weed-FS on Google Code (November)
  • Software as a service (SaaS) · NIST SP 800-145 defines software as a service
  • Software-defined networking · Open Networking Foundation founded by six network operators in March
  • tox · tox 1.0 (May)
  • VMware ESXi · ESXi 5.0: classic ESX is gone; ESXi only
  • WebRTC · First W3C Working Draft of the WebRTC API (27 October)
  • Yocto Project · Yocto Project 1.0 and its steering group (April 6)

2012

  • AlgoliaFirst · Dessaigne and Lemoine start Algolia in Paris with an offline mobile search SDK
  • Apache CalciteFirst · Julian Hyde commits the first Optiq code, which can parse and validate SQL
  • Apache ImpalaFirst · Cloudera releases the Impala beta in October
  • ArcticDBFirst · Man Group starts Arctic, a pandas datastore on MongoDB
  • AWS Step FunctionsFirst · Amazon SWF, its predecessor, launches in February
  • Azure App ServiceFirst · Windows Azure Web Sites announced on June 7 for ASP.NET, Node.js and PHP
  • Change data captureFirst · LinkedIn presents Databus, its change data capture system, at SoCC
  • DAOSFirst · Research starts at Intel under the DOE FastForward programme
  • DAOS FoundationFirst · Intel starts DAOS research
  • Emergent schema (JSON columns)First · PostgreSQL 9.2 adds a json data type
  • EMQXFirst · First commit of emqttd, an MQTT broker in Erlang
  • FaunaFirst · Evan Weaver and Matt Freels, both ex-Twitter, found Fauna as a consultancy
  • FivetranFirst · George Fraser and Taylor Brown found Fivetran
  • GraphQLFirst · Built at Facebook for the native News Feed on iOS
  • HiveMQFirst · dc-square founded in Landshut, Germany, to build the HiveMQ broker
  • KurrentDBFirst · Event Store first released as open source under a 3-clause BSD license
  • ManhattanFirst · Twitter decides to build Manhattan
  • PGO (Crunchy Postgres for Kubernetes)First · Crunchy Data starts as a PostgreSQL company
  • Presto (PrestoDB)First · Presto started at Facebook in the fall
  • Presto FoundationFirst · Presto started at Facebook
  • PrometheusFirst · Matt T. Proud and Julius Volz start Prometheus at SoundCloud
  • SaplingFirst · Work begins on scaling Facebook’s monorepo, as an extension to Mercurial
  • ScionFirst · Google moves its monorepo from Perforce to Piper, its own centralized system
  • ScyllaDBFirst · Cloudius Systems starts OSv, an operating system for cloud virtual machines
  • Serverless architectureFirst · Ken Fromm writes “Why The Future Of Software And Apps Is Serverless”
  • SnowflakeFirst · Founded in July by Dageville, Cruanes and Żukowski; work begins
  • Stream FrameworkFirst · First released on PyPI as Feedly, built at Fashiolista
  • TemporalFirst · Fateev and Abbas take Amazon SWF public
  • TigerGraphFirst · Founded as GraphSQL
  • TrinoFirst · Presto started at Facebook in the fall
  • TypeScriptFirst · Microsoft releases a TypeScript preview on 1 October, under Apache 2.0
  • webpackFirst · Tobias Koppers starts webpack
  • Activity feeds · Feedly, later Stream Framework, is published for Fashiolista’s feeds
  • Aerospike · Renamed Aerospike; acquires AlchemyDB
  • Akka · Akka 2.0 released in March
  • Amazon DynamoDB · DynamoDB launches on January 18
  • Amazon EBS · Provisioned IOPS volumes offer up to 1,000 IOPS (July)
  • Amazon Route 53 · Latency-based routing across AWS Regions
  • Amazon S3 · Glacier launches for archives at $0.01 per GB-month (August)
  • Apache Drill · Drill enters the Apache Incubator in September, proposed by MapR engineers
  • Apache Druid · Open-sourced under GPLv2 in October
  • Apache Kafka · Graduates to a top-level Apache project in October
  • API frameworks · Facebook starts GraphQL while rebuilding its native mobile apps
  • ArangoDB · Renamed ArangoDB in May; 1.0 released in August
  • Authentication · OAuth 2.0 published as RFC 6749
  • AWS Elastic Beanstalk · PHP support and Git-based deployment
  • AWS IAM · IAM roles for EC2 instances
  • Base Class Library patterns · C# 5.0 adds async and await
  • Bitbucket · Stash 1.0, a self-hosted Git server, released May 1
  • Build tools · Gradle 1.0 (June 12)
  • C# · C# 5.0 introduces async and await
  • Ceph · Weil founds Inktank to support Ceph commercially
  • Chaos engineering · Chaos Monkey is open-sourced in July
  • Chaos Monkey · Open-sourced on July 30, as part of the Simian Army
  • ClickHouse · Goes into production powering Yandex.Metrica
  • Cloud Foundry · BOSH is released in April
  • Data transfer objects · GitHub is hacked through mass assignment
  • Data warehouses · Amazon Redshift launches, after BigQuery (2010); Snowflake follows
  • Datadog · First product: infrastructure monitoring
  • Distributed tracing · Twitter open-sources Zipkin in June
  • Duplicati · Work starts on Duplicati 2, a complete rewrite
  • Elasticsearch · Elasticsearch, the company, is founded
  • Elixir · v0.5.0, the rewritten language, released on 25 May
  • ETL & ELT pipelines · Amazon Redshift launches; cheap warehouse compute makes ELT practical
  • F# · F# 3.0 adds type providers
  • GitLab · Sid Sijbrandij starts GitLab.com; the first GitLab CI (November)
  • Go · Go 1 and its compatibility promise, 28 March
  • HashiCorp Vagrant · Vagrant 1.0 in March; HashiCorp is founded
  • Haskell containers · containers 0.5.0.0
  • HTTPS · HTTP Strict Transport Security published as RFC 6797
  • Hybrid (medium) tables · Prometheus starts at SoundCloud, storing one float64 value per sample
  • Identity & access (IAM) · OAuth 2.0 published as RFC 6749
  • Incident management · John Allspaw on blameless postmortems and a Just Culture at Etsy
  • Infrastructure as a service (IaaS) · Google announces Compute Engine at Google I/O on June 28
  • Key-value stores · AWS launches DynamoDB as a managed service
  • libvirt · libvirt 1.0.0 (November 2)
  • Linters, formatters and type checkers · Jukka Lehtosalo starts mypy
  • MariaDB · The MariaDB Foundation is announced in December
  • Mercurial · Mercurial 2.1 adds phases (February 1)
  • Metrics · Prometheus starts at SoundCloud; Brendan Gregg publishes the USE method
  • Microservices · Architects meeting near Venice settle on the name “microservices”
  • Microsoft Hyper-V · Windows Server 2012 adds Hyper-V Replica (Oct 30)
  • nanopb · 0.1.0, the first stable release (January)
  • Narrow tables · Prometheus starts at SoundCloud: one series per metric name and labels
  • NewSQL and distributed SQL · Google’s Spanner paper describes externally consistent distributed transactions
  • NoSQL databases · AWS launches DynamoDB
  • Object-relational mapping · Fowler’s “OrmHate” defends ORMs as an 80% solution to a hard problem
  • Observability · Prometheus begins at SoundCloud
  • Open Infrastructure Foundation · OpenStack Foundation launches on September 19 and takes over the OpenStack trademark
  • Open vSwitch · Kernel datapath merged into Linux 3.3 in March; VMware agrees to buy Nicira in July
  • OVHcloud · First North American office and data center
  • Package managers · Python 3.3 ships venv (PEP 405)
  • Persistence: state, events and replay · Event Store, an open-source event database, is first released
  • Piper · The central repository switches from Perforce to Piper; Windows and Mac support added in October
  • Proxmox Virtual Environment · 2.0 in March: Corosync cluster, pmxcfs, REST API and a new web interface
  • Query engines · Cloudera announces Impala; Facebook starts Presto
  • Real-time analytics databases · Druid is open-sourced in October
  • Red Hat OpenShift · Code released as OpenShift Origin under Apache 2.0 in April
  • Relational databases · Google’s Spanner paper describes a globally distributed, synchronously replicated database
  • RethinkDB · First public release, 1.2 (November)
  • RocksDB · Dhruba Borthakur forks LevelDB 1.5 at Facebook
  • Scala · First commit of the compiler that becomes Scala 3, on December 6
  • Search indexes · Russ Cox publishes how Code Search worked, with an implementation
  • Sentry · Becomes plain sentry, no longer Django-only
  • Serverless functions (FaaS) · Ken Fromm’s ReadWrite essay describes a “serverless world”
  • Service layer · Code Climate’s “7 Patterns to Refactor Fat ActiveRecord Models” popularises service objects in Rails
  • Software-defined networking · VMware agrees to buy Nicira for about $1.26 billion in July
  • Synchronous and asynchronous execution · C# 5.0 ships async and await
  • Team structures · Valve’s Handbook for New Employees (March); Kniberg and Ivarsson’s Spotify paper (October)
  • Time-series databases · SoundCloud starts Prometheus
  • TLA+ · The TLA+ Proof System is presented at FM 2012
  • Virtual private clouds · VMware buys Nicira for about $1.26 billion
  • Workflow orchestration · Amazon Simple Workflow Service launches
  • ZeroMQ · Crossroads I/O fork; JeroMQ, a pure Java port, is announced

2013

  • Amazon Kinesis Data StreamsFirst · Announced at re:Invent in November; open to all customers in December
  • Amazon S3 TablesFirst · Apache Parquet launches and becomes the common way to keep tables in S3
  • Apache ORCFirst · HIVE-3874 opened in January; ORC ships in Hive 0.11 in May
  • Apache ZeppelinFirst · Zeppelin open-sourced at NFLabs in September as a GUI for SQL on Hadoop
  • AtScaleFirst · AtScale introduces its semantic layer, according to the company
  • Auth0First · Founded by Eugenio Pace and Matias Woloski; launch post in February
  • AWS LambdaFirst · Tim Wagner writes the PRFAQ proposing Lambda
  • BullMQFirst · Manuel Astudillo starts Bull at OptimalBits
  • Cap’n ProtoFirst · Announced on April 1; version 0.4 adds RPC in December
  • CBORFirst · RFC 7049 publishes CBOR (October)
  • CrateDBFirst · Crate is founded in Dornbirn, Austria; first release in April
  • DatabricksFirst · Founded by the creators of Apache Spark
  • DockerFirst · Shown at PyCon and open-sourced in March; dotCloud becomes Docker Inc.
  • DokkuFirst · Jeff Lindsay makes the first commit on June 8: Docker, Buildstep and gitreceive
  • ElectronFirst · Created at GitHub as Atom Shell, the base of the Atom editor
  • etcdFirst · CoreOS announces etcd on July 23
  • Git LFSFirst · Public repository started from an internal GitHub prototype (September 22)
  • GrafanaFirst · First commit on December 5, forked from Kibana 3 for Graphite
  • HashiCorp ConsulFirst · HashiCorp releases Serf, the gossip library Consul builds on
  • HashiCorp PackerFirst · Mitchell Hashimoto releases Packer 0.1 on June 28, HashiCorp’s first project
  • InfluxDBFirst · Errplane releases InfluxDB v0.0.1 in October
  • KairosDBFirst · Proofpoint engineers start the rewrite as opentsdb2 in February
  • KubernetesFirst · McLuckie, Beda and Burns pitch the project inside Google
  • LF NetworkingFirst · OpenDaylight launched at the Linux Foundation
  • NetdataFirst · Costa Tsaousis starts the project after an unsolved production failure
  • ngrokFirst · Alan Shreve publishes ngrok 1.x on GitHub in March, open source under Apache 2.0
  • OpenDaylightFirst · OpenDaylight launched at the Linux Foundation on April 8
  • pg_ivmFirst · IVM proposed for PostgreSQL core at the PGCon developer meeting
  • pgBackRestFirst · Conceived at PostgreSQL Conference Europe in Dublin; repository created in November
  • QuayFirst · Quay launches as a private hosted Docker registry (late 2013)
  • QUICFirst · Google describes QUIC and starts experiments in Chrome
  • React FoundationFirst · Facebook open-sources React in May
  • Release automationFirst · Semantic Versioning 2.0.0 is marked final (June 18)
  • SPDK (Storage Performance Development Kit)First · Intel starts SPDK
  • StackStormFirst · StackStorm founded by Evan Powell and Dmitri Zimine
  • Timely DataflowFirst · Differential dataflow paper at CIDR; Naiad paper at SOSP
  • TOMLFirst · Tom Preston-Werner starts TOML in February; v0.1.0 tagged in March
  • Vector databasesFirst · Mikolov and colleagues publish word2vec-style word vectors
  • Activity feeds · Raffi Krikorian’s talk on Twitter’s Redis timelines and fan-out is published
  • Algolia · Hosted search API launches in beta in March
  • Amazon ElastiCache · Adds Redis with replicas in other Availability Zones and failover
  • Amazon Route 53 · Health checks and DNS failover
  • Amazon SNS · Mobile push notifications; messages grow to 256 KB
  • Amazon VPC · Default VPCs for new accounts; accounts after 4 December are VPC-only
  • Apache CouchDB · Cloudant’s clustered BigCouch code is merged into Apache CouchDB
  • Apache Hadoop · Hadoop 2.2.0 GA brings YARN and HDFS high availability
  • Apache Impala · General availability in May
  • Apache Parquet · Twitter and Cloudera announce Parquet in March; 1.0 ships in July
  • Apache Spark · Creators found Databricks; Spark enters the Apache Incubator in June
  • Apache ZooKeeper · Apache Curator, the recipe library, graduates to a top-level project
  • API gateways · Netflix announces Zuul, its edge gateway, as open source
  • Artifact registries · Quay launches as a private hosted Docker registry
  • Azure App Service · Web Sites generally available with an SLA, plus autoscale
  • Azure Repos · Git hosting added to Team Foundation Service (February)
  • Backend as a service (BaaS) · Facebook acquires Parse
  • Bacula · Bareos released as a fork in February
  • Clojure · Cognitect forms and becomes Clojure’s corporate sponsor; core.async arrives
  • Containers · Docker launches; Linux user namespaces enable unprivileged containers
  • Coordination services · CoreOS announces etcd, built on Raft
  • Data transfer objects · Fowler adds that DTOs also encapsulate serialization
  • Domain-driven design · Vaughn Vernon’s Implementing Domain-Driven Design focuses on strategic design
  • DPDK (Data Plane Development Kit) · 6WIND establishes the open community at dpdk.org
  • DRLM (Disaster Recovery Linux Manager) · Brain Updaters starts the DRLM repository on GitHub
  • Elasticsearch · Joins Logstash and Kibana as the ELK stack
  • Entity Framework Core · Entity Framework 6 is released as open source
  • Event streams · Amazon Kinesis brings managed streams to the cloud
  • File formats · ORC (February) and Parquet (March) announced for Hadoop
  • Fivetran · Joins Y Combinator’s winter batch
  • FoundationDB · Public beta on 4 March, version 1.0 on 20 August
  • GitLab · GitLab Enterprise Edition introduced for larger organizations
  • HashiCorp Vagrant · Vagrant 1.1 adds providers and native installers
  • Incremental view maintenance · Differential Dataflow at CIDR; IVM proposed for PostgreSQL core at PGCon
  • Infrastructure as a service (IaaS) · Windows Azure Virtual Machines become generally available on April 16
  • jOOQ · jOOQ 3.2 introduces dual licensing in October
  • JSON · ECMA-404 first edition (October)
  • Linters, formatters and type checkers · About 70% of Go packages already use gofmt
  • Local cloud emulators · moto starts mocking AWS in February; DynamoDB Local arrives in September
  • Logstash · Sissel joins Elasticsearch in August; Logstash 1.2 released
  • LSM trees · Facebook open-sources RocksDB, a LevelDB fork for flash and servers
  • Memcached · Facebook publishes “Scaling Memcache at Facebook” (NSDI)
  • Microsoft Hyper-V · Windows Server 2012 R2 adds generation 2 (UEFI) VMs
  • Monads · Promises/A+ declines a strictly monadic promise design
  • MongoDB · 10gen renames itself MongoDB Inc.
  • pg_trgm · 9.3 indexes regular-expression searches
  • Presto (PrestoDB) · In production early in the year; open-sourced in November
  • Presto Foundation · Open-sourced in November
  • Query engines · Presto open-sourced; Twitter and Cloudera announce Parquet
  • React · Open-sourced at JSConf US in May
  • RocksDB · Facebook open-sources RocksDB, November 21
  • Scaleway · labs.online.net previews ARM servers without virtualization
  • Service discovery & mesh · Airbnb publishes SmartStack: a registry plus a local HAProxy on every machine
  • Software-defined networking · OpenDaylight launches at the Linux Foundation in April; Google describes B4 in August
  • Stream Framework · Dozens of Feedly releases, from 0.1 to 0.9
  • Stream processing · Google’s MillWheel paper describes low watermarks and exactly-once processing
  • Structured logging · Serilog and structlog repositories start; logfmt is written up
  • Team structures · Zappos begins rolling out Holacracy
  • The Linux Foundation · The Xen Project becomes a Linux Foundation Collaborative Project in April
  • Trino · In production early in the year; open-sourced in November
  • Unity Version Control · GitSync: push and pull directly with Git servers (March)
  • WebAssembly · Firefox 22 ships asm.js, a fast subset of JavaScript that C++ compiles to
  • Xen Project hypervisor · Xen becomes a Linux Foundation Collaborative Project (April 15)
  • ZeroMQ · Draft ZMTP 3.0 adds security mechanisms, followed by CurveZMQ encryption

2014

  • AkumuliFirst · GitHub repository created in January; v0.2.0 tagged in December
  • Apache OzoneFirst · HDFS-7240 proposes an object store on HDFS Datanodes
  • AWS CodeCommitFirst · Announced at re:Invent (November 12)
  • Azure Data ExplorerFirst · Kusto starts, around this year, as an internal project for Microsoft telemetry
  • Bundlers and dev serversFirst · webpack’s first release builds the dependency graph from imports
  • CockroachDBFirst · Spencer Kimball publishes the design on GitHub
  • EstuaryFirst · Gazette starts inside Arbor as an internal streaming framework
  • FirecrackerFirst · Lambda launches on traditional per-customer virtual machines
  • Google Kubernetes EngineFirst · Google Container Engine alpha announced on November 4
  • HarborFirst · Harbor starts as an internal VMware project
  • Immutable.jsFirst · Lee Byron’s first commit (May); 2.0.0 on npm in July and 3.0.0 in October
  • Jupyter FoundationFirst · Project Jupyter is spun off from IPython
  • KernelCIFirst · kernelci.org starts as a side project for automated build and boot tests
  • liboqsFirst · Open Quantum Safe is founded at the University of Waterloo
  • Material UI (MUI)First · Material UI starts as a React implementation of Material Design
  • MinIOFirst · First commit to minio/minio on 31 October
  • NuclioFirst · Iguazio founded in Israel
  • Open Source Security FoundationFirst · The Linux Foundation sets up the Core Infrastructure Initiative after Heartbleed
  • osqueryFirst · Facebook develops osquery; the GitHub repository is created in July
  • P4First · P4 paper published in July
  • Post-Quantum Cryptography AllianceFirst · Open Quantum Safe founded at the University of Waterloo
  • PoWAFirst · PoWA 1.0 at DALIBO
  • pre-commitFirst · First commit March 13 by Anthony Sottile and Ken Struys; 0.1.0 released June 7; Yelp announces it August 27
  • QuestDBFirst · First release, under the name NFSdb
  • RancherFirst · Rancher Labs founded; the rancher/rancher repository is created in November
  • release-itFirst · First published to npm by Lars Kappert (January 15)
  • Remote accessFirst · Google’s BeyondCorp paper drops the privileged corporate network
  • Rolling deploymentsFirst · Werner Vogels describes Amazon’s Apollo and its rolling updates; AWS launches CodeDeploy in November
  • runcFirst · Docker 0.9 makes libcontainer its default instead of LXC (March 10)
  • SpackFirst · Spack’s public repository created at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in January
  • Thinger.ioFirst · First lines of code, written by Álvaro Luis Bustamante
  • ToxiproxyFirst · In use across Shopify’s development and test environments from October
  • .NET runtime (CLR) · Microsoft announces open-source .NET Core on 12 November
  • Activity feeds · Feedly is renamed Stream Framework
  • Actor model · Microsoft Research describes Orleans and its virtual actors
  • Aerospike · Server open-sourced under AGPL-3.0, clients under Apache 2.0
  • Alerting · Rob Ewaschuk’s “My Philosophy on Alerting” circulates widely
  • Algolia · Joins Y Combinator’s Winter 2014 batch and moves to the United States
  • Amazon CloudWatch · CloudWatch Logs in July
  • Amazon Route 53 · Domain registration, geolocation routing and private hosted zones for VPCs
  • Amazon SQS · Dead-letter queues catch messages that keep failing
  • Apache BookKeeper · Top-level Apache project in November
  • Apache Calcite · Optiq enters the Apache Incubator in May and is renamed Calcite in September
  • Apache Drill · Graduates to a top-level Apache project in November
  • Apache Druid · SIGMOD paper describes the architecture
  • Apache Flink · Enters the Apache Incubator as Flink in April, top-level in December; data Artisans founded
  • Apache Hive · Hive 0.13 adds Apache Tez as its execution engine
  • Apache Impala · Impala 2.0 released in October
  • Apache Kafka · Its creators found Confluent
  • Apache NiFi · NSA releases it as open source; Apache Incubator accepts NiFi in November
  • Apache ORC · Facebook reports tens of PB moved to ORC; Hive 0.14 adds ACID on ORC
  • Apache Parquet · Enters the Apache Incubator in May
  • Apache Pig · Pig 0.14.0 adds Tez as an execution engine
  • Apache Spark · Top-level Apache project in February; 1.0 in May; sets a sorting record
  • Apache Zeppelin · Enters the Apache Incubator in December
  • Authentication · OpenID Connect ratified by the OpenID Foundation
  • AWS Elastic Beanstalk · Docker support, joining Node.js, PHP, Python, .NET, Java and Ruby
  • AWS Lambda · Preview announced at re:Invent on November 13, Node.js only
  • Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage · Starts publishing hard drive failure rates from its fleet
  • Backend as a service (BaaS) · Firebase joins Google on October 21, with 110,000 developers
  • Binary parsing and encoding · Heartbleed; the first LangSec workshop at IEEE Security & Privacy
  • Blue-green deployments · Danilo Sato describes ParallelChange (expand and contract) on Fowler’s site
  • C# · Microsoft open-sources .NET Core, after its C#, VB and F# compilers
  • Canary releases · Danilo Sato’s CanaryRelease entry on martinfowler.com
  • Ceph · Red Hat acquires Inktank for about $175 million
  • Change data capture · PostgreSQL 9.4 adds logical decoding and replication slots, December 18
  • Citus · cstore_fdw columnar store and the pg_shard extension are released
  • Cloud Foundry Foundation · Cloud Foundry Foundation announced in December
  • Cloud service models · AWS Lambda preview: code that runs on events (FaaS)
  • Cloudflare · Universal SSL gives every customer, free plan included, HTTPS
  • Commit conventions · Chris Beams’s “How to Write a Git Commit Message” lists seven rules
  • Container orchestration · Google open-sources Kubernetes; Docker starts Swarm
  • Coordination services · Raft paper at USENIX ATC; HashiCorp releases Consul
  • CQRS · Eric Evans calls CQRS and event sourcing mainstream options for DDD systems
  • CrateDB · Crate wins TechCrunch Disrupt Europe in London
  • Data lakes · Gartner warns of the “data lake fallacy”; Stonebraker calls lakes “data swamps”
  • Data notebooks · Project Jupyter is born out of IPython, for all languages
  • Databricks · Databricks Cloud unveiled in June: hosted Spark with notebooks
  • Docker · libcontainer replaces LXC in 0.9; Docker 1.0 ships June 9
  • Document databases · PostgreSQL 9.4 adds the jsonb type
  • Domain-driven design · Lewis and Fowler’s microservices article links service boundaries to bounded contexts
  • DRY: Don’t Repeat Yourself · Sandi Metz at RailsConf: “duplication is far cheaper than the wrong abstraction”
  • eBPF · Extended BPF; Linux 3.18 adds the bpf() syscall, maps and the verifier in December
  • Elasticsearch · Version 1.0: snapshot and restore, aggregations, circuit breakers
  • Elixir · Elixir 1.0 released on 18 September
  • Emergent schema (JSON columns) · PostgreSQL 9.4 adds binary, indexable jsonb
  • Entity-attribute-value (EAV) · PostgreSQL 9.4 adds indexable jsonb, an alternative for sparse attributes
  • F# · Microsoft accepts outside contributions; the F# Software Foundation is founded
  • Fivetran · Builds its first connector; opens headquarters in Oakland
  • Fluentd · Eduardo Silva starts Fluent Bit, a lightweight C sibling
  • Functional programming · Java 8 ships lambdas and streams
  • Git · Git 2.0, a release that deliberately breaks old defaults (May)
  • Git hooks · Husky is first published to npm (June)
  • Grafana · First release in January; raintank, now Grafana Labs, founded
  • HashiCorp Consul · Consul 0.1 released in April
  • HashiCorp Vagrant · Vagrant 1.5 launches Vagrant Cloud; 1.6 adds the Docker provider
  • HiveMQ · HiveMQ 2.0 adds MQTT 3.1.1 and broker bridges
  • Hybrid (medium) tables · PostgreSQL 9.4 adds jsonb with GIN indexing
  • Hybrid (medium) tables · “Tidy Data” formalizes long versus wide for analysts
  • Identity & access (IAM) · Google’s BeyondCorp paper drops the trusted internal network
  • Infrastructure as code · HashiCorp releases Terraform, cloud-agnostic, in July
  • IoT device messaging · OASIS approves MQTT 3.1.1 as a standard
  • Jupyter · Project Jupyter is spun off from IPython
  • kdb+ · First Derivatives takes a controlling stake in Kx
  • Kubernetes · First commit on June 6; unveiled at DockerCon
  • Linters, formatters and type checkers · PEP 484 proposes standard type hints for Python 3.5
  • Logs · Fluent Bit begins at Treasure Data; CloudWatch Logs launches in July
  • Manhattan · Manhattan announced in April, after two years in production
  • Mercurial · Facebook explains how it scaled Mercurial for its monorepo (January 7)
  • Microservices · Lewis and Fowler publish “Microservices”
  • Monads · Java 8 ships Optional.flatMap
  • MongoDB · MongoDB acquires WiredTiger and its storage engine
  • Monoliths · Lewis and Fowler’s “Microservices” article uses the monolith as its contrast
  • MQTT · OASIS approves MQTT 3.1.1 as a standard on 29 October
  • nanopb · Optional malloc support (0.2.7); 0.3.0 splits out pb_common.c
  • Narrow tables · “Tidy Data” warns against variable names stored in a column
  • Node.js · Core contributors fork it as io.js late in the year
  • Object-oriented programming · Java 8 adds lambda expressions
  • OpenAPI Specification · Swagger 2.0 released in September
  • OpenDaylight · First release, Hydrogen, on February 4
  • OpenTSDB · OpenTSDB 2.0 adds the HTTP API
  • Optional values · Java 8 ships java.util.Optional
  • PostgreSQL · 9.4 adds jsonb with GIN indexing
  • Pub/sub · OASIS publishes MQTT 3.1.1 as a standard
  • Quay · CoreOS acquires Quay.io (August 13)
  • Realm · Public launch as Realm
  • Release automation · Keep a Changelog’s first version is published (May 31)
  • Runtime virtual machines · Microsoft announces open-source .NET Core in November
  • Sapling · Facebook describes its Mercurial work: Watchman, remotefilelog and over 500 patches (January 7)
  • Serverless architecture · AWS announces Lambda
  • Serverless functions (FaaS) · AWS Lambda introduces event-driven functions billed per 100 ms
  • Service discovery & mesh · HashiCorp releases Consul with health checks and a DNS interface
  • Snowflake · Unveils the Snowflake Elastic Data Warehouse in October
  • Sonatype Nexus Repository · 42,000 Nexus instances connect to Maven Central (September)
  • StackStorm · Leaves stealth in May and releases the platform as open source
  • Stream Framework · Renamed Stream Framework at feedly.com’s request; 1.1.0 in October
  • Stream processing · Flink becomes a top-level Apache project; Kreps questions the Lambda Architecture
  • Terraform · Terraform 0.1 released in July with AWS and DigitalOcean
  • The Ceph Foundation · Red Hat acquires Inktank, the company Weil founded to support Ceph
  • Timely Dataflow · Naiad ends at Microsoft; McSherry starts timely dataflow in Rust
  • TypeScript · TypeScript 1.0 in April; the project moves to GitHub in July
  • UI libraries · Material UI starts as a React implementation of Material Design
  • Unbounded queries · Markus Winand argues for keyset pagination instead of OFFSET
  • Virtual private clouds · VXLAN overlay protocol documented in RFC 7348
  • webpack · webpack 1.0 in February; Instagram’s use presented at OSCON
  • Wide tables · “Tidy Data”: one variable per column, one observation per row

2015

  • alexFirst · August: first commit; September: 1.0.0 on npm
  • Amazon API GatewayFirst · Amazon API Gateway launches on 9 July for REST APIs
  • Amazon EFSFirst · Announced in preview on 9 April at the AWS Summit in San Francisco
  • Apache ArrowFirst · Nadeau and McKinney gather developers from a dozen projects around a shared format
  • Apache PinotFirst · LinkedIn open-sources Pinot in June after more than two years in production
  • Apache PulsarFirst · First Pulsar instance in production at Yahoo, second quarter
  • Apache SupersetFirst · Maxime Beauchemin starts Panoramix at an Airbnb hackathon as a front end for Druid
  • AWS IoT CoreFirst · AWS IoT announced in beta on 8 October; generally available 18 December
  • Azure IoT HubFirst · IoT Hub introduced as the core of Azure IoT Suite (November)
  • Azure Kubernetes ServiceFirst · Azure Container Service launches with a choice of orchestrators
  • Cloud Native Computing FoundationFirst · CNCF formed on July 21 as Kubernetes reaches 1.0; charter takes effect November 6
  • CodecovFirst · The Bash uploader repository is created (April 17)
  • Commitizen (cz-cli)First · Commitizen 1.0 published to npm by Jim Cummins (April 20); 2.0.0 in October
  • Cross-platform desktop appsFirst · Atom Shell is renamed Electron in April
  • DebeziumFirst · First commit, at Red Hat, in November
  • DoltFirst · First commit to Noms, which introduces the prolly tree
  • DremioFirst · Founded by Tomer Shiran and Jacques Nadeau in Mountain View
  • EnvoyFirst · Lyft starts building Envoy, first as its front proxy
  • ExpoFirst · Charlie Cheever starts work on Exponent, built on React Native
  • Google Cloud Pub/SubFirst · Public beta in March; generally available in August with Cloud Dataflow
  • GrapheneFirst · First release by Syrus Akbary in October
  • GraphQL-coreFirst · First graphql-core release by Syrus Akbary, in October
  • GraphQL-native databasesFirst · Facebook publishes GraphQL
  • gRPCFirst · Open-sourced February 26 under a BSD licence, with Square
  • HashiCorp NomadFirst · Announced and released as 0.1.0 on September 28
  • HashiCorp VaultFirst · Announced by HashiCorp in April, with dynamic secrets from day one
  • IbisFirst · Wes McKinney starts Ibis for Apache Impala; 0.3.0 on PyPI in July
  • Kafka StreamsFirst · Guozhang Wang proposes a stream processing client for Kafka in KIP-28
  • LF Decentralized TrustFirst · The Linux Foundation announces its blockchain project in December
  • Model serving and MLOpsFirst · “Hidden Technical Debt in Machine Learning Systems” published at NIPS
  • NetlifyFirst · Netlify launches on 7 April with static hosting and continuous deployment
  • nomFirst · First releases in early 2015; 1.0 in November
  • Open Container Initiative (OCI) specificationsFirst · Open Container Project announced at DockerCon; Docker donates runC (June 22)
  • OpenAPI InitiativeFirst · SmartBear buys Swagger in March; Open API Initiative announced on November 5
  • openCypherFirst · Neo4j launches openCypher with Oracle, Databricks, Tableau and Structr
  • OpenJS FoundationFirst · The Node.js Foundation forms on June 16 to reunite Node.js and io.js
  • OVN (Open Virtual Network)First · OVN announced by Open vSwitch developers on 13 January
  • PatroniFirst · Compose describes Governor in January; Zalando forks it as Patroni in July
  • PijulFirst · First post on pijul.org (October 31)
  • PyO3First · Daniel Grunwald’s rust-cpython brings Rust bindings to Python
  • React NativeFirst · Open-sourced for iOS in March; Android support in September
  • ReadableFirst · readability-score.com launched
  • Redpanda ConnectFirst · Ashley Jeffs makes the first commit to Benthos in September
  • Sans-I/O protocolsFirst · h2 1.0, an HTTP/2 stack that does no I/O, is released in October
  • Secrets managementFirst · Square open-sources Keywhiz; HashiCorp announces Vault, both in April
  • Serverless FrameworkFirst · JAWS presented at AWS re:Invent in October; first serverless release on npm in November
  • SONiCFirst · OCP accepts Microsoft’s Switch Abstraction Interface (SAI) in July
  • SONiC FoundationFirst · OCP accepts Microsoft’s Switch Abstraction Interface in July
  • TelegrafFirst · Initial commit in April; announced and v0.1.0 tagged in June
  • TiDBFirst · PingCAP founded; TiDB repository opens in September
  • TigrisFSFirst · Goofys, a performance-first S3 file system in Go, first released
  • Visual Studio CodeFirst · First preview at Microsoft Build
  • WebAssemblyFirst · WebAssembly announced on 17 June as the successor to asm.js
  • Akumuli · Lazin publishes the project’s goals and RESP-based write protocol
  • Alerting · SoundCloud describes Prometheus and its separate Alertmanager
  • Amazon DynamoDB · Streams, Lambda triggers and cross-Region replication become generally available
  • Amazon Kinesis Data Streams · Firehose launches; the original is renamed Kinesis Streams
  • Apache Avro · Confluent Schema Registry 1.0 ships in February, storing Avro schemas for Kafka
  • Apache Calcite · 1.0.0 in January; graduates to a top-level Apache project on 22 October
  • Apache Drill · Drill 1.0, the first production-ready release, in May
  • Apache Druid · Relicensed under Apache 2.0; its creators found Imply
  • Apache HBase · HBase 1.0 is released in February
  • Apache Impala · Enters the Apache Incubator in December
  • Apache NiFi · Top-level Apache project in July; Hortonworks agrees to buy Onyara in August
  • Apache ORC · Becomes a top-level Apache project in April
  • Apache Parquet · Graduates to a top-level Apache project in April
  • Apache TinkerPop (Gremlin) · Enters the Apache Incubator in January
  • Apache Zeppelin · First Apache release, 0.5.0-incubating, in July
  • API frameworks · Facebook publishes the GraphQL specification and GraphQL.js; the OpenAPI Initiative forms in November
  • API gateways · Amazon API Gateway launches; Mashape open-sources Kong
  • ArcticDB · Arctic is open-sourced on GitHub under the LGPL
  • AtScale · Launches publicly in April as an OLAP server for Hadoop
  • Authentication · Argon2 wins the Password Hashing Competition; JWT and SCIM 2.0 published as RFCs
  • Autoscaling · Kubernetes 1.1 adds the Horizontal Pod Autoscaler (beta)
  • AWS CodeCommit · Generally available in US East (N. Virginia) (July 9)
  • AWS Lambda · Ready for production on April 9, with synchronous calls
  • Azure App Service · Websites and Mobile Services merge into Azure App Service on March 24
  • Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage · Vault architecture; B2 announced on 22 September at $0.005 per GB
  • Backup & restore · restic and BorgBackup bring deduplicated, chunked backups
  • Bazel · Open-sourced as Bazel in March; beta in September
  • Binary parsing and encoding · nom 1.0 brings parser combinators for binary data to Rust
  • Bitbucket · Stash renamed Bitbucket Server with version 4.0 (September 21)
  • Blue-green deployments · Fowler adds the database advice to his blue-green entry
  • Build tools · Google open-sources Blaze as Bazel (March 24)
  • Bundlers and dev servers · ES2015 standardises import and export, which tree shaking relies on
  • Cloud Foundry · The Cloud Foundry Foundation is formed as a Linux Foundation project in January
  • Cloud Foundry Foundation · Foundation launches in January with more than 40 members
  • CockroachDB · Cockroach Labs founded; $6.3 million seed led by Benchmark
  • Container orchestration · Kubernetes 1.0, HashiCorp Nomad and the Borg paper all appear
  • Containers · Open Container Initiative formed to standardise images and runtimes
  • Cross-platform mobile apps · Facebook open-sources React Native for iOS
  • Customer support · Basecamp describes “Everyone on Support”: one day a month in the queue for everyone
  • Dashboards and BI · Power BI becomes generally available; AWS previews QuickSight with its SPICE engine
  • Databricks · Platform becomes generally available in June, on Amazon EC2
  • Distributed ledgers · Ethereum launches in July; the Linux Foundation announces Hyperledger in December
  • Distributed tracing · Uber creates Jaeger
  • Docker · Open Container Initiative launched June 22 with Docker’s format and runc
  • Documentation sites · Swagger 2.0 donated to the OpenAPI Initiative on 31 December
  • Domain-driven design · Evans’s DDD Reference adds domain events, partnership and big ball of mud
  • DRY: Don’t Repeat Yourself · Martin Fowler’s article on YAGNI and presumptive features
  • Editors and terminals · Visual Studio Code previewed at Build; open-sourced six months later
  • Electron · Renamed Electron on April 23; VS Code previewed on it
  • Emergent schema (JSON columns) · MySQL 5.7.8 adds a native JSON type; Pham, Boncz and colleagues publish emergent relational schemas for RDF
  • Entity-attribute-value (EAV) · Pham, Boncz and colleagues show most RDF triples fit an emergent relational schema
  • Errors and exceptions · Rust 1.0 ships with Result and panic!
  • etcd · etcd 2.0, the first major stable release, in January
  • ETL & ELT pipelines · Airbnb announces Airflow, its open-source workflow scheduler, in June
  • Event loop · Python 3.5 adds async and await (PEP 492)
  • Formal methods · “How Amazon Web Services Uses Formal Methods” appears in Communications of the ACM
  • FoundationDB · Apple acquires the company in March and downloads are withdrawn
  • Git LFS · Announced by GitHub (April 8); batch API in 0.6 (September); 1.0 (October 1); GitLab support (November 23)
  • GitLab · Graduates from Y Combinator in March with nine people
  • Google Cloud Storage · Nearline class for rarely read data, still online (March)
  • Google Kubernetes Engine · Generally available on August 26, with a 99.5% uptime SLA
  • Grafana · Grafana 2.0 adds a backend written in Go
  • Graph databases · Neo4j launches openCypher with Oracle, Databricks and others
  • GraphQL · Draft spec and GraphQL.js released as a technical preview in July
  • HTTP · HTTP/2 published as RFC 7540
  • HTTPS · HTTP/2 negotiated as h2 within TLS (RFC 7540)
  • In-process caches · Einziger, Friedman and Manes describe TinyLFU, later used in Caffeine
  • InfluxDB · TSM storage engine; Errplane becomes InfluxData
  • IoT device messaging · AWS IoT launches with Thing Shadows and a rules engine
  • Issue tracking · Atlassian splits out Jira Software for software teams
  • Jamstack · Matt Biilmann and Chris Bach coin “Jamstack” at Netlify
  • JavaScript · ECMAScript 2015 approved in June; yearly editions follow
  • KairosDB · KairosDB 1.0.0 in June
  • Kubernetes · Version 1.0 on July 21; donated to the newly formed CNCF
  • Lakehouses · Cloud object stores start replacing HDFS as the home of data lakes
  • Metrics · Tom Wilkie creates the RED method
  • Microservices · Fowler’s “MonolithFirst” and Tilkov’s “Don’t start with a monolith”
  • MinIO · First official release, “Minimalist Object Storage”, on 17 June
  • ML frameworks · Google open-sources TensorFlow under Apache 2.0 in November
  • Monoliths · Fowler’s “MonolithFirst”: start with a monolith, split later
  • Neo4j · Cypher opens up as openCypher
  • Network protocols · HTTP/2 (RFC 7540), built from Google’s SPDY
  • Node.js · Node.js Foundation forms on June 16; Node.js 4.0 merges io.js in September
  • Open vSwitch · OVN announced in January; design paper at NSDI
  • OpenAPI Specification · SmartBear buys Swagger in March; OpenAPI Initiative announced on November 5
  • Perforce P4 · Helix platform launched (March)
  • Persistence: state, events and replay · Pat Helland’s “Immutability Changes Everything”: the truth is the log
  • Piper · The repository holds about one billion files, 35 million commits and 86 TB (January)
  • PoWA · PoWA 2.0 splits archivist and web UI; 3.0 adds whole-database index suggestions
  • Programming languages · Rust 1.0 released on 15 May
  • Prometheus · Announced publicly in January
  • Protocol Buffers · proto3 arrives alongside gRPC in February
  • Proxmox Virtual Environment · 4.0 in October replaces OpenVZ with LXC and adds the HA manager
  • Pub/sub · Google Cloud Pub/Sub becomes generally available
  • Purely functional data structures · Stucki and colleagues present the RRB vector at ICFP
  • Quay · The Quay team starts the Clair scanner
  • React Foundation · React Native open-sourced
  • Realm · $20 million round; Realm runs on over 100 million devices
  • Red Hat OpenShift · Origin 1.0, the code base of OpenShift 3, rebuilt on Docker and Kubernetes (June)
  • Redis · Redis 3.0 ships Redis Cluster; Redis Labs becomes sponsor
  • Release automation · semantic-release is first published to npm (February 2)
  • release-it · 1.0.0 (August 20): bump, commit, tag, push, publish, with dry runs and GitHub releases
  • Remote procedure calls · Google open-sources gRPC, the successor to Stubby, in February
  • REST · The OpenAPI Initiative forms around Swagger
  • RethinkDB · RethinkDB 2.0, called production-ready (April)
  • runc · Docker donates runC to the new Open Container Project (June 22)
  • Rust · Rust 1.0 released on 15 May; releases every six weeks after that
  • Scaleway · Renamed Scaleway out of beta in April; price cut to €2.99 a month in September
  • ScyllaDB · First tagged Scylla release, 0.10, in October
  • SeaweedFS · Project renamed SeaweedFS (April)
  • Serverless architecture · Amazon API Gateway launches; JAWS becomes the Serverless Framework
  • Snowflake · Generally available on AWS in June
  • Spack · SC15 paper introduces Spack’s spec syntax
  • SPDK (Storage Performance Development Kit) · Opened to the community under a BSD licence
  • SQLAlchemy · SQLAlchemy 1.0 in April
  • Static dispatch · Rust 1.0, with monomorphized generics
  • Stream processing · The Dataflow Model paper sets out event time, windows and watermarks
  • Team structures · Zappos ends people managers and offers severance; about 14% leave
  • Temporal · They start Cadence at Uber
  • The Ceph Foundation · Ceph Advisory Board formed
  • The Linux Foundation · The CNCF forms on July 21 as Google hands over Kubernetes 1.0
  • Thinger.io · Project starts; Arduino client library published on GitHub
  • TigerGraph · GSQL designed by Mingxi Wu and Alin Deutsch
  • Time-series compression · Facebook’s Gorilla paper: delta-of-delta time stamps and XOR values, 1.37 bytes per point
  • Time-series databases · Facebook’s Gorilla paper shows tenfold compression for in-memory metrics
  • Timely Dataflow · First timely crate published; Differential Dataflow library begins
  • Toxiproxy · Version 1.0 in January; Shopify describes it in “Building and Testing Resilient Ruby on Rails Applications”
  • Visual Studio Code · Beta at Connect(): extensions, the Marketplace and an open-source repository
  • Web APIs · Facebook open-sources GraphQL; the OpenAPI Initiative forms around Swagger
  • Wide-column stores · ScyllaDB’s first release, a C++ rewrite of Cassandra
  • Workflow orchestration · Airbnb releases Airflow as open source
  • Zephyr · Wind River releases Virtuoso as the open-source Rocket RTOS

2016

  • Amazon AthenaFirst · Announced at re:Invent on November 30, based on Presto
  • Amazon EventBridgeFirst · CloudWatch Events launches in January
  • Amazon EventBridge SchedulerFirst · CloudWatch Events launches with events on a schedule, later EventBridge scheduled rules
  • Apache HudiFirst · Built at Uber under the codename Hoodie
  • AsyncAPIFirst · Fran Méndez starts AsyncAPI; the specification repository is created in November
  • AWS ChaliceFirst · Developer preview released on July 11
  • AWS Serverless Application Model (SAM)First · SAM introduced on November 18 as a CloudFormation transform
  • Cloudflare Load BalancingFirst · Traffic Manager announced on September 29 with an Early Access program
  • CubeFirst · Keydunov and Tiunov found Statsbot and build the engine behind it
  • dbtFirst · First dbt commit in March; Tristan Handy starts Fishtown Analytics
  • Fintech Open Source FoundationFirst · Symphony Software Foundation set up by investment banks
  • FissionFirst · Soam Vasani starts Fission at Platform9
  • GiteaFirst · Forked from Gogs in November; announced December 8; Gitea 1.0 released December 23
  • Grafana MimirFirst · Tom Wilkie and Julius Volz start Cortex at Weaveworks
  • GremlinFirst · Kolton Andrus founds Gremlin
  • HerdDBFirst · Repository opens; version 0.0.1 is tagged in July
  • Hugging FaceFirst · Founded in New York to build a chatbot app
  • Hyperledger FabricFirst · IBM and Digital Asset contribute the code to the new Hyperledger Project
  • immerFirst · Repository created on GitHub (August)
  • Kaitai StructFirst · First compiler commit in February; 0.4 adds C#; 0.5 adds PHP, Perl, Graphviz
  • kubeadmFirst · Alpha in Kubernetes 1.4, September 26
  • KubelessFirst · Repository created at Skippbox in November
  • KubeVirtFirst · Project starts at Red Hat at the end of the year
  • LocalStackFirst · First commit at Atlassian in August, with eight AWS APIs
  • LuraFirst · KrakenD in production at large internet businesses
  • MemgraphFirst · Memgraph is founded by Dominik Tomičević and Marko Budiselić
  • minikubeFirst · v0.1.0 on May 30; official launch with Kubernetes 1.3 in July
  • Model hubsFirst · Hugging Face is founded in New York
  • OnehouseFirst · Vinoth Chandar and colleagues build Hudi at Uber
  • pgwatchFirst · Kaarel Moppel starts the project
  • PodmanFirst · kpod added to the CRI-O repository in November
  • PravegaFirst · Development starts at Dell; repository created in July
  • PyTorch FoundationFirst · Facebook releases PyTorch
  • RatatuiFirst · Florian Dehau creates tui-rs
  • RayFirst · Repository created at UC Berkeley
  • SigmaFirst · Florian Roth commits the first example rules on December 24
  • StorybookFirst · Kadira launches React Storybook 1.0 (April) and shuts down (December)
  • TileDBFirst · PVLDB paper on the TileDB array storage manager, from Intel Labs and MIT
  • YugabyteDBFirst · Yugabyte founded by three former Facebook engineers
  • ZigFirst · Andrew Kelley introduces Zig in February
  • Akka · Typesafe is renamed Lightbend
  • Akumuli · Rewrite around a new Numeric B+tree storage engine begins
  • Alerting · Google’s SRE book argues for symptom-based alerting
  • Amazon CloudFront · Regional edge caches added; Lambda@Edge previewed (GA in July 2017)
  • Amazon EFS · Generally available for production use in three Regions (June)
  • Amazon ElastiCache · Redis Cluster support shards one dataset across nodes
  • Amazon SQS · FIFO queues add strict ordering and deduplication
  • Apache Arrow · Top-level Apache project in February; Feather in March; 0.1.0 in October
  • Apache BookKeeper · Yahoo! open-sources Pulsar, built on BookKeeper, in September
  • Apache CouchDB · CouchDB 2.0 adds clustering, Mango queries and Fauxton
  • Apache Flink · Flink 1.0 adds RocksDB state and savepoints, and promises API compatibility
  • Apache Hive · Hive 2.0 adds LLAP and deprecates MapReduce
  • Apache NiFi · NiFi 1.0: new UI and clustering without a master node
  • Apache ORC · ORC 1.0 released as a standalone library (January)
  • Apache Pulsar · Open-sourced by Yahoo under Apache 2.0 in September
  • Apache Spark · Spark 2.0 unifies DataFrames and Datasets and previews Structured Streaming
  • Apache Superset · Open-sourced as Caravel in March; renamed Superset in November
  • Apache TinkerPop (Gremlin) · Becomes an Apache top-level project on 23 May
  • Apache Zeppelin · Becomes a top-level Apache project in May
  • API gateways · Google acquires Apigee for $625 million
  • Artifact registries · Harbor is open-sourced; Nexus 3.0 adds a private Docker registry (April)
  • Automated testing · Kadira launches React Storybook
  • AWS Application Load Balancer · Application Load Balancer launches on 11 August; the original becomes “Classic”
  • AWS CloudFormation · Change sets in March; YAML and cross-stack references in September; SAM in November
  • AWS Step Functions · Step Functions launches at re:Invent on December 1
  • Azure IoT Hub · Generally available in February, with HTTP, AMQP and MQTT
  • Backend as a service (BaaS) · Parse announces its shutdown on January 28 and open-sources Parse Server
  • CedarDB · Tableau acquires the HyPer start-up in March
  • Change data capture · Debezium 0.1 streams MySQL binlog changes into Kafka
  • Chaos engineering · “Chaos Engineering” paper in IEEE Software; Gremlin is founded
  • Chaos Monkey · Chaos Monkey 2.0: written in Go, run through Spinnaker
  • CI/CD pipelines · Jenkins 2.0 adds Pipeline, pipelines as code
  • Citus · Citus 5.0 becomes a Postgres extension and goes open source; Citus Cloud launches
  • ClickHouse · Open-sourced under Apache 2.0
  • Cloud Foundry · The Open Service Broker API launches in December
  • Cloud Native Computing Foundation · Kubernetes accepted in March; Prometheus becomes the second project in May
  • Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) · The CVE Program starts actively expanding the number of CNAs
  • Construct · 2.8 introduces "name" / Field syntax and new integer names
  • Correlation IDs · NGINX 1.11.0 adds $request_id in May; ALBs add X-Amzn-Trace-Id in November
  • CrateDB · CrateDB 1.0 ships in December; the company moves its headquarters to San Francisco
  • Cross-platform desktop apps · Electron 1.0 released on 11 May
  • DAOS · Code published on GitHub
  • Dashboards and BI · Airbnb open-sources Superset, first released as Caravel
  • Data lakes · Amazon Athena launches, running SQL directly on files in S3
  • Database indexes · PostgreSQL 9.5 adds BRIN
  • Debezium · Debezium 0.1 ships a MySQL connector for Kafka Connect
  • Distributed tracing · OpenTracing joins the CNCF
  • Dremio · Apache Arrow launched in February, with Nadeau as vice president
  • DRLM (Disaster Recovery Linux Manager) · DRLM 2.0 in July
  • DRY: Don’t Repeat Yourself · Metz’s post “The Wrong Abstraction”
  • eBPF · XDP in Linux 4.8
  • Editors and terminals · Language Server Protocol announced as a shared standard with Red Hat and Codenvy
  • Electron · Electron 1.0 on May 11
  • Emergent schema (JSON columns) · Heap’s “When To Avoid JSONB In A PostgreSQL Schema” on missing statistics
  • EMQX · Relicensed to Apache 2.0; emqttd 1.0 released in April
  • Entity Framework Core · EF7 is renamed EF Core 1.0 in January; 1.0 ships on 27 June
  • Envoy · 1.0 tagged September 12; open-sourced September 14
  • Estuary · LiveRamp acquires Arbor
  • etcd · etcd 3.0 brings the gRPC API, multiversion history and leases
  • ETL & ELT pipelines · Debezium 0.1 reads MySQL’s binlog; dbt is first released
  • Event buses · AWS CloudWatch Events routes AWS resource events with rules
  • Fauna · Fauna leaves stealth with a managed beta
  • File formats · Apache Arrow standardises columnar data in memory
  • File storage · Amazon EFS brings managed, self-growing NFS to the cloud (June)
  • Fluentd · Accepted as a CNCF project in November
  • Git hooks · Git 2.9 adds core.hooksPath (June 13)
  • Google Cloud Storage · Coldline, plus Multi-Regional and Regional classes (October)
  • Grafana · Plugin system arrives in Grafana 3
  • Graphene · SQLAlchemy support in January; 1.0 in September
  • GraphQL · Preview label dropped; GitHub launches a public GraphQL API
  • GraphQL-native databases · PostGraphile’s repository starts in April
  • gRPC · 1.0 in August for C++, Java, Go, Node, Ruby, Python and C#
  • Harbor · Harbor is open-sourced
  • HashiCorp Nomad · The one-million-container challenge
  • Incident management · Google’s SRE book describes incident command for software
  • InfluxDB · Clustering goes closed source; 1.0 in September
  • Jamstack · Biilmann’s SmashingConf talk “The New Front-end Stack. Javascript, APIs and Markup”
  • Jenkins · Jenkins 2.0 makes Pipeline as code the default in April
  • Kafka Streams · Preview announced in March; ships in Kafka 0.10.0 in May
  • LF Decentralized Trust · Hyperledger names 30 founding members in February; Brian Behlendorf becomes executive director in May
  • liboqs · liboqs repository and the OQS fork of OpenSSL open in August
  • libvirt · 2.0.0 (July 1): version numbers become time-based
  • Load balancers · AWS adds the layer-7 Application Load Balancer; Google publishes the Maglev paper
  • Load-balancing algorithms · Google publishes the Maglev paper, with its consistent-hashing table
  • Local cloud emulators · LocalStack is open-sourced at Atlassian with eight AWS APIs
  • LSM trees · WiscKey separates keys from values to cut write amplification
  • Manhattan · Twitter describes Manhattan’s strong consistency service
  • Metrics · Google’s SRE book names the four golden signals
  • ML frameworks · PyTorch is released
  • Model serving and MLOps · Clipper paper from UC Berkeley’s RISELab (December)
  • MongoDB · Atlas, the hosted database service, is announced
  • Monoliths · DHH’s “The Majestic Monolith”; Shopify decides its monolith needs boundaries
  • MQTT · ISO and IEC publish 3.1.1 as ISO/IEC 20922
  • nanopb · 0.3.7 adds proto3-style singular fields
  • Netdata · Netdata 1.0 released in March
  • Netlify · Free Let’s Encrypt certificates and Deploy Previews
  • NewSQL and distributed SQL · Pavlo and Aslett ask “What’s Really New with NewSQL?”
  • ngrok · Twilio profiles ngrok, used by over 40,000 developers; active work on v1 ends
  • On-call · Google’s SRE book sets out the 25% on-call limit and two incidents per shift
  • oneTBB · TBB 2017 moves to the Apache 2.0 licence and to GitHub
  • Open vSwitch · Becomes a Linux Foundation project on 9 August
  • OpenAPI Initiative · Swagger Specification renamed OpenAPI on January 1
  • OpenAPI Specification · Renamed the OpenAPI Specification on January 1
  • OpenJS Foundation · The JS Foundation launches on October 17 with webpack, Mocha, Node-RED and Appium
  • OpenTelemetry · OpenTracing joins the CNCF in October
  • Optional values · Kotlin 1.0 released with null safety; TypeScript 2.0 adds strictNullChecks
  • OVHcloud · KKR and TowerBrook take a €250 million minority stake
  • P4 · Barefoot launches Tofino, a P4-programmable switch chip
  • Package managers · Russ Cox proves version selection NP-complete
  • Patroni · FOSDEM PGDay talk; version 1.0 adds dynamic cluster-wide configuration
  • Perforce P4 · Summit Partners acquires Perforce (February); the server becomes Helix Core
  • pg_trgm · 9.6 adds word_similarity()
  • pgBackRest · 1.00 in April: new repository format, pg_backrest renamed pgbackrest
  • Pijul · Pijul 0.2, rewritten in Rust (February 2); the Nest starts
  • Piper · Potvin and Levenberg describe Piper and CitC in Communications of the ACM (July)
  • Post-quantum cryptography · NIST opens its post-quantum standardisation process; Google tests hybrid New Hope in Chrome
  • Prometheus · Joins the CNCF as its second project in May; 1.0 in July
  • Protocol Buffers · Version 3.0.0 makes proto3 stable in July
  • Query engines · Amazon Athena offers serverless SQL over S3, billed per byte scanned
  • QuestDB · Core code relicensed under AGPLv3
  • Rancher · Rancher 1.0 GA in March, with Cattle, Kubernetes and Swarm environments
  • Readable · Moves to readable.io
  • Real-time analytics databases · Yandex open-sources ClickHouse
  • Remote access · OpenSSH 7.3 adds ProxyJump (ssh -J) for hopping through bastions
  • Remote procedure calls · gRPC 1.0 is released in August
  • Replit · Repl.it founded by Amjad Masad, Faris Masad and Haya Odeh
  • RethinkDB · The company shuts down; engineers join Stripe (October)
  • RocksDB · Flink 1.0 adds a RocksDB state backend; Facebook announces MyRocks for MySQL
  • Rolling deployments · Kubernetes 1.2 adds the Deployment API (beta) for rollouts and rollback
  • Sans-I/O protocols · h11 released; Cory Benfield’s PyCon talk in May; Brett Cannon’s sans-I/O page in August
  • ScyllaDB · Scylla 1.0 is released in March
  • Serverless Framework · Version 1.0 and a $3 million seed round led by Trinity Ventures, in October
  • Serverless functions (FaaS) · Microsoft announces Azure Functions
  • Service discovery & mesh · Linkerd’s first release in January; Lyft open-sources Envoy in September
  • Snowflake · SIGMOD paper describes the multi-cluster, shared-data design
  • Software-defined networking · Microsoft open-sources SONiC in March
  • Sonatype Nexus Repository · Nexus Repository 3.0 adds a private Docker registry (April 13)
  • SONiC · Microsoft open-sources SONiC at the OCP summit on March 9
  • SONiC Foundation · Microsoft open-sources SONiC at the OCP summit on March 9
  • SQL · SQL:2016 adds JSON functions over strings
  • StackStorm · Acquired by Brocade in March
  • Stream processing · Kafka Streams ships in Kafka 0.10; Spark 2.0 previews Structured Streaming
  • Structured logging · pino for Node.js and Uber’s zap for Go appear
  • Synthetic monitoring · Google’s SRE book describes black-box monitoring
  • Table formats · Uber builds Hudi to apply updates to its Hadoop lake
  • Team structures · Medium moves beyond Holacracy
  • Telegraf · Telegraf 1.0 tagged in September
  • Threat detection (SIEM) · Florian Roth commits the first Sigma rules on December 24
  • TOML · PEP 518 picks TOML for pyproject.toml
  • Toxiproxy · Toxiproxy 2.0 changes the API
  • Trino · Amazon Athena launches, built on Presto
  • TypeScript · TypeScript 2.0 adds non-nullable types with --strictNullChecks
  • Vector databases · Malkov and Yashunin describe the HNSW graph index
  • Visual Studio Code · Version 1.0 in April: 2 million installs and over 1,000 extensions
  • Visual Studio Code · Language Server Protocol announced with Red Hat and Codenvy
  • Vitess · Vitess 2.0 released
  • Web APIs · GitHub launches the first major public GraphQL API
  • webpack · Joins the JS Foundation at its launch on October 17
  • Workflow orchestration · AWS Step Functions launches
  • Zenko CloudServer · S3 front end open-sourced as Scality S3 Server (June)
  • Zephyr · Linux Foundation launches the Zephyr Project on 17 February; 1.6 moves to a single kernel in December

2017

  • Amazon EKSFirst · Announced as a preview at re:Invent, November 29
  • Apache DataFusionFirst · Andy Grove starts DataFusion, a query engine in Rust
  • Apache DorisFirst · Baidu open-sources Palo, its ad-reporting database
  • Apache IcebergFirst · Ryan Blue and Dan Weeks start Iceberg at Netflix
  • Argo CDFirst · Applatix open-sources Argo Workflows
  • AWS FargateFirst · Announced at re:Invent on November 29 as an ECS launch type
  • Cloudflare TunnelFirst · The cloudflared repository is created on GitHub
  • Cloudflare WorkersFirst · Kenton Varda announces Workers on September 29
  • Cloudflare, Inc.First · Workers announced on September 29, on a network of 117 locations
  • Confidential computingFirst · Azure confidential computing announced on Intel SGX; Graphene-SGX runs unmodified applications in enclaves
  • Confidential Computing ConsortiumFirst · Microsoft announces Azure confidential computing on Intel SGX in September
  • Cruise Control for KafkaFirst · LinkedIn open-sources Cruise Control (August)
  • Delta LakeFirst · Databricks launches Delta for its customers in October
  • EdgeX FoundryFirst · EdgeX Foundry launched at the Linux Foundation on April 24 with Dell’s FUSE code
  • Fly.ioFirst · Fly.io launches
  • FOSSAFirst · FOSSA launches as a developer tool, with a $2.2 million seed round
  • FRRouting (FRR)First · Forked from Quagga; announced as a Linux Foundation project on 3 April
  • GramineFirst · Graphene-SGX paper at USENIX ATC runs unmodified applications in SGX enclaves
  • im (Rust)First · Bodil Stokke publishes the first versions of im (April)
  • IstioFirst · Google, IBM and Lyft announce Istio 0.1 in May
  • Kata ContainersFirst · Announced December 5, merging Intel Clear Containers and Hyper runV
  • ksqlDBFirst · KSQL announced as a developer preview in August
  • Large language modelsFirst · Google researchers publish the Transformer in “Attention Is All You Need” (June 12)
  • LF EdgeFirst · EdgeX Foundry launches at the Linux Foundation on April 24, seeded with Dell’s FUSE code
  • LitmusChaosFirst · Litmus starts at MayaData as simple chaos jobs for Kubernetes
  • MicroVMsFirst · Kata Containers launches, merging Clear Containers and runV
  • MindsDBFirst · Founded in Berkeley by Jorge Torres and Adam Carrigan
  • NxFirst · Nrwl publishes @nrwl/schematics, “Nrwl Extensions for Angular” (September)
  • PulumiFirst · Pulumi founded by Joe Duffy and Eric Rudder
  • PydanticFirst · Samuel Colvin publishes 0.0.1 on PyPI in May
  • PyreflyFirst · Meta starts Pyre, in OCaml, for Instagram
  • RenodeFirst · Released as open source by Antmicro in August; Windows support in 1.1 in November
  • Talos LinuxFirst · Talos repository created in November
  • TARS FoundationFirst · Tencent open-sources TARS in April
  • TDengineFirst · Jeff Tao founds TAOS Data in Beijing in May
  • TimescaleDBFirst · iobeam relaunches as Timescale; TimescaleDB announced in April
  • ValeFirst · February: first release (0.1.0)
  • VeleroFirst · Heptio releases Ark on August 3
  • WAL-GFirst · Citus Data releases WAL-G 0.1 on 18 August
  • Wasabi Hot Cloud StorageFirst · Launches on 3 May from one data center in Northern Virginia
  • workerdFirst · Cloudflare Workers launches on a closed runtime built on V8
  • Akumuli · NB+tree design and the float codec published
  • Amazon API Gateway · Regional endpoints, and VPC Link to reach private backends via an NLB
  • Amazon Athena · Integrates with the new AWS Glue Data Catalog
  • Amazon DynamoDB · Global tables replicate a table across Regions, each accepting writes
  • Amazon EC2 · Per-second billing for Linux; Nitro debuts with the C5 instances
  • Amazon S3 Tables · Apache Iceberg starts, adding table metadata on top of Parquet files
  • Amazon SNS · Subscription filter policies
  • Apache BookKeeper · DistributedLog joins BookKeeper from the Apache Incubator
  • Apache Hadoop · Hadoop 3.0 adds HDFS erasure coding
  • Apache Hudi · Uber describes it publicly in March and open-sources it
  • Apache Impala · Becomes a top-level Apache project in November
  • Apache Kafka · Exactly-once delivery and transactions arrive in 0.11; version 1.0 follows in November
  • Apache Pig · Pig 0.17.0 adds Spark as an engine; then eight years without a release
  • Apache Pulsar · Enters the Apache Incubator on 1 June
  • Apache Superset · Enters the Apache Incubator in May
  • ArangoDB · 3.2 adds the RocksDB storage engine
  • Auth0 · Co-founder Eugenio Pace becomes CEO
  • Autoscaling · Target tracking policies arrive for EC2 Auto Scaling
  • AWS Application Load Balancer · Host-based routing and IP targets; the Network Load Balancer covers layer 4
  • AWS Chalice · Chalice 1.0.0 generally available on July 31
  • AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK) · The aws-cdk repository is created in October
  • AWS CloudFormation · StackSets deploy one template across accounts and regions
  • AWS CodeCommit · Pull requests (November 20)
  • AWS IAM · AWS Organizations brings service control policies
  • Axon Framework · AxonIQ is founded in July and releases AxonHub
  • Azure App Service · App Service on Linux and Web App for Containers generally available
  • Azure Blob Storage · Archive tier generally available at $0.002 per GB-month (December)
  • Azure IoT Hub · Device Provisioning Service generally available (December)
  • Azure Kubernetes Service · AKS preview announced on October 24, with a free control plane
  • Azure Repos · Windows moves to Git on Visual Studio Team Services, using GVFS
  • Backend as a service (BaaS) · Parse’s hosted service is retired in January
  • Branching strategies · Pete Hodgson’s “Feature Toggles” describes release toggles for trunk-based teams
  • Cap’n Proto · The Sandstorm team, Varda included, joins Cloudflare in March
  • CBOR · COSE (RFC 8152) builds signing and encryption on CBOR
  • CDNs · Edge code goes mainstream: Lambda@Edge is generally available, Cloudflare Workers announced
  • Chaos engineering · LitmusChaos starts; Gremlin launches its product in December
  • Cloudflare · Unmetered DDoS mitigation on all plans; Workers announced
  • Cloudflare Load Balancing · Enterprise customers start using Load Balancing in March
  • Cloudflare Load Balancing · Load Balancing opens to all customers on May 14, from $5 a month
  • CockroachDB · CockroachDB 1.0 in May, with a $27 million Series B
  • Container orchestration · Microsoft (AKS) and AWS (EKS) announce managed Kubernetes
  • CrateDB · CrateDB 2.0 brings the first Enterprise Edition
  • Datadog · APM launches
  • dbt · Handy describes dbt as “the T in ELT”
  • Debezium · Randall Hauch hands the project lead to Gunnar Morling
  • Distributed ledgers · Hyperledger Fabric 1.0 is released in July
  • Docker · The Moby project becomes the open upstream for Docker’s engine
  • Documentation sites · OpenAPI 3.0 in July; Facebook introduces Docusaurus in December
  • DPDK (Data Plane Development Kit) · Moves to the Linux Foundation on 3 April
  • Dremio · Source code published under Apache 2.0 in July (release 1.0.8)
  • DRLM (Disaster Recovery Linux Manager) · DRLM workshop at FOSDEM; version 2.1
  • EMQX · EMQ founded to build a business around the broker
  • Envoy · Istio launches on Envoy; xDS v2 APIs; joins the CNCF
  • Event buses · Microsoft previews Azure Event Grid
  • Expo · Exponent is renamed Expo on 6 March
  • Fission · Announced January 24 as an open-source alpha for Node.js and Python
  • Fluentd · Fluentd v1.0 released in December
  • Fossil · Fossil 2.0 (March 3): hardened SHA-1 and support for reading SHA3-256 names, after SHAttered
  • Git · Git 2.13 makes collision-detecting SHA-1 the default after SHAttered
  • Git LFS · Git LFS 2.0 adds file locking (March 1)
  • GitLab · GitLab.com database outage, recovered on a live stream (January 31)
  • Google App Engine · Flexible environment, running Docker containers on Compute Engine VMs, becomes generally available
  • Google Kubernetes Engine · Renamed Google Kubernetes Engine; cluster fee dropped
  • Graphene · Graphene 2.0 in October
  • GraphQL · Spec relicensed under OWFa 1.0, GraphQL.js under MIT
  • Gremlin · Leaves stealth in December with a $7.5 million Series A
  • gRPC · Joins the CNCF in February; moves to Apache 2.0 in June
  • HashiCorp Consul · Consul 1.0 in October
  • HashiCorp Packer · Packer 1.0 in April, used by tens of thousands of organizations
  • HashiCorp Vagrant · Vagrant 2.0 released in September
  • Hyperledger Fabric · First Hyperledger project to reach Active status, in March; 1.0 on July 11
  • Hypervisors · AWS introduces the KVM-based Nitro Hypervisor with C5 instances
  • immer · ICFP paper “Persistence for the Masses” and CppCon talk
  • Immutable.js · 3.8.2, the last 3.x release for over eight years
  • Infrastructure as a service (IaaS) · EC2 switches Linux instances to per-second billing on October 2
  • JavaScript · V8 runs all JavaScript through the Ignition interpreter and TurboFan compiler
  • JSON · RFC 8259 and ECMA-404 2nd edition published together (December)
  • Jupyter · ACM Software System Award
  • Kafka Streams · Exactly-once processing arrives with Kafka 0.11.0; Confluent builds KSQL on it
  • Kaitai Struct · 0.7 lets .ksy files import types from each other
  • KernelCI · Over 260 builds per commit, booted on over 100 boards
  • Kubeless · Bitnami acquires Skippbox in March and continues Kubeless
  • Kubernetes · Microsoft (AKS) and AWS (EKS) announce managed Kubernetes
  • KubeVirt · First release, v0.1.0, in December
  • KVM (Kernel-based Virtual Machine) · Google describes the hardened KVM under Compute Engine (January)
  • Lakehouses · Delta Lake launches at Databricks; Iceberg starts at Netflix
  • LF Decentralized Trust · Fabric is the first project to leave incubation, in March, and reaches 1.0 in July
  • Linters, formatters and type checkers · Prettier 1.0 for JavaScript
  • LSM trees · Facebook completes its move from InnoDB to MyRocks, an LSM engine under MySQL
  • Manhattan · Evaluation of RocksDB as a storage engine begins
  • Memcached · 1.5.4 adds extstore for keeping values on flash
  • minikube · Experimental kubeadm bootstrapper in v0.22
  • Model serving and MLOps · Uber describes Michelangelo (September); TensorFlow-Serving paper (December)
  • NewSQL and distributed SQL · Cloud Spanner opens to the public; CockroachDB 1.0 ships
  • nom · “Writing parsers like it is 2017” puts nom parsers into VLC and Suricata
  • Nuclio · Nuclio released as open source on December 6
  • Open Container Initiative (OCI) specifications · Runtime and Image Specifications 1.0 released (July 19)
  • Open Infrastructure Foundation · Kata Containers becomes the first pilot project outside OpenStack, in December
  • OpenAPI Initiative · OpenAPI 3.0.0 released in July
  • OpenAPI Specification · OpenAPI 3.0.0 released on July 26
  • openCypher · openCypher Implementers Group meetings begin; Cypher for Apache Spark
  • Package managers · npm 5 writes package-lock.json by default
  • PGO (Crunchy Postgres for Kubernetes) · Postgres Operator repository published on GitHub in February
  • pgwatch · First release, as pgwatch2
  • Podman · Moves to its own repository; renamed Podman in December
  • Pravega · 0.1.0, the first release, in September
  • pre-commit · 1.0.0 (September 7): semantic versioning, the repos: config format, cache moved to ~/.cache/pre-commit
  • Prometheus · Prometheus 2.0 ships a rewritten storage engine in November
  • Protocol Buffers · Version 3.5 keeps unknown fields in proto3 again
  • PyO3 · PyO3 forks rust-cpython; 0.1.0 released on 23 July, nightly Rust only
  • Racket · Work begins on running Racket on Chez Scheme
  • Ray · Ray 0.1 released in May; the Ray paper posted in December
  • React · Relicensed under MIT; React 16 ships on the Fiber reconciler
  • Release automation · Keep a Changelog reaches 1.0.0 (June 20)
  • Remote procedure calls · gRPC joins the Cloud Native Computing Foundation in March
  • RethinkDB · CNCF buys the code for $25,000, relicenses it to Apache 2.0 and contributes it to the Linux Foundation (February)
  • RocksDB · Relicensed as GPLv2 or Apache 2.0 after the ASF bars Facebook’s BSD-plus-Patents licence
  • Rolling deployments · Deployment reaches general availability in the apps/v1 API with Kubernetes 1.9
  • Sapling · Early code for the Mononoke server published on GitHub (May)
  • Scion · Meta publishes early code for Mononoke, a Mercurial server for large monorepos
  • Serverless functions (FaaS) · Cloudflare Workers runs functions at the edge in V8 isolates
  • Service discovery & mesh · Google, IBM and Lyft announce Istio
  • Sigma · Sigma is released; MISP 2.4.70 adds native support in March; Thomas Patzke presents it at Hack.lu
  • StackStorm · Moves to Extreme Networks with Brocade’s data-centre business
  • Storybook · Community maintainers ship Storybook 3.0 (May)
  • Stream Framework · 1.3.7, the last PyPI release, in March
  • Synchronous and asynchronous execution · ECMAScript 2017 adds async functions to JavaScript
  • Table formats · Iceberg starts at Netflix; Databricks launches Delta for customers
  • TARS · Open-sourced as TARS in April
  • Temporal · Cadence is open-sourced
  • Terraform · Microsoft partnership; downloads take off
  • Threat detection (SIEM) · Sigma is released; MISP adds native Sigma support in version 2.4.70 (March)
  • TiDB · TiDB 1.0 released on 16 October
  • TigerGraph · Leaves stealth as TigerGraph with $33 million
  • TileDB · TileDB, Inc. spins out; TileDB 1.0 is released in October
  • Time-series compression · Facebook open-sources Beringei, the storage engine based on Gorilla
  • Time-series databases · TimescaleDB brings time-series storage to PostgreSQL
  • UDP · RFC 8085 publishes UDP usage guidelines as BCP 145
  • Unity Version Control · 6.0 introduces Jet storage (Labs build in January, official June 15)
  • Vector databases · Facebook AI Research open-sources Faiss in March
  • Virtual machines · New EC2 instances move from Xen to the KVM-based Nitro hypervisor
  • WebAssembly · Firefox 52 ships WebAssembly in March
  • Xen Project hypervisor · AWS introduces Nitro, a KVM-based hypervisor, for new EC2 instance types
  • Zenko CloudServer · Renamed CloudServer; becomes the core of Zenko

2018

  • 8baseFirst · Beta begins late in the year
  • ACRNFirst · Announced as a Linux Foundation project at ELC (March 13); v0.1 in July
  • AgonesFirst · Announced by Google Cloud and Ubisoft on March 13; v0.1 alpha
  • Alibaba Cloud PolarDBFirst · PolarFS and POLARDB described at VLDB
  • Amazon TimestreamFirst · Timestream announced in preview at re:Invent
  • Apache IoTDBFirst · Enters the Apache Incubator from Tsinghua University in November
  • Apache TsFileFirst · Already open source when IoTDB enters the Apache Incubator in November
  • AriadneFirst · 0.1.0 released by Mirumee in October
  • AWS Lake FormationFirst · Lake Formation previewed at re:Invent
  • BesuFirst · PegaSys at ConsenSys launches Pantheon in November
  • ChecklyFirst · Checkly sells API checks and Puppeteer browser checks from up to 8 locations
  • Cloudflare AccessFirst · Cloudflare Access launches on January 17
  • CodebergFirst · Codeberg e.V. founded in Berlin with seven founding members (September)
  • CrossplaneFirst · Introduced by Upbound on December 4 as an open source multicloud control plane
  • DagsterFirst · Schrock starts Dagster and Elementl; first PyPI release in June
  • dbdiagram.ioFirst · Work starts in August; dbdiagram.io announced (October 22)
  • DocsyFirst · Google opens the Docsy repository in October
  • DopplerFirst · Founded by Brian Vallelunga
  • DuckDBFirst · First code written at CWI in Amsterdam
  • ElicitFirst · Work on factored cognition begins at Ought
  • FastAPIFirst · 0.1.0 published on PyPI on December 8
  • FelderaFirst · Differential Datalog starts at VMware Research
  • GitHub ActionsFirst · Announced in limited beta at GitHub Universe in October
  • Grafana LokiFirst · Tom Wilkie’s first commit in April; announced as alpha at the end of the year
  • GraphQL FoundationFirst · The Linux Foundation announces its intent to form the GraphQL Foundation on November 6
  • gVisorFirst · Open-sourced by Google on May 2 with about 200 system calls
  • Hasura DDNFirst · Hasura GraphQL Engine launches as open source for Postgres
  • Hasura GraphQL EngineFirst · GraphQL Engine launches for Postgres in July; subscriptions in August
  • JAXFirst · SysML paper by Frostig, Johnson and Leary at Google Brain; code open-sourced on GitHub
  • K3sFirst · Starts as an embedded component of Rancher’s Rio project
  • kindFirst · SIG Testing design for containers as nodes; v0.0.1 in November
  • LF AI & Data FoundationFirst · LF Deep Learning launched on March 26 with Acumos AI as its only project
  • maturinFirst · pyo3-pack 0.1.0 released on 22 August; CFFI and develop added in September
  • MeltanoFirst · Started inside GitLab’s data team
  • MicroK8sFirst · Launched on December 6 as a snap with Kubernetes 1.13
  • MLflowFirst · Databricks announces MLflow in alpha (June 5)
  • PebbleFirst · The Pebble repository is created at Cockroach Labs in July
  • PoetryFirst · Poetry 0.1.0, 28 February
  • PrefectFirst · Jeremiah Lowin founds Prefect
  • Prisma ORMFirst · Graphcool’s query engine is released as Prisma 1.0; $4.5M seed in May
  • RadicleFirst · Monadic founded in Berlin (January)
  • ReadysetFirst · Noria, the MIT dataflow system behind Readyset, is presented at OSDI
  • RootlyFirst · Quentin Rousseau leaves Instacart’s SRE team; a side project he starts afterwards becomes Rootly
  • ScramDBFirst · Theo M. Bulut starts work on the engine, by his own account
  • ShillelaghFirst · Beto Dealmeida publishes gsheets-db-api, SQL for Google Sheets
  • StarletteFirst · Created in June by Kim Christie
  • Strawberry GraphQLFirst · Repository created in December
  • TektonFirst · Design sketched in August; code grows inside Knative as build-pipeline
  • Tortoise ORMFirst · Andrey Bondar releases Tortoise ORM 0.1.0 in March
  • UrsaDBFirst · UrsaDB and mquery published on GitHub in May
  • Workers KVFirst · Workers KV announced on 28 September
  • Aerospike · Version 4.0 adds a strong consistency mode
  • Akumuli · Posts on scalable downsampling and high-cardinality support
  • Alerting · The SRE Workbook recommends multiwindow burn-rate alerts on SLOs
  • Amazon API Gateway · Private APIs inside VPCs; WebSocket APIs arrive in December
  • Amazon CloudWatch · Logs Insights in November
  • Amazon DynamoDB · On-demand capacity and ACID transactions announced at re:Invent
  • Amazon EC2 · A1 instances bring AWS’s own Arm-based Graviton processor
  • Amazon EKS · Generally available on June 5, at $0.20 per cluster per hour
  • Amazon Kinesis Data Streams · Enhanced fan-out gives each consumer its own read throughput
  • Amazon Route 53 · Route 53 Resolver links VPC and on-premises DNS
  • Amazon S3 · Intelligent-Tiering moves objects between tiers automatically
  • Amazon SQS · Lambda can consume SQS queues directly
  • Apache Calcite · SIGMOD paper describes the framework, by then used by Hive, Flink, Storm, Druid and MapD
  • Apache Doris · Enters the Apache Incubator in July and is renamed Doris
  • Apache Druid · Enters the Apache Incubator in February
  • Apache HBase · HBase 2.0; Facebook moves Messenger from HBase to MyRocks
  • Apache Iceberg · Donated to the Apache Software Foundation; enters the incubator in November
  • Apache Ozone · First alpha, Hadoop Ozone 0.2.1, released in October
  • Apache Pinot · Enters the Apache Incubator in October
  • Apache Pulsar · Graduates to an Apache top-level project in September
  • API frameworks · Starlette appears in June and FastAPI 0.1.0 in December, both built on ASGI
  • ArangoDB · 3.4 makes RocksDB the default and adds ArangoSearch
  • ArcticDB · Ground-up rewrite begins: a C++ engine on S3, without MongoDB
  • Argo CD · Intuit acquires Applatix; Argo CD 0.1.0 tagged in March
  • AtScale · $50 million Series D led by Morgan Stanley; repositioned for cloud warehouses
  • Autoscaling · Predictive scaling forecasts load with machine learning
  • AWS Application Load Balancer · OIDC and Cognito sign-in, redirects, fixed responses and Lambda targets
  • AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK) · AWS CDK released as a developer preview
  • AWS CloudFormation · Drift detection finds changes made outside a stack
  • AWS Lambda · AWS open-sources Firecracker, the microVM monitor under Lambda
  • AWS Serverless Application Model (SAM) · Open source and generally available, per AWS, from April
  • Axon Framework · AxonHub and the AxonDB event store merge into Axon Server
  • Azure Data Explorer · Public preview as Azure Data Explorer at Ignite, in 41 regions (September)
  • Azure Kubernetes Service · Generally available on June 13 in ten regions
  • Azure Repos · Visual Studio Team Services becomes Azure DevOps, with Azure Repos (September 10)
  • Backup & restore · S3 Object Lock offers write-once retention for backups
  • Bitemporal modeling · MariaDB 10.3.4 adds system-versioned tables
  • Build tools · Go 1.10 adds a build cache to go build
  • BullMQ · BullMQ, a TypeScript rewrite, begins in December
  • Canary releases · Netflix and Google open-source Kayenta in April; “progressive delivery” is coined in August
  • Ceph · The Linux Foundation launches the Ceph Foundation
  • Checkly · Headless Recorder Chrome extension released
  • Cloud Native Computing Foundation · Kubernetes is the first project to graduate, in March; the sandbox replaces the inception level
  • Cloudflare Tunnel · Launched on April 5 as Argo Tunnel, after a beta under the name Warp
  • Cloudflare Workers · Generally available on March 13; isolates explained in “Cloud Computing without Containers”
  • Cloudflare, Inc. · Workers open to everyone in March; Workers KV launches in September
  • Commitizen (cz-cli) · 3.0.0 (October 1)
  • Construct · 2.9 compiles definitions into Python modules
  • Cross-platform mobile apps · Google releases Flutter 1.0
  • Database clients and design tools · Holistics releases dbdiagram.io, whose syntax becomes DBML (October 22)
  • Datadog · Agent 6 rewritten in Go; log management with Logging without Limits
  • Distributed tracing · Google open-sources OpenCensus
  • DNS · DNS over HTTPS standardized (RFC 8484); Cloudflare launches 1.1.1.1
  • Document databases · MongoDB 4.0 adds multi-document transactions; licence moves to SSPL
  • Dolt · Liquidata founded; a Git command line on Noms becomes Dolt
  • Dremio · Dremio 2.0 extends Data Reflections
  • Dynamic dispatch · Rust 1.27 introduces the dyn Trait syntax
  • EMQX · EMQ X 3.0, the first version with MQTT 5.0
  • Entity Framework Core · EF Core 2.1 adds lazy loading
  • Envoy · Graduates from the CNCF on November 28, third after Kubernetes and Prometheus
  • etcd · Joins the CNCF as an incubating project in December
  • Event streams · Apache Pulsar becomes a top-level Apache project
  • Fauna · Publishes its Calvin-based distributed transaction protocol
  • Fintech Open Source Foundation · Relaunched as FINOS on April 24; FDC3 contributed
  • Firecracker · Announced and open-sourced under Apache 2.0 at re:Invent, November 26
  • Formal methods · Azure Cosmos DB publishes TLA+ specifications of its consistency levels
  • Fossil · Fossil 2.7 adds the discussion forum (September 22)
  • FoundationDB · Apple open-sources the core under Apache 2.0 on 19 April
  • Gel · EdgeDB technical preview shown at PyCon
  • GitHub · Microsoft agrees to buy GitHub for $7.5 billion (June 4); the deal closes October 26
  • Grafana · Grafana Labs acquires Kausal and starts the Loki logging project
  • Graph databases · Amazon Neptune becomes generally available
  • GraphQL-core · GraphQL-core-next 1.0.0, based on GraphQL.js 14, in September
  • GraphQL-native databases · Hasura GraphQL Engine launches for Postgres
  • Gremlin · $18 million Series B
  • gRPC · gRPC-Web generally available in October
  • Harbor · Donated to the CNCF; accepted as incubating (November)
  • HashiCorp Consul · Consul 1.2 adds Connect, its service mesh, in June
  • HashiCorp Vault · Vault 1.0 in December; cloud auto-unseal becomes open source
  • Heroku · Heroku and Pivotal start Cloud Native Buildpacks
  • Hetzner · Hetzner Cloud launches
  • Hyperledger Fabric · EuroSys paper describes the execute-order-validate design; IBM and Maersk launch TradeLens on Fabric
  • im (Rust) · 10.0.0, the first release called stable (March); 11.0.0 rewrites Vector as an RRB tree (July)
  • immer · Version 0.5.0
  • IoT device messaging · Google Cloud IoT Core becomes generally available
  • Istio · Istio 1.0, ready for production, in July
  • Java · JDK 10 is the first release on the six-month train
  • Jupyter · JupyterLab announced ready for users on February 20
  • KairosDB · 1.2.0 in February
  • Kaitai Struct · 0.8 adds Lua and early Go; collaboration with Construct begins
  • Kata Containers · Kata Containers 1.0 released in May
  • Key-value stores · Apple open-sources FoundationDB
  • ksqlDB · Moves from Apache 2.0 to the Confluent Community License in December
  • kubeadm · Generally available in Kubernetes 1.13, December
  • Kubeless · Version 1.0.0 released in November
  • KVM (Kernel-based Virtual Machine) · Linux 4.20 turns nested virtualization on by default for Intel and AMD
  • Lakehouse catalogs · Iceberg enters the Apache Incubator; commits swap a metadata pointer in a catalog
  • LF Networking · LF Networking formed in January from six projects, with 83 members; Tungsten Fabric joins in March
  • Logs · Grafana Labs introduces Loki
  • Logstash · X-Pack source opens under the Elastic License and moves into the repository
  • Manhattan · RocksDB engine ready for production by mid-year
  • Material UI (MUI) · Material UI v1 after a two-year rewrite, in May
  • Microsoft Hyper-V · Hyper-V Server 2019, the last free standalone edition (Nov 13)
  • MicroVMs · AWS open-sources Firecracker, already running Lambda
  • MindsDB · First open-source release: machine learning inside the database
  • minikube · localkube removed in v0.29
  • ML frameworks · JAX is described at SysML and open-sourced by Google Brain
  • Model serving and MLOps · Databricks releases MLflow in alpha (June)
  • MongoDB · Multi-document transactions in 4.0; licence changes from AGPL to SSPL
  • Neo4j · Enterprise Edition goes closed source from 3.5; Neo4j sues PureThink
  • Netdata · Netdata Inc. raises a seed round
  • Netlify · Netlify Functions, built on AWS Lambda
  • OpenDaylight · Founding project of LF Networking in January
  • OpenTelemetry · Google open-sources OpenCensus in January
  • OpenTSDB · 2.4.0 adds rollups and histograms
  • Package managers · Go proposes minimal version selection
  • Persistence: state, events and replay · Azure Durable Functions, built on the Durable Task Framework, become generally available
  • pgBackRest · 2.00 in February: the executable becomes a C binary
  • PlanetScale · Vitess co-creators found PlanetScale; Vitess joins the CNCF
  • Platform as a service (PaaS) · Pivotal and Heroku start Cloud Native Buildpacks, which joins the CNCF in October
  • Platform engineering · Evan Bottcher’s “What I Talk About When I Talk About Platforms”
  • Prometheus · Graduates from the CNCF in August
  • Pulumi · Open-source launch on June 18
  • Pydantic · FastAPI adopts Pydantic for all of its data handling
  • Quay · Red Hat announces it will acquire CoreOS (January 30)
  • Query engines · Netflix’s Iceberg table format enters the Apache Incubator
  • Rancher · Rancher 2.0 in May, redesigned to manage many Kubernetes clusters
  • Ray · Paper presented at USENIX OSDI
  • Readable · ReadablePro launches
  • Real-time analytics databases · Pinot, built at LinkedIn, enters the Apache Incubator
  • Red Hat OpenShift · Red Hat agrees to buy CoreOS (January); Origin renamed OKD (August)
  • Remote access · AWS Session Manager: shell access without inbound ports, bastions or SSH keys
  • Rust · Rust 2018, the first new edition, ships with Rust 1.31
  • Scaleway · Scaleway becomes the group’s main brand; first three-zone region
  • SeaweedFS · Version 1.0 released (November)
  • Secrets management · AWS Secrets Manager launches in April with automatic rotation
  • Secrets management · GitHub starts scanning public repositories for leaked tokens
  • Serverless architecture · Mike Roberts’s “Serverless Architectures” reaches its final major version; Hellerstein et al. publish “One Step Forward, Two Steps Back”
  • Snowflake · Preview on Microsoft Azure in July
  • Software as a service (SaaS) · AWS launches the SaaS Factory program for SaaS builders
  • Software-defined networking · LF Networking formed in January, with OpenDaylight as a founding project
  • StackStorm · Orquesta workflow engine released in beta (2.8)
  • Starlette · FastAPI 0.1.0, built on Starlette, released in December
  • Synthetic monitoring · Puppeteer 1.0 for scripting headless Chrome
  • Talos Linux · First alpha release, v0.1.0-alpha.0, in April
  • TARS · TARS and TSeer become Linux Foundation projects in June
  • TARS Foundation · TARS and TSeer become Linux Foundation projects in June
  • The Ceph Foundation · Ceph Foundation launches on November 12 at Ceph Day Berlin with 31 founding members
  • Thinger.io · Becomes a company and releases an enterprise version
  • TiDB · TiKV joins the CNCF as an incubating project
  • TimescaleDB · Version 1.0 in October; Timescale License introduced in December
  • TLS · TLS 1.3 published as RFC 8446
  • tox · tox 3.0 (April)
  • UI libraries · Merrick Christensen’s “Headless User Interface Components”; Material UI v1
  • Unbounded queries · Release It! second edition keeps unbounded result sets among its antipatterns
  • Vale · August: 1.0, bundling proselint, write-good and Joblint styles
  • Velero · VMware completes its acquisition of Heptio in December
  • Vitess · Accepted by the CNCF on 5 February; PlanetScale founded
  • webpack · webpack 4 in February: mode and optional configuration
  • WebRTC · ICE revised as RFC 8445, the NAT traversal protocol WebRTC requires
  • Zenko CloudServer · Commercially supported Zenko released

2019

  • Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra)First · Previewed in December as Amazon Managed Apache Cassandra Service
  • Apache AmoroFirst · NetEase starts Arctic to manage its Iceberg tables
  • AtlasFirst · Ariel Mashraki’s Ent ORM open-sourced by Facebook (October 3)
  • BentoMLFirst · BentoML is open-sourced (GitHub repository created in April)
  • Bubble TeaFirst · Charm founded to build tools for the command line
  • Chaos MeshFirst · PingCAP open-sources Chaos Mesh on December 31
  • Cloud cost and carbonFirst · Cloud FinOps published; FinOps Foundation founded
  • Cloud HypervisorFirst · Intel releases v0.1.0 in July, with VFIO, virtio-fs and virtio-pmem
  • CloudNativePGFirst · 2ndQuadrant starts its Kubernetes initiative in August after Kubernetes 1.14 adds local persistent volumes
  • Continuous Delivery FoundationFirst · Announced on March 12 with Jenkins, Jenkins X, Spinnaker and Tekton
  • DaprFirst · Microsoft announces Dapr as an open-source alpha in October
  • Deep LakeFirst · Activeloop publishes the first hub package on PyPI in August
  • eKuiperFirst · EMQ open-sources Kuiper; first release, 0.0.2, in October
  • entFirst · Facebook open-sources ent (October)
  • FinOps FoundationFirst · FinOps Foundation founded in February; Cloud FinOps published by O’Reilly
  • FireboltFirst · Founded by former Sisense executives
  • InstatusFirst · Ali Salah starts Instatus in June
  • JujutsuFirst · Martin von Zweigbergk starts Jujutsu as a hobby project (late 2019)
  • KamuFirst · First Scala versions of the kamu CLI, built on Spark
  • KapaFirst · Founders experiment with embeddings for question answering at Imperial College London
  • KeyDBFirst · KeyDB forks Redis to add multithreading
  • MeilisearchFirst · Meilisearch founded in Paris
  • n8nFirst · n8n repository created on GitHub
  • OpenSearchFirst · AWS launches Open Distro for Elasticsearch
  • Oxide Cloud ComputerFirst · Oxide Computer Company founded by Bryan Cantrill, Steve Tuck and Jess Frazelle
  • Oxide Computer CompanyFirst · Founded by Bryan Cantrill, Steve Tuck and Jess Frazelle; seed round led by Eclipse (announced December)
  • PyrightFirst · First releases on GitHub and npm, in March
  • RedpandaFirst · Alexander Gallego writes the first line of code in January
  • RenderFirst · Launches in April; wins the TechCrunch Disrupt SF Startup Battlefield in October
  • RKE2First · Rancher releases K3s, whose installer and supervisor RKE2 later reuses
  • TauriFirst · The tauri-apps/tauri repository is created in July
  • TinybirdFirst · Demos Tinybird Analytics at South Summit Madrid in September
  • Unified Acceleration (UXL) FoundationFirst · Intel launches oneAPI, with Data Parallel C++ based on SYCL
  • WASIFirst · Mozilla announces WASI in March; preview 1 becomes the first API
  • WorkOSFirst · Michael Grinich starts WorkOS
  • WranglerFirst · First wrangler open-sourced on March 28, a Rust CLI for Rust and WebAssembly Workers
  • 8base · General availability in July; launched at TechCrunch Disrupt in October
  • ACRN · ACRN 1.0 released (May)
  • Agones · Version 1.0 released in September
  • Alibaba Cloud PolarDB · Released outside China in July
  • Amazon EKS · Managed node groups in November; Fargate support in December
  • Amazon EventBridge · Relaunched as EventBridge in July, with SaaS partner event sources
  • Apache Arrow · DataFusion donated in February; Arrow Flight introduced in October
  • Apache Camel · Camel 3.0 in November
  • Apache DataFusion · Rebuilt on Arrow and donated to the Apache Arrow project in February
  • Apache Druid · Graduates to a top-level Apache project in December
  • Apache Flink · Alibaba buys data Artisans (now Ververica) and contributes its Blink fork
  • Apache Hudi · Enters the Apache Incubator in January
  • Apache IoTDB · First Apache release, 0.8.0-incubating, in August
  • Apache Kafka · KIP-500 proposes replacing ZooKeeper with Kafka’s own Raft-based quorum (KRaft)
  • Apache NiFi · Cloudera completes its merger with Hortonworks
  • Apache Pinot · First Apache release, 0.1.0, in March
  • Apache Superset · Beauchemin founds Preset to offer hosted Superset
  • Apache ZooKeeper · Kafka’s KIP-500 proposes replacing ZooKeeper with a built-in quorum
  • API frameworks · ASGI 3.0 specification, dated March 20
  • ArangoDB · Fully managed cloud service launches
  • Ariadne · Moves to GraphQL-core-next for async resolvers in January
  • Ariadne · ASGI interface built on Starlette in April
  • AsyncAPI · AsyncAPI 2.0.0 released on September 11
  • Authentication · WebAuthn becomes a W3C Recommendation
  • AWS Chalice · Terraform packaging and experimental WebSockets in 1.10
  • AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK) · General availability for TypeScript and Python on July 11
  • AWS CodeCommit · VPC endpoints (March 7) and approval rules (November 20)
  • AWS Fargate · Prices cut by up to 50%; EKS support and Fargate Spot in December
  • AWS IAM · IAM Access Analyzer launches
  • AWS Lake Formation · Generally available on 8 August in five Regions, with table- and column-level permissions
  • AWS Step Functions · Express workflows for high-volume, short runs
  • Azure Blob Storage · Data Lake Storage Gen2 adds a hierarchical namespace; GA on 7 February
  • Azure Data Explorer · Generally available on 7 February
  • Backup & restore · AWS Backup launches
  • Base Class Library patterns · C# 8.0 adds using declarations and async streams
  • Bazel · Bazel 1.0 on October 10
  • Besu · Pantheon joins Hyperledger as Hyperledger Besu on August 29
  • BullMQ · BullMQ 1.0 released in October
  • CBOR · CDDL (RFC 8610) gives CBOR a schema notation
  • Change data capture · Debezium describes the outbox pattern for publishing events through CDC
  • Chaos engineering · PingCAP open-sources Chaos Mesh on December 31
  • CI/CD pipelines · GitHub Actions adds CI/CD and becomes generally available
  • Citus · Microsoft acquires Citus Data
  • Cloudflare · IPO on the New York Stock Exchange as NET
  • CockroachDB · Version 19.2 moves the core from Apache 2.0 to the Business Source License
  • Codeberg · Codeberg.org launches (January 1), running Gitea
  • Commit conventions · Conventional Commits 1.0.0 is released (September 30)
  • Commitizen (cz-cli) · 4.0.0 drops Node.js 6 and 8 (July 18)
  • Confidential computing · Confidential Computing Consortium formalised at the Linux Foundation in October
  • Confidential Computing Consortium · Consortium formalised on October 17 with Intel SGX SDK, Open Enclave SDK and Enarx; progression policy written in December
  • CrateDB · CrateDB 4.0 copies Elasticsearch code into its own repository
  • Cube · Cube.js released as an open-source analytics framework
  • Dapper · Dapper 2.0 released (August)
  • Dashboards and BI · Salesforce completes its acquisition of Tableau
  • Data notebooks · A study re-runs 863,878 GitHub notebooks: 4.03% reproduce their results
  • Database clients and design tools · Redgate buys Flyway for $10 million (July)
  • Databricks · Delta Lake open-sourced in April
  • Datadog · IPO on the Nasdaq in September at $27 a share
  • dbdiagram.io · DBML repository created on GitHub (March); over 100,000 diagrams
  • Debezium · Debezium 1.0: MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB and SQL Server connectors are stable
  • Delta Lake · Open-sourced in April; moves to the Linux Foundation in October
  • Distributed tracing · OpenTracing and OpenCensus merge into OpenTelemetry; Jaeger graduates from the CNCF
  • Docsy · Google announces Docsy in July; Kubeflow, Knative and Agones already use it
  • Document databases · AWS launches DocumentDB, compatible with MongoDB
  • Dolt · Dolt launches in August, DoltHub in September
  • Doppler · Joins Y Combinator’s Winter 2019 batch; Go CLI first released in November
  • DRLM (Disaster Recovery Linux Manager) · DRLM 2.3 replaces the CGI web layer with a Go API
  • DuckDB · First release; demo paper at SIGMOD in Amsterdam
  • eBPF · Linux 5.2 raises the verifier limit to 1 million instructions; 5.3 allows bounded loops
  • EdgeX Foundry · Becomes a founding LF Edge project in January; 1.0 tagged in June
  • Editors and terminals · VS Code Remote Development preview: containers, SSH and WSL
  • Electron · Governance written down; enters OpenJS incubation in December
  • Emergent schema (JSON columns) · PostgreSQL 12 adds stored generated columns
  • Estuary · Yaffe and Graettinger found Estuary to build a platform on Gazette
  • Event buses · Amazon EventBridge launches; CloudEvents 1.0 is released
  • FastAPI · 0.6.1 documents GraphQL integration in February
  • Fauna · Official Jepsen test results are published
  • Fintech Open Source Foundation · FDC3 graduates in July
  • Fission · Version 1.0 released in February
  • Fluentd · Graduates from the CNCF in April
  • FOSSA · CLI 1.0.0 (August 2); $8.5 million Series A led by Bain Capital Ventures (September 16)
  • Fossil · 2.9 adds fossil git export (July 13); 2.10 makes SHA3-256 the default (October 4)
  • Gel · First alpha in April; EdgeDB Inc. incorporated late in the year
  • Gerrit Code Review · Gerrit 3.0 removes ReviewDb and the GWT interface (May 15)
  • GitHub Actions · Relaunched in August with CI/CD and YAML; HCL workflows retired in September
  • GitHub Actions · Generally available on November 13
  • Google App Engine · Google announces Cloud Run and second-generation App Engine runtimes
  • Google Cloud Run · Cloud Run announced in April; generally available on November 14
  • Grafana Loki · Loki 1.0 in November
  • GraphQL · GraphQL Foundation launches under the Linux Foundation
  • GraphQL Foundation · Charter takes effect March 12; the spec moves under the Joint Development Foundation
  • GraphQL-core · GraphQL-core 3.0.0 replaces GraphQL-core 2 and GraphQL-core-next in November
  • HashiCorp Packer · HCL2 templates arrive as a beta in Packer 1.5
  • HiveMQ · Community Edition open-sourced under Apache 2.0; dc-square renamed HiveMQ
  • Hugging Face · Transformers library paper published (October)
  • Hyperledger Fabric · 1.4, the first long-term support release, in January; Raft ordering in 1.4.1
  • Ibis · Ibis 1.0 released in March
  • Identity & access (IAM) · Google’s Zanzibar handles trillions of ACLs for Drive, YouTube and more
  • IoT device messaging · MQTT 5.0 becomes an OASIS Standard
  • Jamstack · O’Reilly publishes “Modern Web Development on the Jamstack” by Biilmann and Hawksworth
  • Jenkins · Founding project of the Continuous Delivery Foundation in March
  • K3s · Announced on February 26; version 1.0 in November
  • Kata Containers · 1.5 adds Firecracker as a hypervisor
  • KernelCI · Becomes a Linux Foundation project on 28 October
  • kind · v0.1.0 in January; KubeCon EU talks on testing with kind
  • ksqlDB · Renamed ksqlDB, adding pull queries and connector management
  • kubeadm · Automated HA control planes reach beta in 1.15
  • Kubeless · VMware announces it will acquire Bitnami
  • KubeVirt · Accepted into the CNCF as a sandbox project (September)
  • Large language models · OpenAI’s GPT-2 (1.5 billion parameters) is first held back over misuse fears
  • LF AI & Data Foundation · Renamed LF AI Foundation in May; ONNX accepted as a graduated project in October
  • LF Decentralized Trust · The Pantheon Ethereum client joins as Hyperledger Besu
  • LF Edge · LF Edge launches on January 24 with five projects and more than 60 members
  • Load-balancing algorithms · AWS ALB adds least outstanding requests
  • LocalStack · LocalStack Pro, the first paid edition, in July
  • Logstash · Logstash 7.0 makes the Java execution engine the default
  • maturin · 0.7.0 on 30 August renames the project maturin and adds PEP 517 support
  • Meltano · Version 1.0 released in October
  • MicroVMs · Cloud Hypervisor starts; QEMU 4.2 adds a Firecracker-style microvm machine type
  • minikube · Version 1.0 in March
  • MLflow · Model Registry in beta in MLflow 1.4 (October)
  • Model serving and MLOps · BentoML is open-sourced
  • Monoliths · Shopify describes its modular monolith (“Deconstructing the Monolith”)
  • MQTT · MQTT 5.0 becomes an OASIS Standard on 7 March
  • nanopb · 0.4.0: new field descriptor format, installable from pip
  • Narrow tables · tidyr 1.0 adds pivot_longer() and pivot_wider()
  • Neo4j · AuraDB, the managed cloud service, launches
  • NGINX · F5 acquires Nginx, Inc. for $670 million
  • Node.js · Becomes a founding project of the OpenJS Foundation on March 12
  • nom · 5.0 rebuilds nom on functions instead of macros
  • Nuclio · Version 1.0.0 released in February
  • Observability · OpenTracing and OpenCensus merge into OpenTelemetry
  • Open Infrastructure Foundation · Board adopts confirmation guidelines; Kata Containers, Zuul and Airship confirmed
  • Open Source Security Foundation · GitHub founds the Open Source Security Coalition
  • Open vSwitch · OVN split into its own repository
  • openCypher · Last Implementers Group meeting, in March
  • OpenJS Foundation · The two merge into the OpenJS Foundation on March 12; Electron enters incubation in December
  • OpenTelemetry · OpenTracing and OpenCensus merge into OpenTelemetry, a CNCF sandbox project
  • Optional values · C# 8.0 adds nullable reference types
  • osquery · Linux Foundation announces its intent to form an osquery foundation, on June 18; the Facebook code and the osql fork are merged
  • OVHcloud · OVH becomes OVHcloud
  • OVN (Open Virtual Network) · Own repository; becomes an LF Projects series on 4 November
  • P4 · P4.org joins the Open Networking Foundation on 9 April; Intel agrees to buy Barefoot in June
  • Percona Operators · XtraDB Cluster and MongoDB operators reach 1.0.0 on May 29
  • pg_ivm · First IVM patch for PostgreSQL core submitted
  • PlanetScale · Vitess graduates from the CNCF
  • Platform engineering · Team Topologies defines the platform team
  • Podman · Podman 1.0 in January; RHEL 8 ships Podman instead of Docker in May
  • Poetry · Poetry 1.0 in December
  • Prefect · First release of the open-source prefect package on PyPI, in March
  • Presto (PrestoDB) · Presto Foundation forms under the Linux Foundation in September
  • Presto Foundation · Presto Foundation launched on September 23 by Facebook, Alibaba, Twitter and Uber
  • Pub/sub · MQTT 5 released
  • Pulumi · Pulumi 1.0 generally available on September 5
  • Pydantic · Version 1.0 in October
  • Quay · Red Hat open-sources Project Quay (November 8)
  • QuestDB · Company founded; 4.0 switches the licence to Apache 2.0
  • RabbitMQ · 3.8 adds Raft-based quorum queues
  • Radicle · First Radicle alpha, on IPFS (February); work on Radicle Link begins (October)
  • Rancher · K3s released for edge and small clusters
  • Ray · Ray’s creators found Anyscale
  • React · Hooks arrive in React 16.8
  • Readable · Moves to readable.com
  • Real-time analytics databases · Druid becomes a top-level Apache project
  • Realm · MongoDB agrees to acquire Realm for $39 million
  • Red Hat OpenShift · OpenShift 4 with RHCOS and operator-driven upgrades; Azure Red Hat OpenShift GA
  • Redpanda Connect · Benthos 1.0 is released in January
  • Release automation · Changesets (May 6) and release-please (May 9) publish 1.0.0 to npm
  • release-it · 11.0.0 (May 1): plugins, npm version bumps, rollback on failure
  • RethinkDB · RethinkDB 2.4 with write hooks (December), the last feature release
  • runc · CVE-2019-5736: a container can overwrite the host’s runc binary (February)
  • Semantic layers · Cube.js released as open source
  • Sentry · Relicensed from BSD to the Business Source License in November
  • Serverless architecture · Berkeley’s “Cloud Programming Simplified” predicts serverless will dominate cloud computing
  • Serverless functions (FaaS) · Berkeley paper on serverless computing; Google launches Cloud Run
  • Snowflake · Preview on Google Cloud in November
  • SPDK (Storage Performance Development Kit) · New NVMe driver passes 10 million IOPS on one CPU core
  • Sprints · Basecamp publishes Shape Up; Ron Jeffries regrets story points
  • StackStorm · Extreme hands StackStorm to the Linux Foundation on 7 October
  • Storybook · Storybook 5.2 introduces Component Story Format
  • Strawberry GraphQL · 0.1.0 on PyPI in March; mypy plugin and Django view in September
  • Table formats · Delta Lake open-sourced; Hudi joins Iceberg in the Apache Incubator
  • Talos Linux · Talos Systems launches as a company in June
  • TDengine · TDengine open-sourced under AGPL-3.0 on July 12
  • Team structures · Skelton and Pais publish Team Topologies (second edition 2025)
  • Tekton · Split out and named Tekton in February; founding CDF project in March
  • Temporal · They leave Uber to build Temporal, a fork of Cadence
  • Terraform · Terraform 0.12 overhauls the configuration language
  • The Linux Foundation · The OpenJS Foundation forms in March and the Presto Foundation in September
  • TiDB · 3.0.8 makes pessimistic transactions the default
  • TileDB · $4 million round led by Nexus
  • Timely Dataflow · McSherry and Arjun Narayan found Materialize on top of both
  • TimescaleDB · 1.5 adds native columnar compression
  • Trino · Creators leave Facebook and form the Presto Software Foundation (PrestoSQL)
  • UrsaDB · Version 1.0 released in January
  • Velero · Renamed Velero in 0.11 (February); 1.0 in May; moves to VMware’s Tanzu GitHub organisation
  • Visual Studio Code · Remote Development preview for containers, SSH and WSL
  • Vitess · Graduates from the CNCF on 5 November, the eighth project to do so
  • WebAssembly · WASI announced in March; WebAssembly 1.0 becomes a W3C Recommendation on 5 December
  • webpack · Becomes a founding project of the OpenJS Foundation
  • Workers KV · Generally available on 21 May
  • YAML · go-yaml caps alias expansion after a Kubernetes API server DoS
  • YugabyteDB · Version 1.3 moves everything to Apache 2.0 in July; 2.0 makes YSQL production-ready in September

2020s

2020

  • AirbyteFirst · Founded in July; first alpha release tagged in September
  • Alibaba Cloud HologresFirst · HSAP design published at VLDB; V0.8 adds upserts and views
  • AWS Fault Injection ServiceFirst · Announced at re:Invent in December
  • binrwFirst · binread 1.0 (April); binrw 0.1 adds writing (September)
  • Cloudflare PagesFirst · Announced on December 17 as free Jamstack hosting with Git builds and preview URLs
  • Cloudflare Secrets StoreFirst · Workers gains per-script environment variables and secrets
  • CrucibleFirst · RFD 60 compares Ceph, ZFS-based designs and a “Northern Mux”
  • DatabendFirst · First commit, “hello FuseQuery”, on 10 October
  • dekuFirst · First release on crates.io (March); 0.9 by October
  • Drizzle ORMFirst · Andrii Sherman writes a Drizzle ORM in Java
  • DropshotFirst · First published on crates.io (June)
  • Durable ObjectsFirst · Announced in closed beta on 28 September, with WebSockets for Workers
  • Eclipse ZenohFirst · Zenoh moves to the Eclipse Foundation; Rust rewrite begins
  • FirezoneFirst · Repository created; Firezone starts as a self-hosted WireGuard VPN server
  • GarageFirst · First commit in April; version 0.1 in July
  • Grafana TempoFirst · First commit in January; announced in October
  • GrizzlyFirst · First commit by Malcolm Holmes; 0.0.1 in July
  • HashiCorp BoundaryFirst · Announced on October 14, the same day as the 0.1.0 release
  • HCP WaypointFirst · Waypoint 0.1 released as open source on October 15
  • HeliosFirst · Repository started (August)
  • HexFirst · $5.5M seed round led by Amplify Partners
  • incident.ioFirst · Evans, Hamilton and Whitworth start turning Evans’s Monzo incident tool into a product in November
  • JanssenFirst · Linux Foundation announces the Janssen Project on December 8, built on the Gluu Server’s code
  • KarpenterFirst · AWS begins developing Karpenter in the open on GitHub
  • KoyebFirst · €1.4M pre-seed round led by ISAI, in October
  • KubeRayFirst · Go operator started in November
  • LegendFirst · FINOS accepts the contribution in January; industry pilot on a shared instance from April to September
  • LucideFirst · The lucide-icons/lucide repository is created in June as a fork of Feather
  • NitricFirst · Nitric repository created in December
  • OmicronFirst · Repository started (February); RFD 110 evaluates CockroachDB for the control plane database
  • Open Data FabricFirst · Spec and whitepaper written; spec repository published in April
  • PathwayFirst · Work on the framework starts at the Paris-founded start-up
  • PolarsFirst · Ritchie Vink makes the first commit (23 June)
  • Project NessieFirst · Dremio announces Project Nessie on 1 October, under Apache 2.0
  • PropolisFirst · Repository started (October)
  • Quix StreamsFirst · Quix starts work on the library on 2 March
  • RailwayFirst · Work on Railway begins
  • Ray ServeFirst · Ray Serve is released; “Machine Learning Serving is Broken” (July); Ray 1.0 (September)
  • Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG)First · REALM (February) and Dense Passage Retrieval (April) add learned retrieval
  • SpaceliftFirst · Founded by Marcin Wyszyński and Paweł Hytry
  • SSTFirst · Repository created as Serverless Stack, built on the AWS CDK
  • StarRocksFirst · Built on Apache Doris 0.13 as a commercial product, first called DorisDB
  • SupabaseFirst · First alpha in May: hosted Postgres with auto-generated APIs
  • TanStackFirst · React Table v7, a headless, hooks-only rewrite, in March
  • TigerBeetleFirst · TigerBeetle starts in July at Coil, for the Mojaloop payments switch
  • TreblleFirst · Founded in Zagreb; Laravel SDK repository created in April
  • VeloxFirst · Meta starts Velox and the Prestissimo project to replace Presto’s Java workers
  • ViteFirst · Evan You creates Vite as an unbundled dev server for Vue
  • .NET runtime (CLR) · .NET 5 released on 10 November as the single .NET
  • ACRN · ACRN 2.0 adds hybrid mode (June); TTTech ships it in Nerve Blue (December)
  • Actor model · Cloudflare launches Durable Objects
  • Agones · Google Cloud Game Servers, a managed Agones service, enters beta in March and GA in August
  • Akumuli · Final release, 0.8.80, in May
  • alex · August: 9.0 adds MDX support
  • Amazon API Gateway · HTTP APIs, previewed in December 2019, become generally available in March
  • Amazon Athena · Federated Query reaches general availability in November, with connectors on Lambda
  • Amazon EBS · gp3 decouples IOPS and throughput from size, up to 20% cheaper than gp2
  • Amazon EFS · Lambda functions can mount EFS file systems (June)
  • Amazon EKS · Cluster fee halved to $0.10 per hour; EKS Distro released
  • Amazon EventBridge · Event archive and replay
  • Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra) · Generally available in April as Amazon Keyspaces, in 18 Regions
  • Amazon Kinesis Data Streams · Retention can be extended to 365 days
  • Amazon S3 · Strong read-after-write consistency for every object, at no extra cost (December)
  • Amazon SNS · FIFO topics with ordering and deduplication
  • Amazon Timestream · Generally available in September in four Regions
  • Apache Arrow · C Data Interface in May; 1.0 declares the format stable in July
  • Apache Doris · Version 0.13 released; a separate team builds DorisDB, later StarRocks, on it
  • Apache Hudi · Graduates to a top-level Apache project in May
  • Apache Iceberg · Graduates to a top-level Apache project in May
  • Apache IoTDB · Graduates to a top-level Apache project in September
  • Apache Ozone · Version 1.0.0 in September; top-level Apache project in October
  • Apache TsFile · VLDB paper describes it as IoTDB’s storage format, readable from Spark and Hive
  • Argo CD · Argo joins the CNCF as an incubating project
  • Artifact registries · Harbor graduates in the CNCF (June)
  • Astra DB · Astra launches as a cloud Cassandra service in May
  • Auth0 · Actions introduced as the successor to Rules and Hooks
  • Autoscaling · KEDA, event-driven autoscaling for Kubernetes, joins the CNCF
  • AWS Application Load Balancer · gRPC and end-to-end HTTP/2 support
  • AWS Fargate · Platform version 1.4 switches to containerd and adds EFS volumes
  • AWS IoT Core · AWS IoT Core for LoRaWAN runs the LoRaWAN network server for you
  • AWS Lambda · 1 ms billing, 10 GB memory and container image support
  • AWS Serverless Application Model (SAM) · SAM CLI 1.0 generally available on July 21
  • Azure Kubernetes Service · Azure Container Service retired; customers move to AKS by January 31
  • Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage · S3-compatible API added on 4 May
  • Backend as a service (BaaS) · Supabase launches in alpha in June and beta in December
  • Besu · Besu graduates from incubation to Active status on March 30
  • Binary parsing and encoding · deku and binrw derive binary readers and writers from Rust structs
  • Bitbucket · Mercurial removed from Bitbucket Cloud; all Mercurial repositories disabled August 26
  • Branching strategies · Driessen’s note of reflection (March); Martin Fowler’s “Patterns for Managing Source Code Branches” (May)
  • Bubble Tea · Bubble Tea v0.1.0 tagged (April)
  • Bundlers and dev servers · Vite serves source as native ES modules in development
  • C++ · C++20 adds concepts, ranges, coroutines and modules
  • CBOR · RFC 8949 makes CBOR Internet Standard 94 (December)
  • CedarDB · Umbra paper at CIDR: a disk-based system with in-memory performance
  • Change data capture · Netflix publishes DBLog; PostgreSQL 13 adds max_slot_wal_keep_size
  • Chaos Mesh · Accepted into the CNCF Sandbox in July
  • Checkly · $2.25 million seed round led by Accel (April)
  • Clojure · Hickey’s HOPL paper “A History of Clojure”; Nubank and Cognitect join forces
  • Cloud Hypervisor · Microsoft begins releasing components for Linux as root partition on its hypervisor; v0.10.0 adds Windows guests (September)
  • Cloudflare Access · Part of Cloudflare for Teams; a Free plan covers up to 50 users from October 13
  • Cloudflare Workers · Durable Objects bring strongly consistent state to the edge
  • Cloudflare, Inc. · Durable Objects enter closed beta in September
  • CloudNativePG · Cloud Native Postgres development begins in February; EDB acquires 2ndQuadrant in September
  • Commitizen (cz-cli) · 4.2.0 adds the cz binary name (August 24)
  • Confidential computing · Google Confidential VMs on AMD SEV in July; AWS Nitro Enclaves generally available in October
  • Construct · 2.10 (January) removes Embedded and adds compiled building
  • Continuous Delivery Foundation · Jenkins becomes the first graduated project in August
  • Coordination services · etcd graduates in the CNCF
  • Correlation IDs · W3C Trace Context becomes a Recommendation
  • Cross-platform mobile apps · Adobe ends development of PhoneGap and PhoneGap Build
  • Crossplane · Joins the CNCF as a sandbox project
  • Cube · Cube Dev raises a $6.2M seed round led by Bain Capital Ventures
  • Data lakes · S3 becomes strongly consistent, so a listing now shows files just written
  • Data transfer objects · C# 9 adds records
  • DbVisualizer · €5.3 million from Industrifonden and Fairpoint Capital (April)
  • Distributed tracing · W3C Trace Context becomes a Recommendation in February
  • Dolt · Liquidata renames itself DoltHub
  • eBPF · BPF CO-RE: compile once, run on many kernels
  • Eclipse Zenoh · Aithusa, the first Rust-based release, ships in October
  • eKuiper · 0.3.2 ships with EdgeX Geneva in April; 1.0.0 in October
  • Electron · Graduates to an OpenJS Impact project in June
  • Entity Framework Core · EF Core 5.0 adds table-per-type inheritance and many-to-many
  • Estuary · The Flow repository adopts the Business Source License in November
  • etcd · Graduates in the CNCF in November
  • Event streams · Kinesis retention can be extended to 365 days
  • F# · Syme’s “The Early History of F#” published at HOPL IV
  • Fauna · Raises $27 million
  • FinOps Foundation · Linux Foundation announces it will host the foundation, June 29
  • Fintech Open Source Foundation · Joins the Linux Foundation on April 9; Goldman Sachs open-sources Legend through FINOS in October
  • Firebolt · Leaves stealth in December with $37 million
  • Firecracker · NSDI paper describes Firecracker’s design and production use
  • Fly.io · Launch HN as part of Y Combinator Winter 2020: Docker apps in 17 cities on Firecracker
  • FOSSA · $23.2 million Series B and launch of FOSSA Security Management (October 15)
  • Git · Git 2.28 makes the default branch name configurable; 2.29 adds SHA-256 repositories
  • GitHub · Private repositories with unlimited collaborators free for everyone (April 14)
  • Google BigQuery · BigQuery Omni runs BigQuery’s engine on data in AWS and Azure
  • Google Cloud Storage · Archive class at $0.0012 per GB-month, readable in milliseconds (January)
  • Google Kubernetes Engine · GKE Sandbox (gVisor) generally available; $0.10 per hour fee and SLA from June 6
  • Grafana Loki · Loki 2.0 in October
  • Gramine · CCC technical council accepts Graphene in April
  • GraphQL Foundation · First annual report in April; first TSC members start their terms on November 1
  • GraphQL-core · 3.1.0 follows GraphQL.js 15 in April
  • gRPC · xDS support in 1.30 enables proxyless service meshes
  • Harbor · Harbor 2.0 adds OCI artifacts; CNCF graduation (June 23)
  • HashiCorp Nomad · Nomad 1.0 in December; the two-million-container challenge
  • HerdDB · Presented at Pulsar Summit; design posts on building a database with BookKeeper
  • HiveMQ · HiveMQ Cloud launches as a managed broker on AWS
  • Hugging Face · First version of the Hub, built on Git and Git LFS
  • Hyperledger Fabric · 2.0 adds decentralised chaincode governance in January
  • im (Rust) · 15.0.0 (May)
  • In-process caches · Redis 6 adds server-assisted client-side caching (tracking)
  • InfluxDB · 2.0 with Flux in November; IOx rewrite announced
  • Instatus · Pitches a Jamstack status page, 10x faster and 5% of Statuspage’s price
  • Istio · Istio 1.5 merges the control plane into istiod
  • JAX · DeepMind describes its JAX ecosystem (Haiku, Optax, RLax, Chex, Jraph)
  • Jenkins · First CDF project to graduate, in August
  • JFrog Artifactory · JFrog lists on the Nasdaq as FROG (September 16)
  • Jujutsu · Public repository begins December 12, imported from his Mercurial repository
  • K3s · CNCF sandbox in August; embedded etcd replaces dqlite; SUSE buys Rancher in December
  • Kaitai Struct · 0.9 adds a C++11 target and Nim
  • Kamu · Open Data Fabric spec published; CLI rewritten in Rust (0.30.0, September)
  • Kata Containers · 2.0: Rust agent, shim v2 only, virtio-fs by default
  • kdb+ · kdb+ 4.0 adds multithreaded primitives and data-at-rest encryption
  • Lakehouses · Databricks describes the lakehouse in a January blog post
  • Large language models · GPT-3 paper: 175 billion parameters and few-shot prompting (May 28)
  • Legend · Goldman Sachs open-sources five modules as Legend on October 19; incubating at FINOS
  • LF AI & Data Foundation · Merger with ODPi into LF AI & Data announced October 26; Egeria joins
  • LitmusChaos · Accepted into the CNCF Sandbox in June
  • Manhattan · 20 production clusters and over 1,000 databases
  • Material UI (MUI) · MUI X Pro plan introduced
  • Meilisearch · Engine released publicly as open source
  • Meltano · Refocused on open-source ELT built on Singer taps and targets
  • Mercurial · Bitbucket removes Mercurial support; all hg repositories disabled by August 26
  • MicroK8s · 1.19 adds automatic high availability on dqlite (August)
  • MindsDB · Y Combinator Winter 2020 batch
  • minikube · Docker driver built on kind’s node image (v1.7); multi-node clusters (v1.9)
  • MLflow · MLflow joins the Linux Foundation (June 25)
  • Model serving and MLOps · Ray Serve is released (July post); MLflow joins the Linux Foundation (June)
  • Netdata · $14.2 million round led by Bessemer; $31 million raised in total
  • Nx · Nx 11 (December 11)
  • Object storage · S3 becomes strongly consistent for every read and list (December)
  • oneTBB · Renamed oneTBB with version 2021.1 (December), part of oneAPI
  • Open Infrastructure Foundation · StarlingX confirmed in June; renamed the Open Infrastructure Foundation in October
  • Open Source Security Foundation · OpenSSF announced on August 3, merging the two
  • OpenJS Foundation · Electron graduates to Impact in June
  • OVN (Open Virtual Network) · 20.03 in March, the first year-and-month version
  • Package managers · pip 20.3 ships a backtracking resolver
  • Patroni · 2.0 adds etcd v3 support and an experimental built-in Raft store
  • Pebble · CockroachDB 20.1 offers Pebble as an option in May; 20.2 makes it the default in November
  • Persistence: state, events and replay · Temporal 1.0 ships
  • pg_trgm · PostgreSQL 13 lets GiST indexes set their signature length
  • pgBackRest · 2.21 in January: pure C; Azure repositories follow in July
  • Pijul · Rewritten core ships as 1.0 alpha (November)
  • Piper · Software Engineering at Google published (March), with a chapter on Piper’s version control policies
  • Platform engineering · Spotify open-sources Backstage (March) and describes its Golden Paths (August); the term internal developer platform is coined
  • PoWA · PoWA 4.0 adds remote mode and powa-collector
  • Pravega · Accepted into the CNCF Sandbox on 10 November
  • pre-commit · 2.0.0 (January 28)
  • Presto (PrestoDB) · The creators’ fork, PrestoSQL, is renamed Trino in December
  • Presto Foundation · First PrestoCon in September; Intel and Upsolver join; PrestoSQL renamed Trino in December
  • Prisma ORM · Prisma 2.0 with the type-safe Prisma Client, 9 June
  • Proxmox Virtual Environment · First stable Proxmox Backup Server, written in Rust
  • PyO3 · 0.11 (June) works on stable Rust; 0.13 (December) adds abi3 wheels
  • Pyright · Microsoft builds Pylance on Pyright (June)
  • Python · Python 2 reaches end of life on January 1
  • QuestDB · $2 million seed and Y Combinator’s Summer 2020 batch
  • Radicle · Radicle Foundation set up (June); Upstream desktop app ships on Radicle Link (December)
  • Rancher · SUSE agrees to buy Rancher Labs in July and completes the deal on December 1
  • Ray · Ray 1.0 released on September 30 at the first Ray Summit
  • Redis · Sanfilippo steps down as maintainer
  • Redpanda · Released as source-available under the BSL in November
  • Redpanda Connect · Bloblang mapping language arrives in Benthos 3.12 and 3.13
  • release-it · 13.0.0 (March 7): hooks replace scripts; --ci replaces --non-interactive
  • Remote access · NIST publishes SP 800-207 Zero Trust Architecture; HashiCorp announces Boundary
  • Render · Preview environments, alongside a $4.5 million funding round
  • Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) · Lewis et al. name retrieval-augmented generation (May); Meta releases it in Hugging Face Transformers (September)
  • RKE2 · First RKE2 tags in May; v1.18.9+rke2r1, “also known as RKE Government”, in October
  • RocksDB · CockroachDB 20.2 makes Pebble its default engine, replacing RocksDB
  • Scaleway · Kapsule, managed Kubernetes
  • Semantic layers · Google completes its acquisition of Looker
  • Serverless Framework · Version 2.0, in September
  • Shillelagh · Shillelagh 0.1 is released in October
  • Snowflake · IPO in September raises about $3.4 billion
  • Spack · 0.16 adds an experimental clingo-based concretizer in November
  • Sprints · Current revision of the Scrum Guide
  • StackStorm · Mistral removed in 3.3; Orquesta is the only workflow engine
  • Static read models · Next.js 9.5 makes incremental static regeneration stable
  • Strawberry GraphQL · Apollo Federation in May; built-in DataLoader and Pydantic types in November
  • Supabase · Beta in December, with a $6M seed round
  • Synthetic monitoring · CloudWatch Synthetics generally available (April); Playwright 1.0 (May)
  • TARS · TARS Foundation formed on March 10; free edX course in September
  • TARS Foundation · TARS Foundation formed on March 10; landscape launched in July; free edX course
  • TDengine · Version 2.0 and open-source clustering in August
  • Team structures · “Spotify doesn’t use ‘the Spotify model’”, a former engineer’s account
  • Temporal · Temporal 1.0 ships in September
  • Threat detection (SIEM) · Elastic opens its public detection-rules repository on June 30
  • TiDB · TiDB 4.0 adds TiFlash; TiKV graduates from the CNCF
  • TileDB · TileDB 2.0 adds string and mixed-type dimensions; $15 million series A
  • Time-series databases · Amazon Timestream becomes generally available
  • TimescaleDB · Timescale License revised to grant rights to modify and repair
  • Tortoise ORM · 0.16.0 in March builds Pydantic models from Tortoise models
  • Tortoise ORM · Aerich migrations integrated into the install in October
  • Trino · PrestoSQL renamed Trino in December
  • UI libraries · React Table v7 rebuilt as a headless, hooks-only utility
  • Unity Version Control · Unity acquires Códice Software (August 17)
  • UrsaDB · 1.3 adds dataset taints and on-disk result iterators
  • Vale · February: 2.0 moves styles into separate packages and adds XML
  • webpack · webpack 5 on October 10: persistent caching and Module Federation
  • Wide-column stores · Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra) becomes generally available
  • Workflow orchestration · Temporal 1.0, a fork of Uber’s Cadence, ships
  • WorkOS · WorkOS launches; raises a $15M Series A led by Lachy Groom
  • YugabyteDB · Yugabyte explains why it rebuilt YSQL on PostgreSQL’s own query layer
  • Zig · zig cc drop-in C compiler announced in March
  • Zig · Zig Software Foundation founded in July

2021

  • AI coding agentsFirst · GitHub Copilot’s technical preview brings AI code completion to the editor
  • Amazon MemoryDBFirst · Launches in August, compatible with Redis 6.2, in four Regions
  • Apache Arrow AceroFirst · Arrow 5.0.0 (July) adds the ExecNode hierarchy and runs dataset scans as node graphs
  • Apache HoraeDBFirst · Development starts at Ant Group as CeresDB
  • Apache OpenDALFirst · dal2, a new storage access layer, is written for Databend (December)
  • Beam CloudFirst · Eli Mernit and Luke Lombardi found Beam
  • Beta9First · Luke Lombardi and Eli Mernit found Beam
  • Better StackFirst · Better Uptime launches: uptime checks, on-call alerts and status pages
  • BytewaxFirst · Zander Matheson starts Bytewax, Inc.
  • Cloudflare Basin CatalogFirst · Cloudflare launches R2 object storage with no egress fees
  • Cloudflare R2First · Cloudflare attacks AWS egress pricing in July and announces R2 on 28 September
  • DBSnapperFirst · Joe Scharf publishes the first DBSnapper CLI on GitHub in January
  • eBPF FoundationFirst · eBPF Foundation announced on August 12; steering committee seated on October 13
  • EncoreFirst · Encore’s open-source repository is published
  • EvidenceFirst · Launch HN in August: a static site generator for SQL analysts (YC S21)
  • FlashPanelFirst · FlashPanel’s user-data privacy decision is dated November 30
  • FoxgloveFirst · Foxglove launches a desktop visualization app forked from Cruise’s Webviz
  • Green Software FoundationFirst · Launched May 25 by Accenture, GitHub, Microsoft and ThoughtWorks; SCI alpha in December
  • imblFirst · Joe Neeman releases imbl 1.0.0, compatible with im 15.0.0 (August)
  • LakeSoulFirst · DMetaSoul publishes LakeSoul on Spark, with metadata in Cassandra
  • LanceFirst · Chang She and Lei Xu set out to build storage for multimodal AI data
  • Languages that compile to SQLFirst · Google engineers release Logica (April); the Malloy repository starts (August)
  • MalloyFirst · The Malloy repository starts (August)
  • MiniflareFirst · Miniflare 1.0 launches in July on the Workers Discord
  • NeonFirst · Shamgunov, Linnakangas and Kelvich start Neon; code on GitHub from March
  • OneFirst · First seed round, per the company
  • OpenAI CodexFirst · The original Codex model powers GitHub Copilot’s technical preview
  • OpenSearch Software FoundationFirst · Elastic leaves Apache 2.0 in January; AWS introduces OpenSearch in April
  • OPTE (Oxide Packet Transformation Engine)First · Repository started (August), following RFD 63’s network architecture
  • OxiaFirst · Matteo Merli makes the first commit in December
  • PineconeFirst · Comes out of stealth in January with a $10M seed led by Wing Venture Capital
  • release-plzFirst · Marco Ieni creates the repository (December 19)
  • RiffFirst · Databutton founded in Oslo by three Cognite alumni
  • RisingWaveFirst · RisingWave Labs founded; the C++ prototype is rewritten in Rust
  • SigstoreFirst · Announced by the Linux Foundation on March 9 with Red Hat, Google and Purdue
  • Software Carbon Intensity (SCI)First · Software Standards Working Group formed; SCI alpha in December
  • Spice.ai OSSFirst · Spice AI founded; first alpha of a Go and Python runtime for time-series AI in August
  • TextualFirst · Textual 0.1.0 published on PyPI (June); Textual CSS in development (November)
  • TimechoDBFirst · Timecho founded in October by the Apache IoTDB core team
  • TLA+ FoundationFirst · Planning meetings for a TLA+ foundation start in October
  • Unity CatalogFirst · Announced at Data and AI Summit
  • UpjetFirst · Terrajet, Upjet’s predecessor, starts generating Crossplane providers through the Terraform CLI
  • Uptime KumaFirst · First commit in July; 1.0.0 released on 11 July
  • VitestFirst · Anthony Fu makes the first commit (December)
  • WarpFirst · “How Warp Works” lays out the Rust, GPU and blocks design
  • Windsurf (now Devin Desktop)First · Founded as Exafunction, a GPU infrastructure company
  • XataFirst · Monica Sarbu founds Xata in April; $5 million seed round led by Index Ventures
  • YataiFirst · Yatai repository created (July)
  • Airbyte · Platform moves to ELv2 at 0.30.0; $150M Series B in December
  • alex · October: 10.0 switches to ES modules
  • Alibaba Cloud Hologres · V1.1 released
  • Alibaba Cloud PolarDB · PolarDB Serverless at SIGMOD; PolarDB for PostgreSQL open-sourced (Apache 2.0), PolarDB-X in November
  • Amazon CloudFront · CloudFront Functions run lightweight JavaScript on every request
  • Amazon CloudWatch · Real-user monitoring (RUM) in November
  • Amazon DynamoDB · Prime Day traffic peaks at 89.2 million requests per second
  • Amazon EBS · io2 Block Express: up to 256,000 IOPS with sub-millisecond latency (July)
  • Amazon EKS · EKS Anywhere generally available; Karpenter ready for production
  • Amazon Kinesis Data Streams · On-demand mode removes shard planning
  • Amazon SQS · High-throughput mode for FIFO queues
  • Amazon Timestream · Scheduled queries, multi-measure records and magnetic store writes
  • Apache Arrow Acero · Arrow 6.0.0 (October) ships a basic query engine, used by R’s dplyr bindings
  • Apache Cassandra · Cassandra 4.0 ships in July, six years after 3.0
  • Apache DataFusion · Grove donates Ballista, a distributed scheduler built on DataFusion
  • Apache Iceberg · Format v2 tables, with row-level deletes, arrive in Iceberg 0.12
  • Apache Impala · Impala 4.0 adds Iceberg table support
  • Apache Pinot · Graduates to a top-level Apache project in July; StarTree launches
  • Apache Superset · Becomes a top-level Apache project and ships 1.0 in January
  • Apache Thrift · Cassandra 4.0 removes its deprecated Thrift interface
  • Artifact registries · Dependency confusion is published (February); OCI Distribution Spec 1.0 (May)
  • Astra DB · Serverless Astra DB, with storage separated from compute, becomes generally available
  • AsyncAPI · The Linux Foundation announces it will host AsyncAPI, on March 30
  • Atlas · Ariga open-sources the Atlas CLI; version 0.1.0 (November 25)
  • Auth0 · Okta completes its acquisition of Auth0 (about $6.5B) on May 3; Organizations introduced
  • Automated testing · First commit of Vitest, a test runner built on Vite
  • Autoscaling · Karpenter launches nodes directly for unschedulable pods
  • AWS Chalice · Built-in AWS CDK construct in 1.22
  • AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK) · CDK v2 with the single aws-cdk-lib package on December 2
  • AWS Fargate · Windows containers and Arm-based Graviton2 support
  • AWS Fault Injection Service · Generally available in March with EC2, ECS, EKS and RDS actions
  • AWS Lake Formation · Tag-based access control with LF-Tags (May); row- and cell-level security generally available (November)
  • AWS Serverless Application Model (SAM) · SAM Accelerate and sam sync in beta in October
  • AWS Step Functions · SDK integrations reach over 200 AWS services; Workflow Studio
  • Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage · IPO on NASDAQ as BLZE at $16 a share
  • BEAM (Erlang virtual machine) · Erlang/OTP 24 adds the BeamAsm JIT on 12 May
  • Better Stack · Logtail launches: SQL-compatible log management
  • binrw · binread 2.2, its last release; users move to binrw
  • Bitemporal modeling · Martin Fowler publishes “Bitemporal History”
  • Block storage · EBS io2 Block Express reaches 256,000 IOPS per volume
  • Bundlers and dev servers · Vite 2 pre-bundles dependencies with esbuild, written in Go, 10 to 100 times faster than before
  • Change data capture · Debezium adds incremental, watermark-based snapshots
  • Chaos engineering · AWS Fault Injection Simulator becomes generally available in March
  • Chaos Mesh · Chaos Mesh 2.0: Workflow, Schedule, HTTPChaos and chaosd
  • ClickHouse · ClickHouse, Inc. incorporated; $250 million Series B at a $2 billion valuation
  • Cloud cost and carbon · Green Software Foundation launched in May
  • Cloud Foundry Foundation · Becomes a directed fund of the Linux Foundation; a TOC replaces the project management committees
  • Cloud Hypervisor · Moves to the Linux Foundation (December 8), backed by Alibaba, Arm, ByteDance, Intel and Microsoft
  • Cloud Native Computing Foundation · 42 projects accepted, the most in any year by the landscape’s count
  • Cloudflare Access · Cloudflare Tunnel becomes free, so apps behind Access need no public IP at no extra cost
  • Cloudflare Pages · Generally available on April 12
  • Cloudflare Pages · Pages goes full stack with Functions (beta) and GitLab support in November
  • Cloudflare Tunnel · Free for everyone and renamed Cloudflare Tunnel on April 15; Named Tunnels get permanent UUIDs
  • Cloudflare, Inc. · R2 announced: S3-compatible object storage with no egress fees
  • CloudNativePG · First stable release of Cloud Native Postgres, in February
  • Codecov · Bash Uploader altered from January 31; discovered April 1, users notified April 15
  • Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) · CISA creates the KEV catalog on November 3; Log4Shell, CVE-2021-44228, is published on December 10
  • Confidential Computing Consortium · Governing Board accepts Keystone, Veracruz, Gramine and Occlum
  • Continuous Delivery Foundation · Shipwright joins in August
  • CrateDB · Crate.io drops Elasticsearch as upstream; CrateDB 4.5 makes everything Apache 2.0
  • Crossplane · Becomes a CNCF incubating project
  • Crucible · Repository started (February); RFD 177 describes the implementation
  • Cube · Cube Store, written in Rust, becomes generally available in April
  • Dagster · Dagster Cloud announced in December
  • Dapr · Dapr 1.0 in February; joins the CNCF as incubating in November
  • Data notebooks · Hex 2.0 brings a reactive cell graph to a SQL and Python notebook
  • Data transfer objects · Java 16 finalises records (JEP 395)
  • Data warehouses · Lakehouse paper argues for warehouse features on open files
  • Database clients and design tools · Ariga open-sources Atlas, schema as code for databases (November 25)
  • Database indexes · PostgreSQL 14 adds minmax-multi and Bloom filter classes for BRIN
  • Databend · Back to Apache 2.0 in February; renamed from Datafuse to Databend in September
  • Databricks · Lakehouse paper at CIDR argues for one platform on open formats
  • dbt · Renamed dbt Labs with a $150M round in June; dbt 1.0 in December
  • Distributed ledgers · Microsoft retires Azure Blockchain Service on September 10
  • Docker · Docker Desktop requires a paid plan for larger companies
  • Dokku · Pluggable builders arrive in 0.24.0 (March) and schedulers in 0.26.0 (October)
  • Doppler · Kubernetes operator released in June
  • Drizzle ORM · First drizzle-orm release on npm, in September
  • DRLM (Disaster Recovery Linux Manager) · DRLM 2.4: QCOW2 images on network block devices, incremental backups, ISO recovery
  • DuckDB · DuckDB Labs spins off from CWI; the DuckDB Foundation is set up
  • Durable Objects · Open beta on 31 March; generally available on 15 November
  • eBPF · eBPF Foundation founded in August; eBPF for Windows started
  • EdgeX Foundry · 2.0 tagged in June
  • eKuiper · Put to the LF Edge TAC in April and donated to LF Edge as eKuiper
  • Elasticsearch · 7.11 moves from Apache 2.0 to SSPL or the Elastic License; AWS forks 7.10.2 as OpenSearch
  • Emergent schema (JSON columns) · JSON tiles in Umbra extract frequent keys automatically; PostgreSQL 14 adds statistics on expressions
  • ent · Moves to the Linux Foundation (August); Ariga open-sources Atlas (November)
  • Erlang · Erlang/OTP 24 adds the BeamAsm JIT compiler
  • Estuary · FirstMark invests $7M
  • Event streams · RabbitMQ 3.9 adds streams
  • Expo · EAS Build and EAS Submit become generally available in November
  • Feldera · Database Stream Processor repository started at VMware in December
  • Firezone · Launches on Hacker News; later backed by Y Combinator
  • Fivetran · Raises $565M at a $5.6B valuation; buys HVR for $700M
  • FOSSA · CLI 3.0.0 released (November 13)
  • Fossil · Fossil 2.14 adds chat (January 20)
  • FoundationDB · SIGMOD paper by Apple, Snowflake and Antithesis engineers
  • Garage · NGI POINTER grant funds three full-time developers for a year
  • Git LFS · Git LFS 3.0 adds a pure SSH transfer protocol (September 24)
  • GitHub Actions · OIDC tokens let workflows deploy to clouds without stored secrets
  • GitLab · IPO on Nasdaq as GTLB (October 14)
  • Google Cloud Run · 60-minute request timeouts and up to 1,000 concurrent requests per instance
  • Google Kubernetes Engine · Autopilot mode launches on February 24
  • Grafana · Relicensed from Apache 2.0 to AGPLv3 in April
  • Grafana Loki · Relicensed from Apache 2.0 to AGPLv3 in April
  • Grafana Tempo · Relicensed to AGPLv3 in April; Tempo 1.0 in June
  • Gramine · Renamed Gramine; CCC Governing Board accepts it in September; v1.0 on October 8
  • Graphene · Graphene 3.0 on GraphQL-core 3 in November
  • GraphQL Foundation · October edition of the spec
  • GraphQL-native databases · Supabase releases pg_graphql in December
  • Grizzly · 0.1.0 released; Kubernetes-style resource files documented
  • HashiCorp Boundary · Vault credential stores in June; AWS and Azure host discovery in November
  • HashiCorp Packer · Packer 1.7 adds packer init and plugin requirements in templates
  • Hasura GraphQL Engine · Hasura 2.0: multiple databases, SQL Server, BigQuery, REST endpoints
  • Helios · Runs on an AMD EPYC 7402P at Oxide’s May milestone demo; RFD 26 picks Helios as the host OS (June)
  • Hetzner · First North American site, in Ashburn, Virginia
  • Hex · Public launch in March; Hex 2.0 with a reactive graph and a $16M Series A in October
  • Identity & access (IAM) · GitHub Actions jobs get short-lived cloud credentials via OIDC
  • im (Rust) · Joe Neeman forks it as imbl
  • Immutable.js · 4.0.0: new maintainers, MIT licence, better TypeScript types
  • Incident management · The VOID report questions MTTR as a metric
  • JFrog Artifactory · Bintray is shut down (May 1)
  • jOOQ · jOOQ 3.15 adds MULTISET nested collections in July
  • KairosDB · 1.3.0, the last stable release, in August
  • Kamu · ODF whitepaper on arXiv in November; founders go full time
  • Karpenter · Declared ready for production at re:Invent on November 29
  • KeyDB · KeyDB joins Snap Inc.
  • kind · v0.11 supports rootless Docker, Podman and nerdctl
  • Koyeb · User workloads move from Kubernetes to Nomad, Firecracker and Kuma on bare metal
  • Kubeless · Last release v1.0.8 in January; VMware ends maintenance in August
  • KubeRay · v0.1.0 released in October
  • Lakehouse catalogs · Databricks announces Unity Catalog to replace per-workspace Hive metastores
  • Lakehouses · CIDR paper argues lakehouses will replace the warehouse architecture
  • LF Decentralized Trust · Daniela Barbosa becomes executive director
  • LF Edge · EMQ’s eKuiper is put to the TAC for the At-Large stage in April and joins that year
  • LF Networking · OPNFV and CNTT merge into Anuket in January
  • liboqs · oqs-provider for OpenSSL 3 is started
  • LitmusChaos · Litmus 2.0 in August
  • Logstash · Elasticsearch and Kibana leave Apache 2.0; Logstash does not
  • Lura · Lura technical charter adopted on April 14; Linux Foundation announces the Lura Project on May 11
  • Material UI (MUI) · Material-UI becomes MUI; v5 released in September
  • Meltano · Singer SDK and MeltanoHub launch; spins out of GitLab with GV seed
  • Memgraph · Memgraph 2.0 released under the BSL; $9.34 million seed round led by M12
  • MicroK8s · 1.21 runs the Kubernetes services in one kubelite binary (April)
  • MinIO · Licence changes from Apache 2.0 to AGPLv3 (April)
  • Model hubs · Hugging Face launches the BigScience workshop to train an open model (April 28)
  • Network protocols · QUIC standardised as RFC 9000; HTTP/3 follows in 2022
  • Nitric · Developer preview adds Azure support
  • nom · 7.0 removes the original macro combinators
  • Omicron · May milestone demo: Omicron, CockroachDB and ClickHouse running natively on Helios
  • Onehouse · Onehouse is founded
  • Open Container Initiative (OCI) specifications · Distribution Specification 1.0 released (May 5)
  • Open Data Fabric · Whitepaper on arXiv in November; consortium with Dell, Intel and the University of Groningen
  • Open Source Security Foundation · $10 million in new commitments; Brian Behlendorf becomes general manager in October
  • OpenAPI Initiative · OpenAPI 3.1.0 released in February; informal SIGs agreed in May
  • OpenAPI Specification · OpenAPI 3.1.0 released on February 16, built on JSON Schema 2020-12
  • OpenSearch · Elastic leaves Apache 2.0 in January; OpenSearch introduced in April, 1.0 in July
  • OpenSearch · Amazon Elasticsearch Service becomes Amazon OpenSearch Service in September
  • OpenTelemetry · Moves to CNCF incubation in August
  • OpenTSDB · 2.4.1, the last stable release
  • OVHcloud · Fire destroys SBG2 in Strasbourg (March); listing on Euronext Paris (October)
  • OVN (Open Virtual Network) · ML2/OVN becomes DevStack’s default Neutron backend in May
  • Oxide Computer Company · Hubris and Humility open-sourced (November 30)
  • Percona Operators · Operator for PostgreSQL launched, based on Crunchy’s PGO
  • PGO (Crunchy Postgres for Kubernetes) · PGO 5.0 in July: a fully declarative PostgresCluster API
  • PlanetScale · PlanetScale’s cloud database enters beta in May, generally available in November
  • Platform engineering · Platform engineer becomes a mainstream job title
  • Polars · “I wrote one of the fastest DataFrame libraries” introduces Polars
  • Presto Foundation · Membership reaches 11 on the foundation’s landscape, its peak, in October
  • Propolis · Boots an Alpine Linux guest at Oxide’s May milestone demo; RFD 26 commits to bhyve plus Propolis (June)
  • Pulumi · Pulumi 3.0 with the Automation API and native providers
  • QuestDB · 6.0 accepts out-of-order rows; $12.5 million Series A
  • QUIC · QUIC version 1 published as RFC 9000, with RFC 9001 and RFC 9002
  • RabbitMQ · 3.9 adds streams, a replayable append-only log
  • Racket · Racket 8.0 makes Racket CS the default implementation
  • Railway · Railway is released
  • Rancher · Rancher 2.6 provisions RKE2 clusters
  • Ray Serve · Ray 1.4: deployments API, @serve.batch, FastAPI ingress (June)
  • Real-time analytics databases · Pinot graduates to a top-level Apache project
  • Red Hat OpenShift · Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS (ROSA) GA in March
  • Redpanda · Tiered Storage arrives in December
  • Render · $20 million Series A; a free plan for web services and databases announced
  • Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) · RETRO retrieves from a 2 trillion token database
  • RKE2 · Rancher 2.6 adds automated provisioning of RKE2 clusters
  • RocksDB · Spark 3.2 adds a RocksDB state store for Structured Streaming
  • Rootly · Y Combinator Summer 2021; $3.2M seed led by XYZ Venture Capital in July
  • runc · runc 1.0.0 released (June 22)
  • Runtime virtual machines · Erlang/OTP 24 adds the BeamAsm JIT in May
  • Rust · Rust Foundation founded in February; Rust 2021 edition in 1.56
  • Scala · Scala 3 released in May
  • ScramDB · Callysto stream processing framework open-sourced under Apache 2.0
  • Search indexes · Elasticsearch leaves Apache 2.0; AWS forks it as OpenSearch
  • Secrets management · GitHub Actions OIDC lets CI deploy to clouds without stored keys
  • Shillelagh · 0.2 adds the SQLAlchemy dialect and Google Sheets adapter; 1.0 ships in August
  • Spacelift · $15 million Series B led by Insight Partners; supports Terraform, Pulumi and CloudFormation
  • Spack · 0.17 makes the clingo concretizer the default
  • SQLite · STRICT tables offer enforced column types
  • Starlette · 0.15.0 in June moves onto AnyIO, adds Trio and deprecates built-in GraphQL
  • Starlette · 0.17.0 removes GraphQL support in November
  • StarRocks · Code published on GitHub in September under the Elastic License 2.0
  • Static read models · Evidence launches as a static site generator for SQL analysts
  • Strawberry GraphQL · FastAPI GraphQLRouter in October
  • Talos Linux · Company renamed Sidero Labs after a trademark clash
  • TARS Foundation · First anniversary: four new projects and an end-user programme
  • Terraform · Terraform 1.0, after more than 100 million downloads
  • TigerGraph · $105 million Series C
  • TigrisFS · Yandex Cloud releases GeeseFS, a fork of Goofys
  • TLA+ · A VS Code extension becomes available in January
  • TLS · TLS 1.0 and 1.1 formally deprecated (RFC 8996)
  • TOML · TOML 1.0.0, the first stable version (January)
  • tox · First alpha of the rewritten tox 4 (January)
  • Toxiproxy · Releases resume with 2.1.5 after a gap since 2019
  • Treblle · €1.2 million round led by Nauta Capital
  • UDP · QUIC (RFC 9000) runs a full transport inside UDP datagrams
  • Vector databases · pgvector, a PostgreSQL extension, is first released in April
  • Vite · Vite 2.0: framework-agnostic, Rollup-style plugins, esbuild pre-bundling
  • WAL-G · 1.0: restores WAL-E backups; MySQL and SQL Server production-ready
  • WebRTC · More than 40 RFCs published together and the API becomes a W3C Recommendation (26 January)
  • WorkOS · Announces the Series A; over 100 apps, including Webflow and Hopin, use it
  • Wrangler · wrangler 2.0 beta on November 16, with local mode via Miniflare
  • YAML · Revision 1.2.2 (October); PyYAML 6.0 requires an explicit loader

2022

  • Agent frameworksFirst · First release of the LangChain Python package (October 24)
  • AI agentsFirst · The ReAct paper interleaves reasoning with actions; Simon Willison names prompt injection (September)
  • Apache GlutenFirst · Intel and Kyligence start Gluten as an open-source Spark plugin
  • Apache PaimonFirst · Flink Table Store 0.1.0 preview released in May
  • Apache PekkoFirst · Akka moves to the BSL; Pekko enters the Apache Incubator on 24 October
  • ArcFirst · Side project to host time-series databases begins in November
  • ArroyoFirst · Micah Wylde and Jackson Newhouse found Arroyo
  • ArtieFirst · Robin Tang starts building his own CDC replication tool
  • Blackbox AIFirst · BLACKBOX AI extension for VS Code published in September
  • cargo-semver-checksFirst · Repository created and first published to crates.io (July 13); 18 lints by 0.9.1 in August
  • celldFirst · Cloudflare open-sources workerd, with single-instance Durable Objects
  • ChromaFirst · chroma-core/chroma repository created in October
  • ClickStackFirst · HyperDX founded; joins Y Combinator’s summer batch
  • Cloudflare D1First · D1 announced on 11 May; open alpha in November
  • Cloudflare QueuesFirst · Private beta announced on September 27; open beta on November 14
  • DenormalizedFirst · Founders join Y Combinator’s Summer 2022 batch as Probably Nothing Labs
  • DioxusFirst · Dioxus 0.1 released on 3 January
  • ForgejoFirst · Gitea Limited announced (October 24); Forgejo created in October and launched December 15 under Codeberg e.V.
  • GizmoSQLFirst · Voltron Data starts a Flight SQL server example on DuckDB and SQLite
  • GlareDBFirst · GlareDB repository created in May
  • GreptimeDBFirst · GreptimeDB open-sourced on GitHub on November 15
  • JEPA (Joint-Embedding Predictive Architecture)First · Yann LeCun posts “A Path Towards Autonomous Machine Intelligence” proposing JEPA (June 27)
  • LangChainFirst · LangChain v0.0.1 released as a Python package in October
  • LeptosFirst · Greg Johnston starts Leptos
  • MCAPFirst · Foxglove announces MCAP in beta (February)
  • MintlifyFirst · Founded by Han Wang and Hahnbee Lee; Y Combinator Winter 2022
  • MotherDuckFirst · Founding team meets in June; $47.5M seed and Series A in November
  • OCSFFirst · AWS and Splunk announce OCSF at Black Hat USA in August, with 18 initial organisations
  • OmnigresFirst · Yurii Rashkovskii opens the Omnigres repository in December
  • ParseableFirst · Parseable v0.0.1 released on GitHub in September
  • PikaPodsFirst · Launched on Hacker News on 6 May
  • PlakarFirst · First alpha releases on GitHub in April
  • PlaneFirst · Vamsi and Vihar Kurama found Plane; GitHub repository created in November
  • PRQLFirst · First commit by Maximilian Roos (1 January); 0.2 releases by July
  • PuffinFirst · Piotr Findeisen’s Puffin spec is merged into Iceberg in June
  • RuffFirst · Ruff released in August as a proof of concept
  • Running models locallyFirst · Georgi Gerganov starts the GGML tensor library in C (September)
  • SpeakeasyFirst · speakeasy-api/speakeasy CLI repository created in September
  • SQLMeshFirst · SQLMesh repository starts at Tobiko Data (September)
  • SurrealDBFirst · Engine released publicly on GitHub
  • TigrisFirst · Tigris ships as an open-source app backend built on FoundationDB
  • turbopufferFirst · Vector search for Readwise proves too costly, prompting the design
  • TursoFirst · libSQL, an open-contribution fork of SQLite, created under the MIT licence
  • WarpStreamFirst · Datadog describes Husky, the S3-based event store Artoul helped build
  • WingFirst · Repository created in June by the team at Monada
  • Workers Analytics EngineFirst · Announced in closed beta on 12 May
  • .NET runtime (CLR) · .NET 7 adds Native AOT in November
  • ACRN · ACRN 3.0 released (June)
  • Actor model · Akka moves to the BSL; the Apache Pekko fork enters incubation
  • AI coding agents · The ReAct paper has a model interleave reasoning with actions
  • Airbyte · Airbyte Cloud launches and Grouparoo is acquired, both in April
  • Akka · Akka 2.7 ships in October under the Business Source License
  • Algolia · Acquires Search.io, a vector search company, in September
  • Amazon Athena · Iceberg ACID transactions GA in April; engine version 3, with the latest Trino features, in October
  • Amazon CloudFront · HTTP/3 support; origin access control succeeds the older origin access identity
  • Amazon EFS · Elastic throughput: no performance to provision, pay per GB transferred (November)
  • Amazon EventBridge · Pipes and Scheduler; the matching engine is open-sourced as Event Ruler
  • Amazon EventBridge Scheduler · EventBridge Scheduler launches on November 10 in nine Regions
  • Amazon MemoryDB · Data tiering moves cold items to SSD on R6gd nodes
  • Amazon SNS · Filtering on the message body, not just attributes
  • Apache Amoro · Arctic is open-sourced; 0.3.0 is released in July
  • Apache Arrow · Flight SQL introduced in February
  • Apache Arrow Acero · Developers settle on the name Acero in May; Arrow 9.0.0 docs use it in August
  • Apache Doris · Graduates as an Apache top-level project in June
  • Apache HoraeDB · CeresDB open-sourced on GitHub in June
  • Apache Iceberg · Iceberg 1.0 released in November
  • Apache IoTDB · Timecho raises over $10 million in June; 1.0 with the ConfigNode/DataNode cluster in December
  • Apache OpenDAL · Leaves the Databend repository as OpenDAL, February 14
  • Argo CD · Argo graduates from the CNCF in December
  • Authentication · Apple, Google and Microsoft commit to passkeys
  • AWS Chalice · CDK v2 support in 1.27
  • AWS Fargate · Task sizes quadruple to 16 vCPU and 120 GB of memory
  • AWS Fault Injection Service · Available in AWS GovCloud (US)
  • AWS IoT Core · MQTT 5 support generally available in November
  • AWS Lambda · SnapStart restores functions from snapshots to cut cold starts
  • AWS Step Functions · Distributed Map for large parallel jobs
  • Beam Cloud · Joins Y Combinator’s Winter 2022 batch
  • BentoML · BentoML 1.0 (July); Yatai 1.0 for Kubernetes (November)
  • Beta9 · Beam joins Y Combinator’s Winter 2022 batch
  • Better Stack · Now Better Stack, raises an $18.6 million Series A in July
  • binrw · 0.10: documented writing, NoSeek, BufReader, explicit byte order
  • Bytewax · Open-sourced on 7 February as a Python framework on Timely Dataflow
  • Cap’n Proto · Sandstorm the company formally dissolves; the project lives on
  • CBOR · COSE revised as RFC 9052, Internet Standard 96
  • Chaos engineering · LitmusChaos and Chaos Mesh become CNCF incubating projects
  • Chaos Mesh · Moves to CNCF Incubating on February 16
  • Citus · Citus 11.0 goes fully open source and lets any node run distributed queries
  • ClickHouse · ClickHouse Cloud opens for early access
  • Cloud cost and carbon · AWS Customer Carbon Footprint Tool launches in March; OpenCost joins the CNCF Sandbox; SCI 1.0 in November
  • Cloudflare Pages · Pages Functions generally available in November
  • Cloudflare R2 · Open beta in May; generally available on 21 September
  • Cloudflare Workers · The workerd runtime is open-sourced under Apache 2.0
  • Cloudflare, Inc. · D1 announced in May; Queues private beta in September
  • CloudNativePG · Renamed CloudNativePG and open-sourced under Apache 2.0 with version 1.15.0, April 21
  • Codeberg · Codeberg launches Forgejo and switches to it with version 1.18.0 (December 15)
  • Codecov · Sentry acquires Codecov (November 30)
  • Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) · cve.org starts displaying records in CVE JSON 5.0 in October
  • Confidential Computing Consortium · Veraison accepted in May
  • Containers · Kubernetes 1.24 removes its built-in Docker support
  • Continuous Delivery Foundation · Tekton graduates; Pyrsia joins; CDEvents v0.1 in October
  • Cross-platform desktop apps · Dioxus 0.1 in January; Flutter for Windows stable in February; Tauri 1.0 in June
  • CRUD · RFC 9110 restates HTTP method semantics, including idempotency
  • Cube · Cube.js is renamed Cube in August
  • Dagster · Dagster 1.0 in August, with software-defined assets
  • DAOS · Intel cancels Optane; work starts on Metadata-on-SSD
  • DAOS Foundation · Intel cancels Optane, the persistent memory DAOS was designed around
  • Databend · The storage layer leaves the repository in February as OpenDAL
  • DBSnapper · DBSnapper Cloud launches in January; agent 1.0 is released in November
  • Deep Lake · Renamed Deep Lake; paper describes it as a lakehouse for deep learning; version 3.0
  • deku · Fixes undefined behaviour in its slice code and yanks affected versions; a faster byte-only read path
  • Delta Lake · Delta Lake 2.0; Databricks commits to open-sourcing all Delta features
  • Distributed ledgers · ASX pauses its ledger-based CHESS replacement; Maersk and IBM announce the end of TradeLens
  • Dolt · DoltLab and Hosted Dolt launch; first version of the new storage format
  • Doppler · $20M Series A led by CRV in April; 16,000 organizations as customers
  • Dropshot · WebSocket support in 0.8.0 (September)
  • eBPF Foundation · First draft of a process for hosting technical projects, in June
  • Eclipse Zenoh · ZettaScale Technology founded in May
  • Elasticsearch · Version 8.0: HNSW vector search and security on by default
  • Electron · Electron 20 sandboxes renderers by default
  • EMQX · EMQX 5.0 adds Mria core and replicant nodes
  • Encore · Encore v1.0 and a $3 million seed round led by Crane Venture Partners
  • Feldera · Budiu and Ryzhyk define the DBSP theory
  • Firebolt · $100 million Series C at a $1.4 billion valuation
  • Firecracker · Version 1.0 in January; Lambda SnapStart restores Firecracker snapshots
  • FlashPanel · Launches on Product Hunt as FlashVPS
  • Fly.io · Fly Machines API: VMs that boot in about 300 ms
  • Foreign function interfaces · .NET 7 generates P/Invoke marshalling code at compile time with [LibraryImport]
  • Foxglove · $3.7M seed, the MCAP file format and a $15M Series A
  • Garage · Public introduction on the Garage blog and a FOSDEM talk (February)
  • Gel · EdgeDB 1.0 ships in February
  • Git hooks · Git 2.36 ignores repositories owned by other users unless listed in safe.directory, partly to avoid their hooks
  • Gitea · Gitea Limited formed to steward the project (October 24); Forgejo forks off
  • Go · Go 1.18 adds generics (type parameters) in March
  • Google BigQuery · BigLake brings BigQuery governance to open files on GCS, S3 and Azure
  • Google Cloud Pub/Sub · BigQuery subscriptions in July; exactly-once delivery GA in December
  • Google Cloud Run · Second-generation microVM execution environment reaches general availability
  • Grafana Mimir · Grafana Mimir released in March as an AGPLv3 fork of Cortex
  • Grafana Tempo · Tempo 1.4 adds the metrics-generator
  • GraphQL Foundation · graphql-http adopted as the GraphQL over HTTP reference implementation in November
  • GraphQL-core · 3.2.0 follows GraphQL.js 16 in January
  • Green Software Foundation · SCI 1.0, the Carbon Aware SDK and the Green Software Patterns catalogue announced during COP27
  • Gremlin · Reliability management platform with service scores
  • HashiCorp Nomad · Nomad 1.3 adds native service discovery
  • HashiCorp Packer · HCP Packer becomes generally available in March
  • HCP Waypoint · HCP Waypoint private beta in June, public beta in October
  • Heroku · Free dynos and data plans end from November 28
  • Hetzner · Hillsboro, Oregon added
  • Hex · $52M Series B led by Andreessen Horowitz, with Snowflake and Databricks
  • Hibernate ORM · Hibernate 6.0, a redesign of the APIs and query language
  • HiveMQ · €40 million Series A led by Molten Ventures
  • HTTP · RFC 9110 to RFC 9114: shared semantics, plus HTTP/1.1, HTTP/2 and HTTP/3
  • HTTPS · RFC 9110 defines https in core HTTP; HTTP/3 brings it to QUIC
  • im (Rust) · 15.1.0, the last release (April); the repository is later archived
  • imbl · 2.0.0 fixes several critical Vector bugs (April)
  • immer · Version 0.8.0
  • incident.io · $28.7M Series A led by Index Ventures, on top of a $5.5M seed
  • Incremental view maintenance · pg_ivm 1.0 released for PostgreSQL 14
  • Instatus · About $10K monthly revenue and 350+ paying customers, per the founder
  • Istio · Ambient mesh announced; Istio joins the CNCF as an incubating project in September
  • Jamstack · A refreshed definition drops the acronym (July 11)
  • Kamu · IPFS added as a place to store and share datasets
  • Kata Containers · 3.0 adds a Rust runtime and the built-in Dragonball VMM
  • KeyDB · Version 6.3.0 open-sources the former enterprise features under BSD-3-Clause
  • Koyeb · Public preview in May, after a private preview with over 10,000 developers
  • KubeRay · Ray 2.0 makes KubeRay the preferred deployment; Ray 2.2.0 drops the old operator
  • Kubernetes · Version 1.24 removes the built-in Docker shim
  • KubeVirt · Moves to CNCF incubating (April)
  • Lakehouse catalogs · Iceberg 0.14 adds a common REST catalog client in July
  • LakeSoul · 2.0 moves metadata to PostgreSQL (July); 2.1 adds Flink CDC sync (October)
  • Lance · The open-source Lance repository starts in July
  • Languages that compile to SQL · Maximilian Roos makes the first commit to PRQL (1 January)
  • Large language models · InstructGPT paper on fine-tuning with human feedback (March 4); ChatGPT is released (November 30)
  • Linters, formatters and type checkers · Ruff, a Python linter written in Rust
  • LitmusChaos · CNCF Incubating in January; Harness acquires ChaosNative in March
  • LocalStack · Version 1.0 in July, with over 80 services
  • Logs · OpenTelemetry declares its log data model stable
  • Malloy · First npm release of @malloydata/malloy (September)
  • MariaDB · MariaDB plc lists on the NYSE through a SPAC
  • Material UI (MUI) · MUI Base, a headless alternative, announced in September
  • maturin · zig cc linking (0.12.7, February) and UniFFI bindings (0.14, November)
  • MCAP · rosbag2 makes the MCAP storage plugin its default (December)
  • Meilisearch · $15M Series A to build Meilisearch Cloud
  • Mercurial · Mercurial 6.2 drops Python 2 (July 11)
  • MicroVMs · Lambda SnapStart restores functions from Firecracker snapshots
  • Miniflare · Miniflare 2.0 in January, built into wrangler 2.0’s local mode
  • Miniflare · Miniflare 3, running on workerd, announced in November
  • ML frameworks · PyTorch moves to the PyTorch Foundation at the Linux Foundation (September 12)
  • MLflow · MLflow 2.0 (November)
  • Model hubs · BigScience releases BLOOM, 176 billion parameters
  • n8n · License changes from Apache 2.0 with Commons Clause to the Sustainable Use License
  • Neon · Public launch behind a waitlist in June
  • Netlify · Edge Functions on Deno enter public beta in April
  • ngrok · Raises a $50 million Series A, its first outside funding, on December 13
  • Nx · Nrwl takes over stewardship of Lerna (May 11)
  • Onehouse · Onehouse launches with an $8 million seed round (February)
  • Open Data Fabric · Kamu adds IPFS storage and joins Protocol Labs’ Compute Over Data group
  • Open Source Security Foundation · Ten-point mobilisation plan, costed at about $150 million, published in May
  • OpenSearch · OpenSearch 2.0 released
  • OpenStack · Technical Committee adopts SLURP releases for yearly upgrades
  • Oracle VirtualBox · 7.0 in October, the first release under GPLv3
  • Pathway · Open beta and a $4.5 million funding round in December
  • pg_ivm · pg_ivm 1.0 for PostgreSQL 14; aggregates in 1.1
  • Pijul · 1.0 beta (January), with formats meant to stay stable
  • PikaPods · A few thousand apps running in EU and US regions by October
  • Pinecone · $28M Series A; hybrid search enters early access in October
  • Platform as a service (PaaS) · Heroku stops offering free plans from November 28
  • Podman · Podman 4.0 brings the Netavark network stack
  • Poetry · 1.2: dependency groups, a new installer and plugins
  • Post-quantum cryptography · NIST selects Kyber, Dilithium, Falcon and SPHINCS+ (July); Cloudflare enables hybrid key agreement for all sites (October)
  • Prefect · Prefect 1.0 in February; Prefect 2.0 leaves beta in July
  • Presto (PrestoDB) · Meta publishes Velox, the C++ library behind Presto’s native workers
  • Puffin · Iceberg 0.14.0 ships the Puffin spec, reader and writer in July
  • Puffin · Iceberg 1.1.0 adds Puffin statistics to the Table API in November
  • Puffin · Trino stores Iceberg distinct-value statistics in Puffin files from December
  • Pydantic · V2 plan in July: a Rust core, pydantic-core, built with PyO3
  • PyTorch Foundation · Meta moves PyTorch to the new PyTorch Foundation on September 12
  • QUIC · HTTP/3 over QUIC published as RFC 9114
  • Quix Streams · $12.9 million Series A led by MMC Ventures
  • Radicle · Work starts on Heartwood, the third protocol (July)
  • Railway · $20M Series A led by Redpoint Ventures, in May
  • Ratatui · Dehau asks the community to take over maintenance (August)
  • Ray · Ray 2.0 released in August
  • Ray Serve · Ray 2.0: deployment graphs, RayService on Kubernetes, scale to zero (August)
  • React · React 18 adds concurrent rendering
  • React Native · Hermes becomes the default engine in 0.70
  • Readyset · ReadySet raises a $24M Series A in April and releases ReadySet Core under the BSL in June
  • Redpanda · Vectorized becomes Redpanda Data; Redpanda Cloud launches in November
  • Redpanda Connect · Benthos 4.0 is released in April
  • release-it · 15.0.0 (April 30): ES modules only, anonymous metrics removed
  • release-plz · First published to crates.io (February 1)
  • REST · RFC 9110 and RFC 9111 restate HTTP semantics and caching
  • RisingWave · Open-sourced on GitHub under Apache 2.0 on 8 April
  • RKE2 · DISA approves and publishes a STIG for RKE2
  • Sapling · Sapling client open-sourced, with Git support and ReviewStack (November 15)
  • Scion · Meta open-sources the Sapling client (November 15)
  • SeaweedFS · Version 3.0 released (April)
  • Sentry · Acquires Codecov
  • Serverless Framework · Version 3.0, in January
  • SFTP · OpenSSH 9.0 makes scp use the SFTP protocol by default
  • Sigma · Specification 1.0.3 published on December 28
  • Sigstore · Kubernetes 1.24 images signed in May; Fulcio and Rekor 1.0 and general availability on October 25
  • Software Carbon Intensity (SCI) · SCI 1.0 announced during COP27 in November
  • Software-defined networking · SONiC moves to the Linux Foundation in April
  • SONiC · SONiC moves to the Linux Foundation on April 14; runs on more than 100 switches
  • SONiC Foundation · SONiC moves to the Linux Foundation on April 14; SONiC Foundation charter adopted
  • SST · SST v1 in May; renamed from Serverless Stack to SST in June
  • StarRocks · Relicensed to Apache 2.0 in December
  • Static dispatch · Go 1.18 adds generics, compiled per memory shape with dictionaries
  • Structured logging · OpenTelemetry declares its log data model stable
  • Talos Linux · Talos 1.0 released in March
  • TanStack · React Query v4 becomes TanStack Query, with a framework-agnostic core
  • TARS · Certified TARS Application Developer exam opens in April
  • TARS Foundation · Certified TARS Application Developer exam opens; the last news on the foundation’s website, in April
  • Tauri · Tauri 1.0 released on 19 June
  • TCP · RFC 9293 consolidates the specification and obsoletes RFC 793
  • TDengine · Version 3.0, cloud native, in August
  • Tekton · Graduates at the Continuous Delivery Foundation in October
  • Temporal · Temporal Cloud moves from developer preview to expanded access
  • The Linux Foundation · Meta moves PyTorch to the new PyTorch Foundation in September
  • Time-series compression · Chimp and Chimp128 at VLDB; DuckDB 0.6 adds Chimp and Patas
  • TimechoDB · Raises over US$10 million in June, led by Sequoia China
  • Tinybird · Raises a $37 million Series A
  • TLA+ Foundation · The group settles on the Linux Foundation and contacts it in March
  • TOML · Python 3.11 ships tomllib, a read-only TOML parser (October)
  • tox · tox 4.0 released (December)
  • Treblle · $7 million round led by Nauta Capital (December)
  • Trino · Fault-tolerant execution (Project Tardigrade); Athena engine 3 adopts Trino
  • UDP · HTTP/3 (RFC 9114) brings web traffic to UDP port 443
  • UI libraries · MUI announces MUI Base, a headless alternative to Material UI
  • Unity Catalog · Gated public preview in April; generally available by August (Azure Databricks: 25 August)
  • Upjet · Upbound releases Upjet as Terrajet’s successor
  • UrsaDB · 1.5 adds alternatives and better wildcards to queries
  • Velero · Velero 1.10 adds Kopia for file-system backup
  • Velox · Open-sourced; VLDB paper reports Prestissimo running the same workload on a third of the servers
  • Versity S3 Gateway · MinIO deprecates its gateways (February) and removes them (October)
  • Vitest · Version 0.1.0 released (January)
  • WAL-G · 2.0 released in May
  • Warp · Public beta for Mac in April, after raising $23M
  • Wasabi Hot Cloud Storage · $250 million round values it at over $1.1 billion; 13 regions
  • Web APIs · RFC 9110 and RFC 9111 restate HTTP’s semantics and caching rules
  • Wide tables · Fivetran benchmarks one big table against a star schema
  • Windsurf (now Devin Desktop) · Renamed Codeium; ships AI coding extensions for many IDEs
  • workerd · workerd open-sourced in beta under Apache 2.0 on September 27
  • workerd · Miniflare 3 rebuilt on workerd in November
  • Workers Analytics Engine · Open beta on 30 September
  • Workers Analytics Engine · Cloudflare describes instrumenting Analytics Engine with itself (18 November)
  • Wrangler · wrangler 2.0.0 released on npm in May
  • Xen Project hypervisor · AWS starts running older Xen-era EC2 instance types on Nitro hardware
  • Yatai · Yatai 1.0 released (November)

2023

  • AI app buildersFirst · Vercel introduces v0; 100,000 people join the waitlist in three weeks
  • Apache FlussFirst · Alibaba Cloud’s Flink team starts Fluss in July
  • Apache XTableFirst · Onehouse announces OneTable in February
  • ApitallyFirst · Apitally started; first Python SDK release in July
  • BruinFirst · Bruin Data incorporated in June; first commit in July; v0.1.0 in December
  • chDBFirst · Auxten Wang starts chDB in February; v0.1.0 in March, v1.0.0 in December
  • Cloudflare AI GatewayFirst · Beta announced on September 27 with caching, rate limiting, analytics and a universal fallback endpoint
  • Cloudflare Basin PipelinesFirst · Arroyo, the engine it is built on, is open-sourced
  • Cloudflare Browser RunFirst · Workers Browser Rendering API enters open beta on May 19, with @cloudflare/puppeteer
  • ComposioFirst · Founded by Soham Ganatra and Karan Vaidya
  • CursorFirst · Anysphere raises an $8M seed led by the OpenAI Startup Fund
  • DB PilotFirst · First release (March 15); embedded chDB and DuckDB, and the AI assistant (August); version 1.0.0 (October 15)
  • Firebase StudioFirst · Project IDX announced on 8 August as an experiment
  • FOCUSFirst · Open Billing work moves to a new LF project in January; FOCUS announced in May; 0.5 in June; 1.0 preview in November
  • Google AI StudioFirst · MakerSuite enters public preview with the PaLM API (11 May)
  • Graph lakehousesFirst · Graph queries on data lakes presented to the Trino community; SQL:2023 adds SQL/PGQ
  • HCP Vault RadarFirst · HashiCorp acquires BluBracket in June to add secret scanning
  • High Performance Software FoundationFirst · The Linux Foundation announces its intent to form HPSF during SC23 in November
  • HyperdriveFirst · Open beta on 28 September for PostgreSQL
  • LM StudioFirst · First release of the desktop app (May)
  • LovableFirst · Anton Osika publishes the gpt-engineer CLI; the company starts in Stockholm as GPT Engineer
  • Microsoft FabricFirst · Announced in preview at Build on 23 May; enabled for Power BI tenants from July
  • Model routers and gatewaysFirst · OpenRouter is founded in New York; Cloudflare announces the AI Gateway beta (September 27)
  • NimbleFirst · The Nimble repository is created (December)
  • Observable FrameworkFirst · First preview releases on GitHub in October
  • OLakeFirst · Work starts in Go as Kaku, renamed Shift, under a personal-use licence
  • Open WebUIFirst · Started as Ollama WebUI (October)
  • OpenBaoFirst · HashiCorp relicenses Vault in August; OpenBao announced at LF Edge in December
  • OpenRouterFirst · Founded by Alex Atallah and Louis Vichy (early 2023)
  • OpenTofuFirst · HashiCorp relicenses Terraform under the BSL on August 10; the OpenTF Manifesto follows
  • OxcFirst · Boshen Chen writes about the JavaScript Oxidation Compiler, a personal project (March)
  • pgmqFirst · Tembo announces PGMQ in August; 1.0 follows in November
  • PuppyGraphFirst · Weimo Liu presents graph queries on data lakes to the Trino community
  • RayforceFirst · Anton Kundenko starts Rayforce in February; MIT licensed from March
  • Secure Source ManagerFirst · Preview (June 15); generally available by invitation (October 12)
  • StreamlingFirst · Goldsky starts rolling out Mirror, its Flink-based pipeline product
  • v0First · Announced as Generative UI; beta and paid plans on 11 October after a 100,000-person waitlist
  • VectorizeFirst · Open beta on 27 September, with Workers AI and AI Gateway
  • Workers AIFirst · Launched on September 27 with GPUs in seven sites and a Hugging Face partnership
  • Agones · Game Servers product pages redirect to Google Cloud’s games solutions page
  • AI agents · Toolformer trains a model to decide which APIs to call
  • AI coding agents · SWE-bench tests models on 2,294 real GitHub issues; the best solves 1.96%
  • Airbyte · No-code Connector Builder; strategic connectors move to ELv2
  • alex · August: 11.0.1, the latest release
  • Algolia · Launches NeuralSearch, vector and keyword search in one API, in May
  • Alibaba Cloud Hologres · V2.0: runtime filters and multi-statement transactions
  • Alibaba Cloud PolarDB · PolarDB-IMCI column index presented at SIGMOD
  • Amazon Athena · Provisioned Capacity offers fixed-price compute instead of per-TB billing
  • Amazon ElastiCache · ElastiCache Serverless bills per GB-hour and ECPU (November)
  • Amazon EventBridge Scheduler · 18 more Regions in March; automatic deletion after completion in August
  • Amazon S3 · Express One Zone offers single-digit millisecond latency
  • Amazon VPC · The last EC2-Classic instance is shut down on 15 August
  • Apache Amoro · Renamed Amoro; 0.5.0 is the first release under the new name, in August
  • Apache Arrow · ADBC in January; pandas 2.0 adds Arrow-backed columns in April
  • Apache Arrow Acero · Arrow 12.0.0 (May) splits out libarrow_acero and adds the pyarrow.acero module
  • Apache Camel · Camel 4.0 in August: Java 17, Jakarta EE 10, Spring Boot 3
  • Apache Flink · Kinesis Data Analytics becomes Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink
  • Apache Gluten · Gluten 1.0.0 in July; enters the Apache Incubator on 15 December
  • Apache HoraeDB · Version 1.0 in March; renamed HoraeDB and enters the Apache Incubator in December
  • Apache IoTDB · TsFile becomes its own Apache project in November
  • Apache OpenDAL · Enters the Apache Incubator (approved February 27, code transferred March 15)
  • Apache Paimon · Enters the Apache Incubator as Paimon in March; 0.4 in June
  • Apache Pekko · Pekko 1.0 released in July; Flink 1.18 switches to it in October
  • Apache Pinot · Pinot 1.0: the multi-stage engine for joins is ready for production
  • Apache TsFile · Established as a top-level Apache project on 15 November
  • Apache XTable · OneTable is open-sourced with Microsoft and Google on 15 November
  • API frameworks · Pydantic 2, with a Rust core, ships in June; FastAPI 0.100.0 supports it in July
  • API gateways · Kubernetes Gateway API reaches v1.0, a standard way to configure gateways
  • Apitally · JavaScript SDK repository created in November
  • ArcticDB · Bloomberg agreement in February; ArcticDB 1.0 under BSL 1.1 in March
  • Arroyo · Y Combinator Winter 2023 batch; engine open-sourced in April
  • Artie · Artie Transfer appears on GitHub under ELv2: Debezium events from Kafka into Snowflake
  • Artie · Joins Y Combinator’s Summer 2023 batch
  • Astra DB · Vector search comes to Astra DB
  • AsyncAPI · AsyncAPI 3.0.0 released on December 5, with operations and send/receive
  • Atlas · Ariga announces $18 million from Tiger Global and TLV Partners (June 1)
  • Auth0 · Rules and Hooks no longer available to new tenants (October 16)
  • AWS Application Load Balancer · Mutual TLS authentication for clients
  • AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK) · CDK v1 reaches end of support on June 1
  • AWS Fault Injection Service · Scenario library, scheduled and multi-account experiments, AZ power interruption scenario
  • AWS Lake Formation · Hybrid access mode lets IAM and Lake Formation govern the same tables (September)
  • Azure Data Explorer · Microsoft Fabric is announced with a real-time analytics workload
  • Azure IoT Hub · Event Grid MQTT broker generally available, for open pub/sub (November)
  • Beam Cloud · Runtime published as Beta9 under the AGPL-3.0, November 15
  • BentoML · $9 million seed round led by DCM Ventures (June)
  • Beta9 · Beta9 published on GitHub under the AGPL-3.0, November 15
  • Blue-green deployments · Spinnaker adds blue/green and deprecates its Netflix-specific red/black name
  • Bubble Tea · Charm raises $6M led by Gradient; Bubble Tea powers over 4,000 apps (November)
  • Build tools · Meta open-sources Buck2, written in Rust (April 6)
  • BullMQ · First Python package (0.1) released
  • Bytewax · 0.17 reworks recovery and allows rescaling; M12 invests
  • Cap’n Proto · Version 1.0 released in July as a long-term-support line
  • cargo-semver-checks · Trustfall indexes make checks over 2,000 times faster (February); study of SemVer violations in the top 1,000 crates (September)
  • Ceph · Red Hat’s Ceph team and product move to IBM
  • Checkly · Checkly CLI and monitoring as code introduced in beta (February)
  • Chroma · First PyPI releases in February; $18M seed led by Quiet Capital in April
  • Citus · Citus 12.0 adds schema-based sharding
  • ClickStack · HyperDX open-sourced under MIT in September
  • Cloud Foundry Foundation · Gold membership tier dropped in a charter effective May 1
  • Cloudflare D1 · New storage backend and Time Travel announced in May
  • Cloudflare Load Balancing · Pools can reach private IPs through Cloudflare Tunnel
  • Cloudflare Pages · Cloudflare announces Pages and Workers will converge, in May
  • Cloudflare Queues · Explicit acknowledgement and automatic consumer concurrency in March
  • Cloudflare Tunnel · Load Balancing can reach private IPs through tunnels
  • Cloudflare Workers · Workers AI runs models on GPUs in Cloudflare’s network
  • Cloudflare, Inc. · Smart Placement in May; Workers AI, Vectorize and Hyperdrive in September
  • Codecov · Backend published under the Business Source License; commercial self-hosted offering ended (August 2)
  • Commitizen (cz-cli) · 4.3.0 adds pnpm support to commitizen init (January 19)
  • Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) · CVSS v4.0 released in November
  • Confidential Computing Consortium · Stages cut from four to three; Gramine and Open Enclave SDK listed at graduation in December
  • Construct · 2.10.70, the latest release (November)
  • Cross-platform mobile apps · Kotlin Multiplatform becomes stable
  • Crossplane · Upbound donates Upjet and its AWS, Azure and GCP providers; the charter expands
  • Crucible · Ships as the distributed disk in the first Oxide racks
  • Customer support · Intercom announces Fin, a GPT-4 support bot
  • Dagster · $33M Series B in May; Elementl becomes Dagster Labs in August
  • DAOS · DAOS Foundation launched on November 9; Aurora tops the IO500 production list
  • DAOS Foundation · DAOS Foundation launched on November 9 by Argonne, Enakta Labs, Google Cloud, HPE and Intel
  • Databend · Databend 1.0 on 5 March; Elastic License 2.0 enterprise features added in April
  • Delta Lake · Delta Lake 3.0 introduces UniForm for Iceberg and Hudi readers
  • Docsy · Most Hugo-based CNCF project sites use Docsy
  • Dolt · Dolt 1.0 in May; Doltgres alpha in November
  • Eclipse Zenoh · ROS 2 core team picks Zenoh for a new non-DDS middleware
  • EdgeX Foundry · 3.0 “Minnesota” in May, 3.1 “Napa” LTS in November
  • Editors and terminals · Anysphere raises a seed round for Cursor, a fork of VS Code
  • Elicit · Ought spins off Elicit as a public benefit corporation with $9 million raised (September)
  • Entity-attribute-value (EAV) · WooCommerce 8.2 moves new stores’ orders out of post meta into dedicated tables
  • Envoy · Official Windows support ends August 31
  • Estuary · Hosted, self-service product launches
  • Expo · Expo Router v1 ships with SDK 48
  • FastAPI · 0.100.0 supports Pydantic 2 on July 7
  • Fauna · Introduces the new, TypeScript-like FQL
  • Feldera · Best Paper award at VLDB in August; Feldera, Inc. announced with seed funding
  • FinOps Foundation · Open Billing work becomes FOCUS in January; FOCUS 0.5 in June, 1.0 preview in November
  • Fintech Open Source Foundation · Common Domain Model enters incubation in February
  • Firezone · Firezone 1.0 announced in July as a zero-trust access platform with a hosted control plane
  • Fluentd · td-agent becomes fluent-package; td-agent 4 support ends in December
  • Fly.io · Apps start moving from Nomad to flyd, Fly.io’s own orchestrator
  • Formal methods · The Linux Foundation launches the TLA+ Foundation on April 21
  • Garage · NLnet’s NGI0 Entrust fund pays for a developer for a year
  • Gitea · Gitea Actions arrives as a preview in 1.19 (March 20); Gitea Cloud announced (November 27)
  • GlareDB · Public launch in May as a federated, Postgres-compatible cloud query engine
  • Google AI Studio · Relaunched as Google AI Studio with the Gemini API (13 December)
  • Google BigQuery · BigQuery editions bring autoscaling slots; flat-rate commitments stop being sold in July
  • Google Cloud Run · Cloud Run jobs for run-to-completion work become generally available
  • Grafana Tempo · Tempo 2.0 in January: TraceQL, Parquet blocks by default
  • Gramine · Listed at graduation in the CCC in December
  • GraphQL Foundation · First GraphQLConf, September 19–21, in the San Francisco Bay Area
  • Gremlin · Failure Flags for serverless and container workloads
  • GreptimeDB · First release, 0.1.0, in March
  • GreptimeDB · 0.4 in October replaces the storage engine with columnar Mito2
  • gVisor · Systrap platform released and made the default; directfs speeds up file access
  • HashiCorp Boundary · Multi-hop workers in January and SSH session recording in June, not in Community
  • HashiCorp Boundary · Version 0.14 in October is the first under the Business Source License
  • HashiCorp Consul · Moves to the Business Source License with version 1.17
  • HashiCorp Nomad · Nomad 1.7 ships under the BUSL, with workload identity for Vault and Consul
  • HashiCorp Packer · Business Source License announced in August; 1.10 unbundles plugins in December
  • HashiCorp Vagrant · Vagrant 2.4.0 adds box architectures and moves to the BUSL
  • HashiCorp Vault · Moves to the Business Source License; the community forks it as OpenBao
  • Haskell containers · containers 0.7
  • Hasura DDN · Hasura DDN and v3 announced at HasuraCon in June
  • Hasura DDN · v3 engine open-sourced in Rust, with the NDC spec, in December
  • Hasura GraphQL Engine · Hasura DDN and a Rust v3 engine announced
  • HCP Vault Radar · HCP Vault Radar alpha announced at HashiConf in October
  • HCP Waypoint · HashiCorp ends the community edition in October and goes SaaS-only
  • Helios · Ships as the host OS of the first Oxide racks
  • Hex · $28M round led by Sequoia; Magic AI features
  • HiveMQ · Benchmark ramps one cluster to 200 million MQTT connections
  • Hyperledger Fabric · 2.5 LTS in March; TradeLens goes offline
  • Incremental view maintenance · DBSP wins a Best Paper award at VLDB; Feldera founded
  • InfluxDB · Flux put in maintenance mode; IOx code moves into the InfluxDB repo
  • Infrastructure as code · Terraform relicensed; OpenTofu fork joins the Linux Foundation
  • IoT device messaging · Google retires Cloud IoT Core; Event Grid’s MQTT broker reaches GA
  • Istio · Graduates from the CNCF in July; Rust-based ztunnel introduced
  • Jamstack · Netlify buys Gatsby (February 1), closes the community Discord and replaces Jamstack Conf with Compose
  • Java · JDK 21 makes virtual threads final
  • Java Virtual Machine (HotSpot) · JDK 21 ships virtual threads
  • JAX · Gemini report credits JAX and Pathways for orchestrating training on TPUs
  • JEPA (Joint-Embedding Predictive Architecture) · Meta releases I-JEPA for images (June)
  • Jujutsu · His Git Merge 2022 talk on Google’s plans for Jujutsu is published (January)
  • Jupyter · JupyterLab 4.0 in May; Notebook 7, built on JupyterLab components, in July
  • Jupyter Foundation · An elected Executive Council and a Software Steering Council replace the founder-led model in January
  • Kamu · First funding round; Kamu Node work starts; DataFusion ingest in August
  • Kapa · Two founder friends ask for help with repetitive support questions in January
  • Kapa · Launches through Y Combinator’s Summer 2023 batch
  • Karpenter · Vendor-neutral core donated to Kubernetes SIG Autoscaling in October
  • KeyDB · Release 6.3.4 in October, the latest so far
  • Koyeb · $7M seed round led by Serena, in November
  • ksqlDB · Confluent agrees to buy Immerok for Flink; last standalone release, 0.29.0
  • KubeRay · User docs move into the Ray documentation; v1.0.0 released in November
  • KubeVirt · KubeVirt 1.0; releases now follow the Kubernetes cadence
  • LakeSoul · Donated to LF AI & Data as a sandbox project (May); 2.3 adds Flink SQL and global compaction (July)
  • LangChain · JavaScript version released; LangChain Inc. formed around the project
  • Languages that compile to SQL · ClickHouse 23.7 adds experimental PRQL support; Malloy 4.0 ends the “experimental” label (October)
  • Large language models · Meta releases LLaMA to researchers (February 24) and Llama 2 for commercial use (July 18)
  • Leptos · Leptos 0.1 released in January
  • LF AI & Data Foundation · Current project lifecycle takes effect June 1; LakeSoul joins the sandbox in May
  • LitmusChaos · Litmus 3.0 reaches general availability in November
  • Load-balancing algorithms · AWS ALB adds weighted random with Automatic Target Weights
  • Malloy · Malloy 4.0 ends the “experimental” label (October)
  • maturin · maturin 1.0.0 on 23 May
  • MCAP · ROS 2 Iron Irwini records MCAP by default
  • Meilisearch · Version 1.0 in February; vector store in v1.3
  • Meltano · Meltano 3.0 drops the web UI; Meltano Inc. renames itself Arch Data
  • Microsoft Fabric · Generally available on 15 November
  • MindsDB · Knowledge bases, semantic search and federated queries over unstructured data (2023–2024)
  • Miniflare · Wrangler v3 runs Miniflare 3 by default from May 17
  • ML frameworks · PyTorch 2.0 adds torch.compile (March)
  • Model hubs · Safetensors passes an external security audit (May 23); llama.cpp introduces GGUF (August)
  • Monoliths · Prime Video cuts one service’s cost by over 90% by moving it into a single process
  • MotherDuck · Opens by invitation in June; Series B and open to all in September
  • Multithreading · Java 21 ships virtual threads; PEP 703 (optional GIL) is accepted
  • n8n · n8n 1.0 released
  • Netdata · 1.41 bundles the NCUL1-licensed dashboard; NixOS and others disable it
  • Netlify · Acquires Gatsby Inc. in February
  • Nitric · Team explains building its standard providers on Pulumi
  • Nuclio · McKinsey acquires Iguazio and folds it into QuantumBlack
  • Nx · Nx 16 (May 2): packages rescoped from @nrwl to @nx, Rust in the core since Nx 15
  • OCSF · Version 1.0.0 released
  • Omicron · Ships with the first Oxide rack (system release v1.0.0, July)
  • Omnigres · Vignesh Ravichandran joins; the company is incorporated in the autumn
  • Onehouse · $25 million Series A and OneTable (February); OneTable open-sourced (November)
  • oneTBB · UXL Foundation launched; oneTBB becomes one of its projects
  • OpenStack · Year-based release names start with 2023.1 Antelope
  • OpenTofu · The Linux Foundation launches the fork as OpenTofu on September 20
  • OpenTSDB · Remote-code-execution flaws in 2.4.1 are published as CVEs
  • OPTE (Oxide Packet Transformation Engine) · Ships in the first Oxide racks
  • OVHcloud · Court in Lille orders damages to two customers who lost backups; three-zone region opens in Paris
  • Oxc · Oxlint becomes generally available (December)
  • Oxia · StreamNative announces Oxia as open source (April); 0.1.0 released
  • Oxide Cloud Computer · Software v1.0.0 for Oxide Computer Model 0 (July); general availability announced (October 26)
  • Oxide Computer Company · First system release v1.0.0 (July); general availability announced (October 26)
  • P4 · Intel stops Tofino development in January
  • Pathway · Source published on GitHub under BSL 1.1 with release 0.2.0 in July
  • Patroni · 3.0 adds Citus support and DCS failsafe mode; Raft deprecated
  • Pebble · Geth 1.12 defaults to Pebble for new nodes (May); Pebble tags v1.0.0 (October)
  • pg_ivm · Security fix for row-level security (CVE-2023-22847); EXISTS subqueries
  • pgBackRest · 2.46 in May: block incremental backup and SFTP repositories
  • Pijul · The Nest is rebuilt on Cloudflare Workers, with its code released under the AGPL (May)
  • Pinecone · $100M Series B in April, led by Andreessen Horowitz, at a $750M valuation
  • Plane · First tagged release in January; $4M seed from OSS Capital in November
  • Platform engineering · CNCF publishes its Platforms White Paper (April)
  • Polars · Vink and Chiel Peters found the company with a ~$4M seed
  • Pravega · 0.13.0, the last release, in September
  • pre-commit · 3.0.0 (January 23) drops Python older than 3.8; 3.2.0 (March 17) renames the commit and push stages to match the hook names
  • Presto (PrestoDB) · IBM acquires Ahana and joins the Presto Foundation
  • Presto Foundation · IBM joins by buying Ahana in April; Denodo joins in June; working groups start in August
  • Project Nessie · 0.62.0 removes Delta Lake support in June; Nessie becomes Iceberg-only
  • Propolis · Ships in the first Oxide racks
  • PRQL · ClickHouse 23.7 adds experimental PRQL support
  • Pydantic · Company founded with a Sequoia-led seed round (February); Pydantic V2 released June 30
  • Pyright · 1.1.339 makes the new standard mode the default (December)
  • QuestDB · 7.0 adds the write-ahead log, in beta
  • QUIC · QUIC version 2 (RFC 9369) exercises version negotiation
  • Quix Streams · Open-sourced in March as a C# library with Python bindings
  • Quix Streams · 2.0 alpha in November: pure Python, Streaming DataFrames, RocksDB state
  • Ratatui · Community fork released as Ratatui 0.20.0 (March); tui-rs marked unmaintained (August)
  • release-plz · 0.3.0 (April 16); Marco Ieni presents it at RustLab 23
  • Remote access · EC2 Instance Connect Endpoint reaches instances without public IPs
  • Render · $50 million Series B led by Bessemer Venture Partners
  • Renode · Renode 1.14 adds ARMv8-A, Cortex-R52 and HDL co-simulation
  • Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) · “Lost in the Middle” shows models underuse the middle of long contexts
  • Riff · €4.8M seed; the Databutler AI assistant in beta
  • RisingWave · RisingWave Cloud generally available in June; RisingWave 1.0 in July
  • Rootly · $12M Series A led by Renegade Partners in August; 60,000+ incidents a year across customers
  • Ruff · Astral founded in April; the Ruff formatter arrives in October
  • Running models locally · llama.cpp runs LLaMA on a MacBook with 4-bit quantization (March 10); Ollama starts (June); GGUF replaces GGML files (August)
  • Semantic layers · dbt Labs acquires Transform and its MetricFlow engine
  • Sentry · Switches to its own Functional Source License in November
  • Serverless architecture · Prime Video moves a monitoring service from serverless parts to one process, cutting costs 90%
  • Serverless Framework · Plan announced to charge organizations above $2M annual revenue from v4
  • Sigstore · npm package provenance built on Sigstore, in April
  • Software as a service (SaaS) · Citus 12 adds schema-based sharding for schema-per-tenant apps
  • Spacelift · Co-signs the OpenTF manifesto and works on the Terraform fork that becomes OpenTofu
  • SPDK (Storage Performance Development Kit) · 120 million IOPS from one 2U Xeon server
  • Speakeasy · Public launch with $11 million in pre-seed and seed funding (June)
  • SQL · SQL:2023 adds a JSON type and Part 16, property graph queries
  • SQLAlchemy · SQLAlchemy 2.0 unifies Core and ORM querying in January
  • SST · SST v2, a rewrite into a single sst package, in February
  • StarRocks · Contributed to the Linux Foundation in February; version 3.0 adds shared-data mode in April
  • Stream processing · Kinesis Data Analytics becomes Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink
  • Structured logging · Go 1.21 adds log/slog to the standard library
  • SurrealDB · $6 million seed round in January; 1.0 released in September
  • Synchronous and asynchronous execution · Java 21 ships virtual threads
  • Table formats · Delta Lake UniForm writes Iceberg and Hudi metadata
  • TanStack · Query v5 in October; Router 1.0 in December
  • Terminal user interfaces (TUIs) · Ratatui forks tui-rs to keep it developed
  • Terraform · Relicensed under the BSL in August; OpenTofu fork follows
  • The Ceph Foundation · Red Hat’s Ceph team and product move to IBM
  • The Linux Foundation · OpenTofu announced on September 20 after Terraform’s licence change
  • TigerBeetle · Spun out of Coil; $6.4 million seed led by Amplify Partners
  • Tigris · Ovais Tariq meets the Fly.io team in April
  • Time-series compression · Elf at VLDB erases mantissa bits to lengthen runs of zeros
  • TimechoDB · IoTDB Enterprise 1.1.0.1, the oldest build in Timecho’s release history, ships in April
  • Timely Dataflow · Pathway publishes its engine, built on forks of both libraries
  • TLA+ · The TLA+ Foundation launches at the Linux Foundation on April 21
  • TLA+ Foundation · Technical charter adopted January 5; the LF announces the TLA+ Foundation on April 21
  • turbopuffer · Launch in October; Cursor moves to turbopuffer in November
  • Turso · ChiselStrike Turso announced in January; public beta in April; embedded replicas in September
  • Unified Acceleration (UXL) Foundation · UXL Foundation announced on September 19 in Bilbao with seven steering members
  • Unity Catalog · Enabled automatically for new workspaces from 8 November
  • Unity Version Control · Plastic SCM rebranded as Unity Version Control (February)
  • Upjet · Donated to the Crossplane project in September; Upjet 1.0 in November
  • Vector databases · Chroma raises an $18M seed in April; pgvector adds HNSW in August
  • Velox · Meta formally announces Velox in March, with Ahana, Intel and Voltron Data as collaborators
  • Versity S3 Gateway · versitygw v0.1 released in June
  • Virtual machines · Broadcom completes its purchase of VMware
  • Virtual private clouds · AWS retires EC2-Classic, its last shared flat network
  • Vitest · Vitest 1.0 (December)
  • VMware ESXi · Broadcom completes the acquisition (Nov 22) and ends perpetual licenses (Dec 11)
  • WarpStream · WarpStream launches publicly in July
  • Wing · First npm release in January; Wing Cloud raises a $20M seed round in July
  • workerd · Wrangler v3 runs workerd locally by default from May 17
  • WorkOS · Launches AuthKit and User Management, free up to 1 million users
  • Wrangler · Wrangler v3 on May 17 makes workerd-based local development the default
  • Yatai · Last release, 1.1.13 (October)
  • ZeroMQ · Relicensing to MPL 2.0 completed; libzmq 4.3.5 released in October

2024

  • Agent tools and integrationsFirst · Anthropic open-sources the Model Context Protocol (November 25)
  • Agentic AI FoundationFirst · Anthropic open-sources the Model Context Protocol in November
  • AlpacaFirst · First release, 0.1.1 (13 May)
  • Apache DataFusion CometFirst · Apple donates Comet to the Apache Arrow project; announced 6 March
  • Apache PolarisFirst · Snowflake announces Polaris Catalog in June; open source and hosted preview on 30 July
  • Augment CodeFirst · Emerges from stealth on April 24 with a $227 million Series B
  • basedpyrightFirst · January: first pre-release, then 1.0.0 with a PyPI package
  • ChartDBFirst · Shown on Hacker News (August 24); version 1.0.0 (November 4)
  • Claude CodeFirst · Anthropic open-sources the Model Context Protocol, later Claude Code’s way to add tools (November)
  • ClineFirst · Built in July for an Anthropic hackathon and released as Claude Dev; renamed Cline in October
  • Cloudflare WorkflowsFirst · Announced during Developer Week
  • DevinFirst · Introduced as “the first AI software engineer” (March)
  • GenkitFirst · Firebase Genkit launched in beta at Google I/O for Node.js
  • GlamaFirst · MCP quickstart on Glama’s blog on 25 November, days after MCP’s release
  • JSRFirst · JSR opens as a public beta on March 1, MIT-licensed
  • KlutchFirst · Klutch open-sourced in August; version 1.0 on August 30
  • LakekeeperFirst · HANSETAG releases TIP 0.1.0, a Rust Iceberg REST catalog, in June
  • LangGraphFirst · LangGraph announced as a library on top of LangChain for cyclical graphs
  • mlkem-nativeFirst · PQ Code Package founded with the PQCA (February 6); mlkem-native repository created (March); first alpha (December)
  • Model Context Protocol (MCP)First · Anthropic open-sources MCP with the 2024-11-05 specification and reference servers
  • OpenAPI SearchFirst · openapi-mcp-server repository created in December
  • PgQueuerFirst · 0.1 released in April; early posts claim over 5,000 jobs a second
  • RolldownFirst · First public release, 0.10.1, in April
  • Roo CodeFirst · Forked from Cline as Roo Cline; repository created on October 31
  • RustFSFirst · Work on RustFS begins
  • SailFirst · Sail 0.1 ships as the pysail package in August
  • SlateDBFirst · Repository created (March); talk at P99 CONF; 0.1.0 released (August)
  • SpiralFirst · Work on Vortex, Spiral’s storage format, appears on GitHub (February)
  • StreamFusionFirst · Alibaba presents Flash, a closed native Flink engine
  • uvFirst · uv released in February as a pip and pip-tools replacement; Astral takes over Rye
  • ValkeyFirst · Redis moves to RSALv2/SSPLv1; the Linux Foundation forks Valkey (March)
  • ValkeyTimeSeriesFirst · Redis changes licence; Valkey forks it in March, and users ask for a time-series module in May
  • VoidFirst · Repository created in September as an open-source fork of VS Code
  • VortexFirst · The Vortex repository starts at SpiralDB (February)
  • Workers ObservabilityFirst · Workers Logs, a new metrics dashboard and rebuilt real-time logs
  • ZedFirst · Open-sourced in January: GPL editor, AGPL server, Apache 2.0 GPUI
  • 8base · Last public commits to the SDK, CLI and docs repositories
  • ACRN · ACRN 3.3, the latest release (August)
  • Active Record (Ruby on Rails) · Rails 8.0 in November
  • Agent frameworks · LangGraph adds cycles: agents as state machines (January)
  • Agent frameworks · Google releases Firebase Genkit in beta, built around flows (May)
  • AI agents · Anthropic open-sources MCP (November) and publishes “Building effective agents” (December)
  • AI app builders · Replit Agent launches in early access (September)
  • AI coding agents · Devin (March) and SWE-agent (May) work real issues in a sandbox; MCP open-sourced (November)
  • Airbyte · PyAirbyte in February; 1.0 with abctl in September
  • Akka · Licence keys required in production; Lightbend renames itself Akka
  • Alibaba Cloud Hologres · V3.0 adds Dynamic Tables; Serverless Computing generally available
  • Alibaba Cloud PolarDB · PolarDB-MP, a multi-primary design on disaggregated shared memory, wins SIGMOD’s best industrial paper
  • Alpaca · 1.0.0, the first stable release (July)
  • Amazon API Gateway · Regional and private REST APIs can raise the 29-second integration timeout
  • Amazon CloudWatch · Application Signals generally available in June
  • Amazon EKS · Extended support billing starts in April; EKS Auto Mode launches in December
  • Amazon ElastiCache · Adds Valkey, 20 to 33% cheaper than Redis OSS (October)
  • Amazon MemoryDB · Vector search GA (July); Valkey support at 30% lower prices (October)
  • Amazon MemoryDB · Multi-Region active-active clusters for Valkey (December)
  • Amazon S3 Tables · S3 Tables launches at re:Invent on 3 December, in three US Regions
  • Amazon Timestream · Timestream for InfluxDB launches in March; TCU query pricing in April
  • Amazon VPC · Block Public Access lets admins cut internet traffic to VPCs centrally
  • Apache Amoro · Enters the Apache Incubator on 11 March; 0.7.0-incubating in August
  • Apache Avro · Avro 1.12.0 released in August
  • Apache Cassandra · Cassandra 5.0 adds Storage Attached Indexes and vector search
  • Apache DataFusion · Apple donates Comet in March; top-level Apache project in April
  • Apache DataFusion Comet · 0.1.0 in July: 13 operators, 106 expressions, Spark 3.3 to 3.5
  • Apache Doris · Version 3.0 in July adds storage-compute separation and writes back to lakes
  • Apache Fluss · Announced at Flink Forward Berlin; open-sourced on 29 November
  • Apache Gluten · First Apache release, 1.2.0, in September
  • Apache Hive · Hive 4.0.0 ships; the 1.x, 2.x and 3.x lines reach end of life
  • Apache HoraeDB · 2.0.0 in April, RFC for a new metric engine in August, 2.1.0 in November
  • Apache Hudi · Hudi 1.0 adds secondary indexes and non-blocking concurrency control
  • Apache Iceberg · Databricks agrees to buy Tabular (June); AWS launches S3 Tables (December)
  • Apache JMeter · JMeter 5.6.3, the latest release, in January
  • Apache NiFi · NiFi 2.0: Java 21, Python processors, many old components removed
  • Apache OpenDAL · Graduates as an Apache top-level project, January 18
  • Apache ORC · ORC 2.0.0 released (March)
  • Apache Paimon · Graduates to a top-level Apache project in March
  • Apache Pekko · Graduates to a top-level Apache project in March
  • Apache Polaris · Enters the Apache Incubator in August; Snowflake Open Catalog GA in October
  • Apache Pulsar · Pulsar 4.0, a long-term-support release, in October
  • Apache TsFile · 1.0.0 released in February
  • Apache XTable · Enters the Apache Incubator as XTable on 11 February
  • Apache XTable · First Apache release, 0.1.0-incubating, in August
  • ArangoDB · 3.12 moves to BSL 1.1; Community binaries limited to 100 GB
  • Arc · First prototype, Wavestream, is abandoned; work on Historian begins
  • Arroyo · Arroyo 0.10 rebuilds the engine on Arrow and DataFusion
  • Artie · $3.3M seed led by Exponent Founders Capital
  • AtScale · Snowflake Native App in June; SML open-sourced in September
  • AWS CodeCommit · Closed to new customers (July 25)
  • AWS IAM · Resource control policies set an organization-wide data perimeter
  • AWS IoT Core · AWS IoT Analytics stops accepting new customers in July
  • AWS Step Functions · JSONata transformations and variables
  • Azure IoT Hub · Time Series Insights retired on 7 July
  • Azure Repos · Setting to disable creating new TFVC repositories (June)
  • Bacula · Bacula 15.0 adds an S3 cloud driver and a Kubernetes plugin
  • basedpyright · September: baseline support (1.18)
  • basedpyright · November: stricter narrowing of generic types (1.22)
  • BentoML · BentoML 1.2 replaces Runners with service classes (February)
  • Besu · Maintainers announce the sunset of Tessera privacy in September; the project becomes Besu under LF Decentralized Trust
  • Bitbucket · Bitbucket Server and other Atlassian Server products lose support (February 15)
  • Blackbox AI · Blackbox Agent, an autonomous VS Code extension, in November
  • Bruin · ingestr released in February; public launch of Bruin CLI in December
  • Bubble Tea · v1.0.0 marks the API as stable (August)
  • Bundlers and dev servers · VoidZero is founded to build Rolldown and Oxc; Rolldown’s first public release
  • Bytewax · 0.21.1 in November, the last release so far
  • C · C23 published as ISO/IEC 9899:2024
  • C++ · C++23 published as ISO/IEC 14882:2024
  • Caching · Valkey forks Redis under the Linux Foundation after a licence change
  • Cap’n Proto · Cloudflare launches Workers RPC, built on Cap’n Proto
  • cargo-semver-checks · Becomes a Rust project goal; manifest linting merged; 120 lints by year end
  • CedarDB · CedarDB spins off from TUM, announced with “Ode to Postgres” in May
  • Chaos Monkey · Last code changes, updating it for MySQL 8.0
  • chDB · chDB becomes part of ClickHouse, Inc. in March
  • Checkly · $20 million Series B led by Balderton; Checkly Traces launched
  • Cline · MCP support and search-and-replace diff editing in December
  • Cloud cost and carbon · FOCUS 1.0 in June; SCI becomes ISO/IEC 21031:2024; OpenCost moves to CNCF incubation
  • Cloudflare AI Gateway · Generally available in May after proxying over 500 million requests
  • Cloudflare Browser Run · Out of beta for all paid Workers plans in April, with session reuse
  • Cloudflare D1 · Generally available on 1 April, with 10 GB databases
  • Cloudflare Queues · Delayed messages and HTTP pull consumers in March
  • Cloudflare Queues · Generally available on September 26, at 5,000 messages per second per queue
  • Cloudflare Workflows · Public beta on October 23, open to Free and Paid plans
  • CockroachDB · Read committed GA in 24.1; proprietary licence and Enterprise Free from 24.3
  • Codeberg · Forgejo becomes a hard fork and stops syncing with Gitea (February)
  • Composio · ComposioHQ/composio repository created on GitHub in February
  • Confidential Computing Consortium · VirTEE, spdm-rs, Certifier Framework, Islet, COCONUT-SVSM and ManaTEE join
  • Continuous Delivery Foundation · Shipwright moves to the CNCF Sandbox
  • Cross-platform desktop apps · Tauri 2.0 adds iOS and Android on 2 October
  • Cross-platform mobile apps · Xamarin support ends in May; React Native turns on its New Architecture by default in October
  • Crucible · Oxide and Friends podcast episode on Crucible (February)
  • Cursor · $60M Series A; over 40,000 customers
  • Customer support · Klarna’s AI assistant takes two-thirds of chats; Air Canada held liable for its chatbot
  • DAOS · Version 2.6 in July, Intel’s last release
  • DAOS Foundation · VDURA joins; Intel’s last release, 2.6, in July
  • Dapr · Graduates from the CNCF in November
  • Databricks · Acquires Tabular (Iceberg’s creators); open-sources Unity Catalog
  • DB Pilot · One-time purchase added as a billing option (March 30)
  • DBSnapper · Version 2.0 adds subsetting in February; Okta SSO follows in June
  • Debezium · The project announces it is joining the Commonhaus Foundation
  • Deep Lake · Deep Lake 4.0 in October: C++ core, new API, Apache 2.0
  • deku · 0.17 reads from io::Read; 0.18 adds seek attributes and makes bit support optional
  • Delta Lake · Databricks agrees to acquire Tabular, founded by Iceberg’s creators
  • Denormalized · Denormalized repository opens in July under Apache 2.0; Show HN in August
  • Denormalized · Python bindings on PyPI from October; Feast integration and SlateDB checkpoints follow
  • Denormalized · Last release, 0.0.13, on 17 December; last commit the next day
  • Devin · Generally available at $500 a month for teams (December)
  • Dioxus · Dioxus 0.5 replaces hooks with Copy signals in March
  • Distributed ledgers · LF Decentralized Trust takes over the Hyperledger projects
  • Docsy · Dark mode with Bootstrap 5.3; dependent projects grow from 1,400 to 2,200
  • Documentation sites · Jeremy Howard proposes /llms.txt on 3 September
  • Dokku · 0.33.0 adds the K3s scheduler for multi-server clusters (January)
  • Dropshot · API traits in 0.11.0 (August), per RFD 479; server builder in 0.13.0 (November)
  • DuckDB · DuckDB 1.0 in June, with a stable storage format
  • Duplicati · Duplicati Inc. founded; licence changes from LGPL to MIT in March
  • Durable Objects · SQLite storage in every object, in beta from 26 September
  • eBPF · RFC 9669 standardises the instruction set in October; sched_ext in Linux 6.12 in November
  • eBPF Foundation · Charter amended in February
  • Eclipse Zenoh · Zenoh 1.0 “Firesong” released on 21 October with a stable API
  • Editors and terminals · Codeium launches the Windsurf Editor, another VS Code fork, in November
  • eKuiper · 2.0.0 in October: shared connections, ONNX inference, tracing
  • Elasticsearch · AGPLv3 added as a third licence option in August
  • Elixir · v1.17 introduces gradual set-theoretic types in June
  • Encore · Encore.ts launches in May on a Rust runtime
  • ent · v0.14.0 (July)
  • Envoy · Envoy Gateway 1.0 brings the Kubernetes Gateway API
  • Error tracking · Source maps become the Ecma standard ECMA-426
  • Event buses · CloudEvents graduates in the CNCF
  • FinOps Foundation · FOCUS 1.0 in June
  • Firebolt · Describes rebuilding the forked runtime for PostgreSQL compliance
  • Firezone · Firezone Legacy (0.7) end of life in January; 1.0 generally available in April
  • Fly.io · Plans with free allowances discontinued in October
  • FOCUS · FOCUS 1.0 in June; 1.1 in November
  • Foreign function interfaces · Java 22 finalises the Foreign Function & Memory API (JEP 454) in March
  • Forgejo · Hard fork announced (February 15); v7.0, the first LTS and semantic-versioned release (April 23); GPLv3+ from v9.0, announced August 22
  • FOSSA · Acquires StackShare (August 1)
  • Foxglove · Foxglove 2.0 merges Studio and Data Platform; open-source Studio ends at v1.87.0
  • Garage · Garage 1.0 released (April)
  • Gitea · CommitGo launches the paid Gitea Enterprise (March 11)
  • GizmoSQL · Philip Moore forks it as GizmoSQL in October, as a licensed product
  • Glama · awesome-mcp-servers list started on GitHub on 30 November
  • GlareDB · 0.9.0 in February adds SQLite, Cassandra and Excel sources and Cloud file uploads
  • GlareDB · 0.9.5 in August, the last DataFusion-based, AGPLv3 release
  • Google Cloud Pub/Sub · Import topics pull data in from Amazon Kinesis Data Streams
  • Google Kubernetes Engine · Support for 65,000-node clusters announced
  • Grafana Loki · Loki 3.0 in April: native OTLP ingestion, structured metadata, bloom filters
  • Gramine · v1.8 released in October
  • Graph databases · ISO publishes GQL (ISO/IEC 39075), after SQL/PGQ in SQL:2023
  • Graph lakehouses · PuppyGraph launches in March; ISO publishes GQL in April
  • Graphene · 3.4.3 in November, the latest release
  • GraphQL Foundation · First community grants announced in January
  • GraphQL-native databases · Fauna ends its GraphQL API on 29 February
  • Green Software Foundation · SCI published as ISO/IEC 21031:2024; SCI 1.1 in October; Impact Framework graduates
  • Grizzly · grr serve for reviewing file-based dashboards in Grafana
  • HashiCorp Vagrant · Vagrant Cloud is migrated into HCP Vagrant Registry
  • Hasura DDN · DDN beta in April; generally available on 20 August
  • HCP Vault Radar · Limited beta in January, then limited availability in March
  • HCP Waypoint · Community repository archived in January; HCP Waypoint generally available in October
  • Helios · Open-sourced (January)
  • HerdDB · Version 0.29.0, the latest release, in March
  • Hetzner · Singapore, the first site in Asia
  • High Performance Software Foundation · HPSF launches on May 13; the TAC accepts Kokkos, AMReX, Trilinos and WarpX in October and Spack as core in November
  • Hugging Face · Buys XetHub to replace Git LFS (August)
  • Hybrid (medium) tables · Timescale’s schema guide names the medium table layout
  • Hyperdrive · Generally available on 1 April, free on the Workers Paid plan
  • Hyperledger Fabric · 3.0 adds a SmartBFT ordering service in September
  • Ibis · Ibis 9.0 in May completes the move from SQLAlchemy to SQLGlot
  • Immutable.js · 5.0.0 tightens the TypeScript typing of Map
  • incident.io · incident.io On-call launches in March, after Response and Status Pages
  • Istio · Ambient mode becomes generally available in Istio 1.24 in November
  • JEPA (Joint-Embedding Predictive Architecture) · V-JEPA for video (February 15)
  • Jujutsu · Branches renamed bookmarks in 0.22 (October); the repository moves to the jj-vcs organization (December)
  • Jupyter · Moves to LF Charities; Jupyter Foundation formed on November 19
  • Jupyter Foundation · Councils vote to move to the Linux Foundation on June 14; LF Charities hosts Jupyter from October; Jupyter Foundation launched November 19
  • Kaitai Struct · NLnet-funded Web IDE shows partial results when parsing fails
  • Kamu · DataFusion replaces Spark as the default for ingest and kamu sql in January
  • Kapa · $3.2 million seed round led by Initialized Capital (October)
  • Karpenter · Version 1.0 makes the NodePool API stable in August
  • Key-value stores · Redis changes licence; the Linux Foundation forks Valkey
  • KeyDB · Last commit to the main branch, in April
  • kind · Cloud Provider KIND brings LoadBalancer Services (KubeCon EU)
  • Koyeb · Serverless GPUs in public preview, in June
  • ksqlDB · Flink becomes generally available in Confluent Cloud
  • KurrentDB · September: EventStoreDB 24.10 announced under the Event Store License v2, one build with a license key
  • KurrentDB · December: Event Store renames itself Kurrent and raises $12M
  • Lakehouse catalogs · Unity Catalog open-sourced in June, Polaris in July; Gravitino enters the Apache Incubator
  • Lakehouses · AWS launches S3 Tables; Apache Polaris catalog enters the incubator
  • Lakekeeper · 0.4.0 renames TIP to Lakekeeper in October and adds GCS and soft deletion
  • Lakekeeper · 0.5.0 in December adds OpenFGA permissions, an embedded UI and projects
  • Lance · Lance v2 file format announced in April
  • LangChain · Version 0.1.0, the first release past 0.0.x, in January
  • LangChain · Over 700 integrations, split out into separate packages
  • LangGraph · Becomes LangChain’s recommended way to build agents; most old chains deprecated
  • Languages that compile to SQL · CIDR paper proposes SaneQL; VLDB paper on pipe syntax in GoogleSQL
  • Leptos · Leptos 0.7, a near-complete rewrite of the internals, in November
  • LF AI & Data Foundation · Databricks contributes Delta Lake (May) and Unity Catalog (June)
  • LF Decentralized Trust · Sawtooth is archived in February; LF Decentralized Trust launches on September 16 with 17 projects
  • liboqs · Joins the Post-Quantum Cryptography Alliance at its launch on February 6; 0.12.0 adopts final ML-DSA
  • LM Studio · lms CLI released under the MIT license (May)
  • LM Studio · MLX engine for Apple Silicon in 0.3.4 (October)
  • Local cloud emulators · LocalStack adds an emulator for Snowflake, beyond the cloud providers
  • LocalStack · Snowflake emulator preview in May; 4.0 and a $25M Series A in November
  • Lovable · Launches as Lovable in November
  • MariaDB · K1 Investment Management takes MariaDB plc private
  • MCAP · NVIDIA Isaac ROS 3.0 adopts MCAP; Foxglove keeps MCAP open after closing Studio
  • Memcached · Redis changes licence; the clouds back Valkey, and Memcached’s managed options start to shrink
  • Microsoft Hyper-V · Windows Server 2025: 4 PB and 2,048 logical processors per host, generation 2 by default (Nov 1)
  • Miniflare · Workers Vitest integration, running tests inside workerd, launches in March
  • Mintlify · Discloses a breach of admin and GitHub tokens in March; $18M Series A in September
  • Mintlify · Generates llms.txt and llms-full.txt for every site from November
  • MLflow · MLflow Tracing in 2.14 (June)
  • MotherDuck · General availability in June
  • Multithreading · Python 3.13 ships an experimental free-threaded build
  • Narrow tables · Timescale guide compares narrow, medium and wide layouts
  • Neo4j · ISO publishes GQL; the court awards Neo4j $597,000 against PureThink
  • Neon · Generally available in April
  • Netdata · Netdata 2.0: native Windows, UI moved out of the repository
  • NGINX · Core developer Maxim Dounin forks freenginx; development moves to GitHub
  • Nimble · Yoav Helfman presents Nimble at VeloxCon; the code is public by April
  • Nitric · Nitric 1.0 in February; Terraform providers in July
  • Observable Framework · Observable Framework 1.0 released in February as “Observable 2.0”
  • Observable Framework · Client-side SQL powered by DuckDB arrives in 1.2 (March)
  • Observable Framework · Parameterized routes and page loaders in 1.11 (September)
  • OCSF · OCSF joins the Linux Foundation on November 19
  • OLake · Renamed Gear5 in June; relaunched as OLake under Apache 2.0 in November
  • Omnigres · Presented at Postgres Conference as “a constellation of extensions”
  • One · Pica community edition published on GitHub under GPL-3.0
  • Onehouse · $35 million Series B; LakeView and Table Optimizer launch (June)
  • Open Container Initiative (OCI) specifications · Image and Distribution 1.1 add artifacts and the referrers API (February 15)
  • Open Infrastructure Foundation · OpenInfra Labs archived as a pilot project in January
  • Open Source Security Foundation · Sigstore graduates in March
  • Open WebUI · Renamed Open WebUI after the Ollama team raised trademark confusion (January to February)
  • OpenAPI Initiative · Arazzo 1.0.0 published in September and Overlay 1.0.0 in October
  • OpenAPI Specification · Arazzo 1.0 and Overlay 1.0 published
  • OpenBao · OpenBao 2.0, the first GA release, in July
  • openCypher · ISO publishes GQL; openCypher 9 is frozen
  • OpenJS Foundation · Ecosystem Sustainability Program launches with HeroDevs in May
  • OpenSearch · OpenSearch Software Foundation launched at the Linux Foundation in September
  • OpenSearch Software Foundation · OpenSearch Software Foundation launched on September 16; the TSC replaces the Leadership Committee
  • OpenTofu · OpenTofu 1.6.0, the first stable release, on January 10
  • OpenTofu · 1.7.0 adds end-to-end state encryption in April
  • OpenTSDB · A 2.5.0 release candidate in December, then no further commits
  • Oracle VirtualBox · 7.1 in September runs Arm VMs on Apple silicon Macs
  • OVN (Open Virtual Network) · OVN-Kubernetes accepted into the CNCF Sandbox in October
  • Oxc · Transformer alpha; VoidZero founded to build Rolldown on Oxc
  • Oxide Computer Company · Helios, the host OS, open-sourced (January)
  • P4 · Becomes an independent Linux Foundation project; P4₁₆ 1.2.5 in October
  • Parseable · Version 1.0 adds distributed mode in April; $2.75 million seed round in May
  • Pathway · LLM extension pack in January; licence keys in May; $10 million seed in December
  • Patroni · 4.0 adds quorum-based failover and drops the term “master”
  • pgmq · Supabase launches Supabase Queues on pgmq
  • PgQueuer · 0.15 adds recurring, cron-style schedules
  • pgwatch · pgwatch 3.0.0, rewritten by Pavlo Golub; pgwatch2 is archived
  • Pinecone · Serverless indexes launch in public preview in January
  • Plakar · Plakar Korp incorporated in September
  • PlanetScale · Layoffs and the end of the free Hobby plan (8 April)
  • Podman · Podman 5.0 makes pasta the default rootless network
  • Polars · Python Polars 1.0 (July); GPU engine beta with NVIDIA (September)
  • Post-quantum cryptography · Chrome 124 enables hybrid Kyber by default; FIPS 203, 204 and 205 published on 13 August
  • Post-Quantum Cryptography Alliance · PQCA launched on February 6 with eleven founding members; lifecycle policy approved August 28
  • PoWA · PoWA 5.0, a rework with no upgrade path
  • Pravega · Core development drops off in March
  • pre-commit · 4.0.0 (October 5) warns about the old stage names
  • Prefect · Prefect 3.0 in September with open-source events and automations
  • Prisma ORM · Prisma ORM 6.0 in November
  • Project Nessie · 0.90 adds the Iceberg REST protocol, in beta, in June
  • Project Nessie · Dremio says in October it will merge Nessie into Polaris and retire it
  • Prometheus · Prometheus 3.0: new UI and native OpenTelemetry (OTLP) ingestion
  • Propolis · RFD 26 postscript: Propolis open source throughout, Helios open-sourced in January
  • Protocol Buffers · Editions officially released in protoc 27.0 in May
  • Proxmox Virtual Environment · ESXi import wizard in March, shipped in 8.2 in April
  • Pulumi · SST v3 moves onto Pulumi’s engine
  • PuppyGraph · PuppyGraph launches in March; $5 million seed round in November
  • PyO3 · 0.21 (March) introduces the Bound API; 0.23 (November) supports free-threaded Python
  • Pyright · basedpyright 1.0, a community fork, ships on PyPI
  • Python · Python 3.13 ships an experimental build without the GIL
  • Quix Streams · 3.0 in October adds branching and multiple input topics
  • RabbitMQ · 4.0 speaks AMQP 1.0 natively and drops mirrored queues
  • Radicle · Radicle 1.0.0 (September 10)
  • Railway · New Trial and Hobby services start running on Railway Metal in December
  • React · React 19 makes Server Components and Actions stable
  • React Native · The New Architecture becomes the default in 0.76
  • Realm · MongoDB deprecates Atlas Device Sync and the Realm SDKs
  • Redis · Core moves to RSALv2/SSPLv1; Linux Foundation forks Valkey
  • Redpanda · Buys Benthos and relaunches it as Redpanda Connect
  • Redpanda Connect · Redpanda acquires Benthos and renames it Redpanda Connect; licences split
  • Redpanda Connect · WarpStream forks the MIT code as Bento
  • release-plz · Rustacean Station episode with its creator (April 12)
  • Replit · Replit Agent in early access for Core subscribers, in September
  • Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) · Gemini 1.5 runs 1 million tokens (February); Anthropic’s Contextual Retrieval cuts retrieval failures by 67% (September)
  • RisingWave · Version 2.0 introduces premium features behind a licence key
  • Rolldown · VoidZero founded in October to fund Rolldown and Oxc; 1.0 beta in December
  • Rootly · Rootly On-Call ships shift reminders and other paging features
  • Ruff · ruff server, a built-in language server, replaces ruff-lsp
  • runc · CRI-O makes crun its default instead of runc (1.31, September)
  • Sail · 0.2 previews distributed execution on Kubernetes in November
  • Sans-I/O protocols · Firezone’s “sans-IO: The secret to effective Rust for network services” in July
  • ScramDB · ANODE white paper on on-disk vector search published
  • ScyllaDB · 6.0 introduces tablets; 6.2 becomes the last AGPL release
  • Search indexes · Elastic adds AGPL as a third licence option for Elasticsearch
  • Secure Source Manager · Cloud Source Repositories closed to new customers (June 17); Cloud Build integration and branch protection GA (September 11)
  • Serverless Framework · Version 4 generally available in June: AWS-only, sign-in required, new licence
  • Service discovery & mesh · Istio’s sidecar-less ambient mode becomes generally available
  • Shillelagh · 1.3 adds a PostgreSQL backend based on Multicorn2
  • Sigma · sigmac reaches end of life on August 1; specification 2.0 adds correlation rules and filters on August 8
  • Sigstore · Graduates in the OpenSSF in March; PyPI attestations generally available in November
  • Software Carbon Intensity (SCI) · Published as ISO/IEC 21031:2024; version 1.1 in October
  • Sonatype Nexus Repository · 3.71.0 drops OrientDB and Java 8 and 11
  • Spack · Accepted as a core project of the High Performance Software Foundation on November 14
  • SPDK (Storage Performance Development Kit) · Intel announces it will divest and hand SPDK to the Linux Foundation (December 5)
  • Speakeasy · $15 million Series A led by FPV Ventures (October)
  • Spice.ai OSS · Version 0.7 rewrites the runtime in Rust on DataFusion, in February
  • SQLMesh · Tobiko announces $21.8M in seed and Series A funding (June)
  • SST · Team announces Ion in January; released as SST v3 in August
  • Static read models · Observable Framework 1.0 ships data loaders that snapshot data at build time
  • Streamling · Mirror becomes generally available in June
  • Supabase · Generally available on 15 April
  • Table formats · XTable enters the Apache Incubator; Databricks agrees to buy Tabular
  • Talos Linux · Omni source code published under the Business Source License
  • Tauri · Tauri 2.0 stable on 2 October, with iOS and Android support
  • Telegraf · v1.32 adds an experimental disk-backed buffer
  • Textual · Browser features for apps served with textual-serve (September)
  • Textual · Textual 1.0 (December)
  • The Linux Foundation · Valkey launched in March; OpenSearch Software Foundation and LF Decentralized Trust on September 16
  • Threat detection (SIEM) · Sigma specification 2.0 adds correlation rules; sigmac reaches end of life on August 1
  • TiDB · TiDB 8.5, the current long-term-support line, ships in December
  • TigerGraph · Savanna cloud service enters beta on 29 April
  • Tigris · Public beta on Fly.io in February; a16z seed in March; billing from July
  • TigrisFS · Tigris shows GeeseFS mounting buckets in Kubernetes via csi-s3
  • Time-series compression · ALP at SIGMOD; DuckDB 0.10 makes it the encoding for its float columns
  • Time-series databases · Prometheus 3.0, its first major release in seven years
  • TimechoDB · IoTDB Enterprise 1.3.0.4 adds the AINode machine-learning framework in January
  • Tinybird · Raises a $30 million Series B led by Balderton Capital
  • TLA+ Foundation · First grant call in July; Lamport hands the future of TLA+ to the foundation in August
  • tox · tox 4.21 adds native TOML configuration (September)
  • Turso · Limbo, a rewrite of SQLite in Rust, announced December 10
  • Unity Catalog · Open-sourced at LF AI & Data in June; OSS 0.1 in July
  • Upjet · Generated providers drop the Terraform CLI and call provider code directly
  • Uptime Kuma · 2.0.0-beta.0: MariaDB support, rootless images, SNMP and RabbitMQ monitors
  • UrsaDB · 1.5.2 adds a query optimiser, more than halving query time in tests
  • uv · August: project management, cross-platform lockfiles, tools and Python installs
  • uv · December: python-build-standalone moves to Astral
  • v0 · Generally available
  • Vale · January: 3.0 adds a default config and a shared config folder
  • Valkey · First stable release 7.2.5 (April); Valkey 8.0 with multithreaded I/O (September)
  • Valkey · ElastiCache and MemoryDB add Valkey, priced below Redis OSS (October)
  • Vector databases · pgvector 0.8.0 adds iterative index scans for filtered queries
  • Vectorize · Rebuilt and generally available on 26 September: 5 million vectors per index, 30 ms median queries
  • Vectorize · Cloudflare publishes the new design on R2, Durable Objects and containers on 22 October
  • Vectorize · Legacy V1 indexes can no longer be created after December
  • Velero · Velero 1.14 merges the CSI plugin into the main project
  • Velox · Meta reports that Arrow has added StringView, ListView and run-end encoding, inspired by Velox Vectors
  • Version control · Google and AWS stop taking new customers for their Git hosting; AWS reverses course in November 2025
  • Versity S3 Gateway · v1.0.0 released in June
  • Vite · VoidZero founded to build Rolldown and Oxc for Vite
  • Vitest · Evan You announces VoidZero, which employs core Vitest contributors (October)
  • WAL-G · 3.0 adds failover storages, a WAL archiving daemon and partial restore
  • Warp · Linux release in February; login made optional in November
  • WarpStream · Forks Benthos as Bento in May; Confluent acquires WarpStream in September
  • WASI · WASI 0.2, built on the Component Model, launched on 25 January; Rust renames wasm32-wasi to wasm32-wasip1 in March
  • WebAssembly · WASI 0.2, built on the Component Model, launched on 25 January
  • Wide tables · Timescale guide compares narrow, medium and wide time-series tables
  • Wide-column stores · Cassandra 5.0 adds Storage Attached Indexes for non-key columns
  • Windsurf (now Devin Desktop) · Windsurf Editor, a fork of VS Code, launches in November with the Cascade agent
  • Workers AI · Billing in Neurons starts on April 1 for non-beta models
  • Workers AI · Generally available on April 2, with GPUs in over 150 cities and BYO LoRAs
  • Workers Analytics Engine · Generally available on 1 April, with pricing announced
  • Yatai · Yatai 2.0 proposal (February); last commit to the main repository (May)
  • Yocto Project · 5.0 Scarthgap LTS released (April)
  • YugabyteDB · Work starts on rebasing the Postgres fork from version 11 to 15
  • Zed · Linux release in July
  • Zephyr · 3.7, the third LTS release, ships in July

2025

  • AGNTCYFirst · Cisco’s Outshift launches AGNTCY on March 6, with LangChain and Galileo
  • AntiSlopFirst · December 31: repository created
  • Cloudflare Agents SDKFirst · agents-sdk released on February 25
  • Cloudflare Basin SQLFirst · R2 Data Catalog enters public beta in April
  • Cloudflare ContainersFirst · Announced in April, at the end of Developer Week
  • Cloudflare K2First · Cloudflare acquires Arroyo, the stream processor behind Pipelines
  • Cloudflare Sandbox SDKFirst · Containers announced in April with per-user sandboxes for LLM-generated code as the lead example
  • DocumentDBFirst · Open-sourced by Microsoft (January); joins the Linux Foundation (August); Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB vCore renamed Azure DocumentDB (November)
  • DuckLakeFirst · DuckLake announced on 27 May with a spec and a DuckDB extension
  • DyadFirst · First public releases in April
  • FlociFirst · LocalStack announces the end of its free Community image (December)
  • Gemini CLIFirst · Launched as a free, open-source terminal agent with Gemini 2.5 Pro (June)
  • IceGateFirst · IceGate repository created on GitHub in November
  • icepickFirst · Clay Smith starts hello-world-iceberg on 15 November and renames it icepick
  • Kilo CodeFirst · Launched in March as a fork of Roo Code
  • OCacheFirst · Repository started in July
  • OpenCodeFirst · First releases under SST’s GitHub organisation (May)
  • PGSTY SiloFirst · Admin console removed from MinIO’s community build
  • PivotFirst · First commit in December: the Dispatch per-core runtime
  • smolvmFirst · Repository created in December
  • Strands AgentsFirst · AWS open-sources Strands Agents as a Python SDK preview
  • TAG (Tigris Acceleration Gateway)First · Repository for OCache, the cache TAG builds on, started in July
  • Tiger LakeFirst · June: Mike Freedman describes the operational medallion architecture and the “BaseLake”
  • ACRN · Last commit to the main branch (November)
  • Active Record (Ruby on Rails) · Rails 8.1 in October
  • Aerospike · Aerospike 8.0 adds transactions across records
  • Agent frameworks · AWS open-sources Strands Agents, a model-driven loop (May)
  • Agent frameworks · LangChain 1.0 and LangGraph 1.0 (October 22)
  • Agent tools and integrations · The 2025-03-26 revision replaces HTTP+SSE with Streamable HTTP
  • Agent tools and integrations · The official MCP Registry launches in preview (September)
  • Agent tools and integrations · Anthropic shows code execution with MCP cutting 150,000 tokens to 2,000 (November)
  • Agent tools and integrations · MCP moves to the Linux Foundation’s Agentic AI Foundation (December)
  • Agentic AI Foundation · OpenAI publishes AGENTS.md in August; AAIF formed on December 9 with MCP, goose and AGENTS.md
  • AGNTCY · The Linux Foundation announces it will host AGNTCY, on July 29
  • AI agents · AWS releases Strands Agents (May); Anthropic describes its multi-agent Research system (June)
  • AI agents · MCP moves to the Linux Foundation’s Agentic AI Foundation (December)
  • AI app builders · Andrej Karpathy coins “vibe coding” (February); Firebase Studio opens in preview (April)
  • AI app builders · 170 of 1,645 scanned Lovable apps found exposing data (published May); Replit separates development and production databases after its agent deletes one (July)
  • AI coding agents · Claude Code, Codex CLI and Gemini CLI launch; AGENTS.md released in August
  • AI coding agents · MCP and AGENTS.md move to the Linux Foundation’s Agentic AI Foundation (December)
  • Airbyte · All connectors move to ELv2; Airbyte 2.0 in October
  • Akka · Akka 2.7 code converts to Apache 2.0 in October
  • Alibaba Cloud Hologres · V4.0 adds AI functions and full-text search; serverless instances in beta
  • Alibaba Cloud PolarDB · A CXL-based memory pool wins SIGMOD’s best industrial paper again
  • Alpaca · 5.0 adds an instance manager and cloud providers (February)
  • Alpaca · 8.0 adds folders and activities (September)
  • Amazon API Gateway · REST APIs gain response streaming, with streams up to 15 minutes long
  • Amazon CloudFront · Flat-rate plans from $0 to $1,000 a month bundle CDN, WAF and DNS
  • Amazon DynamoDB · Global tables gain multi-Region strong consistency
  • Amazon EBS · gp3 grows to 64 TiB, 80,000 IOPS and 2,000 MiB/s (September)
  • Amazon EventBridge Scheduler · AWS PrivateLink support for calling Scheduler from a VPC
  • Amazon Kinesis Data Streams · Records of up to 10 MiB; On-demand Advantage mode
  • Amazon S3 · Maximum object size rises from 5 TB to 50 TB (December)
  • Amazon S3 Tables · Iceberg REST endpoint (March), compaction price cut (July), tiering and replication (December)
  • Amazon SNS · High-throughput mode lets FIFO topics match the throughput of standard topics
  • Amazon SQS · Fair queues for multi-tenant workloads; messages grow to 1 MiB
  • Amazon Timestream · LiveAnalytics closed to new customers in June; InfluxDB 3 in October
  • Amazon VPC · VPC encryption controls audit and enforce encryption in transit
  • Apache Amoro · 0.8.0 in May moves to Iceberg 1.6.1; 0.8.1 follows in September
  • Apache Cassandra · IBM acquires DataStax, maker of Astra DB
  • Apache Doris · Version 4.0 in October adds vector search and AI functions
  • Apache Drill · Drill 1.22.0 drops Java 8 and the MapR plugin (June)
  • Apache Flink · Flink 2.0: disaggregated state; DataSet and Scala APIs removed
  • Apache Fluss · Enters the Apache Incubator on 5 June
  • Apache Fluss · 0.8.0 in November, the first Apache release
  • Apache Hive · Hive 4.1 ships a standalone Metastore; 4.2 requires JDK 21
  • Apache Iceberg · Iceberg 1.8 adds format v3 features: deletion vectors, variant, row lineage
  • Apache Impala · Impala 4.5.0 released in February
  • Apache IoTDB · 2.0.1-beta adds the SQL table model in February
  • Apache Kafka · Kafka 4.0 runs without ZooKeeper entirely and previews queues (KIP-932)
  • Apache Paimon · Paimon 1.0, a stabilisation release
  • Apache Parquet · The spec adds a variant type and geometry and geography types
  • Apache Pekko · 2.0 milestones begin, with Java 17 as the minimum
  • Apache Pig · Pig 0.18.0 adds Hadoop 3, Spark 3 and Python 3 support
  • Apache Polaris · First Apache release, 0.9.0-incubating, in February
  • Apache Polaris · Polaris 1.0.0-incubating in July
  • Apache Spark · Spark 4.0 makes ANSI SQL the default and adds VARIANT
  • Apache Superset · Superset 6.0 released in December
  • Apache TinkerPop (Gremlin) · TinkerPop 3.8.0 released in November
  • Apache TsFile · 2.0.0 adds the table-model format in January
  • Apache XTable · 0.3.0 adds Hive Metastore and Glue catalog sync in June
  • Apache Zeppelin · Zeppelin 0.12.0 introduces a new UI
  • Apache ZooKeeper · Kafka 4.0 ships without ZooKeeper
  • Apitally · Show HN in February; Go and .NET SDKs added
  • ArangoDB · 3.12.5 brings former Enterprise features to Community Edition
  • Arc · Arc published under AGPL-3.0 in October; Go rewrite ships in November
  • ArcticDB · ArcticDB 1.0 converts to Apache 2.0, two years after release
  • Argo CD · Argo CD 3.0 released in May
  • Arroyo · Cloudflare acquires Arroyo in April; its engine goes into Cloudflare Pipelines
  • Astra DB · IBM announces in February and completes in May its acquisition of DataStax
  • Atlas · Atlas 1.0 (December 23)
  • Augment Code · Augment Agent for VS Code and JetBrains on April 2
  • Augment Code · Auggie CLI in September; credit-based pricing from October 20
  • Automated testing · Storybook 9 runs every story as a Vitest test in a real browser
  • AWS Application Load Balancer · JWT validation, URL and host rewrites, and Target Optimizer concurrency limits
  • AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK) · HashiCorp archives CDK for Terraform on December 10
  • AWS CloudFormation · Drift-aware change sets can revert out-of-band changes
  • AWS CodeCommit · Returns to general availability (November 24)
  • AWS Fault Injection Service · Scenarios for application slowdown in one AZ and traffic slowdown between AZs
  • AWS IoT Core · AWS IoT Analytics shut down on 15 December
  • AWS Lambda · Durable functions add checkpointed, multi-step workflows in December
  • Axon Framework · Axon Framework 5.0 introduces Dynamic Consistency Boundaries
  • Azure Kubernetes Service · AKS Automatic generally available in August; its billing starts in October
  • Azure Repos · Azure DevOps Server reaches general availability (December 9)
  • Bacula · Bacula 15.0.3, the current stable release, in March
  • Bazel · BUILD Foundation announced at BazelCon in Atlanta
  • Beam Cloud · Launch YC post pitches Beam as an open-source Modal alternative with agent sandboxes, November
  • BentoML · BentoML 1.4 (February)
  • Besu · 25.6.0 removes Tessera privacy and onchain permissioning in June
  • Better Stack · Open-sources the Better Stack collector under Apache 2.0
  • binrw · 0.15 (May) reduces generated code to speed up compiles
  • Bitbucket · Atlassian sets Data Center end of life for March 2029, with Bitbucket exempt (September 8)
  • Bitemporal modeling · XTDB 2.0 ships bitemporal SQL; PostgreSQL 18 adds temporal keys
  • Blue-green deployments · Amazon ECS adds built-in blue/green deployments in July
  • BullMQ · Elixir and PHP clients reach first releases
  • Bytewax · Company no longer viable in May; core team stops maintaining
  • C# · C# 14 ships in November, the sixth yearly November release
  • Cap’n Proto · Cap’n Web brings the model to browsers, encoded as JSON
  • cargo-semver-checks · Witness generation built in Google Summer of Code; 242 lints by year end
  • CDNs · CloudFront adds flat-rate plans with no overage charges
  • CedarDB · Free Community Edition and a €5.3 million seed round in May
  • Change data capture · PostgreSQL 18 can invalidate idle slots with idle_replication_slot_timeout
  • Chaos Mesh · 2.7.3 fixes the “Chaotic Deputy” GraphQL vulnerabilities
  • ChartDB · ChartDB Cloud launched (August 21); ChartDB Agent (October 1)
  • chDB · chDB 3.0 in January
  • Cherry Servers · Frankfurt opens as the sixth location (February); Arm VDS in Lithuania (August)
  • Chroma · Chroma 1.0 in March rewrites much of the system in Rust
  • Chroma · Chroma Cloud launches in August with a distributed SPANN index
  • Claude Code · Research preview launches with Claude 3.7 Sonnet (February)
  • Claude Code · Generally available with Claude 4; IDE extensions, GitHub Actions and the SDK (May)
  • Claude Code · Anthropic donates MCP to the Linux Foundation’s Agentic AI Foundation (December)
  • ClickHouse · Raises a $350 million Series C
  • ClickStack · ClickHouse acquires HyperDX, announced 6 March
  • ClickStack · ClickStack announced on 28 May with HyperDX 2.0
  • Cline · $32 million seed and Series A in July; JetBrains plugin in September
  • Cloud cost and carbon · AWS adds carbon estimates to Data Exports in April and FOCUS 1.2 exports in November
  • Cloud Hypervisor · Major releases v46 to v50 arrive roughly every two months
  • Cloud Native Computing Foundation · OpenTofu joins the sandbox in April; charter updated in June; Pravega archived in September
  • Cloudflare Agents SDK · McpAgent for remote MCP servers on Cloudflare, March 25
  • Cloudflare Basin Catalog · R2 Data Catalog enters public beta on 10 April
  • Cloudflare Basin Catalog · Compaction and the Cloudflare Data Platform arrive on 25 September
  • Cloudflare Basin Catalog · Automatic snapshot expiration on 18 December
  • Cloudflare Basin Pipelines · Pipelines open beta and Arroyo acquisition on 10 April
  • Cloudflare Basin Pipelines · Rebuilt with SQL transforms and Iceberg sinks on 25 September
  • Cloudflare Basin SQL · Cloudflare acquires Arroyo and opens Pipelines in beta on 10 April, building toward a data platform
  • Cloudflare Basin SQL · R2 SQL announced in open beta with the Cloudflare Data Platform on 25 September
  • Cloudflare Browser Run · REST API generally available with a free tier on April 7; billing at $0.09 per browser hour from August 20
  • Cloudflare Browser Run · Playwright support generally available in September
  • Cloudflare Containers · Public beta for paid plans on June 24
  • Cloudflare Containers · CPU billed by active use instead of allocation, from November 21
  • Cloudflare D1 · Global read replication enters public beta on 10 April
  • Cloudflare K2 · Pipelines enters open beta on 25 September, with durable streams buffering incoming events
  • Cloudflare Pages · Workers gains Pages’ features; Cloudflare says to start new projects on Workers
  • Cloudflare Queues · Retention configurable up to 14 days in February; pull consumers reach 5,000 messages per second in April
  • Cloudflare R2 · R2 Data Catalog: a managed Iceberg catalog in a bucket, in public beta (April)
  • Cloudflare Sandbox SDK · The sandbox-sdk repository is published in June, as Containers enter public beta
  • Cloudflare Sandbox SDK · August 5: code interpreters, Git, background processes and preview URLs
  • Cloudflare Secrets Store · Secrets Store launches in beta on April 9, starting with Workers
  • Cloudflare Secrets Store · Limit raised to 100 secrets per account on May 27
  • Cloudflare Secrets Store · AI Gateway reads provider keys from Secrets Store from August 25
  • Cloudflare Workers · Cloudflare Containers enter public beta in June, alongside Workers
  • Cloudflare Workflows · Generally available on April 7, with waitForEvent
  • Cloudflare Workflows · Python Workflows enters open beta in August
  • Cloudflare, Inc. · Containers public beta in June, controlled from Workers through Durable Objects
  • CloudNativePG · Accepted into the CNCF Sandbox in January; 1.26 in May deprecates built-in Barman Cloud for the plugin
  • Codeberg · Spam and DoS attacks (February); Zig moves to Codeberg (November 26); over 300,000 repositories
  • Composio · New v3 Python and TypeScript SDKs released in preview, with renamed concepts
  • Composio · $29 million in funding announced on 22 July
  • Confidential Computing Consortium · Veracruz moves to emeritus in May; Dstack accepted in October
  • Container orchestration · Apache Mesos retired and moved to the Apache Attic
  • Coordination services · Kafka 4.0 runs without ZooKeeper, on its own Raft quorum
  • CrateDB · CrateDB 6.0 is released in July
  • Cross-platform desktop apps · Dioxus 0.7 ships Dioxus Native, a GPU renderer with no web view
  • Cross-platform mobile apps · Compose Multiplatform for iOS becomes stable
  • Crossplane · Crossplane 2.0 on August 12; CNCF graduation announced on November 6
  • Cursor · Cursor 1.0 in June with Bugbot; Cursor 2.0 and the Composer model in October
  • Cursor · $2.3B Series D at a $29.3B valuation; $1B in annualized revenue
  • Customer support · Klarna says it will hire human agents again
  • Dapr · Dapr 1.15 makes workflows stable and adds an LLM conversation API
  • Dashboards and BI · QuickSight becomes Quick Sight, part of Amazon Quick Suite
  • Data notebooks · CoreWeave agrees to acquire Marimo Inc., maker of the reactive marimo notebook
  • Data structures · Go 1.24 rebuilds its built-in map on the Swiss Table design
  • Database clients and design tools · Microsoft announces the retirement of Azure Data Studio (February 6); Atlas 1.0 (December 23)
  • Database indexes · PostgreSQL 18 adds skip scan to multicolumn B-tree indexes
  • DB Pilot · Notebooks with SQL and Python blocks (March 28)
  • dbdiagram.io · 2.5 million DBML documents and 1.4 million users (February)
  • DBSnapper · 2.9 adds PostgreSQL schema filtering in July; a 3.0 preview adds an MCP server in August
  • dbt · Buys SDF Labs, launches the Rust Fusion engine, agrees to merge with Fivetran
  • Debezium · The Debezium team moves from Red Hat to IBM in July
  • deku · 0.19 adds bit_order = "lsb"; 0.20 adds an alloc feature for heapless targets
  • Delta Lake · Delta Lake 4.0 adds variant, row tracking and catalog-managed tables (preview)
  • Devin · Devin 2.0: cloud IDE, parallel sessions and a $20 plan (April)
  • Devin · Cognition signs an agreement to acquire Windsurf (July)
  • Dioxus · Dioxus 0.7 adds Subsecond hot-patching and Dioxus Native in September
  • Docker · Engine 29 makes the containerd image store the default
  • DPDK (Data Plane Development Kit) · 25.11 LTS released in November
  • Dremio · 26.0 ships a Polaris-based catalog; last Community release in September
  • Drizzle ORM · Drizzle 1.0 beta in November
  • DRLM (Disaster Recovery Linux Manager) · Last release, 2.4.13, in April
  • DuckDB · 1.4.0 ships as a long-term support release; every other version will be LTS
  • DuckLake · DuckLake 0.3 adds Iceberg interoperability and geometry support (September)
  • Duplicati · Duplicati 2.1, the first stable 2.x release, after years in beta
  • Durable Objects · SQLite storage generally available with 10 GB per object; free tier added on 7 April
  • Dyad · Version 0.10.0 in June
  • eBPF Foundation · BSC and board vote to stop accepting projects; charter amended on October 8
  • Eclipse Zenoh · rmw_zenoh becomes Tier 1 in ROS 2 Kilted Kaiju
  • EdgeX Foundry · 4.0 “Odesa” LTS in March: PostgreSQL, OpenBao, Core Keeper and an MQTT message bus by default
  • Editors and terminals · Zed publishes the Agent Client Protocol, with Gemini CLI as the first agent
  • Emergent schema (JSON columns) · PostgreSQL 18 makes generated columns virtual by default
  • EMQX · 5.9 moves everything to BSL 1.1 (May); 6.0 adds message queues
  • Entity Framework Core · EF Core 10 ships in November as a long-term support release
  • Estuary · $17M Series A led by M13 in October
  • etcd · etcd 3.6 in May; the project becomes Kubernetes’ sig-etcd
  • ETL & ELT pipelines · Fivetran agrees to buy Census (reverse ETL); Salesforce completes its Informatica purchase
  • Evidence · Evidence Studio launches in June with server-side queries
  • Evidence · The earlier Evidence Cloud hosting product is set to close by the end of the year
  • FastAPI · 0.126.0 drops Pydantic 1 on December 20
  • Fauna · Service shuts down on 30 May; core database published under Apache 2.0
  • File formats · Parquet adds variant and geospatial types; a Lance paper tackles random access
  • FinOps Foundation · Framework adds Scopes in March; FOCUS 1.2 in June and 1.3 in December
  • Firebase Studio · Firebase Studio launches in preview on 9 April, absorbing Project IDX
  • Firebolt · Firebolt Core released in June; Elastic License 2.0 from July
  • Fission · Releases slow: v1.21.0 in January, v1.22.0 in December
  • Fivetran · Per-connection MAR tiers; buys Census and Tobiko Data; agrees dbt Labs merger
  • Fluentd · fluent-package v6 LTS ships with Fluentd v1.19 in August
  • FOCUS · 1.2 in June; AWS Data Exports for FOCUS 1.2 generally available in November; 1.3 in December
  • Foreign function interfaces · Python 3.14 makes the free-threaded build officially supported; extensions declare whether they still need the GIL
  • Forgejo · v11.0 LTS (April 16); Zig moves its repository from GitHub to Codeberg (November 26)
  • Formal methods · “Systems Correctness Practices at Amazon Web Services” describes TLA+, P and simulation at AWS
  • FOSSA · fossabot, an AI agent for dependency updates, enters public preview (October 1)
  • Foxglove · Foxglove SDK released; $40M Series B led by Bessemer Venture Partners
  • FRRouting (FRR) · 10.4 in July and 10.5 in November
  • Garage · Garage 2.0 with a new admin API (June); NGI0 Commons Fund grant
  • Gel · Renamed Gel with 6.0 in February; 7.0 in November; the company shuts down in December and the team joins Vercel
  • Genkit · Genkit for Node.js 1.0, production-ready; Go in alpha
  • Genkit · Genkit Go 1.0, the first stable Go release
  • Gerrit Code Review · Gerrit 3.13.0 (November 10)
  • Git · Git 2.49 adds the first optional Rust code
  • GitHub · Thomas Dohmke steps down and GitHub joins Microsoft’s CoreAI (August); Octoverse counts 180 million developers (October)
  • GizmoSQL · GizmoSQL becomes open source under Apache 2.0 in June
  • Glama · punkpeye writes of a year of constant iteration on the directory in November
  • GlareDB · April: a fully custom engine replaces DataFusion in 0.10.0, now MIT-licensed, and external database connectors are removed
  • GlareDB · Calendar versions from 25.5.0 in May; 25.6.3 on 19 June is the latest release
  • GlareDB · Last commit to the repository in November
  • Google App Engine · New projects get a default limit of 20 instances per standard service
  • Google Cloud Pub/Sub · Single Message Transforms reach general availability
  • Google Cloud Run · GPUs generally available in April for inference workloads
  • Google Kubernetes Engine · Single pricing tier; Autopilot workloads allowed in Standard clusters
  • Grafana Mimir · Mimir 3.0 in October: Kafka-based ingest storage and the Mimir Query Engine
  • Gramine · v1.9 in June drops EPID attestation and non-FLC hardware
  • GraphQL · September edition of the spec, the first since 2021
  • GraphQL Foundation · September edition of the spec, the first since 2021
  • GraphQL-native databases · Fauna shuts down; Hasura shifts to PromptQL; Dgraph sold; Gel Data closes
  • Green Software Foundation · SOFT, Impact Framework, Policy Radar and SCI for AI ratified; Hardware Standards working group formed
  • Grizzly · Last release 0.7.1 (January); deprecated in favour of grafanactl (May)
  • HashiCorp Boundary · IBM completes its acquisition of HashiCorp
  • HashiCorp Consul · IBM completes its HashiCorp acquisition; HCP Consul Dedicated ends in November
  • HashiCorp Nomad · IBM completes its HashiCorp purchase; 1.10 drops token-based Vault logins
  • HashiCorp Packer · IBM completes its acquisition of HashiCorp in February
  • HashiCorp Vault · IBM completes its acquisition of HashiCorp
  • Haskell containers · containers 0.8 (March)
  • Hasura DDN · Company shifts its focus to PromptQL on 2 June
  • Hasura GraphQL Engine · Company focus moves to PromptQL; v2 to be maintained
  • HCP Vault Radar · IBM completes its acquisition of HashiCorp in February
  • HCP Vault Radar · Generally available in April, with copying of leaked secrets into Vault
  • HCP Waypoint · HCP Waypoint actions generally available in June
  • HerdDB · One commit to master, moving publishing to Maven Central
  • Heroku · Fir, the Kubernetes-based generation, begins rolling out
  • Hex · Acquires Hashboard in April; $70M Series C in May
  • Hex · Notebook Agent in August, Threads in October
  • Hibernate ORM · Hibernate 7.0 moves to the Apache License and Jakarta Persistence 3.2
  • High Performance Software Foundation · Apptainer, Chapel, Environment Modules, HPX, Charliecloud, OpenCHAMI and others join
  • Hugging Face · Xet becomes the default storage for new users and organizations (23 May)
  • Hyperdrive · Free plan and MySQL support on 8 April
  • Ibis · Ibis 10.0 in February removes the pandas and Dask backends
  • icepick · Replaces iceberg-rust with a standalone REST client on 19 November
  • icepick · 0.3.0 adds registration of existing Parquet files in December
  • imbl · 5.0.0 adds pluggable pointer types; 6.0.0 rewrites OrdMap as a B+ tree
  • immer · Version 0.9.0 adds experimental immer::persist
  • In-process caches · .NET HybridCache, a two-level cache, becomes generally available
  • incident.io · $62M Series B led by Insight Partners; more than 250,000 incidents handled
  • InfluxDB · InfluxDB 3 Core and Enterprise generally available in April
  • Java Virtual Machine (HotSpot) · JDK 24 adds the ahead-of-time class cache
  • JEPA (Joint-Embedding Predictive Architecture) · V-JEPA 2 and robot planning (June 11); LLM-JEPA (September); LeCun leaves Meta (November); VL-JEPA (December)
  • JSR · Independent governance board and charter announced on February 3
  • JSR · pnpm 10.9 and Yarn 4.9 install jsr: packages natively (April)
  • Jujutsu · 0.33 adds jj redo (September); 0.34 colocates Git repositories by default (October)
  • K3s · Applies to the CNCF for incubation in November
  • Kaitai Struct · 0.11 adds writing for Java and Python, and a Rust target
  • Kata Containers · The OpenInfra Foundation joins the Linux Foundation
  • kdb+ · TA Associates buys KX in July; KDB-X reaches GA in November
  • KernelCI · Legacy system shut down; KCIDB-ng replaces the old submission API
  • KernelCI · Arm and Qualcomm join as premier members in November
  • Kilo Code · $8 million seed round led by Cota Capital in December
  • Klutch · 1.3 in January renames clusters to app and control plane; 1.4 in December
  • Koyeb · Light Sleep wakes services in about 200 ms (August); Sandboxes in public preview (November)
  • KurrentDB · March: KurrentDB 25.0, the first release under the new name and the Kurrent License v1, adds archiving
  • KurrentDB · 25.1 adds secondary indexes on category and event type
  • Lakehouse catalogs · Gravitino becomes a top-level Apache project; Databricks previews managed Iceberg tables
  • Lakehouses · DuckLake proposes keeping lakehouse metadata in a SQL database
  • LakeSoul · 3.0 in September: faster Rust I/O, Gluten and Presto with Velox, PyPI package
  • Lance · Paper on random access (April); LanceDB raises a $30M Series A in June
  • Lance · Community governance; the format moves to lance.org and the lance-format org
  • LangChain · LangChain 1.0: create_agent on LangGraph, middleware and standard content blocks
  • LangGraph · LangGraph 1.0 keeps the graph APIs and runtime unchanged; create_react_agent deprecated for LangChain’s create_agent
  • Languages that compile to SQL · BigQuery enables pipe syntax for all users (4 February); Spark 4.0 adds SQL pipe syntax
  • Large language models · DeepSeek releases the 671-billion-parameter DeepSeek-R1 as open weights (January)
  • Leptos · Leptos 0.8 released in May
  • LF AI & Data Foundation · IBM contributes Docling, Data Prep Kit and BeeAI in April; Vortex promoted to incubation in August
  • LF Decentralized Trust · The TAC archives Aries and moves Cello back to Labs; Hiero graduates
  • LF Edge · EdgeX Foundry 4.0 “Odesa”, a long-term support release, ships in March
  • liboqs · 0.13.0 makes mlkem-native the default ML-KEM (April); 0.15.0 removes Dilithium (November)
  • Linters, formatters and type checkers · Rust-based Python type checkers: Pyrefly (alpha, May) and ty (beta, December)
  • LitmusChaos · MCP server released; security-focused 3.22 and 3.23 releases
  • LM Studio · Free for use at work (8 July)
  • Lovable · Series B in December
  • Lura · Lura v2.13.0 released in October
  • Manhattan · X’s Realtime Storage team still lists Manhattan among its systems
  • MariaDB · Buys Codership (Galera) and SkySQL; 11.8 LTS makes vector search generally available
  • Material UI (MUI) · Base UI 1.0 on 11 December
  • Meilisearch · AI-powered search stable in v1.13; Enterprise Edition under BUSL with v1.19 in August
  • Meltano · Meltano 4.0 adds structured logging and needs Python 3.10+
  • Mercurial · Mozilla moves Firefox’s source of truth from Mercurial to Git (April 30)
  • MindsDB · MindsHub Agents launched as a separate product
  • MinIO · Console cut to an object browser; source-only in October; maintenance mode in December
  • Mintlify · Acquires Trieve in July; fixes a cross-site scripting flaw in static assets in November
  • MLflow · MLflow 3: logged models, GenAI evaluation, prompt optimization (June 11)
  • mlkem-native · Default ML-KEM in liboqs 0.13.0 and imported into AWS-LC v1.50.0 (April); v1.0.0 released (June 4)
  • Model Context Protocol (MCP) · 2025-03-26 adds OAuth 2.1 authorization and the Streamable HTTP transport
  • Model Context Protocol (MCP) · 2025-11-25 adds experimental tasks, URL elicitation and Client ID Metadata Documents
  • Model Context Protocol (MCP) · Donated to the Linux Foundation’s new Agentic AI Foundation in December
  • Model routers and gateways · OpenRouter raises a seed round led by Andreessen Horowitz and a Series A led by Menlo Ventures
  • Model serving and MLOps · Ray Serve LLM in Ray 2.44 (March); MLflow 3 with GenAI tracing and evaluation (June)
  • MongoDB · Acquires Voyage AI for embedding and reranking models
  • MotherDuck · DuckLake support in preview (July); first European region (September)
  • Multithreading · Python 3.14 makes the free-threaded build officially supported
  • n8n · n8n 2.0 beta: task runners on by default, separate Save and Publish
  • Neon · Databricks announces the acquisition on 14 May; prices cut through the year
  • Netlify · Credit-based pricing for new accounts from 4 September
  • NewSQL and distributed SQL · Amazon Aurora DSQL becomes generally available
  • Node.js · Running TypeScript by stripping types becomes stable (v24.12, v25.2)
  • nom · 8.0 moves to the Parser trait and splits out nom-language
  • Nx · Malicious nx versions published with a stolen npm token (August), removed within hours
  • Observable Framework · Deploying to Observable Cloud deprecated in April; apps move to other static hosts
  • OCSF · ITU-T member states back OCSF for ratification as an international standard (December)
  • OLake · v0.1.0 and OLake UI in June; a Kafka source by November
  • Omnigres · Postgres 18 support in September; last extension release in November
  • On-call · Opsgenie ends sales; Grafana OnCall OSS enters maintenance; AWS Incident Manager closes to new customers
  • One · Platform v2 in July with over 21,000 actions across 200 integrations
  • Onehouse · Compute Runtime (January), Open Engines (April), Quanton (May), OneFlow (August)
  • Open Container Initiative (OCI) specifications · Runtime Specification 1.3 adds FreeBSD (November 4)
  • Open Infrastructure Foundation · Joins the Linux Foundation, announced in March and completed on June 1; new board meets in July
  • Open Source Security Foundation · OpenBao joins from LF Edge as a sandbox project in June
  • Open WebUI · License changes from MIT to BSD-3-Clause (January)
  • Open WebUI · v0.6.6 adopts the Open WebUI License with its branding clause (19 April)
  • Open WebUI · CVE-2025-64496 in Direct Connections fixed in v0.6.35 (November)
  • OpenAI Codex · Codex CLI launches as an open-source terminal agent (April)
  • OpenAI Codex · Codex cloud research preview, powered by codex-1 (May)
  • OpenAI Codex · Rust rewrite of the CLI announced (May)
  • OpenAI Codex · GPT-5-Codex, the IDE extension and a rebuilt CLI (September)
  • OpenAI Codex · AGENTS.md moves to the Agentic AI Foundation (December)
  • OpenAPI Initiative · OpenAPI 3.2.0 released in September
  • OpenAPI Search · First version of the directory in January
  • OpenAPI Search · Relaunched with the MCP server; Show HN on 22 March
  • OpenAPI Specification · OpenAPI 3.2.0 released on September 19
  • OpenBao · Namespaces in 2.3; moves to the OpenSSF as a sandbox project in June
  • OpenCode · The Go version is replaced by a rewrite announced for mid-June
  • OpenCode · Version 1.0.0 (31 October)
  • openCypher · First GQL-aligned grammar release, 2024.1, in April
  • OpenDaylight · Titanium release in August
  • OpenJS Foundation · Becomes a CVE Numbering Authority; Lit and Perspective join in October
  • OpenRouter · Raises $40 million led by Andreessen Horowitz and Menlo Ventures (June)
  • OpenSearch · OpenSearch 3.0 moves to Lucene 10 and Java 21 in May
  • OpenSearch Software Foundation · First TSC elections; more than 1 billion downloads reported at the first anniversary in August
  • OpenStack · OpenInfra Foundation joins the Linux Foundation in July
  • OpenTofu · 1.9.0 adds provider for_each; accepted into the CNCF Sandbox in April
  • Oracle VirtualBox · 7.2 in August adds Windows on Arm hosts
  • OVHcloud · Three-zone region opens in Milan
  • Oxc · Minifier alpha (March), Oxlint 1.0 (June), Oxfmt alpha (December)
  • Oxia · Accepted into the CNCF Sandbox on 6 October
  • Oxide Cloud Computer · $100M Series B (July)
  • Oxide Computer Company · $100M Series B led by USIT (July)
  • P4 · Intel open-sources its Tofino P4 software in January
  • Package managers · PEP 751 standardises pylock.toml; pip 25.1 adds an experimental pip lock
  • Parseable · Version 2.0 brings Prism, on-demand indexing and an Enterprise edition
  • Pathway · Pathway introduces its BDH AI architecture
  • Patroni · 4.1 released in September
  • Pebble · v2.0.0 is tagged in January; v2 no longer opens RocksDB databases
  • Percona Operators · Operator for Percona Server for MySQL reaches GA with Group Replication
  • Perforce P4 · Helix Core renamed Perforce P4 (March 13)
  • pg_ivm · Outer join support in 1.13 (October)
  • pgBackRest · Snowflake buys Crunchy Data, the project’s main sponsor, in June
  • pgmq · Project moves to the independent pgmq GitHub organization
  • PGO (Crunchy Postgres for Kubernetes) · Snowflake announces it will acquire Crunchy Data (June 2); PGO 6.0 in December adds the v1 API
  • PgQueuer · 0.20 adds job deduplication with a dedupe_key
  • PGSTY Silo · MinIO goes source-only (October); Pigsty forks the server
  • PGSTY Silo · First fork release, RELEASE.2025-12-03T12-00-00Z, published in December
  • pgwatch · pgwatch 4.0 in September
  • Pinecone · Pod-based indexes closed to new Standard and Enterprise customers in August; Ash Ashutosh becomes CEO in September
  • Plakar · Public beta and cryptography audit in February; v1.0 and $3M pre-seed round in May
  • Plane · Plane 1.0 in September
  • PlanetScale · Metal (local NVMe) in March; PlanetScale for Postgres in September
  • Platform engineering · DORA: 90% of organizations use an internal developer platform
  • Podman · Accepted into the CNCF as a sandbox project in January
  • Poetry · 2.0 adopts the standard [project] table; 2.2 adds PEP 735 dependency groups
  • Polars · Polars Cloud generally available on AWS; €18M Series A
  • Post-quantum cryptography · HQC selected as backup KEM (March); OpenSSL 3.5 and OpenSSH 10.0 default to hybrid ML-KEM (April)
  • Post-Quantum Cryptography Alliance · mlkem-native v1.0.0 (June); CBOMkit proposed in October, onboarded by December 4
  • PostgreSQL · PostgreSQL 18 adds asynchronous I/O
  • Pravega · Last commit in March; CNCF archives the project on 23 September
  • Prisma ORM · Prisma ORM 7 with a Rust-free TypeScript client, 19 November
  • Project Nessie · Dremio 26.0 ships a Polaris-based built-in catalog in April
  • Puffin · Iceberg 1.8.0 writes v3 deletion vectors as Puffin blobs in February
  • PyO3 · 0.26 (August) renames GIL handling to attach and detach
  • Pyrefly · Pyrefly announced as an alpha, written in Rust
  • Pyrefly · November: beta (0.42.0); default checker for Instagram developers
  • Pyright · Rust-based rivals appear: Meta’s Pyrefly and Astral’s ty
  • Python · Python 3.14 makes the free-threaded build officially supported
  • PyTorch Foundation · Becomes an umbrella foundation on May 7 with vLLM and DeepSpeed; Ray joins on October 22
  • QEMU · QEMU 10.0 (April); feature releases follow in August and December
  • Railway · Railpack replaces Nixpacks in March; migration to Railway Metal targeted for completion by July
  • Rancher · RKE1 reaches end of life; Rancher 2.12 stops managing RKE1 clusters
  • Ratatui · Ratatui 0.30 splits into crates and adds no_std support (December)
  • Ray · Contributed to the PyTorch Foundation on October 22
  • Ray Serve · Ray 2.44 adds Ray Serve LLM (March); Ray joins the PyTorch Foundation (October)
  • Rayforce · Rust, Python and WebAssembly bindings
  • React · React Compiler 1.0; React Foundation announced; Create React App deprecated
  • React Foundation · Intent to form the React Foundation announced at React Conf on October 7
  • React Native · 0.82 runs only on the New Architecture
  • Readyset · QueryPilot launches automatic query caching, built on ProxySQL
  • Realm · Device Sync reaches end of life on 30 September
  • Redis · Redis 8 adds the AGPLv3 option and vector sets
  • Redpanda · Iceberg topics become generally available in 25.1
  • Relational databases · Amazon Aurora DSQL, a multi-Region distributed SQL database, becomes generally available
  • Render · New Key Value instances run Valkey instead of Redis
  • Renode · Renode 1.16.0 in August
  • Replit · Microsoft partnership; the agent deletes a client database during a code freeze, in July
  • RethinkDB · 2.4.5, a build-fix release (November)
  • Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) · Agents shift toward just-in-time retrieval with tools
  • Riff · $16M Series A led by Northzone, as Riff, in October
  • RisingWave · 2.x releases add Iceberg engine tables with built-in compaction
  • RKE2 · RKE1 reaches end of life on July 31; Rancher 2.12 points users to RKE2
  • Rolldown · rolldown-vite technical preview in May
  • Rolldown · Vite 8 beta makes Rolldown the default bundler in December
  • Rolling deployments · Amazon ECS adds built-in blue/green alongside its rolling updates
  • Roo Code · Renamed Roo Code in January after 50,000 installs, with custom modes
  • Roo Code · Kilo Code forks Roo Code in March
  • runc · runc 1.3 starts a six-month release cadence (April); three escapes fixed (November)
  • Rust · Rust 2024 edition stable with Rust 1.85 in February
  • RustFS · Open-sourced under Apache 2.0 with the first alpha (July)
  • RustFS · Passes 10,000 GitHub stars (October)
  • Sail · An MCP server lets LLM agents run Spark SQL on Sail (March)
  • Sail · 0.3 adds Spark 4.0 (July); 0.4 adds native Iceberg (October)
  • ScyllaDB · 2025.1, the first source-available release, ships in March
  • SeaweedFS · Version 4.0 released (November)
  • Secure Source Manager · Generally available to all customers (August 4); FedRAMP High and HIPAA (September 10)
  • Semantic layers · Open Semantic Interchange announced in September; MetricFlow moves to Apache 2.0
  • Serverless Framework · Version 3 stops receiving security and bug fixes
  • Serverless functions (FaaS) · Lambda durable functions add long-running, checkpointed workflows
  • Shillelagh · 1.4 adds an experimental sqlglot backend and a MetricFlow dialect
  • Sigma · Specification 2.1 adds sum, average and percentile correlations on August 2
  • Sigstore · Rekor v2 generally available in October
  • SlateDB · Releases 0.5 to 0.10 add features every two months or so
  • Snowflake · Acquires Crunchy Data to add PostgreSQL to the platform
  • Software Carbon Intensity (SCI) · SCI for AI ratified
  • Sonatype Nexus Repository · Community Edition replaces OSS, with usage limits (February 4)
  • Spacelift · $51 million Series C in July; Spacelift Intent released as open source
  • Spack · v1.0 on July 20: compiler dependencies, stable package API, separate package repository
  • SPDK (Storage Performance Development Kit) · v25.05, the first release under the Linux Foundation (May 29)
  • Speakeasy · Gram, an open-source MCP server platform, in public beta (September)
  • Spice.ai OSS · Version 1.0 declared stable in January
  • Spiral · Vortex donated to the Linux Foundation’s LF AI & Data (August)
  • Spiral · Spiral launches with $22M in seed and Series A funding (September)
  • SQLite · SQLite turns 25 with version 3.50.0 in May
  • SQLMesh · Fivetran acquires Tobiko Data (September)
  • StackStorm · 3.9.0 in October adds Python 3.10 and 3.11 and MongoDB 7.0
  • StarRocks · Version 4.0 released in October
  • Static read models · Evidence Studio moves queries server-side, leaving static builds as the legacy mode
  • Storybook · Storybook 9 builds testing on Vitest (June); Storybook 10 goes ESM-only (October)
  • Strands Agents · Strands Agents 1.0 adds agents-as-tools, graphs, swarms, A2A and remote session storage
  • Strawberry GraphQL · Experimental @defer and @stream in July
  • Stream Framework · Python 3.10 and Amazon Keyspaces fixes merged, unreleased
  • StreamFusion · Irontools announces Iron Vector (stateless) and Ververica announces VERA-X
  • SurrealDB · $38 million Series A
  • Table formats · DuckLake keeps table metadata in SQL; Iceberg adds v3 deletion vectors
  • TanStack · Form v1 in March; Start release candidate in September
  • Tauri · Experimental Verso (Servo-based) web view integration in March
  • Tekton · Tekton Pipelines 1.0 in May
  • Terraform · IBM completes its acquisition of HashiCorp in February
  • Textual · Textualize, the company, announces it will wrap up; Textual continues as open source (May)
  • Textual · McGugan releases Toad, built on Textual (December)
  • The Apache Software Foundation · Oak-leaf logo replaces the feather in September; 10,000th committer in December
  • The Ceph Foundation · Foundation begins fully onboarding into the Linux Foundation in September
  • The Linux Foundation · The OpenInfra Foundation joins; the Agentic AI Foundation launches on December 9
  • Threat detection (SIEM) · Sigma specification 2.1 adds value sum, average and percentile correlations
  • TiDB · TiDB X, an object-storage architecture for TiDB Cloud, announced
  • Tiger Lake · July: Tiger Lake announced; beta Iceberg connector to Amazon S3 Tables for Scale and Enterprise
  • Tiger Lake · November: public beta with full DML support
  • TigerBeetle · Jepsen analysis of 0.16.11 to 0.16.30
  • TigerGraph · Community Edition free for production use, with vectors and Iceberg loading
  • Tigris · TigrisFS announced in July; $25 million Series A led by Spark Capital; moves onto its own hardware
  • TigrisFS · TigrisFS 1.1.0 in April; announced on 1 July
  • TimechoDB · TimechoDB 2.0.1.2 brings the table model in January; a 2.0.2.1 system tops the TPCx-IoT V2 list
  • TimescaleDB · Timescale renames itself Tiger Data in June
  • Tinybird · Moves to vCPU-based pricing; launches Tinybird Forward in March
  • TLA+ Foundation · Lamport retires from Microsoft on January 3; Microsoft leaves the member list; GenAI-accelerated TLA+ challenge
  • TOML · TOML 1.1.0 adds multi-line inline tables and optional seconds (December)
  • turbopuffer · Public AWS regions in March; generally available in May
  • Turso · Rewrite renamed Turso in January; edge replicas end for new users; alpha in July, beta in October
  • TypeScript · Anders Hejlsberg announces a native port of the compiler to Go in March
  • UI libraries · Base UI 1.0 on 11 December
  • Unified Acceleration (UXL) Foundation · Rod Burns steps down as chair in September; Qualcomm and Arm take over as co-chairs
  • Unity Catalog · Managed Iceberg tables and Iceberg REST writes in public preview (June)
  • Upjet · Upjet 2.0 in October generates namespaced resources for Crossplane v2
  • Uptime Kuma · 2.0.0 released in October, with a heartbeat table migration and Node.js 20.4 minimum
  • uv · pyx, Astral’s package registry for uv, enters beta
  • v0 · v0.dev becomes v0.app, an agent, on 11 August
  • Vale · $10,000 grant from FLOSS/fund
  • Valkey · Memorystore for Valkey generally available (April); Redis 8 adds AGPLv3 (May)
  • Valkey · Valkey 9.0: atomic slot migration and per-field hash expiry (October)
  • ValkeyTimeSeries · Repository created in February; presented at Keyspace 2025 in Amsterdam on 28 August
  • Visual Studio Code · GitHub Copilot Chat, with agent mode, open-sourced under MIT
  • Vite · rolldown-vite technical preview (May) and Vite 8 beta (December)
  • Vitest · Vitest 4.0 makes Browser Mode stable (October)
  • VMware ESXi · VCF 9.0 renames ESXi to ESX (June); a free ESXi 8.0 license returns
  • Void · Version 1.0.0, the first beta release, in January
  • Void · Last binary build published on June 23
  • Void · Work paused on August 1
  • Vortex · “Towards Vortex 1.0” describes the file format (April)
  • Vortex · Release 0.36.0 freezes the first edition; files stay readable from here on (May)
  • Vortex · Donated to the Linux Foundation as an LF AI & Data incubation project (August)
  • Warp · Windows release in February
  • Warp · Warp 2.0, the Agentic Development Environment, in June
  • Wasabi Hot Cloud Storage · Announces Wasabi Fire, an NVMe class, and a San Jose region
  • WebAssembly · Wasm 3.0 adds garbage collection, 64-bit memory and exceptions on 17 September
  • webpack · Next.js 16 switches its default bundler to Turbopack
  • WebRTC · Updated W3C Recommendation (13 March) and WHIP ingest signaling as RFC 9725
  • Windsurf (now Devin Desktop) · Codeium renames itself Windsurf in April
  • Windsurf (now Devin Desktop) · July: founders join Google; Cognition agrees to acquire Windsurf
  • Wing · Last company release, 0.85.49, in February; Wing Cloud shuts down in April
  • Workers KV · A third-party storage outage on 12 June takes KV and dependent Cloudflare services down for over two hours
  • Workers KV · KV moves onto Cloudflare-run storage, announced 8 August
  • Workers Observability · Workers Observability launches on April 9; Workers Logs generally available
  • Workers Observability · Automatic tracing in open beta on October 28
  • Wrangler · Wrangler v4 on March 13; commands default to local data
  • Xata · The rebuilt Postgres platform opens as a private beta in May; the old service becomes Xata Lite
  • Yocto Project · The combined poky repository stops for new releases; bitbake-setup replaces it
  • YugabyteDB · v2025.1 series ships PostgreSQL 15 compatibility; v2025.2 becomes the LTS
  • Zed · Agent Panel in May; built-in debugger in June
  • Zed · Agent Client Protocol and a $32M Series B led by Sequoia in August
  • Zed · Windows release in October
  • Zig · Source code moves from GitHub to Codeberg in November

2026

  • anti-slopFirst · August: rules extracted into a standalone Oxlint plugin
  • Artifact KeeperFirst · Repository created (January 15); Show HN (February 5); 1.0.0 release candidates (February 9–11)
  • DuckFlightFirst · First commit on 31 August; 0.1.x released as a DuckDB community extension
  • FallowFirst · March 17: first release (0.1), a dead-code analyzer for JS and TS
  • HotdataFirst · January: the caching layer lands, and query results become queryable data
  • LakeOpsFirst · QueryFlux repository opens (March)
  • RSigmaFirst · First commits in February; 0.2.0, the first feature-complete release, on February 17
  • SlopcheckFirst · March 14: first version, for Rust projects
  • StreambedFirst · Repository created in April; “Why I built Streambed” published on 12 April
  • Aerospike · Aerospike 8.2 released in September
  • Agent tools and integrations · The 2026-07-28 revision makes MCP stateless: no handshake, no sessions
  • Agentic AI Foundation · Technical Committee charter adopted in March; agentgateway joins in June, A2A in August, Agent Router in September
  • Agentic AI Foundation · Agent Skills, Open Responses, OpenEnv and OpenSandbox join on October 22, making 10 projects
  • AGNTCY · Agent Directory v1.8.0 released on October 15; the project is still hosted directly by the Linux Foundation
  • Agones · v1.61.0 in September, on a roughly six-week release cadence
  • AI app builders · Firebase Studio stops new sign-ups (June 22) ahead of its March 2027 shutdown
  • Algolia · Stephen Lynch becomes CEO in April
  • Alibaba Cloud Hologres · V4.1 upgrades the query engine and adds history-based optimisation rules
  • Alibaba Cloud PolarDB · Open-source PolarDB for PostgreSQL 17.11.1.0 released in August
  • Alpaca · 9.0 replaces the Flatpak extensions with the Ollama Manager (January)
  • Alpaca · 9.2.5 released (August)
  • Amazon Athena · Capacity reservations can be bought by the minute, from 4 DPUs
  • Amazon CloudWatch · OpenTelemetry metrics with PromQL in June; CloudWatch Omni in September
  • Amazon EC2 · Graviton5-based M9g instances become generally available in June
  • Amazon EFS · S3 Files, built on EFS, mounts S3 buckets over NFS (April)
  • Amazon ElastiCache · Valkey 9.0 brings an optional Multi-AZ transaction log for durability
  • Amazon EventBridge · Payloads grow to 1 MB; new Custom Event Bus with retention and ordering
  • Amazon EventBridge Scheduler · Default CreateSchedule rate rises to 5,000 per second; 619 more SDK actions as targets
  • Amazon MemoryDB · ElastiCache adds a Multi-AZ log; AWS recommends it for new workloads
  • Amazon Route 53 · Global Resolver, an internet-reachable anycast DNS resolver for an organization’s own clients, becomes generally available
  • Amazon S3 · Turns 20 with 500+ trillion objects; S3 Files mounts buckets over NFS (April)
  • Amazon S3 Tables · IAM-only Glue integration, all Iceberg v3 types, 100 table buckets per Region
  • anti-slop · August: opt-in Effect rules; contributors add more by September
  • anti-slop · October: latest changes to require-readable-spacing
  • AntiSlop · January 1: 0.2.1 on crates.io and npm
  • AntiSlop · January 7: 0.3.0 with profiles
  • AntiSlop · January 9: last change by the author
  • Apache Amoro · 0.9.0 release candidates begin in September
  • Apache Arrow Acero · Arrow 26.0.0 (9 October) still ships Acero, documented as experimental
  • Apache Avro · Avro 1.12.2 hardens readers against malformed data
  • Apache BookKeeper · 4.18.0 in June and 4.18.1 in September
  • Apache Calcite · 1.42.0 on 31 May, from 39 contributors, resolving 249 issues
  • Apache Camel · Camel 4.23.0 in October, supporting Java 25
  • Apache CouchDB · CouchDB 3.5.3 released in October
  • Apache DataFusion · Comet 1.0 in August; DataFusion 55.0.0 the same month
  • Apache DataFusion Comet · 0.17.0 in June runs expressions it lacks through Spark’s generated code instead of falling back
  • Apache DataFusion Comet · 1.0.0 in August: semantic versioning, ANSI mode, over 400 expressions
  • Apache DataFusion Comet · 1.1.0 in October: experimental native Iceberg writes, JDK 17 or newer required
  • Apache Doris · Version 4.1 in April; 4.1.4.1 follows in September
  • Apache Drill · Materialized views and Java 25 support land on the main branch
  • Apache Druid · Druid 38 drops Java 17 and ZooKeeper-based segment discovery
  • Apache Flink · Flink 2.3 adds changelog SQL operators and a native S3 filesystem
  • Apache Fluss · Graduates to a top-level Apache project on 16 July
  • Apache Fluss · Fluss 1.0 in September adds an HTTP gateway and Hudi tiering
  • Apache Gluten · Graduates to a top-level Apache project on 18 February
  • Apache Gluten · 1.7.0 in August: Spark 4.1, JDK 21 and 25, native Delta deletion vectors
  • Apache Hadoop · Hadoop 3.5.0 requires Java 17 and adds a GCS connector
  • Apache HBase · HBase 3.0.0 requires JDK 17 and drops Hadoop 2
  • Apache HoraeDB · Retires from the Apache Incubator on 3 March; repositories archived
  • Apache Hudi · Hudi 1.2 adds vector search, variant, blobs and Lance file support
  • Apache IoTDB · 2.0.11 in September requires JDK 17 and adds an Edge edition
  • Apache JMeter · The main branch prepares 6.0, requiring Java 17
  • Apache NiFi · NiFi Registry deprecated in favour of Git-based registry clients
  • Apache OpenDAL · Release 0.59 adds conditional deletes and S3 Express auth, with breaking API changes (September)
  • Apache ORC · ORC 2.3.1, the current release (July)
  • Apache Ozone · Ozone 2.2.0 adds S3 conditional requests (July)
  • Apache Paimon · Paimon 2.0 adds multimodal tables, vectors and search indexes
  • Apache Parquet · Format 2.14.0 adds ALP, a compact encoding for floating-point columns
  • Apache Pekko · 2.0.0-M4 ports Akka code up to 2.8.4; 1.7.1 ships in September
  • Apache Pinot · Pinot 1.5.0 in April; 1.6.0 release candidates in October
  • Apache Polaris · Graduates to a top-level Apache project in February
  • Apache Pulsar · Pulsar 5.0 LTS adds scalable topics, 5 October
  • Apache Spark · Spark 4.2 adds geospatial types and change data capture
  • Apache Subversion · 1.15.0, the first new release line since 2020 (October 8)
  • Apache Superset · 6.1 released in May; 7.0 release candidates in October
  • Apache Thrift · Thrift 0.25.0 released in September
  • Apache TinkerPop (Gremlin) · TinkerPop 4.0.0-beta.3 in July; 3.8.2 in September
  • Apache TsFile · 2.4.0 in July speeds up the C++ library with SIMD and parallel reads
  • Apache XTable · 0.4.0 adds Paimon and Parquet sources and a Spark runtime jar in August
  • Apache Zeppelin · Zeppelin 0.12.1 released in June
  • API frameworks · Starlette 1.0 in March, after nearly eight years of 0.x releases
  • Apitally · Tracing on OpenTelemetry in February; Python SDK 1.0 in October
  • Arc · Arc Cloud in April; quarterly releases from June; Iceberg in September
  • ArcticDB · 6.x releases; every version up to 4.5 is now Apache 2.0
  • Argo CD · Argo CD 3.3 adds PreDelete hooks and safer deletions
  • Ariadne · 1.0.0 in March; SQLAlchemy integration in June; GraphQL-core 3.3 support in October
  • Arroyo · Cloudflare Pipelines becomes Basin Pipelines and is generally available
  • Artie · $12M Series A led by Standard Capital in January
  • Artie · Free plan launches in August; the Transfer repository is no longer public
  • Artifact Keeper · 1.1.0 (April 2); 1.2.0 (June 2) moves search to OpenSearch
  • Artifact Keeper · 1.11.6 released (October 24)
  • Artifact registries · Artifact Keeper, an MIT-licensed registry for 45+ formats, is released
  • AsyncAPI · AsyncAPI 3.1.0 released on January 31, adding ROS 2 bindings
  • Atlas · Atlas 1.1 adds database security as code (February 3); 1.2 (April 9); 1.3 (July 30)
  • Augment Code · Context Engine MCP for any agent on February 6
  • Augment Code · Harness acquires Cosmos, Auggie and the Context Engine on October 8
  • Auth0 · Rules and Hooks end of life on November 18
  • Autoscaling · Kubernetes 1.37 enables pod autoscaling to zero by default (beta)
  • AWS Chalice · 1.33.0 in May adds Python 3.14, drops 3.9
  • AWS CloudFormation · Cross-account Fn::GetStackOutput in May; express mode in June
  • AWS Elastic Beanstalk · Cluster mode runs many applications on a shared EKS cluster
  • AWS Fargate · 32-vCPU tasks with up to 244 GiB of memory arrive in June
  • AWS IoT Core · AWS IoT Events ends 20 May; Greengrass V1 support ends 7 October
  • AWS Lake Formation · Glue Data Catalog adds IAM-only authorization for S3 Tables, with Lake Formation as an opt-in (March)
  • AWS Serverless Application Model (SAM) · sam deploy --express uses CloudFormation express mode
  • AWS Step Functions · Preview of an AI agent reasoning step (AgentCore)
  • Axon Framework · 5.1 adds the commercial Axoniq Framework modules on top of the open-source core
  • Azure Blob Storage · Smart tier moves blobs between hot, cool and cold automatically (April)
  • Azure IoT Hub · IoT Central retirement announced for 20 September 2029
  • basedpyright · October: 1.40.2, based on Pyright 1.1.414
  • Bazel · Bazel 9.0 LTS removes WORKSPACE in January; BUILD Foundation starts operating on October 14
  • BentoML · Modular acquires BentoML (February); Qualcomm completes its purchase of Modular (July)
  • Besu · 26.10 schedules the Amsterdam fork on the Hoodi testnet
  • Beta9 · Still pre-1.0, with gateway and worker tags past 0.1.790
  • Blackbox AI · Orchestrator-executor results on Terminal-Bench 2.0, in June
  • Blackbox AI · Fastest Nemotron 3 Ultra provider per Artificial Analysis, in July
  • Blackbox AI · Pricing page lists only an Enterprise plan on committed spend
  • Bruin · ingestr 1.0 rewritten in Go and relicensed under FSL
  • Bubble Tea · v2.0.0 with the Cursed Renderer and the charm.land import path (February)
  • Bubble Tea · v2.1.0 adds the OSC 7501 program status protocol (October)
  • BullMQ · BullMQ 6 adds pluggable backends and PostgreSQL
  • Bundlers and dev servers · Vite 8 ships Rolldown as its only bundler; VoidZero joins Cloudflare
  • Bytewax · Repository marked community-maintained in May
  • cargo-semver-checks · The Rust standard library uses it to guard against breakage (August); 0.51.0 released (October 3)
  • CedarDB · Relaunched as a single-engine HTAP database in June
  • celld · celld v0.1.0 released as open source on 5 August
  • celld · v0.3.0 makes peer (fleet) durability the default on 20 August
  • celld · v0.6.2 beta on 7 October
  • celld · Deno team joins Cloudflare to merge celld into workerd, 9 October
  • Chaos Mesh · 2.8.6 released in October
  • ChartDB · Version 1.20.1 (April 7); the founders launch OneCLI with Y Combinator (August)
  • chDB · chDB 4 adds the pandas-compatible DataStore; the engine becomes chdb-core
  • chDB · September: durable storage on object stores and a PostgreSQL extension
  • Cherry Servers · Tokyo location goes live in May
  • Chroma · Version 1.5.4 drops product telemetry in March
  • Citus · Citus 14.0 supports PostgreSQL 18; Azure sets Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL to retire in 2029
  • ClickHouse · Raises a $400 million Series D and acquires Langfuse
  • ClickStack · Managed ClickStack enters beta in ClickHouse Cloud in February
  • Cline · Cline CLI 2.0 in February; the open-source Cline SDK in May
  • Cline · VS Code extension moved onto the SDK by August 23; Cline Desktop in September
  • Cloud cost and carbon · FOCUS 1.4 in June; AWS deprecates the Customer Carbon Footprint Tool for AWS Sustainability
  • Cloud Foundry · Korifi is archived on September 15; Cloud Foundry runs unchanged on any Kubernetes cluster (October)
  • Cloud Foundry Foundation · Agentic Runtime working group added in June; Korifi archived in September
  • Cloud Hypervisor · v53.0 released in July
  • Cloud Native Computing Foundation · OpenTelemetry graduates in May; gVisor and KubeRay voted into the sandbox in September
  • Cloudflare · Announces plans to become a public certificate authority with post-quantum certificates
  • Cloudflare Access · Documented as the access controls of Cloudflare One, with policies for web, SaaS, private network and MCP portal apps
  • Cloudflare Agents SDK · Project Think, the next generation of the SDK, on April 15
  • Cloudflare Agents SDK · McpAgent deprecated in favor of stateless createMcpHandler
  • Cloudflare AI Gateway · REST API on api.cloudflare.com for any model, May 21
  • Cloudflare AI Gateway · Spend limits by user, model or gateway, June 5
  • Cloudflare AI Gateway · Workers AI and AI Gateway share one binding, API and bill, August 7
  • Cloudflare Basin Catalog · Billing begins on 3 August
  • Cloudflare Basin Catalog · Generally available and renamed Basin Catalog on 1 October
  • Cloudflare Basin Pipelines · Generally available and renamed Basin Pipelines on 1 October
  • Cloudflare Basin SQL · Generally available and renamed Basin SQL on 1 October
  • Cloudflare Browser Run · Renamed Browser Run on April 15, with CDP, MCP, Live View and session recordings
  • Cloudflare Browser Run · Default limits raised to 200 concurrent browsers in August
  • Cloudflare Containers · Account limits raised 15x to 1,500 vCPU and 6 TiB of memory in February
  • Cloudflare Containers · Containers and Sandboxes generally available on April 13
  • Cloudflare Containers · Rebuilt for agent sandboxes on September 30: per-start images, 6x faster starts, snapshots in beta
  • Cloudflare K2 · Cloudflare’s data platform becomes generally available as Basin on 1 October; Pipelines becomes Basin Pipelines
  • Cloudflare K2 · K2 launches in public beta on 1 October for Workers Paid accounts
  • Cloudflare R2 · The catalog, renamed Basin Catalog, becomes generally available on 1 October
  • Cloudflare Sandbox SDK · Containers and Sandboxes generally available on April 13
  • Cloudflare Sandbox SDK · June 9: desktop, exposePort() and default sessions deprecated
  • Cloudflare Sandbox SDK · Sandbox SDK 1.0 on September 30: control moves into your own Durable Object
  • Cloudflare Workflows · Steps can return streamed output in March
  • Cloudflare Workflows · Per-step and storage billing from August 10
  • Cloudflare, Inc. · Agents Week in April; Basin generally available and K2 announced on October 1
  • CloudNativePG · 1.30 in June adds a Kubernetes Lease that gates primary promotion
  • CockroachDB · Cockroach Continuum replaces Cloud plans for new organizations
  • Codeberg · Terms of use exclude AI-generated and cryptocurrency projects (July)
  • Codecov · Harness acquires Codecov from Sentry (June 2); codecov-action 7.1.1 released (September 17)
  • Commitizen (cz-cli) · 4.3.2, a dependency update for npm trusted publishing (June 12)
  • Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) · NVD switches to risk-based enrichment on April 15; CISA’s BOD 26-04 carries the KEV criteria forward on June 10
  • Composio · REST API v3.1 makes the latest tool versions the default in April
  • Composio · Sessions become first-class in both SDKs in June; usage-based pricing from August
  • Composio · Composio Instant lets agents pay per call for third-party tools in October
  • Confidential computing · Azure retires DCsv2 SGX VMs in June and sets October 31, 2029 for DCsv3
  • Confidential Computing Consortium · Keystone and Occlum archived in July
  • Continuous Delivery Foundation · Tekton moves to the CNCF in March; Jenkins X renamed JayeX in April; AI and platform engineering SIGs in October
  • CrateDB · Crate.io AG in Liechtenstein takes over CrateDB; 6.5.0 ships in October
  • Crucible · Unreplicated local disks added beside it in release v18 (February)
  • Cruise Control for Kafka · Becomes an LF Projects series (charter adopted 27 July); 3.1.0 under Apache 2.0 (October)
  • Cursor · Partners with SpaceX on model training in April
  • Cursor · Acquired by SpaceX on August 14
  • Dagster · Prefect announces it is acquiring Dagster Labs in July; Schrock moves on
  • DAOS · Version 2.8 in August, the first foundation release, with production-ready Metadata-on-SSD
  • DAOS Foundation · DAOS 2.8 in August, the first release managed by the foundation
  • Dapper · Dapper 2.1.89 released (September)
  • Dapr · Dapr 1.19 released in October
  • Dashboards and BI · Google renames Looker Studio back to Data Studio
  • Database clients and design tools · Azure Data Studio support ends (February 28); DbVisualizer 26.2 lets users pick Anthropic, Google or OpenAI models (June)
  • Databend · Paimon read and write support merged in July
  • Databend · Delta Lake table engine removed in September
  • Databricks · Announces in July it is raising a strategic round at a $188 billion valuation
  • DB Pilot · Version 1.4.17 adds custom AI providers and models (May 22)
  • dbt · Merger completes in June; Rust dbt v2.0 ships under Apache 2.0 in September
  • DbVisualizer · 26.1 (March 6); 26.2 adds a choice of Anthropic, Google and OpenAI models and tab groups (June 18)
  • Debezium · Debezium 3.7 is released in September
  • Deep Lake · Repository gains the pg_deeplake PostgreSQL extension; 4.7.4 on PyPI in August
  • Delta Lake · Delta Lake 4.1 makes catalog-managed tables production-ready
  • Devin · Devin built into Windsurf 2.0; Devin CLI hands local sessions to the cloud (April)
  • Dioxus · Dioxus 0.8 alphas rework the native renderer
  • Distributed ledgers · AWS stops taking new Amazon Managed Blockchain customers on October 29
  • DNS · ICANN opens a new round of applications for top-level domains
  • Docsy · Agent support in 0.15 (May); becomes an LF project in August; 0.18 in October drops jQuery
  • Documentation sites · llms.txt v2: thousands of sites, generated by docs platforms, checked by Lighthouse
  • DocumentDB · DocumentDB 1.0, its Kubernetes operator 1.0 and VS Code extension 1.0 (October)
  • Dokku · v0.38.31 is released in September
  • Dolt · Dolt 2.0 in May; Doltgres 1.0 in August
  • Doppler · Plans: Developer free for 3 users, Team $21 per user a month, Enterprise custom
  • DPDK (Data Plane Development Kit) · 26.03 and 26.07 released; 26.11 LTS due 18 November
  • Dremio · Polaris graduates in February; SAP completes its acquisition on July 6
  • Drizzle ORM · PlanetScale hires the Drizzle core team in March
  • Drizzle ORM · Drizzle 1.0 release candidate in April
  • Dropshot · 0.17.1 released (June)
  • DuckDB · DuckLake 1.0 in April; DuckDB Labs becomes DuckLabs in May; DuckLabs announces in August it will join AWS; 2.0.0 LTS in October
  • DuckFlight · Core v0.1.14 on 21 October; DuckDB 2.0 builds from Sidequery’s repository
  • DuckLake · DuckLake 1.0 ships in April with a backward-compatibility guarantee
  • DuckLake · An Apache DataFusion integration is announced in July
  • Duplicati · Duplicati 2.4 released in September
  • Durable Objects · Billing for SQLite storage starts in January
  • Dyad · Version 1.0.0 on 19 May
  • Dyad · Version 1.19.0 on 12 October
  • eBPF Foundation · Meta and Toyota join in July; $100,000 in research grants in September
  • EdgeX Foundry · 4.0.2 patch release in May
  • eKuiper · 2.4.0 in May; 2.5 in alpha by October
  • Electron · Electron 45 ships on October 20 with Chromium 156
  • Elicit · Elicit API and MCP server launched (July)
  • Elicit · Research Agent and BioDecisionBench launched (August)
  • Elicit · Routines keep research current (September)
  • Encore · Early access for Encore.py and Encore.rs in September; v1.58.8 in October
  • ent · v0.14.6 (March)
  • Envoy · AWS App Mesh, built on Envoy, reaches end of support
  • etcd · etcd 3.7 in July
  • ETL & ELT pipelines · Fivetran and dbt Labs complete their merger on 1 June
  • Event buses · EventBridge’s new Custom Event Bus adds retention, replay and ordering
  • Event streams · Kafka 4.2 makes queue-style share groups production-ready
  • Evidence · Last releases of the legacy npm packages, in February
  • Expo · SDK 58 moves to React Native 0.88 and makes Expo Router’s server features stable
  • Fallow · March 20: 1.0 with semantic versioning for config and output
  • Fallow · March 25: 2.0 runs dead code, duplication and health together
  • Fallow · July 4: 3.0 adds styling analysis to the audit gate
  • Fallow · October 22: 3.35.0
  • FastAPI · 0.129.0 requires Python 3.10 (February); 0.133.0 supports Starlette 1.0
  • FastAPI · 0.142.0 adds native OpenTelemetry support on September 29
  • Feldera · Enterprise code joins the repository under separate terms in May
  • Feldera · $21.5 million Series A and seed announced in September
  • File storage · S3 Files serves an S3 bucket as an NFS file system (April)
  • FinOps Foundation · FOCUS 1.4 ratified June 4; LF announces the Tokenomics Foundation on June 3
  • Fintech Open Source Foundation · Lifecycle rewritten along CNCF lines with a labs entry stage; 107 members
  • Firebase Studio · Sunset announced on 19 March; migration tools roll out
  • Firebase Studio · New workspaces and sign-ups disabled on 22 June
  • Firebolt · Kubernetes operator published; open-source engine announced as preview
  • Firecracker · AWS launches Lambda MicroVMs, stateful sandboxes built on Firecracker
  • Firezone · REST API, Terraform provider, CLI and Business plan; ICE removed so only WireGuard is on the wire
  • Fission · Five releases in May and June, through v1.27.0 and an executor rewrite
  • Fivetran · Deletes billed as MAR from January; dbt Labs merger completes on 1 June
  • FlashPanel · Ubuntu 26.04 servers in August; live log viewer and account center in October
  • Floci · First commit and 1.0.0 on 15 March, a week before LocalStack’s switch
  • Floci · Azure, Google Cloud and Oracle Cloud emulators arrive between April and July
  • Floci · Floci 2.0 on 1 September; 2.6 million Docker pulls by mid-month
  • FOCUS · 1.4 ratified June 4; Tokenomics Foundation announced to fund token pricing in FOCUS
  • Forgejo · v15.0 LTS (April 16) and v16.0 (July 16); 16.0.6 and 15.0.10 released October 12
  • Fossil · Fossil 2.28 released March 11
  • FoundationDB · 7.3.77 is the latest production release, in April
  • Foxglove · Pro from $20 a month; agentic data platform and Remote Access over WebRTC
  • FRRouting (FRR) · 10.6 in March, 10.7 in July, 10.7.1 on 31 August
  • Gel · Gel Cloud closes on 31 January
  • Gemini CLI · Passes 100,000 GitHub stars; Google announces Antigravity CLI as its successor for most users (May)
  • Gemini CLI · Stops serving free and Google AI Pro and Ultra users (18 June)
  • Gemini CLI · Still released weekly for business licences and paid API keys
  • Genkit · Genkit Python 0.12 adds generative UI with A2UI
  • Genkit · Genkit Dart 1.0 for Dart and Flutter apps
  • Gerrit Code Review · Gerrit 3.14.0 with Review Agent (May 15); 3.15.0 planned for November 13
  • Git · Git 2.56.0 released September 28; Git 3.0 still has no release date
  • Git hooks · Git 2.54 lets config files define hooks, several per event (April 20)
  • Git LFS · Git LFS 3.8.0 adds zstd-compressed downloads (August 27)
  • Gitea · Gitea 28.0.0 drops the “1.” prefix (September 30); 28.2.0 released October 18
  • GitHub · 120 of 160 production services running in Azure, with the migration behind schedule (October report)
  • GitHub Actions · Prices for GitHub-hosted runners cut by up to 39% in January
  • GitLab · $955.2 million revenue in fiscal 2026 (March); GitLab 19.5 released October 15
  • GizmoSQL · Proprietary Enterprise edition in January; DuckDB ships Quack in May
  • GizmoSQL · GizmoData Cloud launches in September
  • Glama · Tool Definition Quality Score published in April
  • Glama · AI gateway open-sourced as Lightport on 27 April; focus moves to MCP
  • Go · Go 1.27 released on 19 August
  • Google AI Studio · Full-stack Build mode with the Antigravity coding agent (18 March)
  • Google AI Studio · Prepay and Postpay billing plans take effect (23 March)
  • Google AI Studio · New API keys become authorization keys (28 May)
  • Google BigQuery · BigQuery Graph becomes generally available in August
  • Google Cloud Pub/Sub · Vertex AI inference transforms; Bigtable export subscriptions in preview
  • Google Cloud Run · Worker pools for always-on background work reach general availability
  • Google Cloud Storage · Rapid buckets store objects in one zone beside compute (March)
  • Grafana · Grafana 13 launched at GrafanaCON in April
  • Grafana Loki · Loki 3.7 in March; Promtail removed in 3.7.3 in favour of Grafana Alloy
  • Grafana Mimir · Mimir 3.1 in June and 3.2 in August
  • Grafana Tempo · Tempo 3.0 in May replaces ingesters with Kafka, block-builders and live-stores; 3.1 in September
  • Graph lakehouses · Delta Lake graph lakehouse session (January), GraphLake paper (March), Neo4j Virtual Graph preview (June)
  • GraphQL · GraphQL.js v17 released in June
  • GraphQL-core · 3.3.0 follows GraphQL.js 17 on September 27
  • GraphQL-native databases · PostGraphile 5 released
  • Green Software Foundation · Asim Hussain steps down in March; Navveen Balani becomes executive director on May 6
  • Gremlin · Foresight AI generally available on October 7
  • GreptimeDB · Version 1.0 GA in April
  • GreptimeDB · Enterprise License for gated code in June; 1.2 adds JSON2 in September
  • Grizzly · Repository moved to grafana-cold-storage and archived
  • gRPC · First gRPC-Rust preview in May
  • gVisor · CNCF accepts Google’s donation of gVisor (September 28)
  • Harbor · 2.15.4 (October 9) and 2.14.6 (October 23)
  • HashiCorp Boundary · Boundary 1.0 in June, released only for HCP and Enterprise
  • HashiCorp Consul · Consul 2.0 in May, on IBM’s versioning and support lifecycle
  • HashiCorp Nomad · Nomad 2.0 in April, on IBM’s support lifecycle
  • HashiCorp Vagrant · HCP Vagrant stops new boxes in October and closes December 31
  • HashiCorp Vault · Vault 2.0 released in April, adopting IBM’s support lifecycle
  • Haskell containers · containers 0.8.1 (October)
  • Hasura GraphQL Engine · v2.51.2 released on 23 October
  • HCP Vault Radar · Slack scanning reaches general availability in CLI 0.41 in January
  • Heroku · Heroku moves to a sustaining engineering model on February 6
  • Hetzner · Price increases on 1 April and 15 June, driven by RAM and SSD costs
  • Hex · AI usage moves to credits in July
  • High Performance Software Foundation · Flux, ClusterShell, Open MPI, LAMMPS, ReFrame and EasyBuild accepted; Kokkos moves to core in July
  • HiveMQ · HiveMQ 4.55 LTS ships; the Serverless cloud plan closes at year end
  • Hotdata · February: hotdata.dev goes live, with geospatial SQL
  • Hotdata · March: the CLI launches, with BM25 full-text and vector search
  • Hotdata · May: managed instant databases launch
  • Hotdata · June: datafusion-ducklake is donated to DataFusion contrib and becomes the storage backend
  • Hotdata · July: database forks, mutable tables and a concurrency benchmark
  • Hugging Face · Nvidia agrees to buy Hugging Face for $12.93 billion (3 September)
  • Hyperdrive · MySQL support generally available on 7 August
  • Hyperdrive · Python Workers support on 16 September
  • Hyperledger Fabric · Fabric-X 1.0 on May 20; Fabric 3.1.5 on June 18
  • Ibis · Ibis 12.0 released in February
  • IceGate · v0.1.0 in April, after release candidates from March
  • IceGate · v0.2.0 release candidates from August to October
  • icepick · 0.4.1 brings the CLI with commit, compaction and snapshot cleanup on 19 January
  • imbl · 7.0.0 (January) speeds up HashMap and the B-tree; 7.0.2 in September
  • immer · Version 0.9.1 (January)
  • Immutable.js · 5.1.9 in June and a 6.0.0 beta in August
  • InfluxDB · Docker latest tag switches to InfluxDB 3 Core
  • Instatus · Sells status pages with built-in monitors, on-call and escalation
  • Janssen · Janssen v2.5.0 released on October 7
  • JavaScript · ECMAScript 2026, the 17th edition, published in June
  • JAX · JAX 0.12 released in October
  • Jenkins · Java 17 support ends; LTS 2.580.2 released on October 28
  • JEPA (Joint-Embedding Predictive Architecture) · AMI Labs raises $1.03 billion to build world models (March 9); Meta releases V-JEPA 2.1 (March 16)
  • JFrog Artifactory · GoCenter’s final shutdown (February 2); CISA lists an exploited Artifactory CVE (September)
  • jOOQ · jOOQ 3.21 is the current release
  • JSR · Deno team joins Cloudflare on October 9; JSR’s infrastructure moves to Cloudflare
  • Jujutsu · 0.46.0 released October 7
  • Jupyter · JupyterLab 4.6 and Notebook 7.6 in June
  • Jupyter Foundation · 25 members, seven of them Premier; Apple chairs the Governing Board
  • K3s · v1.37.0+k3s1 in September
  • Kafka Streams · Kafka 4.2 makes the broker-side Streams rebalance protocol generally available
  • KairosDB · 1.4.0-beta.1 tagged in January; no commits since
  • Kamu · 0.271.0 in October, following ODF spec 0.42.1
  • Kapa · Kapa MCP and Company Knowledge Bench released (October)
  • Karpenter · Version 1.14 released in July
  • Kata Containers · 4.0 makes the Rust runtime the default
  • KernelCI · Regzbot joins in May; kci-dev adds an MCP server in September
  • Kilo Code · Kilo CLI rebuilt on OpenCode server early in the year
  • Kilo Code · Rebuilt VS Code extension becomes the default on April 2
  • Kilo Code · Anaconda announces the acquisition on July 15; legacy extensions end of life July 31
  • kind · v0.33 in August defaults to Kubernetes 1.37
  • Klutch · 1.5 in May; 1.5.1 in June adds konnector control plane mode
  • Koyeb · Definitive agreement to join Mistral AI, February 17
  • ksqlDB · IBM completes its acquisition of Confluent in March
  • kubeadm · Ships with Kubernetes 1.37 in August
  • KubeRay · Accepted as a CNCF sandbox project in September; moves to the kuberay-project organization
  • Kubernetes · Version 1.37 released in August
  • KurrentDB · 26.1 adds SQL access over Arrow Flight SQL; 26.2 licenses multi-node and frees most other features
  • Lakehouse catalogs · Polaris graduates in February; BigLake metastore becomes the Lakehouse runtime catalog in April
  • Lakekeeper · 0.11.0 in January makes vended credentials the S3 default
  • Lakekeeper · Vakamo’s first published Lakekeeper+ release, 0.12.0, in April
  • Lakekeeper · 0.14.0 in October adds the Grants API, governance tags and namespace moves
  • LakeOps · “What Is a Data Lakehouse Control Plane?” (August) and “The Future Isn’t One Engine” (September)
  • LakeOps · QueryFlux 0.4.0 released (October)
  • LakeSoul · 4.0 in September, with Vortex as the default file format
  • Lance · Apache Hudi 1.2 adds Lance as a file format for vector and multimodal data
  • LangChain · Version 1.4 builds MCP support into langchain.mcp
  • LangGraph · 1.1 adds type-safe streaming and invoke results
  • LangGraph · 1.2 adds per-node timeouts, error handlers, graceful shutdown and the beta DeltaChannel
  • Large language models · Google renames Vertex AI to Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform (April 22)
  • Legend · Still incubating, with engine extensions for about 20 relational databases
  • Leptos · Leptos 0.9 reaches its first release candidate in October
  • LF AI & Data Foundation · Bitol graduates in July; 53 active and 19 archived projects in October
  • LF Edge · 14 active projects: five Impact, three Growth and six At-Large
  • LF Networking · Five graduated projects, three incubating, two in the sandbox and four candidates
  • liboqs · 0.16.0 (July 9) switches ML-DSA to mldsa-native and removes SPHINCS+
  • libvirt · 12.0.0 in January; 12.8.0 on October 1
  • LM Studio · 0.4.0 adds the llmster daemon and parallel requests; 0.4.1 adds an Anthropic-compatible API (January)
  • LM Studio · LM Studio Bionic agent app with LM Studio Secure Cloud (16 July)
  • Load balancers · Kubernetes retires the community ingress-nginx controller in March, pointing users to Gateway API
  • Local cloud emulators · LocalStack gates its latest image behind accounts; Floci 1.0 ships under MIT
  • LocalStack · One account-gated image from 23 March; the open-source repository is archived
  • LocalStack · lstk CLI and the WonderTwin AI acquisition in September
  • Lovable · New apps move to TanStack Start on 13 May
  • Lovable · $400M Series C at a $13.3B valuation on 12 August
  • Lucide · Version 1 released on 23 March: brand icons removed, aria-hidden by default, no UMD build
  • Lura · Lura v3.0.0 tagged on September 30, with configuration version 4; KrakenD CE 3.0.2 follows on October 21
  • Malloy · Release 0.0.435 (October); the CLI now includes an MCP server
  • MariaDB · Buys GridGain; 12.3 LTS ships in May; 10.6 reaches end of life
  • Material UI (MUI) · Material UI and MUI X v9 together on 8 April; new MUI X licensing
  • maturin · 1.11 (January) deprecates upload and publish; 1.14 (June) builds abi3t wheels for PyO3 0.29
  • Meilisearch · Version 1.55 released in October
  • Meltano · Matatika acquires Meltano after Arch shuts down; Meltano Cloud returns
  • Memgraph · Licence amended on 1 January; version 3.14.0 released on 21 October
  • Message queues · Kafka 4.2 makes queue-style share groups production-ready
  • Metrics · CloudWatch adds native OpenTelemetry metrics with PromQL in June
  • MicroK8s · 1.36 in May drops the dashboard addon after its upstream deprecation
  • MicroVMs · AWS launches Lambda MicroVMs, stateful sandboxes built on Firecracker
  • MindsDB · Product renamed MindsHub; the engine moves to its own repository, last release 26.1.0 (April 23)
  • minikube · v1.39.0 in September
  • MinIO · GitHub repository archived on 25 April; users pointed to AIStor
  • MinIO · minio/minio and minio/mc images gone from Docker Hub (September)
  • Mintlify · $45M Series B in April; free Starter plan relaunched in September
  • MLflow · MLflow 3.17 (October)
  • mlkem-native · v2.0.0 released (August 7); v1.3 supported until February 2027
  • Model Context Protocol (MCP) · 2026-07-28 removes the handshake and sessions, making the protocol stateless
  • Model hubs · The ggml and llama.cpp team joins Hugging Face (February 20); Nvidia agrees to acquire Hugging Face (September 3)
  • Model routers and gateways · OpenRouter raises a $113 million Series B (May); Stripe is reported to be acquiring OpenRouter (August)
  • Model serving and MLOps · Modular acquires BentoML (February); Yatai is archived (June)
  • MotherDuck · Postgres endpoint in March; DuckLake 1.0 in April; DuckLabs to join AWS in August
  • MySQL · MySQL 9.7 LTS moves several Enterprise-only features into Community Edition
  • nanopb · 0.4.9.2 fixes an attacker-controlled pointer call and limits nesting depth
  • Neon · Azure regions deprecated in April; Neon runs on AWS only
  • Netlify · Edge Functions move to Firecracker microVMs
  • NGINX · nginx 1.30 stable adds upstream sticky sessions and HTTP/2 to backends
  • ngrok · Docs describe three products: Gateway, AI Gateway and Share Localhost
  • Nimble · Still marked a work in progress, with no stability guarantees
  • Nitric · v1.28.4 in October, after months without changes
  • Node.js · Node.js 26 ships in May and enters LTS on October 28; Node.js 27 alpha begins under one-release-a-year
  • Nuclio · Two maintained lines, 1.16 and 1.17; 1.17.10 released in October
  • Nx · Nx 23.0.0 (June 16); 23.3.0 released October 7
  • Object storage · S3 Files mounts buckets as NFS file systems (April)
  • Observability · OpenTelemetry graduates from the CNCF in May
  • Observable Framework · 1.13.4 in March, a dependency-upgrade release
  • OCache · 1.0.0 in January, as the cache inside TAG; 1.13.0 in September
  • OCSF · Version 1.8.0 adds an AI Operation profile in March; 1.9.0 released on August 3
  • OLake · OLake Fusion for Iceberg compaction in April
  • OLake · Ingestion engine renamed OLake Go in June; v0.11 adds deletion vectors
  • Omicron · Release v23 (September) adds IPv6-only rack networking
  • Omnigres · Last commit to main in February; Omnigres Corp. continues as Inferal Inc.
  • On-call · Grafana OnCall OSS repository archived
  • One · Pica becomes One on 25 March, with a CLI, Relay and an open knowledge base
  • One · $4 million in new seed funding announced on 6 July
  • One · Hosted remote MCP server with server-side scopes on 13 July
  • Onehouse · Lakegres, first called LakeBase, launches in February and is renamed in July
  • oneTBB · Version 2023.2.0 released on October 28
  • Open Data Fabric · RFC-018 to RFC-020: IaC resources, tasks and flows, authorization
  • Open Data Fabric · Spec version 0.42.1
  • Open vSwitch · Version 4.0.0 on 17 August drops Windows and legacy tunnel support
  • Open WebUI · v0.12.0 released (October)
  • OpenAPI Initiative · Arazzo 1.1.0 in May; OpenAPI 3.2.1 and Overlay 1.2.0 in September
  • OpenAPI Search · llms.txt and a skills endpoint added in January
  • OpenBao · Read scaling in 2.5; per-namespace seals in 2.6 in August; 2.7 on October 5
  • OpenCode · Passes 95,000 GitHub stars; published by Anomaly Innovations
  • openCypher · Release 2024.3 adds SHORTEST; repository marked unofficial
  • OpenDaylight · Vanadium, the 23rd release, in January: Java 21 and a gNMI plugin
  • OpenJS Foundation · Node.js LTS upgrade programme in March; Security Stewardship Program in September
  • OpenRouter · Stripe agrees to acquire OpenRouter (19 August)
  • OpenRouter · US and EU in-region routing, and a Batch API at half price (September)
  • OpenSearch Software Foundation · All TSC seats now elected; more than 2.4 billion downloads reported in September
  • OpenStack · 2026.2 Hibiscus released on 30 September
  • OpenTelemetry · Graduates from the CNCF in May
  • OpenTofu · OpenTofu 1.13.0 released on September 29
  • OPTE (Oxide Packet Transformation Engine) · IPv6 support (release v18, February); IPv6-only racks (release v23, September)
  • osquery · osquery 5.24.0 released on October 9
  • OVN (Open Virtual Network) · 26.03 long-term support release in March; 26.09 in September
  • Oxc · Oxfmt beta (February), JS plugins alpha (March), stable type-aware linting (July)
  • Oxc · VoidZero joins Cloudflare (June); Oxc stays MIT-licensed
  • Oxia · 0.16.11 in October; 0.18 release candidates
  • Oxide Cloud Computer · Local disks and IPv6 in release v18 (February); IPv6-only rack networking in v23 (September)
  • Oxide Computer Company · $200M Series C (February); profitable; $445M Series D led by Eclipse with AMD Ventures (October 9)
  • P4 · P4Runtime 1.5.0 in February
  • Parseable · Version 3.0 in August adds multi-tenancy and an MCP server
  • Pathway · Renamed Pathway Live Data Framework; 0.33.0 released in September
  • Pebble · v2.1.7 is tagged in August
  • Percona Operators · Everest becomes OpenEverest and joins the CNCF Sandbox; PostgreSQL operator 3.0
  • Perforce P4 · P4 Server 2026.1 (May 19); Patch 3 on October 7
  • pg_ivm · Restore after pg_dump and pg_upgrade; PostgreSQL 19 support; 1.17 in October
  • pgBackRest · Maintenance stops in April, resumes in May with six sponsors; 2.59 adds PostgreSQL 19 support in July
  • pgmq · FIFO queues (1.9) and topic routing (1.11) added
  • PGO (Crunchy Postgres for Kubernetes) · 6.0.x patch releases continue with PostgreSQL 18 and Patroni 4.1
  • PgQue · PgQue 0.1 ships in April as a single SQL file
  • PgQue · 0.2 adds Python, Go and TypeScript clients and sub-second ticks
  • PgQueuer · 1.0, the first stable release, ships in May
  • PgQueuer · 1.4 makes concurrency limits hold across simultaneous workers
  • PGSTY Silo · Upstream minio/minio archived on 25 April
  • PGSTY Silo · Fork renamed from pgsty/minio to Silo on 6 August
  • pgwatch · pgwatch 6.0: Prometheus exporters as sources, rebuilt dashboards
  • Pijul · Releases resume with 1.0.0-beta.11 (January 13) after a gap since February 2024; 1.0.0-beta.24 on September 14
  • PikaPods · 126 apps in the catalog, from about $1.80 a month
  • Pinecone · BYOC generally available in August and full-text search in September
  • Pivot · GitHub repository created in March under Epsio Labs
  • Pivot · Moves to the pivotlake organisation; first release candidate in August
  • Pivot · ClickBench entries merged on 1 October; v0.1.0 tagged on 5 October
  • Plakar · Joins the Linux Foundation and CNCF as a member; v1.1; a free plan for Plakar Control Plane
  • Plane · Plane 1.4 in July; over 61,000 GitHub stars
  • PlanetScale · Neki, sharded Postgres, enters platform preview
  • Platform as a service (PaaS) · Heroku moves to sustaining engineering (February 6); Cloud Native Buildpacks graduates in the CNCF (August 11)
  • Podman · Podman 6.0 in June: CNCF GitHub organization, cgroups v1 and CNI removed
  • Poetry · 2.3 exports pylock.toml via plugin; 2.5 adds a built-in uninstaller
  • Polars · Distributed engine on Kubernetes (June); Polars 2.0 makes streaming the default (October)
  • Post-quantum cryptography · Executive Order 14412 (June); RFC 10024 standardises X25519MLKEM768 (August); NIST IR 8547 final (October)
  • Post-Quantum Cryptography Alliance · Readiness tracking working group approved (April); Google donates Longfellow ZK (September 2)
  • PoWA · PoWA 5.3 follows PostgreSQL 19 beta changes
  • pre-commit · 4.6.0 (April 21) supports Git 2.54’s config-based hooks; 4.7.0 released October 12
  • Prefect · Prefect announces it is acquiring Dagster Labs in July
  • Presto Foundation · Four members left after Intel drops off the list in February; two new TSC members in September
  • Prisma ORM · Prisma ORM 8, a ground-up rewrite, reaches release candidate
  • Project Nessie · 0.109.0 ships on 8 October; Dremio says development has slowed
  • Protocol Buffers · Edition 2026 arrives with protoc 36.0 in August
  • Proxmox Virtual Environment · 9.2 in May on Linux 7.0; first arm64 release in August
  • PRQL · Release 0.13.14 (July); status note says development has slowed pending a new resolver
  • Pulumi · HCL, Terraform modules and Terraform state backend GA in August
  • PuppyGraph · Delta Lake community session on the graph lakehouse; version 1.15 in October
  • Pydantic · Pydantic 2.14 on October 8 drops Python 3.9 and adds Python 3.15
  • PyO3 · 0.28 (February) makes free-threading the default; 0.29 (June) adds the abi3t stable ABI
  • Pyrefly · May: stable 1.0 with configuration presets
  • Pyrefly · September: 1.3.2
  • Pyright · Pyright 1.1.414 (September)
  • PyTorch Foundation · Mark Collier becomes executive director in February; Helion and Safetensors join in April
  • QEMU · QEMU 11.0 (April) and 11.1 (August)
  • Quay · Project Quay 3.18.2 (October 20)
  • QuestDB · 10.0 adds the QuestDB Wire Protocol and live views
  • Quix Streams · 3.27 in September adds session windows and requires Python 3.11
  • RabbitMQ · 4.3 removes Mnesia; the Raft-based Khepri stores all metadata
  • Radicle · Move to radicle.dev (April 23); 1.10.0 (August 5); network protocol vulnerability disclosed (September 23)
  • Railway · $100M Series B in January; security incident and paused builds on October 21
  • Ratatui · Ratatui 0.30.2 (June); development continues on 0.31
  • Ray · Ray 2.59.0 released in October
  • Ray Serve · Ray 2.59 (October)
  • Rayforce · April: the v2 rework; June: first tagged release, v2.1.0
  • Rayforce · June: an add-on speaks q’s IPC wire format
  • Rayforce · October: v2.11.0
  • React · Moves to the React Foundation on February 24; React 19.3 in September
  • React Foundation · Launched on February 24 with eight Platinum members; repositories move to the react GitHub organisation in June
  • React Native · Hermes V1 default in 0.84; moves to the React Foundation on February 24; 0.88 in October
  • Readyset · Licence grant capped at 2 GB of RAM in May; the Readyset Platform launches in July
  • Red Hat OpenShift · OKD 5.0 ships on CentOS Stream CoreOS 10 and Kubernetes 1.36
  • Redpanda · Version 26.1 adds Cloud Topics, written straight to object storage
  • release-it · 21.0.0 (July 25): Node.js 22 required, strict CLI parsing; 21.1.1 released October 7
  • release-plz · 0.4.0 released (October 23) after 0.3.174
  • Remote access · Access tools add controls for AI agents reaching infrastructure
  • Renode · Renode 1.17.0 in September
  • Replit · Agent 4 on 13 March: design canvas, plan mode, parallel tasks
  • Riff · Refocused on AI agents for industrial operations; 15+ enterprises in production
  • RisingWave · Version 3.0 runs batch queries on Apache DataFusion by default
  • RKE2 · Traefik replaces the retired Ingress NGINX as the default ingress from v1.36
  • Rolldown · Release candidate (January), Vite 8 stable (March), Rolldown 1.0 (May)
  • Rolldown · VoidZero joins Cloudflare in June; Rolldown stays MIT-licensed
  • Roo Code · Sunset announced on April 20; the team moves to the Roomote cloud agent
  • Roo Code · Extension, Cloud and Router shut down and the repository archived on May 15
  • Rootly · Slack-native on-call paging in February
  • RSigma · 0.5.0 adds daemon mode with hot reload and SQLite state persistence on February 26
  • RSigma · Detection Engineering Weekly #149 covers it in March
  • RSigma · 0.16.0 adds the MCP server on June 15
  • RSigma · 0.24.0 released on October 5
  • Ruff · March: Astral agrees to join OpenAI’s Codex team
  • Ruff · July: 0.16 enables 413 rules by default and formats Markdown code blocks
  • Ruff · October: 0.17 targets Python 3.11 by default
  • runc · runc 1.5.0 (June); 1.6.0-rc.1 (October 6)
  • Running models locally · The ggml and llama.cpp team joins Hugging Face (February 20)
  • RustFS · Beta in April, as MinIO archives its repository
  • RustFS · 1.0.0 GA after release candidates (September)
  • Sail · 0.5 makes distributed execution resilient and observable (February)
  • Sail · 0.7 adds Spark 4.2, blocking shuffle through object storage and checkpoints (August)
  • Sans-I/O protocols · Firezone describes simulation testing of its sans-I/O data plane in September
  • Sapling · Release 0.2.20260929 (September 29); Anthropic cites Mononoke as prior art for Scion (October)
  • Scaleway · Selected for the European Commission’s Cloud III purchasing system
  • Scion · Anthropic’s merges grow from about 2,500 a day in May to over 30,000 in September; Scion described publicly on October 13
  • ScramDB · First version announced on 23 July; prerelease builds from August
  • ScramDB · ClickBench results submitted and a 1.0.0 Docker tag in September
  • ScyllaDB · Licence 1.1 limits free use to organisations that aren’t customers
  • Secrets management · Vault 2.0 syncs secrets using workload identity, without static credentials
  • Secure Source Manager · CODEOWNERS required reviewers (May 6); MCP server in preview (August 15)
  • Service discovery & mesh · AWS App Mesh reaches end of support on September 30
  • Shillelagh · 1.4.5 is released in July
  • Sigma · Quarterly rule packages continue, the latest released in July
  • Sigstore · Cosign 3.1.4 released in October
  • SlateDB · First official announcement post (June); 0.17.0 released (September)
  • Slopcheck · March 16: initial JavaScript (npm) support
  • Slopcheck · March 19: last commit
  • smolvm · v0.1.0 in January; v1.0.0 in June
  • smolvm · v1.6.0 adds an experimental containerd shim for Kubernetes (July)
  • Sonatype Nexus Repository · 3.97 is released (October 14)
  • SONiC · Release branch 202605; Gartner counts about 2,500 production users
  • SONiC Foundation · Charter amended in May; new members join in July and October
  • Spacelift · Product renamed Spacelift Deploy as Spacelift Flows launches
  • Spack · v1.2 in June with a parallel installer; renewed at core in July
  • SPDK (Storage Performance Development Kit) · v26.09 released (September 25)
  • Speakeasy · AI control plane reference and MCP gateway (April)
  • Spice.ai OSS · Version 2.0 in June: distributed queries on Ballista, Cayenne generally available, direct CDC
  • Spiral · The journal, for versioned changes to shared data, goes to design partners (August)
  • Spiral · Engineering post on moving data from S3 to GPU memory in one copy (September)
  • SQLAlchemy · SQLAlchemy 2.1 in September
  • SQLMesh · Contributed to the Linux Foundation (March); v0.236.4 (October)
  • SST · SST v4 moves to the Pulumi AWS provider v7 in February
  • Starlette · 1.0.0 release candidate in February removes deprecated APIs
  • Starlette · Starlette 1.0.0 on March 22, at 325 million downloads a month
  • StarRocks · Version 4.1 in April; CelerData rebrands as PhoenixAI
  • Strands Agents · First anniversary: 25 million downloads
  • Strands Agents · Strands harness, a ready-made agent on the Strands Harness SDK, released under Apache 2.0
  • Strawberry GraphQL · Requires GraphQL-core 3.3.0 from September
  • Stream processing · AWS deletes the last Kinesis Data Analytics for SQL applications
  • Streambed · DuckLake target added in August
  • Streambed · Streaming from a hot-standby replica in September
  • StreamFusion · Jordan Epstein starts StreamFusion in June; it moves to datafusion-contrib in July
  • StreamFusion · First release candidate, 0.1.0-rc1, and launch post in August
  • StreamFusion · Fourth release candidate, 0.1.0-rc4, on 6 October
  • Streamling · Streamling published on 8 June under FSL, with 0.1.0
  • Streamling · 0.3.0 in July: DataFusion 54, file and Kafka JSON sources, benchmarks
  • Streamling · 0.4.0 in September
  • Supabase · $500M Series F in June; Multigres v0.1 alpha released as open source
  • Supabase · Announces it is acquiring Turso on 2 October
  • SurrealDB · SurrealDB 3.0 released in February
  • TAG (Tigris Acceleration Gateway) · TAG 1.0.0 in January; 1.22 by October, with block-aligned caching on by default
  • Talos Linux · Yardi acquires Sidero Labs; Talos Enterprise Linux launches
  • TanStack · npm supply-chain attack on Router and Start packages in May
  • TanStack · Table v9 with opt-in features and ten framework adapters in August
  • TARS · TarsFramework 3.0.18 in July; TarsCpp 3.0.23 in September
  • TARS Foundation · Still listed as active by the LF; TARS framework and TarsCpp releases
  • Tauri · Tauri 2.12 in September drops Windows 7; Tauri 3 in alpha
  • TDengine · All-in-One package made free for up to 5,000 tags in July
  • Tekton · Accepted into the CNCF as an incubating project in March
  • Telegraf · Telegraf Enterprise, with Telegraf Controller, becomes generally available in June
  • Temporal · $550M Series E at a $12.55B valuation
  • Textual · Textual 8.0 (February); 8.2.8 (June)
  • The Ceph Foundation · Technical charter adopted in February; trademark moves to the Linux Foundation by September
  • Thinger.io · IOTMP submitted to the IETF as an individual Internet-Draft
  • Threat detection (SIEM) · RSigma ships its first feature-complete release on February 17
  • TiDB · PostgreSQL-compatible preview on TiDB Cloud Starter
  • Tiger Lake · August: any Iceberg REST catalog (Polaris, Snowflake Open and Horizon Catalog); Slot Keep Controller
  • Tiger Lake · October: changelog mode, tiered data controls and connector observability
  • TigerBeetle · A trillion transactions processed in a scale test
  • TigerGraph · GraphLake paper on querying Iceberg tables in place
  • Tigris · TAG, an open-source caching gateway, reaches 1.0 in January
  • TigrisFS · Version 1.2.4 released in September
  • TileDB · The company renames itself Tile.ai; the MIT engine keeps the TileDB name
  • TimechoDB · TimechoDB 2.0.11 moves to JDK 17; Timecho shows its DB × AI stack at its August summit
  • Timely Dataflow · Timely 0.31.0 released in July
  • Tinybird · Retires Classic for Free and Developer workspaces in September
  • TLA+ · Apalache becomes a TLA+ Foundation project
  • TLA+ Foundation · Apalache becomes a foundation project; NVIDIA joins as a member in July
  • TLS · TLS 1.3 republished as RFC 9846, obsoleting RFC 8446 and RFC 5246
  • Tortoise ORM · Tortoise ORM 1.0 in February adds native migrations
  • Toxiproxy · Toxiproxy 2.13.0 in October
  • Treblle · Sold as an API intelligence platform with gateway plugins and on-premise options
  • Trino · Release 483 ships in July
  • turbopuffer · Namespace branching in May, sharding and native embedding in July, an Azure region in preview in August
  • Turso · Concurrent writes preview on Turso Cloud (Aug); version 0.8 (Sep); Supabase acquisition announced (Oct)
  • TypeScript · TypeScript 6.0 in March, the last JavaScript-based release; TypeScript 7.0, the Go port, in July
  • UI libraries · TanStack Table v9 with opt-in features and ten framework adapters
  • Unified Acceleration (UXL) Foundation · AMD says on October 20 it will join as a steering member
  • Unity Catalog · Managed Iceberg GA in May; OSS 0.6 adds views in August
  • Unity Version Control · No per-seat charges for cloud repositories from March 1; 11.0.16.10484 on October 15
  • Uptime Kuma · 2.5.x releases continue; 2.5.6 in October
  • UrsaDB · 1.5.3 maintenance commit moves to a supported base image
  • uv · March: Astral agrees to join OpenAI’s Codex team
  • uv · June: uv audit and opt-in malware checks in preview
  • uv · October: uv 0.13.0 makes Python 3.15 the default
  • v0 · The new v0 on 3 February: sandbox runtime, GitHub import, branches and pull requests
  • Vale · September: 3.20 adds rule inheritance, with the Std and Voices packages
  • Valkey · Valkey 9.1: 2.1 million requests per second on one server (May)
  • ValkeyTimeSeries · Commits continue through October; still no tagged release
  • Velero · Accepted into the CNCF Sandbox; Velero 1.18 adds concurrent backups
  • Velox · Apache Gluten, which runs Spark on Velox, becomes a top-level Apache project in March
  • Versity S3 Gateway · v1.8.0 released in September
  • Vite · Vite 8 makes Rolldown its only bundler (March); VoidZero joins Cloudflare (June)
  • Vitess · v24 adds cell-aware VTOrc; last release supporting MySQL 8.0
  • Vitest · VoidZero joins Cloudflare (June); Vitest 5.0 (September)
  • Void · README warns in January that Void may not resume as an IDE
  • Void · Deprecated and repository archived on June 2
  • Vortex · Release 0.87.0, with DuckDB, DataFusion, Spark and Trino integrations (October)
  • WAL-G · 3.0.9 released in August
  • Warp · Oz cloud agent platform in February
  • Warp · Client open-sourced under the AGPL on April 28
  • WarpStream · Tableflow generally available in February; IBM completes its Confluent purchase in March
  • Wasabi Hot Cloud Storage · Raises $70 million at $1.8 billion; buys Seagate’s Lyve Cloud business
  • WASI · WASI 0.3.0 adds native async on 11 June; 0.3.2 on 13 October
  • WebAssembly · WASI 0.3 adds native async on 11 June
  • webpack · Roadmap folds CSS, HTML and TypeScript support into the core ahead of webpack 6
  • Windsurf (now Devin Desktop) · Windsurf 2.0 in April adds the Agent Command Center and Devin
  • Windsurf (now Devin Desktop) · Renamed Devin Desktop on June 2
  • Wing · Releases resume with 0.85.50 and 0.85.51 in August, as a community project
  • workerd · Deno’s team joins Cloudflare and plans to integrate rusty_v8 into workerd
  • Workers AI · Frontier open models such as Kimi K2.6 and GLM-5.2 join the catalog
  • Workers KV · Workers KV Instant, backed by Quicksilver, enters private beta on 1 October
  • Workers Observability · Unified Cloudflare Observability announced on October 2; per-GB pricing from December 1
  • Workflow orchestration · Temporal raises $550M as demand for reliable AI infrastructure grows
  • Xata · The core is open-sourced under Apache 2.0 in April
  • Xen Project hypervisor · Xen 4.22 released; releases from 4.20 on get five years of security support
  • Yatai · Repository archived (June 11)
  • Yocto Project · 6.0 Wrynose LTS (April); 6.1 Blacksail tagged (October 20)
  • YugabyteDB · v2026.1 adds vector indexing and the AMP serverless tier
  • Zed · Zed 1.0 on April 29, with Zed for Business
  • Zed · Delta, the first app built on DeltaDB, in private beta in August and public beta in September
  • Zenko CloudServer · 9.4 releases continue on GitHub
  • Zephyr · 4.4 in April adds OpenRISC and Zephyr SDK 1.0; six-month release cadence begins
  • Zig · Zig 0.17.0 released on 1 October

2027

  • Firebase Studio · Shutdown and data deletion scheduled for 22 March
  • On-call · Opsgenie scheduled to shut down in April