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It took just a bit longer than usual for Linux 6.7 to be released, thanks in part to the fact that there were eight release candidates and the Christmas holiday period. It’s also worth noting that Linux 6.7 is one of the largest kernel releases.

The Linux Foundation is expanding its LF Connectivity project with the addition of two new subprojects: Magma and ISP Toolbox. Launched in May, LF Connectivity got its start with three networking projects contributed by Meta. The overall goal of LF Connectivity is to create a sustainable ecosystem of technologies to enable communication service providers to meet emerging connectivity requirements.

The Open Networking Foundation (ONF) announced today that it is merging its portfolio of open source networking projects into the Linux Foundation as independent projects.Founded in 2011, ONF has been the driving force behind many open source innovations in software-defined networking, network disaggregation, and network programmability.

The Kubernetes 1.29 milestone is the final release for 2023 for the open source cloud native technology and introduces a range of new features and enhancements. Kubernetes has multiple updates this year, the new release follows the Kubernetes 1.28 update that came out in August.

What does it take to make secure software? The Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF) has a few ideas (10 of them, in fact). This week at the OpenSSF Day Japan event in Tokyo, the nonprofit group run by the Linux Foundation issued the release of ten guiding principles that aim to help organizations develop more secure software. OpenSSF, which focuses on improving open source security, developed the principles to provide a framework for companies to follow best practices throughout their development lifecycles.

Linux isn’t the only open-source operating system (OS). There are also a number of Unix-like open-source BSD operating systems, including FreeBSD, that are still in active development. “FreeBSD 14 represents a combination of some new features and a lot of updates to various subsystems to improve performance, stability and security,” Ed Maste, senior director of technology for the FreeBSD Foundation, told SDxCentral.

At the KubeCon NA 2023 conference this week, developers celebrated the general availability (GA) of the Gateway API, which literally opens up a new gateway to how Kubernetes networking and connectivity will be enabled in the future. Gateway API is intended to replace the Ingress API, which has long been one of the primary ways that a cloud native environment gains access to services outside of a cluster. Gateway API aims to solve numerous shortcomings in Ingress API and already benefits from the broad participation of many vendors.

One of the best ways to properly secure a cloud-native environment is to have full visibility, and that begins at the Linux kernel level. That’s one of the basic ideas behind the open-source Tetragon project, which celebrated its 1.0 release at the Kubecon NA 2023 event this week.

At KubeCon North America today, SUSE announced several updates to its container and edge computing platforms. The new offerings aim to help customers manage and secure diverse cloud-native environments.

The lakeFS project got its start back in 2020 and has been steadily improving in the years since, providing an open source technology to help organizations with version control for object storage based data, stored in data lakes.

There is yet another new project coming to the Linux Foundation, and though the name might imply otherwise, it isn’t about food. At the Open Source Summit Europe event in Bilbao, Spain, this morning the Linux Foundation announced that the OpenTofu project is coming under its wing. Previously code-named OpenTF, OpenTofu aims to create an open, community-driven successor to the Hashicorp Terraform infrastructure-as-code technology, under a neutral governance model.

The open-source PostgreSQL 16 database is out today, adding new features that will help improve performance for all types of workloads, including AI. PostgreSQL, also sometimes referred to as Postgres, is one of the most widely used and deployed open-source database technologies and has been steadily iterated since its first release back in 1996.

The open-source Kubernetes cloud-native platform is out with its second major update of 2023, introducing a long list of enhancements for operators in the new 1.28 release.Kubernetes is an open-source project, originally started by Google and now developed under the Linux Foundation’s Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), benefiting from the contributions of more than 900 companies.

Cilium, an open-source networking, security and observability project, has released version 1.14 with an array of connectivity, security and observability updates. The Cilium 1.14 update also introduces new mesh capabilities, high-speed networking and security enhancements.

The open source Istio service mesh project is hitting a major milestone today as it officially graduates to be a full project at the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF).

The recently released Linux 6.4 kernel is making some big networking strides that end users, enterprises and service providers will benefit from in the months to come.Among the key networking features in Linux 6.4 are multiple improvements to improve traffic flow, extended support for Wi-Fi 7 wireless networking, new eBPF (extended Berkeley Packet Filter) features and IPv6 optimizations.

Getting an open-source LLM model deployed onto infrastructure has often been a bespoke process of trial and error as developers figure out the right compute resources and configuration parameters. It’s also not easy for developers to simply compare one model with another. These are some of the challenges Anyscale is looking to help solve with Aviary.

Red Hat is not a networking vendor, but it does play a strong supporting role in the networking ecosystem overall.

Wright noted that while his company is not necessarily in the business of low-level data center infrastructure networking gear, such as switches and routers, Red Hat’s software does integrate and touch all the low-level gear in one way or another.

Meta is contributing a series of technologies to a new open source initiative at the Linux Foundation designed to help improve networking connectivity.

Amazon is one of the leading contributors to Dent and helped to get the project started back in 2019 at the Linux Foundation. Dent is largely targeted at edge deployments which is where Amazon and other large organizations are using the technology.