Real, dated releases and announcements — verified against official sources, not speculation.
Founded in July 2003 by Michael Phipps in Rochester, New York, Haiku, Inc. gave the OpenBeOS/Haiku project a formal nonprofit structure for accepting donations and funding contractor work.
On October 9, 2019, Tony Cannon released GGPO under the MIT license, removing the licensing friction that had limited its adoption and helping cement rollback as the fighting game industry's netcode standard.
On September 19, 2018, Nintendo's own subscription service began shipping with 20 emulated NES games included — a striking contrast to the company's history of aggressively pursuing unauthorized ROM sites.
On May 27, 2015, the MESS project — which had emulated computers and consoles separately from MAME's arcade focus for over a decade — formally merged into MAME, realizing a unification effort that had been prototyped for years.
Accepted on May 9, 2016, Prometheus became the CNCF's second project after Kubernetes itself — an early, deliberate signal that observability, not just orchestration, belonged at the center of the cloud-native stack.
Started as a Deis project on October 15, 2015, Helm brought familiar package-manager concepts to Kubernetes — later merging with Google's Deployment Manager to become the Helm 2 the ecosystem would standardize on.
Founded June 22, 2015 by Docker, CoreOS, and a broad industry coalition, the OCI set out to make container images and runtimes portable across tools and vendors rather than tied to any one implementation.
Released April 5, 2025, FreeDOS 1.4 updated FreeCOM, FDISK, and the mTCP networking suite, while deliberately keeping the same kernel as 1.3 until the next kernel version is fully tested.
In September 2018, Microsoft re-released MS-DOS 1.25 and 2.11's source code on GitHub under the MIT license — a genuinely open release, four years after a 2014 version that was source-available but not truly open.
Released January 2, 2012, FreeDOS 1.1 filled a long gap since the 1.0 release, refining package management and driver support without changing the project's core commitment to MS-DOS compatibility.