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Nushell released version 0.114 in July 2026, remaining deliberately pre-1.0 while its table-oriented, structured-data pipeline model continues to evolve.
tmux 3.0 shipped in late 2019 with changes from its normal development process — the major version bump was not a promise of semantic-versioning upheaval.
FreeDOS 1.1 arrived January 2, 2012 with kernel 2040, mTCP, initial UHCI USB support and UIDE, while its official notes documented installer limits.
FreeDOS 1.4 shipped April 5, 2025 with FreeCOM 0.86, FDISK and mTCP fixes, reorganized media, monthly-test-release input, and the proven 1.3 kernel.
FreeBSD 15.0 shipped December 2, 2025 with pkgbase preview, MIT Kerberos, native and Linuxulator inotify, architecture retirements, and updated crypto.
Haiku R1 Beta 1 shipped on September 28, 2018, moving the project beyond its alpha series with package management and broader hardware work.
Haiku R1 Beta 2 shipped on June 9, 2020 with accumulated system, application, hardware, and compatibility improvements after Beta 1.
Haiku R1 Beta 4 arrived on December 23, 2022 with another broad round of hardware, performance, application, and compatibility improvements.
Released September 13, 2024, Beta 5 closed out nearly 350 bug and enhancement tickets, added a full GDB 15 port, and brought USB audio device support to the system.
Linux 2.6.0 arrived on December 17, 2003 with preemption, O(1) scheduling, NPTL support, SELinux, ALSA and a modern device model.
Announced by maintainer Chet Ramey on February 20, 2009, Bash 4.0 added key-value associative arrays and other features scripters had requested for years.
FreeDOS 1.0 arrived September 3, 2006 with installable base and full distributions, a boot floppy, package tools, source media, and a LiveCD option.
FreeDOS 1.3 arrived February 20, 2022 with kernel 2043, FreeCOM 0.85a, an 8086 FAT32 build, restored networking, compressed floppy media, and installer fixes.
Released July 29, 2015 as a free upgrade for Windows 7/8.1 users, Windows 10 reached over 75 million devices within a month on a bet on rapid adoption.
Released to manufacturing July 22, 2009 and to the public that October, Windows 7 refined Vista's foundations into one of Microsoft's most successful releases.
FreeDOS 1.2 shipped December 25, 2016 with the new FDI installer, FDIMPLES package selection, multiple USB and CD images, and a much broader software catalog.
FreeBSD 12.0 arrived with UEFI+GELI installation, bectl boot environments, LLVM 6.0.1, VIMAGE by default, netdump, and newer bhyve.
FreeBSD 13.0 put Auto ZFS first in bsdinstall, integrated OpenZFS, promoted arm64 to Tier 1, and completed the base LLVM migration.
FreeBSD 14.0 shipped OpenZFS 2.2, OpenSSL 3, CUBIC TCP, larger SMP systems, new bhyve features, safer UFS checks, and cloud images.
Haiku R1 Alpha 1 arrived on September 14, 2009 as the project's first official public release, distributed as an installable live CD.
Linux 5.0 shipped on March 3, 2019: a normal development release whose major-number change deliberately did not signal a rewrite or ABI break.
Linux 1.0 arrived on March 14, 1994 as the first stable-number kernel, targeting 386/486 PCs with TCP/IP and a growing driver/filesystem base.
Released March 24, 2001 at $129, Mac OS X 10.0 brought Apple's NeXT-derived, Unix-based operating system to consumers for the first time.
Released July 27, 1993, Windows NT 3.1 was the first shipping version of the from-scratch, Dave Cutler-led OS underlying every Windows release since.
Announced June 24, 2021 by Panos Panay and released October 5, 2021, Windows 11 brought a redesigned interface and stricter hardware requirements.