Final selection of the most important and notable events of 2025 related to open source projects and information security:
- Conflicts:
- Conflict around the putty.org domain;
- Conflict between NixOS moderators and the governing council;
- Intent to remove Bcachefs from the Linux kernel;
- Python refused the grant;
- Automattic’s departure from WordPress development;
- Protest of the Japanese Mozilla Support community;
- The libxml2 maintainer has given up special treatment for vulnerabilities;
- OBS Studio Threatened Lawsuit Against Fedora;
- Removal of RubyGems.org maintainers and creation of Gem Cooperative;
- The departure of the leader of Asahi Linux;
- Nouveau maintainer leaves;
- The departure of the Dash to Panel maintainer.
- Sanctions and blocking:
- F-Droid is under threat of closure;
- GitHub has switched Organic Maps to archive mode;
- Google has limited the Nextcloud Android application;
- Microsoft C/C++ Extension is blocked in VS Code forks;
- Rockchip MPP blocked due to copying code from FFmpeg;
- Blocking all UK users on the Haiku forum;
- Blocking supporters of the WordPress fork;
- Disable uBlock Origin in Chrome Web Store;
- Incorrect removal of VSCode add-ons;
- Compliance with sanctions in open source software.
- Forks:
- CoMaps – fork of Organic Maps;
- libAdapta – fork of libAdwaita;
- Composite ACS server from AMD, Weston fork;
- X11Libre – fork of X.Org Server;
- Zedless – fork of the Zed editor;
- OpenVox – a fork of Puppet.
- Acquisitions, mergers and joint projects:
- The RubyGems GitHub repository moved to the Ruby Core Team;
- IBM acquires Confluent;
- Microsoft takes over GitHub;
/Reports, release notes, official announcements.