📰 GitHub Repo News on Thursday

Today in featured repositories the very latest releases are bitchat 1.7.1, Bitcoin Core 31.1, copyparty 1.20.26🔥, Flyby11 3.03.100, Home Assistant 2026.10.1🆕, Hugo 0.168.0🆕, Immich 3.3.3🔥, Jellyfin 12.2🆕, Kodi 21.3-Omega, Linux 7.3-rc7🔖, Mastodon 4.7.3🆕, Multipass 1.16.4, Nginx 1.31.7🔥, OpenMCT 4.3.1, Pi-hole 6.4.3, Redis 8.10.2, WSL 3.0.3🆕, ZFS 2.4.4, Zulip 12.3,

In general apps we have 7-Zip 26.04🆕, Audacity 4.0.1, Blender 5.2.2, Brave 1.97.57🔥, Calibre 9.16.0🆕, Chromium pre.blink.merge, CodeEdit 0.3.6, Dopamine 2.0.10.4000, FFmpeg 0.6.1, Firefox last-mozilla-central, FreeRDP 3.32.2🆕, GIMP soc-2012-unified-transform-before-gsoc, Git Extensions 7.2.1, LibreOffice windows.build.successful.2011.11.08, Meld 0.9, Nextcloud Desktop 35.0.0🆕, OBS Studio 32.2.2, OctoPrint 1.11.8, OrcaSlicer 2.4.2, PowerToys 0.101.2362.0, PrusaSlicer 2.9.6, Serenade, VLC svn-trunk, Windows Terminal 1.25.2733.0🆕, WinMerge 2.16.58.2, Zen Browser 1.23.2b🆕,

In text editors & IDEs there’s Atom 1.60.0, Brackets 2.2.1, Edit 2.0.0, ghostwriter 2.1.6, GNU Emacs ttn-vms-21-2-B4, Helix 25.07.1, Nano, NetBeans 31, Neovim 0.12.6🆕, Notepad++ 8.9.8.1, TextMate 2.0.23, Typedown, Vim 9.2.1192🔖, Visual Studio Code 1.142.0🔥, Zed 1.24.2🔥,

In programming languages it’s AssemblyScript 0.28.20, C# ms-spec-text, Clojure 1.13.0-alpha9🔖, CoffeeScript 💤, Crystal 1.22.0🆕, Go weekly.2012-03-27, Elixir 1.20.4, Elm 0.19.3🆕, Erlang 29.1.2🔥, Groovy 6.0.0, Julia 1.13.1, Kotlin 2.4.21🆕, MicroPython 1.29.0, Mojo 26.6.0, Nim 2.2.12, Odin dev-2026-10🆕, Orca, PHP 8.5.11, Python 3.16.0a1🔖, Red 0.6.6, Roslyn 4.0.1, Ruby 4.0.7, Ruby on Rails 8.1.4, Rust 1.99.0🆕, Scala 2.13.18, Swift 6.4.0-RELEASE, TypeScript 7.0.2, V 0.5.2, Zig 0.15.1,

In APIs/SDKs/AI the very latest are alsa-lib 1.2.16.1, BitNet, Boost 1.92.0, DeepSeek-R1 1.0.0, DeepSeek Janus, libarchive 3.8.10🔥, libexpat 2.9.0🆕, libgit2 1.9.7, libmodbus 3.2.0, librealsense 2.59.1🆕, libSI 0.4, libyuv, OpenClaw 2026.10.3🆕, OpenCV 5.0.0, OpenEXR 3.5.2🆕, OpenVDB 13.1.0, NVIDIA PhysX 0.6.4🆕, Plog 1.1.11, SymCrypt 103.13.0, TensorFlow 2.21.0, Whisper 20250625, zstd 1.5.7,

Looking at compiler & build systems there’s Ant temp, Bazel 9.3.0🆕, CMake 4.4.4🆕, FASTBuild 1.20, Gradle 9.8.1🆕, LLVM 23.1.3🆕, Maven 3.10.0🆕, Meson 1.12.1, MSBuild 18.10.1, Ninja 1.13.2, Pants 2.33.1, TinyCC 0.9.27,

For DevOps it’s Ansible 2.21.5🆕, Capistrano 3.20.1, Chef 15.8.23, Grafana 13.2.4🆕, Jenkins 2.586🆕, Kubernetes 1.37.1, Moby 29.9.1🔥, OpenStack havana-eol, Prometheus 3.15.0, Puppet 7.34.0, Salt 3008.3, statsd 0.10.2, Terraform 1.16.6🔥, Vagrant 2.4.9,

And last but not least command-line (CLI) with coreutils 9.12, curl 8.23.0🔥, doxygen 1.18.0, fish 4.9.3, git 2.56.0, gh 2.102.0, Homebrew 7.0.9🆕, kubo 0.43.1, openssh 10.6.P1🔖, onefetch 3.0.0🆕, ImageMagick 7.1.2-34🔥, PowerShell 7.6.7🆕, PowerShell scripts 1.6, Rust coreutils 0.12.0, smartmontools 7.5, winapp 0.7.1🆕, WinGet 1.29.380, wget 💤, zsh 5.9.2,

Legend: 🔥=new release within 24h • 🆕=new release in October • 🔖=new tag in October • 💤=idle for 90+ days

Updated: 10/15/2026 by our friendly 🤖 bot script scanning 156 popular GitHub repositories