It is with deep sadness that we mark the passing of Mikeal Rogers, a leader, builder, and advocate for open source communities and for the people who power them.

This week, while in Japan for a sold-out KubeCon + Cloud NativeCon, I had the great privilege of presenting our latest research to an audience of leading Japanese technology companies. As someone who has long admired Japan’s reputation for precision, quality, and innovation, it was especially meaningful to share insights that could help shape the country’s digital future.

SAN FRANCISCO, June 18, 2025 – Today, Open 3D Foundation (O3DF) announces the availability of the Open 3D Engine (O3DE) 25.05.0 release that delivers powerful new capabilities for game and simulation developers, with a focus on performance, stability, and a streamlined workflow. Engineered for creating high-fidelity, real-time 3D games, O3DE now offers improved rendering performance, enhanced cinematic tools, and a more efficient developer experience.

Welcome to the June 2025 edition of the Linux Foundation Newsletter. The past month has seen major announcements, launches and even a major award win for the LF. Here are the headlines:

As we approach the midpoint of 2025, the potential of AI to transform businesses, economies, and industries is not only widely anticipated and nearly universal but also well documented. In a commissioned project by Meta, LF Research set out to capture existing evidence on this topic, with the specific aim of understanding how open source is playing a role in this transformation. 

Open source licensing revolutionized software development, creating a thriving ecosystem built on shared innovation and collaboration. Licenses like MIT and Apache-2.0 gave developers a standard, legally robust way to share code, reducing friction and accelerating adoption.

Welcome to the May 2025 edition of the LF Newsletter. We’ve got exciting LF announcements, new research surveys in the field, project milestones, and can't miss events! We are so glad you’re here. Check out the highlights, save the dates, and be sure to register for upcoming events!

You’ve done the hard part: shipped a successful open source project.

In March of 2024, the open source community witnessed the birth of Valkey, a new BSD-licensed high-performance key-value datastore. Born as a fork in response to Redis OSS 7.2's license change, Valkey represented a commitment to maintaining truly open source infrastructure options for developers worldwide.

Welcome to the April 2025 edition of the LF Newsletter. We’ve got exciting LF announcements including new members and an intent to form, three new research reports + our webinar series, project milestones, and can't miss events! We are so glad you’re here. Check out the highlights, save the dates, and be sure to register for upcoming events!

Imagine an investigative journalist, renowned for her work exposing corruption. She is communicating with a confidential informant and on the verge of cracking a high-profile case. She believes her conversations with the informant are secure - until a sophisticated cyberattack shatters that illusion. Attackers appear to have exploited weaknesses in the provisioning of the digital certificate used for encryption. This allows them to intercept her communications. The fallout from the breach is swift and severe. The whistleblower no longer communicates with the reporter. The incriminating evidence disappears. The journalist’s credibility crumbles, and her career now hangs in the balance.