Open Source CMS Developer News Report Jan 27 2023

A weekly report of the latest industry news related to open source CMS web development.

Open Source News

Linux Foundation Establishes Path to Accelerate the Journey to an Open Metaverse

The Linux Foundation, a nonprofit focused on fostering innovation through open source, has formed the Open Metaverse Foundation (OMF). OMF’s mission will be to provide a collaboration space for diverse industries to develop open source standards and software for a global, inclusive, vendor-neutral, and scalable Metaverse.

Red Hat Boasts Open Source Scheduling App Build

OptaPlanner, an open source embeddable planning engine from Red Hat, is now available in their Application Foundations portfolio. OptaPlanner will help organizations significantly reduce costs, meet employee needs, improve service quality, and limit carbon emissions.

Web Development News

Apache® Kyuubi Becomes Top-Level Project

Apache Software Foundation (ASF), an incubator of over 350 open source projects and initiatives, has announced that Apache® Kyuubi has graduated to become a Top-Level Project (TLP). Kyuubi is a distributed and multi-tenant gateway that provides serverless SQL on data warehouses and lakehouses.

Microsoft Launches Azure OpenAI service with ChatGPT

Microsoft’s OpenAI service will allow businesses to integrate tools like DALL-E into their own cloud apps. The service has been in testing for over a year and will soon include access to ChatGPT. 

Denial of Service Vulnerability Discovered in Libraries Used by GitHub and Others

Legit Security has discovered an easy-to-exploit DoS vulnerability in markdown libraries used by GitHub, GitLab, and other applications, using a popular markdown rendering service called commonmarker. GitHub has formally acknowledged the vulnerability and posted a fix.