Three.js r186: SunLight, Cascaded Shadows, and WebGPU Now the Default Renderer
Three.js r186 ships SunLight with built-in cascaded shadows, pre-compilable compute shaders, and reworked PBR energy conservation — while WebGPU becomes the assumed default across Chrome, Edge, Safari, and Firefox. »
Incus 7.5 Moves Instances Between Projects Live — and OVN Networking Gets a Major Upgrade
The open source container and VM manager ships OVN child networks and live project-to-project instance migration, with 11 security fixes bundled in a single release. »
Firefox 156 Opens PDFs 45% Faster and Adds ARM64 Hardware Video Decoding
Mozilla shipped Firefox 156 on September 15 with a substantially faster PDF viewer, improved memory handling for large images, and WebRTC hardware H264 decoding on ARM64 Windows. »
RustFS 1.0 Is Here: Apache-Licensed S3-Compatible Object Storage Written in Rust Hits General Availability
After 2.5 years of development, RustFS 1.0 reached GA on September 16 — a Rust-built, Apache 2.0-licensed distributed object store with erasure coding, Apache Iceberg, and MCP support. »
Java 27 Ships Post-Quantum Cryptography That Protects Your Apps Without Changing a Line of Code
JDK 27, released September 15, adds NIST-standardized post-quantum hybrid key exchange to TLS 1.3 — and most Java applications get it automatically, with no code changes required. »