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Bun 1.0 was released on September 8, 2023, a fast, all-in-one toolkit for running, building, testing and debugging JavaScript and TypeScript. Built on WebKit's JavaScriptCore, it is a drop-in replacement for Node.js. Here is what changed.

Astro 3.0 was released on August 30, 2023, becoming the first major web framework to support the browser View Transitions API. It also shipped stable image optimization, 30-75% faster rendering, and serverless SSR enhancements. Here is what changed.

Git 2.42 was released on August 21, 2023, adding a faster boundary-based object traversal, reference jump lists that speed up excluding references during pushes, and a new hook to preserve precious unreachable objects from garbage collection. Here is what changed.

Redis 7.2 was released on August 15, 2023, as the first Unified Redis Release across all distributions. It previewed Triggers and Functions for server-side JavaScript, improved sorted-set performance, and formalized support for five client libraries. Here is what changed.

Zig 0.11.0 was released on August 4, 2023 after 8 months of work from 269 contributors. It marked the debut of package management and introduced multi-object for loops, std.heap.wasm_allocator, and LLVM 16. Here is what shipped.

Kotlin 1.9.0 was released on July 6, 2023, bringing the K2 compiler for the JVM to Beta. It stabilised the enum entries property, the open-ended range operator, data objects, and previewed a custom Kotlin/Native memory allocator. Here is what changed.

Godot 4.1 was released on July 6, 2023 with a focus on stability, performance and polish. It fixed over 900 issues, sped up adding and removing nodes, added GDScript static variables, and let you detach code editors onto other displays. Here are the highlights.

Firefox 115 was released on July 4, 2023, the last major version to support Windows 7, 8 and macOS 10.12-10.14, with those users migrated to ESR 115. It added payment-method import, Linux Intel hardware video decoding, and URL.canParse. Here is what changed.

Svelte 4 was released on June 22, 2023, a maintenance release that reduced the Svelte package size by nearly 75%, cut dependencies from 61 to 16, improved the authoring experience, and laid the groundwork for the Svelte 5 rewrite. Here is what changed.

Elixir 1.15 was released on June 19, 2023, a smaller release focused on compilation and boot times. It prunes load paths, completes Erlang/OTP logger integration, and emits multiple compiler errors per file. Here are the highlights.

Terraform 1.5 was released on June 12, 2023, introducing import blocks that make importing existing resources a plannable, config-driven action, check blocks for independent infrastructure validation, and new functions. Here is what changed.

Grafana 10 was released on June 12, 2023, previewing Correlations that link any data source to any other in Explore, promoting the Canvas panel to general availability, and previewing subfolders and the new Scenes library. Here is what changed.