Development team leader, Clement Lefebvre, announced the release of the Xfce desktop version plus the version for LXDE from Linux Mint 8 (codename: Helena) on the Linux Mint blog.

British organization Public-i has made its ePetitions software publicly available under European Public License (EUPL) on the Forge page of the Open Source Observatory and Repository Europe (OSOR) information service.

Version 1.0.0 of the free implementation of SSL and TLS protocols, OpenSSL, is now available in a major release.

Replace dictionaries and notepads with StarDict, the dictionary application, and RedNotebook, a combined notepad, diary, and calendar.

Ubuntu maker Canonical issued a survey on Ubuntu servers to the community and is now releasing the results.

Mark Shuttleworth has expressed in his blog why he considers his motto "Less is More" to be important. He has applied it to certain design decisions for Ubuntu 10.04.

The current button arrangement redesign in Ubuntu causes numerous bugs in GNOME and Ubuntu. The Metacity team now wants to step in.

Paul W. Frields would like to withdraw from the daily activities at Fedora and take on another responsibility at Red Hat, also considering that Fedora 13 is close to feature complete.