After three years the KDevelop team has completed the general rework of the integrated development environment with release of stable version 4.0.

The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) has instituted a three-year program together with Sugar Labs and the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) program.

The Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx release planned for April was held up by a few hours due to a critical bugfix.

The Ubuntu Manual Project, begun in 2009 by Benjamin Humphrey, is providing a free beginner's guide to Lucid Lynx being released today.

A Joomla! developer blog has announced that Microsoft has signed the Joomla! Contributor Agreement (JCA).

Hewlett-Packard has decided to buy out troubled handheld pioneer Palm.

The IT Service management module of the Open Ticket Request System (OTRS) adopts another ITIL process in version 2.0: change management.

The Red Hat distro extended its subscriptions with the choice of Linux running on the local server or from the Amazon cloud.

The Innovation Gate firm has released its OpenWGA version 5.0 content management system under GPL.

Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) founding president Georg Greve was awarded the German Cross of Merit for his intervention on the part of free software and open standards.