Apple developer Maciej Stachowiak has announced a new policy for developers of the HTML rendering library Webkit. It will close the gap between Apple developers and external programmers.

Red Hat today announced the global availability of JBoss Developer Studio, the first open source, Eclipse-based, integrated development environment combining tooling with runtime. JBoss Developer Studio provides a simple, powerful and easy-to-use solution for developers utilizing JBoss Enterprise Middleware. The solution provides a stable end-to-end, lifecycle environment for application development and deployment, enabling enterprises to respond more quickly and efficiently to rapidly changing business requirements.

Version 6.0 of Netbeans, an IDE sponsored by Sun has just been released.

Following accusations by a US-based blogger that Asus had contravened the GPL, Asus quickly responded by publishing the missing sources.

Canonical, the company behind the Ubuntu Linux distribution has just launched its "Launchpad Personal Package Archive Service" for developers on the Canonical "Launchpad" platform.

3DLABS Semiconductor has today announced the immediate availability of its Linux 2.6.21 based Software Development Kit (SDK).

A vulnerability in the extended text editor GNU Emacs gives local attackers the ability to run arbitrary code.

The KDE development team has set itself beta goals as milestones en route to the first release candidate. An initial release candidate of the KDE 4.0 developer platform is now available along with the improved beta four.